Qing Zhangru stared at Ningzhu with a look that could mean nothing else than that he had seen through the bird's lies.
"Are you going to let us know what is happening or not?" he asked. "Anyone with half a brain can tell that's no group of cultivators. It's just one person."
There was a group gathered outside the Vermilion Bird Palace, beasts that wanted to know what was happening inside.
"One person who just learned five Daos and is on the way to learning their sixth one," Xuan Lingkai said, the snake half of the Black Tortoise, sent by her Matriarch.
"Brother Zhangru, if they do not want to say who it is, then let them," Bai Fulin said. "It's their right, after all."
