Chapter 694 Old Tricks

Chapter 694 Old Tricks

"What did you think?", Wu Long asked as they were traveling away from the Sect.

"That subordinate might be hard to persuade", Zhao Xieren spoke with an introspective expression.

"Mm, I was almost convinced he's using the same trick as our dear Valley Master", Madam Liang chuckled, her look toward Wu Long full of her usual charm and playfulness.

The latter laughed, shaking his head "I highly doubt that. Though can't say he's without similarities"

"Yes", she nodded with a sigh, letting go of an interesting theory "His cultivation seems lacking for that to be the case, unless he's as abnormal as Valley Master"

"Which is entirely possible, but if my intuition is right that is not the case here", Wu Long chuckled.

"Speaking of that trick, with this you used it twice already now", Madam Liang noted with an amused look.

"Heh, are you implying it is too obvious?", Wu Long chuckled, "If I remember correctly you were the one who tried to use it with me when we first met"

"Don't remind me", she chuckled with a slightly embarrassed look to the other side, "That's what actually made me skeptical about that tactic"

"Any tactic can result in a failure, even the most elaborate one. This one is simple and something so used that it deserves to be called an old trick, but old tricks are old tricks because they work", Wu Long shrugged his shoulders. n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Then why doesn't the Valley Master think they used it just now?", Zhao Xieren asked with curiosity.

"This Sect's lifecycle is a bit too long for that trick to work on a larger scale of seniority, and on a lower level of seniority it loses its necessity ", Wu Long spoke in a carefree tone, adding "The fact he is older than that Elder is undeniable though, which in this particular case makes him hard to persuade. After all, sometimes being experienced blinds too"

"Hehe, this old man also was suffering from this problem", Zhao Xieren chuckled, "but Valley Master's abilities and knowledge were able to mitigate that"

"We can't use that this time around, and the less we rely on that from now on the better", Wu Long shook his head with a smile.

"Oh my, Valley Master is so forward", the light rosiness of her cheeks did not go away, slightly intensifying while she was laughing. But her demeanor and mannerisms already regained their usual refined and delicate quality, her gaze turning to the scenery previously noted by the old man. 'Not yet huh', a light smile fleeted through his face as he replied with "of course that is if I had any shame to pay with"

"Ah, I forgot I was speaking to a shameless man", her gaze shifted back to him, and the tone almost imperceptibly became more relaxed.

"Guilty", he chuckled as they continued on their way.

"You have a plan?", Wu Long asked after a bit of travel toward the city. It was one of those rare cities of overlapping interests between the Cultivators and Mortals, called the Silver Wing City.

"I would be lying if I said I didn't, but for now it is far too unrealistic", Liang Yuhan replied with a wry smile.

"Do tell, what's so unrealistic about it?", a flash of amusement in his eyes gave away his distrust of that statement.

A light laugh escaped Madam Liang's lips, "You think it is so easy to enter the information trade in this city?"

"For someone new to it, it might be hard, for you, I doubt it poses that much of a problem. Especially since this place has barely any rivals for you, and will soon be contested for, with undercurrents running all around" he shrugged, as Madam Liang chuckled.

"It's unrealistic because most of my subordinates can't move at the moment", she chuckled.

"Hmm, the acclimation for those who did not advance will take far too long if left naturally", he nodded, causing Madam Liang to raise her eyebrow.

"It seems you do have an artificial method to speed up that process then?"

"I do, but it requires resources we don't have at the moment"

"Rare?"

"Quite", he answered with a chuckle, signifying that it wasn't something they could just encounter in any random Spiritual Land.

But his light tone and smile caused her to chuckle with a carefree smile of her own.