Chapter 235 — Conspiracy

Cangyan Daoren's face darkened, and he looked at Jin Pingyue, but she still wore her smiling look and showed not the slightest intent of averting her eyes. After a moment it was Cangyan Daoren who first looked away; without a word, he turned and left the earthen pit.

Jin Pingyue withdrew her gaze and let it fall to her feet, where the thousand-year mystic log lay quietly on its side beside the path. She smiled faintly, nudged it with her foot into the thick weeds, and then walked off in the direction Cangyan Daoren had gone.

Behind her, that mysterious and wondrous great pit seemed, as ever, to be nothing more than an ordinary earthen hollow.