Mo Hua was awe-inspired in his heart and frowned, asking, “Above the iron corpse… is it a copper corpse?”

Lu Chengyun neither affirmed nor denied, only smiled mysteriously and asked, “Little mister, what do you think?”

Mo Hua didn’t answer either, but knitted his brow and thought for a moment, then counter-asked, “Lu family master, how did you know that I knew?”

What Mo Hua said was somewhat convoluted, but Lu Chengyun still understood and laughed lightly, “Your eyes.”

Mo Hua was startled, “Eyes?”

“Precisely.” Lu Chengyun said, “Normally when you see me, although you are polite and courteous, your expression shows much vigilance, and your gaze also has some suspicion…”

“But today, it’s somewhat different…”

“When I arrived, your attitude towards me was the same as before.”

“When you left, the look in your eyes was unusually calm.”

Lu Chengyun self-mocked, “Ordinary people perhaps wouldn’t notice anything, but I am a suspicious person by nature, and I will remember any clue.”

“Your different gaze before and after made me suspicious.”

“I thought for a while and then understood clearly.”

“Your calm gaze means you no longer suspect me.”

“Not suspecting could mean you trust me, or it could be that you have figured out my details, so there is no need to suspect anymore.”

Lu Chengyun looked at Mo Hua with a half-smile, “I wanted to confirm it.”

“So I bid farewell to Elder Su early and waited for you on your way back, wanting to have a private chat with you.”

“But you were taking a detour, seeming not to want to see me.”

Lu Chengyun sighed, “I am very regretful, and I also understand in my heart.”

Mo Hua was speechless in his heart.

This Lu Chengyun, it’s not for nothing that he married in; his thoughts are actually sensitive and suspicious to this degree.

Even a slight difference in his gaze can be suspected by him.

“Then when I was at Elder Su’s mansion, what if I hadn’t bid farewell and had just slipped away secretly?” Mo Hua asked him.

Lu Chengyun raised his eyebrows, “Wouldn’t that be even more suspicious?”

“Then what if I didn’t take a detour?”

“If you didn’t take a detour, wouldn’t it be just like now?” Lu Chengyun laughed lightly, “You and I would sit down and drink tea, and I would invite the little mister to help me a bit.”

The meaning is, anyway, it can’t be avoided…

Mo Hua sighed with an innocent face and said, “Why must the Lu family master stare at such a low-cultivation, weak-strength, generally knowledgeable in array methods, never having bad intentions, thirteen-year-old little cultivator like me?”

Lu Chengyun’s eyelids twitched.

In this sentence, probably only “thirteen years old” is true.

The rest are words that even ghosts wouldn’t believe.

Lu Chengyun poured a cup of tea, took a shallow sip, and said slowly, “Little mister, I knew the moment you came to Nan Yue City.”

Lu Chengyun shook his head, feeling quite emotional, “At such a young age, a first-grade array master, even though I have lived for so long, I have never personally seen one. You have indeed opened my eyes.”

“There are mountains beyond mountains, and people beyond people…”

“This cultivation world truly has all kinds of talents.”

“A thirteen-year-old first-grade array master, I knew then that your background must be significant and that you must have some purpose in coming here.”

“You were inquiring everywhere about a mister with the surname Yan.”

“Actually, to be frank, this mister with the surname Yan also has some friendship with me. He has a clue to an extremely secret array method.”

“You are an array master, so when you inquire about his whereabouts, it should be for this array method.”

Mo Hua neither said yes nor no.

Lu Chengyun smiled lightly again, “I didn’t originally pay too much attention, but you kept investigating deeper and deeper, knowing more and more.”

“You investigated to the mine, you found Zhang Quan, and following the clues, you even discovered the walking corpse village, and together with the Si Tu family, you finished off the walking corpse village…”

“At the same time, you actually also discovered the array method on the zombie, and were very bold, even taking one back to research…”

“I could only activate the array method, causing the iron corpse to lose control, forcing you all to destroy the array method…”

“And now, you have actually peeled back the layers like silk and discovered that the person behind Zhang Quan is me…”

Lu Chengyun said up to here, sighed, and said helplessly, “I have lived for so many years and have never seen such a clever and troublesome array master like you.”

Mo Hua’s thoughts raced, and he quickly sorted things out:

In Lu Chengyun’s heart, he is an extraordinary little array master with a background, and he is inquiring about Instructor Yan in order to seek the Ling Shu Array.

Investigating the mine, capturing Zhang Quan, destroying the walking corpse village, and finally discovering that the cultivator behind Zhang Quan is him, the Lu family master.

All his purposes are for the array method.

In other words, he doesn’t know the relationship between himself and Instructor Yan, he doesn’t know that he already knows about the past events of the Xiao Ling Yin Sect, as well as the fact that he married into the Lu family…

Mo Hua slightly relaxed.

Looking at this Lu Chengyun, he is only sharp in his thinking and relies on the power of the Lu family to know everything about the goings-on in Nan Yue City like the back of his hand.

But he doesn’t know everything.

This way, it’s easier to handle…

Lu Chengyun saw Mo Hua’s big eyes rolling around and didn’t know what he was thinking, so he asked, “Little mister, have you considered it?”

“What?”

“Whether or not you are willing to refine corpses for my Lu family?”

Mo Hua righteously said, “I am a proper cultivator and do not engage in such crooked ways.”

Lu Chengyun said gently and elegantly, “On the surface, I am also a proper cultivator.”

Mo Hua slightly frowned.

Lu Chengyun said again, “Only by being proper on the surface can you do crooked things more conveniently.”

Mo Hua actually found it somewhat reasonable.

He asked again, “Then if I still don’t agree?”

Lu Chengyun’s face gradually turned cold.

Mo Hua asked, “Lu family master, do you want to kill me?”

Lu Chengyun was slightly startled, then smiled gently, “Little mister is greatly talented, I am reluctant to kill.”

Mo Hua was genuinely a little curious, so he asked, “Then suppose I really don’t agree, how does the family master plan to proceed?”

Lu Chengyun laughed:

“The best outcome, naturally, is for the little mister to help me a bit, and you can mention any requirements you have.”

“If you want fame, I will let you be a powerful elder of the Lu family, acting as you please without restraint;”

“If you want profit, I will give you a share of the mine’s output, large handfuls of spirit stones, so that your path to dao is worry-free from now on;”

“If you want fighting strength, you can command a hundred thousand zombies, and with one order, your enemies will be gnawed to death, with no opponents in the same realm;”

“If you have tender feelings in your heart and yearn for children’s love, I can recommend female cultivators from Jin Hua Street to you, and you can also choose a woman from my Lu family that pleases your heart, form a marriage bond, and spend this life together…”

Lu Chengyun spoke with passion.

Mo Hua was somewhat moved just by listening.

With this kind of glib tongue, deceiving people, he would truly hit the mark every time.

Lu Chengyun changed the subject and said, “If the little mister feels that our dao are different and we cannot work together, then it is very regrettable.”

“The little mister’s background is extraordinary, and I am also unwilling to be enemies with the little mister.”

“The best way is to ask the little mister to leave, never to set foot in Nan Yue City again, and never to inquire about matters in Nan Yue City again.”

“What you know should all rot in your heart and cannot be revealed.”

“We will all part ways amicably, and my Lu family will still send some small gifts to express our intentions.”

“But suppose the little mister does not help me and also does not leave, that is insisting on making things difficult for my Lu family.”

“Family interests are at stake, even if the little mister’s background is again large, my Lu family can only fight until the fish dies and the net breaks.”

Lu Chengyun sighed and said,

“If we meet again in life and death, we will not be able to sit down and drink tea together again…”

Lu Chengyun’s expression had both regret and pity.

But Mo Hua, looking at him, felt hypocritical.

Lu Chengyun is a person who is gentle and elegant on the surface but only profit-minded on the inside. He would certainly not consider any feelings or have any pity.

Mo Hua furrowed his brow.

The matter has reached this point, and he needs to consider how to choose.

Turning against the Lu family is not very wise.

If he leaves Nan Yue City, he will not be able to get his hands on the Ling Shu Array.

And once he leaves, it will be relatively troublesome to come back in.

After leaving, within the mine, who knows how many more mine cultivators will die, and how many more walking corpses there will be;

Within the dissipation and luxury of Jin Hua Street, who knows how much more blood and tears will flow…

Mo Hua pondered for a moment, nodded, and said,

“I can promise you, but I have one condition.”

Lu Chengyun’s eyes lit up slightly, and he quickly said, “Little mister, please speak.”

Mo Hua’s gaze condensed, revealing a sharp edge:

“I want that array method! Exactly that one, painted on the iron corpse’s heart vein, that can control walking corpses!”

Lu Chengyun was slightly startled, then his smile became more abundant:

“Good!”

Lu Chengyun looked at Mo Hua with even more appreciation:

“Merit and fame, vulgar profits, are like passing clouds and smoke; beautiful women and colors are only skin;”

“For an array master, the array method is the foundation of one’s being, the great dao of seeking immortality!”

“The little mister can persevere in his dao heart amidst the floating desires, no wonder he can achieve such accomplishments at such a young age…”

Lu Chengyun was not stingy with words of praise.

Mo Hua also pretended to be aloof.

Lu Chengyun cupped his hands and said, “Little mister, please!”

Mo Hua also returned the courtesy and said, “Lu family master, please first!”

Lu Chengyun was very satisfied, then led the way and got up.

Mo Hua just followed behind him.

The Mo Hua who was thinking of exterminating the Lu family just a moment ago, at this time, changed and became a little array master following behind Lu Chengyun, “helping the tyrant.”

Thanks to my strange friend online, KevinJiang, for the reward.

(End of this chapter)