Zhou Bai curled his lips, "Go ahead and ask."
Lin Muqing stared at Zhou Bai and asked, "Zhou Bai, would you reveal my identity as a member of the Sky Flipping Sect to others?"
"No."
Zhou Bai said, "That was the question just now."
Lin Muqing wrote, "The Sky Flipping Sect’s goal is only one, and that is to defeat the forces of the Heavenly Court and the Heavenly Demon, allowing current humanity to live freely on this planet."
Zhou Bai was slightly startled in his heart. Had he not expected the Sky Flipping Sect’s goal to be so grand? But on second thought, every organization tended to have lofty goals. What mattered was not what they said, but what they did.
However, thinking back on Christina’s words, and how Lin Muqing would rather have her Primordial Spirit self-destruct than surrender to the Heavenly Demon, it seemed that the woman before him was at least somewhat trustworthy.
Lin Muqing looked at Zhou Bai and asked, "The first hexagram, why did it fail?"
"The first hexagram, why did it fail?"
Hearing Lin Muqing’s question, Zhou Bai’s gaze grew slightly sharper.
Lin Muqing smiled and said, "Zhou Bai, you must know something, right? About the first hexagram."
Zhou Bai remembered that Li Xiuzhu had once snatched the first hexagram from Xing Jun. Now he thought that the first hexagram had lost its power, so they had come to him to investigate.
’You still don’t know that soon even the twelfth hexagram will be rendered useless.’
Seeing that Zhou Bai was hesitating to write, Lin Muqing’s gaze narrowed, like a little cat ready to hunt, "What’s the matter? Is this question difficult to answer?"
Zhou Bai and Christina discussed in their sea of consciousness.
"We can’t tell the truth, absolutely not," said Zhou Bai. "No matter whether the goal of the Sky Flipping Sect is truly noble or not, once they know I can absorb the power of the 64 hexagrams, it’s too dangerous. I can’t place our safety in someone else’s hands."
"So what do we do?" asked Christina. "If we write a lie, it will hurt us, and they will see through it immediately. Why don’t we just reverse time? Now that we know Lin Muqing’s identity and have absorbed the power of the twelfth hexagram, there’s no need to meet with her anymore."
"No," Zhou Bai said firmly. "If Lin Muqing is a double agent, we can use her to help us confront the Night Army. Besides, there’s the matter with Xiao Pei."
"Previously, due to the strong influence of the Heavenly Demon’s infiltrators, we were unable to act. But if we can connect with the Sky Flipping Sect and add Lin Muqing’s identity in the Night Army, just a slight hint of suspicion against Xiao Pei to them, they will naturally deal with Xiao Pei.
Even if they can’t handle Xiao Pei, at least it will make the Dao School and Donghua City wary."
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"What do we do, then? As long as we don’t tell the truth, we’ll be exposed. What if we don’t answer? That won’t work either - if we don’t answer, the suspicion will be even heavier, right?"
Zhou Bai frowned slightly, then his eyes lit up as he said, "I have an idea."
Just as Lin Muqing was watching the motionless Zhou Bai, her expression growing more intricate, Zhou Bai suddenly moved his finger, and with a swell of Primordial Spirit power, the pen whisked across the notebook, writing rapidly.
"The power on the first hexagram has likely vanished."
Lin Muqing’s eyes widened in disbelief as she read Zhou Bai’s written words, "Disappeared? The power of divination can actually vanish?"
Despite her skepticism, the unscathed Zhou Bai in front of her indicated that he was not lying.
Various thoughts flooded Lin Muqing’s mind in a tangled mess.
However, Zhou Bai was anxiously looking at Christina from the Sky Flipping Sect, noting the more than ten wounds that had appeared on her body and asked with concern, "Are you okay?"
It turned out that the one who had just been writing in the notebook was Christina, who had used her Primordial Spirit’s power to lift the pen and write.
The power of the first divination symbol hadn’t vanished but instead had transferred into the gemstone. Although Zhou Bai thought of a phrase that sounded almost the same, he wasn’t confident he wouldn’t get hurt and be exposed, so he let Christina write.
And the statement, "The power of the first divination symbol must have disappeared," was, under the notebook’s judgment, still somewhat off and thus deemed a lie. Fortunately, the discrepancy was minor, or rather, only a part was concealed, so Christina’s injuries weren’t severe.
But Zhou Bai, sitting in the seat unharmed, then asked, "Why do you think you can overthrow the Heavenly Court and the Heavenly Demon? With human strength, you wouldn’t be able to defeat the Heavenly Demon and the gods, right?"
Suppressing the shock in her heart, Lin Muqing slightly smiled upon hearing Zhou Bai’s question, and wrote, "The Sect Hierarch has an absolutely winning plan."
Zhou Bai was taken aback, "An absolutely winning plan? Li Xiuzhu has such a plan?" At that moment, he was extremely eager to know what the plan was, completely unable to conceive of any strategy that would guarantee human victory over the Heavenly Demon and the gods.
Lin Muqing looked at Zhou Bai and said, "There’s no need to ask what the plan is, we cannot say. This matter is of great importance, and any premature exposure of the plan could lead to its failure."
Zhou Bai pursed his lips, unable to help but doubt internally, "This Li Xiuzhu guy, could he just be a big bluffer? Maybe there isn’t really any surefire way to win."
On the other hand, Lin Muqing continued to ask, "How did you know the power of the first divination symbol disappeared?"
Zhou Bai’s gaze sharpened, ’Here it comes, as expected she would ask this question, so...’
He saw, under the whirling of Primordial Spirit power, the notebook had been inscribed with, "I should be able to sense the power of divination symbols."
Lin Muqing’s gaze sharpened, and upon finding Zhou Bai unharmed, her look at him changed immediately. Being able to sense the power of the 64 divination symbols was a very valuable ability.
This was also Zhou Bai’s intention, to show his worth appropriately, so that the people from the Sky Flipping Sect would value him more, which would make it more convenient for him to utilize their power.
Thus, Zhou Bai took the initiative to write, "I can roughly sense the power of divination symbols. For example, the first time I saw Xing Jun at the abandoned dormitory, I felt a unique power from the divination symbol in his hand. Later, on the day of the exam when I encountered Xing Jun, I no longer felt that unique power from him. And today, with the notebook you brought, I sensed that special power again. It was after you spoke that I understood, this might be the power of divination symbols."
Lin Muqing’s gaze on Zhou Bai became even more earnest, "Zhou Bai, thank you for your trust. Your ability is extremely valuable in our search for the 64 divination symbols, and you must never speak of it casually to others." Her eyes shifted as she seriously added, "I will handle the Night Army for you; be careful of Fang Mo, he’s the Night Army’s second-in-command in Donghua City. However, within Dao School, as long as there’s no definitive evidence, he won’t lay a hand on you."
Although each party still kept their own secrets during this exchange, emotionally, they had grown much closer and more trusting of one another.
Zhou Bai then looked at her and asked, "One last question, now that you know of my ability, what will you do?" This was the final confirmation he needed; should their intentions be to his detriment, Zhou Bai would still opt for Time Reverse.