Blue Phoenix Chapter 76 – Comrades?

”How long do you plan on pretending to be friends with these people?” Xie Lan asked again with a heavy sigh following the creaking sound of someone sitting down on the bed.

The previously alert Hui Yue instantly turned rigid. His entire body stopped moving. Instead of moving through the door as he first intended, he paused next to it.

“Don’t be harsh,” Xu Piao’s voice was laughing and unserious. It seemed that he had heard Xie Lan asking the question many times before. “This is our job,” he continued. This time his voice was a little bit more serious than it had been before. “We were given a mission, and we will finish the mission. Do you dislike spending time with these youngsters? I find them fun.”

Hearing Xu Piao’s voice, Hui Yue’s eyes narrowed slightly. He heard Xu Piao move around within the room on the other side of the door. To be honest, had Xu Piao used his wu wei to sweep over the area he would have long since noticed Hui Yue. However, the Guild Master never believed that Hui Yue would be within his room and for once he did not check his surroundings before he started talking.

Standing still in the bathroom, Hui Yue felt quite uncertain as to what the words he had heard meant. One thing was certain. The reason that the Guild Master was on the team was not because he had to get to Dragon’s Core Cave. He seemed to have a completely different agenda.

Standing still, Hui Yue waited till all sounds within the room quieted down, hoping to hear more, but he heard nothing. Eventually, the young man no longer dared risk being found, so he went to the window in the bathroom and jumped out. He landed on the ground with the same gracefulness as a cat.

After landing on the ground, Hui Yue’s thoughts were a mess, and he quickly went back to the training room where he sat down to meditate.

He did not enter meditation for the sake of training for once. Instead, he wanted to get his thoughts organized to decide what he should do.

Trusting Xu Piao was something which Hui Yue had done for quite some time. The Guil

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