"The gist of what happened is roughly as follows..." The wind gently blew across the sand dunes as "Fairy Cui Bo" finished her account, slowly uttering the last word.
According to her story, she had been trying to find the treasures left by the Western Desert Zombie Alliance branch when she ran into an Immortal Gu Master from Heavenly Court.
The Heavenly Court Gu Master seemed to recognize her, identifying her as one of Ancestor Qianbian's concubines.
Even though "Fairy Cui Bo" invoked Ancestor Qianbian's name, this only made the Heavenly Court Gu Master more hostile.
During the battle, Fairy Cui Bo was struck by the Heavenly Court Gu Master's killing move, destroying nearly all of her Gu Insects.
Fortunately, she encountered Liu Guanyi and the others.
As it turned out, the Heavenly Court Gu Master had been pursuing Liu Guanyi and his group all along.
An enemy of an enemy is a friend, so Liu Guanyi and the others intervened to save Fairy Cui Bo, and after a fierce battle, they managed to temporarily escape Heavenly Court's pursuit.
However, since they had been marked by Heavenly Court's tracking killing move, they had been on the run ever since. Splitting up would have been unwise—the enemy could pick them off one by one.
The entire narration was delivered vividly by Shadow No Evil, with certain details so convincing that listeners felt as though they were there.
In truth, ever since Fang Yuan and the others had captured Fairy Cui Bo and extracted a great deal of intelligence about Ancestor Qianbian from her soul, they had devised numerous countermeasures covering every scenario they could imagine.
Shadow No Evil's account was a mix of truth and fabrication. Fang Yuan and the others had transformed from enemies into benefactors, and Feng Jiuge also appeared in the narrative—his description being the most authentic, with very little alteration or distortion.
The story had no loopholes, for it had been polished countless times by Fang Yuan and the others.
The only imperfection was that Fairy Cui Bo had apparently lost nearly all of her Immortal Gu and a vast number of mortal Gu during the battle.
This seemed a little too convenient.
But there was no other way.
If Qianbian's will demanded that Shadow No Evil produce Immortal Gu, Shadow No Evil would be in serious trouble.
After all, the Gu Insects that Fairy Cui Bo possessed contained her own will, which Shadow No Evil could not possibly control.
In fact, the moment Fairy Cui Bo was captured by Bai Ningbing, she had detonated all of her Gu Insects.
She would rather die than let the enemy benefit!
So Fang Yuan and the others had to explain it this way—by doing so, they actually closed an even bigger loophole.
A look of surprise appeared on Red Cloud Dancer's face.
She gazed at "Fairy Cui Bo," never having expected that she had gone through so many perilous encounters.
But in reality, Bai Ningbing, Hei Loulan, and the others were equally astonished.
Shadow No Evil's performance had been absolutely perfect—his acting was flawless, natural, and entirely convincing.
"When did Shadow No Evil become this skilled?" Hei Loulan wondered silently.
Only Fang Yuan was completely unsurprised by Shadow No Evil's stellar performance.
Because he had already lent the Attitude Immortal Gu to Shadow No Evil beforehand. With the support of such an Eighth Transformation Immortal Gu, Shadow No Evil's performance was naturally beyond reproach.
Moreover, the people he was dealing with were merely a Seventh Transformation Gu Immortal and an Eighth Transformation will.
If it were Ancestor Qianbian himself, things might have been uncertain, but deceiving these two was well within Shadow No Evil's capabilities.
Success!
Neither Red Cloud Dancer nor Qianbian's will harbored any suspicion toward Shadow No Evil's account.
Fang Yuan saw this and said, "Lord Qianbian, Fairy Red Cloud, it is true that the Heavenly Court Gu Master was pursuing us. But Fairy Cui Bo was saved by us—that is a fact, is it not?"