Hearing this, the last shred of hope in the old man's eyes vanished.
But his brow was tightly furrowed.
"How… how did you see through it?"
"You were too eager."
Fang Shuwen said,
"Given that you've been a fugitive in the East Sea for twenty years, it makes no sense for you to trust me so easily.
"You haven't even witnessed the Inner Strength of the [Morning Book], yet you trusted me so implicitly…
"If you put yourself in my shoes, wouldn't you find this whole affair strange?"
"Just because it was strange?"
The old man's face darkened.
"That's enough. I'm not from Celestial Prison Island, where everything requires hard evidence."
Fang Shuwen said coolly,
"Since I was suspicious, I decided to test you.
"And as it turned out, you old fox were already prepared… I imagine if I had actually let you go, you would have immediately fled into the Five Domains Martial World and found another place to hide.
"The two of us would probably never have seen each other again, would we?"
