"You were playing with me this whole time?"
"I knew you had the power of a higher-ranked being, so what else was I supposed to do? If I tried anything funny, you might have wiped me out of the Red Realm."
"What made you think I wouldn't do that now?"
"You didn't seem like the type."
"The technique you used on me belonged to a righteous cultivator, and you just used your old power to save your father."
She had certainly crossed a line at the hotel, but he had seen enough to think they could talk. Someone willing to spend her remaining power to save her family was better company than the fellows who had destroyed his room.
"Then you did come from the ancient forest, and you lied to me."
"Maybe, but you would have to share a few secrets before I answered that."
"What do you want to know?"
"That's more like it, but let's move somewhere else."
