Sly Upon Sly (2)

Ji Yuan had coolly said, "I'm Number 404."

At the same time, he saw that the lips of Yun Chi had already started to move and he could well imagine that she was about to say to him, "Do you think that I'll not dare to kill you because you're Number 404?"

So he quickly seized the initiative to continue, "It seems that these cultivators are from the White Faction and they are probably here to assassinate me. Luckily you've discovered them in a nick of time or you will soon lose your great hero."

Then he smiled, "I've heard that killing the Number 404 of the opposing faction will grant the other faction an additional Escape Talisman."

In one breath, he had indirectly warned her that she ought to 'protect him' and he had also diverted her murderous intention, or rather he hoped to.