Catch a 198 in the act

"Why would she mistake me for her father?"

Gu Yang held the girl in his arms, looking as if she had exerted herself too much and had fallen asleep. One of her hands still clung tightly to his shirt, as if afraid that he would suddenly leave.

He had the feeling that things were not as simple as they seemed.

It couldn't be just because he had practiced the "Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens" and the "Divine Phoenix Manual" that she foolishly mistook him for her father, could it?

That birdlike creature might possibly make that mistake. But the girl in his arms was a powerful practitioner at the mana realm. She couldn't possibly lack even that bare minimum of discernment.

He suspected that it was very likely related to that mysterious old man on Dragon Gate Island.

He remembered that after the old man had shot the drop of liquid from the phoenix gall into his forehead, he had said: "You will thank me in the future."

That mysterious old man was unfathomably cryptic.