Tantai Qingyue looked at Ning Chen with smiling eyes and asked casually, "Gossiping about me?"

Ning Chen: "..."

"I didn't say a thing. That was all Old Feng... I'm completely sure you'd never kill me."

Ning Chen sold Feng Qizheng out without a moment's hesitation.

Tantai Qingyue gave a little scoff. "If not for those tens of thousands of Xiliang people in Xuanwu City, you would soon find out whether I would kill you."

Ning Chen's mouth twitched. "I thought things between us weren't about coercion anymore?"

"Hah. You thought?"

Ning Chen rolled his eyes and changed the subject. "Little Tanzi, you came at just the right time. I've got a favor to ask!"

"Go on!"

"Help me get the gate of Beilin Pass open."

Tantai Qingyue: "..."

"I am a person, not a god!"

"Aren't you a fairy?"

The corners of Tantai Qingyue's lips curved up before she could stop them, but she quickly straightened her face.

Ning Chen said, "Back in Yangzhou, I drove arrows into the wall and used them as steps to reach the top... The wall at Beilin Pass is a little higher than Yangzhou's, but with your skills, getting up there shouldn't be a problem, right?"

Tantai Qingyue said, "Since you have climbed the wall of Yangzhou City before, you ought to be able to climb Beilin Pass's wall now."

Ning Chen shook his head. "No way! Nobody was shooting at me at Yangzhou... The wall at Beilin Pass is covered in archers. I'm afraid I'd end up stuck full of arrows like a hedgehog."

Tantai Qingyue said irritably, "And I would not end up stuck full of arrows like a hedgehog? I have not trained my skin to copper and my bones to iron."

"With your skills, you shouldn't have to worry about those archers, right?"

Tantai Qingyue scoffed. "There are at least a thousand archers on that wall. Under a rain of arrows like that, I could not do it either... Forget me. Even the old Heavenly Master would have to back off."

Ning Chen laughed. "Then you're selling the old Heavenly…