Li Dai looked at the youth, nodding and shaking her head alike. She was indeed the one who had saved him; these children were low in cultivation and could not sense her true strength, so if she admitted it outright, they would not think twice. But once they returned to Wangyue Village, there were people there with the same twelfth-layer Qi Condensation cultivation as her, and they would not be so easily fooled. If they kept probing and asked how she had managed to rescue people from right under the noses of the formidable Tailuo family, she truly would not know how to answer.
Tang Mao was clever. Seeing her hesitation, he felt certain of a suspicion in his mind and said sincerely, "Thank you!"
"No need!" Li Dai felt it was better to say nothing at all and let him fill in the blanks himself.
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