"Kid, don't just read books and take them at face value. If you study according to the Swindling Scripture, you'll learn nothing. Let me teach you—on our Sitting Oblivion Path, we can't just straight-up lie to people."
Sitting in the teahouse, Li Huowang sipped his tea while watching Liuan drop this shocking bomb in front of him.
"Deceiving others is always the lowest level. If you want to swindle someone, you gotta make them fool themselves." That shifty-eyed guy with the walrus mustache went on explaining to the young man in front of him.
"As long as you get them to trick themselves, even the most outrageous lies will seem real to them."
Just then, an extremely haggard old lady walked past the teahouse with a vegetable basket on her arm.
