The Kaleidoscope Mask on Darryl's face abruptly fell to the ground at that point. The mask must have come off his face when he removed the blistering heat from Jadie's body. Darryl did not see it falling until the mask completely fell off.
'Oh, sh*t!' Darryl's brain froze when he saw the mask on the ground. 'Damn it. My cover is exposed!'
"You—" Jadie heard the sound and looked in that direction. That was when she saw Darryl's true appearance. Her body shook as she exclaimed in surprise, "You… you are Darryl?"
Jadie rarely left Jade Fairyland, so she was unlikely to know Darryl. However, Prince Auri had invited Darryl to Jade Fairyland once he got him as his master. Jadie had seen the man from afar at that time. She remembered Darryl because of his special identities, such as the Nine Heaven Sage and Prince Aurin's master. That was how she recognized him right away.
As soon as Jadie recognized Darryl, he started to panic. 'I'm finished. I'm totally finished this time.'
However, he calmed down very quickly. He smiled bitterly and said, "Jadie, don't get me wrong. I have no choice but to do this."
He might as well admit it since his identity had been revealed.
"You—" Jadie was still in tremendous shock. "The Barely Immortal from the place beyond the nine heavens is actually the Nine Heaven Sage, Darryl Darby? That—"
As she muttered to herself, she remembered that she had hugged him, and her face started to blush. However, Jadie soon recovered and looked at Darryl angrily and embarrassingly. "Darryl, what's all this? You are Prince Aurin's master. Why did you lie to him?"
Darryl sighed. "I had no choice. Empress Heidi hates me and wants to kill me. So I can only disguise myself as Barely Immortal to continue teaching Prince Aurin in the Godly Region."
After that, Darryl told Jadie the whole story of how Lute Belle invited him. When he was done, he said, "I think you know that Empress Heidi had been trying different ways to undermine Prince Aurin to help Prince Auten become the new Emperor. If I didn't do anything about it, I would have betrayed Prince Aurin's trust in me."
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