Stone Ridge Mountain:
Chu Qing grew intimate with Cui Moyang, using a secret inheritance to help her relax her mind.
Cui Moyang felt mentally refreshed, then grew drowsy and actually fell asleep again.
Nangong pouted at the side. "I still wanted to play with her!"
Chu Qing flicked her forehead. "She's very tired. Let her rest a while longer!"
"Oh!"
At this moment:
Heavenly Court sent a message through the Square Inch Gathering. "Chu Qing, two monsters are looking to cause you trouble."
"My subordinates captured them."
"I'll teleport them over to you!"
Chu Qing's heart stirred. "What monsters?"
Heavenly Court briefly explained Shi Tiezhu and King Shiyu's situation.
Chu Qing was momentarily dazed.
"When I was young, I met those two."
"One of them trained with me at the Martial Hall. Back then, I had no money to eat meat, so I caught toads to eat. I traded malt candy with children for toads."
"At the time, he helped me catch toads a few times."
"Later, we went our separate ways when I entered the Martial Academy."
"After that, I occasionally heard news of him a few times."
At this point, Chu Qing paused slightly before continuing. "He had always been unable to forget the senior student from the Martial Hall back then. But that senior student is with me now, and she is even the Empress of an empire."
"That senior student doesn't want to see him either."
Chu Qing sank into his memories.
On the other end, Heavenly Court toyed with a bead and said nothing, merely listening in silence.
"The other person was a prince of the empire where I lived when I was young."
"I had conflicts with the forces under his command back then."
"But because of a woman, I didn't wipe out his