Mei Xi

"I'll join." Without waiting for Bai Pu to finish, the Blackscale Queen placed her right hand over her chest, bent low, and assumed a posture of submission toward Bai Pu.

"Good." Bai Pu rose with a smile. "I promise you'll watch them die one by one before your eyes."

The Blackscale Queen's decision to join had been within Bai Pu's expectations.

Her people had been slaughtered, and her will had shattered. The greatest force keeping the Blackscale Queen alive now was revenge!

The only person she could trust was Bai Pu.

After all, Luo Bu and Blood Weaver's corpses proved the strength of Bai Pu's team.

—Of course, Blood Weaver's corpse had been eaten by the shield, but the fact remained that Blood Weaver had died at Bai Pu's group's hands.

Afterward, Bai Pu spoke with the Blackscale Queen.

The Blackscale Queen was named "Jierjisiduo," which translated into the Heart Demon World's common tongue as "Mei Xi"—the two characters were more of a free translation.

The name was not important. What Bai Pu truly wanted to ask about was the Eternal Night Dark Sea, particularly vital intelligence concerning the Shadow Island Chain.

Mei Xi naturally hid nothing. She bore a blood feud against the demons under the Black Emperor's command, so she told them everything she knew.

After she laid out all the intelligence, one piece of information made Bai Pu and the others suck in a sharp breath—

On the Shadow Island Chain was an area called the Yellow Springs Belt, the habitat of a demon troop type known as Yellow Springs Ghost Dolls.

The water in the Yellow Springs Belt was the very Yellow Springs Bai Pu had encountered in the Black Swamp of the Black Tortoise Mountain Plains! Even then, the Yellow Springs had been extremely corrosive,