The Mo Family's Grand Master—Li Huowang had never met him before, yet the instant he saw the man, he knew who he was. It was because a black bird was perched on the man's shoulder.
The bird was exceedingly lively, but Li Huowang could sense that something was off about it. It looked perfectly normal, yet it gave him an inexplicable feeling of wrongness.
Li Huowang shifted his gaze from the bird to its owner. It was a man in a floral padded cotton jacket, dressed entirely like an ordinary woman. He looked extremely strange; stranger still, atop his head sat a smiling porcelain doll's head.
Though this person was dressed so bizarrely, no one around them reacted at all. More importantly, this fellow actually had three shadows on the ground.
Just then, Liang Yuxuan leaned close to Li Huowang's ear and whispered, "Immortal, that's him."
As Li Huowang walked over, the neither-man-nor-woman person walked over as well.
Now he could see more clearly. This woman had none of the Ten Emotions and Eight Sufferings; she seemed as though she was not human at all.
"Are you the Grand Master Qi Mo?" Li Huowang asked him.
"What is Qi Mo? The Mo Family stands as its own branch. There has only ever been one Mo Family." The porcelain doll head atop the woman's head swayed slightly.
It seemed that since Great Qi had no Great Liang, there was no distinction here between Qi Mo and Liang Mo.
Then she gave Li Huowang a deep salute. "Mo Family Grand Master Meng Sheng pays his respects to Real Person Li."
Li Huowang did not dodge and accepted the salute. "I heard your people came specifically to help me?"
"That is correct. When Great Qi faces calamity and the heavens come crashing down,