Behind Qing Lin stood a dark-skinned woman with a seductive face, yet carrying a somewhat blank and cold air.
"Black Water Mysterious Yin, you're here too!"
I greeted her. Her true form was a Seventh-Order Black Water Mysterious Yin Snake, whom Qing Lin had subdued with her Jade Eye Three Flower Pupils while in the Central Plains.
"Hiss hiss, Nalan Ye, we meet again."
Black Water Mysterious Yin said. After several years, she had become much more fluent in human speech, though it still sounded rather odd. Still, she was far better than Cai Lin, who stood in the corner cold as frost.
Both were Seventh-Order Snake Magical Beasts, but Black Water Mysterious Yin was much more obedient than Cai Lin.
Grinning, I said to Cai Lin, "What wind blew Your Majesty here? You haven't visited me in a long time."
"Hmph!"
Cai Lin remained expressionless, but her eyes held complicated emotions. She had watched me go from a minor Dou Zhe she could have casually killed without a second thought, to surpassing her, and then becoming someone she now had to look up to. Her feelings were bound to be complicated.
Especially considering all the grudges between us...
"The battle caused too much commotion, and the Dou Sheng from Heavenly Snake Mansion never returned, so people from Heavenly Snake Mansion came looking."
When Daoist Ping Yuan had left Heavenly Snake Mansion several days ago, several of its Dou Zongs had known about it. Yet after waiting and waiting, they had not seen him return.
Dou Shengs generally did not remain in the Great World for long. They would return to stay in their Small Worlds as quickly as possible. Since Daoist Ping Yuan had not returned for so long, the Heavenly Snake Mansion Dou Zongs naturally feared that something