Heaven Dou City. Ye Residence.
A small brazier sat in Ye Lingling's room, burning premium smokeless coal. The room was warm and filled with a delicate, pleasant fragrance.
Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling had gathered together, gossiping about Lin Xiao behind his back.
"Sister Yanyan, I think Lin Xiao must have forgotten about us. What a disloyal friend. So he was the kind of petty man who forgot his friends the moment he saw a pretty girl."
"Ling Ling, this is the seventy-seventh time you've badmouthed Lin Xiao to me. You talk about him all day long. Do you like him or hate him?"
"Hmph, isn't that obvious? I, Ye Lingling, don't have friends who abandon loyalty for a pretty face!"
"What if Lin Xiao doesn't come back? Don't get anxious when the time comes."
"Anxious? My mother said that if Lin Xiao still doesn't come back, she'll go to Skywater City and drag him back herself."
Dugu Yan: "..."
As expected of Aunt Ye. She had always been decisive and straightforward.
When others said such things, they usually meant it as a joke to some extent. But Dugu Yan truly believed that Ye Qingxian would do exactly as she said, and Lin Xiao naturally understood that as well.
So... Lin Xiao should be coming back soon?
He was finally coming back!
Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling had both obtained their third Soul Rings.
Dugu Yan's Soul Power had reached level thirty-seven. Her third Soul Skill was called Jade Phosphorus Heart, obtained from a two-thousand-year-old Silver Ringed Purple Scale Serpent Spirit Beast. Its effect was to increase Dugu Yan's poison by fifty percent.
That fifty percent might have sounded rather weak, but poison was something that could stack. Unlike the attack-type Soul Skills of ordinary Battle Soul Masters, which were