"You've developed quite well in the years I've been gone!" Madara raised an eyebrow as he looked around the hall. It was not luxurious, but it was exquisitely decorated.
"That was all thanks to Miss Ye's help!" Li Jia said bluntly, without concealing anything.
"Ye Lingling?" Madara pondered for a moment before asking Li Jia tentatively.
Li Jia nodded without denying it and admitted generously, "You could say we're leaning against a big tree for shade now!"
"The Nine Heart Begonia? That is indeed a good choice." Madara understood somewhat.
"We only help the Ye Family gather information! We're just pawns charging at the front!" Li Jia shook his head with a self-mocking smile.
"Oh?" Madara seemed to catch some indescribable implication in Li Jia's words, but before he could ask, Li Jia changed the subject.
"Brother, you came this time to help your friends hunt Spirit Beasts, right?" Li Jia turned toward Tang San and the others, who had just entered. Though phrased as a question, his tone carried a hint of certainty.
"That's right! To add a third Spirit Ring to a kid with barely any talent." Madara nodded, his tone softening slightly.
Seeing that this group of children, no more than twelve or thirteen years old, had come to obtain a third Spirit Ring, Li Jia could not help clicking his tongue inwardly.
Sure enough, birds of a feather flocked together. He had not expected the ones around Madara, that freak, to all be monsters as well.
"By the way, Miss Ye brought over a young man not much older than you before. He specifically asked to challenge you!" Li Jia suddenly seemed to remember something and told Madara.
"Challenge me?" Madara sneered, as though he had heard something absurd. "Does he have the right?"
"Really! From