Today's fourth update: Chapter 3500! 4/4!
Buzz... A faint sword hum arose from behind the main hall. Before the two women could react, Xu Kun immediately diverted their attention.
With a slight raise of his hand, Xu Kun called out, "A Li, where is Yanran?"
"Master!" A Li, who stood at attention with an aura as steady as a mountain, and Yanran, whose graceful figure seemed ethereal, stepped forward at the same time and bowed to receive his orders.
"You two will gather the Twelve Kirin Scions and represent the Huang Race in accompanying the two princesses to the Phoenix Race's celebration."
Xu Kun's tone was calm yet unquestionable as he instructed, "Chan'er has already prepared all the congratulatory gifts."
Huh?
Xu Buwan paused slightly, looking at Xu Kun with some surprise.
She had assumed that he intended to impose additional conditions or issue a warning. She had not expected the Huang Race to send an envoy mission along to offer congratulations.
What... was his intention? A gesture of goodwill? Or another form of "escort" or "guarding"?
"Two princesses." Xu Kun turned his gaze toward them, the corners of his lips seeming to hold an exceedingly faint, inscrutable curve.
"With you leading the way, I trust that my Huang Race envoy mission will not be turned away outside Phoenix Wutong, correct?"
"Of course not!" Xu Buwan hurriedly shook her head. Then, a strange look appeared on her face as she carefully chose her words.
"It's just... isn't Lord Huang worried that the Phoenix Race might... detain the members of your envoy mission?"
After all, the man before her was the "ringleader" who had brazenly detained both a Phoenix Race Princess and the Dragon Lady of the Human Race. To the Phoenix Race, would the mission he sent not be