A gentle breeze brushed past, sending ripples across the emerald-green lake.
Ignoring the guards surrounding him, Jiang Chuan looked toward the young woman in the pavilion.
"A princess of the Taicang Dynasty thinks she deserves my salute? That bitch Li Yuejiao would have long since become a ghost beneath my blade if she hadn't gotten lucky!"
Jiang Chuan's voice was calm, yet it exploded in the ears of the surrounding guards like a thunderclap.
The guards around him all sucked in sharp breaths.
Of course, they knew exactly who Li Yuejiao was!
She was the eldest princess of the Nine Abyss Dynasty!
Trying to kill Li Yuejiao was a heaven-shaking matter that would rattle the entire Nine Abyss Dynasty!
"Pfft!"
The young woman burst out laughing. "Kid from the Jiang family, setting everything else aside, that foolish look of yours is carved from the same mold as your grandfather's."
"Jiang Chuan, this is Ning Surong, the Empress of the Taicang Dynasty, not Zhao Ping's daughter," Bai Mengqiu explained.
The Empress?
Jiang Chuan gave Ning Surong another careful once-over.
"Are you thinking that you can't see even a trace of an empress who serves as a mother to the world in me?" Ning Surong asked, noticing Jiang Chuan's gaze.
Jiang Chuan shook his head. "No. I was just marveling at how wonderful cultivation is."
Ning Surong: "."
Cultivation was wonderful?
You might as well just call me a several-hundred-year-old granny!
Bai Mengqiu then invited Jiang Chuan to sit.
Jiang Chuan did not stand on ceremony. He sat directly beside Bai Mengqiu and sampled the medicinal tea she had brewed.
Medicinal tea was an immensely popular drink among cultivators of the Qingyuan Realm.
Ordinary medicinal tea was usually brewed by combining several spirit herbs with spirit tea.
As a renowned Pill Dao