"We won't disturb your granddaughter as she absorbs her soul ring, Senior Snake Dowager. Until we meet again." Zhao Wuji decisively chose to leave.
The die had been cast. There was no need to take risks over an outcome that was already set in stone.
If the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent had not yet died, then even if Shrek had no claim to it, they would still have fought for it.
But now, there was no need...
"Fine. Then I won't see you off," Snake Dowager Chao Tianxiang said bluntly.
After they had gone some distance, Oscar could not help asking, "Teacher Zhao, is that Snake Dowager really that strong?"
"I'm not afraid of Snake Dowager alone. She's only a Soul Emperor. But if Dragon Duke is added to the equation, that's another matter," Zhao Wuji said darkly. "Dragon Duke is at least a Soul Douluo by now. We can't afford to provoke him."
"Oh..." Oscar said gloomily. "Then all that time we spent looking..."
"Hold it in. If we make a big deal out of this, we're the ones who'll lose out," Zhao Wuji said.
Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong looked at Oscar in disbelief, but Oscar, dejected over the soul ring matter, clearly failed to notice.
"Don't make me wait too long..." High in the sky, Lang Lei sat on World-Painting Creation and looked down at the group below, his fingers tapping rhythmically against his knee.
Several days later, one night—
"They're here?" Lang Lei suddenly looked toward the swaying forest in the distance, Little Griseo already asleep in his arms. The only one who would dare act so wantonly in this area had to be the Hundred Thousand Year Titan Giant Ape, known to the outside world as the King of the Forest, right?
How laughable. Two gatekeepers