The First Time I Led an Army into Battle Alone, I Ran Into a Tough Opponent Like Bai Yuchan (Continued)

"What happened?!"

Bai Yuchan turned at the sound.

From the deep shadows cast by the corridor pillars of Tongbai Palace, a stern magistrate slowly emerged.

The magistrate had a mane of furious vermilion hair, a square, iron-blue face, and eyes that glimmered faintly with lightning. Yet a sharp bird's beak protruded from his mouth and nose, making for an indescribably bizarre sight.

He, too, wore an emerald-cloud daoist robe much like Bai Yuchan's.

Bai Yuchan shot the bird-beaked magistrate a glance and ground out through clenched teeth:

"I've had my true origins seen through!"

The bird-beaked magistrate shuddered violently, a sharp gleam flashing through his lightning eyes.

"What?! There is actually someone in this place who can see where we came from?!"

The bird-beaked magistrate stepped forward, his voice brimming with disbelief.

"Could it be a hidden pawn planted in China by some other Outer God?"

"Who knows?!"

Bai Yuchan was so angry that his handsome face went "puff," his cheeks ballooning out like a toad truly roused to fury.

"That brat first severed our Lewd Twins in Guoqing Temple, seized the authority of the Great Horn Demon Star, and fashioned two dragons from it.

I was no match for them, so I fled all the way back here!"

At the words "the Lewd Twins have fallen," the bird-beaked magistrate's body stiffened almost imperceptibly for an instant. Then he said in a grave voice:

"Those were the Mother Goddess's offspring! They were simply cut down like that?

Brother, show me what that man looks like first."

For an existence of Bai Yuchan's cultivation, recreating someone's appearance required no portrait.

With a casual wave of his hand, he guided a thread of true qi and condensed Lin Chen's face between them—

Light brows, starry eyes, an indifferent expression, and an indescribable