Medusa slowly sat down in a chair amid countless terrified gazes and closed her eyes to rest.
Xiao Ding and Xiao Li went rigid, their breathing stopping.
Queen Medusa!
A terrifying existence who made even the Dou Huangs of several surrounding empires pale at the mention of her name!
"Big Brother, Second Brother, don't be afraid. Just pretend she doesn't exist."
Xiao Yan's dry laugh left Xiao Ding and Xiao Li with black lines across their faces.
Big Brother!
That was Queen Medusa!
How could he say something so outrageous!
Hai Bo Dong asked tremulously, "Cai Die, that day in the valley, I saw with my own eyes that your life force had completely faded. Why...?"
Cai Die gazed lovingly at Hai Bo Dong and said shyly, "I heard from my sister that my companion soul had sealed away a trace of my life force. Then, fortunately, the Nine Nether Golden Ancestral Fire helped..."
"Xiao Yan, thank you!" Hai Bo Dong looked at Xiao Yan gratefully.
"It was nothing." Xiao Yan gave an awkward laugh.
Medusa lifted her teacup and gently turned it. "Hai Bo Dong, if not for my sister's sake, you would already be dead in the desert."
"What do you want?" Hai Bo Dong's eyes turned slightly cold.
He feared Queen Medusa, but he also hated her.
He could not be bothered with the Snake-People Tribe's damn rules.
All he knew was this.
Medusa and her people had nearly driven Cai Die to her death.
"I'll give you two choices."
Medusa said coldly, "First, return to your Jia Ma Empire and never see my sister again."
"Second, give up your status as a Dou Huang and go with my sister to the Snake-People Tribe, where you can live a stable, peaceful life."
"Big Sister!" Cai Die grew