The fierce wind rushed past her ears, and the world blurred before her eyes, receding at astonishing speed.
It was the first time in her life that Nie Susu had experienced flying through the sky.
It was not pleasant.
There was none of the carefree exhilaration of roaming heaven and earth as she had imagined—only bewilderment, unease, and panic.
Following the instructions of Jing'an, Marquis Li, she had stayed obediently in her cell and gone nowhere.
Yet after waiting only a short while, she had suddenly been taken away by the Li Big Brother she worshipped most—and taken straight out of the city at that.
After speeding through the sky for more than ten minutes, Li Fei finally descended with her, landing in a stretch of woodland.
"Marquis Li, what are you trying to do?"
Nie Susu looked at Li Fei's solemn expression and asked cautiously.
"Your master should be one of the Three Fiends. She used you to try to harm someone. I brought you out so you wouldn't remain in the city and be used again."
Li Fei spoke plainly.
"My master is one of the Three Fiends?"
Nie Susu looked utterly bewildered.
Of course she had heard of the Three Fiends. "One Peak Expert, Three Fiends, Five True Lords, Seven Martial Saints"—she had heard those titles from the very first day she began practicing martial arts.
But she had only heard of them.
To Nie Susu, those Peak Experts were like the immortals in the storybooks she had read, impossibly distant from her.
She had never imagined that she would one day cross paths with such figures.
But...
Nie Susu looked at Li Fei before her. If he truly was that Jing'an, Marquis, then perhaps encountering one of the Three Fiends was not impossible after all?
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