He couldn't just watch me go to my death?
After returning, Yaoshi Yuan kept replaying those words in her mind. As she passed the training dummy in the courtyard, she suddenly punched straight through its refined-iron body. She didn't stop until she had completely shattered the Defense Barrier, barely even paying attention to the Calamity Organization's founding declaration.
How dare she say that... How dare he think that!
Yaoshi Yuan felt that she had been deceived—by that pair of dog-couple, Red Snake and Yellow Dog. It was clearly Yellow Dog who refused to use the Return Token to save anyone. He had clearly been the one to abandon Bunny Heroine. He had clearly been weak and heartless, yet he had the nerve to pretend it was all because he didn't want me to go to my death? Now that things had come to this, did he really think he could win me over with an excuse like that?
She really wanted to drag Yellow Dog out and beat him senseless, but there were only three days left before the mission began, and barely a day and a half before the next meeting. Yaoshi Yuan certainly wouldn't heed Yellow Dog's threats, but the time pressure was real. She had to hurry and prepare to rescue the hostage.
So she went straight to the Chang'an Military Mansion.
"Duke of Jin has arrived! All irrelevant personnel, clear the way!"
With gongs and drums leading the way and officers accompanying her, Yaoshi Yuan was no longer the insignificant nobody of Chang'an she had once been. She was a genuine Six Pillars Duke of Jin, as well as a Foundation Establishment True Person candidate personally selected by Dragon Locking True Person. Even the emperor had to leave the city to welcome her. Her visit to