A Small Matter (Second Update! Please Subscribe!)

The wilderness due south of the Liqiong Valley Teleportation Array.

Beside a patch of scorched earth that had just weathered a tribulation, the smell of burning mingled with the fresh, clean scent of grass and trees. In his daze, Pei Ling faintly heard someone calling beside his ear. "Dog owner, dog owner..."

As he listened, he suddenly jolted awake, flung open his eyes, and scrambled to his feet!

He looked around and saw that this place was no longer the Lesser Freedom Heaven. Pei Ling immediately understood: he must have angered his Master just now, and she had thrown him out.

Moreover, the last time the system had treated Yao Qingying as his Dao Companion and gifted her to him, she had been unable to interrupt the system's takeover under normal circumstances. Yet now, he had regained control of his body. Clearly, Yao Qingying had interrupted the system's takeover!

Perhaps it was because Yao Qingying's cultivation was too high?

Or had he been removed from the Lesser Freedom Heaven?

In any case, Yao Qingying hadn't killed him, or even dealt him a heavy blow. That was enough. Nothing else mattered!

Right now, the most pressing matter was still the threat from the Sect Master's Wife!

At the thought, Pei Ling's gaze immediately fell on the girl not far away.

She looked only fourteen or fifteen. Her snowy white hair was styled in a lively, playful Snake Hairpin, with a mutton-fat jade hairpin slanting through it. Her brows were like distant mountains, her eyes like autumn waters. Her gaze was especially animated; every glance could steal a soul. Her nose was high-bridged, and her cherry-red lips were especially tiny, no more than a vivid red dot.

She wore a pink dress tied with a red sash. Though still young, she already