"You're my mother."
The words were crooked and clumsy.
Li Xinge could not help himself.
He delivered a resounding smack to Chixiao's head.
Chixiao cried out in pain.
Clutching its head with both foreclaws, it hurriedly flew away.
Only after confirming it was safe did it stop, looking at Li Xinge with eyes full of resentment.
"You dimwit. I'm not your mother. Your father, more like."
Li Xinge sounded exasperated.
Chixiao blinked, looking thoughtful.
"All right, we're getting ready to go..."
Li Xinge stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence.
He looked west, narrowing his eyes, which were as deep as a starry sky.
Outside Green Maple Valley, space rippled violently.
A spatial gateway opened.
Two figures emerged from it, one after the other.
The man in front wore a loose yin-yang Daoist robe. His hair and beard were white, his frame slightly stooped, and he gave off not the slightest fluctuation of spiritual power, as though he were an ordinary old man.
The man behind him looked tense, a trace of complicated emotion in his eyes.
They were none other than Cui Yuan and Cui Chongshan.
Neither flew straight into the valley.
Instead, they landed outside Green Maple Valley.
Cui Yuan clasped his hands behind his back.
He looked up at the sky above Green Maple Valley.
One glance was enough to make his pupils contract.
To Cui Chongshan, Green Maple Valley merely possessed spiritual energy so dense it seemed impossible to disperse, and scenery as beautiful as an immortal paradise.
But to Cui Yuan, who had reached the great perfection of Divine Mansion, the valley teemed with magnificent phenomena, danger and vitality existing side by side!
Deep within the sea of clouds, purple qi roiled as though boiling. A divine dragon of fortune, its scales sharply defined, coiled and