An expression of utter despair spread across his face as the little one's voice came from the distance, saying that they were all hidden and telling Pei Pei to come find them.
Ling Yun and An Qing exchanged a wry, helpless smile.
"From now on, there's no need to let the Devil Race's envoys come here except for her. The Tai Chi Seal? I don't know it." Ling Yun ordered East Divine Venerable, shaking his head with a flat-out denial!
The Tai Chi Seal belonged to the little one's private property now; taking it out was impossible, and she wasn't so easy to fool anymore.
Besides!
The Tai Chi Seal was his spoils of war; why on earth should he trade it back?
"Old North boy, are you ready yet? We're setting off." Ling Yun glared sideways at North Divine Venerable, who looked as though he had just eaten a dead mouse—he hadn't been able to smile ever since he learned last night that he was going with Empress An Qing.
"I'm... ready!"
The corner of his mouth twitched into a smile. Resign yourself to your fate; going with the Empress shouldn't spell disaster, right? Surely Emperor Lord would allow it?
"How many people are you arranging to go in?"
"Isn't it just Old Man and Meng Luo?" North Divine Venerable asked doubtfully.
Ling Yun's mouth twitched. "Just a few? Are you going on vacation?"
"More people just means sending them to their deaths."
"Ahem..." Ling Yun's face darkened. To put it like that was far too defeatist.
"Then you arrange it." North Divine Venerable spread his hands.
It was the first time East Divine Venerable and the others had ever seen North Divine Venerable act so shamelessly.
Ling Yun instructed Rex to arrange five divine guards who understood the