"Beast City? Yu Henshui?"
Granny Hundred Flowers, dressed in a blue floral robe, froze and blurted out, "Where is Beast City? Why have I never heard of it?"
Wang Xian sighed.
He looked up toward the depths of the sky and murmured, "If you're ugly, you need to read more... Beast City is too far away. So far that you could spend your whole life trying and still never get there..."
If he met Granny Hundred Flowers again, he wouldn't make the same mistake his master, Bai Youyue, had.
Since this old woman had colluded with Wang Yuwen and the barbarian army, she might as well stay here forever.
In an instant, Hua Mantian, by the moat, brightened. Listening to Wang Xian, she seemed to remember something.
She didn't cheer. Instead, she took a deep breath and closed her eyes.
She savored Wang Xian's words... She had visited many of the famous mountains and rivers in this world.
Yet she had never heard of Beast City.
It couldn't be in the Southern Border, either. Otherwise, the barbarian army would have swept across the Central Plains long ago. Why would they have waited until now?
But then, as the thought struck her, anger surged in her heart.
Wasn't he using those words to insult her?
Although she had already decided never to return to Hundred Flowers Valley, that line—"If you're ugly, you need to read more"—still hurt her, because she really hadn't read much.
Perhaps Granny Hundred Flowers had become more composed, or perhaps she hadn't understood what he meant.
Instead, she frowned and asked, "Kid, aren't you Wang Xian from the Kunlun Mountains?"
Wang Xian tensed and shook his head. "How could you know who I am when you've never even heard of where I come from?"
He drew his