Hearing Wu Xiaokun's voice outside, Li Fan immediately said,
"Come in."
Gongya stepped forward and opened the door. Wu Xiaokun came in.
"Greetings, Senior."
Wu Xiaokun bowed respectfully.
"No need for formalities,"
Li Fan said.
"By the way, when Jiang Li and the others went hunting a few days ago, did you get a share of the catch?"
He'd just remembered that a few days earlier, Jiang Li, Qing Chen, and Lu Rang had gone hunting at Wu Xiaokun's request.
They'd brought back so much game. He wondered if they'd given any to Wu Xiaokun and the others.
Wu Xiaokun replied,
"We did, Senior. We've already started eating it!"
Only then did Li Fan nod.
"By the way, the village slaughtered its New Year pig yesterday. Take some meat back with you later."
Wu Xiaokun was instantly overcome with excitement. The village had slaughtered its New Year pig?
Even with the most cursory thought, he could tell how precious that meat must be.
It was surely far above the Gray Howl and Fuqi Luogui in quality.
"Thank you, Senior!"
Wu Xiaokun thanked him, then continued,
"I came to report something to you, Senior."
Li Fan said,
"What is it?"
Wu Xiaokun said,
"Something even more powerful has come from the Gray Mist Sea!"
More powerful creatures?
That sounded a little strange... Surely he meant bigger animals, right?
Li Fan figured that must be it.
"Senior, according to the rumors, a terrifying poisonous insect has appeared this time. It can easily bite any animal to death..."
Wu Xiaokun added an account of the terrifying experiments the Hall Master of Time and Space had conducted in Mist Breaking Continent.
After all, the incident was far too bizarre. Once a Spirit King died, all his people—including his relatives by marriage and collateral kin—were