Only after a long while, having taken time to collect its thoughts, did it speak again.
"Hey, they don't even dare leave the Southern Endless Sea. I don't know what you're all afraid of."
"Besides, I wasn't saying anything bad about the Nine Sons of the Endless Sea. I meant the Heavenly Evolution Immortal Sect, which vanished into the dust of history long ago."
The Black-Faced Burly Man's explanation rekindled everyone's interest.
"Madam, I know you mean well."
"But everyone here is attending the First Princess's Birthday Banquet. There are no outsiders among us, and idle talk in private has no chance of spreading."
"So why spoil everyone's fun?"
At the very front of the hall sat a gaunt fiend. Its sallow arms rested casually on the table, and its fur was so unnaturally white that it looked ready to die of old age.
Yet the aura it radiated was immensely powerful. Even if it could not match the Nirvana Crimson Phoenix in the Pearl-Curtain Blessed Land, it was certainly no weaker than Man One, the young clan leader of the Titanic Python Clan.
If not for the four formidable guards beside the noblewoman, the fiend's usual temper would have driven it to abduct her long ago.
It would have drained her for its own pleasure, then killed her offhandedly.
It would never have shown the patience to explain itself to her now.
Seeing a fiend step forward to defend the Black-Faced Burly Man, the noblewoman fell silent.
"Ah..."
After a long sigh, she sat back down.
But as she settled into her seat, her gaze seemed to sweep inadvertently over Luo Yi.
When she saw that even this Tribulation-Crossing Pseudo-Immortal Powerhouse of the Human Race from the Southern Endless Sea had no intention of standing up for the Nine