"I need to give Sage Spirit Butterfly a surprise tomorrow, but I can't actually beat him senseless. All things considered, combat strength around the Sixth Grade should do," the Heavenly Emperor murmured.
She was someone whose word was her bond. Having promised to live on Spirit Butterfly Island in Soft Feather's place for a week, she would neither quit halfway nor make some elementary mistake that gave her away.
Besides... apart from waiting on Spirit Butterfly Island for the Mysterious Island to appear, there were a few other things she wanted to find out.
She wanted to use this week to get along with Sage Spirit Butterfly and learn more about Soft Feather.
After merging with Soft Feather's Spirit Ghost, she had developed an interest in Soft Feather as an individual. She wanted to understand her better, to learn about her life from childhood onward, and... her birth.
"Oh dear, I drew this formation wrong." Her slight lapse in concentration had led to a small mistake in one of the formations on her arm.
The Heavenly Emperor reached over and rubbed the formation diagram on her arm. "Never mind. It's not that different anyway. It'll be fine."
With so many formations suppressing her strength, she would surely perform perfectly when she faced Sage Spirit Butterfly's "test" tomorrow.
Meanwhile, in the study of a pavilion on Spirit Butterfly Island.
Sage Spirit Butterfly held a book in one hand and a teacup in the other, savoring his tea.
Suddenly, a cold breeze blew through the window.
Senior Spirit Butterfly shivered.
"Hmm?" Sage Spirit Butterfly looked up in puzzlement and gazed out the window. With his Eighth-Grade Saint Lord constitution, neither heat nor cold bothered him. Why had he suddenly felt a chill?
Just then, a Butterfly Demon flew through the