Cold and Desolate

"So long?"

Verdant Green Maiden blinked. She did not have much sense of time, after all. She had always been on the road—she simply kept walking.

Hearing Verdant Green Maiden's sigh, Hong Luan's eyes widened even further.

Then she laughed. "You really are... I don't even know how to describe you!"

"Oh, enough arguing here. Han Xin is watching. How embarrassing!"

Han Xin?

At that, Hong Luan turned and glanced at Han Xin's grave beside them.

It was practically becoming a tourist attraction!

Verdant Green Maiden called for He Qiong to come down from behind them, then said to everyone, "This is He Qiong... I imagine Bird Sister already knows who she is, right? Let me introduce her properly. She is Li Qi's disciple, and she counts as my disciple too!"

As she spoke, Verdant Green Maiden introduced the others to He Qiong as well.

"Greetings, everyone!"

He Qiong nodded to them.

The others returned the salute.

"Let's go!"

"Back to Jade Emperor Peak first."

With a grand wave of her hand, Verdant Green Maiden ushered everyone back, lest they make a laughingstock of themselves before Han Xin.

Of course, if Han Xin dared laugh, she would not mind digging up his grave.

Besides...

He would have to be capable of laughing first!

On Jade Emperor Peak.

Looking at the large crowd before her, Verdant Green Maiden found it even stranger. "I never told you to stay here the whole time. Once you realized I had not returned for so long, you should have set off on your own!"

"Why did you all have to wait here for me for so long? In over a year, think of how much could have been done!"

"Honestly!"

Hearing Verdant Green Maiden mutter, Yang Jian, Yang Chan, and the others all lowered their