Two people and a monkey sat around the campfire.
Sun Huo Wang waved his hand. "Ah! If you'd told me your master was a goddess, I wouldn't have hit you. Honestly..."
Yang Jian retorted, "You were bitten by a dog. You didn't hit us."
Sun Huo Wang: "..."
Yang Chan hurriedly soothed Sun Huo Wang and asked, "Monkey Brother, is our master really Mount Tai Holy Mother?"
"Of course! She's a renowned Great Immortal!"
Sun Huo Wang regaled the siblings with tales of Verdant Green Maiden's deeds over the past thousand years, from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors to the Spring and Autumn Warring States, and then to the Two Han Dynasties of today. She had killed three generations of kings, defied Damn Heaven, and even survived two Heavenly Tribulations!
A truly illustrious figure!
Yang Chan listened with longing. If only she could achieve even one ten-thousandth of what Verdant Green Maiden had.
Sun Huo Wang asked, "Hey, where's the goddess now?"
The two siblings shook their heads. Yang Chan said, "We parted ways with our master near Dragon Tiger Mountain. So much time has passed; she definitely isn't there anymore."
Hearing that, Sun Huo Wang sighed.
"Alas..."
Seeing him sigh, Yang Jian said, "Demon... ahem, Monkey, Monkey Brother!"
Sun Huo Wang glanced at him. "What?"
"Since we're so fated to meet, there's something I'd like to ask you. Would you be willing to help...?"
Yang Jian thought it over as he spoke to Sun Huo Wang.
As soon as he said this, Sun Huo Wang gave him a disdainful look and said, "If you've got something to say, just say it. Why are you beating around the bush with Old Sun? I hate that most of all!"
"Out with it! What is it?"
Yang Jian's expression brightened. He