"You know that what you just said was very impolite."
Verdant Green Maiden looked at Yuan Tiangang and spoke slowly.
At her words, Yuan Tiangang bowed again and apologized to Verdant Green Maiden. "Please forgive me, Goddess."
When Verdant Green Maiden heard Yuan Tiangang begin calling her Goddess, she sighed and helplessly shook her head. She waved him away. "Go to Chang'an and wait for me. Once you get there, just give them my name. Don't think you can run! The world is vast, but you won't escape my grasp."
With that, she didn't wait to hear what else Yuan Tiangang might say. She walked slowly out of Han Zhong.
Only after he was left alone on the road did Yuan Tiangang let out a helpless sigh. He reached into his robes and took out a chart covered in intricate patterns.
He had used this chart to divine Verdant Green Maiden's whereabouts.
But the moment Yuan Tiangang took it out, a flame suddenly sprang up from somewhere and engulfed the chart. As the flames flickered, the chart drifted slowly toward the sky, where it burned to ashes in midair.
"This..."
Yuan Tiangang looked up at the chart as it turned to ashes, his pupils contracting.
But he soon regained his composure, as if he had expected this.
"Ha..."
Yuan Tiangang sighed.
"I've delivered the message. Which path the Goddess chooses is no longer something this Poor Daoist can comment on!"
With that, Yuan Tiangang turned and left.
Still, he remembered what Verdant Green Maiden had just said to him. After leaving Han Zhong, he headed straight for Chang'an.
Verdant Green Maiden and Hong Luan made their way to the Chengdu Plain, but neither of them entered Chengdu City to see Li Yuanji just yet. Instead, they first went to Crane