"Come on, Sister Lin, it's not as serious as you make it sound. I was just asking out of curiosity."
The black mist swayed in midair before finally condensing into a head with a thoroughly miserable face. It grinned impishly at the woman.
"If Brother Li's big plans could be delayed by one little question from me, then he wouldn't deserve to be called a cheater."
The woman sitting cross-legged atop the smooth stone platform—Soul King Lin Qinfeng—looked even more speechless than before, clearly unable to find a suitable response for the moment.
Just then, the sound of something cutting through the air came from the dense mist in the distance.
A figure wrapped in black-violet flames crashed heavily down, forcibly bringing a scorching heat into the tranquil space.
Liu Wenjian folded his bat-like wings behind him and spoke directly to the cross-legged woman atop the stone platform.
"Something happened in the Great Wasteland. Come with me."
Lin Qinfeng parted her lips, about to reply.
Before she could speak, however, the miserable-looking head floating in the air beat her to it.
"How could anything still happen in the Great Wasteland? Isn't it just the last handful of demon princes who refuse to obey? Catch them alive if you can; kill them if you can't..."
"Sister Lin is the pillar of stability for all the Soul Guards and Soul Generals—the backbone!"
"If you go to the Great Wasteland with him and run into any danger, then all the other brothers in the Demon Domain are screwed! You can't just deploy whenever you want!"
"Think it over carefully, Lord Demon King!!"
The corner of Liu Wenjian's mouth twitched.
Even with his current God's Chosen One-level strength, Xing Anlin's sheer obnoxiousness was still a little too much for him.
"Was the resistance from