"I suddenly kind of miss when his mouth wasn't covered..."
Dai Li withdrew her gaze from Demon King Qin and looked toward the small figure standing on the other side.
Aura swiftly glanced in the direction Dai Li was looking, then immediately turned back toward the valley floor, afraid of missing any exciting scene.
He teased:
"Don't tell me you miss him calling you his beloved consort..."
Without waiting for Dai Li to respond, Aura continued on his own:
"Your Highness, as your old friend of many years, I feel obligated to remind you once more."
"No matter how this challenge ends, Liu Wenjian is a potential seed who has already received three blessings."
"He isn't someone you or I can control."
Dai Li nodded.
"I know."
After a moment of silence, she added softly:
"I'm just a little jealous."
Aura let out a derisive chuckle and did not pursue the subject.
He turned back toward the bottom of the canyon and spoke casually:
"Let's keep watching."
"But then again, aren't you curious how Prince Liu Wenjian managed to so easily break Elder Kalabatoya's 'Sloth Battle Domain'?"
Dai Li shrugged, her rectangular pupils sweeping over that overwhelmingly oppressive back.
After a two-second pause, she answered with the air of someone who had given up trying to make sense of it:
"Because he's the child of prophecy."
The moment her words fell—
Demon King Qin's back suddenly trembled slightly.
Aura's relaxed brow instantly furrowed. He immediately looked up at Demon King Qin in the distance.
Only when he saw that the other party had not turned around at once did he temporarily breathe a sigh of relief.
Putting on a confused expression as though he had not understood, he gave a vague couple of noncommittal hums before focusing once more on