"Xiang Bei and Zhongli Yan... who won?"
In the Great Void Illusion Realm, amid the Star River, atop the Sword Discussion Platform.
After a bout of martial combat, the two were sitting and lying on the ground respectively, chatting idly.
Zuo Guangshu lay sprawled flat on his back, unable to summon the desire to move even a single finger.
"Dou Zhao."
"Dou Zhao?"
Zuo Guangshu bared his teeth. "Dou Zhao passed by and beat them both up."
That... did sound like something Dou Zhao would do. Jiang Wang shook his head with a laugh.
"Big Brother Jiang."
"Mm?"
"Are you going to the Dragon Palace Banquet this time?"
Jiang Wang asked in return, "Are you?"
"The Long River Dragon Palace is fairly close, and with the Nine-Dragon Sun-Supporting Eternal Mountain and River Seal there, it's absolutely safe. Of course I'm going to go have a seat." Smiling, Zuo Guangshu added, "Sister Qu and I are going together."
Traveling abroad for fun was a happy thing. Going with Qu Shunhua made it even happier.
He had not traveled far from home in a long time. The last occasion had been the Yellow River Assembly. When he had gone earlier to visit Jiang Wang at the Human Race settlement in the Demon Realm, he had also gone back and forth through a gateway within Chu Kingdom, under his grandfather's watchful care.
Naturally, he knew why his family kept such a close watch over him.
Though youthful by nature, and inevitably yearning for the vast world, wishing to spread his wings and fly alone, he would not secretly slip out of Chu Kingdom. He merely cultivated diligently, hoping to reach a level of cultivation that would put his family at ease sooner rather than later. Hoping to shoulder his family's honored name as