Long Time No See, Foster Father

Huff... huff...

Heavy panting echoed across the deathly silent Gobi.

The old White Ape dragged half his body as he fled frantically, coughing up blood all the while.

At last, he stopped.

When he stopped, the slender figure also halted several dozen paces away.

"Do you truly think that I... am afraid of you?!"

The old White Ape abruptly turned around, his chest heaving violently.

The girl wore a strange expression. Without speaking, she merely raised her head and glanced at the sky.

The meaning was obvious.

If you were not afraid, had you spent the whole night running to exercise?

The flesh on the White Ape's face twitched, and he snapped angrily, "If you leave now, I can promise you that today's matter will be written off, and I shall never pursue it again! My son's death will have nothing to do with you anymore!"

However.

Jiang Yuechu merely sneered. "Do you really think I'm a three-year-old child?"

The old White Ape roared, "I am a Core-Formation Great Demon! If I forcibly draw upon my demon core and fight to the death, you may not survive either! Why must we stop only after both sides are wounded?!"

Jiang Yuechu shook her head. "What benefit is there to me in letting you go?"

"In my eyes, both sides losing is better than letting you win alone."

"You!!!"

The old White Ape trembled with fury.

A trace of regret even rose in his heart.

Why had he provoked such a woman, one who could not be swayed by oil or salt?

But...

But if he had not obeyed the Demon Court's orders back then, coming to Longyou Circuit to help that little girl from Black River consolidate her foundation, exhausting nearly half the power of his origin demon core...

If not