Lin Xiaosu could never have imagined it.
When he left the Primordial God Ruins, a Withered-Bone Flying Vessel was crossing the ten-thousand-mile marshes from the south on its return journey.
There were two people aboard the withered vessel.
Both were women.
The woman on the left was utterly unkempt, her hair casually tied with a strip of leather. She wore a beast hide, and there were bloodstains on both the leather tie and the hide.
Judging by her appearance alone, most people would probably have taken her for the daughter of some impoverished hunter.
In truth, she was a hunter as well—only, what she hunted was beyond ordinary imagination.
Take the leather tie binding her hair, for instance. It was made from the sinew of a Seventh Realm Yin Flood Dragon.
What did a Seventh Realm Yin Flood Dragon signify?
Its combat strength was comparable to a Human Race Way-Grasping Realm cultivator.
Yet it had died under her hands in a most undignified fashion. This woman had not even wanted its flood-dragon core. Her reason for killing it had been simple: her hair tie had snapped, and loose hair was inconvenient, so she had killed a flood dragon for its sinew to tie up her hair.
The beast hide on her body had an equally extraordinary origin. It was the hide of a Seventh Realm Earth-Cover. She wore it only because her clothes had been torn.
Her gaze was exceedingly listless.
It was as though nothing in this world interested her in the slightest.
She was the younger sister Gu Suixin had mentioned—the most unruly and unconventional Fifth Princess of the current generation of the Primordial God Ruins, Gu Bulie. Yes, her defiance of convention was far beyond Gu Suixin's.
Gu Suixin took interest in far too many women, but