Xu Yuan was furious.
He stood on the barren earth, letting the anger in his heart turn to fire and burn ever hotter in his chest.
If—
If the one who had given him that "pardon" waist token had been an ordinary ghost entity,
Xu Yuan would not have cared in the slightest. He might even have laughed, thought the creature hopelessly naive, and put the whole thing aside.
But Gray Snake belonged to the Immortal Species.
It only barely qualified as an Immortal Species, but Xu Yuan could sense the power of one within its body. That was enough.
For one Immortal Species to use a cheap trick to deceive another—
That was an insult.
"The beast that gave me the waist token just now was called Gray Snake, right?" Xu Yuan asked with a grin.
"Yes," the woman said.
"It called you here so you could eat me," Xu Yuan said.
"I couldn't swallow you," the woman said, shaking her head.
Compared with her usual overbearing arrogance, that was already remarkably polite.
Xu Yuan sighed and looked around.
At that moment,
with the woman's arrival, all manner of auras began to rise from deep beneath the surrounding earth.
The giants of the Second Layer.
They were all watching in silence.
One somewhat familiar aura was hiding not far away.
Who else could it be but Gray Snake?
The woman's gaze shifted, and she quickly understood.
He had felt "disrespected."
He was about to act.
There was no avoiding it.
Once a being became an Immortal Species, it was acutely sensitive to the actions of its own kind. That wariness was born in its bloodline.
"Gray Snake has only a single, exceedingly diluted drop of that blood. It failed to ascend. It isn't a true Immortal Species,"
the woman