Tang Changsheng thought this over, then said, "You flatter me, Miss Mountain Girl. I was merely lucky!"
Mountain Girl smiled. "Luck is the greatest talent in the world! It's getting late. Now that I've greeted the host, I won't stay. Goodbye, True Person Tang..."
With that, she tugged her leopard's leash. Her figure paused, then vanished into the darkness.
"My lord, aren't you going to stop that Demoness?" Wang Yufu asked.
"She was only a clone. What good would stopping her do? We'd only make an enemy of her for no reason... But her appearance here is no ordinary matter. We must be on our guard!"
Just then, a voice drifted out of the distant darkness. "Oh, there's something I forgot to tell you, True Person Tang. A group of your companions seems to be trapped in a place called Great Wild Marsh..."
No further sound came from her. This time, she truly had gone far away.
"Great Wild Marsh!" Wang Yufu was startled. He knew the Wilds' geography better than anyone, and he could not help exclaiming, "Why would they go somewhere so dangerous?"
Dangerous places abounded throughout the Wilds. Many were perilous even to its hundred tribes. Great Wild Marsh was among the most notorious.
Lu Yuanzhen slammed the table and rose. "I'll go take a look..."
Lu Yuanzhen was proud by nature and never willingly accepted favors. Yet he owed Ying Tiecheng several times over. The Heavenly Book Characters were one thing, but the migration of a hundred thousand people had also depended on the Mountain and River Disk that Ying Tiecheng had borrowed.
A drop of kindness should be repaid with a gushing spring. Lu Yuanzhen had always lived by that principle. Ying Tiecheng had simply been riding high for so long that Lu Yuanzhen had