The Earth Dragon Sect.
As one of Dragon City's two venerable sects, how could it tolerate slander from petty scoundrels?!
In an instant, a diamond-shaped pink crystal appeared on Nan Qiuqiu's forehead. Patches of pink dragon scales spread across her arms, and faint, low dragon cries echoed around her.
Both men's expressions changed at once.
"Is your Earth Dragon Sect trying to start a war with the Heavenly Dragon Sect?!" the burly man barked, stiffening his neck, fierce on the outside but quaking within.
"What are you babbling about? Take it up with my Annihilation!"
Nan Qiuqiu shouted, raising her little pink fist as pink light gathered over her knuckles.
Yet before she could throw the punch, she froze in place.
The two men before her went rigid, as though they had encountered something utterly terrifying, and both bowed to her.
The girl blinked, but in less than a heartbeat, she accepted that she had "subdued the enemy without fighting." She lifted her chin slightly, looking thoroughly pleased with herself.
"Don't think surrendering will get you out of this beating! Even Nan Shuishui couldn't save you! You have my word!"
The moment she finished-
"Qiuqiu, stop fooling around."
A gentle female voice came from behind her, instantly frightening all the bravado out of Nan Qiuqiu.
She slowly turned her head.
A beautiful middle-aged woman who bore some resemblance to her stood behind her, watching her quietly.
The woman wore a Moon-White Dress. Her face was gentle, yet her brows and eyes carried an authority that needed no anger to command respect.
Nan Qiuqiu looked as terrified as Zhu Di would have been if he had suddenly seen Zhu Yuanzhang after finishing the Jingnan Campaign.
"Mom... you're not dead... ptooey, ptooey!"
She stammered, frantically slapping her own mouth twice. "What are