Looking at Ao Zhi's outstretched hand, Zhang Yuan took two steps back without hesitation, lowering his eyes to his nose and his attention to his heart, pretending he had not seen her.
Heh.
Now even a True Dragon had come to borrow lifespan.
Ao Zhi was mortified, then flew into a rage out of embarrassment. Her plump, shapely, earthen-yellow dragon tail slapped again and again, sweeping up great clouds of dust from the ground as she stamped her foot.
"How can you be like this!"
Zhang Yuan finally looked her in the eye, the end of his eyebrow lifting slightly as he said calmly, "Like what? Are we that close?"
They had been enemies before, and their brief cooperation now did not mean that enmity had ended. If he lent Ao Zhi lifespan to buy things, what was that if not aiding the enemy?
When out in the world, one had to guard against being stabbed in the back, especially by creatures and cultivators from the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm. They could not be trusted in the slightest.
Ao Zhi secretly gritted her pearly teeth, but she knew she had no grounds to argue. Unable to swallow her pride and beg Zhang Yuan, she thought rapidly for a moment, withdrew her outstretched hand, folded her arms, thrust out her chest, and said:
"Consider it a loan, then. Will that do?"
"No. Who knows when you'll pay it back? Besides, everyone knows True Dragons from the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm don't keep their word," Zhang Yuan said, shaking his head.
That was indeed true.
Ao Zhi did not argue with that.
Human Race cultivators from the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm ranked dead last in trustworthiness throughout the Five Realms Heavens, while the realm's other creatures ranked second to last. All of