"Soaring Serpent!" Zhu Yan also spotted the newcomer, and his expression abruptly changed as he exclaimed in surprise.
He had never expected Soaring Serpent to come here. Was this fellow... going to interfere in the affairs between the Demon Race and the Human Race?
Whoosh! As that thought passed through Zhu Yan's mind, Soaring Serpent flew over and stopped beside Feng Ling. Divine light flashed over him, and he transformed into a handsome young man with white hair and blue immortal robes. "Hey, are you all right?" he asked her.
Feng Ling shook her head, then bowed to Soaring Serpent with her hands clasped. "Thank you for saving me, Divine Lord."
"Mm." Soaring Serpent grunted, then turned toward Zhu Yan and demanded, "Hey, you stinking monkey, don't you know the Human Race belongs to Lady Nuwa? How dare you run wild here!"
"Soaring Serpent, who are you calling a monkey? I am an ape, not a monkey!" Zhu Yan's stern expression gave way to fury at those words. He pointed his staff at Soaring Serpent and roared.
As fellow Innate Deities, they had naturally crossed paths over the years. Back then, he and Soaring Serpent had fought a great battle over a phoenix egg. In the end, neither had gotten it, because a masked fatty had suddenly charged out and snatched it away. That fatty had run outrageously fast, disappearing in a puff of smoke.
"Apes, monkeys... is there a difference?" Faced with Zhu Yan's furious explanation, Soaring Serpent shrugged casually.
He, the mighty Soaring Serpent, was no longer what he had once been. He was no ordinary Innate Deity anymore. As Saint Nuwa's battle pet, wielding the Lotus Lantern and the Landscape, Rivers, State, and Earth Diagram, he believed no creature in the Primordial World below the rank of