"Look, another new hall-"
"That's the sixteenth!"
Stoneborn pulled Du Xiaolin along as they ran all over the Demon-Subduing Palace. With Stoneborn beside her, Du Xiaolin's childish nature often showed itself more clearly.
Elsewhere, even in the Celestial Weaving Bureau earlier, neither Stoneborn nor Du Xiaolin would have dared be so uninhibited, but here they felt far less constrained.
For Stoneborn, it was because Hui Mian was Great God Yunlai, and his master and the Manifest Holiness True Lord were close friends. It felt just like being at the Longwind Lake Dragon Palace: though it was not his own home, it was every bit as welcoming and relaxing.
Du Xiaolin, meanwhile, was mostly influenced by Stoneborn, allowing herself to let go of some of her reservations.
Sometimes, from a child's perspective, in a place as special as the Heavenly Realm, with the Demon-Subduing Palace resembling a fascinating new "maze," simply running around and discovering new halls and pavilions was a pure, simple joy.
His master and Senior Gray had both said that today, there were "no forbidden grounds" here.
Some of the Heavenly Soldiers in the Demon-Subduing Palace watched the two immortal children running about, but none came forward to stop them.
They all knew that Yi Daozi had brought these two. One was his foremost direct disciple, and though the other did not seem to be his disciple, she was certainly very close to him as well.
Naturally, everyone in the Demon-Subduing Palace knew of the relationship between Yi Daozi and the Manifest Holiness True Lord.
By now, various theories already held that the Manifest Holiness True Lord was not a new god born in recent years, but a great god from ancient times who had returned to the world in this divine body. Even the Heavenly Emperor attached