Seeing Xuanxi's expression change, Liao Yaohuang kept smiling. But her change of expression lasted only an instant before she returned to normal.
"Are you going to hand me over to the Celestial Court?"
Liao Yaohuang shook his head.
"As long as you really have Immortal Elixirs, not only will I refrain from handing you over to the Celestial Court, I'll even help resolve your feud with the Untransformable Bone!"
Xuanxi frowned.
"You mean the Untransformable Bone is still alive?"
Liao Yaohuang said no more. Still smiling, he rode his demon wind toward the southwest.
Some time later, the two demons reached that stretch of barren mountains. After they passed through the wards, a demon city unfolded before Xuanxi.
Even as she was now, Xuanxi felt a little alarmed at the sight of this mountain demon city. She could sense the boundless demonic aura within it; there were certainly no few demons here.
Liao Yaohuang deliberately refrained from landing at once. Instead, he circled above the demon city on his demon wind, following its streets onward, crossing mountains and valleys, passing through the mountains' interiors before flying farther into the distance.
In this direction, Xuanxi could sense another ward, but Liao Yaohuang had already brought her down to land.
Once their feet touched solid ground, Liao Yaohuang, who had actually been watching Xuanxi all along, asked with a touch of pride.
"Well? My demon city isn't bad, is it?"
Xuanxi frowned slightly and looked at Liao Yaohuang.
"Do you want the truth, Great King Liao?"
"Of course I don't want lies!"
Xuanxi gave a faint smile.
"It has only an impressive facade, without a trace of everyday warmth. Instead, it's filled with malice and resentment, accompanied by human fear and viciousness!"
"Hmph, you certainly don't mince words. But we of the