Intervening

Xi Men Kan Kan asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Your airs are this grand now? With the way you are, I'm not even allowed to come?" As Duan Rong spoke, he swaggered over and sat down in the Grand Tutor Chair behind the nearby low table.

Xi Men Kan Kan said, "Duan Rong, you really have the gall to turn the tables! Whose airs are grander, yours or mine? It has been a year since you came out of the God and Demon Ruins. We met once right after you came out, but over this past year, how many times have I gone to see you? You were either in secluded cultivation or training in a secret chamber. When did you ever come out to see me? Tell me, we've been friends for years—have we met even once this past year? And you still have the nerve to say I'm the one putting on airs?!"

As Xi Men Kan Kan spoke, he actually shot Duan Rong a resentful glance.

Thinking it over, Duan Rong realized that he truly had not seen Xi Men Kan Kan this past year. Every so often, he would receive the various reports Xi Men Kan Kan sent over concerning the Eight Sects of the Nine Provinces, but they had never met face-to-face.

Duan Rong coughed, sat up a little straighter, and said, "I was rather busy cultivating this past year."

Xi Men Kan Kan spat. "Bullshit! You were so busy cultivating that you had two kids in one year?"

"Enough," Duan Rong said. "Stop nagging like an old woman. I have something to ask you."

Xi Men Kan Kan said, "I knew it. You wouldn't come over if you had nothing to do. Go on, what is it?"

Duan Rong asked, "When will my