"Nonsense!"
Xiao Yan glared fiercely at her, then rapped her hard on the head with his knuckles.
"Children should stay out of grown-ups' business, understand?"
After Xiao Yan knocked her on the head, Zi Yan held it and whimpered softly, her little lips jutting into a pout.
"It's just the tiny Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. I could handle them too..."
At her words, even Xiao Yan's heart gave a jolt.
His gaze swept over her now shapely figure, and he shook his head hard.
Although this girl had grown up physically, deep down she was still a little girl. The moment he thought of her tiny appearance after she shrank, every romantic thought vanished.
"You're still a child."
Xiao Yan shook his head and casually slashed his palm through the Spatial Tunnel before him. Their speed instantly soared.
"Come on. Stop yammering here."
Xiao Yan grabbed her by the scruff of her neck and flew swiftly ahead.
"I've grown up!"
Hearing Xiao Yan's words, Zi Yan widened her eyes and thrust out her chest, but Xiao Yan chose to ignore her all the same.
Meanwhile, in a sect somewhere in the Black-Corner Region, ink-black demonic qi coiled through the air. Everywhere one looked, everyone in the sect had already been reduced to dry bones, their blood essence devoured completely.
"Hiss, human blood essence truly is delicious. But their souls have even more flavor."
An enormous head more than a thousand feet across had appeared at some point atop a distant mountain, its crimson eyes radiating evil.
"But the creatures in this sect were far too weak. Eating them wasn't satisfying at all!"
He turned his enormous head toward the distance, his eyes blazing with ferocity.
"I hear the strongest faction in this Black-Corner Region is Jia Nan Academy. There are