Huo Ling'er?!
This girl was no easy customer.
The Fire Kingdom Princess had been born with a fire element spiritual root, and an elder fire phoenix bloodline flowed within her.
Shi Hou's gaze passed over Huo Ling'er and settled on the Azure Phoenix, lingering for another two breaths.
Azure Phoenix meat.
A legendary premium ingredient, with tender, silky flesh and a layer of fat as thin as a cicada's wing. One turn over a fire, and golden fat would seep out.
Shi Hou's Adam's apple bobbed.
He forcibly pressed the thought back down.
Not the time.
The old woman swept her gaze around.
A pack of half-grown boys in short beast-hide jackets, their faces covered in dust, and a Nine-Headed Gray-Scaled Flood Dragon lying on the ground, chained and panting heavily.
There was even a Grand Marshal's Chair sitting inside the pot.
The old woman turned her palm over, trying to condense runes. Crimson light flickered twice at her fingertips, but failed to coalesce.
The lingering effects of the blue light were still wreaking havoc inside her.
A trace of alarm flashed through her eyes, and her voice deepened.
"Did you release that blue light just now?"
"Do you know who we are?"
Shi Hou hurriedly straightened up, his expression earnest and his words coming fast as he pointed southeast with his right hand.
"Ma'am, you've misunderstood."
"It was a Fierce Beast, a grayish thing with three horns and six legs. It tipped its head back, blasted out a pillar of blue light, then ran off that way."
"We were victims too. That beam nearly caught us."
On the Grand Marshal's Chair behind him.
Kang lay with all four hooves in the air, his pig belly swelling and shrinking.
His snout hung half-open, with remnants of blue light twinkling between