"I like cultivating, you know. Cultivating feels damn good."
Sun Buxiao sat beside the bed with one leg crossed over the other, taking a drag on a Pheobe King with a blissful expression.
"Oh, stop putting on airs."
Xiao Yi Xian was still lying down, looking utterly speechless at his expression.
He had gotten a bargain and was still playing coy... That was just how he liked to act.
"Which part of your plan needs my help?"
Xiao Yi Xian sat up and took a Pheobe King out of her Storage Ring, lighting it with netherworld poison flame.
"The two of us can't be separated. You know that. Chances are the Hall of Souls will assign us both to work under its lower-level operatives, but the most important thing is that we build up our strength in secret."
"Hun Tiandi has a very powerful ally at his side. If things really reach the point where we have no choice but to fight, I'll need you to do everything you can to keep that fellow under control while I deal with Hun Tiandi."
"At the very least... hold him off for a while."
A salute to the legendary Gu Yuan interceptor, nihility devouring flame.
He had intercepted him a thousand years ago and could still do it a thousand years later, earning the name Ancient Yuan, King of Defense.
And Gu Yuan, a Nine-Star Dou Sheng, really did get stopped by nihility devouring flame every single time.
Who knew whether Gu Yuan was too lousy or nihility devouring flame was too strong?
All one could say was that second place on the heavenly flame ranking carried real weight.
"...A Nine-Star Dou Sheng?"
Xiao Yi Xian narrowed her eyes as she asked.
"Yes, a Nine-Star Dou Sheng. And one with an emperor