"Dou Sheng."
"...I'm already starting to regret letting the Snake-People Tribe join the Heavenly Poison Gate."
After Sun Dog returned to his loyal Heavenly Poison Gate, Medusa had already finished the initial digestion of her pill and emerged from meditation. Once she learned roughly what had happened, her expression turned utterly grim.
She had led the Snake-People Tribe into the Heavenly Poison Gate to give them a better future, but now they were telling her... the Heavenly Poison Gate actually had ties to a Dou Sheng?
Whether this Dou Sheng was friendly or not, Medusa sensed an extremely dangerous presence.
The Snake-People Tribe's meager holdings could easily be wiped clean under the crushing weight of a Dou Sheng-level power. Medusa had confidence in her tribe-with enough time, they would surely regain their strength, even reaching the Dou Zun and Dou Sheng levels-but the problem was that they were still weak right now.
"Don't be scared, sister-in-law. Dou Sheng-level conflicts will stay confined to the Central Plains. The Northwest... hasn't reached that point yet, at least for now."
Pulling down his black hood, Sun Buxiao waved the Hall of Souls Elder Token in his hand.
"Before then, you should have no problem breaking through to Dou Zun, right?"
"Dou Zun..."
Medusa pursed her lips, lost in thought, so much so that she failed to notice anything amiss with how Sun Buxiao had addressed her.
By the time she realized it, Sun Buxiao had already vanished.
Even everyone else had left.
Medusa's face began to heat up.
Warning! Warning!
"So this is the Hall of Souls' Black-Corner Region branch?"
Sun Buxiao brought Xiao Yi Xian to a secluded mountain hollow in the Black-Corner Region, where they found a rather strange-looking hall.
The Hall of Souls had established branches in many places, including