"Whoosh."
The door curtain lifted again.
An icy beauty appeared before everyone.
Her powerful presence instantly lowered the temperature in the tavern by more than ten degrees.
Hi Dog and Bone instinctively stepped in front of Little Pig.
"M-Miss... Wang."
Lingzi, who had been so overbearing a moment earlier, instantly turned cowardly at the sight of the breathtakingly beautiful woman before him.
With a fawning smile, he said, "How could we let you come to a disreputable place like this? We've prepared the best room for you."
"Miss."
Xiaomai also looked away from Little Pig and bowed respectfully.
Their other companions lowered their heads, not daring to look Wang Shengnan in the eye.
Only Hi Dog remained silent, wearing a roguish grin.
After three seconds of silence, Wang Shengnan asked meaningfully, "Your friend?"
She was speaking to Hi Dog.
But everyone else had their heads lowered, and Lingzi eagerly tried to ingratiate himself. "We don't know them, we don't know them. How would we know little... hoodlums like these?"
"Right, Xiaomai?"
Lingzi winked insistently at Xiaomai, signaling for her to distance herself from Little Pig's group.
A trace of conflict flashed through her eyes. Biting her lip, she said in a mosquito-like whisper, "An old acquaintance."
"True... how would you be worthy of knowing them?" Wang Shengnan's expression turned mocking.
As a sworn brother of Old Ninth and Little White Tiger, Hi Dog belonged to the innermost core of Chun Prefecture.
In Chun Prefecture, there was nothing wrong with calling them underlings.
But away from Old Ninth and Little White Tiger, what should they be called?
Some of the very best of the younger generation.
They possessed the traits of both Awakened and Transformed and had mastered the Sunlit Nine Skills and the Nine-Armored Black Tortoise Art.
They had received