"My humble self did not manage to ask anything. If I return to report to the King like this, I fear I'll be reprimanded!" Fairy Jing lowered her eyes somewhat and answered timidly. "Why don't you leave the King's order with me and return to Demon King's Cave to report? I'll go down and question him again in a few days. What do you think?"
After pondering for only a moment, the water snake handed the multicolored beast hide to Fairy Jing and nodded. "That works too! The King has racked his brains over this matter. If Fairy can get to the bottom of it, never mind once or twice—even ten times would count as a great merit!"
"Mm..." Fairy Jing nodded somewhat absentmindedly, accepted the beast hide, and flew toward another location near the mountain peak. The water snake watched her, suspected nothing, and returned to Demon King's Cave to report.
At the bottom of Di Tian Water Prison, beside the pillar of fire, the woman watched Fairy Jing leave with all dignity lost, battered and bedraggled. She still snorted through her nose and said, "She's nothing but a human. With a willowy, frail bearing like that, she dares steal my lover from me!"
Having said that, the woman flew down before Little White Dragon. Looking at him, she said coldly, "What? Your heart aches for her? When did she become your old flame? She harmed you so badly, yet you still treat her like this? You can't even bear to say one harsh word to her?"
"Hmph, what's it to you?" Little White Dragon snorted and turned his head away, ignoring her.
"Oh my..." The moment the woman saw Little White Dragon get angry, she immediately melted like water and threw herself down before him, saying in a