After leaving, they returned to the inner region!
"Water Moon Flowing Brilliance! Hah!"
Seven people battled a peak eighth-rank demon beast, and a twelve- or thirteen-year-old girl wielding a crescent-shaped magic staff delivered the finishing blow.
Her beauty was unparalleled. With blue eyes, blue hair, and an ethereal air, she was flawless. The only shortcoming was that her figure had only just begun to develop and was not yet alluring.
"Yang Tian, wasn't I amazing?" she asked again after they finished off the demon beast.
She looked just like a little girl seeking praise.
"Yes, very!" Yang Tian nodded. Jiaoxin's strength was equivalent to that of an early seventh-rank archmage!
Her magic was water-based, too. Compared to hers, Lan Ruyu's magic was child's play.
So Yang Tian was not lying.
"Tch!" Lin Qingqing turned her face away.
Looking at that face, beautiful enough to inspire jealousy, made her want to ruin it.
But reason told her she could not do that.
Next, they still had to finish exploring the last untouched area. Yang Tian calculated how much time had passed. He was almost twelve now. It had been over a year!
On that mountaintop!
Only Jiaoyue remained on watch there. Her other younger sisters had all gone off to cultivate.
With her fifth sister gone, the mountain had grown quieter.
Everything had become dull.
"Perhaps I'll never find anyone else I like!"
"Not a single merman can compare to Yang Tian's face. So distinctive, so outstanding..."
Gazing into the distance, she drifted into a daze. Without realizing it, she seemed to have fallen for him.
That boy who had stood sideways to her, who would follow behind her and liked looking at her, whom she had swept away twice...
But she knew she could only bury those feelings deep in