The courtyard fell silent.
Yun Ying had shattered the Five Elements Ring, displaying her extraordinary strength and peerless mastery of the Sword Dao, while Shi Hao had slain several kings. Even those from Immortal Mountain had failed to escape disaster. Both had been utterly domineering.
These were two invincible kings, possessed of an unstoppable momentum. Perhaps only a Venerable could appear and gain the upper hand over them, everyone thought.
Now, no one dared to trouble Shi Hao anymore.
Once things settled down, the old acquaintances naturally sat together to chat and drink. Shi Hao was rather surprised, however, when Yun Ying and Yun Xi joined them.
"I told you that you owed me a favor," Yun Ying said, meeting Shi Hao's questioning gaze.
Shi Hao froze, then remembered the Bronze Book Fragment and promptly curled his lip. "So you came to collect that favor. I thought it was something else."
"Brother Shi, what did you think it was? Tell us!"
Beside him, the Nine-Headed Lion and the other Primordial Remnants all began teasing him. They had guessed what Shi Hao was thinking.
"Someone's already become a king, yet he's still thinking about some family's daughter," Huo Ling'er added. She felt certain that Shi Hao had set his sights on Yun Ying.
Shi Hao immediately protested, "Don't make things up! I'm not that sort of person."
Everyone scoffed. As if they didn't know Shi Hao! He might usually seem quite respectable, but that was all a facade.
"Tell me, then. How should I repay you?" Shi Hao asked.
"Just return that peacock to me. We need that peacock for something very important. It concerns our clan's very survival," Yun Xi said.
"Your very survival?"
At those words, everyone grew attentive. If Yun Xi was using those words, this certainly wasn't