"Here in the Western Plains, beautiful women are countless. Could you bear to come back to the Eastern Ridge with me?"
Mu Bai reined in his smile and asked the Artifact Spirit Ancestor earnestly.
"What's there to be reluctant about? Before true love, all those clouds of beauties are nothing but clothes. Besides, with my imposing presence now, wherever I go, won't beauties come flocking to throw themselves at me?" The Artifact Spirit Ancestor was immensely pleased with himself. He flapped the wings behind him, looking more and more like a mighty eagle, then abruptly wiped the delight from his face. "Enough of that. Ye Wan's here. That woman of yours..."
"What about his woman? What are you muttering in front of my husband?"
No sooner had he said Ye Wan was coming than her figure flashed, appearing before them.
"I was saying your cultivation is profound, you command your troops well, and you're both the vanguard and the virtuous helpmate who will help my boy achieve the great undertaking of becoming an emperor..." His eyes darted around, and he glanced at Mu Bai, his voice growing louder still. "What, am I not even allowed to speak the plain truth? Besides, couldn't you be a little gentler to your man's ancestor?"
Clearly, the Artifact Spirit Ancestor had suffered no small amount of oppression from Ye Wan in their daily life. Only now that Mu Bai was back did he dare to speak so boldly.
"Ancestor, you're wronging Wan'er by saying that. Weren't you the one who asked me to temper you and restore your Soul Body? I haven't been disrespectful to you."
Ye Wan really had been wronged. While tempering the Artifact Spirit Ancestor's Soul Body, her words would unconsciously grow somewhat stern, but never to the point of disrespect.