The girl looked about eighteen or nineteen, dressed in a blue round-collared robe embroidered with pheasant motifs.
It was a dignified, solemn outfit, yet her delicate, lovely features and rather slight figure gave her something of the endearing air of a little girl sneaking into grown-ups' clothes.
Even when she kept her face taut as she spoke, striving to look imposing, she never quite managed it.
Jiang Yi froze for a moment. Where had this "female ghost" popped out from?
[Fengdu] admitted no living people from the world of the living. Throughout these towering Eighteen Levels above the Nine Layers, everyone but him should have been a ghost.
"You... I... he!"
The big, fat girl opened its mouth, stammered several times, then suddenly clapped excitedly, as though it had run into an old acquaintance:
"So it's 'Miss Xiao Qiao' of the Central Palace of Mysterious Capital! My, it's been so long. You look even more splendid than before!"
The girl in blue nodded gently, seemingly trying to appear cool and aloof, but the moment she spoke, her soft, light voice ruined the effect.
"Miss Gui'er, hurry back to the Central Palace of Mysterious Capital and report. As for this young gentleman, Her Ladyship has instructed me to take him to the Six Antiquities Palace to settle in."
The big, fat girl glanced at Jiang Yi, then turned its gaze back to the girl in blue and gave two dry coughs:
"In that case, Young Master Jiang, go with Miss Xiao Qiao. Do whatever she tells you. There's no need to hurry to see Her Ladyship. You'll have plenty of opportunities later."
With that, it swaggered away.
It hummed a rustic little tune as it went, apparently quite pleased.
Jiang Yi frowned, feeling that the big, fat girl's words carried a