"Bring her back to Heavenly City?"
He Xi raised her brows. "Are you sure she'll agree to come back?"
"She'll have to, whether she agrees or not. If all else fails, cut her into pieces and bring her back in a bottle!"
He Xi looked at her, fell silent for a few seconds, then nodded lightly.
"All right, I'll remember that."
She stood and stretched, her long silver hair tracing a smooth arc behind her. "Then I'll be off."
"You're leaving now? So soon?"
"Didn't you just say Heavenly City would be the same with or without me?"
He Xi rolled her eyes at her. "Of course I'll leave whenever I please. Besides, if I don't get there soon, who knows how that little fellow will bully my precious Zhi Xin?"
"All right, then."
Watching He Xi prepare to leave without another word, Kaisa suddenly remembered something.
"Oh, do you need me to arrange a few high-ranking angels for you? You're our angels' Heavenly Blade King, after all. How can you go out without a proper entourage?"
"Forget it. That's not my style."
With that, she turned and activated a spatial jump. Silver patterns of light rippled through the garden, and she vanished without a trace.
Kaisa sat on the stone bench, watching the slowly fading motes of light, and shook her head helplessly.
"That old witch certainly runs fast."
She stood, opened another wormhole, and returned to the great hall to continue dealing with the affairs of state she had left behind.
Hundred Flowers Star System, Cangwu Star.
Cangwu Star was the planet the Insect Race had cultivated the longest in the Hundred Flowers Star System. Hives covered almost its entire surface, their overlapping nests rising like towers of bone. Viewed from space, the grayish-brown surface was densely