Still, he only dared grumble about it in his belly. When it came to this Fifth Great-Aunt of his, he went limp on the spot. So what if she was pretty? She was still his great-aunt, and she carried poisonous insects all over her. He really was afraid that if he was the slightest bit careless, those poisonous insects would torment him half to death again.
"Thank you, Fifth Great-Aunt." Wang Shihai grumbled inwardly, but he still thanked her honestly. This little devil incarnate was not without his good points; at the very least, when facing someone he could not beat, he had always been very quick to admit defeat when it was time to do so.
He changed the subject again. "By the way, why have you come beyond the borders?"
"Fourth Brother wrote to say that some Blood Bats in the land reclamation beyond the borders were rather difficult to deal with," Wang Luojing said in an even tone. "A while ago, I happened to be carrying out a mission in the barbarian frontier's Wild Marsh and didn't receive the letter. After I returned and learned the news, I hurried over to take a look."
"Those Blood Bats are indeed tricky." Wang Shihai still felt some lingering fear toward those Blood Bats. "Their individual strength isn't impressive. If they were outside, they wouldn't be hard to handle. But those karst caves are a tangled maze, and even after a Celestial Realm ancestor goes in, it's hard for them to fully bring their strength to bear. Fourth Grandfather has already tried all sorts of methods—smoking them out, roasting them with fire, diverting water to flood the caves—but none of it worked very well."
"On the contrary, our few clearing operations seemed to have enraged the Blood Bat colony. They