"Me? You want me to help?"
Li Yan's voice rang out the next moment, just as expected.
There was doubt in his tone, but his expression did not change much. He had not expected Ming Yu to ask so directly, yet this truly was the Ming Yu he remembered.
"Forgive her, Senior! My sister is simply too anxious. Senior should know something of her temperament as well..."
The moment Ming Qi saw the gray-robed elder's expression, she guessed what he was thinking and hurriedly rose to apologize.
What their clan had become entangled in was no small matter. The gray-robed elder had traveled here alone, and even if one took ten thousand steps back, so what if he truly was a mighty expert of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm?
Would he really be willing to provoke the old monsters of the Nine-Headed Green Phoenix Clan for the sake of the Undying Underworld Phoenix Clan? There was no benefit in it for him—he would only be inviting a formidable enemy for no reason.
And yet, in that fleeting instant just now, she herself had entertained the same unrealistic thought!
Before she could finish speaking, however, the gray-robed elder across from her waved a hand. Ming Qi's voice unconsciously dropped, while the elder slowly began to speak.
"I know Ming Yu's temperament. There is no need to explain! Still, the proposal she made is not entirely beyond consideration. It is only that..."
As Li Yan spoke, glints of light flickered continuously in his eyes, as though he were pondering something.
"Se... Se... Senior, are you truly willing to help us?"
After Ming Yu came back to her senses, the remorseful expression on her face vanished. Her eyes widened abruptly, and she actually stammered.
The moment her sister had spoken up to rebuke her,