"How is Phoenix?"
"Are we too late?"
"My goodness, how could they be so badly injured?"
"Hey, look at that woman standing at the front on the city wall. Yeah, the one with a sword in her hand. Why does she look kind of familiar? And she's quite charming."
"Phoenix, that woman is glaring at me!"
Zhao Shuning arrived late.
Actually, she had rushed all the way.
Thankfully, she managed to make it at the last moment.
When Zhang Tianyuan first met Zhao Shuning, she was just a little girl. But now, she had grown into a beautiful young woman, looking completely different from her childhood self.
So.
When Zhang Tianyuan saw Zhao Shuning suddenly, his surprise was even more obvious.
Zhang Tianyuan couldn't recognize Zhao Shuning at once, but she could recognize him.
Over the years, Zhao Shuning had never forgotten how this man had forced her to jump off the cliff.
Before, she had been haunted by the thought of sparing him. Now that she saw him here, she finally felt a sense of closure.
Zhao Shuning had indeed changed a lot compared to when Kong Shishuang had last seen her.
But it wasn't to the extent that she couldn't be recognized at all.
When Kong Shishuang recognized Zhao Shuning.
Hearing Zhao Shuning openly say that she looked familiar, she widened her eyes. She was surprised to meet Zhao Shuning here.
According to the information Kong Shishuang had, Zhao Shuning had been missing for a long time.
"Zhang Tianyuan, so you're here?"
Seeing the situation and the divine beast Phoenix beside the woman, Zhang Tianyuan felt something was wrong and tried to escape.
But how could Zhao Shuning let him go so easily.
She gently formed a magic seal with her slender fingers, blocking Zhang Tianyuan's way back.
Zhao Shuning said, "Old friend, are you just going to leave without saying hello after all these years?"
Zhang Tianyuan calmed himself down, and the language - interpreting beast made a sound again.
"Who are you?"
"Who am I? Don't you recognize me?"
"I'm Zhang Tianyuan. I don't remember ever offending any senior. Today's matter is a private one between me and Yanyu Tower. Please, senior, don't kill innocent people."
"Me, kill innocent people? You're really funny. Aren't the hundreds of disciples of Yanyu Tower innocent? When you tried to wipe them out with the ghost vines before, why didn't you think about whether they were innocent or not?"
"Senior—"
Zhao Shuning waved her right hand in front of her.
Looking impatient.
"Don't call me senior. I really, well, I find your obsequious look a bit disgusting."
Zhang Tianyuan's face twitched.
He involuntarily put his hands behind his back.
Who on earth was this woman?
How could she control a divine beast like Phoenix? Throughout history, he had only heard that the master of the Phoenix was the late female emperor Ye Ling of the Dongze Wilderness.
But Ye Ling was dead, and everyone knew that.
This woman didn't look like the dead Ye Ling either.
"Senior."
Zhao Shuning shook her head, leaped onto the city tower.
There.
Kong Shishuang was staring at her motionlessly.
Seeing Zhao Shuning leap onto the city tower, although the disciples were panicked, they didn't move rashly.
Because they knew that if the woman in front of them wanted to harm them, she wouldn't have helped them get rid of the ghost vines in the first place.
Zhao Shuning sized Kong Shishuang up and down.
Then she nodded.
It wasn't until Kong Shishuang frowned that Zhao Shuning said, "Well, you really are Miss Kong."
Kong Shishuang's eyes turned red.
This time, it was completely different from before.
"You're back."
Zhao Shuning nodded.
She took out a pill from her Qiankun bag and gave it to Kong Shishuang first. Then she grabbed dozens of white porcelain bottles from the bag. The bottles opened automatically, and each bottle contained hundreds of small pills. The pills seemed to have a will of their own and flew in front of each student.
"Eat them."
Zhao Shuning said.
The students looked around.
They didn't dare to try easily.
It wasn't until Kong Shishuang took the pill and nodded to everyone.
"Eat them. She won't harm you."
Only then did the students let down their guard and took all the pills.
After taking the pills, the spiritual energy in their dantians, which had been depleted, was revived.
"This seems, seems like the Spiritual Elixir."
"My spiritual energy seems to be back."
"How amazing!"
"Could it be that what we ate is really the Spiritual Elixir?"
"Unlikely. The Spiritual Elixir is extremely expensive. It takes five spirit stones to buy just one pill."
"Such a good thing. Why does this girl distribute them to us like they're worthless?"
Seeing everyone whispering,
Zhao Shuning coughed lightly.
They immediately stopped and turned to look at Zhao Shuning in unison.
"This is the Spiritual Elixir. It's not some random pill, and there won't be any side - effects. You don't need to worry."
Everyone lowered their heads in shame.
The senior had treated them so well, but they had still doubted her. It was really wrong of them.
Kong Shishuang said, "Don't look at them like that. You'll scare them."
Zhao Shuning said, "What's there to be scared of? I don't look strange or scary, do I? Besides, I didn't yell at them."
"It's okay, senior. You're so good - looking. Even if you yell at us, we'd be willing to take it."
As soon as this was said, Zhao Shuning quickly asked, "Really? Then who's better - looking, me or your tower master?"
Although Kong Shishuang had a bad temper and was the young miss of Yanyu Tower, Zhao Shuning still remembered that when she first saw her, she was indeed a great beauty. Otherwise, so many senior brothers in Yanyu Tower wouldn't have been willing to follow her around.
If Zhao Shuning remembered correctly, there was a man named Qingzhu who often stood up for Kong Shishuang.
Because of Zhao Shuning's question.
The student who had just spoken blushed instantly.
Then he stammered, "The tower master is good - looking, and senior, you're even better - looking."
Hearing this, Zhao Shuning burst out laughing.
She even showed off, "Did you hear that, Miss Kong? Now I'm the most beautiful one. It's a good thing I wasn't fully grown back then. Otherwise, your title as the most beautiful girl in Yanyu Tower would have been in danger."
Kong Shishuang covered her chest and smiled.
At this time, Zhao Shuning noticed the demon beast beside Kong Shishuang. It was looking at her with two big innocent eyes, looking so pitiful.
Judging from its aggrieved look and comparing it with the Phoenix beside Zhao Shuning, it must have thought that Zhao Shuning had completely forgotten about the little raccoon cat from before.
When Zhao Shuning saw it.
It quickly lowered its head.
"Xiaoli?"
Was it Xiaoli? It had grown so big now.