Before the great battle could fully unfold, it ended with the Yuan family losing their next patriarch.

Wang Liu left Yun to make arrangements with the Xun family and several other families. Wen Ju escorted him on his journey back to his family. Only then did Shi Lan realize that the message Wang Liu had received a few days earlier was actually an imperial edict from the Wang family patriarch ordering him to return immediately. However, because he was worried about the commoners here, he had dragged his guards to Yancheng.

Sitting in the carriage, Shi Lan turned her head to look at Wang Liu, who was taking a nap with his eyes closed. Her mood was a little fluctuating, but before she could think about it, she was startled by a sudden sound.

Why did you take so long to show up?

After the terrifying ordeal with Xiang Shisan, Shi Lan was filled with resentment when facing Ming Xiao.

Mingxiao chuckled and said, "I need to talk to you, come back right away."

Shi Lan paused for a moment and said, "Wait a moment." As she spoke, she reached out and gently placed her hand on Wang Liu's chest. A faint golden light silently entered his body.

Wang Liu's pale, almost transparent face slowly regained a sliver of color. Shi Lan smiled slightly, and a vortex suddenly appeared on the top of the carriage. Shi Lan stretched out her hand, and she was instantly sucked into the vortex.

Inside the space, Mingxiao looked at Shi Lan ingratiatingly.

Shi Lan frowned, staring at it, and asked, "What exactly is going on? Why are we being chased again?"

Mingxiao was stunned. It had been busy with some things and hadn't paid attention to her, so it didn't know that Xiang Shisan had become strange.

"That shouldn't be the case. It seems the adults have already dealt with all those people."

Mingxiao twitched his ears, his face full of doubt.

Shi Lan snorted, "What do you mean 'take care of'? That person herself said she knows Haoze and knows about the Soul-Destroying Nails. She even said that she would win in the end. It's really inexplicable."

Upon hearing this, Mingxiao's expression turned serious: "What does that person look like?"

Shi Lan thought carefully about the transparent shadow that appeared later and said, "She is quite elegant and quiet, but those tentacles are terrifying."

Mingxiao asked, "What attack method did she use?"

Upon hearing this, Shi Lan subconsciously shuddered, thinking of that cool, slippery branch that resembled a snake, and said, "It's like a vine, but not quite. Calling it a root isn't quite accurate either. It feels more like a tentacle monster. Oh, and it can conjure up little flowers that look quite pretty."

Mingxiao's face suddenly turned ugly. He muttered a few words under his breath, and then a blurry image appeared in his mind. "Is this how it is?"

Shi Lan nodded.

Mingxiao murmured, "So it was her. No wonder."

Shi Lan looked at it curiously, "Who is she?"

Mingxiao wiggled its legs and wandered back and forth in the space, as if the beast was possessed.

After a while, Mingxiao seemed to have made up his mind. He stood up straight in front of Shi Lan and took several breaths before saying, "Lord Lan, I have something to report."

Upon hearing its tone and address, Shi Lan instinctively became wary.

Seeing her like this, Mingxiao pouted and said, "This is not something I should be talking about, but what can I do? The lord is in trouble now, and although I am his subordinate, I have no choice but to ask for your help, Lord Lan."

Shi Lan took a small step back, and was even more surprised by Ming Xiao's words.

She had witnessed Mingxiao's methods firsthand; if even it couldn't handle it, then she, with her meager skills, was even more doomed. Hearing it praise her so highly now, Shi Lan felt that nothing good could come of it.

Seeing her like this, Mingxiao bared his teeth in annoyance, but what could he do? The master was in bad shape, and his soul was rejecting him. If it weren't for the Soul-Destroying Nail that the master's body had refined recognizing Shi Lan as its master, and if he didn't know that it was that extremely troublesome bitch who had never been taken seriously who was taking the opportunity to cause trouble, he wouldn't have begged her so humbly.

"Let me tell you a story," Mingxiao said, seeing that Shi Lan had clearly refused even though she didn't speak. He felt that the adult who silently shouldered all the burdens was being treated too unfairly, and that some things should be known to the person involved.

"This is a story about Lord Haoze. You might be interested, right?"

Shi Lan pouted. She could tell from his tone that it wasn't anything good. If she listened, she would have to get back to work, so she simply ignored him.

"I'm not really interested either."

Mingxiao's eyes widened, his entire body bristling with fur. "You're really not interested?"

Shi Lan blinked, and faced with the blatant threat, could only say with a wronged expression, "I'm a little interested."

Mingxiao nodded in satisfaction and said, "A long time ago, a god was tainted by demonic energy during a battle with a demon lord. At that time, she was pregnant. After defeating the demon lord, she gave birth to a son, but the great battle had not yet ended, so she hid the child under a boulder."

Hearing this, Shi Lan interrupted, "How can you put a child under a rock? Wouldn't he be crushed to death?"

Mingxiao glared at her, "With the divine power of the God-King protecting you, how could you be crushed to death by a mere stone?"

Shi Lan blinked and nodded, signaling it to continue.

"The God-King originally intended to bring the child back after the great battle, but she perished in that battle, and the child remained there. Over millions of years, the child gradually absorbed the divine power left behind by the God-King, and the giant rock above her unknowingly gained sentience. The child stayed there to wait for her mother, accompanied only by the giant rock. Many years passed in this way, and the child cultivated into a God-King, while the giant rock also took human form. The God-King then took her to the God Realm. Later, she was too foolish and was harmed. To save her, the God-King not only abandoned his original form but also spent tens of thousands of years helping her reshape her true form. Now, he is in danger because of her."

Shi Lan nodded. So this is the story behind the stone she saw before and Lord Haoze. Speaking of which, Lord Haoze was really good to that stone.

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