“Fellow Daoists, this is someone else’s child. Its family is very worried. Could you please return the child?” Tian Ning asked, standing there with a good temper.
She was empty-handed, carrying no weapons, and looked completely harmless.
But that chill just now was not simple!
The three were initially wary of the suddenly appearing female cultivator, but when they saw Tian Ning, they were all taken aback, clearly recognizing her.
"Tianning?"
Meng Xian directly stated the other party's name, which caused Lan Siran and Meng Zhinian's expressions to change, and they couldn't help but become wary.
If it weren't for Tian Ning's prominent aura, Lan Siran and Meng Zhinian wouldn't have recognized who the other was, but Meng Xian recognized him at a glance!
In the past, he had encountered female cultivators who were interested in him, but he couldn't remember their appearances or even their names, which showed that he had absolutely no interest in them.
However, this situation has been broken today!
"You know me?" Tian Ning asked back.
Confirming that she had never seen these faces before, Tianning felt they were only slightly familiar. Logically speaking, given their appearances, if she had indeed seen them before, she shouldn't be unable to recall them.
Before Tianning could continue guessing, the other party introduced himself: "I am Meng Xian."
Meng Xian?
In Tianning's memory, Meng Xian was a thin, small boy. Logically, she hadn't been back to the Eastern Continent from the Central Continent for very long, and she could understand that boys grow quickly and become taller. But what she saw now was clearly not just a matter of height…
"Long time no see, you've grown quite a bit," Tianning greeted him dryly, not forgetting his main purpose: "So, can you give the eggs back to us now?"
Meng Xian answered the questions one by one seriously: "I have grown up a lot. Because of an accident, I entered a secret realm where the flow of time is different from the outside world. I was imprisoned in there for 12 years. When I came out, only half a year had passed in the outside world... so I became like this."
So that's how it is. Tianning remembers that there are many strange and mysterious realms in the Central Continent.
So, Meng Xian's face now does indeed look somewhat similar to the boy's appearance back then. As for the two female cultivators beside Meng Xian, Tian Ning also remembered what they looked like when they were young. It seems that they also entered the secret realm with Meng Xian.
"Did your sworn spirit beast bring this egg with you?"
When Meng Xian saw the green peacock hiding behind Tian Ning's feet, he assumed that Tian Ning was the owner of the green peacock. Without waiting for Tian Ning to give a definite answer, he planned to go forward and hand over the egg.
He was so straightforward that Meng Zhinian's eyes almost turned red!
That was a phoenix egg, and you just handed it over because of one sentence from the other party?
"Brother Xian! This is a phoenix egg that we obtained with great difficulty. We can't just hand it over so easily! We still don't know anything about this woman!" Meng Zhinian quickly stopped Meng Xian.
Lan Siran, standing to the side, remained silent. The phoenix egg was of little use to her, so she was in no hurry and let Meng Zhinian take the lead, while she observed Meng Xian's attitude towards Tian Ning from the side.
"You're talking nonsense! You just snatched my little master away from me like that!" With the Phoenix Lord's backing, the Green Peacock became bolder, but that was all it did after uttering those harsh words and then cowering behind Tian Ning.
Meng Zhinian's face flushed slightly, but she still retorted defiantly, "What's wrong with us taking away unclaimed spirit beast eggs? Don't other cultivators think they'll intervene if they see them?"
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