About an hour later.
Alice returned.
Seeing Alice's conflicted expression, Yang Feilong asked with a light smile, "What's wrong?"
"Her Highness the Princess wants me to be her captain of guards." Alice said with a wry smile. Seeing that the expressions of the three were relatively calm, she asked curiously, "Why are you three so calm?"
"Because my husband guessed it earlier." Tang Ya covered her mouth and chuckled.
"En." Cuckoo also nodded in agreement.
"You guessed it?" Alice was surprised.
"After all, you are at the Void Refinement realm, and the Princess's guard are all women, and you are at the Void Refinement realm. It would be strange if the Princess didn't want to recruit you into her personal guard!" Yang Feilong said with a smile.
"What should I do? The benefits the Princess offered are great, and she is very sincere. What should I do?" Alice said in distress.
"Just follow the Princess. I'll be going back once things here are settled," Yang Feilong said.
Hearing Yang Feilong's words, Alice looked at him with a wistful expression.
This made Yang Feilong feel a little guilty: "Don't worry, I'll come back."
"Then when are you planning to leave? And when will you return?" Alice asked, looking at Yang Feilong with a dejected expression.
"Ten days to half a month. As for when I'll return, I'll come back after I break through to the Void Refinement realm!" Yang Feilong said after thinking for a moment, looking at Alice's expression.
"Void Refinement realm? How long will that take!" Alice's expression became even more depressed.
Yang Feilong's current cultivation was at the mid-stage of the Spiritual Void realm, which was equivalent to the Void Refinement realm. Of course, the realm itself was still different from the Void Refinement realm.
"One to two years at the shortest, two to three years at the longest!" Yang Feilong said after thinking for a moment. "I will definitely come back for you then, and perhaps I'll take you back with me, of course, if you are willing to go back with me."
Hearing Yang Feilong's words, Alice fell silent.
Yang Feilong had wanted to take her away before, but the Demon Realm was where she had lived for decades. She naturally didn't want to leave so easily because her man's homeland was completely different from her own, and she didn't know if she could adapt.
"Then let me think about it again. A few years is a few years. When you come next time, perhaps I will have made up my mind and will go to your world with you," Alice said after taking a deep breath.
"En," Yang Feilong nodded.
"Husband, for the next few days, I hope you can spend more time with me and Pudding," Alice said.
She already knew that Yang Feilong had taken in Cuckoo, and she was naturally happy for her good sister to be with her man. In fact, it was she who had brought them together.
In the following days, Yang Feilong lived a life of indulgence again.
Although they had originally agreed to stay for another ten days to half a month, Yang Feilong barely left the bed for a full month, spending every day with Alice and Cuckoo, and sometimes Tang Ya also joined in.
Such a life of nearly drunken oblivion made Yang Feilong reluctant to leave, and he almost didn't want to go back.
However, when he thought of the many women waiting for him in his hometown, he proposed to leave. Of course, even if Yang Feilong didn't propose to leave, Alice would have had to. Because she had replied to the Seventh Princess earlier, agreeing to be her personal guard, but asked for a month of leisure. The Seventh Princess had agreed.
Now, that time had come.
At the teleportation array leading to Wanshan Prefecture, Alice and Cuckoo bid farewell to Yang Feilong and Tang Ya.
Cuckoo stayed with Alice because as the captain of guards, Alice had many subordinates. Although Cuckoo wanted to follow Yang Feilong, she didn't want to leave Alice. If she left, Alice would be too lonely, and she didn't want to see such a scene.
"Husband, goodbye. Goodbye, sister Tang Ya!"
"Goodbye, my wife."
"Goodbye, both sisters!"
After Yang Feilong and Tang Ya said goodbye to Alice and the others, they boarded the teleportation array to Wanshan Prefecture. The teleportation array activated, and with a flash, Yang Feilong and Tang Ya disappeared.
Alice watched them disappear from her sight and remained silent for a long time. Seeing Yang Feilong leave, her heart felt empty.
"Sister, we should go back!" Cuckoo said softly. Her heart also felt very empty. That man had entered her heart and mind, and now he was leaving. Even though she knew they would meet again, she still felt sad.
If she felt this way, Alice, who was also an emotional person, was likely no better.
"Let's go back!" Alice took a deep breath and her expression became firm.
"Yes," Cuckoo responded.
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Wanshan Prefecture.
"Husband, are we heading directly to Baizhu County next, or will we rest in the prefecture city for a while?" Tang Ya asked.
"Let's rest for two days before going to Baizhu County," Yang Feilong said after thinking for a moment. "After all, I am now a great lord of Wanshan Prefecture, and I need to arrange some work before leaving."
He also intended to return later.
After all, he had two women in the Demon Realm. How could he be a man who abandoned them after a fling?
Over the next two days, Yang Feilong arranged his work and then took Tang Ya to Baizhu County.
"En?" Yang Feilong and Tang Ya were flying on their swords towards Baizhu County when he suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Tang Ya asked in surprise.
"Come out!" Yang Feilong's voice deepened as he shouted.
"Clap clap, as expected of the second place in the prefecture assessment, your perception is indeed sharp!" A round of applause sounded.
As the applause echoed, figures appeared all around them.
The person at the forefront exuded an incredibly powerful aura.
"Everyone, are you underestimating me a little?" Yang Feilong looked at the middle-aged man at the forefront and the young man beside him, his mouth twitching slightly.
"It's not underestimating you, but we originally thought that woman Alice would come with you. She is a Void Refinement realm cultivator. We didn't expect her not to come back with you! Thinking about it, she is a Void Refinement realm cultivator now, so it's normal for her not to return to Wanshan Prefecture!" The leader, the苍鹰王 (Cang Ying Wang - Eagle King), Mi Lidao, said with a smile.
"Yang Feilong, aren't you very arrogant? Now kneel down and kowtow, and I might consider sparing you!" The Cang Ying Lord, Mi Xiqi, looked at Yang Feilong with a sinister grin.
That's right, these people were all from the Cang Ying clan. The Cang Ying King, Mi Lidao, at the forefront was an Earth-rank envoy under the Seventh Princess, a cultivator at the early stage of the Void Refinement realm.
Besides Mi Lidao, there were seven other figures, each of them at the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm or the perfected stage of the Spirit Soul realm. In comparison, Mi Xiqi was the weakest among them.
"Do you really think you have me cornered?" A hint of coldness appeared in Yang Feilong's eyes.
"Heh heh, quite confident! Then let me see why you're so confident, kid. Is it because of the top-grade spiritual artifact you possess?" Mi Xiqi sneered.
He hadn't seen Yang Feilong use a top-grade spiritual artifact himself, but others had. The top five contestants, the Golden Silk Spider, the Snow Shadow Demon Wolf, and the Blood Pattern Demon Ape had all seen it.
Their defeat by Yang Feilong and Qing Luan was common knowledge, and they had explained the reason for their loss. Therefore, many people knew that Yang Feilong possessed a top-grade spiritual artifact.
Qing Luan also possessed one. These people had even considered Qing Luan's strength when formulating their plan. Otherwise, they wouldn't have dispatched so many experts, even having Mi Lidao, a peak early-stage Void Refinement realm expert, lead the team personally!