When everyone came to a halt, they saw two figures emerging from the woods. Xiaoyao looked closely and wondered how one of them could be a woman dressed in blazing red—Kunwu Xue. This woman was finally showing her face. Xiaoyao looked up at Fangfeng Bei, whose expression remained completely placid, revealing nothing of what he was thinking. Then she glanced beside Kunwu Xue and wondered how on earth she had managed to drag along a monkey.
Xiaoyao had seen Kunwu Xue many times before. There was no denying her looks; she was as alluring and captivating as ever. But this monkey beside her—no, on second thought, it still seemed to pass for a human of sorts. It was short, a full head shorter than Kunwu Xue, and so thin that there could not be a few ounces of meat on its entire frame. Looking at its face, it had a pointed mouth and sunken cheeks, a sallow complexion, sparse and scorched yellow hair, narrow shoulders, a slender waist, and a pair of bowed legs that nearly formed a circle. Looking even closer, it did not look like a regular Zhongyuan person, yet this grotesque appearance was truly not even as good as a handsome monkey.
Though they had been ambushed and intercepted, Xiaoyao still could not help herself, letting out a sudden snort of laughter:
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