9 Lan Helian

The guard's face turned pale, turning around to see a petite girl, hair as black as sesame paste that just came from a mortar that was grinded by a pestle. Skin as pale and translucent as white jade with pointy ears attached firmly with gold. Fluttering eyelids, like butterflies' wings, fluttered up and down as golden eyes met Xuanmei's onyx ones, immediately softening.

The loli was actually quite like a vixen, a tempting seductress. However, the clothing that allowed her to lie low and her pink lips gave her a honest, modest, warm and innocent look.

With her posture exuding elegance, coldness and a noble aura, she stood right behind the guard. Dressed in a pale green dress of the healers, the girl with cold, sharp eyes and thin pink lips, straight flowy hair sneered at the guard, hands crossed across her chest. Despite looking small, she was actually quite busty.

'My God,' the guard thought, 'Were you, this trash, a statue in your past life or what? Your standing posture, if taken for one's sexuality, is as straight as a heterosexual male!'

Xuanmei narrowed her eyes. She hadn't started cultivating yet, and the host of the body probably haven't even tried. According to Ming's information, There were six races in this world;

Humans, Elves, Devils, which were a more powerful form of Demons, Gods, or a more evolved form of Angels, and the last one which isn't known by many, the God-demons. To access Ocres and many other monsters, one had to go to other continents, as this Poi continent didn't house any other races other than the main four. God-demons were incredibly hard to find, and usually don't come to Poi continent.

Xuanmei snapped back to reality as she smiled. This girl, despite being a literal 1.2 meter measuring stick, it still made people cower at the intense pressure.

"Well, since she is such a trash, how about I clear her off your hands?"

Making a decision to have Lan Helian under her care, she shrugged while casually asking the question, as if a heavy burden wasn't a big deal for her, who wanted to stand on the top of the world. Of course, after hearing it, the guard looked nervous.

"I will have to ask General Lan. Please, wait here with the tr- Lady Lan."

After the accidental mess up, the guard ran away in cold sweat as he went to find the general.

However, not even a few minutes pass when the guard came sprinting back, a smug smile on his face.

"The general agreed, and said that he had more important matters to deal with, and didn't want to send her off."

Nodding with slight impatience, Xuanmei grabbed Helian's hand and left, not even wanting to go into the auction that she had planned on going.

Those insincere people, if they get near Helian, since she wouldn't know their usual treatment of her, decided that it was better to stay away.

Walking back into the woods, she let go of Lan Helian as they sit down on a felled tree that only had it's base left, as a stool. Finding three tree bases nearby, they sat down.

However, while walking away with the store owner and Xuanmei, Helian asked whispered to Xuanmei,

"So, how's Ming?"