Shi Lang followed Tong Bai slowly through the city, with two girls holding onto the corner of his clothes. They were very sad because the man they thought was there everything turned out to be looking after them in exchange of spirit stones, and that too from their dead mother.


    Shi Lang said, "Ester, Butterfly, don''t worry, you are not alone."


    He ced his hand over their heads and they calmed down a bit. Soon they came over to a big house, Shi Langmented, "You made a pce outside the city, does your sense of vanity knows no end?"


    Ting Bai took a deep breath and said, "Brother, I will kick you out."


    Shi Lang smiled and said, "You will miss me."


    Thedy snorted and then she led them inside the house. There were no guards to watch the ce but the ce was surrounded by a defense array that could not be undone another person but Tong Bai. Shi Lang sighed and asked, "Do you still not trust humans enough?"


    Tong Bai shook her head and replied, "I am strong enough to handle things on my own. It has nothing to do with the trust factor as such."


    Shi Lang nodded and they went inside the house. Ester and Butterfly looked at each other with a surprised reaction on their faces. When have they ever seen a ce like this? They seems to have walked inside a royal pce.


    Tong Bai said, "Brother the rent will be high."


    Shi Lang turned around and said, "It was nice meeting you, I will catch youter."


    Tong Bai was surprised but then she said, "Can you outgrow your petty attitude. Look at this ce, I will give you full protection."


    Shi Lang shook his head and replied, "I don''t care. I am not paying more than the standard rent out there."


    Tong Bai rolled her eyes and said, "Fine. Thousand supreme spirit stones."


    Shi Lang nodded and took out a small bag from his space ring and flung it to them. Tong Bai said, "The courtyard in the east is for you and your girls."


    The Terran located the ce and walked around the ce with his hands behind his back. The two girls followed him while holding hands with each other. Shi Lang located the eastern courtyard and sighed. This ce was as big as a mansion. To think Tong Bai had the strength to build herself a house this big.


    He moved his hand and the small array formation around the ce was removed. Shi Lang then ced his own array formation around the ce. He set up a bunch of arrays even more profound than what Tong Bai had.


    ...


    A youngdy walked out of the meditation room when she sensed someoneing over. She asked, "Mom, what causes you toe over?"


    Tong Bai sighed and said, "What else could it be but you, Xiao Lia?"


    Thedy was none other then Ye Lia. Thetter shook her head and said, "Who moved in the eastern courtyard?"


    Tong Bai said, "My brother from the lower realm finally came over. He is renting the courtyard."


    Ye Lia was shocked and asked, "Why don''t I know about you having a brother?"


    Tong Bai smiled and replied softly, "You don''t know a lot of things."


    Then she summarized Shi Lang''s role in her life and also how he was reincarnated and met with her other old friends who are also in this realm but are being held back by the circumstances. Ye Lia was surprised and then she said, "If your Brother is such a good talent, then I might be able to help him get in touch with the guardian sect."


    Tong Bai shook her head and said, "He doesn''t need any rmendations. Well, let''s go, we are having dinner with him. You won''t be staying long I guess?"


    Ye Lia shook her head and said, "Thanks to the expedition this time, I gained a lot of experience and insights. I will stay here and once in a while I will go and take up some hunting tasks. It is time I climbed up to the gold level."


    Tong Bai nodded, and said, "Thank god you are allowed to stay here, I thought one of these days you would denounce me as your mother."


    Ye Lia was shocked and asked, "How can you say something like this? Mom, are you okay?"


    Tong Bai nodded and said, "I am just influenced by the sudden nostalgia."


    The two of them cooked a sumptuous meal with their quick skills and then headed over to the eastern courtyard. Tong Bai was surprised as soon as she came at the entrance. She saw a hugework of arrays erected around the ce. Ye Lia asked, "So manyplex array existing together at the same time. I wonder if Uncle is an Array Master."


    Tong Bai nodded and said, "He is a master of arrays."


    Suddenly, Ester came out from behind the arrays, and bowed to the twodies. She knew Tong Bai but not Ye Lia, however, sensing that the youngdy was still stronger then her, and elder to her, she must bow.


    Tong Bai asked softly, "Ester, did he send you to greet us?"


    Ester nodded hurriedly and said, "Elder, this way please. Master said he has ced a few killing arrays, so please be within one meter radius of me to avoid triggering them."


    Ye Lia was surprised but since her mother did not say anything, she did not ask much. Ester led the two people in quickly, and just when Tong Bai was about to head to the dining room, she heard Ye Lia exim, "Fellow Daoist Shura, what are you doing here?"


    Shi Lang opened his eyes and looked at Ye Lia, and then at Tong Bai. He chuckled and said, "How did I miss the striking resembles between you too. Xiao Tong, you naughty girl, Empress Ye Lia will be so mad if she learned that you named your daughter after her just so that you could call her without the royal decorum. Though I am sure you love your daughter."


    Tong Bai stomped on the ground and broke the tiles under her feet as she said, "Damn you, don''t try to scare me, that olddy is already off to heavens."


    Shi Lang nodded and said, "Whatever you say."


    Ye Lia was shocked as she heard the exchange between the two people. She opened her mouth wide as her brain registered the truth andprehended the logic, she looked at Tong Bai and asked, "Is Daoist Shura my long lost uncle?"


    Tong Bai cleared her throat lightly and asked, "Why are you calling him Daoist Shura? Also, yes, he is my brother from the lower realms."


    Shi Lang cupped his fist and said, "I am d to meet you, Maiden Ye."


    Ye Lia was still surprised, when Shi Lang flicked his finger and transferred a few instances from his memory to her. Ye Lia gasped after a few minutes and understood everything. She asked, "To think that you persisted to achieve your dream for so long. The most baffling thing is the fact how my mother was a rebel despite being an Empress. What a grand coronation."


    Tong Bai turned her head over and asked, "Did you see my coronation ceremony in his memories?"


    Ye Lia nodded, and Tong Bai red at Shi Lang as she med him, "You liar, you said you didn''te."


    Shi Lang smiled sheepishly and said, "Had I came there with how I usually looked, I would have been yed by the enemies you had invited over."


    Tong Bai sighed and said, "You do have a point. What was your disguise?"


    Shi Lang shrugged and replied, "A serving boy, I fed Tian Long somexative. I could have poisoned half the bastards there, but then you would have gone mad."


    Tong Bai rolled her eyes, and said, "You owe me a gift."


    Shi Lang furrowed his brows and said, "Didn''t I leave you a golden sparrow leg?"


    Tong Bai eximed, "Do you mean to say that tiny messy mass of meat in my resting chamber?"


    Shi Lang nodded earnestly, "That thing could have helped you with a purer bloodline. To sad to know you threw it out."


    Tong Bai and Shi Lang began to y the me game, and it was endless. They even unveiled some very embarrassing anecdotes about each other too. Ye Lia could not imagine her mother having such a close and casual rtionship with someone. She has seen her being secretive and happy with herself most of the time.


    The five people sat in and were dining together while sharing a lot of old memories and telling the girls some stories, when Shi Lang''smunicator began to ring.


    The Terran was surprised but then he epted the request, earlier he had told Lou Shin his location and thought she was asking him to let her in, when he saw a bunch of faces on the hologram call, and opened his eyes wide.


    The people were Shi Tao, Yu Xeidi, and Hao Mei, along with Tian Long and Fairy Moon Jade.


    They all cheered collectively, "Happy Birthday!"


    Shi Lang was taken aback before heughed out loud and said, "Thank you, but I have forgotten how old I am this year."


    Shi Tao said, "You are still young enough to beat Uncle Tian."


    Shi Lang frowned and said, "Is this old bastard trying to be on your good side? Tao, I forbid you all from interacting with him. He is a lousy show off."


    The banter evolved, and the rest of the people were shocked to see Shi Lang talking to the images. The Terran also realized this and said, "Old Tian, Moon, I have someone here, whom you would like to meet. I give you all, Xiao Tong, the empress of Vermillion Empire."


    The friends from old times stood face to face with shocked expressions on there faces. Shi Lang asked, "How do you like my gift?"