Divine Emperor of Death

"... not the inheritor."

Mistress Yeyin declared, causing the Ice Phoenix Clan's Matriarch to look at her with a disappointed gaze.

"You're the only person we're lacking a background check on, and we thought all that was because to protect you from being embarrassed by your parent's scandal but now, things point to something else. If you aren't the inheritor, then who is?"

The Ice Phoenix Clan's Matriarch narrowed her brows. However, Mistress Yeyin remained calm and composed, a light smile appearing on her expression as she started to disappear.

"I don't know. Why don't Matriarch summon every member of the Ice Phoenix Clan and search for the inheritor within them?"

With a question, Mistress Yeyin's soul body faded away from the scene.

"..."

It could be seen that Mistress Yeyin dispersed her soul body, causing the Ice Phoenix Clan's Matriarch to sigh gently.

It appears like getting Yeyin back to the clan was a failure.

But in truth, she could tell that the other party was hiding something, most likely the identity of the other inheritor they caught on the Inheritor Tracing Formation. However, for her to question her to search for the inheritor within the members of the Ice Phoenix Clan registered in the Aurora Cloud Gate, did that mean that there was indeed someone within or someone outside?

She couldn't figure that out.

"Looks like the so-called inheritor doesn't want to leave."

Elder Aradiel Furiose commented before he lightly sighed, "I'm not even an External Affairs Elder, so why am I dealing with you people? Ugh, it's all because of that brat's fault for offending the Godwin Family."

The Ice Phoenix Clan's Matriarch had heard about a woman called Myria killing Nyx Godwin in self-defense and heard it from Mistress Yeyin, so she wasn't exactly new to the matter, nor was she interested in it how the Aurora Cloud Gate was in a state of alert at the moment, causing her to focus on another aspect of Elder Aradiel Furiose's sentence.

"Since you're a Law Enforcement Elder, would the Ice Phoenix Clan will be able to obtain a search warrant from the Aurora Cloud Gate to search for our inheritor?"

"Absolutely not." Elder Aradiel Furiose strictly shook his head, "You cannot disturb our disciples as you please. If you want to call someone to the Visitors Hall, we shall abide by it and request them, but whether they want to see you or not is their own wish."

The Ice Phoenix Clan's Matriarch couldn't help but silently giggle but Elder Aradiel Furiose continued to talk.

"As the Ice Phoenix Clan's Matriarch, you should be already aware that there are a few inheritors who have been with us for some time. We don't berate any of them to return to their powers, nor do we wish to entrap them and take advantage of them, so Ice Phoenix Matriarch can rest assured that we won't do anything to them. The Candidacy is not our concern, and the Aurora Cloud Gate doesn't want anything out of it. Just leave us alone as we always have remained, and we'll make sure the inheritors- no, our disciples are always protected as long as they remain within the sect grounds."

"What a strange power..." The Ice Phoenix Clan's Matriarch wryly smiled.

"You're being too reasonable for me to fight back. But if I don't return with the inheritors, I'll get berated by the Grand Elders and perhaps even the Ancestors. What a pity..."

She gently sighed, taking out something from her spatial ring that raised Elder Aradiel Furiose's brows slightly.

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Mistress Yeyin's ice mirror, which was projecting the things happening in the Visitor Hall, collapsed. Her gaze fell on Davis, a complicated gaze emerging from her eyes.

"You were right. They were indeed here to take me back."

"That's right." Davis nodded, "Although I could see the Ice Phoenix Clan's Matriarch claiming to protect you, I don't know what kind of person she is, so I wouldn't want to take my chances with her."

"Me neither. I don't know her," Mistress Yeyin lightly smiled, "But here, no one can harm me, not even you, so I can rest assured."

Davis returned a vague smile, but he shook his head and didn't say anything.

After a pause, Mistress Yeyin moved her mouth, "But still, thank you."

"Oh no. Thank you for saying that I didn't harass you by holding your hand to law enforcement."

"Aha~" Tanya suddenly burst out laughing lightly, "I almost thought my dear has gone rogue, kidnapping a woman into his life ring and catching hold of a maiden's hand rudely and telling her to stay with him."

"Oye." Davis turned to look at her twisting the story.

He didn't expect Tanya to make fun of him, but he could see that her old self was coming out bit by bit. The Frostcloud Sword Empress's training didn't make her have an icy personality but even caused her to return to her old self that was in her own world, jovial and curious of the world.

"What's that about the former?" Shirley glared at him from the side, causing Davis to chuckle awkwardly.

"It's Mystic Diviner Hailac. She injured herself for us and fainted, so she's still recuperating peacefully."

"Oh. Then that's okay~"

Shirley took her head back, lightly nodding as though she wouldn't beat him up for it.

Meanwhile, no one noticed the blush that appeared on Mistress Yeyin's face. She gazed at Davis frolicking with his women but somehow that appeared innocent in her eyes. It seemed that the rumors about him being an evil calamity were unfounded.

Nonetheless, her eyes dimmed a bit as she did not know what the future encompassed for her. The fact that she was the inheritance master but had no memories of it was extremely conflicting and hard for her to still believe, but the things she had seen and heard so far pointed to that exactly.

Otherwise, why would the Emperor of Death bother about her with no prior relationship between them?

Why would his people appear to care about her? She refused to believe that their sincerity was an attempt to try fooling her. They were powerful and had no need for that, and she had nothing to give, so everything pointed to her having a hidden history that she apparently couldn't discover or suffer some kind of consequences.

This was what she garnered from Davis's refusal to talk about the matter.

"And... where is Mistress Zahara?" Davis suddenly asked, "I don't want her to carelessly fall into a similar trap as well."

Mistress Yeyin came out of her reverie, and seeing him looking worried, she lightly smiled.

"Unlike me, who lied about sustaining injuries, she sustained injuries protecting that woman you have in your life ring, so she's recuperating as well."

"Is that so?"

"...!'

Mistress Yeyin flinched as she turned to look to the side while the others froze, slowly looking toward the direction in which Mistress Yeyin turned to.

What they saw was a wistful beauty in the distance brushing her white hair aside from her face, her eyes squinting as though smiling as she appeared before them.

"Matriarch..."

Mistress Yeyin became slightly pale. How did the Ice Phoenix Clan's Matriarch get into the sect!?