Looking at the bubbles popping up under the water, № Hamster felt inexplicably happy.

Tyrannical Song, you have your bad days too!

But when it was in the middle of its celebration, for some unknown reason, the demonic hamster recalled the scene where Song Shuhang tried his best to save its life in the Ninth Stage Heavenly Tribulation Realm… Immediately, the joy it was feeling disappeared.

The demonic hamster’s small claws gripped the hilt of its sword with an uncomfortable expression on its face.

After a while, it said to Song Shuhang with a stern expression, “You can try moving the water with your tongue to float up.”

Theoretically speaking, as long as the force applied to the water was strong enough, the reaction force should allow his head to float up.

“Fwoo~ Fwoo~”

The water in the small pond began wobbling.

Light of virtue appeared beneath the water, and a faint golden light shone outward, making everyone feel at peace.

It was the virtuous lamia, who had been obliterated earlier. She had finally managed to piece herself together.

In the next moment, she jumped out of the water.

She then raised both of her hands, holding Song Shuhang’s head high up toward the sky.

Light of virtue radiated from Song Shuhang’s head, making it look like a bright light bulb. The upper half of the virtuous lamia’s tail was standing straight, while the lower half was curled up.

Above the living spring, the virtuous lamia made an impeccable recreation of the scene of Nuwa¹ repairing the sky.

Fairy Creation applauded vigorously. Although she was her rival, the virtuous lamia’s performance this time was really good. Even from the eyes of a rival, it was simply impossible to pick out the slightest fault in her actions.

Song Shuhang, who was held high by the fairy’s hands, looked like he had lost all hope.

The virtuous lamia held Song Shuhang’s head while tilting her own head. She looked at the living spring pond, and then her eyes moved around and fell on Sixteen.

Her tail writhed as she swam to Sixteen’s side, solemnly handing Song Shuhang’s head to her.

Meanwhile, Fairy Creation sang a solemn song.

This song seemed to be the soundtrack of the handover of the imperial jade seal in a historical TV series.

The two fairies were competing with one another while cooperating. Sometimes, they learned from each other and made rapid progress through such competition.

In this regard, Song Shuhang did not make any comments and simply continued to bite on the scabbard in his mouth.

❄️❄️❄️

After Sixteen took Song Shuhang’s head. She went to the edge of the living spring pond, found a position facing the crowd, and then squatted down, gently placing Song Shuhang’s neck into the living spring pond.

“Hiss~” Song Shuhang’s expression smoothed out.

He did not know whether the living spring’s spring water would be able to restore his physical body, but the spring water did at least greatly relieve the pain he was feeling.

There was no need to completely relieve the pain, as long as the pain level was a little lower, Song Shuhang could endure it.

Even when he was suffering, he was able to chat with the others.

The virtuous lamia reached out and took the scabbard from Song Shuhang’s mouth.

“This is a lot more comfortable,” said Song Shuhang as he gave Sixteen

a reassuring smile.

Then, he quickly shifted his gaze back.

Song Shuhang coughed, looked at the demonic hamster, and asked, “Fellow Daoist Ancient Demon Ranzhen, how come you had the time to run over to my Inner World today?”

Ancient Demon Ranzhen, this cool-sounding daoist name, was the Demonic Name of № Hamster, the one it used when it showed its divinity in the Black Dragon World.

The demonic hamster had complex feelings after hearing Song Shuhang’s question.

It was like a person with a dark history whose past was revealed for everyone to see.

Usually, it was very difficult for a hamster to express such complex emotions just by relying on its facial expressions and body language.

The demonic hamster said solemnly, “You should call me № Hamster. Our relationship is not deep enough for you to call me by my daoist name so casually.”

Song Shuhang replied quickly, “Okay, № Ranzhen.”

The demonic hamster bared its sharp fangs at Song Shuhang, then displayed a ferocious look.

Sure enough, the middle-aged № Tyrannical Song is a lot more pleasing to the eye. The kid version is a little less so, while the young man version is the most annoying.

“Alright, I won’t joke anymore. Is Senior White Two okay?” Song Shuhang asked.

As he had more and more contacts with Senior White Two, there would be some times when he would no longer be censored when he mentioned Senior White Two’s name.

This was especially so when he was in the Inner World, where his level of authority was higher.

Originally, he had been quite worried about Senior White Two due to him having likely fallen victim to the schemes of the fat ball.

But seeing how lively № Hamster was, he felt relieved. Since the demonic hamster was still alive and kicking, then even if Senior White Two did get tricked, he should not be into too much trouble.

№ Hamster replied earnestly, “My master White Two accidentally fell into the other ruler’s schemes, but there isn’t any big issue. My master is in no danger and is merely temporarily trapped.”

It seemed that no matter how much its own mood swung, when it came to Senior White Two’s matters, it would immediately return to normal.

“By the way, Fellow Daoist Ranzhen, you’re done for,” Song Shuhang suddenly said. “You called Senior White ‘White Two’ just now. You do know that Senior White hates people calling him ‘White Two’. I myself am very outspoken, so I had a slip of the tongue back there… But I didn’t expect you to follow me.”

Sixteen did not know whether to laugh or cry. She quickly covered Song Shuhang’s mouth with her hand, but how could her hand stop Song Shuhang’s mouth from speaking?

№ Hamster: “!!!”

“№ Tyrannical Song, I’m going to kill you!” № Hamster drew its sword in anger and jumped up. Then, just like an Otherworldly Flying Demon, it descended from the sky and swung its sword at Song Shuhang.

“Mmmmph.” Although Song Shuhang’s mouth was covered by Sixteen’s little hand, his eyes were still trying to provoke № Hamster.

The black-skinned Soft Feather, who was in the distance, pointed to herself and said, “It’s not my fault this time, right?”

She was so far away from Senior Song. As such, he should not have been affected by her presence.

The black Scarlet Heaven Sword was very experienced and explained, “This is Shuhang coping with his pain. Regardless of how things might seem outwardly, he lost his body and only his head is left, so he’s definitely feeling very uncomfortable. It’s normal that he wants to transfer some of the pain he’s feeling to others.”

Sister White Dragon explained, “I feel that it might be because Shuhang only has a head. Before, he still had other parts of his body, but now as soon as he thinks of something, he immediately blurts it out.”

The black-skinned Soft Feather fell into thought after hearing the explanations.

At this time, the attack of the demonic hamster reached Song Shuhang.

[Hehe, you’re too naive. I’m a Sixth Stage True Monarch now. Sixteen, you don’t need to stop it for me. Just let it reach me.] Song Shuhang used the group voice transmission function.

This time, he did not even need to use the Thirty-Three Divine Beasts’ Combined Magical Treasure.

He simply operated his three top-tier body tempering techniques to resist the attack of the demonic hamster.

The toothpick-sized sword of № Hamster struck Song Shuhang’s forehead.

Sparks flew everywhere from the impact, but Song Shuhang’s skin was not pierced by the attack.

Song Shuhang said, “See, this is how thick my face is now.”

The demonic hamster: “…”