After all, it was an immortal's cave dwelling. Although Aether treated it as an ordinary Domain, he still took it very seriously.
Without any mercy, he wielded a baseball bat with fierce power, and all monsters in his path were shattered into pieces.
In other aspects, some elemental monuments could not be deciphered because Aether had no elemental energy.
He simply gave up on deciphering them. When he encountered places with no path, he would take a running start and leap high, usually able to jump onto the next floating platform.
There were also some places blocked by vines, rubble, and the like. Aether didn't bother with them; he simply smashed them with his baseball bat.
In this way, the previously blocked paths were all opened by his brute force.
Thus, he advanced smoothly, clearing all obstacles.
He reached the highest point of the Domain, where a wall made entirely of rubble appeared before Aether.
He looked around, and there were no other paths.
"Hmm…" Aether weighed his baseball bat, pondered for a moment, then swung the bat, intending to smash the rubble wall.
Since there were no other paths around, the problem was clearly with this stone wall.
Aether was too lazy to look for clues or solve puzzles. Since the path was right here, he would just break it open with brute force.
In the face of absolute power, any obstruction was futile.
"Stop!!"
Before Aether's baseball bat could descend again, the majestic voice immediately rang out, seemingly with a hint of urgency.
"Are you trying to demolish this immortal's cave dwelling!?"
Aether stopped in time. He felt that the voice was very close to him.
Slowly raising his head, Aether squinted and looked up.
He saw a giant immortal crane standing on top of the stone wall.
"Wow! What a big bird!" Aether instinctively exclaimed.
Aether had seen many animals in this world, but it was his first time seeing such a huge bird.
Standing upright, it was as tall as a person.
"Presumptuous!" The immortal crane glared at Aether, then flapped its wings and landed in front of him.
"Uh, you, are you Cloud Retainer?" Aether suddenly realized that the majestic voice was coming from the immortal crane before him.
"What, does this immortal not look like an immortal?"
"No, I don't mean that, I just, I just didn't expect it…" Aether rubbed his head, quickly saying.
He had thought Shenhe's master would be a white-haired beauty like Shenhe.
He didn't expect it to be such a huge immortal crane.
"This immortal is Cloud Retainer. Since Shenhe brought you, this immortal is willing to give you a chance, but who knew you would be so violent." The immortal bird snorted lightly and began to lecture Aether on his faults.
She had painstakingly set up these mechanisms, but who knew this Damselette in front of her would completely disregard the usual path.
Seeing no path to higher ground, she directly used her superhuman jumping ability to leap up, and when encountering an obstruction, she simply smashed it with the strange weapon in her hand.
Although this was not her true residence, but rather a place specially set up to test those who came.
Even so, if the Grey-haired girl were to collapse this place, Cloud Retainer would still feel a pang of heartache.
"S-sorry, I didn't mean to…" Stelle said to the immortal bird in front of her, feeling a little guilty, "I can't use elemental power, so I had no way to deal with those elemental monuments."
"Hmph, never mind, this Immortal Lord is magnanimous and won't bother with you." The immortal bird finished speaking and turned its back.
"Follow this Immortal."
The immortal bird walked forward without looking back, and the stone wall behind them disappeared.
Stelle was a little surprised, but she quickly stepped forward and followed Cloud Retainer.
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"Stelle." Shenhe had been waiting at the door for a long time, and when she saw her master, and Stelle behind her master, she finally felt relieved.
"Stelle what Stelle? Your master is standing right in front of you, why are you greeting the person behind first?" Cloud Retainer said to Shenhe with some displeasure.
"Oh, Master." Shenhe added, then immediately walked to Stelle, took her hand, and looked at her with concern, "Are you alright?"
Shenhe hadn't expected her master to set up some kind of test for Stelle.
Shenhe hadn't seen Stelle fight much, and didn't know much about Stelle's strength, only occasionally hearing from Lumine and the others that Stelle was very strong.
But after all, it was a mechanism set by her master, no matter how strong Stelle was, Shenhe would still feel worried.
"N-nothing…" Stelle felt a little self-conscious facing Shenhe's intimate actions.
After all, Cloud Retainer was right there watching, and Shenhe's actions made the former's gaze even more displeased.
Cloud Retainer was now finally experiencing what it was like for a daughter to grow up and leave the nest. Although she showed nothing on the surface, she felt inexplicably sour inside.
"Come in." She let out a deep breath, then said to the two of them.
After Stelle and Shenhe finished their pleasantries, they quickly followed the other's footsteps.
In front of them was an ancient house, looking like the dwelling of a reclusive master.
She hadn't expected an immortal's abode to be like this.
Walking into the house, right before them, the huge immortal bird glowed with a white light, then its form gradually disappeared, replaced by a tall, stern-faced beauty wearing glasses who stood before them.
"Wow!" Stelle's eyes widened slightly.
She knew immortals weren't that simple. Master Shenhe's human form truly struck a chord in Stelle's heart.
"What, what's so surprising?" The beauty with glasses turned her head, saw Stelle's expression, and smiled somewhat disdainfully.
"This Immortal possesses vast divine powers and countless transformations; this is merely a minor shapeshifting technique."
"Sit." She walked to a round table and sat down, then looked up and said to the two of them.
Shenhe nodded, then pulled Stelle's hand and sat down beside her.
This action made Cloud Retainer raise an eyebrow again.
"Previously, this Immortal sent Shenhe down the mountain, intending for her to experience human society, but I didn't expect her to never return, not even sending a single letter." Cloud Retainer said, her gaze falling on Stelle.
"This is all related to you, isn't it, little girl?"
"Uh, I suppose so…" Stelle nodded.
However, before Stelle could figure out what to say next, Shenhe suddenly spoke calmly.
"Master, I like her, please give us your blessing."
"??" Cloud Retainer's expression almost broke; she looked at Shenhe with surprise.
"…" Stelle also stiffly turned her head and glanced at Shenhe.
Is it really okay to be so direct?
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