"This damn place— its strongest contender is just someone from the Third Great Boundary, they won’t possibly see through us." Sophia shifted her body to one side, crossing her legs and propping up her cheek with one hand. She looked at Sanni with a teasing smile, beckoning him, "Come here, my good boy, call me ’mom’ to see how it sounds."
Sophia has been secretly investigating the mysteries of the River God Temple, occasionally reaping rewards and trading them for various treasures from the Lord, she has now entered the Fifth Great Domain.
After Master Sun obtains the Divine Blood, he successfully conferred the title of Guardian Holy Beasts thanks to the intelligence provided by Sophia.
Owen Bertram, after analyzing the information from all sides, ultimately decided to send someone to infiltrate this Red Barbarians’ "Genius Training" group. After considering multiple factors, "Master Sun" transformed into "the Lord" and got in touch with Sophia.
One critical factor for choosing the Lord was because the Lord’s original soul was that of Lester people.
Teaming up with Sophia was due to the high suspicion that would arise from a single teenager’s actions, and such person would not be easily trusted. But with the addition of a "mom," there would be a weakness to exploit and thus would render the nobles of Nanni Nation off guard.
When the Lord heard her say that, he almost jumped up to hit her, but he found this woman’s eyes enchanting like the moon reflected in a lake, capable of drowning a flock of middle-aged lecherous men. He had no idea what this woman was planning to do, he just hummed, "Don’t take advantage of me. Keep practicing. When you arrive at the Royal Capital, don’t expose any vulnerabilities."
Lester people, in terms of appearance, naturally resemble Wood People more, but they are shorter and darker. Sophia is fair and plump, upon entering Nanni Nation, she should have been recognized. But the Lord has taught her a secret technique: Butterfly Transformation.
The Lord obtained one of the Nine Transformations of the Desolate Netherworld, the Butterfly Transformation known as from the "Heavenly Dog." One of its uses after success in cultivation is to arbitrarily change one’s appearance, including one’s height.
Sophia just barely mastered it before entering Nanni Nation and still needs to further consolidate her skills. She aims to attain moderate success before entering the Royal Capital so that even those from the Sixth Great Realm can’t identify any flaws.
Among the base cultivation techniques of the Heavenly Dog, The Nine Transformations of the Desolate Netherworld occupies an extraordinarily high level. Even just one of them, the Butterfly Transformation, significantly surpasses Sophia’s original mindfulness technique—it can allow Sophia to reach the Seventh Level. Sophia also believes that this is part of a supreme technique, and she might be able to obtain other parts in the future.
Although this mission is exceptionally dangerous, it has handed her such an excellent technique right out of the blue and offered sizeable rewards. How could Sophia not be moved? Does the Lord look after her in particular?
As for the Lord, he is also executing a technique from the Nine Transformations of the Desolate Netherworld for this operation—"Netherworld Silkworm Transformation"—integrating himself almost perfectly into the body of a dead child.
The child was merely one of the many prematurely dead children of the Nanni Nation.
Due to the "Netherworld Silkworm Transformation," even if Owen Bertram examined it in person, he couldn’t detect any problems. And the complete cultivation of the Lord has been integrated into this child’s body, which frightened people under his talent evaluation!
However, neither the Lord nor Sophia, at least for now, can be considered flawless. They should hurry up and upgrade.
The Lord is not aware of the level of so-called young talents in Nanni Nation. If he knew, he would control it to make his flame only six or seven feet high.
Early the next morning on the second day, Nigel had prepared the convoy, and was ready to lead Sanni’s mother and son back to the Royal Capital. The frustrating part for Sophia was that Nigel was overly attentive to her all along the road!
At the beginning, Sophia thought Nigel was just trying to win the favor of her mother and son, so she didn’t reject his purposeful caring. As for the gifts Nigel gave... Sophina gladly accepted them, thinking "that’s money, why would I not take them?"
But later, Sophia gradually felt something was wrong. This damn Lester monkey was making moves on her, creating intimate contact whenever possible!
Sophia almost couldn’t bear it and tore this fellow’s claws apart on the spot.
What was even more infuriating was that when Sophia went to the Lord to complain, the guy actually started to mock her! The next day Sophia, in front of everyone, demonstrated the "mother’s" authority and forced Sanni to recite a Nanni script—the status of which was similar to the Confucius Analects in Owen Bertram’s previous life.
This was the tongue-twisting Lester language... The Lord seemed like he had committed sacrilege by hitting a woman!