The little sparrow demon swiveled its shiny black eyes, chirping agreeably, and pecked affectionately at the arm of the young monk Jue Zhen.
"Greetings to little sparrow fellow daoist," Lu Qingshan, who had always treated the Great King of the West Rats equally, naturally accepted the little sparrow demon with good grace, and politely greeted it.
Delighted beyond expectation, the little sparrow demon responded jubilantly with a couple of cries.
"During this time, the little master can go to Giant Bear City for a visit, and perhaps it isn't even necessary to seek out that evil monk of the Sand Sea; the evil monk might just come knocking on his own," Lu Qingshan said to the young monk Jue Zhen during their farewell.
This was not an unfounded claim.
The bait had already been laid, and if the Sand Bandits did not react by the time he appeared in Giant Bear City, they would not deserve their reputation as the overlords of the Mogao Desert.
