Yang Kai gave a dry laugh.
“Does that woman like you?” The inn owner asked again.
“Old Sir must enjoy gossiping,” Yang Kai flushed slightly.
The old man just smiled lightly in response, not pressing the subject anymore and instead just saying with some emotion, “Young man, you’re quite fortunate. That woman you came here with is also a good girl, simple and pure, yet outside there is another woman who keeps you in her heart. En, this old man is somewhat envious.”
Shifting the subject, the old man continued, “Actually, if you want to know what is happening in the palace, it’s actually quite simple.”
“Oh? Please enlighten me, Old Sir,” Yang Kai immediately became energetic and asked humbly.
“Every month, some people will leave the palace to purchase supplies from the surrounding towns. Shimmering Moon City is not too far from the palace, and it is also quite prosperous, so it is generally regarded as one of the primary destinations for such trips. You only need to wait a few days in order to see some of the maidservants from the palace here; if you’re lucky, it might even be the woman you wish to meet.”
He obviously thought the same as the previous Monster Race cultivator, that Yang Kai’s friend was a maidservant in the palace.
After all, most humans who were able to enter the palace of Lady Tribal Lord had such statuses.
Yang Kai’s eyes lit up.
Although the owner of the inn had misunderstood the identity of Shan Qing Luo, this wasn’t a problem.
If one of the maidservants that came out from the palace could pass Shan Qing Luo a message from him, then everything would be solved.
“Many thanks, Old Sir!” Yang Kai cupped his fists happily.
“It’s fine, this old man didn’t do anything worthy of thanks.”
“Old Sir,” Yang Kai looked at him curiously and asked, “I feel that your attitude towards humans is very different from others of the Monster Race, do you not discriminate against humans?”
“Discriminate? Why should I?” The owner of the inn looked at Yang Kai with a smile, “You humans are fine the way you are. This old man once knew a very special human when he was young…”
Yang Kai clearly saw a strong, almost inexhaustible tenderness flash across the old man’s eyes at that moment.
Yang Kai suddenly understood something then.
“Never mind, just pretend I didn’t say anything. Young Man, take your time, this old man is getting on in years and needs to lie down for a while,” The owner of the inn suddenly became somewhat disinterested and saying so, stood up to leave, his waist seemingly even more rickety than before.
Yang Kai sighed at this sight.
It seemed that when this inn owner was young, he was in love with a human woman.
Love across races was something that was the subject of disgust in any place, not to mention this was Monster Emperor Star, where the Monster Race ruled supreme and humans had no status whatsoever.
It was precisely because such love was forbidden in many places that inter-racial couples were often split apart and eventually forced into committing suicide, inspiring many an epic story.
Yang Kai did not think too much about this issue, however, simply drinking a few glasses of wine before returning to his courtyard. After updating Xia Ning Chang, who was still studying Alchemy, Yang Kai went straight to the city gate.
According to the owner of the inn, it would be a few days before the maidservants from the palace came here to purchase supplies, but Yang Kai intended to get there ahead of time and come up with a way to send a message to Shan Qing Luo.