"Elder Xia, long time no see."
The person who came was dressed in black. With three - dimensional features and deep eyes, Xia Wanning recognized her at first sight.
"Young Master of the Ghost Domain, what brings you here to find me?"
"Ningning is injured."
"Who is Ningning?"
Xia Wanning asked in doubt, then quickly realized and said, "If the Ghost Lord wants me to help treat this person, just tell me what pills are needed. I've been friends with your father for many years. I can definitely meet this requirement."
"Zhao Shuning is injured. Did you save her?"
"You know Zhao Shuning?"
Mo Bai nodded, then stepped forward anxiously. "I've searched every corner of the Eastern Ze Great Wilderness, but I just couldn't find Ningning. I thought, since you were once Ningning's teacher, if she was saved, the most likely person would be you."
Xia Wanning looked at Mo Bai's expression.
Suddenly, she felt so ironic.
"Ghost Lord, you seem to have the wrong person. I'm not the kind of good teacher who would help my disciples. Otherwise, I wouldn't have cooperated with the Ghost Domain and sent quite a few alchemists to the Ancient Desolate Land every year."
"If it wasn't you, then who else could it be?"
Xia Wanning sneered. "Moreover, I'd like to advise the Ghost Lord. You and that Zhao Shuning have absolutely no chance. Don't waste your time on her. You two will never have an intersection in this lifetime."
"What do you mean?"
The aura around Mo Bai surged. At this moment, his spiritual power was almost out of control.
"Is Zhao Shuning your reverse scale?"
Seeing Mo Bai's expression, Xia Wanning coldly asked this question, and then thought it was really redundant.
The Young Master of the Ghost Domain was moody. For a girl, he had searched the entire Eastern Ze Great Wilderness and addressed her so affectionately as Ningning.
It was basically certain that the girl was the one he had always been thinking about.
Xia Wanning waved her plain hand, and a stone table appeared beside her. She made a gesture of "please" and then sat down.
"Elder Xia, if you have something to say, just say it. I don't like your veiled words."
"The matter is rather long. Are you sure you don't want to sit down and listen to me, Ghost Lord?"
Mo Bai frowned.
At this moment, a smile curled up on Xia Wanning's lips.
Why did she suddenly feel so ironic?
In her previous life when she was Ye Ling, whether it was Ji Qinglin who liked her, or Dongfang Yuxi, Song Zhiyi, and the siblings of the Chu family, they all regarded Ye Ling as their family.
Even the Emperor Lord, his warm gaze was only for Ye Ling.
With great difficulty, she finally joined forces with the Ghost Domain to send Ye Ling to hell. But she had such good fortune and luck to be reborn as the little daughter of the Zhao family. She had been hiding her talents and biding her time since childhood.
Ye Ling was already dead. Why did she still have the chance to be reborn?
She was a dead person. Why did she come back to compete with her?
As Zhao Shuning, she was loved by so many people again. She even had Zhao Huai, the Supreme Beast, as her elder brother. The Emperor Lord protected her all the time. And now, even her enemy, the Young Master of the Ghost Domain, was so nervous about her.
Ye Ling, no matter where you are or in what way, you always take away everything that belongs to me inadvertently.
Mo Bai sat down.
Xia Wanning pushed a cup of tea over. He just glanced at it and didn't drink.
"Elder Xia, if you have something to say, just say it straight."
"Ghost Lord, do you know Ye Ling, the Eight - Phase Female Emperor?"
Mo Bai lowered his eyes.
"Of course I've heard of her."
Ye Ling was mostly known for being cruel, fierce, and blood - thirsty.
Mo Bai was still in the Ghost Domain at that time and was quite young. He often heard his father and the others discussing Ye Ling. Why did Xia Wanning bring this up? What did it have to do with Ningning?
"Ye Ling was the disciple of Emperor Lord Yan Ruyu."
"I know."
Mo Bai's tone was already a bit impatient.
Xia Wanning continued, "Then do you know that Zhao Shuning is Ye Ling's reincarnation?"
"What!"
Mo Bai slapped the table and stood up. The tea in the cup spilled out onto the table due to the shaking of the stone slab.
"What evidence do you have for saying this?"
"You should have met this person."
Xia Wanning waved her hand gently, and a portrait of Yan Ruyu appeared in mid - air in the room. Wearing a green robe, holding a jade flute, with a peerless face, like the eternal mysterious ice, he rarely smiled at people.
"I know. I saw him in Qingning before. He was beside Ningning, and Ningning called him Master."
"He is Yan Ruyu, the Millennium Emperor Teacher."
Mo Bai fell silent.
He was digesting the news that Xia Wanning had told him.
"Ghost Lord, you should know that the Emperor Lord rarely accepts disciples. Moreover, I hid a pair of 'eyes' in Lin Feng's body. When he died, he also sent me a message, which was also about Zhao Shuning and Ye Ling. At first, I didn't believe it. But just before, someone told me the truth. She never tells falsehoods. So, Zhao Shuning is Ye Ling."
Mo Bai sat back down. His hands tightly grasped the stone bench.
His fingers were almost digging into the stone.
He naturally knew that if Zhao Shuning was Ye Ling, then what kind of huge gap existed between them.
That celestial river was difficult to cross.
Mo Bai forced a smile. "So what? I didn't participate in the events back then. This is a matter between the Ghost Domain and the four major families. It has nothing to do with me. She and I won't be affected by you all. Ningning hates evil as much as poison and won't transfer her hatred for you all to me."
But whether this sentence could convince himself, Mo Bai didn't know either.
"Back then, if it weren't for the help of the Ghost Domain, Ye Ling wouldn't have died."
"The grudges of the previous generation have nothing to do with me. In this lifetime, I will surely protect her."
"Ghost Lord, are you oversimplifying things? It's good that you want to protect her. But if she knows that you are the Young Master of the Ghost Domain and that the Ghost Domain was involved in the events back then, the tens of thousands of lives in the palace were almost piled up like a mountain overnight."
"Ghost Lord, you should know something about Zhao Shuning's personality. Do you think she will give up this deep - seated hatred just because of the friendship between you two?"
Mo Bai was silent for a long time.
His face was extremely ashen.
When he looked up again, Xia Wanning saw the red blood streaks in Mo Bai's eyes.
"Ghost Lord, so you shouldn't come to me to find Zhao Shuning. As the new master of the Ghost Domain, you should want Zhao Shuning dead more than anyone else in this world. As Ye Ling, she was your enemy. As Zhao Shuning, she will never forget the humiliation she suffered back then. I know her too well. Now the Wang and Lin families have been destroyed one after another. It's her taking revenge for her past self. Next will be the Yuan and An families, and then the Ghost Domain. She is no longer reckless and has extraordinary courage. If we let her grow, the foundation painstakingly built by the Divine Sect will also be in danger."
"So what?"
The man raised his blood - red eyes and said these four words one by one.
So what?
Xia Wanning's hand that was holding the cup and about to drink tea froze. She looked at the man in black opposite her in disbelief.