"The young master of the Ghost Domain is truly amazing."
"After five hundred years of inheritance in the Ghost Domain, it seems that even you can't match a little girl."
"If your father knew your thoughts, I wonder how he would feel."
Mo Bai frowned and said, "Elder Xia, there's no need to use such words to provoke me. The Shenzong has been passed down for hundreds of years, and I will never let it perish in my hands. I've said that I will make the Shenzong the most powerful force on the Kyushu Continent, and I will surely achieve this goal."
"That's good. I was afraid that the Ghost Lord had been blinded by a little girl and was willing to abandon the Shenzong's century - old foundation just to please her."
"The Ghost Domain is important, but Ningning is also very important to me."
"You can't have your cake and eat it too. I'm sure the Ghost Lord understands this truth."
"Who says you can't? I want both the Ghost Domain and Ningning."
Xia Wanning took a small sip of tea.
"But you have such a deep - seated hatred. It's not something that can be resolved with just words."
"That's not necessarily true."
Mo Bai gave a sinister smile.
Xia Wanning felt a pang of uneasiness in her heart. Then, she endured the discomfort and asked, "What do you mean?"
"Elder Xia, the people of the Shenzong respect you very much. I have no ill - will towards you either. However, for the future of Ningning and me, I hope you'll keep your mouth shut about the Ghost Domain."
"Elder Xia, have you ever heard of the bone - eating worms?"
The bone - eating worms are raised by specific owners. When they are put in water, they are very small and transparent. Once they enter the throat and are nourished by blood, they will grow rapidly and reveal their true form. Once these worms enter the throat and find a place to settle, they will surely take root in the human bones and are extremely difficult to remove.
Moreover, these bone - eating worms have a special characteristic. They can't tolerate forbidden words. And Mo Bai had just put a bone - eating worm in Xia Wanning's teacup. The forbidden words were "Ghost Domain" and "Shenzong".
So, if Xia Wanning dared to mention anything about the Ghost Domain in front of others later, she would suffer excruciating pain as if her bones were being carved.
"You've poisoned me with the bone - eating worm?"
"Elder Xia, I didn't mean to offend you. Don't worry. This bone - eating worm will have no impact on your life at all. It will only act up when you're facing Ningning and talking about the Ghost Domain."
"You've really gone to great lengths for a little girl."
Mo Bai stood up.
He said, "You people have never experienced the darkness, so you don't understand how much one would yearn for the warm sunshine. Ningning means more than just a friend to me."
Xia Wanning also stood up.
"Does the Ghost Lord even have friends? I heard from your father that in the Ghost Domain, you hate being touched by ordinary people the most."
"Elder Xia, there's no need to mock me. I'm really sorry for what I did to you just now. Please forgive me. I just don't want Ningning to dislike me because of such things."
Xia Wanning sneered.
"The Ghost Lord's techniques are getting faster and more exquisite. I didn't even notice when you poisoned me with the bone - eating worm. But don't forget that if it weren't for the support of me, an elder of the sect, you might never have reached such a peak in your spiritual and magical powers in your entire life."
"So I didn't harm your life, Elder Xia."
"Then should I thank the Ghost Lord for showing mercy?"
"Elder Xia, we all have our own duties. I hope you won't blame me. Since you don't know about Ningning, I'll leave first."
Mo Bai didn't like to talk to others.
He even disliked others getting close to him.
Mo Bai turned his back.
Xia Wanning sat down and said, "Did you kill the hundreds of people in the Lin family?"
"Yes."
Mo Bai didn't try to hide it and directly admitted it.
"What about the guests and spiritual pharmacists in the Lin family?"
"I did that too."
"Right. Twisting a person's head off so rudely. Only the Ghost Lord could do such a thing."
"They hurt Ningning."
"But the Lin family was once an ally of the Ghost Domain."
"But they hurt Ningning, so they deserved to die."
Xia Wanning couldn't see Mo Bai's expression, but she could probably guess how viciously Mo Bai said this.
Xia Wanning didn't know what kind of existence Zhao Shuning was to Mo Bai. Why did this cold - blooded young master of the Ghost Domain leave all his tenderness to this little girl?
"You protect her so much."
"Elder Xia, if there's nothing important, I'll leave. I don't like to hear some words. You'd better not say them again in the future."
"But—"
Xia Wanning deliberately paused.
Looking at Mo Bai's back,
She seemed to have returned many years ago. At that time, Xia Wanning was just a twelve - year - old girl. She went to see the Emperor Lord.
She told the Emperor Lord that Ye Ling wasn't chaste and had met foreign envoys without permission and even let them stay in her bedroom overnight.
But the Emperor Lord didn't even look at her and only said one sentence.
"I know exactly what kind of person Ling'er is. I don't like to hear such words. Don't say them again in the future."
Before and now,
The person had changed,
But the words they said were surprisingly similar.
"But what?"
"But the one who hurt Zhao Shuning the most is you."
Mo Bai frowned and turned around.
Xia Wanning's expression was extremely gloomy at this moment, which made people feel creepy. Who could have thought that such a gloomy expression would one day appear on Xia Wanning's face?
"I didn't. In this world, the one who is least likely to hurt her is me."
"That's not necessarily true."
Xia Wanning added, "Do you know where your power comes from? You've advanced so quickly. I'm afraid the Ghost Lord has forgotten what happened two years ago."
Two years ago, in the Shenzong Palace, eight people joined forces to drain Zhao Huai's spiritual power.
Using the qi pill derived from his physical body, Mo Bai's power was immediately pushed to the peak, directly surpassing his father.
"The Ghost Lord may have forgotten that the person we killed that day was Zhao Huai. He also has the surname Zhao."
As if remembering something,
Mo Bai's feet became unsteady and he almost fell.
"But the Supreme Beast is born and raised by nature, without parents."
"Yes, without parents. But the Zhao family's parents picked up Zhao Huai when he was still in swaddling clothes and raised him. Zhao Shuning regarded Zhao Huai as her own elder brother."
"Ghost Lord, if the matter of the Shenzong can be avoided and has nothing to do with you, but you personally killed Zhao Shuning's elder brother. Do you think she will let this go?"
"Oh, there's one more thing I haven't told you. That day was Zhao Shuning's sixteenth birthday. I sent Zhao Huai's body to the Zhao family as a birthday gift for her."
"You probably don't know how much that girl cried and how crazy she became. She almost killed me on the spot for Zhao Huai. Now you should know what Zhao Huai meant to Zhao Shuning, right?"
As Xia Wanning spoke, Mo Bai took several steps back.
His body slammed into the wall of the house with a thud.