"Have you ever seen that girl?"
"Since we parted ways on Qingyun Peak thirty years ago, I haven't seen her again. Yan Ruyu said she's no longer with us."
Luo Qiu's expression was rather complicated.
She knew about Yan Ruyu.
He was mysterious. During several attacks by the Demon Domain, she had secretly helped on her own. But Yan Ruyu, who could easily turn the whole situation around with just a bit of his power, was her greatest rival.
"By the way, senior, you're so powerful. Why not go straight to Yan Ruyu? Maybe he'll know something."
Go straight to him?
If it were possible.
She would have gone long ago.
In everyone's eyes, she had drowned in a river five hundred years ago.
To completely disappear from the world, over the years, Luo Qiu had traveled the world with different faces and never even used her real name.
After her sister left.
No one would ever tenderly call her Xiao Qiu again.
Luo Qiu was ashamed to face Yan Ruyu and didn't want to see him either.
Yan Ruyu was the man her sister liked. What she had done back then had, to some extent, indirectly harmed her sister.
Luo Qiu didn't dare. She didn't dare to face Yan Ruyu with this face.
"However, that Yan Ruyu, although he's a thousand - year - old emperor, is really despicable. Years ago, I read some unofficial history. It recorded how in love he and his disciple Luo Qiu were, how they roamed the world righting wrongs. Their relationship must have been extraordinary. After Luo Qiu died, at such an old age, he actually seduced Ningning into being with him."
"Moreover, I think Luo Qiu might very well be my mother, because I've seen my father's room filled with paintings of her."
Luo Qiu knew.
The woman Mo Bai was talking about wasn't herself, but her sister.
That's why she was so angry.
"A joke. How could your mother be her!"
Her sister was so lofty.
When her sister died, only Yan Ruyu was by her side.
Her sister was such a good person and had even personally admitted that Yan Ruyu was the man she liked. Since that was the case, Yan Ruyu should have only had her sister in his heart and eyes.
She respected her sister's choice.
But Luo Qiu never expected.
First, Yan Ruyu had lusted after his own disciple Ye Ling. Later, when faced with the seduction of that little girl Zhao Shuning, he didn't resist.
Such a man didn't deserve her sister's love.
Seeing Mo Bai's slightly disappointed look, Luo Qiu asked, "Do you have feelings for that little girl?"
Mo Bai said, "I don't just like Ningning. I want to take care of her forever and never let her suffer the slightest bit of grievance."
"But she's gone."
"I know. I've never given up looking for her."
"You don't believe she's dead?"
Mo Bai said, "I can't believe it."
In Mo Bai, Luo Qiu seemed to see her former self.
Wasn't her obsession with her sister the same?
"Actually—"
Luo Qiu paused and then continued, "That girl should still be alive."
Mo Bai's eyes lit up.
"Senior, how do you know?"
Luo Qiu said, "On the night she disappeared, I was actually on Qingyun Peak too. The thing hanging around her neck was the Soul - Transforming Pearl Chain."
"The Soul - Transforming Pearl Chain? That's not right. The thing hanging around Ningning's neck should be the Soul - Condensing Pearl of her family of four."
"I'm not sure about that. Anyway, what I saw at that time should be the Soul - Transforming Pearl Chain."
Luo Qiu suddenly looked at Mo Bai seriously.
She said sternly, "Maybe we can make a deal."
"What deal?"
"You cooperate with me and help me do some things that I'm not convenient to do myself. I'll find out where Zhao Shuning's body is hidden. With so many precious treasures protecting her, she shouldn't have disappeared so easily. She should be hidden in a very hard - to - find corner of the Nine - State Continent."
Mo Bai said, "Why don't you cooperate with my father?"
"I don't trust him."
"It seems a bit inappropriate for you to say this to me."
"I'd say the same thing to anyone."
"Okay, I agree."
Mo Bai agreed.
Luo Qiu smiled.
"Then just wait for my notice."
Luo Qiu left.
Mo Bai walked back along the way.
All the way.
His mind was full of thoughts.
When he was young, he wasn't strong, and his spiritual power and mental strength were extremely weak. He was always bullied by other children.
But when he fought back and injured the other children, their mothers would always show up to take care of them.
On the whole island.
It seemed that he was the weakest and the only one without a mother.
Because of his inferiority complex since childhood, Mo Bai had gone alone to challenge that ferocious giant dragon when he was a child.
However.
Fortunately, because of that encounter.
He was able to meet Ningning.
After calming his emotions, Mo Bai returned to the Divine Sect.
As soon as he entered the door.
Mo Yan's voice came.
"Where have you been?"
"Nowhere. Does father have something important to tell me?"
Mo Bai's words were neither hasty nor slow, but there was no warmth in them.
Noticing the change in his son's tone, Mo Yan rarely put down his airs and asked, "What's wrong?"
Mo Bai looked at his father.
Over the years, he had never really looked at him.
So he never really knew what kind of person his father was.
A long time ago.
He saw the paintings in his father's room. That was the first time Mo Bai saw such a beautiful person.
She was like a fairy.
In the paintings, she could smile wantonly, be noble and elegant, or be cute and playful.
In her bright eyes, there was the entire star - filled sea.
Mo Bai always thought that the woman in the paintings should be his mother.
It wasn't until today, after hearing what the senior said, that he realized how ridiculous his previous thoughts were.
The senior said his mother's name was Wanwan.
But on the bottom - right corner of his father's paintings, there was always a character "Qiu".
She wasn't his mother. As soon as the senior mentioned his mother's name, Mo Bai realized that.
"Father, do you still remember what mother looked like?"
Mo Yan frowned.
"What's wrong with you?"
Since Mo Bai grew up, he had never actively mentioned his mother.
Now, why did he suddenly bring this up?
"Father, just answer me. Do you still remember my mother?"
"Mo Bai."
"Father, you've never told me anything about mother. I always thought my mother was Luo Qiu."
"You child, you must be crazy. How could you say such a thing!"
Hearing his father's anxious refutation.
Mo Bai felt even more heart - broken.
He looked coldly at his father, who was so excited just because of a name.
"Father, have you ever loved my mother?"
"Or maybe you don't even remember who she is. Otherwise, after she hanged herself, why didn't you even erect a tombstone for her?"
"Even if we take a step back, perhaps my birth wasn't even in your plan, right? Lord of the Divine Throne."