This answer.
Whether it was sincere or not.
There was no way to verify.
Hearing this answer, Mo Bai just hesitated for a moment.
"I used to think that Senior Luo Qiu would be the only one who could influence you."
After all, in that room.
There were full of portraits of Senior Luo Qiu.
"However, judging from the way Father gets along with Senior Luo Qiu, it may not be the kind of relationship I thought. Or maybe I'm just overthinking it."
Mo Yan stepped forward.
He patted Mo Bai on the back.
He said in a deep voice, "Son, after you complete our mission, whatever you want to do, Father will definitely support you one hundred percent. No one can stop you."
If there was someone, he would remove this obstacle personally.
"I know."
After Mo Bai answered.
He said nothing more.
He stared into the distance.
He fell into deep thought once again.
That night.
There was boundless darkness.
At the end of this darkness, a glimmer of light seemed to flash by.
Then.
A sky - full of flames splashed up.
A fire broke out in the northern part of Dongzhou.
Then.
In the far north.
In the ancient town in the Great Wilderness of Dongze, under the ancient ancestral hall, a stream of scorching magma suddenly gushed out. The magma was scalding hot and soon submerged the town.
Going further south.
In Qingyun Country.
A huge water beast leaped out from the bottom of the lake.
There was turmoil everywhere.
Wherever the water beast went, floods followed.
The common people were displaced.
Moving down in turn.
In Hailing Country.
Tianli Country.
Cangwu Country.
All broke out in varying degrees of turmoil one after another.
It seemed.
A dark force underground was slowly waking up.
Fortunately, there were many extremely excellent spiritual herb masters and alchemists in the Great Wilderness of Dongze. They managed to contain the momentum of the magma in the shortest possible time.
In the other countries.
Within three to five days.
The turmoil was temporarily quelled.
Yan Ruyu looked at the turbulent Nine - Continent Land.
She was full of doubts.
Was the event predicted by the Star - Disk Formation about to happen?
Why was it so much earlier?
Zhao Shuning in the capital of Dongzhou also felt this turmoil.
However, on her face.
There was no panic like the others.
Luo Qiu rushed into the tent.
Seeing Zhao Shuning sitting calmly in front of her seat, her face was solemn but there was not a trace of panic.
"Miss, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, Xiao Qiu. Just now, the ground was very unstable."
"Yeah, but Gu Hanxun has already gone to check. Maybe it's the separation of the mountains, and our capital has also been affected. Or maybe—"
Luo Qiu hesitated.
Zhao Shuning took over Luo Qiu's words and continued, "Or maybe the spiritual power underground has also been guided by some force and is surging towards our place. Moreover, you suspect that this force is caused by the thousand - year stone soul in Mo Yan's hand, right?"
Luo Qiu nodded.
"Miss, it's all my fault. Everything that's happening now, I was the one who contributed to it back then."
But I just wanted to save you.
I never thought that all the living beings on the Nine - Continent Land would be buried for you.
"I understand."
Zhao Shuning held Luo Qiu's hand.
She gently comforted her.
She knew that Luo Qiu felt extremely guilty.
Originally, she wanted to bring herself back to life, but instead, she had created the greatest dilemma for Zhao Shuning.
"Sister—"
"You're finally willing to call me sister again."
Luo Qiu lowered her head.
"I spoke too quickly."
Then Luo Qiu said again, "If, if what's on the silver disk is true, I'm willing to bear all the pain for sister. Even if I'm reduced to ashes, never enter reincarnation, and fall into the eighteenth level of hell, I'm willing."
Luo Qiu raised her right hand.
She stretched out three fingers.
She said seriously.
"Nonsense. You don't even understand the content on the silver disk completely. You only know a general idea. It's not as serious as you think."
"Actually, I know sister is hiding something from me."
"Really nothing. You go out first. I'll do some research. You guys don't act rashly."
"Sister? You?"
Zhao Shuning nodded seriously at Luo Qiu with a smile on her lips.
"Xiao Qiu, trust me, okay?"
Seeing such a determined Zhao Shuning, Luo Qiu nodded.
She exited the tent.
She didn't know why sister had called off the battle, and the truce had lasted for so many days.
Now.
They had rallied their morale and should have attacked again.
But sister just waved her hand.
And told them to retreat again. They retreated ten miles.
But sister didn't say anything and didn't allow them to ask. She could only obey.
After Luo Qiu exited the tent.
Zhao Shuning finally let out a sigh of relief.
She gently waved her hand over the table, and the words on the silver disk appeared.
Each word was heart - wrenching.
She could only smile bitterly.
"I thought everything would be different."
Zhao Shuning waved her hand again.
The words disappeared.
She walked out of the tent.
She looked up at the night sky with twinkling stars.
Her figure paused.
She disappeared from the tent.
Below her.
Was the phoenix that had accompanied her in battles for hundreds of years.
The phoenix seemed to sense that its master was in a bad mood and said, "You don't have to look so worried and on edge. You've been through mountains of swords and seas of fire, and faced the edge of life and death. In the upcoming battle, even though it will be extremely difficult, this phoenix will stay by your side."
Zhao Shuning looked down and smiled faintly.
She gently stroked the phoenix's beautiful feathers.
The phoenix was vain and narcissistic.
But its loyalty to Zhao Shuning was no less than anyone else's, and even surpassed family affection.
"Stinky bird."
"This phoenix is born handsome. I'm not the stinky bird you're talking about. This phoenix has a cleanliness fetish and never allows others to touch my feathers."
The phoenix soared in the sky.
Zhao Shuning sat cross - legged on its back.
"Yeah, if this beautiful 'clothes' of yours were burned, how heart - broken you, this stinky bird, would be."
The phoenix was Zhao Shuning's contracted divine beast.
It could naturally sense some of its master's psychological changes.
Hearing her sigh like this.
The phoenix could naturally detect Zhao Shuning's inner struggle.
It roared angrily, "Don't have any crazy ideas. You're this phoenix's master. You were in the last life, you are in this life, and you'll be for all eternity. This phoenix knows what you're thinking. Decades ago, when the four great families joined forces against you, you did your best to push me out of the fire pit. Although this phoenix escaped that time, every time I think about it later, I feel extremely guilty. This phoenix is a male, but I still had to rely on you, a woman, to protect me. If this gets out, where will my reputation and face go?"
"Stinky bird, you—"
"This phoenix is putting it right here. After that time, I secretly swore that if I encounter such a life - and - death crisis again, I'll never live alone even if I'm beaten to death. This phoenix can't afford to lose that face. A master and a servant, as long as you can survive, even if all of this phoenix's feathers are burned off, it doesn't matter. After a few hundred years of cultivation, they will grow back."
"So, this time, you can't push this phoenix away again. Contracted divine beasts are meant to protect their masters. You, this woman, don't keep doing such reversed things."
"Promise this phoenix. From now on, this phoenix will allow you to call me whatever you want."
Zhao Shuning smiled.
After a while, her red lips parted slightly.
"Okay."