Clearly, Great Abyss Consort had already discussed this matter with Farmer Woodcutter in advance.
But what difference did one more Pei Hong, or one less Pei Hong, make to Great Abyss Consort...? Wei Tu's gaze narrowed slightly as he pondered Great Abyss Consort's motives.
However, regardless of Great Abyss Consort's motives.
With mother and son going together... at the very least, they could head to the "human treasure land" within the Illusory Mirage Realm without worry, without needing to fear threats from the other powers inside the Illusory Mirage Realm.
After all, from Great Abyss Consort's perspective, there was no way she would let her own son take too many risks in the Illusory Mirage Realm... much less drag both mother and son into danger together without necessity.
The only thing worth worrying about was the risk of being stabbed in the back by this mother-son pair.
That's right! The Mist Ghost Clan's Blood Ghost Soul-Splitting Technique can bypass the restrictions of the blood contract? Wei Tu's brows lifted slightly as this point suddenly occurred to him.
A thousand years ago, although he had snatched Xue Qiongyu away in the Snow Infant Clan's territory, directly severing Pei Hong's opportunity and taking for himself the Blood Ghost Soul-Splitting Technique Pei Hong had painstakingly cultivated...
Over the long passage of a thousand years, Pei Hong, as the young clan chief of a great clan, could conceivably have used the Mist Ghost Clan's resources to form a marriage alliance with another clan, or cultivated a new furnace within his own clan and created a new Blood Ghost Soul-Splitting Technique.
*But Farmer Woodcutter is a human cultivator. There's no reason for him not to know of the Mist Ghost Clan's secret art... Could it be that he has other plans within the Illusory Mirage