"Be careful of Red Dragon Ancestor..."
Wei Tu could hear Madam Jin's sincerity in those words. He knew that this martial mother—or rather, mother-in-law—was considering his interests.
Not helping her husband, but helping him, her son-in-law, might sound inconceivable. Yet in truth, whether out of affection or considerations of benefit, he was far more worthy of closeness and trust than her husband, Red Dragon Ancestor.
One had to know that Madam Jin was not Red Dragon Ancestor's first wife. There had been another before her.
Nor was Wang Sutai his only child.
It was only that those wives and children had, beneath the mighty passage of a thousand years, exhausted their lifespans and become heaps of white bones.
That Madam Jin and her daughter had lasted until today was not because Red Dragon Ancestor had cherished their bond and bestowed vast resources upon them. Rather, it was because after Red Dragon Ancestor seized the Myriad Yin Sect's great authority and achieved fame and success, he had finally gained the standing to marry Madam Jin, a noble daughter from a prestigious family.
In other words, Madam Jin was not Red Dragon Ancestor's wife through thick and thin. Their union was more of a political marriage.
Otherwise, this husband and wife would not have guarded against each other.
Before encountering him, Red Dragon Ancestor's remnant soul had not even planned to return to the Myriad Yin Sect, use Madam Jin's hand to revive as soon as possible, and seize a body for rebirth.
Nor had Madam Jin told Red Dragon Ancestor that her father, Gold Ghost King, had secretly left her a store of resources in the Exalted King Palace Secret Realm—resources sufficient to support her breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
Thus, compared with her husband Red Dragon Ancestor, he,