The old man shook his head. "I don't know either. But do you think that doctor could move through the Ghost Domain so freely purely on his own abilities? If it were only up to him, they probably would have died the moment they entered the Ghost Domain."
I said nothing, but he was right. No matter how capable that doctor was, he could not possibly be a match for these ghost clans.
They might have offered some terms in exchange, but these ghost clans were hardly benevolent. Making a deal with them would most likely leave you with nothing but scraps.
"Since you don't even know, what right do you have to negotiate terms with us?" Ye Jinghong said coldly.
The old man froze for a moment.
Ye Jinghong continued, "If you know nothing, that means you have no value to us at all. Why should we spare you and your people? Do you really think we're so easy to bully? You attack when you feel like it and negotiate when you feel like it? There's no such bargain in the world."
The old man's expression turned ugly. "Miss Ye, don't push us too far!"
Ye Jinghong sneered. "So what if I bully you? If you hadn't wanted to harm us from the very beginning, why would we have attacked you for no reason? You old bastard have lived for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. Don't you understand that those who kill will eventually be killed? Jiang Xiaobai held back earlier because he thought you might provide us with useful information. Now it seems you know very little. As for there being someone behind that doctor, we already considered that. Did we need you to tell us? Jiang Xiaobai, do it. There's no point keeping these people alive."
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