"I was joking."
Lu Li shot Soul Singer a dissatisfied glance, then raised a hand. "Sōsuke, this is a misunderstanding. Though we were once enemies, he really has helped me quite a lot."
He could roughly guess why Aizen was hunting Soul Singer. Aizen and Soul Singer had originally held no grudges against each other, but Soul Singer belonged to the Irregular Alliance.
Ever since the Irregular Alliance had stirred up trouble in the Divine Martial Continent, something inseparable from Lu Li's "death," Aizen had set his sights on the Irregular Alliance.
Back then, Xue Zhiyu had killed all the Supreme Taboos and experts of the Irregular Alliance within the Sea of Realms, but scattered members of the younger generation had survived in the World Sea. Once Aizen's strength had fully matured, he began hunting those people down.
Soul Singer had been implicated by his faction, and the two of them had also fought several open and covert battles in mission worlds without a clear victor. That was why Aizen had remembered him.
Later, the Irregular Alliance had truly become incapable of amounting to anything, and Soul Singer had been recruited by Paradise. For this, top Pioneers from Heaven's Path Space had even fought Paradise's Taboos, but in the end, it had come to nothing.
"Do you really understand?"
However, Soul Singer looked at Lu Li suspiciously.
"I understand. Although I don't know the details, and can't be bothered to deduce them now, you helped me. I'll remember that."
Lu Li nodded. In truth, he hadn't understood at first, but he felt that admitting it would make him look truly stupid, like a brainless brute. So he put on an expression as though he had already grasped everything.
However, after successfully overcoming his tribulation, Lu Li had vaguely sensed something.