"Oh, you mean that old fellow..."
In a hall at the Great Love Alliance Headquarters, Cai Lin looked thoughtful after I finished mentioning Old Crow. "Back when I was still a wisp of remnant soul living in your head, I saw you huddling together with an old fellow covered in black mist. I never imagined he was from the Hall of Souls!"
She had met Old Crow long ago, but back then, she had only been the queen of a small, primitive tribe in the Northwest Territory and had not known the Hall of Souls existed.
Later, after coming to the Central Plains and hearing of the Hall of Souls' great name, she had never connected it with the man in black mist she had seen in the Gamma Empire, who was actually one of its protectors!
"So you'd already been colluding with the Hall of Souls back when you were still in the Gamma Empire?!"
Cai Lin stared at me in shock. She could scarcely imagine it. Back in the Gamma Empire, I had only been in my teens, just a child, and my cultivation had only been at the Dou Master level. How could I have possessed such deep schemes and plans, stretching all the way to today?
I gave a deliberately mysterious smile but offered no further explanation.
How could I not know about the Hall of Souls?
"Cai Lin, now that I've told you this secret, you must keep it for me!" I winked at her.
Cai Lin's expression hardened, and she spat. "You're black-hearted through and through. Who knows what you're plotting in secret every day? Sooner or later, everyone will be schemed to death by you!"
"Hehe, whoever else I scheme against, I'd never scheme against you, Cai Lin."
Cai Lin was scornful. Had