"Wait, Ancestral Returners only appeared after entering Yin Yang Valley." Gao Shaohui suddenly noticed a discrepancy in timing, then jolted violently. "How did I forget something as important as the order of events?"
"What now? What is it now?" Wang Cai had just lain down, only to be startled awake again by Gao Shaohui's commotion.
Gao Shaohui's face was filled with terror. "Because the Xiao Family was already wiped out, neither our Gao Family nor the Bai and Luo Families counted the Xiao Family after the apocalypse broke out. We all felt that family's fate had run out. But I only just realized that I met Xiao Qi several times before the gates of Yin Valley opened. Back then, she could already switch genders freely. When I asked the elders back home, they only said the Xiao Family had bizarre arts. Then we entered Yin Valley together, and one thing after another happened, making me forget that Xiao Qi only became an Ancestral Returner afterward."
At this point, Gao Shaohui paused and raised his eyes to stare hard at Wang Cai. "So gender transformation was never an Ancestral Return phenomenon. It was Xiao Qi's own ability, or perhaps a secret technique of the Xiao Family?"
"What exactly are you trying to say?" Wang Cai was utterly confused.
Gao Shaohui's eyes flickered. "Because I don't know what the Xiao Family's Ancestral Return phenomenon was. And you told me that Xiao Qi knew certain secrets at the start of the apocalypse. I'm certain even Bai You didn't know about Ye Mo, so how did Xiao Qi know that Ye Mo had a Black Axe? Was she very close to Ye Mo?"
Hearing this, Wang Cai also sensed that something was off. "They weren't close. Chu Han said Ye Mo directly shut Xiao