"If we had succeeded, with the master absent, who knows how many members of the Women's Legion would still be alive." Song Wanyi smiled. I shook my head with a bitter smile. "I'm here now, but even I would have had a hard time dealing with that Ghostling, considering how rapidly it grew."
"Afterward, we planned to send all our elites out to hunt down that Ghostling. As it happened, Grandma emerged from seclusion after restoring her dao body. When she heard about it, she went after the Ghostling alone, without taking a single person with her. We were all stunned at the time, afraid she was underestimating the enemy. We even prepared countless contingencies. But guess what happened?" Han Shanshan gave a sly laugh. I instead showed a trace of relief. Whenever Grandma made a move, she had never returned empty-handed. Back then, when she avenged Zhou Xuan, she had challenged the entire orthodox path alone. That bearing and confidence had never let anyone down.
"Shanshan, you're using the wrong form of address again. She's obviously Mother-in-Law." Xijun smiled faintly. At that moment, not only had she become breathtakingly beautiful, even the rebellious temper she had possessed back then had vanished without a trace.
Han Shanshan shrugged, and Zhao Qian continued, "Hehe, when Mother-in-Law came back, she not only brought back the Ghost Wailing Divine Sword, she also completely put the Ghostling under the Seal, thus snuffing out the war that was about to erupt before it could even begin."
I breathed a sigh of relief. "The Ghostling wasn't destroyed?"
"Mother-in-Law said that destroying him would bring down heavenly punishment. He has part of a divine ancestor's accumulated virtue protecting him, so his dao fortune is absurdly powerful. If we dared kill him, the karmic consequences would be beyond