"I didn't!" Qing Limò denied it, but she was clearly rather at a loss in the presence of the woman before her, as though she had little resistance to her.
The woman giggled, then said, "Mò'er, when did you and City Lord Xia get together? As the Great Sage Master of the Nine Immortal Lands, if you can't consider the interests of our Nine Immortal Lands, then it's no wonder the Immortal Venerables don't trust you. Or is it that you have your own ideas now?"
Qing Limò's eyes widened, but she soon seemed to figure something out and said, "I've never changed my mind! I'm merely walking the path I have chosen! As for the Immortal Venerables refusing to listen to me, then let them not listen! When have I ever demanded that they obey me?"
"Then you're not going to save the world anymore? Or are you saying that everything you told me before was merely a passing whim?" the woman asked with a half-smile.
"Of course I'm still going to save the world! But they're saving themselves too. If they refuse to listen to me, what can I do?" Qing Limò said angrily.
"That's precisely the problem, child. You don't know how to adapt. Saving the world isn't the business of one immortal faction—it concerns every immortal faction under heaven. Unless you alone can save the world, isn't the process of persuading everyone to take part in it already an act of salvation?" the woman said with a smile.
"What are you talking about? If they refuse to save it, can I force them to? They're the ones who stopped believing in me!" Qing Limò gritted her teeth as she argued.
"Looks like you still don't understand what Auntie means. It's very simple. If you want to