After Liuli Xian left, Wang Wu crawled out from under the bed and dusted herself off with a look of disgust. "Little Xuanzi, you really are blessed with women. Even Senior Sister cares about you so much."
Xuan Mo helplessly shrugged. "Senior Sister is only doing it out of fellow-disciple affection. You're reading too much into it."
Wang Wu curled her lips. "Cut the act. What hasn't I seen? The way that little girl looks at you is clearly..." She paused, then waggled her eyebrows. "Her heart is fluttering with love!"
Xuan Mo was caught between laughter and tears. "Master, can you be a little more serious?"
Wang Wu chuckled. "Serious? I've never been serious a day in my life! But seriously, Little Xuanzi, what's your background? Come clean. Are you the reincarnation of some ancient monster?"
Xuan Mo's heart jolted. As expected, this old hag was not easy to fool. His eyes shifted as an idea came to him. "Master, what do you mean? I'm just an ordinary mortal. What kind of background could I have?"
Wang Wu narrowed her eyes and looked Xuan Mo up and down. "A mortal? Do you take me for a fool? With your cultivation speed, even the greatest genius couldn't compare to one ten-thousandth of you!"
Xuan Mo chuckled. "Master, I really haven't lied to you. My cultivation is fast simply because of my constitution. If you don't believe me, after testing me, didn't you find that I don't even have a spirit root?"
Wang Wu laughed. "You brat, you don't have a spirit root, but you do have something resembling a primordial spirit. Senior Brother Fengyin told me about it. Maybe you were born with a primordial spirit but lost your memories, which is why you don't have a spirit root or