"Impossible!"
Though Yue Wuyai had already guessed part of the truth, he still argued, "Back then, your Ghost Empress may have been with child, but she had been poisoned so severely that there was no way she could have carried the child to term!"
"Besides, judging by when she left, she had only been pregnant for a few months. It did not match the stage at which she could give birth!"
"Do not try to concoct such a baseless excuse and think this venerable one is so easily fooled!"
Hearing this, Feng Sen held his long staff across his body and pointed it at Yue Wuyai as he cursed, "You old fool, how could you possibly understand the Ghost Empress's abilities? Forget a few months of pregnancy—even if it had only been a few days, if she wanted to preserve the child, there would not have been the slightest problem."
Though he said so, when he recalled the Ghost Empress's near-fatal ordeal and the agonizing price she had paid back then, a wave of sorrow still rose in his heart.
Yue Wuyai's expression froze. In truth, the moment he had seen that Lu Feng bore some resemblance to someone familiar, he had already believed it seven or eight parts out of ten. Now, hearing Feng Sen's words, he suddenly recalled certain sinister formations and the special methods used by some poison doctors and midwives. Rumors of separating mother and child during pregnancy and giving birth through the fetus were not unheard of.
He could not help regretting that, back then, he had only confirmed that the Ghost Empress had left and the Ghost Lord had followed after her. Thinking the great threat in his heart had been removed, he had never investigated further.
Yet he had never expected to leave