Xuanyuan Lian fell silent for a moment, then said, "Bi Fan once killed one of Su Qiou Shen's thought seeds."
As soon as Xuanyuan Lian finished speaking, Chi Xia and Chi Hong looked at him in surprise, just as he had expected.
"Good heavens, Bi Fan's got some nerve! He actually dared to attack a thought seed of the Lord of Nine Nether," Chi Hong exclaimed.
Chi Xia said nothing. She was thinking about the Heavenly Gathering Vein. She had already thought it strange, but now that she considered it, perhaps Su Qiou Shen had been behind their expulsion from the Heavenly Gathering Vein. Perhaps even Heitian and Bi Fan's deaths inside the Heavenly Stele had been Su Qiou Shen's doing.
Still, she naturally didn't believe Su Qiou Shen had come in person to kill Bi Fan. She suspected that Su Qiou Shen had simply taken a liking to the Heavenly Gathering Vein and wanted to seize it; killing Bi Fan had probably just been a convenient extra.
Chi Xia looked at Yu Si Yan and the others, at the fury on their faces. She couldn't help feeling that their grudge with Su Qiou Shen was more complicated than it seemed.
"I'm curious. Why do you hate Su Qiou Shen so much?"
At Chi Xia's question, Yu Si Yan hesitated briefly, then told them how Bi Xuan had been taken from her at birth.
After hearing Yu Si Yan's story, Chi Xia and Chi Hong felt as though everything they believed had been turned upside down.
They hadn't imagined that Yu Si Yan and the others had such a deep grudge against Su Qiou Shen.
The theft of a child was a blood feud beyond reconciliation.
Only then did they learn that Bi Fan had come here to search for