"Later, I carefully checked the timing and discovered that you underwent your lightning tribulation in the tenth year of my coma."
"Tell me, if I'd managed to hold on for another ten years, would the loser have been you?"
Seeing the defiant look in Baleful Shadow's eyes, Mo Bai smiled faintly. "You only became an emperor ten years later than I did."
"If we're talking about actual ability, you were no weaker than me."
"Besides, you hadn't found your own path back then, but you found it later, didn't you?"
Mo Bai smiled as he tried to smooth things over, but Baleful Shadow said with an unfriendly gaze, "Stop trying to muddle through with me. Only a handful of people know what really happened in that final battle."
"I asked many people afterward, but none of them would tell me the specifics."
"Tell me honestly—did you comprehend some Peerless Cultivation Method back then, then defeat every last one of them in a single breath?"
Looking at the unwillingness in Baleful Shadow's eyes, Mo Bai clicked his tongue. "Do you really want to know the truth?"
"Of course I do!"
"I can accept that you were stronger than me, but I can't accept not even being able to see your back."
"How could you have defeated all of them in just ten short years?"
Baleful Shadow's tone was urgent. He had kept this doubt bottled up for two thousand years, and now he finally could not hold it in any longer.
"Ah~"
Faced with Baleful Shadow's persistence, Mo Bai sighed. "I didn't tell you the truth about that year because there were a lot of 'scandals' involved."
"But so much time has passed now. There's no harm in telling you."
"During the War of Emperors back then, I actually played a