Ning Xiaochuan raised his head and looked at the bright moon suspended in the heavens. "Moon Goddess, you still caught up. Do you still want to fight me?"
The Moon Goddess returned her blood-drenched ancient sword to its Sword Sheath, then descended from the sky as though walking through the void, landing before Ning Xiaochuan. A strange glimmer appeared in her eyes. After gazing at him for a long while, she said, "I'm sorry."
"Why are you apologizing to me?" Ning Xiaochuan nodded gently. "I understand now! It seems you already know something. Actually, you don't need to blame yourself, because you were never wrong to begin with."
Nie Lanzhi stood behind Ning Xiaochuan, completely unable to understand the conversation between him and the Moon Goddess.
She only felt that this beautiful woman, like an immortal maiden from the moon palace, seemed to have done something that wronged the Little Marquis.
Back in the Yulan Empire, Nie Lanzhi had seen the Moon Goddess once or twice, but the impression had not been deep. After so many years, she had completely forgotten her.
Seeing the Moon Goddess remain silent, Ning Xiaochuan smiled faintly. "Don't dwell too much on the past. It will be quite detrimental to your cultivation. You should know that I'm not a petty man. You didn't come all this way merely to apologize to me, did you?"
Ning Xiaochuan's smile did indeed ease some of the guilt in the Moon Goddess's heart. "Ning Xiaochuan, did you kill the Heavenly Dream Demon Emperor?"
Ning Xiaochuan shook his head solemnly. "The Heavenly Dream Demon Emperor's divine soul is too powerful. With my current cultivation, I probably cannot completely crush her divine soul in a short time. There is also something else—you must return and tell Granny that three of the