Ye Xishui pointed at him and cursed, "You've been deceiving us all along. You've been using us!"
"Deceiving, using?" Tang Liu laughed. "Do you think those 'deals' were fake? Why don't you think about what you once obtained from me?"
Ye Xishui sneered. "Yes, yes. You once solemnly promised me that you would tell me how to change my past. But what about now? I'm still this neither-human-nor-ghost abomination."
Tang Liu paid no heed to her mockery and continued speaking to himself. "The deal I gave you was for you to seek out Long Xiaoyao. You probably know that my purpose was to make a deal with him. But did you know that I had actually known him long ago?"
Ye Xishui seemed as though her voice had suddenly been strangled away. All sound stopped abruptly as she merely stared fixedly at the young man before her.
"When Long Xiaoyao was still very young, I had already met him. The same went for Mu En. Because of me, they had known each other since childhood, rather than first meeting when each of you led your teams in the Continental Tournament, as you remembered." Tang Liu glanced at Ye Xishui, smiled, and continued, "Since I watched them grow up and had nothing better to do, I would occasionally guide their cultivation. You could say I was half a master to them.
"Are you wondering why, since I had known Long Xiaoyao so early on, I still made a deal with you to let you come into contact with him? Heh. To fulfill that deal with you without revealing any flaws, I specifically sealed all of his memories related to me. I only unsealed them after he took Dai Yunze as his disciple."
"So that was why he never told me he