Ming Rihao drank for quite a while, then finally asked again, "You really don't know?"
As though it would be utterly abnormal if Yue Yang did not know the truth, Yue Yang flared up at the suspicion on his face. "If I knew, would I still be sitting here listening to your nonsense? Do I look that bored?"
Hearing Yue Yang's words, Ming Rihao believed him seventy percent. It seemed this kid truly did not know the truth.
He just somehow ended up in Green Willow City.
"Then what are you doing in Green Willow City? The Western Heaven Realm is so vast—why did you specifically come to the Heavenly Splendor Domain to wade into this muddy water?" With three parts doubt in his heart, Ming Rihao probed again. He believed Yue Yang did not know the truth, but someone must have directed him here, or he must have followed some clue along the vine to find the melon. It could not possibly be coincidence. Otherwise, he would never have come to Green Willow City in the Heavenly Splendor Domain to play the rich young master.
"I was originally in Conquest City in the Eight Desolations Domain, planning to enter the trial grounds. Then I accidentally saved a Snake-Haired Demon Man—supposedly some young master from the Dugu Family, one of the Four Great Families. He invited me to meet him in White River City, so here I came." Yue Yang gave a half-true, half-false account of himself.
"White River City? Then you should have crossed Windstop Swamp directly. You shouldn't have come to Green Willow City, should you?" Ming Rihao finally understood.
"The elemental powers in the Heavenly Splendor Domain are in chaos, and its laws are shattered and twisted. If I didn't get a clearer grasp of the situation