"Brother Xiao, she does have a seductive face."
"But you know best what kind of man I was back then. I hadn't even found any news of you yet, so how could I have been interested in her?"
Haole explained with a serious expression.
"So it really was Feng Qing'er's fault."
Xie Tianxiao nodded slightly after hearing Haole's words.
"Brother Xiao, you don't know this, but she not only humiliated me back then, she nearly crippled me."
"Especially that contemptuous, superior attitude of hers—I still can't forget it."
The moment he thought of it, Haole could not help feeling consumed by resentment.
"How did you escape with your life? You were only a Dou Zong then."
Xie Tianxiao pondered for a moment before speaking.
"That was also thanks to a life-saving method I found in the ruins before."
Haole gave a bitter laugh and continued, "Later, after I broke through to Dou Zun, I wanted to seek justice from the Wind Lightning Pavilion."
"But who would have thought that besides Venerable Lei, that bitch had a Five-Star Dou Zun protecting her?"
"I was no match for them. In the end, only with that old bastard Blood Fiend secretly helping me did I manage to escape."
So that was how he came to owe the Soul Hall a favor.
After listening, Xie Tianxiao fell silent for a while before saying, "After something like that happened, didn't you think of asking Liu Canghan for help?"
Liu Canghan was someone his predecessor had met in a Dou Zun Ruins. He was similarly cold, proud, solitary, and obsessed with cultivation.
He could barely be considered a friend of his predecessor, though they were more often rivals.
Surpassing his predecessor had always been Liu Canghan's goal.
"After I couldn't get in touch with you, Brother