Ye Shunguang's Past

"Griseo, did you know? I originally planned to use this ancient array to put someone on trial!"

Deep in the abandoned mine, Liuyin led Griseo to the heart of the ancient array. Its weathered patterns flickered, and the two of them could feel the earth pulsing in pain beneath their feet.

In her original plan, Liuyin had intended to put Ban Yue on trial here.

Ban Yue had once been a killing machine that failed the Forbidden Fruit Test. He followed a core directive: "Kill any creature or person on the verge of becoming an Ethereal."

He had gone missing at some point in the Old Capital. Later, Wanzhou, the current master of Yunkui Mountain, repaired him, and he eventually ended up at this mine.

As he lived among the local residents, the killing machine gradually became a person.

Then, when disaster struck ten years ago, Ban Yue escaped with only the Ye siblings. He did not save the other residents, leaving the survivors of Weifei Land bitter toward him to this day.

They called him a cold lump of iron.

Of course, whatever the truth was, the survivors had seen people only a few steps from Ban Yue begging him for help, and he had not saved them.

Back then, the residents had treated him as a person. How could they not feel hurt when he let them down?

And once the survivors gradually learned that Ban Yue was a killing machine, their opinion of him only worsened.

"Sorry for disrupting your plan, Liuyin." At the heart of the array, Griseo had been about to touch the seal when Liuyin's question interrupted her.

"Huh? Griseo, why are you so calm?" Liuyin pressed. "Aren't you curious?"

"Curious about what?" Griseo turned back and asked, puzzled.

"Ban Yue used to be