Ten years later—
She still knew nothing about any of it!
Xu Yuan backed out step by step, returned to the Grand Hall, and sat on the meditation cushion before the table, doing his utmost to calm himself.
The whole thing was too shocking.
Lu Yiyi's mother was the daughter of a Demon Saint, and she had even been able to get a Flood Dragon to sign a soul contract with her daughter!
Someone that powerful must have been extraordinarily capable. She must have had a clear plan for everything she did.
But why—
Why had that note never reached Lu Yiyi?
What had gone wrong along the way?
Xu Yuan waited until his emotions settled, then slowly closed his eyes and began to retrace the whole affair.
At the beginning—
When he refreshed the Shop, a piece of Rare intelligence had appeared.
That intelligence was this very note.
If he had not taken it seriously back then, or had been unwilling to spend 100 Gold Coins, he would have come here now and taken only the storage bracelet from the table.
To take that a step further—
Even if he had seen the things in the collection room, he would not have thought twice about them.
They were someone else's private collection, after all. He would not even have looked closely. Once he confirmed everything was in order, he would have left at once.
But damn it!
Where the hell had this note come from?
How had it missed its chance to reach Lu Yiyi?
If a Flood Dragon like that had joined the battle, the city might even have been saved.
So many people would not have had to die.
Who—who had been behind all this?!
"Calm down..."
Xu Yuan covered his face with both hands and forced