Huo Xiaoru said, "How could someone of your intelligence possibly understand?" She sighed. "I treated you well back then. I told you the secret of the Spaceship and taught you how to repair it, yet you repaid kindness with treachery, joining forces with Long Xuan'en and his cohorts to harm me!"
Hong Beimo said, "You... you cultivated the Demon-Seeding Great Art?"
Huo Xiaoru chuckled. "What Demon-Seeding Great Art? I created what you call the Demon-Seeding Great Art. It is nothing more than a form of inhabiting a host. To people like you, the body and life are inseparable. To me, the body is merely a shell. Even if it is ground to dust and its bones shattered, I can still survive in this world."
Hong Beimo said, "Why did you hide for so many years?"
Huo Xiaoru said, "Why would I hide? I simply could not be bothered to interfere. After you joined forces to harm me, I realized something: rather than force you to do things, I should let you do them willingly. Driven by the desires in your hearts, you would still accomplish my goals-and achieve twice the results with half the effort." She smiled sweetly. "You did not disappoint me. The Spaceship was repaired in your hands. Liu Yuzhang did not disappoint me either. Willing to stop at nothing for revenge, he tried every means possible to open the doors of the Underground Palace, never expecting that there were no treasures hidden inside, only my soul. Back then, the Fated Ones paid a devastating price to bring me under control. Zhuge Yunchun then helped them design mechanisms to lock me deep inside the Underground Palace. I thought I would never regain my powers or see daylight again in this lifetime, but in the end, I regained my