"What exactly are you?!"
Liu Yuan stared at the black-robed figure nearby, his eyes filled with shock.
He distinctly remembered being refined by Luo Chuan, his soul on the verge of dispersing. How had he suddenly appeared here amid a swirl of strange gray mist?
At his words, Chu Mo lowered his eyelids slightly.
Liu Yuan immediately gave a muffled groan and collapsed, as though an immense weight had pinned him to the ground. His soul trembled uncontrollably. It felt as if a towering divine mountain had crashed down upon him. Struggle as he might, he could not move an inch.
"Tsk." A faint trace of disappointment appeared on Chu Mo's face. "You won't even honor me with the title of Master."
"Dream on! I possess a dragon bloodline! How could I stoop to slavery-Aaargh!"
Liu Yuan's anger had yet to fade when agony suddenly tore through his soul, as though he were being sliced into a thousand pieces, his marrow extracted to fuel a lamp. He screamed. The rest of his defiant words stuck in his throat, leaving only ceaseless whimpers.
After administering this small punishment, Chu Mo lifted a finger slightly and loosened the restrictive seal.
"Speak," he said evenly. "Instead of roaming freely in the Outer Sea, why did you insist on sneaking to the edge of the Turbid Abyss to meet your deaths?"
Liu Yuan lay sprawled on the ground, his head turned aside, unwilling to answer. But when Chu Mo's fingertip shifted, as if he were about to employ his methods again, Liu Yuan's expression changed sharply. "Nothing else! I only wanted to save my younger brother, Black Abyss. If I couldn't save him, then I would release him from his suffering!"
At this, hatred rose on his face, and he ground his teeth. "You