Su Jiu finally learned the whole story from the Black Dragon King.
The reason she had failed to see the Black Dragon King's true form at the market was that his cultivation far surpassed hers. However powerful her mark was, it could not see through someone whose cultivation exceeded her own by so much.
He knew everything that had happened between them and Ji Jue because he had placed a Tracking Curse on Ji Jue. A curse was not a talisman. Su Jiu could still detect a mark left by a talisman, but a curse could only be discovered through physical contact with the person bearing it.
For someone like Su Jiu, who never made physical contact with strangers, its presence was naturally difficult to detect.
In other words, the Black Dragon King had used Ji Jue to the fullest.
Still, half the blame lay with Ji Jue himself. Had he not harbored malicious intentions and indulged in unrealistic dreams, he would never have ended up here.
"So what exactly did you capture us for?"
The Black Dragon King raised an eyebrow and looked at Jiao Yue, who had remained silent all this time. He smiled. "Has she not had time to tell you what will happen between you two?"
Jiao Yue snorted coldly and said nothing.
The Black Dragon King did not mind her attitude. "You really haven't changed toward me in ten thousand years."
Then he turned back to Su Jiu. "Do you know where we Black Jiao came from?"
"Since ancient times, our Jiao Serpent Tribe has possessed a divine legacy bloodline. Our standing was not even lower than that of the merfolk. But there were always some Jiao Serpents who failed to inherit the divine bloodline. Those Jiao Serpents were abandoned in this realm and stripped