The array spirit's face showed no expression, yet there was a trace of surprise in its tone as it asked, "That girl has nothing to do with the new Witch King! Why let her leave?"
The Witch King said somewhat exasperatedly, "But this girl has even less to do with the new Witch King!"
"How are they unrelated?" The array spirit found this even stranger. "If they are unrelated, why did you make her wait here for ten years?"
"Who is this new Witch King? How come I do not know?" The Witch King rolled his eyes and asked with great puzzlement.
"Hmph..." The array spirit sneered, looking at the Witch King's waist as it said, "I do not know about anything else, but the new Witch King has already appeared. This matter... I know better than anyone! He was born to be suppressed by me..."
The Witch King was helpless. He understood the array spirit extremely well, and he also knew that he could not compare with Jiu Xia's glib tongue. Jiu Xia could persuade the array spirit to let her go, but he likely could not. Still, he had prepared for this worst-case scenario. After arguing with the array spirit for a full half hour, he finally looked apologetically at Ziming and said, "Child, I have truly wronged you!"
Ziming smiled sweetly. "Witch King, listen to yourself! Before, this junior did not know and thought you lived in Witch King Village. Only after coming here did I understand that, for the sake of preserving the soul cultivators' inheritance, you have been suppressed here all this time. The grievances you have suffered... this junior cannot match even one ten-thousandth of them. Besides, since this junior is to bear an empty title, how could I do so without giving something