Qing Chen stared at Yue Ting, his gaze darkening.
As though he knew what Qing Chen was thinking, Yue Ting said softly, "Brother Qing, you are from Immortal-Severing Island. My master and I are from Immortal-Severing Island too."
At last, he had called him "Brother Qing," no longer "Governor-General Qing."
Yet to Qing Chen's ears, there was no warmth of old friendship in it. Instead, it sent a chill through his heart.
Yue Ting continued, "You were able to enter Immortal-Severing Island and the Blood Jiangshi Legacy Mansion, and make your way out step by step. In fact... I could too."
Qing Chen said nothing.
He merely watched Yue Ting, the shadowy demon lotus in his eyes turning once more as murderous intent surged.
Yue Ting said, "After leaving Qiongzhou back then, I traveled almost all over Lingnan Circuit and the Southern Yue border to save my master. I also visited many Ancient Witch Ruins. Later, in a great tomb in an ancient stockade in the Million Mountains, whose people had long since been wiped out, I obtained a Command Token of the Moon-Worshipping Divine Cult."
"It was the Command Token of a Nascent Soul elder from the Blood Jiangshi Branch Altar."
"I suddenly remembered that before you rose to prominence, Brother Qing, you had also left Immortal-Severing Island and then returned, and that you had countless tangled ties to the Blood Jiangshi Branch Altar."
"So I carried my master's coffin on my back and returned to Immortal-Severing Island. You could say I was treating a dead horse as though it were still alive."
Memories surged through Qing Chen's mind.
The last time he had returned to the Blood Jiangshi Legacy Mansion on Immortal-Severing Island, he had sensed that more than one trace of an outsider's presence had touched the