Yun Qinghua could not help finding it strange to hear Sima Zimo say such a thing. His cultivation was high and his suspicions ran deep. Apart from herself, she had never seen him form a close friendship with anyone in her clan!
Besides, Sima Zimo knew full well how powerful her Divine Abilities were. Combined with his terrifying Poison Arts, they could kill even a Human Race cultivator at the Integrated Body Late Stage if their opponent made one wrong move!
"He probably wasn't concealing his cultivation. Back then, his cultivation wasn't far from mine. I didn't meet him while I was at the trading house. He was the man who made a deal with me all those years ago and enabled me to leave that Ghost Domain!"
Sima Zimo spoke calmly. Yun Qinghua froze at his words, then a sharp gleam flashed in her beautiful eyes. She finally understood why he trusted the man so much, and why he had said the man was so powerful.
Yun Qinghua had never heard Li Yan's name, but as her feelings for Sima Zimo deepened, she had heard him recount some of his past.
She also knew that after he had been gravely wounded that time, his injuries had refused to heal. He had been forced to enter a Ghost Domain and use its extreme cold to treat them.
But all that had done was keep his injuries from worsening. He had never been able to recover, and could only endure that drawn-out torment, waiting for some turn of fortune...
Later, someone had entered that place hoping to obtain a certain deadly poison from him, and they had fought fiercely. They had been evenly matched, neither able to overcome the other, so they had negotiated and signed a contract.
Only then had