“Why do you say so? Or do you think ‘despair’ will exist in my dictionary? Moreover, would I pay attention to that?”

The Evil King of Ghosts answered, “It seems that you wouldn’t.”

Ronghua nodded to agree. This village did not look different from the other ones. “Did you grow up here?”

It seemed that he had been living here for a very long time.

He did not answer her and just looked at the village, regardless of being seen by others.

Ronghua had no choice but to follow his steps.

Ronghua could feel that it was full of harmony here. She did not know what irritated him that made him become the Evil King of Ghosts. He must have a pretty strong sense of hatred!

“I was also ordinary. I would have lived happily every day, grown up, and then got married. After that, I should have been just like the elderly when I was old, watching the sunrise and the sunset day by day, year by year, and would just be a pile of loess that could be held by hands after death.”

Ronghua walked towards him, “You do know the pattern of life clearly, but I have to ask how long it will be before you become the Evil King of Ghosts?”

He turned to smile to her, “It has... one day left.”

Ronghua, “....”

The joke was not funny at all.

There was only one day left, which meant that she could not know what had happened to him before that. Since she knew nothing, she did not have any first-hand information about this and would not have the method to control him. Who knew what he would do to her the next second?

Ronghua looked around. It was quite a harmonious place. How could Muling turn to be the Evil King of Ghosts in such an environment? The utterly groundless conjecture would only make people feel ridiculous.

“What happened to you? Could you tell me a little?”

He replied with another question, “Does your questions have any relation with your help? Or does the questions can help me find her?”

Ronghua made a face and kept the pace with him, but then she noticed that she forgot something important, “Oh, wait.”

He stopped and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“The spacial skill is a new one that I’ve just learned, so the time of usage is limited. We could stay here no more than an hour, so we must leave after that time. Otherwise, we have to take all the risk by ourselves.”

He could not digest the information well, “What do you mean?”

“I mean, we can’t stay here for too long, and you should hurry up.”

“So, you mean that we have to come in and go out and continue the loop?”

Ronghua nodded, “Well... theoretically, yes.”

The Evil King of Ghosts turned aside and tried hard to control his rage at the place that Ronghua could not see.

“Follow me. Don’t you want to know how I became the Evil King of Ghosts?”

Ronghua glanced at him and pressed her lips, but she still had to acknowledge that he was someone full of stories, and she was curious about that.

“There’s a mountain here called the Ghosts’ Mountain, and it quakes every hundred years. It is a disaster for the people who live here, but it is also a rare chance for the ghosts who desire to come back to life.”

“Well, a chance, but aren’t you... still…. Well, nothing.”

She did not want to ask more.

The Evil King of Ghost found she had no intension to say more, so he continued, “That day was just the time when the new King of Ghosts got birth, and he would kill the predecessor and inherit all the power accumulated from all the Kings of Ghosts since the ancient time.”

Ronghua asked, “You were the next?”

“... Yes.”

She could imagine how hard the process would be.

“How long did you take to become the Evil King of Ghosts?”

He mocked himself, “I nearly failed.”

“Oh, so poor.”

The Evil King of Ghosts, “....”

Could not she chat more nicely?

He walked over and pointed at a place, “That’s the mountain. I guess... it has begun.”

Ronghua looked along the direction he pointed at and saw the mountain range, which was full of Yin qi. A lot of ghosts must have gathered there! The duel had started, “Then should we go and see?”

“No, it’s not necessary,” he rejected the suggestion decidedly, “we will go to the Medicine Palace.”

“Wow.” He did do not waste even a second of the time. However, was he too hurried?

“How did you meet her?”

He stopped, “... You asked too much. Why don’t you just go and see?”

Ronghua replied, “It’s a good idea. I’ll wait for it. However, let me kindly remind you that the time left for us this time is running short now.”

“Then, be faster!”

Ronghua knew nothing about this place, so she just followed the Evil King of Ghosts wherever he went. Before that, Shenyuan had told her that the Evil King of Ghosts was always brutal and tyrannous but was only obedient to his master.

They arrived at the gate of the Medicine Palace. The debarment here was useless to them, so they were to enter.

Whereas, the people inside were coming out.

“Patriarch, I’m afraid that this conference will determine the leader of all imperial clans and other parties, shall we...?”

“No!”

The Evil King of Ghost suddenly stopped. That voice...

“We only need to do our own business well. The others’ matters have nothing to do with us, and we don’t need to do that.”

“Yes, Patriarch!”

Then a few people wearing blue uniforms appeared ahead of them. Their leader had different dressing. She wore a pale blue long dress that could touch the ground and covered it with a white yarn tippet. There were intricate patterns sewn on her cuffs, which were various herbs. Her thick hair was fixed by a pure-colored jade hairpin, but a few of it hung down, adding an attractive temperament.

Ronghua observed the Evil King of Ghosts. Since the woman appeared, his eyes had never moved away from her. Was this “patriarch” Gong Miufeng?

“Is she Gong Miufeng? A pretty face. You’re lucky!”

The Evil King of Ghost did not answer. Maybe he did not want to spare any attention for her. Regardless of whether the woman could see him or not, he walked to stood in front of her and wanted to touch her face. However, before his hand could touch her, it went through her body directly.

Ronghua stood there and reminded him, “It’s just a memory here. There’s nothing you can do.”

The Evil King of Ghosts took back his hand, said nothing, and just looked at the direction that Gong Miufeng left.

Ronghua came close to him, “Actually, you can follow her and see. I heard that there would be a big conference today. You must have been adopted by your master there!”

“At this time, I was already notorious. Everyone knows about my behaviors, so they wanted to unite all the righteous parties to kill me, but....”

But... if the Evil King of Ghosts was that easy to be killed, they did not need to gather so many powers with such great efforts.

“That day, I heard that they united to discuss how to kill me, so I pretended to be a fifteen-year-old youth to figure out their plan.”

Ronghua squinted. Fifteen-year-old! He was too feigned!

Ronghua asked, “Didn’t she know who you were when she met you the first time?”

He laughed at himself, “I thought she knew nothing, but when she decided to give up everything to marry me, I finally realized that she knew everything, and she just used her own way to love me.”

“Your master was awesome. The others didn’t know your identity, while she knew that and still dared to accept you as her apprentice. Wasn’t she afraid that you changed your mind one day and countercharged?”

The Evil King of Ghosts said, “... I do not act without any reason. Don’t regard me as such an immoral one. How would I do that if they did not take so many actions against me?”

However, Ronghua shook her head to deny him, “No, you have violence hidden in your bone, and you just restrained it in front of your master.”

The Evil King of Ghosts frowned. Ronghua always looked into the truth, which even made him doubt whether she had already known the things between Gong Miufeng and him.

Then the scene around them changed to the time when Gong Miufeng was to enter the clan gate. Ronghua stood there and did not want to witness that.

“Was your brain eaten by the dog? Why did you behave like an idiot?”

Before them, a child was pretending to be weak and asking for a hug, and the true identity of him was the Evil King of Ghosts, who had inherited the power of the former Kings of Ghosts’. That scene was amazing, and Ronghua could not find any word to describe.

What was worse, the protagonist himself was quite proud of it, “So what? The overused strategy is not a problem as long as it works.”

Ronghua covered her face and pretended to cry, “Your master was so poor that she was cheated in this way.”

The Evil King of Ghosts refuted, “Do you think my master is the same as those that would believe everything the others tell them? My master is different from those vulgar people.”

After saying that, he looked at her with a very proud face. Ronghua turned her face aside and did not want to recognize him.

Afterward, he explained earnestly, “Actually, I collected a lot of information before I came. Gong Miufeng, my master, was the patriarch of the Medicine Palace and was the kindest one among people from all parties. She cured the patients and saved the lives of others all her life. She would help the others, whether they were rich or poor.”

Ronghua agreed with him this time, “Your master really did well on this.”

“But….”

He paused awhile before he restarted to speak, “It was just her kindness that made her lose her life because others made use of this intentionally. I hate myself because I failed to protect her.”

Ronghua said, “Kindness is a good thing, but it could be bad when the purpose changed.”

The Evil King of Ghosts, “….”

He did not want to answer her, so he just stood and looked at the ongoing scene with arms crossed.

On the other side, Gong Miufeng had just saved the boy who was pretended by the Evil King of Ghosts.

“How do you feel? Do your wounds still hurt?”

Gong Miufeng asked him carefully, in case of missing any detail.

The boy only shook his head without any expression. The Evil King of Ghost was not good at acting as a real injured person at that time.

He only stated where it hurt with a poker face.

Gong Miufeng supported him to stand up and said, “I’m sorry to bother the peak master. Please find us a place. I need to heal his injuries.”

The master of Qingxu Peak was willing to help. She knew that Gong Miufeng had saved countless people regardless of their identities. Once they were hurt, she would help them without hesitation. The peak master had always been appreciating her quality, so she commanded others to bring the boy to her room for treatment at once.