"This is the price of rekindling, who made me his sister~"
As soon as her words fell, the smile on Lou Ji’s face froze to a halt, and she asked coldly,
"So, what exactly happened during the journey to the Northern Frontier?"
Luo Xiran considered for a moment, then said,
"Killing the Barbarian King, he was the main force."
After a moment of silence, Lou Ji instinctively glanced into the depths of the mist, her eyes filled with a hint of suspicion:
"Are you joking with me?"
Luo Xiran’s gentle voice released two words:
Lou Ji fell silent for a bit, "Did the ancient relic for teleportation from Li Zhaoyuan let you into an other ghost’s lair?"
Luo Xiran shook his head and said somberly,
"No, just that brat and Li Qingyan. Bai Muxi and I were actually already in the other ghost lair."
Upon hearing this, a flash of realization passed through Lou Ji’s eyes:
"No wonder that Bai girl is so out of place with everything from the outside world."
Luo Xiran chuckled and continued,
"That lair was constructed by Jiatiange during the great other ghost calamity ten thousand years ago, meant to research drugs for Reversal Ghost Transformation. But it later spiraled out of control due to infighting, housing an original ghost within."
Upon hearing this, Lou Ji roughly understood what might have happened.
Other ghosts were nearly extinct under the skies of Dayan nowadays, but occasionally some remnants were still found in secret realms.
There were even some maniacs who deliberately released other ghosts to cause trouble for the Imperial Court.
However, these other ghosts were of the lowest class, and those transformed by them, both people and Demonic Beasts, turned into mindless animals driven by instinct.
The Prime Minister’s Mansion had explored more than a dozen secret realms with the presence of other ghosts, yet not a single original ghost was discovered.
"Are you saying, Changtian was transformed into the same kind by that original ghost?"
Luo Xiran gently nodded:
"It seems Chief Lou already knows the uniqueness of an original ghost. Indeed, that brat was transformed into the same kind and also used a high-ranked other ghost’s Demon Crystal to gain the power of Mortal Transcendence and even Semi-Saint level in a short time. Moreover, he rescued me and restored his human form with the Life Reversal Liquid that I had researched in the past."
After these words, Lou Ji felt her heart couldn’t take it, her tone turning somewhat grinding, and with a low sinister chuckle she said,
"Haha... it seems Changtian has quite a few things hidden from me as his sister."
Upon hearing this, Luo Xiran appeared to be somewhat surprised, glancing at the anger on Lou Ji’s face, he asked in bewilderment,
"You didn’t know about this?"
The air suddenly turned quiet, their gazes as if solidified.
Luo Xiran opened his mouth, realizing he might have spoken out of turn.
The smile on Lou Ji’s face grew even broader.
Very well, very well. The brat has really grown bold, daring to hide such a significant matter.
After a moment of quiet,
Luo Xiran’s voice grew softer as he tried to make amends:
"Chief Lou, this matter was actually kind of a fortuitous coincidence..."
"Do you take me, the Black Scale Leader, for a three-year-old child?"
"Tell the truth." Lou Ji’s eyes seemed deadly.
Luo Xiran fell silent for a bit, then looked away:
"The brat said, it was my brother who told him."
"Yep." Luo Xiran admitted quite frankly.
Lou Ji accepted it in one go, a sinister smile flickering in her beautiful eyes.
On her return trip to the capital, she would seek out that Saint’s Remnant Soul to settle the score; she wanted to see just how much Changtian had hidden from her.
If things didn’t add up, she really wanted to see what kind of explanation Changtian could give her....
Thinking up to this point, Lou Ji’s train of thought suddenly halted, her pupils sharply constricted, and even her breathing ceased.
Forcefully suppressing the thoughts rising in her heart, Lou Ji clenched her robe slightly and asked in a low voice,
"So, does Changtian’s current condition have to do with his ghostification?"