"That’s right, the Flame Fruit I fed Lan Yi really does have side effects, but it’s already too late, hahaha, for the rest of his life he’ll never be able to have an heir!"

Lan Yue burst into wild laughter. In that moment, her expression was completely twisted and ferocious, her gaze viciously locked onto Mu Ruyue.

Everyone froze without realizing it. They clearly hadn’t expected her to say such a thing, and for a while they couldn’t snap out of it...

"Mu Ruyue, why are you here!"

After a long moment, Lan Yue finally put away her laughter and glared viciously at Mu Ruyue, as if she wanted to tear her into pieces.

"Why is it that wherever I am, you show up? I already left the continent and came all the way here, and you still followed me to this place. You really cling on like a ghost that refuses to disperse!"

In my previous life, I must have formed some deadly feud with this woman, that’s why she keeps going against me like this...

The Lord stared in shock at the adopted daughter he had trusted all along. His face went from white to green, then from green back to white, changing endlessly.

Suddenly, he leapt forward, rushed in front of Lan Yue and clamped his hand hard around her neck, veins bulging on his forehead. "Was what you just said true? You harmed my son?"

Lan Yue gave a cold laugh, then closed her eyes and fell silent, as if she hadn’t heard the Lord speak.

The Lord flung out his big hand and smashed Lan Yue’s body ruthlessly to the ground, roaring like a savage beast, "Lan Yue, you’d better explain yourself clearly. Why did you do this?"

However, from beginning to end, Lan Yue never opened her mouth. Blood stained the corner of her lips, faintly hooking into a shallow curve.

No one knew whether that curve was mocking the Lord’s stupidity, or mocking herself for once again losing in this woman’s hands...

Mu Ruyue lowered her head, looking down at the woman lying on the ground, and said in a faint tone, "If I’m not wrong, you’re connected to that man in black deep inside this forest."

Lan Yue’s body stiffened, her lightly closed lashes trembling slightly. But she still never spoke a single word...

"Man in black?"

Feng Jingtian raised his brows slightly and walked to Mu Ruyue’s side. "What’s going on now?"

Mu Ruyue gave a calm smile. "Nothing much. I just killed a man in black. He said their mission was to make the people in several towns around here die, to make things easier for what they’re going to do next."

As for what that was, Mu Ruyue didn’t say...

After all, some things are better left unknown to too many people.

"He told you that?"

Lan Yue’s face suddenly changed drastically. Her eyes flew open, her face turning deathly pale. "Impossible. There is absolutely no way he’d reveal their objective..."

Looking down at that now-changed yet devastatingly beautiful face, Mu Ruyue’s voice was light, but carried an unquestionable pressure.

"Do you want to know why?"

All of a sudden, she laughed. That peerless smile carried not a shred of warmth, so cold it made one’s heart shrink and tremble.

"I can let you experience a taste of what he went through..."

Boom!

Boundless Flames swept out, blotting out the sky as they spread, then in an instant gathered toward Lan Yue’s body...

That blue dress fluttered amidst the Flames without being burned to ash in the slightest, yet the woman’s expression twisted in pain, as though she was enduring unbearable agony...

"Ahhh! Mu Ruyue, I, Lan Yue, swear here and now, I will never let you off!"

"So what if you possess the Nine-layered Karma Fire? At most, you can only torment my Soul. The Nine-layered Karma Fire absolutely cannot annihilate a Soul..."