Lan Jiao asked without any expression of sadness or joy, "Whose idea was this?"
Mo Ran whispered, "Luo Yi."
"Then how did you get involved?"
Mo Ran looked up at Lan Jiao for a long time before lowering her head again. "Princess, back then... After that, not long after, Luo Yi came to me and said he had a way to revive you, but it would require some extraordinary measures, so..."
"So you ended up on a path of no return with Luo Yi like this," Lan Jiao continued. Mo Ran neither admitted nor denied it.
At that moment, he wasn't thinking about anything else; all he wanted was for the princess to be resurrected.
Lan Jiao saw Mo Ran continue to ask, "So, does that mean the Ghost Tear Pearl incident was indeed your doing?"
"yes."
Mo Ran admitted it readily, without offering any explanation.
Seeing his straightforwardness, Lan Jiao had nothing more to say. After thinking for a moment, she asked, "Does the matter of the Nightmare have anything to do with you?"
When the vengeful spirit wreaked havoc on the world, it was also the time when Lan Jiao shattered her own soul once again, so she knew nothing about anything that happened during that period.
Mo Ran shook her head. "I wasn't involved in the matter of the Nightmare, but Luo Yi came to see me before making his decision."
By then, Luo Yi had become a complete madman; he had gone utterly insane.
Seeing that there was no hope of reviving Lan Jiao, Luo Yi wanted to destroy the entire Six Realms to accompany Lan Jiao in death. At that time, he came to find Mo Ran, wanting her to go with him. However, Mo Ran had already vaguely sensed that Lan Jiao might have regained consciousness midway through the process.
It's quite possible that her soul shattered on her own, so Mo Ran didn't agree to Luo Yi's request.
In order to incite resentment in the Six Realms, Luo Yi orchestrated massacres in various places, but he rarely appeared in person and mostly manipulated things from behind the scenes.
Moreover, Luo Yi's most common tactic is to maliciously provoke wars and then stand by and watch. He enjoys watching people kill each other and then tries to channel their resentment to the ancient battlefield of gods and demons in the demon realm.
Over the years, the resentment grew extremely dense throughout the six realms, eventually becoming an uncontrollable entity—a vengeful nightmare.
Hua and Chu Yu listened quietly to Mo Ran's speech without interrupting.
Lan Jiao's expression was complicated after hearing what Mo Ran said, but she felt more guilty. She sighed painfully, "It's all my fault. I've caused so many innocent people to die in vain."
Before Lan Jiao could finish speaking, her eyes welled up with tears, but no one said a word to comfort her.
Even Mo Ran sat silently, her eyes vacant as she stared at the weeping Lan Jiao, as if she were looking at her, or as if she were looking through Lan Jiao's unchanging face at her former spirited self.
Once upon a time, he was a prodigy praised by all in the six realms, the respected Prince Mo Ran in the demon realm, and a rare nine-tailed celestial fox.
But...
In the end, he actually joined Luo Yi in committing so many atrocities.
Over the years, Mo Ran has confined himself to this place, not daring to step out, and has suffered torment day after day.
He was afraid. He was afraid that what he would see after he went out would not be the Six Realms he wanted to see. He was afraid that too many wronged souls would come to claim his life. He was even more afraid that he himself would not even be able to die.
Or perhaps there is some unseen force drawing him here, waiting for someone to forgive his sins someday.
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