Seeing Mo Tiange staring at her like that, Nie Wushang was bewildered and looked down at herself. "What's wrong?"
Mo Tiange smiled and went straight to the point. "Did you escape?"
Nie Wushang's expression darkened in an instant, and she clenched her fists.
Mo Tiange glanced at her hand and said, "Don't forget you were in my formation."
Nie Wushang was startled and relaxed.
After a while, she finally said, "Yes, I betrayed my master, stole his treasured magic weapon and fled the Celestial Pole …" At this point, she stared at Mo Tiange. "Are you happy now?"
After confirming her guess, Mo Tiange finally felt like a huge rock had been lifted from her heart.
The enmity between her and Nie Wushang was because of Master Song Feng. If she left Master Song Feng, the two of them wouldn't be enemies.
She smiled and looked at Nie Wushang. "Yes, I'm very happy.
Aren't you happy? "
Such calmness stunned Nie Wushang.
She stared at Mo Tiange with complicated feelings.
She remembered the first time she saw her, she was only in the middle stage of the Foundation Building realm. As Lord Daoist Jinghe's disciple, she received female guests at Lord Daoist Xuanyin's Soul-Formation Ceremony.
At that time, she knew her master was going to Xuanqing School to cause trouble for Lord Daoist Jinghe, so she paid special attention to this "Lord Daoist Jinghe's disciple."
She thought she was obviously a proud child, but she had to pretend to be indifferent, which made people hate her.
She admitted she was jealous at that time, and because of that, she couldn't help but hate her.
The next time she met her was several decades later. At that time, she had just advanced to the Core Formation realm and followed her master to Demonic Mountain.
At that time, Master Daoist Qingwei already had a small reputation. When she traveled around Kunwu, she occasionally heard people talk about how Lord Daoist Jinghe of Xuanqing School accepted another genius disciple who advanced to the Core Formation realm within a hundred years.
Her initial jealousy was gradually forgotten after several decades, but when she met her again, she still couldn't control herself from hating her.
Why was she so lucky as a woman?
She had a master who loved his disciple as much as his own life and a senior martial brother who cherished her so much.
As for herself, she had nothing.
Seeing how perfect she was, she hated herself for her imperfections.
However, when her master wanted to destroy this perfection and let the three of them taste the disgusting taste of swallowing a fly, she couldn't bear it anymore. Therefore, she tampered with the order and even went back to stop it when her master was rushing to Jade Palace.
She couldn't figure out why she would do that.
Perhaps it was because of her perfection that he had a longing for her, so he couldn't bear to destroy her?
Or perhaps, as a woman, such a thing was too cruel, so cruel that even she couldn't accept it?
It was no longer necessary to investigate the reason. By the time she reacted, she had already done so.
Then, when her master went to Jade Palace, she left Demonic Mountain almost as if she was fleeing for her life.
She was very afraid. She was afraid of how her master would punish her if he knew that she had done such a thing.
Would he be so angry that he would slap her to death?
Or should he trap her in the Original Devil Pool and make her suffer a fate worse than death?
But even though she was so scared that she could hardly control herself, she never regretted it.
Who would've thought that a change would occur on Demonic Mountain and she would escape a calamity instead?
Although her master fled in disarray, he was seriously injured and didn't know what she had done.
In the following ten years, her master had been in Closed Door Meditation to heal his injuries and had no time to pay attention to her.
She was relieved for the time being, but she was still concerned about this matter.
Her master would find out sooner or later. When he found out, she would be lucky if she could be slapped to death by him.
She didn't want to die and wanted to live a better life, so her desire to escape became more and more urgent day by day.
Her master was seriously injured and had no time to care about her. Was there a better time than now?
She planned for a long time and finally made up her mind. She decided to go all the way and steal her master's magic weapon while he was healing his injuries and fled the Celestial Pole.
From that moment on, she had no late stage Nascent Soul master and no backer.
However, she had freedom — the freedom she yearned for day and night.
Crossing the South Sea and escaping from the Celestial Pole was a dangerous move for her.
She knew better than anyone else about her master's vengeful personality. Since she had betrayed her master, there was no way out. If she was caught by him, she would be in a state worse than death.
That being the case, she might as well risk it. Even if she died in the South Sea, it would be better than the rest of her life.
Fortunately, after letting her down for more than a hundred years, God finally gave her hope this time, allowing her to cross the South Sea and safely arrive at Yunzhong's North Pole Island.
But she never expected that she would meet Master Daoist Qingwei here again.
Before leaving the Celestial Pole, she learned that her senior martial brother had succeeded in forming his Nascent Soul and the two of them had become Dual Cultivation Dao companions. According to reason, shouldn't they be inseparable at this time?
Why were they separated and came to Yunzhong thousands of miles away by themselves?
She felt very confused. She suddenly realized she couldn't understand this "God's favored one."
Mo Tiange raised her eyebrows and asked, "What's wrong?" She didn't speak for a long time.
Nie Wushang withdrew her gaze and said faintly, "Nothing. I just suddenly realized I don't seem to understand you."
Mo Tiange frowned. She didn't quite understand what Nie Wushang meant.
In the next moment, Nie Wushang smiled. "Forget it. Let's not talk about these things. Let's continue to discuss our relationship."
Mo Tiange waved her hand. "Since you've left your master, even if we're not friends, we won't be enemies.
Of course, as long as you're not hostile. "
"…" Nie Wushang stared at her, her gaze becoming complicated again. "You …"
"Oh, you also saved me."
She smiled. "In any case, you were the one who stopped that matter in the end. I didn't have a chance back then, so I have to thank you now."
Nie Wushang's gaze moved.
It could be said that the reason she was sitting here today was directly caused by this matter.
If she hadn't saved Mo Tiange, she wouldn't have chosen to escape out of fear of her master's punishment, and she wouldn't have taken the risk to cross the South Sea and come to North Pole Island.
"Why are you thanking me?
If I hadn't taken master there, you wouldn't have … "
Mo Tiange just smiled. "Not long after you left, you brought your master back. Presumably, your master was nearby, right?
With his divine sense as the first late stage Nascent Soul cultivator in the Celestial Pole, I'm afraid he'd have discovered us long ago.
Of course, it's not that I don't care at all. It's just that the enmity between you and me is all because of your master. Since you've already left him, there's no need to mention it again. "
"…" Nie Wushang's expression was complicated. She stared at her for a long time before she finally said, "That day, it wasn't me who took my master there. As soon as we came out of the fog, we were discovered by him …"
Mo Tiange wasn't surprised to hear this. She just nodded lightly. "I see." Judging from Nie Wushang's attitude this time, Mo Tiange already guessed that Nie Wushang wasn't hostile towards her.
That was for the best. Mo Tiange didn't want to be enemies with Nie Wushang.
The two of them were silent for a long time before Mo Tiange asked, "Do you have anything else to say?"
Nie Wushang shook her head, hesitated for a moment, then nodded. "You don't have to worry about Tianyan Sect implicating you. I don't think they can discover me, even if they're Nascent Soul cultivators."
"You're that confident?"
Mo Tiange was a bit surprised. In fact, she wasn't afraid of being implicated. Her unique formation wasn't a common one; even a Nascent Soul cultivator's divine sense would be blocked outside.
Nie Wushang curled her lips into a proud smile. "My concealment technique has never failed. Otherwise, how could I dare to steal things from Tianyan Sect?"
That was true. Without Master Song Feng, she was only an early stage Core Formation cultivator now. How could she fight against Tianyan Sect, which had two Nascent Soul cultivators?
Since she dared to do it, she naturally had something to rely on.
Mo Tiange thought for a moment then asked, "Why did you want to steal things from Tianyan Sect?"
Upon seeing Nie Wushang's hesitant expression, Mo Tiange added, "I'm just asking. If you don't want to answer, you don't have to."
"There's nothing I can't say."
Nie Wushang revealed a bitter smile. She lowered her head to look at her gloved hands and said softly, "You should know what kind of cultivator my master is, right?"
Mo Tiange didn't answer. She didn't understand what Nie Wushang meant.
Nie Wushang sighed then continued to say, "What the Celestial Pole says is correct. He's indeed neither a human nor a ghost, neither a Daoist nor a devil — he can't be considered a real person at all.
Although what I practice isn't his main cultivation technique, what kind of good things could he possibly teach me?
I'm a martial cultivator, yet I've almost reached my current level without any bottlenecks in just over a hundred years because he used his own Primordial Devil Aura to open up all my meridians … "At this point, she saw Mo Tiange's shocked expression, so her smile became even more bitter." Correct. From another perspective, I'm also not a pure person. Every once in a while, the Primordial Devil Aura in my body will flare up. At that time, I'd rather die than live … "
Mo Tiange sucked in a breath of cold air when she heard this.
She really didn't expect Master Song Feng to treat his disciple like this.
"Is the thing you stole from Tianyan Sect related to this?"
"Correct."
Nie Wushang was still staring at her hand in a daze. "Since I left Master, I wanted to live like a human.
After I arrived on North Pole Island, I inquired everywhere for a way to eliminate the Primordial Devil Aura. Finally, I heard that Tianyan Sect had a treasure … "
At this point, she looked up at Mo Tiange and revealed a mocking smile. "Everyone says Yunzhong cultivators are more powerful than Celestial Pole cultivators. In my opinion, it's just that the way they fight is a bit strange — they can't be considered powerful."
Mo Tiange was silent.
Nie Wushang was a martial cultivator, so her way of fighting was very different from Dao cultivators. The two main characteristics of Yunzhong cultivators in fights of magical powers — speed and control of spiritual aura — were useless against her, so it was no wonder she said that.
"Then what's next?" Mo Tiange asked, "How long are you going to hide here?"
Nie Wushang said indifferently, "It won't be too long — that group of idiots won't be able to find me.
Three days later, I'll disguise myself as a cultivator going out to sea and leave North Pole Island. "
She stared at Mo Tiange, her gaze flickering. "Of course, if you're still afraid I'll implicate you, I can also leave."
Mo Tiange stared at her, raised her eyebrows, and smiled. "What? You want to provoke me to help you?"
Nie Wushang was stunned, but she soon smiled helplessly. "Alright, we're not enemies now, but we're not friends either.
I just want to stay here. If you want to drive me away, I can't do anything about it, but if you don't, I won't leave. "