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Chapter 4527: 5.0279 Speculation

Long Xinghua was startled, then hesitated and shook her head. "That, I cannot confirm. This old woman has never heard of a mermaid pearl being sealed within a human body and requiring sixteen years to open."

"Moreover," the woman looked at Qiao Mu, hesitating to speak.

"The Wangchuan battle back then indeed caused heavy losses to the entire merfolk tribe. Young Master Long Chuyu was also severely injured."

"The merfolk tribe remained dormant in Wangchuan for a full ten years without venturing out."

"Perhaps... the chieftain didn't forget little benefactor."

"Do you believe that?"

"Ah?" Old Granny Long was surprised.

Qiao Mu's gaze was heavy as she looked at Long Xinghua. "Your explanation, do you believe it yourself?"

"This old woman... I didn't know that little benefactor also has ties to the Wangchuan Long clan?"

"Long Chuyun is my mother."

Long Xinghua was completely shocked, her eyes widening instantly, her hands gripping her staff, trembling slightly with excitement.

"You are? Young Miss's daughter?"

The daughter of the Wangchuan Long clan's Eldest Young Miss was actually exiled to the lower star domains? What was the reason for this?

"What exactly happened?" Long Xinghua, leaning on her staff, trembled as she took a few steps forward. "Little benefactor."

"Before, I fought my way out of your Wangchuan clan territory and completely fell out with your merfolk chieftain," Qiao Mu said, her gaze cold.

"But? Little benefactor is the Eldest Young Miss's daughter, so wouldn't the chieftain be your maternal grand..."

"Hmph." Qiao Mu slowly walked towards a raised piece of sandstone, lightly stepped, and floated onto it.

"Perhaps it's not sixteen years until the seal can be broken, but rather... the Wangchuan Long Clan has some special method to detect the movements of that Origin Pearl."

Long Xinghua found it hard to keep up with the young girl's jumping thoughts, but she instinctively nodded. "That, that is possible."

"As the mermaid pearl's seal loosened bit by bit within my body, it must have been detected by Long Qian once it reached a certain degree."

"That's why she was so anxious to summon me back to Wangchuan."

"The mermaid pearl can only be taken out of my body after the seal is broken."

"What these people want, from beginning to end, is only this ten-thousand-year-old mermaid pearl."

Mu Qingya was also like this.

Qiao Mu didn't know where Mu Qingya had gotten her information, to actually deduce in her previous life that the ten-thousand-year-old mermaid pearl was within her body.

The most absurd thing was that in her previous life, she never understood what was going on until her death.

This ten-thousand-year-old mermaid pearl had not fully broken its seal in her previous life.

Therefore, until her death, the Wangchuan Long Clan had never sought her out.

Because in her previous life, until the day her life ended, Long Qian simply hadn't sensed the aura of the mermaid pearl's seal breaking.

At that time, she was simply too insignificant.

Her existence was so faint that... no one would notice her at all.

Her maternal grandmother never appeared by her side from beginning to end.

Because she was weak? So there was no need to bring her back, perhaps.

She felt that this time's speculation must be the absolute truth.

Perhaps it was precisely because the mermaid pearl was utterly useless before its seal broke that Mu Qingya had imprisoned her at that time.

To "help" her, to research her Consciousness Abyss, wanting to further understand the secrets hidden within her.

To detain her, control the trajectory of her life, completely dominate her, and then... she could be dissected without any qualms.

Qiao Mu suddenly smiled.

She suddenly realized that perhaps from her past life to this life, her maternal family had never actually wanted to find her.