“Your beloved mother doesn’t trust me,” Lu Yun proclaimed when Nightmare caught up to him.

“Huh?” the ghost cultivator blinked.

“She doesn’t trust me because she can’t tell how I’m controlling you. As a grand supreme, she can naturally determine with a single glance that you treat me with a different attitude,” Lu Yun sighed. “When she talked about betrothing you to me, that was a test. If I really had accepted, she would’ve killed me on the spot.

“Your mother’s plans for you… heh,” Lu Yun laughed in a self-deprecating manner. He’d almost wanted to erase Nightmare’s name from the Tome of Life and Death just now. The sect master of the Ghost Sect had locked onto him with terrifying...