Gu Hedao spat fiercely at his words.
“You old bastard! You old devil!”
“Don't act like a victim when you've had your fill of blood! Over the past thirty years, even though you couldn't kill Xuan Jingyuan, the number of lives you've taken is by no means small!”
“Whenever you found an opportunity, you ruthlessly slaughtered anyone belonging to the royal family!”
“Over all these years, at least three hundred royals have died by your hand! If we include their families and subordinates, the total is easily no less than five thousand!”
“You spared no one, regardless of whether they were old, weak, women, or children, and regardless of whether they had anything to do with your Feng family's tragedy!”
“How innocent they were... You monster!”
Feng Xingyun roared.
“Shut up!”
“Innocent? You think you have the right to talk to me about innocence?”
“Was Qiuyi, a mere teenage girl, not innocent? Was my entire Feng family not innocent?”
“Let me tell you, Gu kid! Once my entire family was wiped out, I, Feng Xingyun, had no more attachments. I was completely alone!”
“I!”
“Have absolutely nothing!”
“Is there anything left in this world that I dare not do? Is there anyone left whom I cannot kill?”
“The royals of the Great Xuan Dynasty are all hypocrites! I killed them, so what can you possibly do to me?!”
Xuan Jingyuan stared intently at him.
“So... you old bastard, how on earth did you become so young again...?”
Feng Xingyun sneered.
This dog Emperor, as expected, didn't care about the deaths of his brothers and uncles at all. He only cared about himself.
Even with death staring him in the face, he actually had the peace of mind to ask why Feng Xingyun had become young.
Initially, Feng Xingyun had no intention of telling him, but remembering that he still needed to stall for time, he decided to play along and answer.
“Why?”
“Wasn't it all because of you bastards forcing my hand?”
“Over all these years, although this old man managed to survive, I had to flee and hide constantly like a stray dog. As the years went by, my body grew increasingly decrepit, and even my strength began to decline day by day.”
“Furthermore, the royal family plastered wanted posters of me everywhere. I couldn't go anywhere with people, so I was forced to hide in the deep mountains and ancient forests year-round.”
“And yet, who would have thought that I would stumble upon a monumental opportunity?”
Feng Xingyun let out a timely, somewhat smug expression.
“It was a long-abandoned cave dwelling. At the time, I merely treated it as a temporary shelter. However, in the deepest part of the cave, I discovered some carvings on the stone wall.”
“Out of boredom, this old man examined them one by one, and to my surprise, I obtained an unparalleled divine technique that can restore one's youth and bring them back to their peak.”
Feng Xingyun pointed to himself.
“Well? Little Emperor, are you tempted?”
“You're in your late forties or fifties now, so you must feel it too, right?”
“Every day you wake up, you see yourself in the mirror looking a bit older. You feel your body tiring easily, your mind growing sluggish, and you even need your food cooked soft and mushy just to swallow it.”
“Of course, what you find most unacceptable are your children, each one young, handsome, and bursting with vitality!”
With every sentence Feng Xingyun spoke, Xuan Jingyuan's face grew uglier.
After all, every word hit the mark, and there was no refuting it.
“Every day, you worry that the seat beneath your rear will be snatched away, especially by the Crown Prince you personally appointed.”
“Otherwise... knowing full well that I was secretly hunting down members of the royal family, why would you send the Crown Prince to the border back then for 'experience'?”
“And with only a single Xiantian Rank expert accompanying him for protection?”
He spoke of it so clearly, even knowing that the Crown Prince only had one Xiantian Rank expert with him. This meant he truly had intended to kill the Crown Prince back then.
He had simply abandoned the plan later on.
Feng Xingyun leaned in close to look at him.
“You wanted the Crown Prince to die!”
The princes and princesses who had just been swept aside by his palm wind all wore expressions of shock.
They had no idea such a thing had transpired behind the scenes.
Feng Xingyun wore a satisfied smile.
“I knew your intentions were sinister, so I spared him back then.”
“However... letting him just live on like that isn't my style either, so I poisoned him before I left.”
“This poison won't take his life. Instead, it will gradually corrode his body, unknowingly making him stronger at the cost of sacrificing his own lifespan!”
“His martial arts cultivation speed will be three to five times faster than that of ordinary geniuses. By my estimates, he would advance to the Xiantian Rank before thirty and die suddenly around forty.”
“Guess how much longer he can tolerate you, an old, power-hungry Emperor, after he advances to the Xiantian Rank?”
“Ah, speaking of which, the Crown Prince seems to be thirty-two this year, right? Why did I hear that he claims to the public to only be in the Second-Rate Rank?”
“Could he be guarding against you, his Imperial Father, and secretly accumulating the strength to overthrow you?”
At this point, Feng Xingyun covertly checked the countdown timer.
Of the ten minutes to find the path of survival, only about one minute remained.
Almost there.
As long as he stalled for just one more minute, he could trap all of them inside this supernatural dungeon forever.
For this, he would not hesitate to sacrifice his own life.
“Do you know why you and Gu Hedao were assigned to the same dungeon as me?”
Before this National War Dungeon opened, he had used a certain specter item to forcibly arrange for himself, Gu Hedao, and Xuan Jingyuan to be in the same dungeon.
Xuan Jingyuan clutched his chest and coughed uncontrollably, his face flushed red from the lack of oxygen.
However, he completely ignored Feng Xingyun's question. Instead, the gaze he directed at the man became intensely fanatical.
“You... what kind of divine technique did you cultivate??”
Young, handsome, and at the absolute peak of strength!
He wanted it too!
As for everything else—the Crown Prince, the poison, the accumulated strength, the usurpation—as long as he restored his youth, all those problems would solve themselves!
Hearing this, Feng Xingyun raised his eyebrows slightly, sneered, and did not answer.
Xuan Jingyuan grew increasingly frantic. “Where exactly is that cave?!”
“Tell me!”
“Tell me!!”
Feng Xingyun crouched down. By now, he had regained his composure, with no trace of his earlier frenzied expression.
“Want to know?”
His expression was indifferent, but his tone carried a hint of malice and mockery.
“This old man... is not telling you.”
【The countdown has reached zero! Player Feng Xingyun failed to find the path of survival within the time limit. Clearance failed! You will remain in Lingyang First High School forever!】
Seeing the dungeon notification, Feng Xingyun let out a soft chuckle.
“It's over.”
He expected to see Xuan Jingyuan break down in despair and hysteria.
However, the reality was entirely beyond his expectations.
Xuan Jingyuan's face changed in an instant. There was no longer any trace of his previous madness.
At this moment, his face was calm and his eyes were cold.
A card suddenly appeared in his hand, and his entire body vanished right before Feng Xingyun's eyes.
Seeing this, Feng Xingyun froze.
“W-What's going on?”
He vanished?
No, it wasn't a mere disappearance. It was... clearing the dungeon!
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