The chaos outside the room did not have the slightest impact on the place. The secret room and dungeon still seemed quiet and empty; but two figures, one kneeling and one standing, stood tall.
"Are you the once famous Black and White Venerable Pu Ruozhi?"
Chu Changtian stood with his hands behind his hands, looked at the angry old man in front of him, and sneered: "It's really better to see once than to hear a hundred times!"
The old man's clothes were ragged, his white hair was unkempt on his head, his hands and feet were tightly bound by thick chains, and his head was weakly hanging, looking extremely weak.
"Who are you?"
When he heard the voice, he tried very hard to raise his head, but failed after several attempts. He could only forcefully open his cloudy eyes, look at Chu Changtian through the disheveled hair, and spoke weakly.
"who I am?"
Hearing this, Chu Changtian laughed unconsciously, stepped forward, grabbed the old man's hair, lifted his head up, leaned over slightly, almost touching the old man's face, and said word by word:
"I am the eldest son of Emperor Chu and the eldest prince of Cangyun Empire, Chu Changtian!"
"Chu... Chang... Tian?"
The old man looked dull, his cloudy eyes rolled twice, his eyes were a little distracted, and he murmured doubts. It seemed that the name was not in his memory, or it had been too long and he had already forgotten the name.
"What, you don't know me? Oh, by the way, I wasn't even born when you were under house arrest by my father, so of course I don't know you!"
Chu Changtian said as if talking to himself: "But you should remember Master Dejue, right?"
"De...jue..."
The old man subconsciously repeated the name, but his originally cloudy eyes suddenly lit up, and his whole body suddenly tensed up. He seemed to have become more awake, and he said in horror: "He's here? Where is he? What did he do to my senior brother?"
"
"Ha ha ha ha..."
Seeing this scene, Chu Changtian laughed with satisfaction and sneered: "The former disciple of the Peerless Sword Emperor and the leader of Cangyun's three great martial arts masters, the Black and White Master, even if he has become like this now, he is still
Are you extremely frightened by the name of Master Dejue?"
At this point, Chu Changtian loosened his palms, threw away the old man's hair, rubbed against the old man with some disgust, took two steps back, and continued: "What happened to your senior brother? I don't know, but he
It is indeed here, and it has also brought the blood-melting secret technique to His Highness!"
"The secret art of melting blood?"
The old man's pupils, which had just regained clarity, suddenly shrank, as if he had heard something extremely important. His energy also recovered a little, and his breathing became thicker: "Dejue... got the secret technique of melting blood?"
"Not only did I get it, but I also solved it."
Hearing these words, the old man raised his head instantly. His neck, which had been hanging down for centuries, made a cracking sound due to the forced strangulation, and the pain made all the veins in his neck thicken.
But even so, the old man seemed unaware, still straightening his neck, staring at Chu Changtian with his turbid old eyes, and roared hoarsely: "No...impossible, this is impossible.
..”
"The blood-melting secret technique has been destroyed by me a long time ago. How could it still appear? How could it be obtained by him?"
"I'm afraid you don't know yet. There were two copies of the blood-melting secret technique back then. One copy was given to you by Xiao Jianyun, and the other was given to his heirs by him."
Chu Changtian seemed to be extremely satisfied with the old man's performance, and said with a smile: "Back then, my father took advantage of your absence to destroy the Xiao family. The reason why the secret technique of melting blood was not found was not because the Xiao family did not have it, but because the Xiao family was surrounded and suppressed at that time.
Qi Hua from home was stolen quietly."
"Later, when you returned from traveling, you became furious over this matter and almost broke with the Chu royal family. Although you finally tolerated it, you gave Qi Hua an opportunity to use it as an excuse to avoid your revenge and split the Qi family into two.
, fled into Qingyun City and lived in seclusion."
"I have to say that Qihua's martial arts talent is not strong, but his scheming is very deep. If I hadn't met Master Dejue ten years ago, I'm afraid this matter would have been concealed by them forever."
"Of course, the people of Qi Hua's lineage are really useless. They have been studying the secret art of blood fusion for hundreds of years, but they still can't break it. In the end, they still come to beg me... Haha..."
Speaking of this, Chu Changtian burst out laughing, as if he thought of something extremely interesting, and continued: "Every time I think of this, His Highness is extremely happy; who would have thought that my father has been planning for hundreds of years, risking all his efforts and suffering.
The secret art of blood-melting that I have been searching for so hard to find was actually obtained by me ten years ago, haha...and you, Pu Ruozhi!"
"Do you think your senior brother really trusts you? Stop dreaming. You have been just a pawn of his from beginning to end. You are just a pawn used by him to divert firepower and attract people who covet the secret arts.
!”
"You're talking nonsense!"
As soon as these words came out, the sluggish old man seemed to be stabbed in the nerves for an instant, his eyes suddenly turned red, and he immediately rioted, twisting desperately, making the chains rattle, and roared: "You are talking nonsense, you are talking nonsense!"
"Am I talking nonsense? Huh, Pu Ruozhi, Pu Ruozhi, sometimes I really don't know whether to call you stupid or brainless."
Seeing the old man looking crazy, Chu Changtian smiled even more happily, and said again: "When the Wushuang Sword Emperor accepted you as a disciple, you couldn't help but be happy, thinking that life was full of light; but you didn't expect that there was no
How long ago did the Wushuang Sword Emperor encounter something unexpected and pass away?"
"Your path to martial arts has been cut off, and your splendid life has been annihilated. But you are still unwilling, still full of hope, and even want to avenge your short-lived master. But you know that your cultivation is weak, and in those imperial realms
You are like an ant in front of your enemy, unable to take revenge at all, so you took the opportunity to go to the Sword Sect, hoping to unite the eight disciples of the Wushuang Sword Emperor and work together to avenge the Wushuang Sword Emperor."
"But you didn't expect that those high-ranking disciples of the Sword Emperor are all guys with human faces and animal hearts. Not only do they have no intention of avenging the Wushuang Sword Emperor, but they also exclude you, my little junior brother, from the sword.
Shan, I simply don’t recognize your identity as a disciple of the Wushuang Sword Emperor."
"At that moment, you were very depressed and collapsed, and felt that the whole world was dark, right?"
Hearing this, the old man's crazy body suddenly froze, his clear eyes dimmed instantly, his expression was decadent, and a touch of pain appeared on his face.
Chu Changtian's words indeed spoke to his heart!
At that time, although he was accepted as a disciple by the Wushuang Sword Emperor, he was only a temporary disciple. He was not brought back to the Sword Sect at all, and he never met other brothers. As a result, the sudden death of the Wushuang Sword Emperor left him nameless and without status.
He couldn't get Jian Zong's approval at all.
Chu Changtian paused and continued: "Later, you came back in embarrassment, unable to recover, until you met your ancestor, Emperor Chu Yu, and was moved by his passion for establishing a destiny for the people and creating peace for all generations, which made you temporarily put your mind at ease.
Grief-stricken, he assisted Emperor Chu Yu, conquered Cangyun, and even established an academy for Cangyun's foundation to cultivate future generations of warriors for the empire, and then retreated bravely and succumbed behind the scenes."
"I guess you were completely heartbroken at that time, right? You were probably ready to call it a day but ended up dying, right?"
The old man's frozen body trembled, and his eyes became even darker.
He was indeed disheartened when he was expelled by the Sword Sect; if not for the appearance of Emperor Chu Yu, he would have even prepared to commit suicide and follow in the footsteps of the Unparalleled Sword Emperor.
Even though he was later inspired by Emperor Chu Yu and helped him conquer the Cangyun Empire, he still couldn't let go of the pain in his heart and didn't want glory, so he never held any official position in the Cangyun Empire; even
He once founded the Black and White Academy and Cangyun Academy, but he did not serve as the palace master or dean.
At that time, when he looked at the stable Donghuang and the people living and working in peace and contentment, he still wanted to commit suicide or follow the Wushuang Sword Emperor!
"But you never expected that at this moment, the senior brother who doesn't accept you, doesn't recognize you, and once rejected you, would suddenly come to your door and even start to talk about our friendship with you."
Chu Changtian continued: "So, you were inspired again, and the stagnant water hidden in your heart became alive again; you thought this was the recognition of you by the senior brothers, you thought this was your chance to return to the master, you thought
You can obtain your status openly and honestly."
"So, even if you are captured, even if you are deposed, even if you are imprisoned in this dark dungeon for hundreds of years and tortured every day, you still don't want to protect the things that your senior brother has given you.
Compromise; but have you really thought about it, maybe he is lying to you? Maybe, he has no intention of letting you return to the school, no intention of recognizing you as a junior brother?"
"No, it's impossible!"
The old man suddenly raised his head, his dirty face was already full of tears, but his eyes were extremely firm, and he said firmly: "Senior brother will not lie to me, senior brother will not lie to me..."
"I won't lie to you?"
Chu Changtian suddenly shouted loudly, stepped forward, raised his hand and slapped the old man on the face, and sneered: "Wake up, he has been lying to you from the beginning to the end and treating you like a monkey!
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"Otherwise, why would he divide the blood-melting secret technique into two parts, leave one part to you for safekeeping, and the other secretly to his heirs?"
Red blood flowed from the corner of the old man's mouth. He still had a firm gaze and said lightly: "Elder brother does this, so he has a reason to do it..."
Snap!
Before the old man could finish speaking, Chu Changtian slapped him again and sneered: "The reason? His reason is because you are so stupid!"
"I'm afraid you don't know how powerful the blood-melting secret technique is, right? The evil is a bit evil, but once you successfully practice it, you can reach the imperial realm within a hundred years! If this kind of treasure is passed down, you can achieve it within a hundred years.
Create a huge family that sweeps away all the forces in Tianjian Continent, that’s why he quietly passed it on to his heirs.”
"But everyone knows that this technique belongs to him, and everyone knows that it is in the hands of the Xiao family, so before the Xiao family can grow up, he must lead the trouble away, and he must lead the trouble to a fool."
