Chapter 366: 366. Chapter 366: Ziwei Xianzi

366. Chapter 366: Ziwei Xianzi

Sun Taohong's steps were unsteady; she realized with absolute clarity that death was so close to her.

"Wait! I can tell you everything I know!"

At this critical juncture, Sun Taohong's mind raced, and suddenly, as if grabbing a straw to save her life, she looked at Su Chen with trepidation.

Su Chen paused slightly, stopping the movement of his hands.

His gaze was deep, like a bottomless cold pool—profound and silent—yet beneath this surface calm, there were undercurrents surging within.

"Oh? What do you have to say?"

Su Chen asked with interest, his eyes carrying a hint of playfulness.

It was as if the person before him now was merely a plaything for him to manipulate, and his mood could decide Sun Taohong's life or death in an instant.

Sun Taohong gritted her teeth hard, every muscle in her body tensed rigid, and beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down from her forehead involuntarily.

"What I know will surely be of interest to you. I can tell you everything I know in minute detail, but you must spare my life."

Sun Taohong said everything she wanted to say in one breath, fearing that if Su Chen lost patience, he would kill her on the spot.

"Do you think you still have the leverage to negotiate with me now? If you don't tell me, at most I will have to spend some effort, and I will still be able to find out what I want in the end."

Hearing this, Su Chen couldn't help but laugh softly, his gaze growing deeper, as if looking at a clown.

Sun Taohong's face turned sallow, shifting between pale and green, her expression changing several times before she finally forced a few words out from her throat.

"I... will speak."

At this moment, Su Chen was no longer in a hurry, watching Sun Taohong with composure.

"I advise you not to play any little tricks. The last person who didn't know the immensity of heaven and earth, Nangong Xuntian, has already completely vanished from this world."

Luo Shen stepped forward two paces, her gaze cold and sharp.

This was a warning—a warning that Sun Taohong had best not harbor any crooked thoughts, otherwise the outcome would surely be miserable.

Hearing this, the hope Sun Taohong had held in her heart was completely shattered.

She had originally thought that if Nangong Xuntian were still alive, she could have defected to them after saving her own life, and she wouldn't have been at her wit's end.

But Nangong Xuntian had long since gone to the afterlife, which was equivalent to completely blocking her path.

Moreover, if she wanted to survive now, she had to expose information about the master behind her.

If that person were to find out, she certainly wouldn't be able to survive either.

Sun Taohong was caught in a dilemma; after thinking it over, she decided to take a gamble, hoping she might just survive today.

Thinking of this, Sun Taohong closed her eyes in resignation and spoke slowly.

"Since you have already been to the Nangong Family, you must have found the hidden letters there. I had them too, but after reading them, I destroyed them all."

After she finished speaking, Luo Shen couldn't help but narrow her eyes.

By comparison, Sun Taohong was clever; to avoid being completely discovered, the best method was to destroy all incriminating evidence after reading it, rather than leaving it out in the open like Nangong Xuntian.

Even with the tightest defenses, it could not escape the fate of being seen by others.

Only things that do not exist cannot be found.

"Who is the person behind you? And why are you looking for someone with a Divine Dragon Martial Soul?" Su Chen asked two questions decisively, hitting the nail on the head.

"We don't know these things clearly. The master behind us is actually a Ziwei Xianzi in the Ziwei Pavilion. That Ziwei Xianzi's strength has already reached the realm of a Half-step Great Emperor, and her power is unfathomable. She gave us guidance back then, letting us come to Leiyin Mountain and telling us to keep watch; if we found such a person, we were to either kill them directly or report their whereabouts to them."

As Sun Taohong said this, a look of jealousy flashed in her eyes.

As a woman herself, she had sacrificed her appearance to climb to her current status; only she knew the bitterness and suffering along the way.

Yet that woman was peerless in beauty, like a clear lotus unstained by mud, and her cultivation realm had few rivals on this continent.

Why? She had clearly paid so much.

Thinking that the woman's eventual fate would be similar to her own, Sun Taohong felt a little better.

Su Chen and the others looked at each other, immediately confirming that the person was likely a Heavenly Dao Envoy sent to the Central Province by the Heavenly Dao Great Emperor.

Along the way, they had heard quite a bit of news about the Ziwei Pavilion, but there was little truly useful information; most of it just said that it was full of experts and was very mysterious.

On the surface, these sects supported each other, and the power of the entire Central Province was fragmented, but in reality, those who held the power were still the Ziwei Pavilion.

This was also the reason why Su Chen had not gone to the Ziwei Pavilion until now.

Being cautious was never wrong.

"Besides this, what else do you know?"

Su Chen continued to ask, his eyes carrying a hint of depth.

Upon hearing this, Sun Taohong knew that her current words were likely not satisfying Su Chen.

But while she and Nangong Xuntian appeared glorious on the surface, in reality, they were just stray dogs rescued by the Ziwei Pavilion; she didn't know much truly useful information.

For a moment, she racked her brains, and only then did she come up with one thing.

"She let us occupy Leiyin Mountain, actually to search for the legendary Leiyin Holy Fire. Ziwei Xianzi once prophesied that the Leiyin Holy Fire must have a connection to the Leiyin Clan, which is why we were so impatient to capture the Saintess."

Sun Taohong gritted her teeth and said quickly.

By this point, even she felt that Ziwei Xianzi was being somewhat delusional.

After all, she had been in Leiyin Mountain for so long and had almost turned the place upside down, yet she hadn't seen a shadow of the Leiyin Holy Fire.

She highly suspected that the Leiyin Holy Fire didn't actually exist, and they only continued searching because they had to obey Ziwei Xianzi's orders.

"Do you know how to get to the Ziwei Pavilion?"

Su Chen nodded; in that case, the reason why the Sun Family and Nangong Family had been wasting manpower and insisting on exterminating the Leiyin Clan had also been found.

"We don't know this. Although the Ziwei Pavilion is the largest power in the Central Province, it is very elusive; many cultivators, even if they try every possible method, cannot find the way in."

Sun Taohong shook her head honestly, speaking the truth.

As her voice fell, Sun Taohong suddenly noticed that Su Chen's expression had turned extremely ugly, and her heart skipped a beat.

This Su Chen wouldn't think that she was unwilling to betray Ziwei Xianzi and was saying this just to avoid exposing the true location of the Ziwei Pavilion, would he?

Seeing the killing intent in Su Chen's eyes nearly solidify, if looks could kill, Sun Taohong would likely be riddled with holes by now, slaughtered without a single piece of armor left. (End of chapter)