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Chen Ke remained silent. He knew he couldn't remain silent forever, but he just didn't want to speak.

To be precise, I didn't want to see the disgusting face of the King of Shu.

From the very beginning, he was just trying to save himself. What did the life and death of the King of Shu have to do with him?

If his crime of colluding with the demon clan was proven true, not only would he die, but hundreds of people in their Chen family would be buried with him.

Even Ma Xiaoshu and others would be implicated and die unjustly.

If he had allowed the booklet to explode, the King of Shu would have been killed and he would not have survived.

Not only will he not survive, I'm afraid no one nearby will survive.

Too many people have died, and Chen Ke really doesn't want to see anyone else die.

Wu Jiutian and other senior members of the academy fell silent. They actually already had the answer in their hearts.

In order to avenge his fiancée, Di Yijian was willing to be used by the demon clan.

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In order to seek justice for the 300,000 innocent people who died tragically, Pan Yunmeng willingly pledged allegiance to the demon clan.

And the two martial arts academy students who died also died for revenge, or to eliminate harm for the people.

For the common goal, they formed an alliance, and for revenge, they did not hesitate to become accomplices of the demon clan.

What sowed the seeds of hatred was the flood in Yunzhou two years ago.

Wu Jiutian felt extremely sad. Five lives had already died under their noses. Wasn't that enough?

It was the King of Shu who committed such a sin.

The demon clan instigated a tide of insects to surround the mountain, airdropped more than thirty powerful demon beasts to the top of the mountain, and created two explosions.

In these earth-shaking events, no one from Haotian Academy died.

Even those students who were poisoned recovered after taking the detoxifying pills.

Only six or seven personal guards of King Xia Yunchang of Shu died in the chaos.

Of course, the Eight-Winged Goddess did not do so out of compassion, but out of some kind of nobility, she disdained to hurt innocent people.

The Avengers' target is the King of Shu, and they don't want to harm their colleagues, which shows that they still have some rationality.

What made Wu Jiutian feel sad was precisely the kindness they retained.

If they were simply wicked villains, why would he sympathize with them?

Perhaps the most unkind thing they did was to plan it all along, to let Chen Ke take the blame in the end.

The chief instructor of Haotian Academy, Hong Tianze, looked at Chen Ke with a serious expression:

"Chen Ke, it's best not to hide anything at this time. Who are their accomplices?!"

"No need for him to tell me, I'm already here."

The door of the conference hall opened, and a frayed, down-and-out middle-aged man walked in slowly.

Fan Daocheng?!

Liu Zimeng and several instructors looked at the newcomer with surprise on their faces.

As long as you have stayed in the academy for more than half a year, no one will not know Fan Daocheng.

This former martial arts genius was once only one step away from the secret realm of the academy.

However, a family tragedy threw him from the clouds into hell.

Everyone who knew about his experience sighed with regret, and Fan Daocheng became a role model often mentioned by students and teachers.

Fan Daocheng was wearing a coarse cloth gown and his gray hair was tied back. He was only thirty years old, but his back was already hunched.

Under the vigilant gaze of the King of Shu's personal guards, Fan Daocheng walked to Di Yijian's body, squatted down, tears already flashing in his eyes.

"They are all good kids, they are all good people, and it is me who harmed them!"

Fan Daocheng muttered to himself, his expression extremely bleak.

Standing up, Fan Daocheng looked at King Xia Yunchang of Shu sitting on the main throne, his eyes revealing a cold look.

"Xia Yunchang, do you recognize me?"

Xia Yunchang said coldly:

"Is it necessary for this king to recognize you?"

Fan Daocheng smiled bitterly:

"You are so high up that you won't recognize me, but you should recognize Fan Dingbang, the former president of the Northern Frontier Military!"

Xia Yunchang was slightly shocked: "You are Fan Dingbang's son?!"

Fan Daocheng said indifferently:

"Fifteen years ago, when you were working in the Ministry of War, in order to control the military generals, you deliberately withheld a batch of supplies to the Northern Frontier. At that time, the beastmen launched a large-scale attack.

It was freezing cold, and the Northern Frontier defenders were short of food and clothing, but they had to fight desperately to resist the attack of an enemy that was ten times their number."

Fan Daocheng looked at Zhuo Rou's body from the side and said sadly,

"The general who was guarding Beibing City at that time, Zhuo Rou's father, General Zhuo Tianxing, led 8,000 soldiers to attack in order to delay the beastman's attack.

All 8,000 people died on the battlefield, which brought a glimmer of hope to the northern border defense line."

"My father had no choice but to use the money given to the soldiers to urgently purchase a batch of supplies."

Fan Daocheng's eyes were filled with tears, and he said in a deep voice,

"The enemy was eventually repelled, but my father and 132 generals of the Northern Frontier Army were impeached by you and turned from heroes into criminals. Overnight, 28 generals of my Fan family lost their heads!"

Xia Yunchang's face was gloomy, and he said slowly: "

Fan Daocheng, I was also used by someone back then. This debt of your Fan family cannot be counted on my head!"

"Yeah?"

Fan Daocheng laughed sarcastically,

"Then why did you try so hard to prevent the redress of my Fan family, and why did you even deprive General Zhuo of his posthumous honors?"

Fan Daocheng's eyes were blurry.

"For more than a decade, I have been in a daze. Every time I wake up, I hate my father to the bone. The pain is too painful to be told to others.

If someone hadn't told me the truth two years ago, I would have blamed my father wrongly and resented him until I died."

Hong Tianze said in a deep voice:

"So from that time on, you became a spy of the demon race?"

"Yes, for revenge, I swore allegiance to the Ghost King, secretly recruited avengers for him, taught them the Ghost King's Three Techniques, and asked them to secretly collect intelligence."

Fan Daocheng said dejectedly, "It's a pity that God's will was not on our side. We still failed in the end!"

God's will, are you worthy enough to say God's will?

Xia Yunchang sneered and said coldly:

"Fan Daocheng, tell me your accomplices and I will leave you with an intact body."

"Accomplices?"

Fan Daocheng couldn't help but laugh,

"Xia Yunchang, those people you killed, those whose families you destroyed, their relatives, their orphans, are all my accomplices. Can you catch them all?"

Xia Yunchang couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart. Looking at the indifferent expressions of everyone in the hall, he suddenly felt that the whole world was full of malice towards him.

Fan Daocheng looked at the five dead students with a sad face:

"They were all good kids and shouldn't have died. The one who should die is me."

The hall was silent. Was this really the result they wanted?

Chen Ke walked forward, picked up a jade pendant from beside Di Yijian's body, handed it to Fan Daocheng, and said respectfully: "Senior, this is the jade pendant that the King of Shu just dropped."

Fan Daocheng's eyes flashed with surprise, and then he smiled:

"Reenacting Yu Rang's story? Thank you, it's thoughtful!"

In ancient times, there was an assassin named Yu Rang who tried to assassinate his enemies several times but failed.

In desperation, Yu Rang found a piece of his enemy's clothing, poked a few holes in it as a revenge, and then committed suicide.

Fan Daocheng laughed heartily, and a strange glow appeared on his weathered face, as if he had regained the high spirits and wildness of a general's son.

He took the jade pendant handed to him by Chen Ke and put it directly into his mouth.

Crunch, crunch,

Fan Daocheng seemed to be eating ice cubes. The harsh sound and the difficult swallowing sound were creepy.

Broken teeth and jade chips, along with blood, slowly flowed down from the corners of his mouth.

The bright red blood gradually turned black, staining the broken jade pendant black as well.

Fan Daocheng sat cross-legged in the middle of the five corpses, and the light in his eyes gradually faded.

"Good death!"

Xia Yunchang laughed out loud, stood up from his seat and walked away.

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P.S. Many book lovers have expressed some confusion, so I will give a brief summary here.

First, the demon clan took advantage of Fan Daocheng and his men's hatred for the King of Shu and recruited them.

However, the Avengers did not know that everything the demons planned was not to assassinate the King of Shu, but for the scroll.

Second, the Avengers framed Chen Ke in order to protect themselves.

The King of Shu is determined to deal with the Chen family. If Chen Ke is suspected of assassination, the King of Shu would rather take this opportunity to make it an ironclad case and eliminate the Chen family in one fell swoop.

At this time, it didn't matter to the King of Shu who the real murderer was.

Di Yijian's identification was equivalent to handing a knife to the King of Shu.

I am not here to whitewash anyone. The bad things that Chen Ke encountered can only be described as the helplessness of a small person.

I did not give Chen Ke a God's perspective. In fact, everyone involved only saw part of the truth.

So Chen Ke didn't even know that Ding San and Ding Si were monitoring him.

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