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"Zhao Zhiqin,"

Zhao Sheng replied succinctly.

Hmm?

He actually didn't lie!

This surprised Mo Shengxuan, the leader of Black Ice Platform.

He had thought he would need to put some effort into it, but who would have thought this person... was quite sensible!

"Two years ago, did you bid on a Golden Ring Spirit Earthworm at an auction?" Mo Shengxuan's voice was incomparably cold, and even the tone seemed to be frozen, unchanged from just now.

The moment Zhao Sheng heard this, he pretended to be "energized" and immediately nodded, "Yes, on behalf of someone else, I indeed bid on a Golden Ring Spirit Earthworm."

Someone else?

Mo Shengxuan's body stiffened, and waves of tumult churned in his heart, "Could it be that this person is not the main party, and there is another master behind the Dragon Ball?"

Ever since the Ancestor issued the decree, the Mo family had mobilized all visible and hidden forces to search for this extremely rare Dragon Ball, nearly turning the Da Yong Dynasty upside down.

However, over the past two years, the Mo family had found numerous plausible but ultimately unrelated clues to the Dragon Ball.

After filtering down to the last few unverifiable leads, the most critical one was from the Ten Thousand Treasures Auction two years ago, where a mysterious person bid an exorbitantly high price of 150,000 for a Golden Ring Spirit Earthworm.

Therefore, the Black Ice Platform and all branches within the Mo family were searching with all their might for this mysterious person.

This search lasted for two years.

Fortunately, the Black Ice Platform had the upper hand and was the first to discover this person's whereabouts days after they reappeared, managing to capture them in time.

Because it was a matter of great importance, that's why Mo Shengxuan personally took charge of the interrogation.

To his surprise, this interrogation actually led to a significant clue.

Mo Shengxuan's expression was stern, his voice extremely cold, "Who is the 'someone else' you mentioned?"

As soon as these words fell, the Blood Eyes in the darkness suddenly shot out an icy and chilling radiance, casting onto Zhao Sheng.

In an instant, Zhao Sheng felt as if his organs were frozen, his blood turned to ice, and an intense chill surged into his Soul Sea. Find your next read at empire

Zhao Sheng became extremely pale, his eyebrows, mustache, and hair suddenly coated with layers of frost.

Seeing this reaction, Mo Shengxuan immediately realized that his emotions fluctuated too greatly, unintentionally revealing a hint of the Golden Core's true intent.

Cough!

He coughed lightly, immediately reining back all of the Golden Core's true intent.

Phew!

Zhao Sheng exhaled a breath of icy fragments, his Spiritual Power quickly circulating through his limbs and bones, dispelling the coldness remaining in his body.

As the frost on his face gradually dissipated, he was greatly shaken inside.

He had no idea that the gap between Foundation Establishment and the Golden Core was so vast until he actually faced a Golden Core Master!

No wonder there's an old saying in the Cultivation World, "Below the Golden Core, all are ants."

Zhao Sheng had previously thought it was an exaggeration, but now he realized... it was no understatement!

At that moment, Mo Shengxuan repeated the same question as before.

"Who is the 'someone else' you mentioned?"

After regaining his composure, Zhao Sheng immediately gave the answer he had prepared, "To report to the True Immortal, it's the Hongyang State Zhou Family."

The Hongyang State Zhou Family?!!

Mo Shengxuan's gaze sharpened, and the Void True Eye behind him told him that this man was not lying.

"Could it be that the Dragon Ball also ended up in the hands of the Zhou Family?"

A thought flashed through Mo Shengxuan's mind, but his suspicious nature as part of his profession instinctively made him doubt Zhao Sheng.

This person was being too cooperative!

Something was off!

With that thought, Mo Shengxuan immediately asked, "What is your relationship with the Zhou Family?"

"I am a Guest Elder of the Zhou family!" (I'm not lying!)

"As a Guest Elder, loyalty's expected! Why wouldn't you conceal the truth for the Zhou family?"

"The renowned reputation of the Black Ice Platform is known to all in the Dayong Dynasty! Lying and hiding the truth would be meaningless. Most importantly, I harbor a deep-seated grudge against the Zhou family!" (I'm not lying!)

Upon hearing these words, Mo Shengxuan's body trembled, and a look of surprise flashed across his face.

He had not anticipated that, after all the interrogation, he would end up with such a result.

"You hold a grudge against the Zhou family?"

"Yes, in the past..." Zhao Sheng laid out the well-prepared story he had concocted.

From beginning to end, he remained calm and collected, because he had not lied at all. He had simply emphasized how the Wang Family was annihilated by the Zhou family and how his own family fled to the Heavenly Pillar Mountain. Then he intentionally glossed over certain details, changed the subject, and went straight to the part about joining the Origin Return Sect, entering the Desolate Domain, and infiltrating the Zhou family.

Zhao Sheng's editing skills were superb. Mo Shengxuan had too much faith in the powers of his Void True Eye, so he did not notice someone's trickery of Shifting Flower and Wood.

Zhao Sheng had originally planned to make use of the Mo family's power to destroy the Zhou family.

Although Mo Shengxuan's involvement was unexpected, overall, the development of events was under his control.

Zhao Sheng was not afraid that the other party would see through his tricks.

Because at this stage of events, the entire affair had become an overt conspiracy!

Why did he plan to launch this scheme only two years later?

As mentioned earlier, time was a key factor.

Two years had passed, and it was likely that the final essence of the Dragon Ball had been fully absorbed by the Golden Ring Spirit Earthworm.

It's even uncertain whether the Dragon Ball still exists.

If the Dragon Ball was gone, the Zhou family would be hard-pressed to defend themselves!

Even if the Dragon Ball remained, where had the essence within the Dragon Ball gone?

The Zhou family might argue that most of the essence in the Dragon Ball had already dissipated before they obtained it.

However, would the Mo family believe such an argument?

Regardless of whether what the Zhou family said was true or not, the Mo family would not believe it.

Because the Mo family could not afford to gamble, nor did they dare to!

If the Patriarch of Zhou Family managed to cultivate a Mountain Dragon and signed a Symbiotic Contract.

With a lifespan of two thousand years, even if as dumb as a pig, given time, a Nascent Soul Ancestor could be cultivated through sheer endurance.

And the lifespan of the Mo family's Ancestor had already surpassed two thousand years, with only a few hundred years remaining.

When the Ancestor of the Mo family passed away in meditation, and the Zhou family produced a Nascent Soul Ancestor, it was not hard to imagine what would happen to the Dayong Dynasty at that time.

More than two thousand years ago, how the Mo family seized control over the Dayong Dynasty from the Sleeping Lion Hua Family was something the Zhou family would attempt to replicate.

But by then, the Mo family might not have the against-the-heavens Qi Fortune like the Hua family did.

Although the Hua family declined, they had the secret support of a great sect from the Demon Path, which ultimately forced the Mo family to ease up on them.

It can be said that from the day the Zhou family acquired the Dragon Ball, no matter how they responded, they would become a thorn in the side of the Mo family.

As long as the Zhou family existed, the Mo family would feel like there was a fishbone stuck in their throat, like a thorn in their back, as if sitting on pins and needles.

The reason lay in the potential existence of a "Mountain Dragon," whether it was real or mere fabrication.

Of course, Mo Shengxuan currently only suspected that the Zhou family had found the Dragon Ball but had no concrete evidence.

However, "evidence" would soon present itself!

Before Zhao Sheng appeared in Yongjing, he had already duplicated the recording twice, with one copy secretly sent to the Hua family and the remaining copy in the hands of a mortal,

If Zhao Sheng ultimately couldn't extricate himself, this mortal would volunteer to deliver the True Shadow Ball to the Black Ice Platform in half a month.

After recounting his deep enmity with the Zhou family, Zhao Sheng volunteered information about some sabotage he had conducted on members of the Zhou family. In the end, he firmly pledged that if it meant annihilating the Zhou family, he was willing to be like Lao Liu, even if it cost him his life.

Mo Shengxuan silently listened to Zhao Sheng's declaration, and couldn't help but regard this man with a heightened sense of esteem.

In this vast world, perhaps nothing is more terrifying than death!

Without tremendous courage, few dare pledge their lives to their convictions.