After several rounds of drinks, the alcohol began to hit.
Bang!
Hinako Akuta, her pretty face flushed red, slammed her wine cup onto the table and vented the resentment in her heart.
"As a celestial maiden, you should aid the world and save others. Yet after bringing disaster upon a nation and its people, you just walked away. Shameless!"
Tamamo no Mae turned her head aside, pretending not to hear.
Though the endless slander and abuse had long made this Fox Spirit immune to shame, she still felt the tiniest bit guilty when facing a junior she had personally screwed over.
"As the ruler of a nation, you actually tricked me by saying you only wanted to admire the Kongtong Seal, then reneged on the deal once you got it. Despicable!"
The First Emperor lifted his wine cup and looked away.
It could not be helped. Though a mortal king might possess all under Heaven, some things remained forever beyond reach. The secret of immortality was precisely his weakness.
Only then did Samael finally understand why this First Emperor, whose temperament could hardly be called easygoing, had shown such tolerance toward Hinako Akuta when she came knocking.
So the Kongtong Seal had been "borrowed"?
Still, it was understandable.
Borrowing without returning it was an old Qin tradition.
During the Warring States period, his great-grandfather, King Zhao Xiang of Qin, had "borrowed" the Jade of He Shi from King Huiwen of Zhao.
Now, this one was merely carrying on the fine tradition of his ancestors.
"And if I ever find out who caused chaos in Kunlun and got me buried in that spatial rift, frozen for a thousand years, I'll kill them all!"
Samael immediately lowered his gaze, as though the patterns on the table had suddenly become utterly fascinating.
That