County Prison Fourth Level.
"I'm very curious. Why did you agree so readily? As far as I know, Xiao Bieli's methods of forcing a confession out of you these past few days have hardly been light!" Jiang Ning stood beside the Mercury Pool and spoke slowly.
Water flowed around him, like an agile spirit snake.
"Xiao Bieli?" Mockery surfaced on Long Xingyun's face. "If I handed it over, it would be certain death! He wouldn't leave me alive to seek revenge on him in the future!"
"And the rumors outside are wrong! If I told him the truth, how would he ever believe me?"
"Wrong?" Jiang Ning smiled faintly. "Let's hear it!"
At this moment, the Heavenly Eye was open, and Jiang Ning could clearly see the one-inch Jade Tablet hidden inside Long Xingyun's heart.
But when that gaze fell on Long Xingyun, he suddenly felt as if every part of him, from head to toe, had been seen through.
Especially at his heart—he could clearly see Jiang Ning's gaze landing on that spot on his body.
His heart tightened, and he instinctively became even more respectful.
He immediately answered, "I believe Your Excellency also knows that my surname is Long. Back then, my father was one of the Eighteen Dragon Heads under the Secret King."
"I know!" Jiang Ning said faintly.
Long Xingyun then continued, "The so-called Secret King's Treasure circulating outside is all something conjured from nothing! Back then, the Secret King was slain by Martial Saint—how would he have had the chance to leave behind his own treasure? And that Secret King was not as the unofficial histories recorded, either; he never found any so-called True Dragon Nest."
"Back then, the Secret King obtained an opportunity from the True Dragon Hall!"
"I don't have any so-called Secret