"Sneaking around? At the very least, I'm a hundred, a thousand times better than a thieving stinkbug like you hiding in a gutter! So what if I assassinated you?
"So what if I sneaked around? But a stinkbug like you, hiding in a gutter, has no right to criticize me. You're over a hundred times more despicable than I am, a thousand, ten thousand times more petty. You have no right!"
Ye Zhen's mockery echoed throughout the entire water palace, turning Crown Prince Ao Zheng's face crimson.
As a dragon, what he could not stand most was being called a stinkbug. Yet Ye Zhen had compared this river ditch to a gutter and made an issue of his hiding here, instantly stabbing straight into this Dragon Prince's sore spot.
"Seal off the water palace! Seal it off completely! Find that bastard! I'll cut that bastard into a thousand pieces!" Ao Zheng roared furiously.
From the day he had been born until now, he had never suffered such humiliation!
Ever since his birth, everyone had catered to him and praised him. Forget insults—he had never even been shown a displeased expression.
Now, Ye Zhen had first broken his horn, then insulted him so viciously. In an instant, he deemed it the greatest shame of his life!
At Crown Prince Ao Zheng's roar, the entire water palace erupted into commotion inside and out. Nearly a thousand Mystic Palace Realm experts, along with the four World King Realm experts, combed through every inch of the water palace like an incomparably fine-toothed comb, yet they still failed to find Ye Zhen.
That only made Crown Prince Ao Zheng even angrier.
"Who are you? Get out here! Get out here and die before this Crown Prince!"
At this point, Ye Zhen no longer dared to