"Will you let me go if I tell you?"
"No. But if you refuse to talk, I'll put you in my Soul Scattering Gourd and make you wish you were dead!"
Hong Yun looked at Gu Diao and slowly bared his white teeth, making cold sweat pour down Gu Diao's face.
He had nearly lost half his life from just one strike of the gourd. If he were taken inside, things would truly not end well for him.
"I'll talk, I'll talk! My lord took an interest in Zhen Yuanzi's Earth Book, so he ordered us to come and seize it."
After speaking, Gu Diao looked at Zhen Yuanzi with a mournful expression.
Seize the Earth Book? Was that person brain-damaged too? The Earth Book was his Companion Spiritual Treasure. As long as he lived, who could take it away?
And even if someone snatched it from his hands, so what? The Karma between him and the Earth Book could not be severed. It would be useless in another's hands, no more than a hard stone.
"Why does your lord want the Earth Book? There has to be a reason. Talk!"
Gu Diao staggered, then retreated several steps in fright at Zhen Yuanzi's roar.
"Um... I-I'm not too sure either. It seems to be related to a scroll in my lord's possession. That's only my guess. I don't know for certain. That's all I know."
Gu Diao spilled everything he knew in one breath, terrified that Hong Yun would take him away if he spoke too slowly.
"A scroll?"
Zhen Yuanzi muttered under his breath. Suddenly, the Earth Book's yellow glow flared brightly, and a yearning from its Origin entered Zhen Yuanzi's sea of consciousness.
All three were startled by the sudden phenomenon. They had merely mentioned an incomplete name—why