Qin Huang?
Hearing that name, Chen Changan was rather surprised. He didn't believe his father could have failed to see what kind of person Qin Huang was.
Yet he'd spared this man's life?
"Why didn't my father kill Qin Huang?" Chen Changan asked curiously.
"Your father said that Qin Huang was greedy for life and afraid of death, faithless and untrustworthy."
"But precisely because he was afraid to die, your father spared him."
"After all, if he killed everyone, it would probably attract the attention of the Nine Profound Domain."
"With Qin Huang around, he'd help conceal what happened of his own accord."
"After all, Qin Huang had betrayed someone once to save his own skin. He wouldn't dare tell the truth, because then the Nine Profound Domain wouldn't spare him either."
"So with Qin Huang there, the Nine Profound Domain wouldn't..."
As he spoke, Junzi Nian noticed that something seemed off about Chen Changan's expression. He froze for a moment, then quickly understood.
"You didn't..."
"Mm. I killed him."
"You sure acted fast! With Qin Huang dead, the Nine Profound Domain will probably notice something, at least to some extent."
"What's done is done. Let's leave it at that."
"But Qin Huang was also looking for the Holy Spirit Pearl. What did he want it for?"
Chen Changan suddenly felt that he'd been a little too hasty in killing Qin Huang. At the time, he'd only been thinking about getting back to the Eastern Extreme Domain as soon as possible, and had forgotten to ask why he'd been searching for the Holy Spirit Pearl.
"Listen, nephew, I can't know every little thing."
"Look at the state I'm in. Do you really think it'd make sense for me to know too much?"
"What I do know, I learned from your