"You're trying to keep me here, aren't you?"
Gu Yuan stared at Hun Tiandi and suddenly spoke. With his shrewdness, he naturally saw that the latter had no intention of fighting just yet. That left only one obvious purpose: to hold him here.
Hearing this, Hun Tiandi smiled. He calculated the time and said with a smile, "It should be about time now..."
"The Ancient Emperor Cave Abode is in the Black-Corner Region, isn't it?"
Gu Yuan narrowed his eyes and spoke again.
At these words, the smile on Hun Tiandi's face stiffened slightly before fading. "So you do know..." he said softly.
He made no particular effort to conceal it. He understood that since Gu Yuan had said this much, he must already know quite a bit. Denying it would be pointless.
"It seems heaven isn't on your side."
Gu Yuan smiled.
"We'll soon see who comes out on top..."
Hun Tiandi spread his hands, then paused briefly. "Was it because of Xiao Yan?"
Naturally, he was asking whether Xiao Yan was the reason Gu Yuan had learned the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode's location.
Gu Yuan smiled, neither confirming nor denying it.
"What a menace..."
Hun Tiandi could not help shaking his head, a strange feeling stirring within him. Who could have imagined that the declining Xiao Clan would produce people like Xiao Yan and Xiao Yu? Even his Hun Clan had repeatedly suffered setbacks at their hands... And now, they had even discovered the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode first...
"It's all because those fools kept hiding information from me..."
Hun Tiandi sighed softly. Had Xiao Yan not gradually risen to prominence in the Central Plains, he might still have been unaware that the young man had escaped the Hun Clan's relentless pursuit.
By the time he learned of