World-Shattering Information (Part 1)

Inside the secret room, there were only Lin Ming and Zhu Li.

At this point, seeing the mess Lin Ming had made, Zhu Li's expression darkened as he said, "Can you talk now?!"

Seeing this, Lin Ming knew what Zhu Li was wondering about and stopped keeping him in suspense. After all, he had orchestrated this matter himself, and he had long expected such a situation to arise. He had already prepared exactly what he would say.

Lin Ming's brows sank slightly, as though he were making one final effort to organize his thoughts. A look of recollection and solemnity gradually appeared on his face.

After a moment, Lin Ming slowly spoke. His voice was clear in the silent secret room, carrying a trace of distant heaviness:

"Elder Zhu Li, it is a long story. The twists, dangers, and hardships involved far exceeded your imagination. And the source of it all began with what Zi Yan and I encountered in those Ancient Ruins."

After saying that, Lin Ming paused. His gaze became incomparably deep, as though it had pierced through the barriers of time and returned to those Ancient Ruins, a place fraught with danger yet filled with unexpected opportunities.

Then, he slowly dropped the first piece of explosive news. Every word thundered through the secret room like a bolt from the blue:

"At that time, within those ruins, we not only obtained that long-rumored Dou Saint remains, but also discovered a divine object that was hundreds, even thousands of times more important to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan than the Dou Saint remains."

Lin Ming deliberately paused, looking at Zhu Li's expression as it instantly turned tense. Then, word by word, he said, "That was—the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit!"

"The Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit?!"

Even though Zhu Li had