Ye Xing had never realized what a serious matter this was. All along, she had believed that no matter how great a disaster she caused, even if she were captured by the leader of a first-rate faction, the other side would at least give the two of them a chance to negotiate compensation.
Yet reality differed somewhat from Ye Xing's expectations. It was not that Ye Chen did not want to say it—it was that until the moment he died, he never had the chance to tell Niu Wudi that he was the son of the Cold Palace Immortal King.
Before this, Ye Chen had only just begun to relax when Duan Yankang, the only one who knew the inside story, successfully ambushed him and forcibly bound him.
After venting his own stress, Duan Yankang skillfully stripped Ye Chen of every treasure on him. Then, using an insidious Secret Art he had acquired in his early years, he extracted the bones and blood of this genius.
Duan Yankang's purpose was to use this as a foundation to break through his bottleneck and create an opportunity for Dao Verification. Just as he had imagined, Ye Chen's bones and blood were extraordinarily effective, actually loosening his bottleneck by a sliver. Perhaps with two more... no, just one more genius like this, Duan Yankang might truly have had a chance to break through!
As for Ye Chen, whose value had been completely used up, Duan Yankang packaged him up and tossed him to Niu Wudi while he still had only his last breath remaining...
Niu Wudi's mind was not bad, but he was not skilled at scheming for power. Seeing that Ye Chen's cultivation realm was truly only at the Golden Immortal Realm, he gave it little further thought.
In his understanding, for