As soon as the black dragon finished speaking, Qin Shaofeng seemed to move. A wicked smile immediately spread across the black dragon's face.
But in the very next instant, the black dragon froze. Qin Shaofeng turned around, chanting an incantation, and a beam of golden light shot forth, swiftly enveloping the black dragon.
The black dragon could scarcely believe it. It struggled and twisted its body, gritting its teeth as it cursed loudly.
"Human cultivator, what are you doing? I already bowed my head and submitted to you, and I even kindly placed the Ancient Kingdom ruins right before you."
Qin Shaofeng seemed not to hear him. His gaze rested calmly on the horizon as he smiled.
"If I'm not mistaken, this trial was about cultivation and wealth and power."
"If I had truly chosen wealth and power just now, I'm afraid my Dao Heart would have been destroyed."
"Once the Dao Heart is destroyed, attaining the Great Dao becomes impossible."
"Black dragon, you truly calculated well. Once my Dao Heart crumbled, you could have avenged your grievances."
"With such petty tricks, did you really think I wouldn't see through them?"
Qin Shaofeng smiled faintly, his composed manner impossible to ignore.
The black dragon had not expected Qin Shaofeng to see through everything. It threw back its head and laughed.
"You truly are a clever one. Do you see? Everyone who initially came seeking the Ancient Kingdom ruins perished within them."
"Even those who craved the scepter and wealth were tainted by the poison smeared upon them and turned into white bones."
"The poison upon them was the Heartbreak Poison, most dreaded by Dao cultivators."
"If an ordinary person touched it, they would turn into white bones. But if a cultivator touched it, their lifelong cultivation would gradually collapse."
"When