"To spare my child from the curse of the Zhongchuan bloodline, this was the only thing I could do," Zhongchuan Jin said, his face pale.
Originally, he had had the chance to kill Zhongchuan Xian as well, but at the very last moment, he had ultimately been unable to strike.
Even though Zhongchuan Xian had once looked down on him and treated him as trash, he was still his father. He could raise his hand against the Eight Grand Princes, but he could not strike at Zhongchuan Xian.
"You had already defected to the [Akatsuki] Organization, hadn't you? Back in the Ancient Immortal Realm..." Zhongchuan Xian stared at Zhongchuan Jin, his face deathly pale.
Those ghastly white bones were Lin Chuan's bones, possessing the power to rot everything away.
Lin Chuan could not possibly have just given this to Zhongchuan Jin. In other words, Zhongchuan Jin's betrayal had not been a spur-of-the-moment decision; he had been planning it all along.
Thinking back to the day Lin Chuan had been sealed in the imperial palace, and the disappearance of Zhongchuan Jin's child, everything became self-evident at this moment.
Prince Cheng's face was filled with terror as he desperately tried to stay alive.
But this time, he did not have Zhongchuan Ze's luck.
Though Lin Chuan had not acted personally, he had infused the All-Killing Ash Bones with a massive amount of immortal chakra to sustain their power.
Moreover, Zhongchuan Jin had driven the All-Killing Ash Bones straight through Prince Cheng's heart from behind, striking a vital point. Even Prince Cheng, a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator, was powerless to recover from such an injury.
By the time Zhongchuan Xian finished speaking, Prince Cheng's body had already begun vanishing bit by bit from the heart outward, turning into ash and decaying along with the