As this bleak, murderous aura spread through Humble Heart Garden, the fish in the nearby pond dove straight to the bottom, several birds in the trees took flight in fright, and even the cries of the wild cats in the garden's weeds vanished without a trace. The temperature and air throughout Humble Heart Garden seemed to freeze solid.
"If Grand Tutor will allow me to return home today, Zhengfang will repay you handsomely someday!" Han Zhengfang's voice suddenly turned slightly hoarse. With those words, his bearing began to rise like an iceberg breaking through the sea, lofty and formidable, its jagged grandeur revealed.
Han Zhengfang, who had remained unfailingly proper ever since entering Humble Heart Garden, no longer carried the deference and restraint that one of Great Xia's Nine Ministers showed before the Grand Tutor. In an instant, he began speaking to the Grand Tutor as an equal.
The Grand Tutor looked at Han Zhengfang. "If I let you leave Humble Heart Garden safely today, what face will I have left to remain on Xuanyuan Hill tomorrow? Your generous repayment is poison to me!" Having said that, the Grand Tutor suddenly sighed, shook his head, glanced at a pile of scattered rocks beside the pond, and muttered something that Han Zhengfang could not understand. "Ah, I didn't expect it to come so soon!"
"Does Grand Tutor know why the Emperor Xuanyuan disappeared?" Han Zhengfang suddenly smiled, launching a surprise attack by asking a question even Meng Shidao had never anticipated at such a moment.
"I do not," the Grand Tutor replied calmly, shaking his head.
"That is because the Emperor Xuanyuan knew that Great Xia would certainly be destroyed by the Devil Race in this Holy War. The passage to the Earth Element Realm in Military Province, along with Lion