Ling Liaoyuan's expression stiffened slightly as he looked toward Ling Yuyue amid the ruins of the main hall...
He knew perfectly well that any explanation now would be useless. Ling Yuyue's Demon Sword had already driven him into a dead end.
Wuxian continued...
"Glazed Sword Peng had long since cultivated to the Extreme Prison Stage, yet deliberately hid his strength..."
"You pretended to be useless, then broke through the instant Glazed Sword Peng was devoured."
"The Ling Wangjiao I thought highly of unleashed a pure Nine Heavens One Sword—Nine Heavens Sword Dao that had never appeared in the Origin Universe."
"Haha..."
"It seems that within the Nine Heavens blood essence of your Heaven-Soaring Palace, there has long been an Extreme Prison Stage cultivation technique left behind by the Nine Heavens Emperor, hasn't there?"
From everything that had happened, Wuxian had connected countless dots...
From those three points alone, one could conclude that what Heaven-Soaring Palace cultivated was an Extreme Prison Stage technique belonging to the Nine Heavens Emperor.
Otherwise, things could not possibly have turned out this way...
"You played dumb all this time for this very moment, didn't you?" Wuxian asked coldly again.
Hearing this, Ling Liaoyuan's mouth twitched repeatedly...
That was not the case at all.
Everything had been caused by Ling Yuyue's Demon Sword. The Nine Heavens blood essence had vanished long ago.
Other than Sikong Jing's father, no one had ever received an inheritance from the Nine Heavens blood essence.
But Wuxian clearly did not believe him. He had clearly examined Ling Yuyue as well, yet had not discovered the Demon Sword at all. That only proved how terrifying the Demon Sword was... At this moment, Ling Liaoyuan dared even less to expose it.
Yet before the enraged Wuxian, he had no idea how to explain