Broad-Area Silence (I)

Chaolue and Bei Gongru went on ahead, because they and Zhou Zhi were not really on the same side to begin with.

Zhou Zhi waited where he was for a while before setting off for the Dragon Duel venue.

The game Fang Tianzhao and Hua Qianqiu had laid out was already very clear.

Both sides had been plotting for who knew how long over the ownership of the [Imperial Crown].

The Imperial Crown's power was the foundation of their own strength.

However...

Zhou Zhi did not entirely agree.

Fang Tianzhao was indeed a great leader of his generation, possessing sufficient cunning and power.

But... he was still only human.

Perfect planning could not compare to absolute strength.

He did not know about anything else, but Zhou Zhi knew the Imperial Crown's true form better than anyone.

The massive Pestilence that had swept across the world for three years in his Past Life had been the Imperial Crown's former form.

Did this world truly understand how powerful it was?

At that thought, the [Standard-Issue Plague-Slaying Blade] in Zhou Zhi's right hand could no longer withstand his mimicry and shattered completely.

Chen Junsheng's [Ravenfeather Cursed Scythe] had been taken away by Bei Gongru as a trophy. Zhou Zhi had no intention of keeping it. First, he was unused to unconventional Plague-Slaying Blades like scythes. Second, the [Cursed Scythe] was a Named Blade and could not be converted through mimicry, so it would be useless in his hands anyway. He might as well give away a favor. When his true form was eventually exposed, it would leave his future father-in-law a little less furious.

Twenty-Three's expression turned solemn. "Four hundred meters ahead, turn left. There's a [Plague-Slaying Blade] shop under [Shenwu Pharmaceuticals]."

Because of the various dragon-class disasters, most of Chengyun's citizens had