What's Yours Is Mine, Dragon's Reverse Scale

"Oh? Is that so? People from the Northern Mang Dynasty wanted to throw my Great Qin Dynasty into turmoil?"

Qin Luo was somewhat surprised. He had not expected the Northern Mang Dynasty to get involved as well.

However, it was probably not that the Northern Mang people thought highly of him. They merely valued his identity.

If Chen Zhanshan made a move and killed Qin Luo, Chen Zhanshan would no longer have a foothold in the Great Qin Dynasty. At that time, the Northern Mang Dynasty could bring Chen Zhanshan into Northern Mang and make him one of their own.

Killing Qin Luo also carried many benefits. It could gradually push the battle between the princes into a fever pitch.

No one was a fool. Who could not see the twists and turns behind this?

In this world, no one cared about irrefutable proof. A reason, an excuse, was all that was needed.

If someone produced evidence proving that this matter was part of the princes' open and covert struggle, the other princes would gladly beat a drowning dog.

Who had the reason and excuse to kill Qin Luo? Qin Feng did. Qin Yun did too.

They might become the next targets of the purge.

The Northern Mang Dynasty merely needed to fan the flames, yet the gains would be enormous.

Although the Northern Mang Dynasty was slightly weaker than the Great Qin Dynasty, the gap was not all that great.

The reason the Great Qin Dynasty was an Imperial Dynasty was because its founder had been an Emperor Realm expert. The Northern Mang Dynasty had never, from beginning to end, produced anyone who reached that realm.

Even so, that did not prevent them from becoming one of the Great Qin Dynasty's greatest enemies.

"I think others are also plotting to make you leave the Imperial Capital, leave the center of power."

"The border armies, especially the Northern Pacification Army, cannot be chosen!" Chen Zhanshan said gravely.

The Northern Pacification Army was practically the Northern Pacification King's personal domain. If Qin Luo went there, he might not necessarily die, but he would certainly be suppressed so thoroughly that he would never be given a chance to grow.

"Then I'll go to the Tenth Guard of the Demon Suppression Bureau!" Qin Luo made up his mind.

"I imagine some people would also be eager to see me enter the Tenth Guard of the Demon Suppression Bureau."

"This would be one of the stains on my record."

Qin Luo gave a cold laugh. If he wished to become the Great Qin Dynasty's Imperial Son in the future, or even the Qin Emperor of the Great Qin Dynasty, this record would easily become fodder for others to criticize.

But Qin Luo did not care. There was only one thing he cared about: power!

His gaze reached farther than everyone else's. In this world, he could make enemies of the entire world!

The tiny Great Qin Dynasty was merely a stepping stone for him.

"Fine. Go make the arrangements."

Chen Zhanshan knew that once he returned, he would have to carefully consider how to deal with Qin Luo.

Presumably, the Qin Emperor already had a complete plan in place.

The fact that the Qin Emperor still showed no intention of summoning Qin Luo made it clear that the Qin Emperor did not think much of this son.

An Innate Mortal Physique and a domineering, arrogant nature—put those two together, and Qin Luo was clearly a lost cause.

Qin Luo thoroughly looted Lin Xuan's spatial ring. Inside, he found only a few cultivation techniques, all of them rather low-grade.

He took out an iron box. A seal had been placed upon it.

"Looks like there might be something good inside?"

With a wave of Qin Luo's hand, the Human Emperor Banner appeared, and he entered it.

Cutting off all perception from the outside world.

Xi Huang appeared beside Qin Luo. Her gaze fell upon the iron box, and her brows furrowed slightly. "It seems this iron box has something extraordinary sealed inside it."

"Is it dangerous?" Qin Luo asked.

"Probably not."

"We'll know once we open it!"

Xi Huang began opening the iron box, while Qin Luo retreated slightly and kept a safe distance.

After spending several breaths, Xi Huang opened the iron box. A scale appeared before Qin Luo's eyes.

"A scale?" Qin Luo looked at the scale glimmering with a dim, shadowy radiance, disappointment appearing in his eyes. "That's it?"

"Dragon Scale!" Xi Huang cried out in shock.

"Dragon Scale?" Qin Luo's heart stirred. A porcelain bottle appeared in his hand. Within it was Divine Dragon Blood Essence. He vaguely sensed that the blood inside the bottle and the scale before him were responding to each other from afar.

As though they had encountered their own kind, the Dragon Scale was virtually confirmed.

"This is actually a Dragon Scale!"

"So it was true that Divine Dragons once appeared in this world."

"This Dragon Scale is extremely valuable. If forged into armor, it would surely become top-grade Saint Tier armor."

"If forged into a weapon, it has the potential to become an Emperor Weapon."

"You truly picked up a tremendous bargain."

Xi Huang looked at Qin Luo with a strange expression. "Did you know that brat named Lin Xuan had this treasure? Is that why you attacked him and killed him?"

"How would I know? It's not like I have x-ray vision." Qin Luo replied flatly.

He merely knew that protagonists were bound to have heaven-defying opportunities.

Lin Xuan was no exception.

Xi Huang did not press the matter. She said leisurely, "Although the Dragon Scale is precious, people capable of forging it are difficult to find in the entire world."

"For you right now, this Dragon Scale is still somewhat of a tasteless morsel."

Qin Luo nodded without refuting her. He always felt that Lin Xuan's Dragon Scale had another use, but he could not think of it for the moment.

"Lin Xuan, Lin Xuan, why didn't you have the habit of keeping a diary?" Qin Luo could not help complaining.

"Fine, next, it's time for me to accept Lin Xuan's inheritance."

He had not yet begun devouring the Origin Essence of the Five-Elements Spirit Body.

Now was the perfect time. With the outside in such chaos, raising his strength a little more would allow him to better preserve his own life.

"By the way, do you have any particularly badass soul cultivation techniques?" Qin Luo looked at Xi Huang and asked.

He had previously planned to head to the royal treasury and loot it, but now he had a ready-made top-tier expert before him. How could she possibly not have one?

Otherwise, how could her soul have endured for so long?

"Are you asking for my help?" Xi Huang assumed a proud posture.

"Then you need to agree to one condition of mine."

"A condition?"

"That's right. Agree to one condition, and I'll give you one of the most powerful soul cultivation techniques in this world!"

Crack! The Soul-Beating Whip appeared in Qin Luo's hand and lashed viciously through the air.

"Woman, you seem not to have recognized your position yet. You want to negotiate terms with me?"

"What's yours is mine, and what's mine is still mine. Conditions? Heh. You can only beg, understand?"

In the end, Xi Huang still resigned herself to it. "I'll give it to you, I'll give it to you! Please, stop hitting me! I can't take it anymore!"

While Qin Luo was teaching Xi Huang a lesson, several men beside Lin Xuan's corpse exchanged grim looks.

"The item is gone!"

"That was the Dragon's Reverse Scale! It's of tremendous importance—how could it be gone?"

"Qin Luo took it!"

"Qin Luo! He deserves to die!"

"We must retrieve it, or our years of planning will come to nothing!"

"If necessary, we can personally step in and kill Qin Luo!"