Ye Jincheng's words struck Yue Xiaofei's mind like a Nine Heavens Thunderbolt!
Never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that these ultimate weapons, the pinnacle of human technology, were aimed at... gods!
His father was the guardian who kept the Western gods suppressed for the Dragon Kingdom!
His strange imprisonment five years ago, that so-called SSS+-level secret, had nothing to do with any crime he had committed!
The state had taken extraordinary measures to protect him and conceal the truth!
At that moment, everything fell into place!
At last, he understood why his father possessed such terrifying power!
Why, when facing the Five Great Immortal Houses, he had said, "A pack of beasts dares call themselves gods?"
Because in his eyes, those so-called "immortals" were nothing compared with real gods!
He finally understood why the Ning family feared the "space-based weapons" Ye Jincheng had mentioned!
Those weapons had never been meant for mortals like them!
They were meant to... kill gods!
They were the Dragon Kingdom's ultimate trump card against a second war of the gods that might erupt in the future!
"Hah..."
Yue Xiaofei let out a long breath, forced down his shock, and struggled to absorb it all.
He looked at Ye Jincheng and asked the question that mattered most to him.
"Maternal Grandfather, what about Ning Hongye? Why did the Ning family call her an ill-omened evil and insist on killing her? What does that have to do with any of this?"
At the mention of Ning Hongye, Ye Jincheng's expression turned grave again.
He glanced at the girl lying quietly on the hospital bed, as still as a porcelain doll. His eyes held a tangle of emotions and... a trace of pity.
"Because of a prophecy."
"The last prophecy left by a Western god in