The air was heavy, and Heaven and Earth fell silent.
Meng Chuan and Little Pagoda gazed toward Five-Element Mountain, waiting for him to decide.
Meng Chuan had already stated his demands.
He would take Qin Hao and free Kunpeng's son from beneath Five-Element Mountain.
The choice now lay with Five-Element Mountain.
"The one trapped beneath Five-Element Mountain is Kunpeng's son?" Little Pagoda was astonished.
He had not known the captive's identity. He only knew the captive had hatched from an egg.
That egg had been buried in a small Chaos world, where it had gestated for a million years before finally cracking open.
Little Pagoda had only heard the story. He had never seen Kunpeng's son as an egg, or he would have recognized him.
"To think one of the Ten Fiends, Kunpeng, left a child behind. Now that's an earth-shaking secret. If word got out, who knows how many people would lose sleep?"
Little Pagoda sounded rather pleased at the prospect.
The people who had attacked Kunpeng's son overlapped considerably with those who had attacked him.
Kunpeng's son had an extraordinary lineage and immense strength. Once freed, he would certainly go looking for trouble.
The mere thought of that scene delighted Little Pagoda.
Few knew who Kunpeng's son was. After emerging from the small Chaos world, he had refined his innate imprint into his body and grown powerful in the extreme.
Almost no one in the Three Thousand Dao Provinces could see his True Body.
Of course, "almost no one" meant some people in the Three Thousand Dao Provinces did know his true identity.
Otherwise, with so many powerful figures causing havoc across the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, why had he alone been hunted down?
"But why do you want to save him?" Little Pagoda asked, puzzled.
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