"Alright, to be honest, acting cute really doesn't suit you.
Besides, what did you think you would get after I told you the location of the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit?
At most, you'd just get some Tier 7 Medicinal Pills."
Qin Yun looked at the other with faint amusement; truly, this was the first time he had seen Feng Qing'er reveal such a side.
"You must know that this is a spiritual treasure born only after ten thousand years at the convergence point of the bloodlines of a high-stage Dou Sheng-realm Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix.
Whether it is an Ancient Void Dragon or an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, or even a Heaven Demon Phoenix with merely insufficient bloodline purity,
once they completely absorb the power of the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, they are bound to reach the Dou Sheng realm directly.
Did you really think it would be yours just because you knew the location? If I remember correctly, Huang Tian has an only son named something like Jiufeng,
who is the young clan leader among your tribe. Once anyone else obtains a good thing, he is the first beneficiary.
Even a direct bloodline like you has no qualification to enjoy the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit; at most, they would dismiss you with some pills. Are you really just going to resign yourself to this?"
"..." Hearing this, Feng Qing'er fell unusually silent. She knew that if she really found the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit,
unless she absorbed it on the spot, returning with it meant it would inevitably end up in the pocket of the young clan leader.
Even if she had already absorbed all the energy, she would probably be treated as a blood bag by the others, who would extract every drop of medicinal efficacy from within her body.
As for the clan leader's biological son Jiufeng, he was the undisputed number one among the younger generation of the entire tribe at a tender age, and had already reached the Nine-Star Dou Wang realm.
To tell the truth, before coming to the Wind and Lightning Pavilion, she had always been an admirer of his, and might even have been willing to hand over the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit if she had it.
Yet now, having gotten to know Qin Yun, she found that the other did not seem quite as dazzling as she had imagined,
at least not when the gap in their realms was insignificant; it was impossible for him to have stunned her with a single slap.
Moreover, she actually found herself growing increasingly fond of Qin Yun this human now, a feeling she had never experienced before.
"No, no, I still don't want to be your pawn," Feng Qing'er shook her head immediately and said with determination,
"You should leave. As for all the things you said today, I will simply pretend I never heard them at all.
I admit that I was indeed somewhat tempted by what you said, but it is impossible for me to betray my race, especially to overthrow the current clan leader.
The clan leader is a genuine Five-Star Dou Sheng; even my Auntie would be easily suppressed in front of him.
Not to mention that even if we were lucky enough to succeed in seizing power, it would consume the living strength of the entire race. I cannot let the entire race march toward the abyss just for my own selfish desires.
So I am very sorry, but I cannot help you execute your future plans.
Being able to help you hide your current ambition is already the greatest assistance I can offer."
"I didn't expect you to have such a strong sense of group consciousness. Actually, if I told you that,
under Huang Tian's leadership, you are all heading toward an even greater abyss, would you believe me?"
Qin Yun did not feel disappointed by the other's refusal; instead, he felt that this was precisely what a person with a normal brain should do.
"What do you mean? Are you saying that under the clan leader's leadership, we will head toward ruin or the extermination of our clan?"
Feng Qing'er's voice suddenly rose by an octave. As a loyal supporter of bloodline theory, this was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for her.
"I can't explain the specifics clearly, but you should still remember the first time we met. You can recall the previous process now."
Qin Yun was not foolish enough to lay all his trump cards out completely, and even if he did, the other would not easily believe them.
On the contrary, speaking only halfway and letting the other arrive at an answer through careful thought and conjecture would carry far more persuasiveness.
"The first time we met?" Feng Qing'er's thoughts quickly drifted back to a year ago.
When the two of them first met, Qin Yun had given her a very strange feeling, as if he always preferred not to bother with her.
Clearly, he could get along well with everyone else, but solely with her he could not; there was a sense of deliberately avoiding her.
Sometimes, he would even intentionally wait a period before going out just to avoid taking the same path as her.
At that time, she could discern from his gaze that he seemed somewhat disgusted with her, as though he understood her extremely well.
Yet she had always lived within the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and had never met him before, but the feeling that gaze gave her could not be wrong-he certainly understood her even better than she imagined.
The more the other wanted nothing to do with her, the more spirited Feng Qing'er became, and she frequently fought with him. However, through subsequent interactions, she discovered that the other indeed found her thoroughly annoying.
Every fight left her in a pretty miserable state, but after fighting more often later on, their relationship seemed to become less rigid, and it had continued in this state right up to the present.
"Could it be that you already knew something at that time? Don't tell me you..."
Feng Qing'er felt momentarily unable to process it, yet the facts indicated that his behavior back then had indeed been very strange.
"Some things are better left unsaid. To be precise, I did understand you from certain places at the time. I originally thought you were overbearing, willful, and utterly impossible-
so I avoided contact with you as much as possible. I originally thought that just hiding from you would be enough, but I didn't expect that in the end, it was still unavoidable.
Yet later on, I discovered that although you have many flaws, such as arrogance, haughtiness, looking down on people through your nostrils, unreasonableness, and self-righteousness...
they aren't all flaws; you still possess a few merits. As for what they are, I'll tell you once I've thought it through.
Anyway, I just felt that you weren't hopelessly evil, so I tried getting along with you for a while,
to see if I could guide you a little. Although there hasn't been a huge change yet, it's still much better than before." Qin Yun stroked his chin as he spoke.
"...You really hold nothing back, do you." Feng Qing'er twitched the corner of her mouth. In the other's eyes, she had apparently been full of flaws when they first met.
Yet looking back now, she realized that she had indeed been far too self-centered in the past, a firm devotee of bloodline supremacy.
This was also connected to the current clan leader, Huang Tian. Under his leadership, the bloodline ranks of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had been divided into three tiers.
Those with relatively pure bloodlines like her belonged to the first tier and enjoyed relatively abundant cultivation resources.
As for his son Jiufeng, he was an existence that transcended the three tiers altogether, and whenever there was any good thing, it was reserved for him to use first.
Thinking back, when she was still young, she didn't seem to care much for such blatant rank-based divisions either, but as time passed, she had gradually joined the ranks of this extremism.
Even her own Auntie, Phoenix, had given her a slight, covert warning, yet she had paid no attention to it at all back then.
Thinking about it now, her Auntie apparently did not quite support this theory of bloodline.
However, Huang Tian had a massive following, and although her Auntie was rather dissatisfied with him, she could only keep it bottled up inside.
From that moment on, Feng Qing'er already felt somewhat dissatisfied in her heart with the clan leader's methods.
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