"When we looked from outside just now... hadn't Dian Prefecture already..."
Le Suifeng roared in terror.
Those towering flames,
had all those bombardments been fake?
"They weren't fake. It was just a Wasteland Artifact, the Mirror Image Stone."
Li Youxian looked as though everything was firmly under his control. He chuckled. "Didn't you find it strange? Why did all the treasures in the Chamber of Commerce's warehouse disappear after I went missing?"
"Didn't you read the warehouse inventory? Didn't you know about the Chamber of Commerce's most valuable Wasteland Artifact-the Mirror Image Stone?"
"You did bomb Dian Prefecture, but every attack was intercepted."
"This ruined Dian Prefecture is an illusion I created with the Mirror Image Stone."
Li Youxian looked at Le Suifeng with contempt. "You didn't think you could hide all those things you did in secret... from me, did you?"
"Your butler, your mistress, even the pretty boy your wife keeps-they're all my people. What do you have to play against me?"
Le Suifeng broke down.
When it came to brains, even he and Seimei combined were no match for the man before him.
"Retreat!"
He had already lost the will to fight.
All he wanted was to get away from this devil of a man as quickly as possible.
But the instant he turned around, the sight before him shattered him completely.
The shattered city gates had become gates forged from refined steel.
His retreat was cut off.
"Why? Were you playing me? You were already dead! Why did you have to show up again?"
"I slaved away for you all these years, and I finally made it! What did you come back for?"
Le Suifeng roared in defiance.
The moment Li Youxian appeared, he knew everything he had amounted to nothing.
"If I hadn't 'died,' how