When Gu Chenfeng shattered the Black-Clad Man's face covering with a shock.
He was truly startled to recognize the delicate face beneath those hideous Dragon Scales as Xin'er, the girl who attended Ao Li.
At the same time, he understood why he had sensed a fleeting trace of a familiar aura from this person earlier.
"You know me?"
Xin'er's gaze flickered, but she was not particularly surprised.
As Ao Li's personal maid and a bearer of the true dragon bloodline, she held no low standing in the Dragon Race. Quite a few people knew her.
Gu Chenfeng kept up the barrage with both fists as he spoke.
"I heard you're Elder Ao Li's personal maid, and that you're as close as sisters. Why would you steal her treasure and betray her?"
At the mention of Ao Li, Xin'er's gaze trembled, and a trace of complex emotion flashed through her eyes.
There seemed to be guilt and evasion, but in the end, her gaze turned cold and resolute.
"Hmph, I never pledged my loyalty to her. How could this be called betrayal?"
"Why? She's treated you well," Gu Chenfeng said, puzzled.
Xin'er's voice, however, was as chilling as ice.
"Hmph, would you forget the blood debt owed for your parents' deaths over a few petty favors?"
Gu Chenfeng froze.
Xin'er, however, seemed to have kept these words bottled up in her heart for far too many years.
Now that she had finally spoken them aloud, she held nothing back and said, brimming with resentment, "My father once served under Ao Li's father. They faithfully carried out their duties, guarding the Ten Thousand Dragon Demon Cavern.
"Yet in the end, they were not harmed by the evil spirits within the Demon Cavern. Instead, after Ao Li's father fell onto the demonic path,