Fifty meters below the opening, Ning Qingcheng was still lingering, tears streaming like a spring.
Dad, how could you be so cruel!
She screamed with all her might, "Dad, take care of yourself..."
Turning, she rushed forward with all her strength.
In the study.
Ning Suifeng tilted his head back, and his tears finally fell.
You're my daughter. How could I not know what you want to do?
Go!
From now on... my only wish is that... your whole life goes smoothly.
Go, my daughter.
Although you aren't my biological daughter...
But Daddy loves you!
He gazed at the opening tenderly, then closed the cover himself and moved the bookcase back into place.
Then he pressed a button.
The passage entrance beneath the study began collapsing bit by bit, slowly and progressively, sealing the passage completely; ten meters collapsed at a time, before the collapse continued advancing.
It kept collapsing... to some unknown distance...
The noise caused by this method of collapse was extremely faint. Unless someone was deliberately listening for it, they would never notice anything amiss.
Ning Suifeng meticulously erased every trace; only then did he pull the sword out of his chest.
The blade was stained blood-red.
Looking at the blood on the blade, he gave a silent, bitter smile and murmured, "I lost. I lost the entire Ning Family... but Qingcheng survived after all."
"Although she isn't my own flesh and blood, she will always remember that she once bore the surname Ning."
"The Ning Family's bloodline will not end. It will surely carry on!"
"You won."
"I'll wait for the final outcome."
At almost the same time Ning Qingcheng left the Ning Family's old residence, a great battle erupted in Phoenix City!
And this battle drew the attention of every high-level force in all of