"This humble subject dares not," Fang Zhiyi said.
The emperor finally turned his gaze to him: "Your insight is quite good, and you're very clever; you even managed to shake off the people I sent to follow you. What a pity... did you think you could find refuge in this remote southwest?"
"I just...want to buy some time," Fang Zhiyi said with a smile.
"I've taken care of everything in your family for you. Now, tell me what you owe me." He stood there, an invisible pressure sweeping through the entire laboratory.
"Your Majesty doesn't seem very surprised to see these?" Fang Zhiyi tilted her head.
Although the emperor was smiling, there was a murderous intent in his eyes, as if he felt that Fang Zhiyi had asked too many questions.
But Fang Zhiyi was not afraid at all and just stared at him.
After a long while, the emperor suddenly shook his head: "You have extraordinary courage, but it's a pity. You are destined not to be able to cultivate battle qi, otherwise you would have died just now."
Fang Zhiyi smiled.
“I once saw an ancient book. The contents of the book were somewhat incomplete, but they were quite novel. I initially thought it was just some scholar’s wild imagination, but then I accidentally saw some… strange objects.” He patted non-existent dust off his sleeve. “I just didn’t expect that you, a good-for-nothing, would actually find this… strange place. Don’t tell me you just happened to be here.”
After saying that, he stared at Fang Zhiyi: "Tell me what you know, and I will spare your life."
Fang Zhiyi hid her hand behind her back, a subtle movement that was immediately noticed by the Emperor, who was a top-level Dou Zhe.
With just a slight movement, Fang Zhiyi felt a surge of power rushing towards him. Immediately afterward, his wrist ached, and his entire arm went numb. The next moment, the piece he had just assembled fell into the emperor's hands.
The emperor held the square box in his hand and examined it carefully.
"What secrets in this world are still unknown to me...?"
Fang Zhiyi's eyes suddenly turned cold: "Old ghost, do you want to live or die?"
The emperor was taken aback by his question, and looked at Fang Zhiyi with his narrow eyes: "Are you insulting me?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the cube in his hand suddenly generated a huge suction force.
"You little bastard! Just you wait!"
That was the remnant soul inside the jade pendant screaming. It screamed, but it dared not stop. It knew that the fighting spirit of an emperor could kill it ten times over. Compared to that, it would rather listen to Fang Zhiyi's talk about reshaping the physical body.
After all, it really did see those strange things.
"What kind of hidden weapon is this!" The emperor tried to shake off the object, but the cube was stuck to his palm and even embedded in his flesh. He could feel his fighting spirit flowing rapidly toward the little thing.
At this moment, a huge panic surged into his heart. He felt ashamed and indignant. As an emperor, he had never been afraid before. Even when he killed eight of his brothers and even his own uncle for the throne, he had never felt a panic.
"You actually plotted against me!"
Fang Zhiyi visibly breathed a sigh of relief; he had taken a gamble, and he had clearly won.
"What? I ambushed you? You stole it yourself, okay?"
As the emperor's once youthful skin began to wrinkle with the loss of his fighting spirit, his face aged rapidly, and his black hair began to turn white.
"ah!!!!!!"
His roar carried through the narrow doorway, and the four guards outside exchanged glances before rushing in without hesitation.
What they saw was an elderly man struggling in pain, and the good-for-nothing Fang family member looking at them with a mocking expression, shaking a small trinket in his hand.
"Thank you all for participating in this first experiment."
A massive amount of energy suddenly exploded.
The injured ordinary people outside stared in disbelief at the dazzling white light that suddenly shone through the narrow doorway; everyone was stunned.
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