Chapter 424: Confess the Truth and Become Your Master
His brows furrowed deeper and deeper as he looked at the Azure Dragon carefully. His facial expression kept changing until he finally revealed a sneer.
The Azure Dragon transformed into a human form again, clad in silver armor, looking young and humble. He said, "Great Immortal, please show mercy and spare Du Heng's life."
The sneer on Officer Cai Lei's face turned into a simmering rage, and he asked, "Are you pleading for him?"
Tie Chen said humbly, "Du Heng is a naughty man who has repeatedly offended the Great Immortal. He deserves death, but he is the only son of the Taihu God. If he loses his life, the Great Immortal will forge an everlasting blood feud with the Taihu God."
Officer Cai Lei gritted his teeth, looked at Tie Chen, and said, "Well, you are a good adopted son, and you really care about your adoptive father."
Tie Chen looked at the Thunder Officer and said, "I'm not considering the Taihu God, but the Great Immortal."
The Thunder Officer looked at the Great Immortal Jin Ting and became irritable, as if he could set him on fire with just a breath.
Jin Ting Daxian ignored his temper and looked at Tie Chen carefully, then said with a smile: "Do you think I am afraid of that old dragon?"
Tie Chen's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly said, "That's not the case. It's just that the Taihu God is ruthless. If he intends revenge, it will be a difficult problem for the Immortal to get rid of."
Jin Ting Daxian said, "But I don't mind the trouble. My cultivation is not achieved by swallowing my anger. But you, what gives you the courage to stand in front of me and speak to me like this?"
The golden eyes of the Great Immortal Jin Ting flashed with a fierce light. Tie Chen felt that a great danger was falling on his head. He tried to dodge, but saw a knife light as bright as moonlight hitting his face.
Tiechen raised his head high back, flew up and hit the wall, then fell silent.
"Great Immortal!" Cai Leiguan screamed and hurried to check Tiechen's injuries, but found that he was unharmed, just unconscious, exactly the same as Du Heng.
Cai Leiguan had long witnessed the power of Jin Ting Daxian. Du Heng was hit by a knife in the same way last time. The connection between his soul and body was severed, and he turned into wood, but he was not in danger of life.
He breathed a sigh of relief, and when he looked at Jin Ting Daxian again, he saw that the fox demon was looking at him inquiringly.
Jin Ting Daxian smiled and said, "How strange! Didn't he annoy you? Why are you still worried about him?"
The officer Cai Lei said awkwardly, "He didn't do anything to me, so his crime doesn't deserve the death penalty."
The Immortal Jin Ting said, "How can this crime not be punishable by death? This evil creature has troubled me time and again, and since he dared to plead for this evil creature, I simply killed them both. One is my biological son, the other is my adopted son. I will send their heads back to the Taihu Water Palace. I'm sure the Taihu God will be very happy."
The Thunder Officer immediately became anxious and said, "Great Immortal, Great Immortal, whoever causes trouble should be killed. It's not this kid who caused the trouble, why do you want to kill him too?"
The Immortal Jin Ting looked at the Thunder Officer and said, "Thunder Officer, you'd better confess the truth."
The Thunder Officer didn't want to provoke him, so he grabbed Tie Chen and turned into the wind, escaping on the spot.
The Immortal Jin Ting hooked his finger, and the dragon-binding rope that bound Du Heng turned into a golden light and flew up. He grabbed Cai Leiguan and Tiechen in mid-air and tied them back together.
The golden dragon tendons wrapped around Heilong and Tiechen, capturing the two men.
The Immortal Jin Ting exhaled a breath of mist and sprayed it on the dragon-binding rope. The dragon-binding rope then slowly moved, revealing the shadow of a green dragon, which merged with the energy of Cai Leiguan and Tie Chen.
The phantom of the green dragon seemed to come alive and gain some spirituality. It released Cai Leiguan and Tie Chen and stared at them deeply.
Tie Chen had already fainted, so of course he couldn't see anything. But when the Thunder Officer saw the Azure Dragon and looked into its eyes, his mind went blank.
Cai Leiguan moved his lips, but the green dragon then disappeared, turned into a dragon-binding rope, and fell back into the hands of Jin Ting Daxian.
The Immortal Jin Ting looked at the Thunder Officer and said, "You still refuse to confess?"
The thunder officer was dejected and sighed.
The Immortal Jin Ting stood with his hands behind his back and said, "Even if you don't tell me, I know that this bundle of dragon ropes and dragon tendons came from a blue dragon. Tiechen is also a blue dragon. You recognize them and have a close relationship with them."
The Thunder Officer murmured, "Yes, I am the Azure Dragon..."
"Then Qinglong must be your old master, right?" said the Immortal Jin Ting.
"Hmm?" The Thunder Officer raised his head suddenly, then nodded repeatedly, saying, "That's right, that's right. That Qinglong is my old master, and Tiechen is my old master's child."
The Thunder Officer stood up and bowed, saying, "I beg you, Great Immortal, to spare Tiechen's life for my sake."
Jin Ting Daxian smiled and said, "Well, for your sake, I will spare his life."
The Immortal Jin Ting stretched out his hand and Tie Chen woke up slowly.
The Immortal Jin Ting stood in the courtyard and said, "I've changed my mind. In view of the fact that Officer Cai Lei pleaded for you, I'll give you a chance. Come and convince me. If you can, I will let you go and also spare Du Heng's life."
Tiechen looked at the mine officer with confusion, but the mine officer didn't look at him.
He could only begin to persuade the Immortal Jin Ting with his doubts in his heart. He prostrated himself before the Immortal Jin Ting and said, "Immortal, I wish to be your disciple."
The Immortal Jin Ting said with a half-smile, "You can't control the will of the Taihu God, nor can you resolve the hatred between me and Du Heng. What's the point of me accepting you as my disciple?"
Tie Chen said, "I am not worshipping you as the general of Taihu Lake, but as the son of the former master of Taihu Lake."
"The former master of Taihu Lake." The Immortal Jin Ting looked at Tie Chen, then at the Thunder Officer, narrowed his eyes, and said, "Tell me in detail."
Tie Chen said, "My father was the former Taihu God. The current Taihu God is my father's sworn brother and one of his former subordinates. Back then, my father was ordered by the Golden Dragon King to send troops to subdue the demon, but he was ambushed by this heartless sworn brother, leaving not even his remains behind."
"When my father passed away, I was still young, so he took his place and became the God of Taihu Lake. To stabilize my father's old subordinates and to give an explanation to the Golden Dragon King, he adopted me as his adopted son. But after eight hundred years on the throne, he gradually began to purge his old subordinates."
"I wanted to reclaim the throne of Taihu and avenge my father, but I was too weak to do so. I could only endure the humiliation and accept the thief as my father."
"The Immortal has great magical powers and has plenty of ways to deal with Du Heng. He wants to accept Du Heng as his disciple, not because he values him, but because he has other plans."
"I am the son of the former Lake God. My father's former subordinates are in the Taihu Water Palace. I seek the Immortal's help to reclaim the throne of Taihu. Du Heng is incompetent, and my adoptive father is a man of deep thoughts, making him difficult for the Immortal to control."
"I'm different. Since you accepted me as your disciple, I'm your master. Everything I have can be used by you."
The Immortal Jin Ting looked at Tie Chen with great interest and asked, "Since you want to take back the throne, wouldn't it be better if you let me kill Du Heng and fight to the death with the Taihu God?"
Tie Chen said bitterly, "I know my own limitations. If Du Heng dies, he'll only want me buried with him, not alive. Without Du Heng as a bond, he'll only become more brutal, sending all of my father's former subordinates to die. Even if I desire the throne of Taihu, I don't have the ability to survive to the end."
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