novelden Chapter 122 Jun Wuzui, are you trying to silence me?
Chapter 122 Jun Wuzui, are you trying to silence me?
"You are innocent. You are the ninth son of the late Emperor Jing of Dongchu. His mother was a palace maid surnamed Xu, whose name is unknown. Emperor Jing visited her while drunk and confused, and the maid became pregnant. This incident even caused a quarrel with Concubine Xie, who was then in a relationship with Emperor Jing. As a result, Emperor Jing was extremely disgusted with her. Despite the maid's pregnancy, she was only promoted to Concubine Xu."
"Because of her low position and lack of favor with the emperor, Concubine Xu was often bullied and even forced to kneel. Yet, despite this, the child was born after ten months of pregnancy. However, Concubine Xu died of complications during childbirth, and Emperor Jing disliked the ninth prince, so he was given the name Yan."
"When Jun Yan turned one year old, he was registered under the name of the late Empress Lin. Although he was young, he was given the courtesy name of the ninth prince. The courtesy name was Wuzui, so he was considered to be in the royal family."
"It's said that the Ninth Prince and the former Crown Prince, then the Sixth Prince Jun Wang, grew up together and had a deep bond. This should have been a beautiful story, but when Emperor Jing was ill, the royal family plotted rebellion, and the former Empress Lin and the Crown Prince were deposed."
"The former Empress Lin died suddenly in the cold palace, and the former Crown Prince died of illness on the way to exile after being deposed. The ninth prince disappeared while in exile together with the Emperor."
"Actually, he didn't disappear. He was sold to the Great Wilderness Mountain and became Eleven."
"Eleven was four years old when he entered the mountains and nine when he left. Normally, a four-year-old shouldn't remember anything, but if you check with the elders in the palace, you'll know that the ninth prince was born intelligent. He could speak at one, read at two, and at the tender age of three, he vowed to expand the territory for his brother, the Crown Prince, and protect the peace and prosperity of Eastern Chu. However, it was this childish remark that sowed the seeds of the downfall of the royal family."
"They say the children in the palace are all precocious. Four-year-old Eleven must be smarter than his peers in the training camp. So, after entering the mountains, did you already find a target that could help you escape?"
Twelve grabbed the collar of the War King, with a murderous look between his brows, and his eyes were as gloomy as the dark prison in the Great Wilderness Mountains, which was damp, bloody, and full of danger.
That old past that had long been buried in the years was narrated in his cold tone, and one could vaguely see the bloodshed and oppression of those years.
His questioning made the War King narrow his eyes dangerously, with a cold and sharp light.
But at this moment, Twelve seemed to finally be unable to contain himself and asked aggressively, "The Beast Mountain in the Great Desolation Mountain is a prison, designated as a forbidden area, filled with traps and ferocious beasts. If you didn't have a pre-existing goal and had already learned to protect yourself in the palace, how could you have found a break in training to break in and meet Zero?"
Twelve's appearance wasn't as handsome as the War King's, but he was still handsome. However, his long, narrow, upturned fox eyes etched a sinister quality deep within his bones. Staring at someone like that could easily send a chill down one's spine, a chill as if a venomous, cold-blooded creature were crawling down one's spine.
"Later, I thought about it countless times, and finally remembered that during training, someone in our class saw a child riding a silver wolf through the Beast Mountain. They thought they had seen a ghost."
"I remember you asked about the specific location. That was when you became interested in Beast Mountain, right?"
The War King's thin lips tightened, and his once upright figure gradually tensed, as if Twelve had hit the nail on the head. His narrow, icy eyes drooped, as if he was contemplating something.
But the biting chill emanating from him made people feel more dangerous than before.
"You've been using her since almost zero, right?" Twelve asked directly without any hesitation.
boom!
Twelve, who was originally holding the collar of the War King, was blown away by the sudden explosion of the War King's internal force and fell heavily against the wall.
The War King took a step forward, and his black boots stopped in front of Twelve's face. His narrow eyes with drooping corners looked coldly at Twelve, who had blood oozing from the corners of his mouth.
"Twelve, you should know that you can't say anything careless."
Twelve fell to the ground but was in no hurry to get up. The blood stain at the corner of his mouth made his sinister aura even more intense, but he still tilted the corner of his lips: "You are anxious."
"So I was right, wasn't I?"
Twelve looked at the War King provocatively. He was obviously in a weak and low position, but the more so, the more unscrupulous he became.
"Zero is really stupid. He grew up in Beast Mountain, so he doesn't understand human nature. But he met a so-called companion like you with ulterior motives."
"She joined the camp at the age of six. When she entered, she killed a hundred people alone and was given the title of Zero. She joined the same level as you and me, and from now on, she will be inseparable from you."
"Zero's position in the Great Wilderness Mountains is unique. The Beast Mountain nurtured her blood and animal nature. If she hadn't met you, her humanity would have been cut off. And you have become the only gap in her humanity."
"Even if Zero hadn't met you, he would still be Zero. But if you hadn't entered Beast Mountain to become Zero's initiation, you would have always been Eleven, on the same level as us, enslaved by the Great Desolate Mountain your entire life, unable to escape or win the jackpot."
"Not to mention being able to leave the mountains at the age of nine, return to Dongchu to take over the military power, and begin your journey to become a war king."
"You're acting like this now. Aren't you just stepping on Ling's flesh and blood, eating her bloody bread to get to the top?" Twelve's sneer was bloody and dark. "To her, meeting you and meeting Zong Kui are both uses. What's the difference?!"
The morning sun was shining brightly, but Twelve's face was immersed in the shadow cast by the War King's figure.
The War King stood against the strong light, his entire body seemingly at the intersection of light and darkness, even his pale face, as white as snow, seemed shrouded in a layer of shadow. He looked down at the person at his feet, "Twelve, life is not easy."
The words were spoken in a flat, cold tone.
But murderous intent was everywhere.
Full of warnings.
Twelve, however, smiled sadly, his laughter becoming even more arrogant. He climbed up from the ground and spoke again without caring about his embarrassment and life or death: "I finally hit a sore spot for you, so you want to silence me?"
"Jun Wuzui, you had countless opportunities to explain things to her that year in Gu'an City. Why didn't you?"
"You don't dare?"
"Still unwilling?!"
"During the battle of Gu'an City, you knew there were hidden dangers behind the scenes, but you pretended not to know. You calmly allowed those behind the scenes to plot, and you also dealt with Ji Xue as if nothing had happened."
"Ji Xue came here under an alias. You knew her identity and purpose from the beginning, but did she know the evil intentions and ambitions you were hiding?!"
"She's openly plotting against me, but aren't you also trying to win over my heart?!"
"Ji Xue attacked you because of her stance, but what about you?!"
"You knew everything long ago, yet you still watched her do whatever she wanted. Even now, even the Black and White Impermanence around you think Ji Xue was the one who set you up!"
"I wonder if the 120,000 people who died at the border give you nightmares and keep you tossing and turning at night?!"
Twelve's voice was very low, like a curse in the dark night, sinister and poisonous.
"Those who died were merely buried with you for the resentment in your heart. But did you guess that Ji Xue would also die for this?!"
"When the cunning rabbit dies, the running dog is cooked! Did you expect her to end like this?!"
"It's so touching that it makes you spit out blood!"
"Jun Wuzui, are you acting so hard that you start taking it seriously?!"