Jun Haru retreated right after stabbing Jun Nie with a sword. This sword was made of wind. He was smiling.
"Yo…you… bas…tard…"
Jun Nie could barely speak. This sword, for some reason, was showing more severe effects than it should have.
"Father, my dear father, the sword I just introduced to you is poisoned! You might be wondering why I did it right, right?! Well… what should I say? There's so much to tell you. Huh… I have an idea, let's begin from the start!" Jun Haru was smiling, his smile was quite creepy.
"So… it began when I was saved by Brother Yang. You did make quite an excellent plan to get rid of me. After Brother Yang saved me, he asked for three things from me. After hearing his conditions… I was left in shock. I really couldn't believe that we had a person like Brother Yang."
"You wanna know what those three conditions are? First, he wanted two rank 3 materials: the Golden Dust of Adaptation and the Burst Stone. At that time, he didn't tell me why he needed those, but I still helped him get those two materials. The second condition was that he wanted to start a war."
"You should be confused as to why he wanted to start a war when he stopped it, right? Well, I was confused as well, so I asked him. Do you know what he told me? Well… let me tell you his third condition first to clearly understand his second condition. Do you know what his third condition was…"
Jun Haru stopped for a while before continuing,
"Blood… a lot of blood. Massacre… he wanted a mass massacre. He needed a lot of blood. When I heard that, I was left completely shocked. So much so that I even doubted whether to work with him. But, I also had no choice left. I was abandoned by you and to survive, I needed his help. Anyway, I was betrayed, so why would I care about anyone? Thus, I ended up agreeing to his three conditions."
"In between the competition rounds, we met two or three times. During these meetings, he told me his complete plan in bits and pieces. He needed a lot of blood, the reason he needed it was that the inheritance could only be opened by the blood, and these two mountains were the veins of this inheritance."
"And for that, he needed to start a war. This war resulted in not only many cultivators dying helping in the accumulation of blood, but also gave him the opportunity to start a massacre. So, what he planned was that when everyone's focus would become the war between the Ma clan and the Bai clan, he would be able to easily massacre the mortal villages."
Jun Nie's eyes widened; he even forgot the pain and was left in a daze after hearing Jun Haru.
"However, he told me something even more shocking right before the final round. I came to know the contents of the letter—from him—he sent to you. To stop you from killing me and taking any kind of action to start a war, he fabricated a character. I was truly impressed by his farsightedness. You truly believed him as he expected and didn't take any action."
"He… told me about the letter because he wanted me to tell you everything truthfully about his and mine cooperation. Even though I was hesitant at first… I believed him; after all, he managed to do everything meticulously so far, so I thought, why not? But for you to believe me, we needed you to believe that Yang Zhai had betrayed me when I told you about his plans. So, we planned that I would take a severe beating till I was close to death and then jump off the competition stage!"
"After that, we indirectly forced you to start a war, and you did just as Brother Yang expected. Father, I know that you love me, but for you… revenge mattered more than even me… so Brother Yang expected that you would do everything in your power to start a war between the Ma clan and the Bai clan! However, there was one thing I didn't understand…"
"He wanted me to wait near the inheritance venue and attack and kill him right when he reached the inheritance gate. And on top of that, he wanted me to make sure that I shot a spear that must be as close to his heart as possible, even better if I managed to hit his heart. He was ready for my attack. Even though I hesitated, I did as he told me. Even though if he died, I would also most likely die by your hands, but I did as he told me."
"However, I missed slightly, but he somehow managed to appear right in front of the spear. Anyhow, when he suddenly stood up and entered the inheritance, I understood his intentions! It was really amazing. For the first time I felt that I was doing the right thing by following him, hahaha…!! He. Is. Truly. Amazing!!!"
"He also told me one thing: 'If I did as he told me to, he would provide me with an opportunity to kill you with my own hands,' and so he did!!"
"Father!!! Do you think you were the one who started a war?!!! No, not at all, it was brother Yang, hear me!!! It was Brother Yang!!!! Hahahahaha!!!!!" Jun Haru started to laugh crazily.
Jun Nie, on the other hand, was completely and utterly shocked. He stood there like he had died. He was completely in a daze after listening to Jun Haru. He was being toyed with by his own son and Yang Zhai from the beginning like he was a toy.
After thinking about all the things he had been doing to start a war and lying to Yang Zhai that he would give him a share of the inheritance, he felt extremely shameful. His whole mentality had been broken by Jun Haru and he was left with only depression.
Jun Nie suddenly lost the strength in his body and fell to the ground.
However, Jun Haru didn't stop there, he continued after seeing Jun Nie.
"Do you know why I am telling you all of this!!! There are also three reasons: first is that I was trying to buy time for the poison to completely spread throughout your body. Second is that I wanted you to feel desperate, shameful, regretful, and all. I wanted to show you how you were completely toyed by us. Your plans were actually ours. This is my revenge."
"And the third reason is that I wanted to completely break your hopes before killing you. I wanted for you to feel betrayed like you betrayed me!!!!!! Hahahahahaha!!!!"
Jun Haru laughed loudly.
Jun Nie's body, on the other hand, began to convulse and suffer spasms. Tears were falling from his eyes, and water from his mouth. This showed that not only the poison had spread throughout his body, but his mentality was also broken. He didn't even say a single word.
Jun Haru had thoroughly shattered Jun Nie's mentality.
Even Jun Haru didn't expect this to happen.
Jun Nie was already suffering from the emotion of revenge, but when he found out that his revenge was a lie and wrong, his mentality became unstable between regret and revenge. But after what Jun Haru did… completely resulted in the mental breakdown of Jun Nie. On top of that, his physical body had also lost any strength to keep him sane.
Meanwhile,
"What!! All of this was premeditated by Yang Zhai…. How can a kid like him think of all of this? If it was really Yang Zhai, then this bastard needs to be killed. If he is let loose and becomes powerful, I don't even want to imagine what would happen!!" Tai Qi mutters.
A slight fear finally arrived in his heart. To him, this was too scary. How could a kid plan all of this? That, too, when he was too weak. What would happen if he became stronger? On top of that, he only had one weak companion and he managed to manipulate the Ma clan. What if he had a strong influence in the Ma clan, wouldn't he basically be able to rule it?
He made the two clans fight each other just to accumulate blood? And how did he even know the condition for opening the inheritance?
After thinking all of this, the fear in Tai Qi's heart was deepening. He was becoming more desperate to kill Yang Zhai. Who knows what else Yang Zhai planned?
Even though his focus was on Yang Zhai and couldn't completely focus on Jun Haru and Jun Nie, he heard everything Jun Haru shouted to Jun Nie.
In his desperation, he didn't realize that he was also falling into Yang Zhai's trap.
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