Since ancient times, traitors have never come to a good end.
Shen Qingfeng looked at Xia Yonglin, who was covered in blood in front of him. There was not a single trace of pity in his heart. Instead, a sense of desolation welled up within him.
The emergence of this emotion startled Shen Qingfeng.
Desolation? Why did he feel desolate?
He stared intently at Xia Yonglin, who was kneeling in front of him. There were complex emotions in his eyes.
From his own perspective, Xia Yonglin deserved this. Was the reason he felt desolate because he saw himself from his past life in Xia Yonglin?
Suddenly, Shen Qingfeng found it funny. He walked to the prison door, took out the key given by the jailer, and silently unlocked the door.
Xia Yonglin had remained silent until Shen Qingfeng walked up to him and looked down at him, saying, "Look up."
"Heh." Xia Yonglin's words were now tinged with the smell of blood. Just as Shen Qingfeng had expected, when Shan Chenghuai whipped him with the rattan whip earlier, he had shown no mercy.
"Is Xia Chuli dead?" This was the first thing Xia Yonglin said.
Shen Qingfeng raised his eyebrows and replied, "No."
Xia Yonglin was taken aback and then said, "Then... did Xia Chuli send you to kill me?" Xia Yonglin's chest ached, and his words came out intermittently. After he finished speaking, he couldn't help but let out a cold snort.
Shen Qingfeng lowered his eyes and looked at him coldly. After a long pause, he said, "No."
"Humph." Xia Yonglin swallowed the blood in his mouth and gritted his teeth, saying, "So he sent you here to laugh at me? What a good brother I have!"
"Xia Yonglin, I didn't come because of A Li." Shen Qingfeng didn't want to talk to him too much and got straight to the point. "How did you get that medicine?"
Xia Yonglin looked up at Shen Qingfeng, grinned, and said, "What medicine?"
"Don't play dumb with me." Shen Qingfeng scolded. "The Qianhua Yinsui. How did you get it!"
"Oh, so you came to me because of this?" Xia Yonglin smiled. Then, he suddenly coughed violently and said, "You want to know?"
Shen Qingfeng knew that he wouldn't be so honest and tell the truth. But this was the closest clue he could get about Lan for now. After seeing the mass grave of a thousand people behind Jinding Mountain before, Shen Qingfeng had been asking the people from the Listening Wind Pavilion to investigate. But because of the long time that had passed and the fact that everyone in the world thought that Lu Jiang and his team were dead, the people from the Listening Wind Pavilion had been busy for a long time, and so far, they hadn't found any useful clues.
While investigating, Shen Qingfeng also felt something was increasingly wrong.
Logically speaking, as the God of War of Lixia and the former Marquis of Dingbei, Lu Jiang was such a significant figure. After his death, there was only a cenotaph for him in Beidu. As a result, King Xia Jie only gave some superficial rewards. What was even more strange was that there were no records at all of the search and rescue team that was sent at that time.
Suddenly, Shen Qingfeng thought of the empty coffin in that mass grave.
Was it really that Lu Jiang's body hadn't been found, or was it that his body had been retrieved but wasn't buried in the grave?
In any case, he had already made up his mind to dig deep into the matter of Lu Jiang's death that year. Without any leads, he had no choice but to compromise and deal with Xia Yonglin.
"What's your condition?" Shen Qingfeng said in a deep voice.
What kind of condition could Xia Yonglin make now? He was already in the death row. If he wanted to use this opportunity to beg for a way out, Shen Qingfeng could actually help him. But he could only let him live. As for how he would live, it wasn't up to him.
"Condition... hehehe..." Xia Yonglin suddenly laughed eerily. "The condition is very simple. I want Xia Chuli to die with me!"
Shen Qingfeng's eyebrows twitched, and he said harshly, "You're dreaming! Instead of making such unrealistic demands, you might as well find a way out for yourself."
"A way out?" Xia Yonglin suddenly burst into wild laughter. "Even if you let me go, will Xia Chuli let me live? He waited for so many years to get such a great opportunity to ascend the throne. Do you think he will let it go?!"
"Shen Qingfeng, I know it was you who came up with the plan to lock me up. But have you ever thought that even if you help Xia Chuli ascend the throne, will he really treat you as well as you think? Hahaha..." Xia Yonglin was a bit crazy. "Let me tell you. He and I have the same blood. If I were him, the first thing I would do after ascending the throne would be to kill you! Look at you now. You're so eager to die. I'll wait for you in hell!"
After hearing this, Shen Qingfeng paused. He stared fixedly at Xia Yonglin, as if trying to see something from his facial expression.
They say that the person who knows you best is definitely your opponent. In his past life, Shen Qingfeng was muddle - headed. He thought he was the closest person to Xia Chuli, but in the end, he got a cup of poisoned wine.
Maybe many things were predestined. Just as Xia Yonglin said, Xia Chuli and he were never on the same path from the very beginning.
However, that was in the past life. The past life has vanished like smoke. In this life, he wouldn't choose the wrong person again.
Shen Qingfeng lowered his eyes and said, "You don't have to use such words to provoke me. Since you're not willing to say, you might as well listen to me."
Xia Yonglin was taken aback. He closed his mouth, not knowing what Shen Qingfeng was up to.
"In this world, there's only one person who can make Qianhua Yinsui." Shen Qingfeng said. "I guess you probably don't even know his name until now, do you?"
Xia Yonglin turned his head away and scolded, "So what if I don't know? I just need to use this to kill Xia Chuli!"
Shen Qingfeng said, "Let me tell you. The person who made this poison is named Lan. In the now - extinct Nanyang Kingdom, there was once a well - known assassin organization called Wuhen. He was the leader of Wuhen."
Xia Yonglin kept silent.
"The ability of Wuhen must be the best in the world, right? Then do you know why there are so few people who know about this Lan?" Shen Qingfeng squinted his eyes. He deliberately paused here and observed Xia Yonglin's expression while speaking.
"It is said that he comes and goes without a trace, rampaging in the world but leaving no trace behind. No one knows where he is because everyone in the world who has ever met Lan is already dead."
"For a person as powerful as him, if he wants to hide his whereabouts, he must have many ways. The Qianhua Yinsui you once had is one of them. All those who have had contact with him will be eliminated. The reason you're still alive is that the bottle you got was the diluted and impure Qianhua Yinsui. The real Qianhua Yinsui will kill a person instantly just by smelling it. That's why you weren't discovered by him. But now, you wanted to kill Xia Chuli, and coincidentally, you used this thing. Now, you're probably already being targeted by him, aren't you?"