In an instant, the woman in the air landed on the ground.
To be honest, the shock she brought to Wang Cheng was no small matter.
"Miss, who are you?"
"Don't you recognize me?"
Zhao Shuning sneered and then said, "I've always remembered you clearly."
The aura of the young girl opposite was extremely powerful. Besides suspicion, there was also a hint of panic in Wang Cheng's heart.
Because from this young girl, he detected a familiar aura.
The tone of the young girl's speech and her habitual actions. Clearly, she was just a young girl, and her realm and abilities were not as good as his.
But somehow, an inexplicable sense of panic welled up in Wang Cheng's heart.
It was as if he was born to submit to the woman opposite.
The only person who had ever made him feel this way before was Ye Ling, the female emperor. But Ye Ling had been dead for so many years, and no one could threaten him anymore.
"Miss might have mistaken me. I've never met you before. May I venture to ask if you're from the Eastern Ze Wilderness?"
"Of course I am."
The young girl opposite was from the Eastern Ze Wilderness?
How could this be?
If such a person had emerged in the Eastern Ze Wilderness, the four great families would have been alerted long ago. Judging from this girl, she was clearly a young girl, and her age must not be very old.
Could it be that she had taken a Youth - Preserving Pill at a young age?
"I'm really ignorant. I don't know who you are."
"My surname is Zhao."
Zhao Shuning was not in a hurry.
Because now, she was confident that she could capture Wang Cheng, her prey.
Back then, Wang Cheng had treated her so badly. If she let him die easily, all the humiliation and embarrassment she had endured back then would have been in vain.
She wanted Wang Cheng to truly feel the pain when he died.
"Surname Zhao?"
Wang Cheng's eyes darkened.
Then, he took many steps back.
His eyes were full of caution, and the deliberately feigned smile was gone.
"You're from the Zhao family in Yanqing City."
"Wang Cheng, your memory is not bad."
Spiritual energy began to surge secretly around Wang Cheng.
Zhao Shuning said, "Why, are you getting impatient already? Do you still want to kill my entire family?"
Then, as if Wang Cheng had thought of something, he dissipated the spiritual energy in his hand.
Wang Cheng said, "You can't be from the Zhao family."
"Oh, why?"
"I, Wang Cheng, am in charge of intelligence all over the world. If there was such an alchemist in the Zhao family, I would have surely received the intelligence long ago. As far as I know, there are two sons in the Zhao family with relatively good talents. One is Zhao Huai, and the other is the youngest daughter of the Zhao family. Zhao Huai is now staying in the sect association. As for Zhao Shuning, her aptitude is mediocre, and she has been released from the sect association. But her abilities will never reach your level."
"If I'm not wrong, you should be a reclusive senior from the Kyushu Continent. Although I don't know why you took the Youth - Preserving Pill so early, I know that you must have nothing to do with the Zhao family."
Zhao Shuning found Wang Cheng's self - narration quite ridiculous.
"Wang Cheng, you've forgotten."
"What have I forgotten?"
"Who helped you build your intelligence agency back then? It's just a small trick to avoid your informants. How could I not be able to do it?"
The intelligence agency? What did it have to do with the young girl in front of him?
"Are you one of Ye Ling's people?"
Wang Cheng took a step back.
Zhao Shuning mocked, "You still remember that your intelligence agency was gradually put on the right track with Ye Ling's support."
"That female devil deserves to be killed by everyone. I was just doing a just thing."
A just thing?
Zhao Shuning found it even more ironic.
"You used the knife that Ye Ling gave you for self - defense and stabbed it into Ye Ling's body yourself. Is this the justice you're talking about?"
The intelligence agency was the "knife" that Ye Ling gave Wang Cheng for self - defense, but it was also this "knife" that strangled Ye Ling.
If it weren't for Wang Cheng's spies spreading those false rumors back then, how could the people in the Eastern Ze Wilderness have such a deep misunderstanding of Ye Ling?
It was because she trusted Wang Cheng that she lost the hearts of the people.
"Who on earth are you?"
Zhao Shuning didn't answer. She just stared straight at Wang Cheng with her eyes.
"I'm Zhao Shuning."
"Zhao Shuning, what do I have to do with you? What are you doing in my Wang Mansion?"
"You sent people to Yanqing City to exterminate my Zhao family."
Wang Cheng thought to himself. Could it be that Bai Fan and the others had already succeeded? When Zhao Shuning returned to Yanqing City, she saw the corpses of the Zhao family everywhere, so she lost her mind. Just after ascending to the Seven Realms, with this cultivation base, she actually dared to break into the Wang family?
Could it be that she had discovered some clues?
"The people of your Zhao family?"
"Don't worry, they're all alive and well."
Wang Cheng felt that something was wrong. Suddenly, he thought of something and looked at Zhao Shuning sharply.
He said word by word, "Xi Ling, is she...?"
Zhao Shuning looked into Wang Cheng's eyes. She could feel Wang Cheng's nervousness.
Back then, when he and Lin Feng abducted Ye Xingchen, she had this feeling.
All the nervousness and fear were written on his face. She didn't know if Chu Wen and Chu Nuan had noticed anything strange about her younger brother who liked to eat candied haws.
"You mean that arrogant woman who can use the Three - Flavored True Fire so skillfully?"
Zhao Shuning took step after step closer.
Wang Cheng said, "What happened to her?"
At this moment, Wang Cheng's mind was in a complete mess. The closer Zhao Shuning got to him, the more he felt something was wrong, because he detected the vital aura of his daughter on this girl.
"Is this what you're familiar with?"
Zhao Shuning flipped her right hand, and a large red flame ignited in her palm. The flame sizzled the air. Only Wang Xiling's Three - Flavored True Fire could have such an effect.
"What did you do? Where's my daughter? What did you do to her?"
Zhao Shuning made a fist with her left hand and then opened it. A fragment of a jade flute fell out of her fist.
"Familiar?"
"This is Xi Ling's thing."
Zhao Shuning took it back with a snap.
This was the jade flute that her master had given her. With this kind of material, even in the Kyushu Continent, there was no second jade flute like this.
Wang Cheng was greedy for wealth. Seeing that the broken jade flute was of good quality, he polished it smooth and gave it to Wang Xiling.
"Where's my daughter?"
A precious sword suddenly appeared in Wang Cheng's hand. The sword was extremely sharp, just like a real one.
A Seven - Realm alchemist could conjure any real object he owned out of thin air. No matter where the real object was, as long as a drop of the alchemist's spiritual energy was attached to it, in times of danger, as long as the alchemist needed it and recited the mental formula, it would appear in the alchemist's hand.
"Tell me!"
"Tell you what?"
"Why is my daughter's thing in your hand? Where is she?"
Zhao Shuning pushed off the ground with her toes, stepped back several meters, sat on the beam wall of the Wang Mansion's courtyard, and swayed her legs.
"It's really strange. My thing was on your daughter for fifteen years. How did it become hers?"