Immortal God of War

Fatty and the others couldn’t help becoming vigilant as well.

Because Lu Xingchen’s Divine Sense could wipe them all out, without even the slightest effort.

"Everyone, relax."

"If I truly wanted to kill you, I would’ve done it long ago. I wouldn’t have waited until now."

Lu Xingchen said with a faint smile.

Qin Feiyang signaled Fatty and the others to continue cultivating, then took Lu Xingchen and Mu Qing and left the ancient castle.

Although, just as Lu Xingchen said, he indeed bore no malice, leaving him in the ancient castle would always be a threat.

"Hm?"

Seeing Qin Feiyang appear with Lu Xingchen and Mu Qing, Yan Wei and Lu Hong both couldn’t help being slightly stunned.

At the same time.

Lu Xingchen swept his gaze over the mountaintop and said with a smile, "The arrangements are quite good!"

"What’s going on?"

Lu Hong and the other walked to Qin Feiyang’s side and asked in a low voice.

Qin Feiyang waved his hand and said, "It’s nothing, go on with what you were doing!"

The two exchanged a glance, their doubts growing even stronger, but they didn’t ask more and turned to leave.

Qin Feiyang scanned the mountaintop and suddenly saw, beside the small wooden hut, a stone-carved tea table and several stone stools.

Obviously.

This was definitely something Lu Hong had specially prepared for him.

"Let’s go have a seat."

Qin Feiyang said calmly, then turned and walked to the tea table, sitting down opposite Lu Xingchen.

Mu Qing stood respectfully behind Lu Xingchen.

Looking at Lu Xingchen, Qin Feiyang said indifferently, "Speak. What exactly do you want to do?"

Lu Xingchen said, "Cooperate."

"Hm?"

Qin Feiyang was puzzled and suspicious.

Lu Xingchen smiled and said, "Everything I’ve done is only to let you see my sincerity."

"Sincerity?"

Qin Feiyang raised an eyebrow.

"That’s right."

"That day here, when you saw through my identity, I deliberately let myself be captured without resisting."

"Because I knew that sooner or later, you would take the initiative to come save me."

"Ren Duxing’s whereabouts were also something I intentionally told you."

"I just didn’t expect your abilities to be so great, that you actually killed Dong Qing and the Four Sacred Beasts."

Lu Xingchen said.

Qin Feiyang said, "So do you hate me now?"

"Hate?"

Lu Xingchen shook his head with a smile and said, "To be frank, I do resent you somewhat. After all, the Four Sacred Beasts had followed me for so many years and were utterly loyal. But compared to your value, I choose to let go of that hatred."

"My value?"

Qin Feiyang frowned.

"Exactly."

"I can foresee that in the future, your accomplishments will be in no way inferior to Qin Batian’s. So, if we cooperate, we are bound to achieve great things."

Lu Xingchen said with a smile.

Qin Feiyang asked in confusion, "There are so many people in the Great Qin Empire. Why do you have to choose me to cooperate with?"

"It’s very simple."

"You’ve obtained Qin Batian’s legacy."

"Of course, the biggest reason is that I appreciate you."

"Think back to when you were a child—you were once a blazing sun in the Imperial Capital, with boundless prospects, but then a sudden upheaval occurred, and you fell into a homeless wretch."

"If it were someone else, they would have long since given up on themselves—but you didn’t."

"Every step you took to get to where you are today relied on your own effort and perseverance. That’s why I admire you."

Lu Xingchen said.

"But you also know that our aspirations are different."

"What I want is to protect the Great Qin’s rivers and mountains."

"Whereas you want to overturn my Great Qin’s rivers and mountains."

"Do you think two people like that have any possibility of cooperating?"

Qin Feiyang said coolly.

"Why wouldn’t we be able to cooperate?"

"Although as a descendant of the Qin Clan, protecting Great Qin is your duty, you need to see reality clearly. Are these things really worth your protection?"

Lu Xingchen said.

Qin Feiyang said, "Public matters are public, private matters are private. I don’t want to mix them together."

Mu Qing snorted coldly and said, "My lord, I told you long ago that this man is stubborn and incorrigible. You didn’t believe me. Now you see it, don’t you!"

"Shut up."

Lu Xingchen glared at him, then looked at Qin Feiyang with a smile and said, "I can take a step back."

"What do you mean?"

Qin Feiyang asked.

Lu Xingchen said, "We first cooperate to get rid of some stumbling blocks—for example, the State Preceptor, and the current Emperor."

Qin Feiyang’s eyes flashed as he said, "Ren Duxing told me that Zhuge Mingyang and the Eldest Prince are brothers by blood. Is this true or not?"

Lu Xingchen said, "I can only tell you that if you first agree to cooperate with me."

"You’re using this point to threaten me?"

Qin Feiyang raised an eyebrow.

Lu Xingchen smiled faintly and said, "So, do you want to know or not?"

Qin Feiyang’s gaze flickered; in the end he nodded and said, "Fine, we’ll cooperate. But our cooperation is only to get rid of those stumbling blocks."

"Isn’t that perfect for both of us?"

Lu Xingchen laughed.

Qin Feiyang said, "Then start talking. I want to know the whole truth."

But at this moment—

Mu Qing said, "You’re not someone who can be trusted. You might agree to cooperate now and go back on your word later, so we need a written pledge as proof."

Qin Feiyang arched his brow, looked up at him, and said indifferently, "Do you have the right to speak here?"

"You..."

Mu Qing glared furiously.

"Enough!"

Lu Xingchen snapped impatiently.

Mu Qing shrank his neck and immediately fell silent, though his face was full of displeasure.

Lu Xingchen turned to Qin Feiyang and said with a smile, "Brother Qin, I still trust your character."

"Then stop wasting time."

Qin Feiyang said.

Lu Xingchen said, "The Eldest Prince and Zhuge Mingyang are indeed brothers by blood."

Qin Feiyang shot to his feet. Even though he was already mentally prepared, he still couldn’t help being shocked.

"Don’t get worked up."

"Sit down and listen while I take it slow."

Lu Xingchen said with a smile.

Qin Feiyang returned to the stone bench, forcing himself to control the turmoil in his heart, silently looking at Lu Xingchen.

"Why Zhuge Mingyang would assist the Eldest Prince—this question doesn’t just puzzle you, it puzzles me as well."

"So after you went to the Forgotten Continent, I investigated for a very long time."

"During that period, I used the spatial Divine Artifact to tail him every day, to monitor him. You could say everything about him was under my control."

"Later, one day, I followed Zhuge Mingyang into the Zhuge family estate and heard him and his father mention the Eldest Prince."

"Only then did I realize there was such a huge secret hidden behind it."

Lu Xingchen said.

Qin Feiyang’s mind buzzed.

He hadn’t expected it to actually be true!

He didn’t doubt Lu Xingchen.

Because he understood the current Lu Xingchen; there was no need for him to lie to him, nor did he stoop to lying to him.

With great effort, Qin Feiyang finally calmed down and said in a deep voice, "So that means Zhuge Mingyang is also the current emperor’s son?"

"Wrong!"

Lu Xingchen waved his hand.

"What?"

Qin Feiyang stood up again, his face full of shock.

Lu Xingchen’s answer seemed ordinary on the surface, but it hid a tremendous mystery within!

Because—

If Zhuge Mingyang was not the emperor’s son, then the Eldest Prince was not the emperor’s biological son either!

In other words—

This Eldest Prince was the son of Martial Marquis Zhuge!

Lu Xingchen said, "That’s right, just as you’ve guessed, the Eldest Prince is Martial Marquis Zhuge’s son."

"Boom!"

Hearing this, Qin Feiyang felt as if struck by a bolt from the blue. His entire body trembled as he said in a deep voice, "In that case, doesn’t that mean the current empress has an ’affair’ with Martial Marquis Zhuge!"

Lu Xingchen said with a smile, "Isn’t that obvious?"

"This..."

Not far away, Yan Wei and Lu Hong were also dumbfounded.

There was actually something like this?

Mu Qing was also full of shock; clearly he was only finding out now as well.

"This is retribution!"

"Haha..."

Qin Feiyang suddenly laughed.

After learning of this, not only did he feel not the slightest bit of sympathy for the emperor, he instead felt a surge of satisfaction.

Lu Xingchen frowned and said, "With something like this happening, shouldn’t you feel sorry for your father?"

"Feel sorry for him?"

"Then who’s supposed to feel sorry for me?"

"He brought this on himself, serves him right!"

Qin Feiyang sneered.

Lu Xingchen sighed inwardly.

This really couldn’t be blamed on Qin Feiyang for being heartless; it was only that the emperor had been too ruthless to him back then.

Qin Feiyang sat back down on the stone bench and said, "Then this current little Prince, is he also Martial Marquis Zhuge’s seed?"

"I’m still investigating that, but I’d say..."

Lu Xingchen stopped there, not continuing, because Qin Feiyang already understood.

If nothing unexpected happened, this little Prince was definitely also the child of Martial Marquis Zhuge and the empress.

"Hoo!"

Qin Feiyang let out a long breath and asked, "Does all of this have anything to do with the State Preceptor?"

"That’s also under investigation."

"But what’s certain is that this State Preceptor is indeed harboring ill intentions."

Lu Xingchen said.

Qin Feiyang said, "Then the first step in our cooperation is to get rid of him!"

"It’s not that simple."

"He has a Divine Artifact in his hands, unless I condense a complete Divine Soul."

"And after that battle with Ren Duxing, from now on he definitely won’t leave the Imperial Capital easily again."

"And if we make a move inside the Imperial Capital, the situation will be extremely unfavorable for us."

Lu Xingchen said.

Qin Feiyang nodded. Lu Xingchen’s concerns were not without reason.

Suddenly!

As if thinking of something, Qin Feiyang asked suspiciously, "What exactly is going on with your Divine Sense? Why did you possess two bodies at the same time? And right now, you and Ren Duxing—are you Mu Tianyang, or are you yourselves?"

"I’ll tell you about that in the future."

"As for me and Ren Duxing..."

"You can think of it this way: I am still Lu Xingchen, and Ren Duxing is still Ren Duxing."

Lu Xingchen said.

Qin Feiyang raised his brows. This was no different from not answering at all. He asked, "Then what are you going to do next?"

Lu Xingchen said with a smile, "Of course I’ll return to the Temple and continue investigating the little Prince and the State Preceptor."

"You still dare go back to the Temple?"

"Aren’t you afraid Elder Qin will be bad for you?"

Qin Feiyang sneered.

Lu Xingchen said, "That’s why I need you to go and have a little talk with him."

Qin Feiyang gave him a deep look and said, "When I have time, I’ll talk to him."

Lu Xingchen said, "There’s one more thing: I’m taking Mu Qing with me in a bit."

Qin Feiyang raised a brow and said, "I don’t recall saying I was going to let him go, do I?"

Lu Xingchen chuckled and, without even looking back, said to Mu Qing, "Well? Hurry up and apologize to Brother Qin."

"You want me to apologize to him?"

Mu Qing looked at Lu Xingchen in disbelief.

Lu Xingchen said, "Don’t make me say it a second time."

Mu Qing’s hands clenched tightly into fists.

Toward Qin Feiyang, he felt nothing but hatred in his heart, so apologizing to him was even more painful than killing him.

Seeing Mu Qing still not moving, Lu Xingchen said blandly, "I can abandon the Four Great Sacred Beasts, Dong Qing, Zhang Jin, and I can abandon you too."

Mu Qing’s body trembled. Gritting his teeth, he bowed to Qin Feiyang and said, "I’m sorry."

"No sincerity."

Qin Feiyang said indifferently.

"Then how do you think I should show enough sincerity?"

Mu Qing raised his head and stared fixedly at Qin Feiyang, his gaze saying, Know when to stop; don’t push your luck.

Qin Feiyang directly ignored his gaze and said, "Kneel and apologize!"