Chapter 107: The Clown
Unfortunately for Ning Fengzhi, he had chosen the wrong person to blackmail. If one were to speak of the entire continent, the person least afraid of such tactics was Jing Ni.
"You know what you've done," she said, her cold gaze never leaving Bone Douluo. "Answer me. What were you and your Clan Master just plotting against my husband and daughter?"
An uproar swept through the crowd. Now they understood. They had wanted to secretly plot an assassination, and not only that, they hadn't even spared a child. To do so on Spirit Hall's territory, and to be caught red-handed by Jingni Douluo... there was no escaping this.
On Spirit Hall's side, Chrysanthemum Douluo had already signaled his people to surround the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan. He sternly shouted, "How dare you, Ning Fengzhi! Our Supreme Pontiff sincerely invited you to participate, yet you intended to harm our Second Majesty and his daughter! What crime should you be charged with?"
"There's no need to invent charges," Ning Fengzhi replied, refusing to admit anything. His only hope was to create the appearance of being framed and rely on public opinion to make Spirit Hall hesitate.
His move was effective. The Clear Sky and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clans, who already disliked Spirit Hall, now looked at them with anger.
"Jingni Douluo, your Spirit Hall's actions are simply too overbearing!" shouted Yu Yuanzhen, venting his own anger over the situation with his son, Yu Xiaogang.
"I don't care how Spirit Hall acts," Jing Ni turned her head, her beautiful eyes glaring at him. "But one thing is certain: anyone who dares to harm my husband and daughter, I will hunt them down to the ends of the earth. If you don't believe me, you can try."
She simultaneously released her sword qi and the Slaughter God Domain, covering him from a hundred meters away. Yu Yuanzhen's anger was instantly replaced by fear. Before him was no longer a beautiful woman, but a fiend from a mountain of corpses. For the first time in his life, he was intimidated before a fight even began.
At this time, Xue Ye, the Crown Prince of the Heaven Dou Empire, stepped forward with a gentle smile. "Majesty Jingni, this might be a misunderstanding. How about we let this matter go, for my sake?"
"What if I say no?" Jing Ni said, stepping on Bone Douluo's face. A cracking sound and a scream rang out as his facial bones were crushed.
"Uncle Bone!" Ning Fengzhi cried out in shock, then turned to the other clan masters. "Senior Tang Tian, Senior Yu Yuanzhen, the Upper Three Clans are of the same breath and branch! Are you just going to stand by and watch? Aren't you afraid that today's Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan will be tomorrow's Clear Sky Clan?"
He was desperate. He couldn't understand how Jingni Douluo had heard their spirit power transmission.
"This..." On the stage, Yu Yuanzhen and Tang Tian looked at each other. They recalled Ning Fengzhi's secret proposal to form an alliance against the powerful Spirit Hall.
"Clap, clap, clap!" Just as they were debating, a round of applause attracted everyone's attention. Qin Xuan had placed his daughter and Nong Yu into a storage bag at his waist.
"Clan Master Ning truly has good methods," he said, a faint smile on his lips. "With just your words, you can turn black into white. An uninformed person might even think your clan was truly wronged."
"Hmph, justice resides in the hearts of the people," Ning Fengzhi said stubbornly.
"You're quite confident, but there's something you seem to have misunderstood," Qin Xuan replied.
"What?"
Qin Xuan didn't answer. He slowly raised his right hand, and a golden-red longsword condensed in his palm. At the same time, seven spirit rings quietly appeared around him: two yellow, two purple, two black, and one red.
"A hundred-thousand-year seventh ring!" the onlookers roared.
The next second, Qin Xuan's figure flickered, instantly appearing beside Ning Fengzhi. With a swing of his sword, he said, "When a person's ambition does not match their strength, what awaits them is only destruction."
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