A cool breeze blew, causing the surrounding flowers and grass to sway gently.
Feng Zihuang gazed at Yun Qingxue with a smile and asked, “Qingxue, what exactly did you want to see me about? You don’t seem very happy.”
“Hmph!” Yun Qingxue let out a cold laugh. “King of Feathers, if someone cursed you, deceived you, and used you, would you still give them a pleasant look? Would you be happy?”
A faint sense of unease crept into Feng Zihuang’s heart, but he continued to smile. “Qingxue, you’re acting very strange today. Did someone bully you?”
“Feng Zihuang! Your Majesty, King of Feathers!” Yun Qingxue’s eyes were icy as she snapped, “I no longer have any feelings for you, so… stop pretending to be affectionate and putting on an act!”
“Qingxue…”
“I know everything you’ve done! The Phoenix Blood… that time in the Feather Clan, you went out of your way to make me drink your blood, didn’t you?” Yun Qingxue said coldly.
Feng Zihuang’s brows furrowed tightly. He couldn’t understand how Yun Qingxue had found out about all this!
“You…”
“Curious how I know, aren’t you?” Yun Qingxue raised an eyebrow.
Feng Zihuang’s hands clenched tightly beneath his sleeves.
Yun Qingxue sneered. “Because before you cursed me with your blood, there was already another poison lurking in my body!
Feng Zihuang, you didn’t expect that, did you? The antidote for the other poison in my body just happened to contain two ingredients that could break your blood curse!”
“Qingxue, let me explain!”
“King of Feathers, address me as the Flower King! Our relationship isn’t close enough for you to call me by name!”
“Qing—Flower King, I never intended to harm you.” All traces of amusement faded from Feng Zihuang’s face as he looked at Yun Qingxue with sincerity.
“I don’t care what your motives were, Feng Zihuang. I’m telling you clearly—there’s no future for us!
Now, answer me—was the poison you took before deliberately self-inflicted?”
“Qingxue! How dare you slander His Majesty the King of Feathers like this? Not only does our Feather Clan not possess such a rare and deadly poison—even the Water Clan barely has it—but even if we did, do you think our lord would be insane enough to take it himself?
Don’t forget, that poison had no antidote!” A lark swooped down from the sky, transforming into a delicate young girl who glared angrily at Yun Qingxue.
“As for the blood curse, it was only because His Majesty loved you so much and wanted to be with you that—”
“—that you schemed to curse me with it!” Yun Qingxue coldly cut off Liuying’s words, her gaze as frigid as ice as she stared at her and Feng Zihuang.
“Liuying, did you always think I was a fool? Did you take me for an idiot?
And you, Feng Zihuang!
The only reason you dared to swallow that poison was because you knew the only cure was the dragon energy of Jinlin.
And Jinlin—he loves me! And I was under your blood curse!
Given the circumstances, if you had died, I would have followed you in death.
Jinlin wouldn’t have let me die, so he would have had no choice but to use his dragon energy to save you!”
“Qingxue, how can you think of His Majesty like that? His feelings for you were genuine!” Liuying retorted indignantly.
“Oh?” Yun Qingxue’s voice dripped with disdain. “Your kind of ‘affection’ is terrifying. I’d rather not have it!”
“Qingxue, is this really how you see me?” Feng Zihuang’s eyes were filled with hurt.
But Yun Qingxue remained unmoved. Instead, her anger only grew fiercer.
After everything Feng Zihuang had done, how dare he act like the wounded party?
And what about Jinlin? Jinlin was the true victim in all of this!
“Feng Zihuang, do you want to know how I uncovered your schemes?” Yun Qingxue said coldly.
Feng Zihuang pressed his lips together tightly, frowning at her.
“Remember when you were poisoned, and I sent everyone away to stay with you alone?
At the time, I fed you a special elixir.
As it turned out, that elixir worked! So when Jinlin later used his dragon energy to purge the poison from your body, it only took half the effort it should have!
But… even after the poison was gone, you used underhanded means to prevent him from stopping, forcing him to continue letting you absorb his dragon energy.
If not for my senior brother, Mo Changxing, Jinlin might have died because of you!”
Yun Qingxue didn’t mention that her blood had miraculous healing properties, only stating that she had used an elixir to cure Feng Zihuang.
She knew that if the secret of her blood’s power were exposed, it would bring her immense danger.
“Qingxue, whether you believe me or not, I never intended to harm the Dragon King,” Feng Zihuang sighed deeply.
“Whether it was deliberate or not, you know the truth. Luoyun Mountain is not welcome to you.
Now, take your people and leave—immediately!” Yun Qingxue issued the command without hesitation.
“Qingxue, how can you treat His Majesty like this? After all his sincere feelings for you?” Liuying snapped.
Yun Qingxue glared at her coldly. “So, according to you, I should just happily let you use me?
Liuying, don’t think I don’t know—you’ve had ulterior motives from the moment you first appeared before me!
Leave! From now on, if we meet again, we’ll be strangers!”
“Qingxue…”
Liuying’s eyes narrowed. Suddenly, she lunged at Yun Qingxue, saying, “Even if you hate me, I can’t let you misunderstand His Majesty like this.
We’ll leave Luoyun Mountain—but we’re taking you with us!”
Sensing Liuying’s movement, Yun Qingxue instantly leaped back, swiftly sending two wind blades toward her.
Liuying barely dodged, transforming back into her true form in an instant. Her body rapidly expanded as her claws shot toward Yun Qingxue again.
Yun Qingxue murmured an incantation, and vines burst from the ground, coiling around Liuying’s massive form with precision and speed.
The vines twisted like serpents, tightening mercilessly around Liuying’s body.
“Qingxue!” Feng Zihuang’s gaze darkened as he looked at her.
But Yun Qingxue only tightened the vines further. “Are you leaving, or not?!”
“Your Majesty, save me!” Liuying wailed.
Feng Zihuang’s frown deepened.
At that moment, a streak of dark energy sliced through the air.
Feng Zihuang sensed the danger and barely managed to evade it.
Mo Changxing descended from the sky, his tall figure exuding an oppressive aura as he stared coldly at Feng Zihuang.
“King of Feathers, your schemes are truly impressive.”
“Mo Changxing, just who are you?” Feng Zihuang’s voice turned icy.
Mo Changxing’s strength was no less than his own—in fact, Feng Zihuang had a feeling that Mo Changxing’s power might even surpass his.
In the entire Xuanling Continent, only the rulers of the other great clans could rival him in strength.
But he had met all of them at least once or twice…
Which was why Mo Changxing’s identity puzzled him so much.
Mo Changxing only smirked coldly. “You have no right to know who I am. Feng Zihuang, how dare you repeatedly plot against my junior sister and brother? Do you think Luoyun Mountain is easy to bully?”
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