"Brother Ye, I don't quite understand."
Gou Monan stood by the stone pillar, his gaze filled with sincerity, confusion, and distress.
Ever since entering the palace, he and Ye Zichen had gotten along very well. After entering the Painting Empress' Pavilion, they worked together even more.
It was fair to say that it was impossible to get here without any of their hard work.
Because of this friendship, he didn't choose to seek good fortune. Instead, he waited for Ye Zichen to enter with him. Who would've thought that Ye Zichen would say something like this?
Gou Monan didn't know what had happened to Ye Zichen up there after he and Gu Luolin entered.
That was why Ye Zichen was so hostile towards him!
"Yao Lord, we've already come this far. There's no need to keep pretending!"
Gu Luolin wasn't too heavy, but it was still inconvenient for Ye Zichen to carry her with one arm. He smiled at Gou Monan and turned around to let Gu Luolin lean against the wall. Then, he laid down the strongest barrier he could with his ability around Gu Luolin.
After reinforcing the barrier several times, Ye Zichen turned around and saw that Gou Monan was still standing by the stone pillar.
"That's right, I gave you the best opportunity just now, but you didn't take it."
"Brother Ye, you don't understand me at all," Gou Monan shook his head, then smiled wryly. "I understand."
"You understand?"
"It seems like Brother Ye is also enraged by the opportunity to transcend. You want to take it for yourself. Gou Monan thought that Brother Ye was different from the others, but …. "
"Yao Lord, if I were the Yao Lord, why would I come here? Even if I don't transcend, the Thousand Faces Yao Lord still has an extremely high status in the Three Realms. He's a perverted, murderous demon. If I were the Yao Lord, why would I harm those people? Do they have any treasures worthy of the Yao Lord's attention? "
"Brother Ye, I truly misjudged you."
Gou Monan shook his head and sighed. His eyes were filled with disappointment, then he lowered his head with a wry smile.
"Since Brother Ye wants to take it for yourself, then please open the passage for me. I'll leave right away. Really, Brother Ye, I never wanted this good fortune from the very beginning. "
Gou Monan revealed his true feelings. It could be said that whether it was his eyes or his emotions, they all revealed his pain and hatred.
However, Ye Zichen merely smiled indifferently the entire time. No matter how Gou Monan tried to hide it, he didn't waver in the slightest.
When Gou Monan finished speaking, Ye Zichen smiled and nodded.
"I thought the Demon Lord would say that you've never thought of trying to transcend. But because of my greed, even if I knew I couldn't win, I still had to fight. " "This Gou knows his own limitations. Although Brother Ye has yet to become an Emperor, this Gou has never underestimated Brother Ye's strength. He was able to make so many Great Emperors work for him willingly, and he even created the tenth Sacred Mountain that no one in the God Race had achieved in billions of years. Although Gou Monan was the Emperor, he asked himself honestly.
I might not be a match for Brother Ye. "Gou Monan spoke sincerely." I just came here with the intention of becoming an Imperial Monarch, and I don't want to die. "
"Well said!"
Ye Zichen couldn't help but clap with a smile in his eyes.
"If the Demon Lord wants to leave, I wouldn't dare stop you no matter what. Please!"
With that, Ye Zichen turned to the side, revealing the staircase behind him. Ye Zichen smiled meaningfully, then pointed at the passageway with a half-smile.
He looked calmly at Gou Monan. Even now, Gou Monan's expression was still as disappointed as ever.
He stepped forward without hesitation, not even using any spiritual energy or Dao arts.
From the looks of it, he really was going to leave in disappointment. However, just as he was about to walk past Ye Zichen ….
Gou Monan's left hand suddenly transformed into a sharp claw. His previously despondent expression vanished, and was replaced by a demonic, bloodthirsty gaze.
His claw met no resistance at all. It pierced right through Ye Zichen's chest.
"Hm?"
The instant Gou Monan's claw pierced through Ye Zichen's chest, his expression darkened. There wasn't even the slightest hint of blood.
A body double!
The Ye Zichen in front of him was Ye Zichen himself!
"I already said it like that. Does the Demon Lord really think that I'm stupid enough to just stand there and wait for you to kill me?" Ye Zichen's figure appeared beside a stone pillar. He leaned against it and smiled at the Thousand Faced Yao Lord, who had revealed his true appearance.
"Heh …"
Gou Monan wasn't annoyed by his failed attack.
He smiled indifferently and strolled to Gu Luolin's side. His slender fingers gently knocked on the boundary around her.
"Brother Ye, you're so diligent. However, this little girl of the Gu family should be very important to you. Brother Ye, you're still one step behind by leaving her here. Brother Ye, you can't possibly think that this kind of barrier can stop me, right? "
"It definitely can't. I'm just a ruler, while the Yao Lord is an existence that's nearly at the level of an emperor."
"Since Brother Ye already knows, then why are you still doing this? Could it be that Brother Ye thinks that I won't dare to touch this girl because of the Gu family's background?"
"Then try it," Ye Zichen smiled nonchalantly.
Gou Monan suddenly squinted his eyes and looked at Gu Luolin, who was in front of him.
"She's also a body double puppet!"
"Wow, nephew, he's not an idiot."
As soon as Gou Monan said that, the mischievous Gu Luolin ran out from behind a stone pillar next to Ye Zichen's.
When she appeared, Gu Luolin transformed into a scarecrow puppet.
Gou Monan suddenly fell silent. When he saw Ye Zichen and Gu Luolin standing a hundred miles away, he didn't rashly attack.
Rather than killing them, he was more curious about how he'd exposed himself.
"You suspected me all along?"
If Ye Zichen had only discovered he was the Thousand Faced Yao Lord after fighting Yuchi Kong and the others, then Gu Luolin couldn't possibly have used a body double puppet.
He was so certain because he'd been watching Ye Zichen ever since he'd entered.
He didn't use any spiritual energy, nor did he release his divine sense. Instead, he used the domain he'd gained after becoming a ruler.
Compared to other rulers, the Thousand Faced Yao Lord's domain was somewhat different.
Other people's domains allowed their users to be unrestricted by the laws within their own domains, but the Thousand Faced Yao Lord's domain enveloped the surroundings like a shadow.
When he'd first broken through to ruler, he'd once belittled himself and felt his domain to be of little value.
However, as his cultivation rose, he discovered that his domain was the true path of kings.
He could use his Domain to kill his opponent without them even knowing it. As a result, the Thousand Faced Yao Lord's personal strength didn't matter. So long as his domain was strong enough, he could kill anyone.
After entering this place, Ye Zichen hadn't used any supplementary divine artifacts, nor had he given Gu Luolin one at all.
It was obvious that Ye Zichen had suspected him a long time ago.
"I did suspect you a long time ago." Ye Zichen didn't deny it. "To tell the truth, I trusted you halfway through. You're just too good at disguising yourself. If you'd been born in my time, you might've won a golden statue based on your acting skills."
Gou Monan didn't know what a golden statue was, nor was he interested.
Right now, he wanted to know two things …..
"When did you start suspecting me?"
"It started when you took me to see that perverted murderer's courtyard," said Ye Zichen.
"That early? That's impossible!" Gou Monan shook his head. "We'd only just met. Even if you were wary of strangers, there was no way you could've assumed it was me so soon!"
"Yao Lord is right."
Ye Zichen nodded. It was natural to be wary of strangers, but it was a bit too far-fetched to directly accuse someone he'd just met of being a perverted murderer.
What made Ye Zichen suspicious of Gou Monan was the forest outside the courtyard.
"Yao Lord, do you remember the trees outside?"
"The trees?" The Yao Lord knit his brows. He naturally remembered the trees outside, but there shouldn't be anything wrong with them.
"Looks like the Demon Lord remembers it!" Ye Zichen smiled. "If I remember correctly, when the Yao Lord took me there, he said that you witnessed the scene of that person killing someone."
"That's right!"
"When I got there, I looked around. The only place to hide was in that forest. There was no cover at all."
"So what?" "But the Demon Lord also said that the Demon Lord left before the murderous demon left, so how did the Demon Lord leave the forest without making any noise?" Ye Zichen smiled. "Yao Lord might have said that you're proficient in shadow techniques and could hide, but if Yao Lord used a dao technique …
Wouldn't the demons notice? If Yao Lord didn't use a dao technique, then would the murderer not hear anything? That's the first reason! "
Gou Monan didn't expect Ye Zichen to be so meticulous. Now that Ye Zichen put it that way, Gou Monan's explanation really didn't make sense. However, that was only the first reason. He did want to hear the second reason from Ye Zichen.
"Yao Lord cried when he saw the ocean!"
"Yes!" "No, no, no, it was very real. At least, I couldn't tell that you were faking it," Ye Zichen shook his head. Ye Zichen shook his head. "But that's what the Yao Lord said. He said that Dahai hadn't died yet when you left. It was during the time you left, which is the time I was with him, that the psychopathic murderous demon acted again.
Hands. But if you look closely, you'll notice that although the corpses of those people were dismembered, from the degree of drying up of their blood, Dahai died much earlier. At least earlier than you said. "
"I don't quite understand," Gou Monan said. "Then let's put it this way." "Dahai's eyes were filled with shock when he died. However, his shock was because someone he knew actually stabbed him. If my guess is correct, it was you who killed the real Gou Monan and transformed into the real Gou Monan.
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