Dragon's Origin

“What if I don’t want to?” Wang Sheng retorted quickly.

“Then I might break my word.” The World Honored One also laughed.

Hearing this, Wang Sheng shook his head dismissively: “You’ve reached this level and still want to imitate others’ style changes? No way.”

The World Honored One was stunned, unable to say anything.

“Do you want to know how Blood Saber died?” Wang Sheng asked directly, not waiting for the World Honored One to say anything more. It wasn’t like when Blood Saber had just died, when the World Honored One might have acted impulsively. After so many days, even if the master wanted to act, he wouldn’t kill Wang Sheng before getting an answer.

This wasn’t hard to guess. The World Honored One didn’t even show surprise this time, directly nodding.

“Then tell me, what exactly is inside the core of the Perpetual Killing Ground?” Wang Sheng didn’t waste words, throwing out his question.

“You want to know this?” The World Honored One was a little surprised this time: “Don’t you want to know why the Divine Might Prison acted against you? And why they stopped?”

“A boring reason.” Wang Sheng shook his head without thinking: “It’s nothing more than owing someone a favor in the past that needs to be repaid now. What difference does it make whether I know or not?”

“Then don’t you want to know who wants to kill you?” The World Honored One asked again.

Wang Sheng still shook his head: “It’s just those few, one more or less makes no difference.”

The World Honored One was speechless. He originally thought he could exchange the secret of Blood Saber’s death for a simple answer, but Wang Sheng didn’t fall for it.

“You should know the core of the Perpetual Killing Ground better than I do, why are you asking me?” The World Honored One had no choice but to tell the truth.

“Doesn’t the Divine Might Prison have any internal records or anything?” Wang Sheng asked persistently, frowning.

“Let’s change the question!” The World Honored One said helplessly: “The Divine Might Prison is just an assassin organization. Unless it’s related to the target, there won’t be any information. Even if there is information related to the target, it will be destroyed before long.”

Hearing this, Wang Sheng understood. The Divine Might Prison was a qualified assassin organization, and destroying target information was definitely because the target was already dead. In that case, it meant that the Divine Might Prison probably didn’t know what was in the core of the Perpetual Killing Ground at all.

Wang Sheng pondered for a while, then asked again: “Since you are also a Legendary Realm expert, tell me, what is the difference between you and those Legendary Realm experts from the Song family who advanced in the Perpetual Killing Ground?”

The World Honored One’s performance was far stronger than those Ninth Realm experts from the Song family who came out of the Perpetual Killing Ground. Wang Sheng knew that there must be a difference in realm, but he wasn’t very clear about how big the difference was. Wang Sheng could have easily asked Old Daoist Ling Xu and others to find out, but he thought that Old Daoist Ling Xu might not have seen those Ninth Realm experts from the Song family, so he didn’t ask. Since the World Honored One was here, he might as well ask him.

Speaking of this question, before the World Honored One could answer, his face showed a hint of contempt. Obviously, he had seen those experts from the Song family.

“They can be considered Legendary Realm experts?” The World Honored One said dismissively: “At best, they are just little kids who barely crossed that threshold by relying on the aura inside the Perpetual Killing Ground. Do you know how long it took me to break through from the peak of the Eighth Realm?”

Wang Sheng shook his head, knowing was knowing, not knowing was not knowing, there was no need to pretend to be profound.

“A full ten years!” The World Honored One only asked this to get Wang Sheng to cooperate, not really waiting for him to answer: “During that time, I killed more than sixty Eighth Realm targets, killed dozens of powerful demon beasts, and experienced countless life-and-death situations. But they only stayed in the Perpetual Killing Ground for more than ten years, and they went from being a few Third or Fourth Realm kids to Ninth Realm experts. Tell me, where is the difference?”

“Insufficient accumulation?” Wang Sheng asked.

“Obviously.” The World Honored One nodded, and then said: “More than that, experience, vision, people’s hearts, experience are not even close. Do you really think that being stimulated in the Perpetual Killing Ground, and then killing a few demon beasts to break through can be compared?”

Listening to the World Honored One’s words, Wang Sheng suddenly thought of a term from Earth, called high scores but low ability, and couldn’t help but interject: “Similar to those bookworms who study to death?”

“Yes, almost exactly that.” The World Honored One was worried that he couldn’t find a suitable word to describe it, and when Wang Sheng said it, he immediately felt like he had found a kindred spirit: “Cultivation has reached, but the realm has not actually reached.”

“But with their current foundation, they can become real experts after a few years of training outside.” After depreciating them, the World Honored One began to praise them: “After all, the starting point is high, and the training in the Perpetual Killing Ground is not useless. In another year or two, it is estimated that they can reach the mid-stage of the Ninth Realm, and then they will be difficult to deal with.”

“What realm was Blood Saber in?” Wang Sheng asked again.

“This question is a gift to you.” The World Honored One glanced at Wang Sheng strangely, and then answered: “It’s the mid-stage of the Ninth Realm that I just mentioned.” After a pause, the World Honored One said calmly: “Your turn.”

“Blood Saber probably has a deep connection with you, learning your methods everywhere.” Wang Sheng no longer shirked, and said to the World Honored One: “Even the uprightness when taking action has been learned perfectly.”

“He is my disciple.” The World Honored One replied expressionlessly.

No wonder, Blood Saber’s behavior pattern was exactly the same as the World Honored One’s, and after Blood Saber’s death, the World Honored One almost killed Wang Sheng on the spot, even at the cost of breaking his promise not to attack Wang Sheng. Sure enough, there was a deep connection.

“It doesn’t really matter what method he died under.” Wang Sheng looked into the World Honored One’s eyes, feeling his current inner emotions, and slowly said: “What really killed him was his arrogance.”

“Arrogance?” The World Honored One didn’t understand, frowning.

“As an assassin, especially an assassin with a mission objective, the most important thing to do is to use any means to kill their mission objective.” Wang Sheng explained: “Your identity, Blood Saber’s identity, is just an assassin, never a chivalrous hero. An assassin is just an assassin, just kill the target. But look at what you did in the capital.”

“Actively showing up, alarming the experts of the Old Lord Temple and the royal family, and also making me vigilant.” Wang Sheng said to the World Honored One with great dissatisfaction: “Not only did you not use the easiest method to kill me, but you also gave me enough time to prepare, to set up a deadly trap for you.”

“You didn’t immediately attack after meeting, but instead talked back and forth, giving me enough time to attack.” Wang Sheng’s disdain was almost from the bottom of his heart: “Besides arrogance, I can’t think of why he dared to do this. Last time I could burn him to death, I could drown him in another place, and I could poison him to death in another place. As long as you, like you, always maintain this self-righteous arrogance.”