The sky turned completely dark.
The mountain wind at Ganquan Peak roared at night, making the mountains and forests roar.
Zhou Linger, accompanied by Lu Qi, arrived outside the dungeon.
As soon as he approached, the disciple in charge of guarding stretched out his hand to stop Zhou Ling'er.
Lu Qi walked forward and said a few words to the guarding disciple. The disciple frowned, but finally made way for the two of them.
The two walked into the dungeon.
The dungeon is dark, and there is still a faint smell of blood that has not dissipated - just a few hours ago, a large number of disciples of the Chengjian lineage were imprisoned here. Under the leadership of Xiang An, the guards guarded the Chengjian lineage. The disciples were subjected to inhumane torture. Even though Zhou Sheng asked him to clean it up properly, the smell of blood still did not dissipate.
Lu Qi led Zhou Ling'er through the long and narrow passage of the dungeon and came to a cell door.
There was a figure squatting in the corner of the cell with his back to them.
His clothes were torn and his hair was disheveled. He seemed to be possessed and stayed motionless.
Zhou Ling'er seemed a little unbelievable that the man looked like this. She turned her head and glanced at Lu Qi beside her as if asking. Lu Qi nodded towards her with a heavy expression.
Zhou Ling'er then took a deep breath, walked to the cell door, and whispered tentatively: "Brother Xiang An."
The figure with its back to the two men visibly trembled, but did not look back.
But this performance was enough for Zhou Linger to confirm the other party's identity.
She quickly continued: "Brother Xiang An, don't worry too much! Grandpa loves you so much and won't do anything to you. He is just angry now..."
"Besides, I will also help you plead for mercy. Don't worry, you can be released in a few days at most."
"Oh, by the way, I also brought a lot of food, all of which you like, you can try it!"
Zhou Ling'er said, then took out a food box from behind and wanted to hand it into the cell.
At this moment, the figure who had always had his back to the two of them finally slowly turned his head.
It's true that Xiang An is right.
It's just that Xiang An is no longer as energetic as he used to be. His face is covered with dirt and blood, his eyes are cloudy and his eyes are dull.
He looked at the two people outside the cell door in silence, and then looked at the food box that Zhou Linger handed over.
Then.
The corners of his mouth twitched, and he smiled at that.
That was a particularly sinister smile.
With disdain.
"Are you here to see my joke?" Xiang An said, his voice hoarse.
Zhou Ling'er's expression changed when she heard this, and she hurriedly said: "Brother Xiang An, what are you talking about? I care about you..."
"If you cared about me, you shouldn't have secretly released Zuo Chuanxin in the first place!" Xiang An interrupted Zhou Linger.
"If it weren't for you, how would Chu Qingxiao know all this! How could my guy be exposed?"
"Now, my reputation has been ruined and my martial soul has been destroyed. Isn't this all thanks to you!?"
Xiang An said through gritted teeth, and his eyes on Zhou Linger became sinister and ferocious.
Zhou Ling'er had never seen Xiang An like this before. Her hand holding the food box trembled and her face turned pale. She felt that the Xiang An in front of her looked so strange.
"Brother Xiang An... it's not what you think." She also tried to explain.
Xiang An sneered, looking past Zhou Ling'er to Lu Qi who was standing next to her, and raised his brows: "Are you going to have a new love so soon?"
"Still, you were good friends from the beginning. No wonder you would deceive me for him."
As soon as these words came out, Zhou Ling'er turned pale. She couldn't believe that her brother Xiang An, whom she had always admired and admired, would say such vicious words.
"Xiang An! Don't slander me! Ling'er and I are innocent!" But Lu Qi couldn't bear the girl he cared about being so insulted by Xiang An. He immediately stepped forward and said angrily.
"For your own selfish reasons, you have harmed your fellow disciples and tried to frame Brother Chu. Now you have reached this point. You just don't want to repent, and you still slander me and Ling'er. Xiang An! You are really hopeless!"
Lu Qi's scolding could be described as heart-breaking words, and upon hearing these words, Xiang An's eyes suddenly filled with anger.
He suddenly stood up and shouted loudly: "You don't understand anything. That Chu Qingxiao is a disaster. If he is alive, the entire Tianxuan Mountain will be turned upside down by him!"
"I'm here for Tianxuan Mountain! Why our Ganquan Peak!"
"I think you are doing it for yourself, right? You know better than any of us what the truth was in Wuling City back then! You are the one who is afraid!" Lu Qi exposed Xiang An mercilessly.
As soon as these words came out, Xiang An's expression froze. The next moment, he looked at Lu Qi crazily and shouted: "You are talking nonsense! I didn't lie!"
"Wuling City was held hostage by Jian Jia! Song Guicheng is the traitor!"
"Why should I be afraid!? Why should I be afraid!?"
The more he spoke, the louder his voice became, and the look on his face became more and more crazy.
Looking at Xiang An like this, Lu Qi shook his head. He knew that the other party was completely hopeless. He turned to look at Zhou Ling'er beside him and said: "Ling'er, let's go."
Zhou Linger couldn't bear to look at Xiang An in the cell, feeling a little reluctant in her heart.
But now Xiang An is so unfamiliar that Zhou Ling'er doesn't know what to say to him anymore.
"Brother Xiang An, please calm down first. Ling'er will come see you in a few days." She looked at Xiang An and said.
But Xiang An couldn't listen to her words at all, and just kept roaring: "I'm not wrong! It was you who hurt me! It was you!!"
Zhou Ling'er was finally completely disappointed. She withdrew her gaze, nodded towards Lu Qi, put the food box in her hand in front of the cell door, and then turned around and left with Lu Qi.
Xiang An looked at the backs of the two people leaving side by side. At that moment, an indescribable anger and feeling of betrayal surged into his mind.
"asshole!"
"They're all bastards!"
He reached out and grabbed the food box left by Zhou Linger on the ground, and smashed it against the wall.
The food box suddenly shattered, and all kinds of exquisite food inside were scattered on the floor.
Xiang An looked at this scene and suddenly fell silent.
After a while, he seemed to accept this bleak fact, and fell to the ground slumped, hugging himself with his hands, and his fingertips dug hard into the flesh and blood of his arms. Heart-breaking pain surged through his body. But he didn't realize it at all.
He thought of everything that had happened in the past twelve years.
Thinking about the fear I felt when I first arrived, how hard I practiced, and how cautious I was when interacting with others.
With great difficulty, he finally had everything he had now, but because of the arrival of Chu Qingxiao, everything came to nothing overnight.
The resentment and unwillingness in his heart were piled up at this moment, making it difficult to disperse.
He sat slumped in the cell like this for a long time.
…
"Are you ready to give up?"
Suddenly, a deep voice sounded in Xiang An's mind.
The sound came very suddenly, without any warning.
Xiang An was startled and looked around.
There were dim candles burning in the cell, and there was nothing around except rats that appeared and disappeared from the dark corners from time to time.
But Xiang An was sure that what just happened was not his imagination. He looked at the darkness around him and asked in a deep voice: "Who are you?"
"Have you forgotten me so soon?"
"Don't you remember who helped you gather the martial spirit?" The voice sounded, low and hoarse.
This question made Xiang An's body tremble, but soon he said: "What do you mean?"
"It seems that you need me to help you recall your memories." The voice said, and then the darkness in the corner spread towards Xiang An like a tide.
Xiang An instinctively felt a little scared. He wanted to avoid it, but he was in the cell. After a few steps, he was unable to retreat and was drowned by the darkness like a tide.
The look on his face was stunned and dull, and some memories that he had ignored flooded into his mind.
…
When he was trapped in Siguo Cliff, Xiang An's life was boring, so he began to try to condense his martial spirit.
But this matter is extremely difficult. Even with Xiang An's talent, trying this in the Six Realms is still almost impossible.
He failed again and again, which made him extremely irritated.
But because of Chu Qingxiao's incident, he was imprisoned here by Zhou Sheng and could not leave.
During that time he became extremely agitated.
And at that time, the ancestral sword Shenquan Sword, which had been silent on the top of Ganquan Peak, inspired a dark aura in the process, and poured into Xiang An when Xiang An had not made any progress in his practice. in vivo. .
After the influx of that aura, Xiang An's martial soul condensation became extremely smooth. This should have been something that could be completely completed in his seventh or even eighth realm, but it was just a month after he was imprisoned at Siguo Cliff. It was completed quickly in less than a minute.
The moment the memory was restored, Xiang An's eyes widened, and he said incredulously: "It's you... Are you the Shenquan Ancestral Sword?"
The darkness shrouding Xiang An's body was surging, and a living creature was in some kind of extreme excitement.
"Yes!"
"Kid, I've been paying attention to you for a long time."
"You are the hope of Ganquan Peak, and now Ganquan Peak is on the wrong track. Accept me, and together we can reverse the mistakes of Ganquan Peak and make it become the greatest divine peak in Tianxuan Mountain!" The voice spoke to Xiang An again. sounded in his mind, hoarse and low, with a strong flavor of bewitchment.
"Me?" Xiang An frowned. His only sense made her feel that there was something wrong with this.
"What? Do you have any concerns?"
"Do you want to stay in this dungeon for the rest of your life? Do you want those who put you in this situation to go free? Or do you want to watch the woman you love having sex with other men?"
The voice asked.
Xiang An's body suddenly trembled. He remembered that Chu Qingxiao had destroyed his martial spirit despite his pleas, and he remembered the backs of Zhou Linger and Lu Qi walking side by side.
At that moment, Xiang An's eyes were bloodshot and red.
"No!"
"That's not what I want! I want revenge!"
As soon as Xiang An finished speaking, the deep voice sounded again.
"as you wish."
After he said this, the darkness lingering around Xiang An suddenly surged again, and the next moment it poured into Xiang An's body like a tide and merged with him.
