#1036 - You took advantage of my trust in you!

Princess Anning stood by the pit on the lake shore, staring blankly at the ground covered in blood and the shattered pieces of the Blood Fiend Alliance youth. She was lost in thought.

A member of the Blood Fiend Alliance had died by her hand, personally killed by her.

This wasn't just anyone, but someone from the Blood Fiend Alliance, one of the top forces in Hanzhou.

If this matter were to leak out, the entire Ning Royal Mansion would be in grave danger.

But what could she do?

Could she have made the opposite choice, killing Yue Wuxie and saving the Blood Fiend Alliance youth?

But would the Blood Fiend Alliance youth have been grateful to her?

Clearly, that would have been the worst possible move. With things having developed to this point, she had no other choice.

Her mood gradually calmed down. The person was already dead, and now what needed to be done was to destroy all traces.

That way, the Blood Fiend Alliance might not know that they had a disciple who died in Qingzhou.

After all, the Blood Fiend Alliance was vast, with hundreds of thousands, even millions of disciples. The sect's management couldn't possibly know the whereabouts of every single disciple.

Thinking of this, she turned to look at the small island in the heart of the lake, and was instantly stunned.

Her gaze was fixed on the floating rune memory stone in the air. Looking again at Yue Wuxie, who should have been extremely weak, where was there any sign of weakness now?

That guy was standing on the island, giving her a bright, sunny smile.

Her delicate body began to tremble, her chest heaving violently. A chill grew in her heart, quickly spreading to her spine, and then to her whole body. Cold sweat broke out.

A surge of anger instantly rushed to her head.

She rushed towards the rune memory stone above the lake at top speed.

But Jun Wuxie was faster than her, reaching out and retrieving it, placing it into his storage ring.

Princess Anning lost her target and instead rushed towards the island, landing in front of Jun Wuxie.

Her face was frosty, her eyes blazing with anger, and she raised her delicate hand to slap him hard across the face.

But her hand, full of power, didn't land on Jun Wuxie's face. Instead, her wrist was locked by a large hand.

She struggled forcefully but couldn't break free, her beautiful eyes staring at him, filled with anger.

"Princess, that action is very dangerous. You must remember, there can't be a second time!"

Jun Wuxie's voice was somewhat cold. He had never been slapped in the face in this life, and this behavior made him quite disgusted.

If Princess Anning had landed a few punches on him, he would have completely let her hit him a couple of times, since it wouldn't hurt him anyway, but slapping the face was unacceptable.

"Yue Wuxie! You are shameless!"

Princess Anning had lost her elegance and composure. At this moment, she was no longer the one in control.

"It seems the princess can't afford to lose. Isn't the princess always scheming and planning? As Ning Wang's strategist, you are also someone who uses their wits. How can you only allow yourself to win and not allow others to win against you?"

"You took advantage of my trust in you!"

Princess Anning rebuked coldly.

"Take advantage of trust? So what?" Jun Wuxie's aggressive gaze was extremely invasive, staring into Princess Anning's eyes, and said, "If I had trusted you from the beginning, wouldn't you have taken advantage of my trust in you?"

Princess Anning was speechless.

Yes, the relationship between them was originally one of mutual exploitation, each taking what they needed.

If his wit and strategy weren't so strong, and he had chosen to trust her from the beginning, would she have taken advantage of his trust?

The answer was obvious, she would!

Because she was the daughter of Ning Wang, and from the moment she was born, her identity was destined, which also destined what she should do in this life.

She had no choice, she could only do this.

Whether she was willing or not, whether she liked it or not, she could only do this.

She sighed deeply, her whole body as if instantly drained of strength.

Jun Wuxie released her wrist, and she fell directly onto the grass, her eyes somewhat dull, her pupils losing focus, her whole person looking very lost and haggard.

She had lost, lost in her most proud domain!

She had always thought of herself as being exceptionally intelligent.

Over the years, she had helped her father devise strategies, subdued a large number of Great Saint Realm experts, caused many armies to submit, and even instigated the defection of certain power holders in the Royal Academy.

But now, she had lost, lost to the man in front of her, utterly defeated!

She couldn't help but start recalling from the time she met this youth in front of the Trial Tower.

Come to think of it, they had only met a few times, and the content of their conversations wasn't much.

But she had so easily walked into the abyss he had created!

… …

Jun Wuxie sat cross-legged in front of her, quietly watching her.

He knew that today's events were an extremely heavy blow for someone like Princess Anning.

She was proud, incredibly confident in her intelligence, because she had had too many successful cases over the years and had never failed.

A person who has never been defeated in their proudest field will find it difficult to accept when their pride is suddenly shattered. This is human nature, a normal psychological reaction.

After a long time, Princess Anning suddenly raised her head and looked at him, saying, "When did it start?"

"The first time I saw you when you came to my Qingyun."

Jun Wuxie didn't hide anything, telling her very directly.

"So, you started scheming against me before the Trial Tower in Guancheng?"

"Not really. There wasn't a clear plan at that time, but it didn't prevent me from influencing your analysis and judgment of me. Later things were slowly adjusted according to the changing circumstances. Originally, this should have taken a long time, but I didn't expect to encounter people from the Blood Fiend Alliance from Hanzhou at the auction house, handing the opportunity to me."

Princess Anning was silent for a moment, then said, "Perhaps I was too arrogant, so I underestimated you at the beginning, which led me to such a passive situation."

"You are very proud and confident, but not arrogant. Do you know why you lost?"

"Why?"

Princess Anning looked into his eyes, the dim eyes now having a gleam.

She wanted to hear what he would say. She was very curious about how he viewed her so quickly losing in the battle of wits.

"First of all, you don't understand me, and some of my abilities exceed your cognitive limits. This is very important. Secondly, I always look for opportunities in sudden events, so you can't analyze all the details in a very short time when your mind is shocked, so as to consider every possible consequence. The last point, which is also very important, is that I am never afraid of danger, but you are. Sometimes you think too much, worry too much, and have too many distracting thoughts in your mind. This is very fatal when masters compete."

Princess Anning quietly digested what he said, carefully examining herself.

She found that what he said was indeed the most critical factor, which also allowed her to see her own problems.

These were problems she had never discovered before.

No one is perfect, and more or less everyone will have some flaws.

And she had always imagined herself to be too perfect before.

"So, what do you want me to do?"

Princess Anning now felt deeply frustrated. Now that a fatal weakness had fallen into his hands, she was afraid that she would really have to let him manipulate her.

"You are so smart, you should know what to do. I still promise you that I can help your father ascend the throne in the future, provided that it is a cooperative relationship, not becoming a member of the Ning Royal Mansion, and the Ning Royal Mansion can no longer target Qingyun. I know what kind of person your father is. He likes everything to be in absolute control, so he needs you to help me from within."

"I can help you, but you have to keep your word and help my father ascend the throne in the future!"

"Of course, I will definitely do what I promised you, and I will never break my word!" He paused here, and then said: "It's best if you don't tell your father about today's events, otherwise you know the consequences."

"For the safety of the Ning Royal Mansion, I won't say it."

Jun Wuxie smiled when he heard this, and said, "However, you can try sending experts to rob the rune memory stone from me and destroy the evidence."

"Heh heh." Princess Anning shook her head, "Would a terrifying person like you not have considered these things? How could you leave me such an opportunity."

"It's good that you know. I don't want you to go astray and bring disaster to yourself."

Princess Anning brushed away the strands of hair that had been soaked in cold sweat and stuck to her cheeks, stood up and looked at the sparkling lake, and said, "Can you tell me what kind of talent growth field you are? I know you shouldn't be an ancient legend, otherwise, with your realm, it would be impossible to easily severely injure a Blood Fiend Alliance disciple with a half-step Great Saint realm."

"Since you have already guessed it, why ask more."

Jun Wuxie didn't give her a clear answer, but it was equivalent to giving her the answer.

"You…" Princess Anning's delicate body trembled, and she suddenly turned around, looking at him with an unbelievable and shocked gaze: "You… are you really a myth?"

"Yes." Jun Wuxie didn't deny it, looked at her shocked and excited expression, smiled lightly, and said: "What is a myth? Qingzhou is just a remote and backward place for Canglan Ancient Star. In the eyes of people here, legend is amazing and brilliant. But there are regions thousands of times larger than here on this ancient star. In this prosperous era, mythical powerhouses, if not like crucian carp crossing the river, are probably about the same."

"Why does it seem like myths aren't worth mentioning when you say it like that?" Princess Anning found it hard to accept, and retorted: "Even if there are many myths in those higher regions, how many people can enter the myth at your realm? I don't believe there are as many as crucian carp crossing the river!"

"Perhaps."

Jun Wuxie didn't argue with her.

Myth is really not worth being proud of for him, because he is someone who has seen the myths among myths.

Perhaps for the world, entering myth at his realm is rare since ancient times.

But how could the world understand what kind of enemies he will face in the future?

If he can't eventually achieve the greatest since ancient times, I'm afraid it will be difficult to stop the torrent of darkness.

Back then, both Qingxue and Aunt You were injured, and even Qingxue's father's life or death was uncertain.

"Are you from a big place?"

Princess Anning was now full of curiosity about him. She found that the more she understood this man, the more she felt that he was like a mystery, giving her a strong desire to explore.

"Sort of, and sort of not."

Jun Wuxie gave a vague answer, and then said to her, "Your talent is very good. It's rare to become a legend in Qingzhou. With such talent, you shouldn't spend your time on strategy all day long. If your father wants to achieve great things, relying solely on your strategy might eventually lead to success, but it will take a very long time. So, you should spend more time on cultivation."

"I will."

She also wanted to spend more time cultivating, but she had to share the burden for her father.

Now that she had the promise of the man in front of her, with his mythical-level growth talent, as long as he cultivated to the Great Saint Realm in the future, he would be invincible in Qingzhou.

At that time, with his help, her father's great cause could be accomplished!

Therefore, she could now relax herself and spend more time on cultivation.

Her father actually hoped that she would spend more time cultivating, but she had always stubbornly wanted to do more for her father.

"Let's go, it's time to return to Qingyun City. Regarding the matter of me being a myth, only you and I know, and I don't want a third person to know."

Princess Anning was startled. Besides him, only she knew?

She nodded and promised, "Anning will never tell anyone your secret, including my father."

Jun Wuxie said nothing more, stepped on the lake surface to reach the shore, released the Six Yang True Fire, and burned all the shattered corpses and blood stains of the Blood Fiend Alliance youth completely, and then took action to erase all traces he had left here.

… …

The next day, they were not far from Qingyun City.

Jun Wuxie separated from Princess Anning here.

Princess Anning didn't say anything and entered the city alone.

She knew that Yue Wuxie should have gone to set up a backup plan.

As for what the backup plan was, it must be related to that rune memory stone.

For her, that rune memory stone was a ticking time bomb, but she also believed that as long as she didn't mess around, that ticking time bomb would never be detonated.

After all, a myth from a big place, although she didn't know why he ended up in Qingzhou, presumably had no interest in Qingzhou.

That man, he will eventually leave here and go higher and farther, so there is no need to put her to death at all.

The only thing she was worried about was her father.

Her father had done too much to Zhenwu Peak in the past.

She didn't know what attitude that man had towards this matter, and whether he would take action against her father in the future.

"It seems that I have to do something. Although it is unlikely to completely resolve this hatred, I must try to downplay it as much as possible, otherwise…"

Princess Anning sighed secretly and couldn't help rubbing her temples.

She had never been so passive.

But losing to that man, she was convinced.

Losing was losing. Her skills were inferior to others, and her wisdom was also inferior to others.

She couldn't even think of wanting to win him back now.

A myth with outstanding wisdom, that was a man who made her feel powerless!

… …

Jun Wuxie waited quietly in the mountains for half a day, he didn't do anything.

He just wanted Princess Anning to think that he was setting up a backup plan regarding the rune memory stone.

He knew she would think that way, predicting her prediction.

Logically speaking, he should do that, but he did the opposite, too lazy to waste time, and there was no need for it.

Back in Qingyun City, he went straight to the mansion where Princess Anning was.

Princess Anning arranged a secret room for him.

He set up a barrier, sacrificed the Eternal Holy Furnace, and prepared to refine weapons.

Injecting the Six Yang True Fire fused with the Soldier Fire into the Holy Furnace, activating the weapon refining effect of the Holy Furnace, he put all five hundred catties of black crystal iron into the furnace.

Jun Wuxie was not refining weapons now, but melting the metal on the surface of the black crystal iron and peeling off the black crystal mother iron inside.

The effect of the Six Yang True Fire fused with the Soldier Fire was amazing under the blessing of the Eternal Holy Furnace.

In a short time, the black crystal iron melted into a metal liquid, leaving only the black gold mother iron inside.

He sucked out the mother iron from the air, and looking at these mother iron, he was very satisfied.

Top-grade Saint Material of the Third Rank, this is a material that can increase the success rate of refining top-grade Saint Artifacts.

He put the mother iron into the Najie, and he doesn't plan to refine top-grade Saint Artifacts for the time being.

His weapon refining realm is only at the peak of the Third Realm, and refining weapons of that grade is the limit operation.

Although there is the Eternal Holy Furnace, coupled with top-grade Saint Materials, the success rate will not be low, but it will take a lot of time.

The most important thing right now is to refine middle-grade high-level or top-level Saint Soldiers to deal with the three top-grade elementary Saint Soldiers that the Three Sects may bring.

He took out hundreds of catties of middle-grade Saint Materials of the Second Rank and placed them in the furnace, using the Six Yang True Fire to slowly melt the two different grades of materials, making them blend together and eventually perfectly integrate together.

In the Eternal Holy Furnace, the Six Yang True Fire was surging, and the fiery red metal liquid was flowing inside. Under the effect of the True Fire and the Holy Furnace, the impurities were refined, leaving a purer metal liquid.

Jun Wuxie released the Primal Incarnation and controlled the Six Yang True Fire together.

The weapon refining method of the Primal Weapon Refining True Explanation emerged in his mind, and his weapon Dao Cave began to boil, and weapon Dao exclusive runes were continuously injected into the Holy Furnace between his palms and fingers.

At the same time, he and the incarnation began to accurately divide the metal liquid inside into hundreds of groups.

Under their control, those metal liquids were gradually stretched and turned into sword body shapes.

When the sword body shape was completely completed, they merged the weapon Dao runes into the sword body, and then slowly lowered the temperature of the Six Yang True Fire, so that the metal liquid gradually cooled until it solidified into a fiery red sword tire.

At this time, he urged the power of the Holy Furnace, evolving a handle of holy hammer inside, forging with the special frequency and strength of the Primal Weapon Refining Soldier Explanation, making dense sounds of dang dang dang.

After forging to a certain extent, Jun Wuxie took out a large amount of extremely cold holy spring from the Eternal God Hall, and instantly sucked out all the sword tires and placed them in the extremely cold holy spring, making a hissing sound, with steam billowing.

After the instantaneous quenching, he took out the sword tire and threw it into the Holy Furnace, and forged it again.

This was repeated, making the material structure of the sword body more and more compact and more and more tough.

The faces of him and the Primal Incarnation were already covered with sweat.

Although the refining was a middle-grade Saint Soldier, there were too many in this furnace. It consumed a lot of energy to precisely control the forging of hundreds of holy swords at the same time.

As the number of quenching times continued to increase, they also controlled the temperature of the Six Yang True Fire in the Eternal Holy Furnace to continue to decrease. Every stage and every detail was perfectly matched.

Until the last quenching, the holy sword that was returned to the furnace bloomed with dazzling light during the forging, and there was also rune light bursting out.

Whoosh!

A ray of light rushed out, suspended in the sky, with the tip of the sword pointing down, making a crisp trembling sound of ding ding ding.

The fiery red color of the sword body quickly cooled, and the sword body became snow-white, flowing with a cold light.

Jun Wuxie waved his sleeves, and the successfully refined holy sword was moved to the side.

Immediately afterwards, another ray of light rushed out from inside.

Every few breaths, a rainbow light rushed out.

Later, even a faint auspicious color rose from the Holy Furnace.

"Middle-grade top-level Saint Soldier!"

Jun Wuxie was refining weapons for the first time, which was different from building the Qiankun Battle Armor in the Lower Realm before.

The Qiankun Battle Armor was a special thing, and its methods were not weapon refining methods.

Today, for the first time, he refined a Saint Soldier, and there were also middle-grade top-level Saint Soldiers, which made him feel a very satisfying sense of accomplishment.

The rainbow light surrounded by auspicious colors rushed out, suspended in the air, and after cooling, the auspicious colors also converged. That was the snow-white middle-grade top-level Saint Soldier!

One middle-grade top-level Saint Soldier after another rushed out, making Jun Wuxie's mood unspeakably happy.

It was estimated that no one in ancient times could achieve such an achievement in refining weapons for the first time.

The Eternal Holy Furnace was completely extinguished, and Jun Wuxie put it away.

The sword energy in the secret room was overflowing, and the sword light illuminated the secret room brightly.

The cold sword light greatly reduced the temperature in the secret room, and the sound of sword ming echoed.

There were a total of one hundred and eight middle-grade high-level and top-level holy swords floating in the air!

A knowing smile appeared on Jun Wuxie's face.

He underestimated the strength of the Primal Weapon Refining True Explanation and the Eternal Holy Furnace.

He thought that although his realm had reached the Third Realm Saint Artifact Master, after all, it was his first time refining weapons, and there should be a lot of losses.

As a result, only a few sword tires were scrapped by him, and the rest were all successful, and he also refined fifty top-level ones, which was almost half of the total number.

You must know that this was only using second-rank high-level Saint Materials. If top-level Saint Materials were used, the probability of refining top-level Saint Soldiers would be greatly increased.

"The Deep Lake Profound Iron is temporarily useless."

With a wave of his sleeves, he collected all the holy swords.

At the same time, he retracted the incarnation, sat down cross-legged, and began to adjust his breath to restore the consumed energy.

An hour later, he recovered to his peak state, and then removed the barrier and opened the secret room.

"Young Master Yue, aren't you refining weapons? You've refined them so quickly?"

Princess Anning had been guarding outside the secret room, and she was very curious about his weapon refining.

She didn't expect him to come out so quickly.

It only took two days.

If an ordinary weapon refiner were to refine weapons, it would take at least seven days.

"I'll give you a sword."

Jun Wuxie swiped his palm in the void, and a holy sword flowing with cold light appeared in front of Princess Anning, with the tip of the sword pointing down, suspended in the air.

Feeling the aura of this holy sword, Princess Anning grasped the hilt and examined it, immediately exclaiming in shock, "This is... a top-grade middle-rank Saint Weapon?"

"Young Master Yue... did you personally forge this?"

She found it hard to believe. Top-grade Saint Weapons were a miracle in forging. Among the world's many weapon refiners, many couldn't forge something of this level in their entire lives.

"Otherwise?"

Now that Jun Wuxie was in front of Anning, he didn't need to hide anything anymore.

With that rune memory stone, she was already firmly in his grasp. Furthermore, appropriately displaying things that exceeded her understanding would further help conquer her heart.

Of course, the conquest he wanted wasn't a conquest between a man and a woman, but to make her revere him, to prevent her from having any rebellious thoughts, to make her feel that it was impossible for her to contend with him.

The reason he was doing this was because he had already made a decision when he was in the Imperial City: to have Anning ascend the throne of the Great Qian Dynasty in the future.

The throne was very important, as it concerned the future of the Great Qian's people.

Anning, whether in terms of her temperament or her strategies, was undoubtedly the best choice.

Therefore, he must first help Prince Ning ascend the throne. Only in that way would Anning's succession be justified in the future.

Moreover, if Anning were to ascend the throne in the future, Qingyun would be guaranteed preferential treatment and enjoy a lofty position in the Great Qian.

As for the matter of killing Prince Ning, he hadn't thought it through yet.

Prince Ning must die, otherwise how could he face the deceased senior brothers and sisters of True Martial Peak, how could he face the Eldest Brother and Second Sister who had lost arms and legs?

However, how to kill Prince Ning, this had to be carefully considered depending on the situation, otherwise Anning might not take care of Qingyun in the future. He absolutely couldn't let this matter create a rift between her and Qingyun.