157: Chapter 157 Song Yiqing, he must be the one who breaks the dawn!

Fatty's face was full of astonishment. He sputtered for a long time before finally managing to squeeze out a single sentence.

But as he watched the Black-faced Living Buddha about to be slain, his original feelings of despair gradually began to vanish.

Because they were really going to win!!

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In the bullet chat area,

[Oh my god!! Oh my god!! I thought of many possibilities, but I never thought Song Yiqing could actually control this Jiangshi!!]

[This is ridiculous!! This is a bit too ridiculous! How on earth did he do it??]

[Good, good, good! So Song Yiqing's previous act of weakness was actually purely to confuse the enemy?]

[This is the true scheme within a scheme!! A scheme within a scheme!! Lord Song! He really is a crafty old fox.]

[He didn't pull out such a huge trump card until now.]

[I thought it was a crisis, but I didn't expect this to be Song Yiqing's card.]

[May I ask what the area of the psychological shadow on the Penglai side is right now?]

[Pfft!! Poster above, are you trying to kill me with laughter? Hahaha!]

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Penglai,

The Elders' Council Hall,

Yan Ningrui, Yu Lin, and Mo Yu had already been brought here under guard.

This council hall was specifically used for discussing important matters and for the punishment of Penglai's prisoners.

Hu Yanhui sat in an elder's chair in the corner and spoke up,

“Great Elder, there is no time to lose. Let us begin.”

“Fine.”

The old man addressed as the Great Elder sat in the head seat. His hair was white, and he looked to be over a hundred years old.

He then spoke,

“Yan Ningrui, do you admit your guilt?”

“What crime have I committed?”

Yan Ningrui straightened his back, showing no fear at all.

The Great Elder smiled,

“Hehehe, you are as stubborn as ever.”

As he spoke, he took out some documents,

“Here is the record of your betrayal of Penglai, your attempts to unite with outsiders to subvert Penglai.”

“The few pieces of evidence on this alone are enough to sentence you to death dozens of times over.”

“Do you still dare to quibble and say you are innocent?”

“I am!”

Yan Ningrui spoke with power and conviction, but at the same time, he sensed a hint of oddity in the other's words.

If they really wanted to kill them, they shouldn't have intentionally brought them here.

And having come here, to use such a crude method of interrogation...

Most likely... there was another situation.

Just as he was wondering, the Great Elder sitting in the head seat spoke again,

“Hehehe, quibbling is meaningless.”

He paused at this point,

“Yan Ningrui, you were once one of our elders, and you understand that once you enter here, the difficulty of leaving unscathed is quite high.”

“You only need to answer a few questions for this old man, and I can let you live. How about it?”

“Hmm?”

Yan Ningrui's brow furrowed slightly, faintly realizing that this might be the reason they suddenly decided to act.

After thinking briefly, he spoke,

“Ask first, then I'll consider it.”

“Fair enough,”

The Great Elder nodded slightly and said,

“How much do you know about Daybreak?”

“Daybreak?”

Yan Ningrui frowned deeply, quickly searching his mind for relevant information.

The Great Elder in the head seat smiled,

“Hehehe, I really didn't expect you to be such an actor, Yan Ningrui.”

“What? Do you think that by pretending not to know, we won't be able to find out?”

“Do you think we haven't noticed the little movements your Dan Sect has been making for the past fifteen years?”

“Old Wei had noticed long ago; he just wanted us to stay our hand, which is why we didn't directly move to exterminate you.”

“We just wanted to fish out the specific details of Daybreak.”

“Speak. As long as the answers satisfy us, you can all live!”

“I'm not sure,”

Yan Ningrui shook his head slightly, but he had roughly guessed what the so-called Daybreak was.

A group of people who had been active within various forbidden zones since thousands of years ago.

Their identities, origins, and so on were all extremely mysterious.

Although active, they had never truly cleared a forbidden zone. Because of this, Penglai had not considered them a threat in the past.

Only now, it seemed Daybreak had surfaced again.

Yan Ningrui pulled back his thoughts,

“You should be aware that whether we want to contact the outside world or do anything else, you are fully aware of it.”

“So, if there were any connection between me and this so-called Daybreak,”

“You would certainly know.”

“What is the point of asking here when you already have a clear answer?”

“Well said,”

The Great Elder nodded slightly,

“You're right. Everything about you is under our control.”

“Your attempts to go underground and assist in clearing the forbidden zone are also under our control.”

“But... you must have a connection with Daybreak! You must!!”

As the Great Elder spoke, he stood up emotionally, like a child who had been toyed with, his eyes full of resentment.

Yan Ningrui was somewhat surprised. This was not the first day he had known this Great Elder of Penglai.

It was precisely because they were so familiar that seeing the other person lose his composure like this was unexpected.

What exactly had Daybreak done to cause him to react this way?

Had they truly escaped from the trap set by these people?

All sorts of conjectures echoed wildly in his mind.

Then he spoke,

“I'm not sure. Perhaps we, like you, are just pawns in the hands of Daybreak.”

“We have all... been played.”

“Hmph!!”

The Great Elder snorted coldly, staring at him with wide, angry eyes,

“You think saying these things is enough? You really think this old man has no way to deal with you?”

“The forbidden zones have now entered a new stage. The sixth, seventh, and even eighth forbidden zones in Asia have appeared one after another.”

“Everything is under our control!!”

“Humanity is doomed!!”

“No matter what tricks you and Daybreak want to play, it's all in vain!”

“...”

Yan Ningrui did not say a word. In fact, not long ago, he had already felt the spiritual energy of heaven and earth becoming denser.

He could even feel the recovery of the power of the forbidden zones.

But now, when the truth was laid out before his eyes, it was exceptionally stinging.

And just then,

An elder rushed into the council hall and shouted loudly,

“Great Elder!! This is bad!! Something unexpected happened in the Second Forbidden Zone!! The Black-faced Living Buddha has been killed!!”

“Song Yiqing and the others destroyed the Second Forbidden Zone!”

“What did you say? He killed the Black-faced Living Buddha?”

The Great Elder looked at him in surprise,

The elder nodded heavily,

“He... he controlled the Queen of Jingjue and used Queen Zongzi to kill the Black-faced Living Buddha!”

“Great Elder! I'm certain that Song Yiqing must be one of the Daybreak people!”

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