"Not much meaning."

Fang Yuan suddenly chuckled: "I just remembered a saying, and I want to send it to you."

Upon hearing this, Lu Chen and the other two looked at Fang Yuan with peculiar expressions, feeling he was somewhat unpredictable and inexplicable.

"Mere mayflies also dream of shaking the heavens and earth." Fang Yuan stared directly at the three of them, his gaze unwavering, and sneered.

With these words, Lu Chen’s face went dark, and he asked in a deep voice, "What do you mean by that..."

"Isn’t my meaning clear enough?"

"You are the mayflies."

Fang Yuan’s words echoed over the broken altar and reverberated in the ears of the three.

Upon hearing these words, Lu Chen was momentarily stunned, realizing he had fallen into a trap, yet he did not get angry.

Because from the moment the Slave Seal was planted, everything was under his control, and he could wipe out this pawn Fang Yuan at a wave of his hand.

In his eyes, Fang Yuan was just a pawn to be discarded at will, as long as it didn’t affect the plan, he would always find the next suitable pawn.

Therefore, in the face of Fang Yuan’s rebellious provocation, he simply sneered, "You think you’re clever? You think you’ve played us?"

"With just a single thought, I can erase you."

"You should think it over. The Slave Seal I’ve planted can instantly obliterate everything about you, including your consciousness and soul. You won’t even have the qualification for reincarnation, and will simply vanish between heaven and earth."

"Don’t even think about leaking information, because you won’t be able to take a single step out."

With this said, Fang Yuan simply chuckled and said, "Then go ahead."

Seeing Fang Yuan spread his hands, gaze calm, and fearlessly facing death, Lu Chen sensed something was amiss.

What is the point of doing this?

Even facing death requires a reason, yet he had none. What was the meaning of this?

"What, don’t even have the courage to kill me?" Fang Yuan taunted, constantly provoking Lu Chen.

Upon hearing this, Yuan Yun was unable to hold back any longer. He raised his right palm, and terrifying Immortal Radiance gathered in his palm, ready to slap down this reckless guy.

"Hold on!"

Lu Chen stopped Yuan Yun, stared at Fang Yuan closely, and questioned, "Are you seeking death?"

Being sharp-minded, he naturally realized Fang Yuan was trying to provoke them into killing him.

"I simply want to curse at you," Fang Yuan said nonchalantly.

"What is the point of doing this?" Lu Chen could not understand why he would do such a thing.

Before he figured it out, he couldn’t kill him rashly, because Fang Yuan already knew about what was in the box, the most crucial secret was already known to him, he couldn’t afford any mistake.

"No point."

"Just wanted to play you for a fool. Does this explanation satisfy you?" Fang Yuan smiled as he spoke.

...

"Big brother, why waste words with him, let me just slap him to death!" An Daoshan couldn’t hold back any longer and said angrily.

"Shut up!" Lu Chen glared at An Daoshan before turning to look directly at Fang Yuan, "What did he give you that made you want to make such a meaningless sacrifice for him?"

"Cultivation is not easy, you should think it over."

Just after he finished speaking, Fang Yuan laughed, "You aren’t qualified to know too much."

"If you don’t act, I’ll be on my way."

With that, Fang Yuan turned around, holding the wooden box and walked step by step into the void beyond.

Seeing this, Yuan Yun and An Daoshan immediately panicked; they couldn’t let Fang Yuan walk away with the item just like that.

Lu Chen watched Fang Yuan’s retreating back with a tightly furrowed brow.

He slowly raised his right hand, deeply sighed; with the falling of his hand, Fang Yuan’s body instantly turned to ash, his flesh, soul, and even consciousness all obliterated, thoroughly killed, not even leaving behind the qualification for reincarnation.

In the instant Fang Yuan was killed, he smiled, a trace of relief and excitement flashed in his pupils.

He murmured in his heart, "Senior, I finally have the opportunity to repay you...."

.....

After Fang Yuan was thoroughly killed, the wooden box returned to Lu Chen’s hand.

He tightly gripped the wooden box, staring dazedly in the direction where Fang Yuan’s body fragmented, he was pondering, recalling every detail.

During his reminiscence, he was also capturing all suspicious traces.

His Divine Sense covered this world, repeatedly confirming that Fang Yuan hadn’t left any backup plans, nor did he disseminate the secret, and was killed just like that.

But what was the meaning of doing it this way...

Pretend to comply, plant the Slave Seal, willingly face death.

His death was meaningless.

Even though he knew the secret in the box, he couldn’t disseminate it.

Because after planting the Slave Seal in Fang Yuan’s Sea of Consciousness, all his backup plans were within Lu Chen’s sight, he had no means to disseminate the message, and he had no capability to do so under Lu Chen’s watchful eyes, let alone under the control of the Slave Seal.

At this moment, Yuan Yun discovered something on the altar and called out to Lu Chen in shock, "Big brother, come quickly!"

With that, Lu Chen landed on the altar.

Yuan Yun pointed to a palm print on the altar and said, "Big brother, look."

With that, Yuan Yun placed his palm on the stone wall’s palm print and found a perfect match.

As if Yuan Yun himself left it.

But he had never been here, this was his first visit, how could he have left his palm print here?

The next moment, An Daoshan also cried out in surprise: "This mark, how does it resemble the mark left by my ’Inference Cloud Seal’?"

An Daoshan pointed to the broken outline on the stone wall, his face filled with terror as he spoke to the two.

He would never mistake it, this could only be left by his ’Inference Cloud Seal’!

.....

At this moment, Lu Chen’s gaze fell on the altar split in half.

Looking at the trajectory of the slash, it very much resembled the mark left by his "Divine Scripture of the Nine Cloud Blades".

...

At that moment, Lu Chen was stunned on the spot.

This world bore the battle marks of their visit!

Yet in their memory, there wasn’t such a memory, a person’s memory might blur, but it’s impossible for all three of them to blur their memories simultaneously.

He suddenly recalled that when Fang Yuan first saw him, he immediately called out his real name.

Moreover, at their meeting, Fang Yuan showed an exceptionally calm demeanor, so calm that none of them detected any emotional fluctuations in him.

With Fang Yuan’s cultivation, it’s impossible for him to tamper with their original memories.

But from the evidence at hand, it seemed they weren’t visiting this place for the first time, and neither was it the first time they saw Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan seemed to recognize the three of them clearly.....

What... could this mean?

At this moment, Lu Chen was bewildered, staring at the wooden box in his hand, his heart uncontrollably pounding.

A bad premonition surged from his heart.