The sudden development happened far too quickly. Even He Li and the others felt sincere admiration, even though they were in opposite camps. This guy, Zu An, is absolutely insane! Every single action he takes is unexpected. He was even starting to hope that the emperor would be taken down by the attack. Then, their group would also be free.

However, the black light suddenly stopped. It was clamped firmly between two fingers. Zhao Ruizhi sneered. “I already knew about your strange dagger. Everything you were doing until now was to mislead me and cover up this attack, right?”

The pitch-black dagger made even him feel a strange fear. He quickly realized how dangerous the thing was, that it might actually possess a tremendous threat. Even though he didn’t know why a dagger would make him feel this way, he wasn’t stupid. He wouldn’t take that risk.

Sure enough, Zu An had done all of that earlier precisely because he wanted to use the dagger.

The emperor held the dagger...