Chapter 416: Viscount [V5C123 – A Distance Within Reach]

The old man sighed indignantly. “Seventh Young Master has shown such obvious hints, yet those old fogeys from the clan are playing deaf and mute. Song Zhongcheng that bastard is still going on about how the Song clan’s prestige is important. Humph! The way I see it, he’s just causing trouble for you. He’s afraid that you’ll cast off your shackles and connect yourself to an influential clan, thereby gaining a powerful ally. This building is already about to collapse, what’s the use of gaining face? Foolish, truly foolish!”

Song Zining said with a soft sigh, “The heavens have never killed people. It’s always people who seek death on their own.”

At this moment, a strong gust of wind blew open the windows and filled the room with extreme coldness. The gale picked up the papers and threw them about, but Song Zining didn’t move in the slightest—his heart, for a moment, was filled with bleakness.

Meanwhile, Qianye was still carrying out his long wait. The giant beast’s heart blood seemed boundless, and the converted darkness origin power flowed on without end.

The purple blood energy was immobile and curled up in one corner of the space. It hadn’t the smallest share in the vast amount of darkness origin power produced by the Mystery Chapter—all of it was being absorbed by the dark golden...