The moment these words were spoken, Stan’s eyes widened, but he didn’t dare look at Jun.


    He was deeply shocked.


    How did Jun know that he was not considered a member of the Ind of the Five Emperors?


    Lyvia, who was standing behind Jun, was also puzzled.


    Stan… was not considered a member of the Ind of the Five Emperors?


    What did that mean?


    The ck-d figures standing in formation on the west side of the pavilion all turned their gaze towards Jun, full of confusion.


    Heavenly Sanctum’s Margaret, apanied by the Seven Elders of Mount Emei and many disciples of the Pinkriver Temple, hurried over to this location.


    Although they were displeased with Jun, they dared not disobey Margaret’s orders.


    However, they arrived to find someone kneeling in front of Jun inside the Dragon-Watching Pavilion.


    They were all dumbfounded.


    The Seven Elders of Mount Emei did not know Stan, but Margaret had once fought against him and suffered a crushing defeat.


    If it weren’t for Leona, Margaret would have died on the Ind, and now one of the overlords of the Ind of the Five Emperors, Stan, was kneeling before Jun.


    It was evident that he had submitted to Jun’s pressure.


    Margaret couldn’t help but widen her eyes in disbelief.


    It wasn’t until now that she truly believed that for Jun, the people of the Ind of the Five Emperors were nothing more than a group of useless individuals.


    At least, Stan was nothing before Jun.


    Margaret had also heard Jun’s conversation with Stan just now and was even more puzzled.


    Stan was one of the top thirty ranked individuals on the Ind of the Five Emperors’ War God List.


    Why did Jun not consider him a member of the Ind of the Five Emperors?


    This seemed too clever by half after all.


    At this moment, Stan finally couldn’t help but speak. “What do you mean by that?”


    Jun ignored Margaret and the others who had arrived, and instead asked Stan, “Is this zither an item of the Ind of the Five Emperors?”


    Stan hesitated for a moment before cautiously replying, “It is.”


    Jun frowned. “The lord of the Ind of the Five Emperors is surnamed Hammond?”


    Stan responded, “No, I’m not surnamed Hammond.”


    Jun chuckled. “Then you are not considered a member of the Ind of the Five Emperors.”


    Stan fell silent for a long time, his voice trembling as he asked, “Do you recognize this zither?”


    Jun calmly responded, “I know its origins and its allusions.”


    Stan gasped. Jun continued, “Historical records state that an ancestor of the Hammond family was sent by the Qin Emperor to seek immortality in Drunkfield. He brought more than a thousand people, but was separated by Master Hammond into two groups. One group settled on a deste ind and founded a country named Amaterasu. The other group disappeared without a trace. However, in reality, the Qin Emperor had already sent someone to supervise Master Hammond. The person sent by the Qin Emperor carried a Qin zither called ‘Seeker,’ which was actually a weapon tform containing many objects collectively known as the Fourteen Strategies of Qin. Over the past thousand years, many have reproduced this weapon tform, and the Ming Dynasty had a simr weapon tform called the Fourteen Strategies of the Ming. These Fourteen Strategies included everything fromrge knives to small steel needles.”


    At this point, Jun opened a mechanism on the zither, and it opened like a box. Inside were some dazzling daggers, which caused Margaret and the others outside the pavilion to hold their breath. They all felt a chilling aura emanating from the box under the zither, making their spines tingle.Content is property of N?velDrama.Org.


    Stan also looked up at Jun, and at that moment, Jun ran his hand over the daggers in the box and said, “The firstyer contains eight precious daggers: Heaven, Earth, General, Law, Wisdom, Integrity, Benevolence, and Valor, for examination purposes. The secondyer contains six precious daggers for execution purposes. The first five are named for major offenses, and thest one, the Devotion to Heaven de, is for those who fail their tasks to take their own lives.”


    “I don’t want to try these daggers today. Instead, I have a strong interest in the firstyer of eight precious daggers. So, could you help me with something?”


    To everyone’s surprise, as soon as Jun finished speaking, Stan knocked his head on the ground and trembled as he said, “I’ll tell you everything! I’ll, I’ll, I’ll tell you everything!”


    Jun chuckled. “You, an Ethereal Core Eighth Realm cultivator, have such little courage?”


    Stan continued to knock his head like a frightened rabbit. “I dide here for the Dragon-ying de, but I’m not a Five Elements Envoy of the Ind of the Five Emperors. I came here ahead of them because I am a descendant of the Elledge family, the Elledge Ancient n! Although I am working for the Ind of the Five Emperors, I have never dared to forget my ancestors’ orders, which were to seek the Dragon Vein and the Dragon-ying de!”


    “And also, I…”


    Jun suddenly interrupted him.


    “I don’t want to hear about all of that.”


    Stan, with a sob in his voice, said, “Survivors of the Chester Ancient n are indeed on the Ind of the Five Emperors!”


    Jun fell silent for a moment and asked, “Are they doing well?”


    Stan shook his head. “I don’t know! I really don’t know!”


    Jun nodded, casually opened the secondyer of the hidden box under the zither, took out the Devotion to Heaven de, and ced it in front of Stan with a smile. “Then you should take care of it yourself. You are of no use to me anymore.”


    Stan was nearly frightened out of his wits, and he looked up at Jun with wide pleading eyes. “Since I came to Mount Emei, I haven’t killed a single person! I’ve only… said a few disrespectful words to you! And I admire your wife. I dare not have any further disrespect!”


    Jun’s smile remained unchanged. “I said, take care of it yourself!”


    With pure terror, Stanughed mockingly. “Just because my surname is Hammond? Just because I am a descendant of the Elledge Ancient n? There are many people surnamed Hammond in this world! I am very innocent!”


    Jun looked into Stan’s eyes and said, word by word, “I am now the Grand Ancestral Master of the Zhenwu Sect. And you, ever bullied the family members of my disciples and grand disciples. Do you still want to live?”