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Chapter 180 Cloud Feather 39

Gong Ziyu watched as the system's main body inside the cell was gradually consumed by flames, and felt a sense of relief.

Just as he used the last bit of his remaining mental energy to open the bronze door, wanting to go in and examine the remnants of the system, a series of hurried footsteps suddenly came from behind him, breaking the surrounding silence.

The three elders strode over, their faces appearing somewhat stern in the dim light of the cave.

When they saw Gong Ziyu, they suddenly stopped in their tracks, their faces showing surprise and uncertainty.

Jin Fan, who was following behind them, was different. He bypassed the three elders blocking his way and came to Gong Ziyu. He asked anxiously, "Zhi Ren, you don't look well. Are you injured somewhere?" His voice revealed obvious unease.

Faced with Jin Fan's anxious question, Gong Ziyu shook her head.

He had expected them to come, so he wasn't surprised.

"Holding a blade?"

The three elders carefully observed Gong Ziyu's expression, their eyes revealing caution and vigilance, as if they were trying to determine whether he had been bewitched by the supernatural.

Gong Ziyu immediately knew what the three elders were worried about, and said directly, "I have not been bewitched by the supernatural!"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and gently touched his forehead, which was slightly aching. He had exhausted his mental energy in a short period of time, and now his body was tired and his head was starting to hurt.

Seeing that Gong Ziyu looked calm and clear-eyed, and indeed did not seem to be bewitched by the strange person, the three felt relieved, and their vigilance and tension eased.

"Wielding the blade is too reckless. These supernatural beings are adept at bewitching people, it..."

Elder Hua was always straightforward and had a bad temper. At this moment, he walked a few steps to Gong Ziyu and was about to reprimand him when he found that the cell door had been opened. He was immediately startled.

How did the cell door get open?

Could it be that the 'Outcast' has escaped?

Upon realizing this possibility, Elder Hua's face turned deathly pale. He hurriedly turned to see if the 'strange person' was still in the dungeon. Unexpectedly, what came into view was a dungeon filled with smoke, and the 'strange person' who had been imprisoned by the palace gate for more than a hundred years had been burned to nothing but a black shell.

"This...this! The strange man is dead?"

Elder Hua said in disbelief.

"What? The Extraordinary One is dead?"

Upon hearing the sound, Elders Xue and Yue rushed to the door, their eyes sweeping into the dungeon, and they were immediately filled with excitement.

Elder Yue couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "Is the Strange Man dead?"

Elder Xue's eyes gleamed as she affirmed, "Burned like this, it must be dead!"

The three people, whose combined age was nearly two hundred, instantly became like children who had received candy, so happy they almost jumped for joy.

"Hahaha! The superhumans have finally been wiped out!"

"However, the Strange Man has been imprisoned in this place for 123 years. During this time, the palace has tried countless methods, but none of them have been able to eliminate him. Lord Blade, how did you manage to do it?"

Gong Ziyu remained calm in the face of the three people's doubts, naturally glossing over the matter of telekinesis, and said casually, "I just used some methods to make it burn from the inside. Now the 'Outsider' has been completely destroyed, leaving only an empty shell."

Although the three elders sensed that Gong Ziyu was hiding something, they tacitly refrained from pressing him further.

Now that the supernatural beings have been eliminated, the reasons behind it all seem less important.

……

Ignoring the still excited elders, Gong Ziyu took Jin Fan straight back to the Feather Palace and then went to bed to rest.

The complete exhaustion of his mental energy left him feeling unprecedentedly weary. It was as if he had traversed a long, boundless desert, each step landing on empty sand dunes, until even standing became a luxury. It was as if every inch of his body was calling for rest.

For Gong Ziyu right now, the most urgent task is to seize the time to rest and recover her mental strength, and then gradually restore her mental power.

Although the recovery time may take some time, he does not regret wasting his mental energy on the system. After all, that system had no good intentions and dared to covet his soul. It deserves to die!

Not to mention that the system really has this ability. If it weren't for some unknown constraint within the system that prevented it from being forcibly bound to him, Gong Ziyu might have already started doing system tasks. Fortunately, he acted swiftly.

Now that things have come to this, he finally understands the grudges between the Palace Gate, Wufeng, and the System.

Over a hundred years ago, the system and a meteorite fell to this world at the same time. After coming into contact with humans, the system lured them to bind with it and then forced them to perform tasks assigned to it, which were mostly not good things.

Due to the limitations of the era, when the ancestors of the palace saw this strange being that could conjure human form, they naturally associated it with ghosts and gods. Coupled with the crazy behavior of the person bound to the system, their fear was undoubtedly deepened. They believed that the system would bring disaster to the world. So, after trying all possible methods but still being unable to destroy the system, they imprisoned it in a cave in the back mountain.

They also used the fallen meteorite iron to create Boundless Flowing Fire, attempting to use it to counterbalance the system.

At the same time, the Gong clan's Zhi Ren and the four elders, Feng, Hua, Xue, and Yue, swore an oath that their descendants would live in the Old Dust Valley to guard the strange people and protect the Boundless Flowing Fire.

However, those who guard the back mountain year after year will always become curious about what they are protecting. Elder Feng was one of them. Who knew that he was not determined and was successfully tricked and bound by the system, getting deeper and deeper into the mire, and finally betraying the palace.

Elder Feng may have long harbored ambitions to dominate the martial arts world, or he may have been coerced by the system after being bound to it. In any case, he established an assassin organization in the martial arts world called Wufeng.

This explains why, even though the palace gates have closed themselves off in the Old Dust Valley, Wu Feng continues to relentlessly pursue them.

Besides wanting to obtain the Boundless Flowing Fire, the more important reason was to reclaim the system's machine body.

However, Elder Feng was already old and died within a few short years. Having lost his host system, he had no choice but to return to the palace gates and silently wait for the next host.

Having lost Elder Feng and the system, Wu Feng became even more arrogant. Having witnessed Elder Feng being controlled by the system, they naturally did not want to be controlled by the system as well. Therefore, their purpose in infiltrating the palace gates became singular: to seize the Boundless Flowing Fire and then unify the martial world.