317 Settling Scores Later, Unbiased

A lot of questions popped up. Lin Ran thought for a moment but to no avail, so he asked directly.

However, Sun Ge didn’t answer this time. He just looked at Lin Ran in silence, as if he didn’t want to say anything else about this matter.

Lin Ran thought for a moment and asked, “How about this? I won’t ask about the details of your plan. You just have to tell me if the real Xuan Wushang is still alive.”

“Yes.”

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Sun Ge nodded without hesitation. “When we change the situation here, we will naturally send the real Emperor Xuan Yuan back to the palace and let him punish us as he sees fit.”

“So the real Xuan Wushang is not in the palace at the moment.”

Lin Ran quickly caught the main point. Sun Ge’s expression instantly turned ugly, as if he didn’t expect Lin Ran to be so meticulous.

Sun Ge hurriedly interrupted Lin Ran’s thoughts and said, “Emperor Xuan Yuan is in a very secret place. Apart from Tianqi and me, no one else knows.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Ran raised his eyebrows and looked at Sun Ge. “He’s in the dungeon, right?”

Sun Ge held his breath and looked at Lin Ran as if he had seen a ghost in broad daylight. He even stuttered. “H-How did you know?”

Lin Ran didn’t say anything, but his expression was serious. He couldn’t help but think of the mysterious young man who quietly appeared and disappeared in the cell.

When he first saw the mysterious young man, Lin Ran felt that he looked familiar, but he couldn’t remember where he had seen him before. Then, Huo Qiyun was escorted into the cell, and the mysterious young man disappeared.

It was not until he heard that Chen Tianqi and Xuan Wushang looked the same that Lin Ran suddenly remembered the face of the mysterious young man in the cell. He looked almost identical to the Xuan Wushang he had seen before, except that he lacked the ruthlessness in his eyes.

In this way, all the dots could be connected.

Chen Tianqi pretended to be Xuan Wushang to carry out the plan, while the real Xuan Wushang was imprisoned in the dungeon of the Iron City.

Sun Ge remained posted in the Iron City because he had to protect the real Xuan Wushang!

“You guys really did something big!”

“Now that you know everything, do you have anything to say?”

Sun Ge looked at Lin Ran coldly, his hand unconsciously pressing on the hilt of his saber. It was as if as long as Lin Ran showed any hostility, he would draw his saber and kill him without hesitation!

Lin Ran noticed Sun Ge’s actions, but he didn’t care. After all, the difference in strength between the two of them was obvious. Even if Sun Ge attacked first, he was confident that he could stab his sword into Sun Ge’s chest before him.

After pondering for a moment, Lin Ran asked in confusion, “When did you complete the swap?”

“Thirteen years ago.”

Sun Ge replied without hesitation, “Fifteen years ago, we were ordered to kill Ye Jin’s mother. After that, we decided to do it. However, it took us another two years to wait for Emperor Xuan Yuan to visit the Iron City.”

Lin Ran nodded with a strange expression. At the same time, he started calculating in his heart.

Every injustice had its perpetrator, and every debt had its debtor.

Since Xuan Wushang had been swapped so long ago, everything that happened after that should be blamed on Chen Tianqi—of course, Liu Ruxi and Nanjiang Town were excluded. That scheme started decades ago, when the real Xuan Wushang was still in power.

However, Chen Tianqi was the one who killed Zou Hao in the forest. Lin Ran had to make him pay.

Sun Ge didn’t know what Lin Ran was thinking. Seeing that he didn’t speak for a long time, he immediately became vigilant. He silently held the hilt of his saber and asked coldly, “What are you thinking? I’m warning you…”

“Don’t bother!”

Lin Ran sneered and casually raised his hand to pat Sun Ge’s shoulder. He didn’t use much strength, but he instantly suppressed Sun Ge’s internal energy and made him unable to move!

However, Lin Ran didn’t take the opportunity to attack. He stood up and said calmly, “I’m going to talk to Xuan Wushang now. Wait for me here. I’ll be back in five minutes at most.”

“I’ll never let you go!”

Sun Ge shouted in a deep voice. Of course, he wouldn’t give in obediently, but strangely, after Lin Ran patted his shoulder, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t move his body, as if he was tied to a chair.

Seeing this, Lin Ran only chuckled and went out to the dungeon.

At this moment, the fire in the dungeon had been completely extinguished. The people who had rushed over to put out the fire had also retreated. Everything looked no different from usual. Only the water stains on the ground seemed to remind people that something just happened.

Lin Ran strolled to the door of the dungeon and activated his internal energy to his fingertips. He ran his fingertips across the patterns carved on the door.

A moment later, there was a soft buzzing sound from somewhere, and then two thick metal doors slowly opened in front of Lin Ran.

Clang—

Lin Ran summoned the Yin Yang Sword and held it in his hand. Without hesitation, he walked into the darkness, and the two heavy metal doors slowly closed behind him.

Lin Ran quickly walked through the aisle between the cells. Even with his eyesight, he could only barely see a few steps in front of him. However, he did not hesitate at all. He followed the route in his memory and quickly arrived near the cell where he had been locked up previously.

Standing in front of the cell that had been cut open, Lin Ran placed the Yin Yang Sword behind his back and said loudly to the darkness, “I know what happened. Come out and meet me!”

The loud voice echoed in the empty cell, but even when the echo completely dissipated, the surroundings were still silent.

Lin Ran sighed softly and turned his wrist to point the Yin Yang Sword to the ground. “I just want to talk to you. If you don’t show yourself, don’t blame me for being rude!”

The echo sounded again. Lin Ran listened to the movements around him as he counted silently in his heart.

Just as he counted to six, footsteps suddenly came from the right. The sound was so soft that it was almost inaudible, but Lin Ran still caught it.

Lin Ran cupped his fists and turned in that direction. He said in a clear voice, neither servile nor overbearing, “I’m Lin Ran, the deputy general of the Heavenly Saint Dynasty’s Northern Garrison. Greetings, Your Majesty Emperor Xuan Yuan of the Great Yong Dynasty.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a refined-looking young man strolled out of the darkness. It was the cellmate Lin Ran had seen before, the true emperor of the Great Yong Dynasty—Xuan Wushang.