I don't know when, the second prince and Mason have already come to Zhao Yuan's side, and they followed all the way with the aura that Zhao Yuan specially left. The second prince was completely awake, with a faint layer of sadness on his face, looking at the corpses of the eldest prince and the lion king, the look in his eyes was flowing, and he didn't know whether it was love or hate, remorse or responsibility.

But in the end, he just closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, there was only a deep calm inside. He stepped forward, half-knelt in a pool of blood, and stretched out his palm to close his eyes for the miserable death of the great prince, but did not look at the lion king who was lying to the side with a battle axe stuck in his chest.

He slowly stood up, turned to face the ministers gathered here, and said in a deep and majestic voice: "Today is the most painful day for the entire lion clan, my father and brother have returned to the arms of the beast god, and they will receive their due reward or punishment. Speaking of this, he paused for a moment before he spoke again: "From today on, I will rule the entire lion clan and lead the lion clan to inherit the glory of the ancestors!"

As soon as the second prince's voice fell, Mason immediately knelt down towards him, and the ministers behind him also reacted, no matter which faction they were from before, now there is only the second prince left as the heir to the throne, so there is nothing to think about.

"Majestic Wu Clan, Lion Soul Immortal!" the second prince raised his arm high, and his strong voice penetrated the fortress wall, and the entire lion fortress could be heard clearly.

"Majestic Wu Clan, the lion soul is immortal!" the lion clan kneeling on the ground shouted in unison, the voice penetrated the sky, echoing in the sky above the main city of the lion clan, majestic and surging, and the aftermath was endless.

Zhao Yuan stood aside, this was the second time he had witnessed the change of the leader of a race, both times accompanied by blood and death. Looking at the scene in front of him, he suddenly understood the meaning of "one will make ten thousand bones dry".

"It's time for me to leave and go to the Donghuan Continent. Zhao Yuan said. At this time, the two princes had already moved into the lion fortress, and they gathered in the study where the lion king summoned Zhao Yuan last time.

"Your Excellency Zhao Yuan, thanks to your help during this time, we know that you still have more ambitious goals, and we don't have much to do to keep them. However, please accept the gift specially prepared for you by Your Royal Highness, and please rest for one more night tonight for the Lion Clan, and tomorrow I will arrange for someone to prepare for you to activate the transcontinental teleportation array. After Mason finished speaking, he handed Zhao Yuan a lion-shaped token made of pure beast gold. "This is our lion clan's guest token, if there is something to help the lion clan in the future, we will definitely do our best to help!"

Zhao Yuan did not shirk and took the token. Tonight, the second prince and Mason have to deal with the affairs that the lion clan has accumulated for a month, and they are too busy to get out, and it is Liam and the ninth princess who accompany Zhao Yuan to dinner. At the dinner table, Liam and the Ninth Princess, who were not present at the time, listened to Zhao Yuan talk about the battle between the eldest prince and the lion king with relish.

When she heard that the two of them were blooming with blood-colored martial energy at the same time, the Ninth Princess suddenly gasped and exclaimed, "I know what's going on!"

Suddenly, the two men at the table looked at her with blazing eyes, and a trace of sigh flashed on the face of the ninth princess, and she said with emotion: "I didn't expect that we actually misunderstood the eldest prince." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Zhao Yuan asked. The behavior of the second prince and Mason was so strange before, although he didn't ask out of etiquette, but in his heart he was actually very curious.

"This is also what I just thought, I remember that the second prince said before, after the lion king broke through to become a berserker, he has been unable to control his state, will he kill innocents indiscriminately? ”

The Ninth Princess took a sip of white wine and continued, "I once saw a secret method in the library of the Fox Clan, called the 'Wood Man'. Two people who are related by blood, under strict conditions, can use this secret method to establish a special bond that binds the two people together. The "Wood Recipient" can transfer some things from his body to the person being grafted, such as emotions, illness, strength, and so on. ”

Liam's eyes widened: "Doesn't that mean that the lion king poured all the negative emotions on his body to the eldest prince?"

"I guess that's it!" the Ninth Princess nodded, "but there are also a lot of restrictions on this secret method, first of all, the two can't be too far apart, because the sense of contact with them will be weakened after the distance is long, and the "grafts" on the person who is grafted will all return to the "grafter". Second, the grafted person is willing to perform an annual ritual of evil to strengthen the bond. ”

"What is the purpose of the evil ritual?" Liam asked, but the ninth princess shook her head, indicating that she did not know: "The book is very general and does not explain the specific implementation of this secret technique. But a rough description alone is enough to frighten people. ”

The rest of the words, the ninth princess can guess without saying Zhao Yuan - the eldest prince has suffered the bad effects of becoming a berserker for the lion king, so his temperament has changed greatly, and he recently knew that his life was short for some reasons, so he obtained the power of the lion king through this connection and died with him.

Zhao Yuan's thoughts couldn't help but drift to the distant past, the second prince and Mason had been seeking a way to become berserkers, but it wasn't until a year ago that they learned that there was a quenching pill in the ruins, so before that, did they also consider using this evil secret technique of "wood man" to eliminate the influence of becoming berserkers on their own?

But now, everything has settled, no matter what story is behind this, it has nothing to do with Zhao Yuan, who is about to leave.

By the time I walked out of the restaurant, the moonlight had already climbed up the treetops. It was still cloudy during the day, but the sky was clear at night. The scenery of the lion fortress is not as delicate and beautiful as the Second Prince's Mansion taken care of by Xili, but every brick and stone of it is full of solemn and domineering atmosphere, and the stone pillars of the cloister have gone through thousands of years of wind and rain, just like the standing lion clan.

Zhao Yuan returned to his bedroom, cleaned up all the things he should bring, and went to bed. Sleeping in an unfamiliar room, his brain was gradually overwhelmed by the drowsiness that surged up, and his mind wandered away in a trance, and the tip of Zhao Yuan's nose seemed to have a wisp of blood, and the smell was buried deep in every corner of the fortress, impregnating the throne of generations......