Before he arrived at the city, Zayden had already prepared himself for the worst possible news he would hear.
But the moment he heard it directly, it still gave him an extremely tight feeling in his chest.
His heart sank into the abyss.
His mind instantly went blank. He could not think at all.
His trembling hand began trembling even more.
His throat became dry, and he felt a slight pain in it.
He felt his tears wanting to come out.
But he held back all of his tears. He forced himself not to show any reaction through his body.
However, how could he remain hiding his feelings, his reaction, after hearing such news?
Zayden stood up and walked away as he turned his back to Rick. He rubbed his head repeatedly, as if he wanted to calm himself down with this method.
He also rubbed his face repeatedly.
Rick felt even stranger seeing Zayden’s reaction.
Now he believed that Zayden must have some sort of connection to the Dravenhart family, and it was a close one.
Zayden’s reaction was too abnormal for someone who only knew about the Dravenhart family.
He did not say anything and just watched Zayden’s back. He decided to wait for Zayden to speak first.
After a few moments of silence, Rick couldn’t help but feel his body tense. He frowned as he felt the atmosphere around Zayden change.
His danger sense started ringing.
Zayden’s aura started leaking, and this was something much different from what Rick had sensed at the border.
Rick’s eyes trembled.
Sweat rolled down from his forehead.
An unknown sense of fear rose from his heart.
It gave him the illusion that the man in front of him was no longer a human figure, but a ferocious beast.
A monster that restrained its fury.
Rick felt incredulous.
How could someone at the fifth stage make himself seem as if he were standing in front of a ninth-stage cultivator?
"My Lord!"
Suddenly, the door of the room swung open, and four cultivators at the sixth stage quickly entered. They instantly took a protective position around Rick and posed warily toward Zayden.
They had been alerted by the sudden appearance of a powerful aura from the room, one that was much stronger than that of a sixth-stage cultivator.
Their bodies and expressions also tensed. They could feel how powerful Zayden was despite him being only a fifth-stage cultivator.
"Stop. Don’t do anything."
Rick shouted at the guardians. He did not want to agitate Zayden and make him attack them.
He did not want to worsen the situation!
Rick then saw Zayden lower his hand before his voice resounded again without him turning his body around.
"What about Zayden’s wife and his newborn daughter?"
His voice was calm.
Too calm, even.
But at this moment, Rick felt his danger sense become the most intense it had ever been.
His feeling told him that the restrained beast might be unleashed if he answered this question.
His body could not move. The beastly presence in front of him was becoming more intense.
Still, he gritted his teeth.
If he did not answer it, he might really be dead!
The sensation was too intense, and this was the first time he had ever felt this way!
"His wife... his wife... was also already executed by the Imperial Family. She was hanged in Zayden’s home in the Arkas Region."
At that exact moment, a powerful aura burst from Zayden.
The aura spread across the brothel, making the entire building and the space around it tremble.
Everyone in the brothel and those nearby could feel the aura, and it shocked them to their core.
The overwhelming sensation of the dragon’s aura was something these poor people could not withstand.
Almost all of them instantly collapsed to the ground.
Those inside the brothel had it even worse. They felt as if a mountain had dropped onto their bodies.
There were even some who were in the middle of their "intense activity full of thrust."
When the dragon aura appeared, it caused not only their bodies to collapse, but also the beds beneath them.
One such example was a man who was happily thrusting his mighty spear into his partner.
However, before he could cum inside her, the dragon’s aura made both of them collapse, causing his cum to spread everywhere.
The dragon aura truly created chaos throughout the brothel and its surroundings.
Rick’s body had already slumped onto the floor from his sofa. All of his guardians were also already kissing the floor.
They could feel the building trembling. They thought that the entire building was about to collapse.
Rick felt as if his body was almost being crushed.
He could not move his body, but he still gritted his teeth.
He fought against the aura using his own aura as a sixth-stage cultivator, but the aura from Zayden was simply too overwhelming.
He tried to circulate his energy and unleash his power to support himself.
But it was useless.
He was easily overpowered by Zayden’s aura.
Rick’s mind worked quickly, trying to find a way to get himself out of this situation.
He gritted his teeth and, with all the strength he could muster in his body, shouted,
"I heard his daughter is still alive!"
At that moment, the dragon aura wavered. The aura slowly receded and finally disappeared.
Rick, his guardians, and all the people nearby finally breathed a sigh of relief. They adjusted their breathing after they could finally move their bodies again.
Sweat rolled heavily down their bodies. Rick leaned against the sofa behind him for support.
But then his gaze fell on Zayden, who had finally turned to look at him.
His eyes trembled.
No, in fact, his entire body and soul were trembling at this moment.
What he saw was the calm gaze of Zayden.
A calm gaze that, to Rick, contained a storm within it.
Zayden’s eyes were bloodshot. It was as if he had restrained countless emotions within those eyes.
Fury, sadness, agony, vengeance.
Rick felt his body tense again.
But then he heard Zayden ask,
"What do you know about his daughter? Where is she?"
Rick knew that he had to answer quickly to satisfy this beast.
"To be honest, the Spider Net Pavilion did not know her exact location. But from our understanding, Zayden’s wife managed to slip her daughter out of their home before the executioner from the Imperial Family arrived."
"What we know is that the last trace we were able to track showed that she had already been brought out of the empire by someone we didn’t know. However, we believe it was most likely one of the maids in their home named Selena, or a guard named Raymond, as we did not find their corpses among those who were executed."
"That’s it, as far as we know! I swear to all heavens!"
Rick then stopped and looked at Zayden to see his reaction.
Zayden continued to calmly look at Rick.
Only after a few seconds did Zayden finally move. He took out a bag of energy stones from his storage ring and placed it on the broken table beside him.
"This is the payment for your information."
Zayden said this as he walked toward the door.
Without saying anything more, he left the room.
Rick and the others could only watch him leave without stopping him.
Only after Zayden left did all of them release a big sigh of relief.
"My lord, who the hell is that guy? He is too terrifying," one of the guardians asked Rick.
Rick released a sigh and shook his head.
"I don’t know."
Rick then glanced at the door.
"But whoever he was, I feel that there will be a storm coming."
Zayden had already covered his head with his robe’s hood and kept walking toward the outside of the building.
He passed through the chaos that he had caused. Many people were still trying to understand what had just happened.
The places had already turned into a mess. People talked about what had happened while helping each other.
There were many who had fainted.
Some of them were still naked.
But Zayden ignored all of his surroundings and kept walking.
After reaching outside the building, he instantly jumped and used his movement technique, startling everyone nearby.
Zayden landed on one of the rooftops of a building in the city.
The building he had stepped onto was a pagoda-style building with more than fifteen floors.
Zayden’s gaze observed the city scenery for a while. A soothing breeze touched his body and hair.
His master silently observed him.
At this moment, there were no words of condolence that could help Zayden.
There were no words that could help ease the pain in Zayden’s heart.
The dragon could feel it.
The pain Zayden felt at this moment.
What he could do right now was simply let Zayden take his time alone in silence.
He only hoped that Zayden would not drown too deeply in his emotions later.
Zayden needed to control them.
After a few moments of silence, Zayden finally spoke,
"Master, I want to visit my home."
"Are you sure?" his master asked back.
Zayden nodded.
There was a moment of silence before the dragon’s voice resounded again in his mind.
"Alright, but you have to prepare yourself. That place might be dangerous, and you have to strengthen your heart. You know what I mean, right?"
Zayden nodded.
He then jumped again and used his movement technique as he glided through the sky.
He moved toward one of the city’s plazas, where there were devices he could use to travel quickly to his home.