"Really? Even though I never asked you to show me that treasure and you showed it on your own accord? How unreasonable." Yuan said with a slight frown.
"You asked for evidence, didn’t you?"
"I guess so, but you could’ve decided not to show me. Yet, you did. Do you really want to kill me so badly? Besides our initial encounter, I don’t believe I have done anything to offend you."
Owen tightly clenched his fists and trembled, his eyes burning with fury as he glared at Yuan.
"Did nothing to offend me...?" Owen muttered in a suppressed voice.
After a brief pause, he exploded in fury.
"Because of you, the reputation I’ve built over billions of years was dragged through the mud! I became a complete laughingstock! Even if no one dared say it to my face... I know they were all laughing behind my back!"
"Their mocking gazes... their looks of disdain..." he growled, his voice trembling with rage. "They’ve haunted me ever since!"
"Is that why you killed everyone in the City of Blood and pinned the blame on Dena?" Yuan suddenly said, catching Owen off guard.
"You..."
Owen stared at him in disbelief, then his expression twisted further as realization dawned. Yuan had been playing with him this entire time.
"That’s right..." Owen muttered.
"That’s right! I was the one who killed everyone in the City of Blood! It’s their punishment for mocking me!" He burst out laughing like a manic.
"I doubt you simply killed them. From what I heard, everyone in the city vanished, as if they never existed in the first place. What did you do to them?" Yuan inquired.
"Since you’re about to die anyway, I might as well tell you," he said coldly. "Besides... I’ve wanted to get this off my chest for a long time."
Owen retrieved a crimson scroll from his Spatial Ring and held it up for Yuan to see.
"This is the Supreme Immolation Array—an ancient formation capable of converting life itself into power on a massive scale," he revealed. "Every sacrifice made within it becomes fuel for my own strength!"
Yuan narrowed his eyes and asked, "What about Supreme Ruler Exosso?"
"Oh? You also know about that?" Owen said in a surprised tone. "You’ve been busy."
He continued with a cold smirk, "The same goes for Exosso and his men. I converted all of them into my strength."
"A formation that can sacrifice a Supreme Ruler without him being aware until it was too late? That’s quite scary," Yuan remarked.
Owen shook his head.
"To be frank with you, if it weren’t for this treasure, it would have been impossible to kill Exosso since he would have noticed it before the formation could be activated."
"And why did you kill them? Did they also mock you?"
"No, I just wanted to acquire their power."
"..."
Yuan released a deep sigh before saying, "Did you also acquire that scroll from the Demon God?"
"No, I found this scroll by pure chance."
"Then how and when did the Demon God contact you?"

"With that said, I won’t be killing you so quickly. Instead, I will slowly torture you—the cause of my humiliation—to death."
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