Those who reincarnate must die.

Kyle Ironclaw's teleportation device is malfunctioning.

Before he could realize what this meant, the short man opposite him had already started to tremble.

"Spatial sealing...that's his ability!" The short man clutched his head. "He's here. He won't let me go!"

"What are you afraid of?" Kyle Ironclaw sneered. "I am the master of the eleventh altar. Back then, Ao Yan Jin Tong was just my subordinate. I don't even care about a mere Shen Clan member."

"You have no idea how powerful he is!" The short man cried, tears streaming down his face. "No one can stop him except for the Iron Jaws of God's Wrath! No one!"

"You're exaggerating!" Kyle Ironclaw slowly descended from the throne, coldly snorting, "Don't worry, I'll stand here and show him what I'm capable of!"

Before he could finish speaking, most of Kyle Ironclaw's body suddenly exploded, and at the same time, a figure stood behind him as if it had appeared out of thin air.

"Who did you just say you were going to block?" Zhang Lang sneered, shaking the dragon blood off his hands.

The once arrogant leader of the Chen clan collapsed to the ground, his eyes wide with disbelief.

"Aaaaaah!" The short man nearly collapsed and took off running. But he hadn't gone two steps before his body was lifted into the air, leaving only his legs thrashing about frantically.

Using a sudden burst of strength, Zhang Lang pulled the man close, examined his face closely, and his face twitched: "Is it you?"

"What...what are you saying?" The short man asked, his voice filled with a mixture of fear and confusion.

Zhang Lang narrowed his eyes: "It's you!"

Back then, there were two people who released the red mist in the restaurant. One of them was Ao Yan Jin Tong, and the other was a short Shen clansman.

Both of them were masked at the time, so Zhang Lang couldn't see their faces, but he remembered the person's voice!

After reaching the Hero level, he inquired about this person, but found no matching heroes. He once thought that over the years, that person might have died, or perhaps even betrayed the Shen clan and joined the Chen clan.

After all, the altar is so large, and there are all sorts of strange enhancements. There might even be a fire enhancement that could betray the altar.

Zhang Lang, who had already given up hope, never expected that today, while tracking the imposter Ning Yi, he would actually hear the voice that had appeared in his nightmares countless times!

That bastard!

Ao Yan Jin Tong was originally from another race, and his mission was to exterminate the Shen race. Although Zhang Lang had a grudge against him, Zhang Lang hated this traitor of the Shen race even more!

Without traitors, how could the Chen clan find his homeland!

Anger flared in Zhang Lang's eyes, mixed with a hint of joy.

The joy of finally being able to avenge my enemy!

The traitor in his hands was so frightened that he lost control of his bladder.

"Before I kill you, answer a few questions. This will determine whether you die a quick death or suffer endless torment first." Zhang Lang gritted his teeth, releasing his oppressive aura: "Don't try to play tricks on me. You should know how high my perception level is. Although I can't read minds, I can sense your unnatural emotions!"

The traitor nodded hastily.

"When did you start impersonating Ning Yi?"

The traitor answered tremblingly, "About four...four years ago..."

Four years ago? Zhang Lang's pupils contracted sharply. In other words, the Ning Yi he encountered from the very beginning was this traitor?

No...not only that, his hometown was invaded about four years ago!

"Back then, you released the red mist in a Shen clan's world, and back then you..."

"You mean... the forced evolution virus?" The traitor thought for a few seconds before remembering this, seemingly surprised that he was asking about it. "Back then, Ning Yi was already dead..."

Clearly, unlike Ao Yan Jin Tong, this traitor had no impression of Zhang Lang at all.

Zhang Lang was shocked and continued to ask, "How did you begin to replace Ning Yi?"

"I...I am Ning Zhong...I am Ning Yi's cousin. Back then, Ning Yi and I entered the altar together by accident. After growing into heroes, we joined the Third Altar together."

"Later, Ning Yi stood out and became the leader of the altar. My talent and strength were inferior to his, but because of our family relationship, I always served as his deputy..."

"Four years later, our Third Altar encountered the Eleventh Altar of the Chen Clan. It was then that Ning Yi died, and I, fearing death, begged the Chen Clan for mercy, and was eventually recruited as their informant."

"Because Ning Yi and I grew up together, I am very familiar with his behavior, so as long as I can change my appearance, I can impersonate him. Therefore, that time we told the outside world that it was I, Ning Zhong, who died, and I impersonated Ning Yi to go back."

"However, back then, because I didn't have the authority of the altar master, I almost exposed myself several times, until later, the Chen clan granted me a divine transformation..."

"Given by the Chen Clan?" Zhang Lang roared, "You're lying! Divine Transformation is an unprecedented and unparalleled reward; it cannot be traded!"

"I'm telling the truth!" Ning Zhong hurriedly explained, "The unprecedented reward that has already been established cannot be traded, but according to the mechanism for obtaining the unprecedented reward, a certain degree of pseudo-trading is possible!"

"For example, first give them a unique reward with upgrade potential, then help them meet the upgrade requirements... Previously, my disguise relied on the lower-level enhancement of the Divine Transformation..."

Zhang Lang looked at Ning Zhong, and after a few seconds, nodded: "And so you survived all this time as Ning Yi?"

"Yes..." Ning Zhong nodded and said, "The divine transformation has completely turned me into Ning Yi. For the past four years, I have been impersonating Ning Yi while working as an informant for the Chen Clan. I am afraid of being exposed every day. Today is the first time I have taken off this skin..."

"Regarding what I just mentioned, that time we released the forced evolution virus in the Shenzu world..." Zhang Lang pressed. "Was it you who led the way that time?"

"Have we... met before?" Seeing Zhang Lang bring up this past event again, Ning Zhong felt that he knew something, and even suspected that the two had been in contact before. But when he saw the murderous look in Zhang Lang's eyes, Ning Zhong dared not ask any more questions.

"You mean that time... when you said you led the way, actually... no, not really..."

Stop playing games with me!

Ning Zhong shuddered and hurriedly said, "Actually, it wasn't me who discovered that world, it was the Chen Clan!"

"You should have come into contact with God's Wrath Ironjaw, right? You know he's collecting Infinite Crystals..." Ning Zhong said, "He has now obtained Infinite Crystals of the water, fire, and earth attributes, and there's also definite news about the wood attribute Infinite Crystal. It's estimated that he'll go and obtain it in the next mission cycle."

"There's only the infinite crystal with metallic properties, and we haven't found it all these years," Ning Zhong shook his head. "However, four years ago he received information that the crystal existed in that world, so the Chen Clan planned to invade there. I just played a guiding role."

As he spoke, Ning Zhong glanced at Zhang Lang with some fear, wondering why this man cared so much about this matter.

"Even if I don't lead the way, they'll find it by other means, it's just a matter of sooner or later..."

It was indeed this! Zhang Lang knew it; the metallic crystal was definitely on him. It was just that he had been easily "killed" that time, so no one suspected anything.

As for his later appearance at the altar, it can also be interpreted as him being summoned by the altar because of his death.

The punch from Ao Yan Jin Tong had left him unconscious for ten minutes. Before that, Zhang Lang had never suffered such a serious injury, so he thought he had been brought back from the brink of death. Now that he thought about it, with the Infinite Crystal of the Metal Element in his body, even the most serious injury shouldn't have caused him to lose consciousness for so long... After all, Zhang Lang had been hit in the head more than once since then, and even with brain damage, he still retained consciousness and was able to think.

Could it be that during the time he lost consciousness, his body didn't immediately recover, but was in a state of suspended animation, with the purpose of deceiving the Chen Clan who were searching for the crystal?

Thinking of this, Zhang Lang suddenly felt a chill. If this conjecture was true, wouldn't it mean that the metallic crystals in his body had self-awareness?!

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