Qing Qiang sat there in silence, looking into the distance.
He was trying to figure out just what had gone wrong with his plan that he was in this current situation.
One moment, he was the young master of the Azure Dragon Tribe and the next, he had become the traitor of the Dragon Race.
Not for a single second did he think that anything that he did was his own mistake.
In his mind, everything that had happened to him was the plot of his enemies. Or rather, now…he even considered his father an enemy, so he considered this the plot of his father.
He knew that he had underestimated his father, but he had never thought that it would result in something like this…
Now he felt that the entire world was against him.
But at the same time, his eyes were still filled with traces of life.
Qing Qiang completely believed that he was the saviour of the Dragon Race, so he didn't believe for a single second that he would be stuck here for long. He believed that there was something that would bust him out of this place and then he would be able to plot his return.
In short, he was completely deluded in thinking that he was the main character and that everyone would go his way.
That was just how it had gone since he was young, so that was the only way that he thought things could go…
In some way, it was also the Azure Dragon Tribe head's fault that he turned out this way…
But it was mainly because of his own personality that he acted like this.
As Qing Qiang sat there, he plotted his future plans.
If it wasn't for this cursed array that was around him, he would have been able to break free of this place.
This array completely suppressed his cultivation and even drained his life energy from him over time. If enough time passed, his cultivation would become weaker and weaker until it was completely gone, so he knew that he couldn't stay here for long.
But the facts were that his cultivation was sealed and he couldn't do anything to break out.
That was until he suddenly felt a strange sensation.
It was as if his body was suddenly filled with power.
Qing Qiang gripped his fist and he found…that he was able to gather his life energy again.
He looked around himself and he realized that he wasn't able to feel the pressure from the array anymore. It was as if the array had suddenly been turned off or it had suddenly disappeared.
He didn't know what it was exactly that had stopped this array, but he didn't plan on wasting any time to figure it out. He just assumed that this was the chance that the universe was giving him as the main character.
So Qing Qiang didn't think about why the array was gone and focused on the bars in front of him.
This was the second hurdle that he had to face before winning his freedom.
These were special bars made of a special material that could absorb life energy, which made it the bane of any cultivator.
Of course, it wasn't strong enough to take the attack from a Ruler Realm Expert, but it was more than enough to deal with those who were below the Ruler Realm.
So Qing Qiang definitely wouldn't be able to break through these bars with his level of cultivation.
Qing Qiang was considering what he should do when he suddenly thought of something…
"Since I'm the main character, that should mean that everything should go my way…Since that's the case, I should just try opening it."
This was the most idiotic thought that one could have normally, but when it came to Qing Qiang…it was actually the right choice.
The bars were still working since it was impossible for the materials used to make the bars to suddenly lose their properties. But when Qing Qiang pushed on the door to his cell, he found that it wasn't locked at all.
One single push was all it took to open the door and he was free from the cell.
He didn't know why it was unlocked, but he also didn't care.
He was fully convinced now that he was the main character of this world and the only person loved by the heavens.
When he had been exposed as a traitor of the Dragon Race and thrown into this jail, it was only a trial for him. Now he was using the full power of his identity as the main character to break out of this jail.
And once he was out, he would go back and reclaim everything that was his.
His first target had already been decided…
Even though he had been thrown in jail, he had heard some of the rumours that the guards had been gossiping about.
This was something that was spreading all over the Dragon Race, so naturally the guards couldn't avoid gossiping about it as they did their rounds.
It was the news of Xiao Feng.
Qing Qiang had learned the existence of Xiao Feng and why he was so important, which had filled him with envy. He couldn't stand that Xiao Feng was the one that possessed the ancestral bloodline and not him.
After all, he considered himself the main character of this world.
So his target now was Xiao Feng.
As long as he was able to kill Xiao Feng and take that bloodline for himself, then the Dragon Race would have no choice but to follow him. He would lead the Dragon Race in a crusade against the other races and create a world for the Dragon Race.
With these thoughts in mind, Qing Qiang excitedly started moving through the dungeon.
He followed the path that he had taken when he was first brought to this place.
As he made his way along, he also made sure to move carefully since there were guards that patrolled these dungeons.
However, he didn't find a single guard as he made his way through.
A normal person would have become suspicious of this, but Qing Qiang once again chalked that up to his identity as the main character. Since he was the main character, it wasn't strange that he encountered this kind of luck.
He was able to make it all the way to the entrance of these dungeons without encountering a single guard.
However, that didn't mean that he was free just yet.
The hardest part to break through was actually right in front of him.
This entrance was where the guard barracks and the warden office were, so this was where all of the strongest guards in the prison were gathered.
If he tried to leave through this entrance, it would be very likely that he would be surrounded and caught by all of these powerful guards. So Qing Qiang had to find a way to sneak past all of these guards that were here.
But when he arrived, he found…
That there wasn't a single guard.
When he looked carefully, he found that all of the guards were gone from this place.
It was as if there had never been a guard to this prison with how every guard was missing.
He had even taken a chance by peeking around in the guard barracks and the warden office. This was a stupid idea that most people would have never done, but Qing Qiang thought that it was a good idea and decided to check both these places out.
That didn't mean that Qing Qiang was naturally stupid.
He was the son of the Azure Dragon Tribe head and had been raised properly, so he was actually quite the smart person when it came to doing things. It was just that his ego had been raised by all of the luck that he had encountered and he was on a victory high where he didn't think that anything could go wrong for him.
Luckily for him, there was indeed no one in these two places, so he didn't get caught in the end.
Since there were no guards to stop him, Qing Qiang didn't hesitate at all to walk out the front door.
Once he was out, he immediately ran off into the forest around the prison and he made his way to freedom.
Even in the forest, which was actually the final line of defense for this prison and was filled with dangerous beasts, he didn't encounter a single thing.
Most people would have been very suspicious of all of this, but Qing Qiang…just thought that it was his god given right as the main character. He was so devoted to this idea that he had basically given up on thinking…
What he never noticed was that in the distance, there was a cloaked figure that had been watching over him the entire time.
This person was wearing the cloak of…a Dragon Race elder.
As this cloaked figure watched over Qing Qiang, they never made a single move to stop him.
In fact, it was almost as if they were escorting him along his escape from this prison…
That wouldn't make sense since they were the ones that had locked him up here in the first place, but that was what was happening now.
When Qing Qiang finally escaped the forest, the cloaked figure revealed a smile under his cloak and said, "The trap has been set…now we just wait and see what we'll catch."
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