When Ye Zhen's phantom body was discovered and destroyed, his mockery of the Phoenix Spirit Queen and the others had not been mere gloating.
It had been provocation and misdirection!
He had provoked the emotions of the Phoenix Spirit Queen, Chen Denglong, Chief Steward Chi, and the rest, allowing their judgment to be swayed by emotion.
At the same time, he had deliberately made them focus their pursuit on Ye Zhen's identity, thereby concealing his true intention of rescuing Caiyi.
Just as Ye Zhen had expected, after discovering that the person imprisoned in the quiet room within Phoenix Spirit Palace was Ye Zhen's phantom body and that Ye Zhen himself had long since escaped, the Phoenix Spirit Queen immediately convened her key ministers for discussion after her initial rage subsided, including Jiang Qianyi.
There was only one focus of discussion: what exactly had Duke of North Sea Prefecture, Governor of North Sea, and Hall Master of Fire Spirit Hall of the Great Zhou Ancestral God Temple, Ye Zhen, gone to such painstaking lengths to infiltrate the Phoenix Spirit Realm for?
What was he plotting?
Could this be one of Great Zhou's plans to retaliate against the Phoenix Spirit Race?
Had Ye Zhen come to scout the way?
With Ye Zhen, this insider, working in coordination, could Great Zhou's troops have infiltrated the Phoenix Spirit Race?
One question after another revealed the panic in the Phoenix Spirit Queen's heart.
Although the Phoenix Spirit Race had dispatched a great army to participate in the war on the Primordial Continent and had already bitten off a fat piece of Great Zhou's flesh—
the deeds recorded in the Phoenix Spirit Race's ancient texts still made Great Zhou loom over the Phoenix Spirit Queen's head like a mountain.
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