"Ao Ku, I already know what scheme you're hatching. There's no need to pretend anymore." A faint smile touched Qin Yu's lips.
"Scheme? What scheme?" Ao Ku was still playing dumb.
Qin Yu smiled faintly. "From the moment you two appeared, I was suspicious... if you wanted to kill or capture us, why didn't the Roc Demon Emperor and the other eighth-level Demon Emperor show up?"
"The two of us are more than enough to deal with you," White Phoenix said.
Qin Yu shook his head. "Ao Ku, White Phoenix, at first, I could put it down to arrogance. You thought the two of you were enough to deal with us. But after fighting us for so long, you should have realized that you couldn't kill us.
"If the Roc Demon Emperor and that other 'lord' were on Black Crow Planet, they would certainly have appeared. Yet we've been fighting all this time, and the Roc Demon Emperor still hasn't shown up."
"So I concluded that the Roc Demon Emperor wasn't on Black Crow Planet at all," Qin Yu said confidently. "And while the two of you were fighting us, White Phoenix, for example, wasn't using his full strength at first. Only after he'd been thoroughly battered did he use the Phoenix-Tail Needle.
"As for Ao Ku... after fighting me for so long, if he hadn't felt that my Void-Piercing Finger and divine artifact were enough to kill him,
"he would never have used his full strength and split into two true bodies."
Qin Yu stared at the two of them. "What does all this tell us? That you were buying time. I imagine the Roc Demon Emperor is on his way back, isn't he? He might even be about to reach Black Crow Planet."
At that moment, Qin