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Li Chen, posing as the Witch Ancestor, did not grow angry at these stern, righteous accusations. Instead, he laughed aloud, as though he had heard something utterly ridiculous.

He shook his head. Then, under Romanov's and Ivan's horrified gazes, he slowly raised a hand and wiped away the glow obscuring his face and the disguise of the robes that marked him as the Witch Ancestor, revealing his true appearance.

It was the face of Li Chen, the Emperor of Heavenly Strategy-young and handsome, yet carrying an air of looking down upon the entire world!

A mocking sneer lingered at the corner of Li Chen's mouth. His gaze rested calmly on the utterly petrified Romanov as he said lightly, "What if I am the Witch Ancestor?"

Romanov was utterly stunned. His mind went blank, as though a thunderbolt from the nine heavens had struck him.

His eyes widened as he stared fixedly at Li Chen's face. He had seen that face countless times in intelligence dossiers on the Heavenly Strategy Empire, and had even glimpsed him from afar himself! There could be no mistake!

But how was this possible?! The Witch Ancestor who had stirred up storms across Daluo, whom he had regarded as a thorn in his heart, and Li Chen, the Emperor of Heavenly Strategy who had contested with him from afar in the south and opposed him at every turn, were actually the same person?!

An overwhelming sense of absurdity and unprecedented terror swallowed him in an instant.

All his schemes, all the things he had relied upon, seemed to become one colossal joke at that moment.

Ivan had never seen Li Chen's true appearance. Seeing his ancestor frozen in place as though he had seen a ghost, his face filled with disbelief and horror, Ivan could not