Sevenfold Blessing

"Tsk, tsk, let me guess... a prophecy?" Ye Wuhen raised his eyes to the two people before him, his tone growing a little more impatient.

"One Soul Ancestor and one Soul King, and you're this confident you can stop me?"

Reaching out to point at the golden dragon by the shorter person's feet, Ye Wuhen's emerald eyes lit up.

Like a child who had spotted a favorite toy, Ye Wuhen continued.

"If you're here to stop me, give me that dragon. I've never kept one before!"

"Well? That's a good deal, isn't it?"

Riding a dragon!

Ye Wuhen felt that if he could ride a dragon back to the Garden of Nurgle, his little sprite playmates would surely look at him with envy.

As he spoke, all six Soul Rings around Ye Wuhen blazed with a gloomy green radiance.

Countless green stalks of Blue Silver Grass blossomed beneath his feet, releasing wafts of sweet fragrance.

The sight frightened the golden dragon into whimpering timidly like a puppy, hiding behind its master.

"Sorry, but this dragon is my Martial Soul, and my family too."

"I won't give it away under any circumstances."

The shorter youth in the blue bird mask raised his hand gently to withdraw it and refused frankly.

"Tsk, you really thought I was negotiating with you?"

Ye Wuhen immediately narrowed his eyes. The Blue Silver Grass around him trembled with his irritation, as though it would turn into a "tidal wave" and engulf the pair at any moment.

The slightly taller person in the blue bird mask stepped forward, seemingly about to summon his Martial Soul, but the shorter Blue Bird stopped him with a grab and continued speaking.

"Hey! Don't rush! I have some other things here. I wonder if you'd be interested."

As he spoke, three novel models appeared in the shorter Blue Bird's hands as though by magic.

One was a tiny, squat, vividly green creature with horns on its round head and wrinkled skin, yet wearing a cheerful smile.

Another was an enormous "fat fellow," like an enlarged version of the green creature.

The only difference was the abyssal maw on its belly, with an enormous green tongue protruding from its abdomen.

Of course, there was also a small doll of a green-haired youth-Ye Wuhen himself.

"Oh! You've got this skill too."

At the sight of the two familiar fellows, Ye Wuhen immediately reached out with interest and unceremoniously took the two figurines.

"Grandfather Nurgle's most famous children, and you, Grandfather's most, most, most, most beloved child."

"Your illustrious names ring in people's ears like thunder!"

The shorter Blue Bird rubbed his hands together. Even his mask could not conceal his bootlicking manner.

"Mm... I like the sound of that." Playing with the three figurines in his hands, Ye Wuhen nodded contentedly.

"Right, right! So, I wonder if I could trade these three dolls for you... Grandfather's most beloved child, that is, staying away from the Far North for the next few years?"

"Hm? You're not here to stop me from sacrificing these humans and Soul Beasts to Grandfather?"

Ye Wuhen had thought the motley-feathered Birdman had come to stop him from bringing the daemon army into the world, and he froze.

"Pah! These lowly things aren't worth that!"

"You certainly know how to talk. Tell me, what good things are in the Far North? Why won't you let me go?"

With his fur stroked the right way, Ye Wuhen immediately grew curious about why this person before him would not let him go to the Far North.

Could there be some treasure in the Far North?

"Of course not! That impoverished Far North doesn't have so much as a bird feather from Tzeentch. It's pure backcountry."

"Really?" Narrowing his eyes at the pair before him, Ye Wuhen put away the three figurines, a slight smile curling his lips. "I have a problem right now that I need someone to help me solve."

"Tell me... I've taken the figurines now, but I still want your dragon. I want to go to the Far North too, and I also want to sacrifice those humans and Soul Beasts to Grandfather."

"What do you think I should do?"

As his words fell, the shorter one's hand-rubbing stopped, and he suddenly shouted.

"Bro! Trouble-let's scram!"

Whoosh! Whoosh!

The green Blue Silver Grass abruptly struck, its roots stabbing toward the two from every direction like sharp spears.

At the same instant, the taller person in the blue bird mask reached out to grab his companion. A majestic dragon's roar rang out, and the pair instantly turned into a streak of black-and-blue lightning and fled into the distance.

The Blue Silver Grass thus struck empty air.

"Tsk, pretty fast."

"But... the Far North? Once this is over, I'll have to go see what's going on there."

"They actually dared tell me not to go? They've got some nerve."

Glancing in the direction the lightning had fled, Ye Wuhen could not be bothered with them anymore, because the Soul Beasts were about to begin another round of slaughter.

"Those Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts aren't bad. If I can't have a dragon to play with, taking an ape and a snake as mounts seems pretty good too."

His gaze fixed on the Hundred-Thousand-Year Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python, Ye Wuhen licked his lips. Ye Wuhen raised his hand, bound the Emerald Swan's remains from earlier with Blue Silver Grass, and actually threw them straight into the very center of the battlefield between humans and Soul Beasts.

For a moment, every human and Soul Beast turned to look at the Soul Beast skeleton that had suddenly appeared.

"What's that?!"

"Looks like a skeleton? It seems... like a Swan Soul Beast?"

Meanwhile, the strongest being on this battlefield, Xiong Jun, narrowed his eyes at the corpse, and the whole bear flew into a towering rage.

This incident had begun precisely because that someone had hunted and killed an already rare Ten-Thousand-Year Emerald Swan.

As she was one of the few healers among the Ferocious Beasts, even Xiong Jun was willing to show Bi Ji some respect and step forward to protect this harmless species.

Yet now, instead of trembling and hiding like a stinkbug, this ant had actually thrown the younger generation's remains right in front of him?

This was looking down on him, Xiong Jun!!

"Damned ant! You dare provoke me like this?!"

His gaze tracked the green figure suddenly descending from the sky. Xiong Jun immediately erupted in fury, heaving himself up and lashing out with a killing swipe.

The dark-golden claw phantom appeared once more, surging with murderous intent toward the spot where the green figure was landing.

The claw strike, powerful enough to kill the Peerless Dragon Snake couple with ease, landed and stirred up a vast cloud of dust.

"This feeling... something's wrong!"

Before Xiong Jun could examine it closely, a booming voice, carrying a strangely beguiling quality, slammed heavily across the entire battlefield.

"Sevenfold Death, sevenfold Decay, sevenfold Rebirth, sevenfold Cycle, sevenfold Plague, sevenfold Blessing, sevenfold Love!"

"Ignorant children!"

"Bear witness! To the supreme Grandfather's blessing upon you!"