After some time had passed.
On a secluded barren mountain situated between the Southern Wilderness Ancient Marsh and Tianfu Prefecture, a red-haired, snow-skinned woman with a willow-slender waist stood beside a child only as tall as her waist, gazing from afar toward the vast Dragon Marsh.
These two were naturally Blood Child Devil Lord and Yin Serpent Demoness.
To avoid being discovered by Old Dragon Ancestor within Dragon Marsh, both had restrained their auras. Under divine sense, they were like grass, trees, mountain, and stone, without the slightest abnormality to be detected.
The cold wind howled across the mountain peak, yet it could not extinguish the blazing heat in their hearts.
"Everything has been prepared. Now, all we need is for South Qin and West Jin's forces to reach the border." Blood Child Devil Lord stood with his hands behind his back, his childlike face brimming with ambition. "As long as the war on Great Qian's border grows urgent, those two old fellows, Longchang and Jiang Zhencang, will surely have to go personally oversee the front."
"Once the war reaches its white-hot climax and they, along with their elite troops, are thoroughly tied down, with everyone's attention fixed upon the battlefield, we can slip in through the gap. You will hold back Old Dragon Ancestor and the others in Dragon Marsh, while this Devil Lord sweeps away every treasure within the Blood Venerable Ruins!"
Yin Serpent Demoness wore an equally certain smile. "Devil Lord is wise. Even if they realize something is wrong by then, we will already have fled far away with the treasures Blood Venerable left behind. Even if they return afterward, they can only stare blankly at the empty ruins of the relic."
In truth, so long as the border war remained deadlocked, the two Void Ascension