You wouldn't assume Chen Qing is one of your kind just because he looks exactly like you, would you?
These words swirled in Murong's mind like a curse, leaving her speechless for a long time.
Actually, she had been thinking about it for a long time.
Actually, it's probably not just her; the others under Chen Qing, including those from the Shen Family, are all so intelligent, they must have thought about this question too, right?
Is Chen Qing, who possesses so many methods and knows so many secrets, truly human?
In fact, many people probably have doubts deep down, but they dare not show them, perhaps because they don't want to, or perhaps because they are afraid.
In such a dark world, the paradise that Chen Qing built was truly wonderful. What if one day Chen Qing was actually something else, with another purpose?
Murong suddenly realized what had happened. What should he have done then?
Ao Zhen smiled slightly, ignored the other party, and quickened her pace to walk deeper into the area until she reached a huge golem before stopping.
"How come this thing is still here?" Yaksha's eyes widened in shock, his entire body tensing as if facing a formidable enemy!
It recognized the thing at a glance: a hundred kingdoms burned, terrifying resentment offered to the heavens, summoning the first large-scale Outer Heaven Demon Statue to descend since the Dragon Palace dominated the four seas!
That same time, the Heavenly Python Palace was almost completely wiped out, and the Dragon Palace also suffered heavy losses.
The two major forces joined forces for the first time to resolve the chaos caused by the Heavenly Demon Statue.
However, the human race was audacious, and some sorcerers, oblivious to the danger, secretly conducted research on the statues. When the Dragon Palace learned of this, they carried out a bloody massacre and purge of many families who were secretly researching the statues. Even so, many sorcerers still managed to escape. Those sorcerers later transformed themselves into monsters that were half-gods through their research on the golems, and they still roam around the Guhuang Kingdom to this day.
After purging the human race, both the Heavenly Python Palace and the Dragon Palace made an agreement not to study this thing again. However, the West Sea Dragon Palace has never been a law-abiding force.
Yaksha had always thought that the Dragon Palace was just secretly researching some small stone statues, since the risks were manageable, but he never expected that they would dare to research this level!
The demonic statue before us is the mastermind who instigated the Divine Cult of Evil Fire and burned down hundreds of kingdoms back then. It is also the true master of the Demon Hall. The Red Lotus Karmic Fire that can burn the world was brought here by it!
Wasn't this thing destroyed back then?
How did I get here?
Murong Yunji came to her senses and looked up slightly. In just one glance, she felt her brain was dominated by fear, and she could hardly move!
She was certain that if this thing wanted to kill her, she wouldn't even have the courage to run away!
" The West Sea Dragon Palace has never been a law-abiding force." Ao Zhen sneered, "Moreover, it has our extremely ambitious father, don't you think? Father!"
Upon hearing this, Yaksha's pupils contracted. The king is here?
After a long silence in the darkness, a deep voice finally came. "How did you find your way here?"
His position was calculated by the five Turtle Chancellor, each responsible for one aspect of the process. Unless all five betrayed him, none of them could predict his final position.
But I still found my capable daughter!
"It's very simple," Ao Zhen sneered. "No matter how cleverly you hide, you can't rule out the possibility of me finding you. And if I find you, you'll have no power to resist. You certainly won't allow that to happen, so you'll definitely find a place where, even if I find you, you'll still have the power to resist."
"In the entire West Sea Dragon Palace, if you don't wake up, there's almost nowhere that can stop me, except here. So, is there still any suspense?"
Dragon King: "."
"I thought the commander-in-chief of the three armies of the West Sea was just a reckless brute who knew how to fight, but I didn't expect him to be so intelligent?"
"How can you win a battle if you're not smart?" Ao Zhen locked onto a direction in the darkness, clearly having located the old Dragon King: "Father hasn't fought a war in too long, has he lost his mind?"
"Sharp tongue and biting tongue!" The Dragon King's voice carried a sneer, "Even if you find me, what can you do? Just as you said, the reason I chose this place is because you can't touch me here!"
Upon hearing this, Ao Zhen lowered her gaze slightly, still fixed on the darkness, and remained silent. Seeing Ao Zhen's silence, Murong Yunji paused, then cautiously asked, "Is that so?"
"That's how it is," Ao Zhen nodded, "There's a mechanism here that seals this stone statue. That thing is naturally bound to the mechanism. As long as I make a move, even the slightest movement, the mechanism will open, and everything here will be released."
"I'm not afraid of anything else, but not this stone statue. If it's released, the world will truly be doomed!"
"This..." Murong Yunji was taken aback, then quickly said, "It's alright, it can't be revived anyway, right? We can just seal it away permanently, can't we?"
"No, that won't work," Murong Yunji shook her head. " The Dragon King is treated differently from us. He's the Dragon Palace's safety net. His body is already integrated with the Dragon Palace. As long as he can revive, even if the Dragon Palace is mostly destroyed, he can rebuild Dragon Palace power. That's why the Dragon King received special treatment when the entire Dragon Palace was sealed away."
"Special treatment?" Murong Yunji's heart skipped a beat; this news didn't feel like good news!
"Once the Dragon Palace is opened, if the Dragon King does not recover within three days, the Dragon Palace's magic array will determine that the Dragon Palace is in a life-or-death crisis and will activate the safety mechanism. The so-called safety mechanism is to completely drain the marrow of the dragon elders prepared in the lower level of the magic array, forming dragon blood essence, and then directly transfer the energy to the Dragon King through the magic array!"
Murong Yunji: "."
"In other words, in just one more day, it will be fully revived due to the activation of the magic array!"
"Then why don't we destroy the magic array first?" Murong Yunji asked hurriedly.
"Of course it's because it can't be destroyed!" Ao Zhen her eyes at the other party. "The formation is extremely secretive, and the core of the formation is protected by various mechanisms. If I rashly force my way in, I will be completely confronting the Dragon Palace's millions of years of foundation. What do you think the chances of success are?"
"If that's the case, what's the point of you coming here?" Murong, sounding somewhat anxious.
"My mission ends here." Ao Zhen's voice turned cold. "In the agreement between Chen Qing and me, I was to help him assassinate the Dragon King, and I have already agreed to that. But I also agreed beforehand that if we encountered an insurmountable situation, he would be the one to handle it, and he agreed to that as well."
But he's not here now!
"That's not my problem," Ao Zhen shook her head. "I've done everything I could. I've confirmed the Dragon King's location and the situation here. I've already given him the information through the Divine Seal. I don't know who took him away, but if he can't arrive by noon tomorrow and resolve the obstacles here, then I'm sorry, my agreement with him will be null and void!"
"Cancelled?" Murong asked in astonishment, "You think you can just cancel it like that?"
"Why not?" Ao Zhen looked at her and said, "This Divine Seal is the mark of my joining his Divine Path power. It can only guarantee that I will not betray him, but if he dies at the hands of the Dragon King, it will have nothing to do with me."
" Chen Qing is dead, what about you? Can you live?"
"Of course I can live!" Ao Zhen said with a laugh, "I am the commander-in-chief of the three armies of the West Sea. This old man has been wary of me for a long time. He couldn't kill me hundreds of thousands of years ago, so why should he be able to now? As long as he wants to stabilize the West Sea Army, he can't touch me!"
Murong Yunji: "."
She was wrong. She shouldn't have assumed the other person was completely on their side. But thinking about it, it makes sense; how could someone like that leave no way out?
"My daughter is quite the schemer." A chilling laugh echoed from the darkness. "I'm curious, what kind of person has given you the idea to harm me? Even if he comes, are you sure he can break through this barrier? Do you know what kind of place this is? How complex are the restrictions here?"
"I don't know." Ao Zhen shook her head. "I don't know if he can do it. I'm just cooperating with him. If he can, that's great. If he can't, I won't lose anything."
"Hahahaha! Interesting. Interesting, Chen Qing, is it? I'm quite looking forward to meeting him!"
There's another update coming, but it'll probably be around 2 AM. For those of you who don't stay up late to read, it's better to read them all together tomorrow, hehe!