The red eyes came from different spaces around him, each one having lurked for countless years, carefully hiding themselves in secret spaces. But because of his impulsive act, almost all of them turned to look at him in an instant!
He knew that regardless of his status as the High Priest, if he dared to make a move today, the owner of those eyes would tear him to shreds in an instant!
"High Priest, you've wasted so many years of your life." Ziyue stared coldly at Zhang Xiaoyun on the screen, who was already on the countdown to death. "A leader who brings benefits to the clan is royalty. What good is noble blood if he's a burden? What do you say?"
Celestial Master Zhang: "."
"The rituals of the Four Saints cannot be interrupted. If he cannot inherit them, there will naturally be someone capable of doing so. Whoever inherits them will not be able to resist the temptation of my Ancient Demon. What do you all say, elders?"
Ziyue turned around, looked at the densely packed scarlet eyes that seemed to appear out of nowhere behind her, and asked with a smile.
There was no reply, but the reaction of the magnetic field turned Celestial Master Zhang pale, and almost all the members agreed with Ziyue's words!
The path of the inferior to the superior is one of insubordination and chaos!
This is a taboo in any ancient race. Bloodline is the proof of ancient order. Any group relies on bloodline to maintain order. The nobler bloodline has the power of life and death over those below. Regardless of whether it is reasonable or not, such a system guarantees absolute unity. For billions of years, races that have not been invaded by Reincarnator have retained this ancient way of thinking.
But now, things seem to have changed.
Having spent many years in the mortal realm, Celestial Master Zhang naturally understood the stakes involved. He also knew that the prince's death wouldn't affect the overall situation; the spirits of the Four Saints would still descend upon those who had performed exceptionally well. As long as they controlled the situation here, they could still seize the Body of the Four Spirits —after all, that was the initial plan.
The prince chose to possess Fei Jun's body prematurely, using his privileges to try and seize this unique gifted body ahead of time.
As a result, they messed things up and now expect the entire clan to pay the price for the entire Samsara they've been preparing for. Of course, that's impossible.
Even after his death, the vacant Body of the Vermilion Bird actually provided an extra opportunity for someone else.
He understands this, he understands everything.
What troubled him was that Ziyue had actually taken over the situation.
Celestial Master Zhang looked at Ziyue with some unfamiliarity. It wouldn't be a bad thing if a decisive and courageous person emerged from the royal family, but was she reliable?
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"It's about to begin!"
As Chen Ying pierced Fei Jun's heart with her sword, Chen Qing breathed a sigh of relief, but then looked around seriously.
He knew that the other party's real plan was about to come to an end!
Before the other powerful families could react, Chen Baifeng quietly led the elders of the Chen Household closer to Chen Qing. He didn't know what would happen next, but he felt that being closer to Chen Qing would be safer.
Chen Ying precisely shattered the Ancient Demon within Fei Jun's body with a single sword strike.
Suddenly, a terrifying howl seemed to tear the entire space apart. The ancient and ferocious aura almost made Chen Ying instinctively want to drop the sword in her hand.
But she knew she couldn't. Fei Jun could lose control of his body at any moment, and once that happened, she would have absolutely no chance of winning!
Overwhelmed by fear, she could only keep recalling what Chen Qing had said yesterday.
"If you are lucky enough to succeed, you must remember that no matter how terrifying it is, you must persevere. Ancient Demon are an innate terror to humanity; this fear is ingrained in our very bones. It is not shameful to fear them, for it is a memory formed from the tragic experiences of our ancestors. But if we succumb, our descendants will continue to be mired in this fear!"
"Don't be afraid. Without a physical body, they are nothing, just ordinary insects!!"
"Yes, it's just an ordinary insect!" Chen Ying roared with all her might. Her stiff bones finally sprang to life under her almost frenzied willpower. In this primal fear, she steadied her sword and pulverized the blood worm that had pierced her!
The terrifying roar abruptly ceased, filled with boundless resentment. If it could, it would corrode every inch of the woman's flesh with the most horrible poison a thousand times over, subjecting her to the most horrible torment throughout an entire cycle of Samsara!
Unfortunately, no matter how overwhelming its resentment, at this moment, it was just a helpless insect.
With a soft pop, extremely tiny, like a blood blister bursting inside Fei Jun's body, so light, so insignificant.
Fei Jun made quite a commotion, his whole body seemed to lose consciousness in an instant. Chen Ying quickly sheathed her sword and supported him. She was about to stop the bleeding when she touched him and was surprised to find that the wound on his chest had disappeared in that instant.
Before they could react, the entire hall began to shake.
The next instant, a dragon's roar soared into the sky, and Chen Ying was uncontrollably lifted into the air. Chen Ying tried to grab Fei Jun, but strangely found that Fei Jun had disappeared!
When she looked up again, she saw a sky full of stars, a vast night sky, an incomparably dazzling Milky Way, stretching as far as the eye could see. What was even more amazing was her perspective, because she wasn't looking up, but looking down!
After realizing what was happening, Chen Ying was completely stunned.
Where is she?
She was actually looking down at the Milky Way?
The next instant, an even more shocking scene appeared. Above that galaxy, an incomparably enormous figure was moving through the galaxy. Countless stars were as tiny as floating on the sea, while that huge shadow was so conspicuous in the galaxy. Countless stars on it were as small as hairs.
She recognized what it was at a glance.
Azure Dragon!
One of the Thirty-Six Beasts of the Heavenly Stems, and the leader of the Four Saints!
At this moment, Chen Ying was stunned, because she could see the true weight of those stars; each one contained a world, capable of holding trillions of living beings.
But before the Azure Dragon, it was so insignificant.
She never imagined that what she inherited would be so terrible!!
Of course she knew what the Azure Dragon represented, and she had heard countless legends about Azure Dragon Sorcerer. Being chosen by Chen Qing to become one of the Azure Dragon Sorcerer of all time was the highlight of her life.
But it was only then that she realized how shallow she had been.
Is the Azure Dragon such a being?
Is the land it inhabits like a speck of dust to it?
But why would such a being die on this continent?
What is this world really like?
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Outside the main hall, the entire imperial city trembled under the immense energy. The land of Cloud Capital was engulfed in a rumbling sound, and the spiritual energy of the earth gushed forth like a spring, making the colors of the entire world incredibly vibrant!
Only at this moment did it become clear that this was the land of the Central Plains, where dragons rose from the heavens, and from the four corners of Cloud Capital, four beams of light shot into the sky!
Inside the palace, the sky was filled with countless scarlet eyes, as if the sky were a canvas about to be torn apart by those creatures at any moment. The eerie scene made the people of Cloud Capital's scalps tingle, and they felt that something terrible was about to happen!
Seeing this, Chen Qing knew that the Ancient Demon Clan's plan to the Warlock Dynasty was about to bear fruit!