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"Third Brother, are you sure you are not mistaken? Official Wei has defected?"

Shen Shiyi couldn’t believe it, even though Wei Gongcheng usually doesn’t say much, his loyalty is undoubtedly no less than that of Xuu Hu, and this is almost universally acknowledged.

"Even if you told me that wasn’t Official Wei, I would still need some time to think."

"I really am not in the mood to argue about this with you..." Shen Laosan said helplessly: "Do you think you know Wei Gongcheng better than I do? Since I said this, naturally I have my reasons..."

"Alright..." Shen Shiyi dared not say more, quietly asking, "Third Brother, what do you want me to do?"

"You must immediately go to West Island, find our lord. This mission is very dangerous, I shouldn’t have let you go but now..."

"I understand, Third Brother..." Shen Shiyi suddenly smiled, "No worries, I’m already a dead man, even if I die again, it’s not a loss anyway, I still owe Chen Qing..."

Shen San hesitated, ultimately letting out a sigh: "Be careful on your way."

"Then I will take advantage of the cover of night and start my journey under the protection of the Hell Ruler Temple."

"Good..."

"Third Brother..."

"Hmm?"

"How did you start suspecting them?"

"That woman came here first and the Western Sea Dragon King made his move later, and she seemed to know about it beforehand. The timing is too coincidental, I never believe in coincidences, either she’s in league with the Western Sea Dragon King or... the Western Sea Dragon King came for her!"

"Impressive!" Shen Shiyi looked up, his eyes pitch black, and unexpectedly, a woman’s voice came out of his mouth.

Shen San’s pupils narrowed, just as he was about to react, he suddenly felt immobilized by something, as if controlled. He looked around in shock and noticed that the surroundings were covered with transparent threads and he himself was tightly bound by them!

"This generation of the Shen family is much smarter than before, such a pity..."

"What have you done?" Shen San fiercely stared at the other, he had been very cautious, that woman shouldn’t have had the chance to make a move on Shiyi, especially since they had just met and Shiyi hadn’t left his sight. How could she have.....

"Can’t figure it out?" Shen Shiyi smiled slightly: "It’s normal to not understand without information, no matter how smart you are, there are things you can’t guess, you have already done very well, kid..."

Kid...

Shen San looked at the other, and suddenly remembered, that woman’s eyebrows and eyes.....resembled an old ancestor of the Shen family...

"You... who are you?"

"I’m not sure which generation you are, any title will do for me."

"Did you tamper with the bloodline?" Shen San suddenly realized something.

"Sort of..." Shen Shiyi had hands behind his back, surveying the surroundings: "That youngster Chen Qing is quite interesting, putting so much effort into nurturing the Human Race, still harboring naive notions?"

"Since you can tamper with the bloodline, why don’t you control me? Why control Shiyi?" Shen San immediately felt something was off.

"Because you’re harder to control..." Shen Shiyi said directly: "Even without the Power of Hell Ruler, you’ve already reached the level of Extraordinary First Rank. It’s easy for you to detect if I rashly hatched the eggs in your bloodline.

This youngster ranked eleventh, on the other hand, is different.

After all, he is young, and even though he possesses the causality power from the Divine Path Sect, his own realm has only just surpassed the ordinary. "

"Eggs in the bloodline?" Shen San’s pupils shrank: "Ancient Worm?"

"Smart..." Shen Shiyi smiled: "You are much smarter than your ancestor. If he had your wits, maybe I wouldn’t be having such a hard time."

"Ancient Worm... Wasn’t it dead?"

"That’s because you don’t understand Nine Heavens Mirror Valley!

" The woman laughed: "Ever since I entered the Dragon Palace, I had actually regained the memories of the past. After creating Nine Heavens Mirror Valley, I then had the ability to exterminate the Ancient Worms. These creatures mimic the Ancient Demon Clan, but their capabilities far exceed those of the Ancient Demon Clan, although somewhat incomplete. "

"To gather more experimental data, I lured it into Nine Heavens Mirror Valley for the purpose of better studying it. Nine Heavens Mirror Valley has one crucial ability, have you all forgotten?"

Shen San instantly responded: "Space-time retrospection?"

Indeed, if there was any capability from Nine Heavens Mirror Valley that was most fearsome, it was the ability of space-time retrospection.

Master Chen Qing had used this feature to dodge fatal pursuits multiple times, successfully turning the tables around.

Although later on, Nine Heavens Mirror Valley lost its effectiveness, its formidable capabilities continued making Chen Qing desire to replicate Nine Heavens Mirror Valley.

But he never managed to do it...

"So that’s how it is... so it can actually do such a thing!"

Shen San quickly realized it. Concerning space and time, Shen San had learned some on Ziyue’s classes—it’s a very peculiar rule. If used carelessly, it could create various paradoxes generating countless timelines.

The person in front of him was using the specific properties of the space-time laws.

Space-time retrospection, perhaps every instance was used to replicate an Ancient Worm, under numerous experiments, leveraging Nine Heavens Mirror Valley, presumably having countless fully-complete Ancient Worms!

Sure enough, the next moment, he saw Shiyi with a ferocious expression kneeling on the ground, two massive blood sacs bulging behind him.

Shortly afterwards, blood burst forth and a pair of wings black as night butterflies extended slowly from his back, Shiyi floating in the air radiating power at the pinnacle of the extraordinary!

Shen Laosan’s expression turned extremely grim, he coldly said: "So suppressing the Ancient Worm back then was a lie, it was actually cultivating them in secret?"

"It counts as suppression..." Shen Shiyi laughed: "Otherwise, if released carelessly, your Human Race would have been extinct long ago."

"Then I should thank you, Old Ancestor, shouldn’t I?

" Shen Laosan’s voice dripped with desolation: "I’ve seen many spiritual bodies sealed within that ancient formation, always believing that they could not transcend because they were enduring for the greater good of the Human Race, avoiding cataclysms for them.

They regard you so highly that even ten thousand years haven’t shifted their resolve. .."

"If they knew what kind of person their clan leader is, what would they think?"

"They can think whatever they want to think." Shen Shiyi’s face was cold, completely unmoved: "Those not of our kind surely have different hearts. We had thoughts of coexisting with the Human Race, even joining hands with you to fight against the demons, but what was the result?"

"Human nature is fickle, no matter how much we gave, as soon as they knew our identity, they wouldn’t hesitate to treat us as outsiders, the cruelty of their betrayal is something even those demons can’t match.

When their creators designed them, it was based on a large amount of Human Race data, making them too much like humans, which makes them the least deserving of empathy. "

Shen Laosan: "....."

"You call me Old Ancestor, and I take it as your acknowledgment of my bloodline. Although you grew up in the environment of the Human Race, as long as you are willing to recognize your bloodline, I accept you."

"I really should thank the Old Ancestor for his mercy..." Shen Laosan said sarcastically.

"You don’t need to make such sarcastic expressions.

Don’t expect anything from Chen Qing. The hearts of this world won’t change.

The moment Chen Qing exposes his identity, is the moment he encounters betrayal.

Such a thing, we have experienced many times before, I won’t go through it again.

What I have given in the past far exceeds what Chen Qing has, I owe nothing to the Human Race of this world! "