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"Indeed... Is this how it is?"

A delicate figure in white stood a million miles away, gazing in shock at everything unfolding, with memories from the past continuously flooding his mind...

That year, he was just a lowly commoner in his clan, deeply unpopular.

Under normal circumstances, not only would he have no chance to be selected as one of the Four Holy Guard, he wouldn’t even have the opportunity to mate.

He would have died a short life as part of the Ancient Demon Clan, becoming mere sustenance for any random Evil Ghost in the Path of Yin Yang.

He was not content with this fate, so he risked the danger of being punished by his own people to venture out. Even if it meant merely parasitizing a normal creature, to experience the outside world was better than hiding in those dark, damp ditches.

But thinking back now, how smoothly he had escaped back then...

To prevent other races from detecting their existence and confirming that they had not been eradicated, the Ancient Demon Clan imposed strict constraints on its members.

Only those of the top bloodlines were permitted to parasitize other species.

Each Ancient Demon was closely guarded. How then, could he, a low-ranking Ancient Worm of inferior bloodline, have escaped so easily?

He remembers... there was a natural disaster. The once-stable earth’s crust abruptly shifted, transforming the entire landscape. They, who had been hidden beneath the Yin Mountains, were forced to evacuate urgently, and it was during that chaos that he quietly slipped away.

At that time, he never considered that beneath the Yin Mountains, numerous terrifying demons lay in wait.

His Ancient Demon Clan had been treading carefully among them.

When the terrain of the Yin Mountains dramatically changed, causing monsters to scatter in panic, how did he—a creature with strength comparable to a mere parasite—manage to survive and escape from such a situation?

He always thought he was just lucky... but now it seems that his luck back then was a bit too excessive.

After devouring Pu YunChuan’s memories, he thought he’d return to his clan with significant intelligence to become part of the nobility. Instead, he was captured for research, nearly facing complete ruin, if not for the Guard Commander’s interference...

Hahahaha, so that’s how it is!

"Do you know?" the King of Qin asked without turning his head.

"I do not know..." The Guard Commander shook his head: "I do not even have the qualifications to know about those designers; I was added to the ranks later."

"Is that so?" The King of Qin gave a wry smile and nodded: "Terrifying indeed..."

"Indeed quite terrifying, but thinking about it... it’s also quite normal..." The Guard Commander stroked his chin and nodded: "This... seems more reasonable."

The King of Qin did not say anything in response, just gazing into the distance. Indeed... this was somehow more logical.

All along, he had heard how powerful the Four Major Guilds were and how terrifying the super-ancient were, their strength incomparable to the current life forms!

If such a vast disparity existed, and with the world on the brink of reincarnation, how could there possibly not be any defense prepared in advance?

The idea that he came close to wiping them all out in one fell swoop was indeed very unreasonable...

So, the layered schemes were like this!

Fine... very fine indeed!!" The King of Qin looked in that direction, his eyes blazing crimson, flickering with a hint of madness!

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"All the scheming... is it to calculate against you?" Ziyue looked at the other party, she had considered many possibilities, but such a twist was beyond her expectation.

According to the other party, the birth of this batch of clones was actually all to plot against her!

The reemergence of Pu YunChuan’s clone, the emergence of the King of Qin, the threat posed by the King of Qin that alerted everyone, followed by Chen Qing joining the world, going to the capital for the examination, encountering the Thousand-Faced Fox incident, and thereafter...

All of it was a wait of several days, just to catch this old hag?

"Do you think it’s a calculation against you?

" Madam Joseph sneered coldly: "The fact that the Ancient Demon Clan still has any survivors should have alerted me that something was amiss. Back in the day, everyone knew how dangerous they were, how could it be possible for such a large group to still be alive? Beneath the Yin Mountains? Hehe...even beneath the deepest abyss, they shouldn’t have remained hidden. "

"Now that I think about it, it’s not impossible that I’ve been under surveillance all this time..."

"The Princess of the Ancient Demon Clan, sacrificing herself for her people, then targeted by the nobility among her clan, lived a life worse than death, and was expelled from the clan, attracting the attention of the Otherworldly Demon Statues.

How splendid that sounds, and now, how coincidental it seems."

"But of course, if it weren’t for the existence of the Ancient Demon and such beings as the Otherworldly Demon Statues, how could I have been lured here!" Madam Joseph took a deep breath, but still looked outside with doubt: "But just with you?"

The Nanhai Dragon King, an outsider player, a newly ascended King-Level for just one Era, with such a foundation, even holding a Spiritual Treasure, it would be impossible to threaten me!

And what about this one?

Madam Joseph looked towards Ziyue, who indeed was in some trouble at the moment, possessing the Forbidden Technique, being at King-Level, and also a top master of spatial formations, she could greatly limit my chances of escape.

But still... her own strength is limited!

A novice at King-Level, no matter how capable, the foundation is limited after all, and her body has not yet strengthened to the full standard of King-Level, very frail indeed.

Just with these two... I’m afraid it’s not enough, is it?

"Who else is there? Let me see for myself," Madam Joseph spoke coldly.

All the major figures of her level were under her surveillance, it would be impossible for them to be present; if she wasn’t sure of that, she wouldn’t have risked coming here lightly. So this time... it had to be a force beyond her expectations!

Spatial Runes lit up one after another, and then, in that pitch-blackness, a familiar figure in white slowly walked out. The Nanhai Dragon King outside the formation was momentarily stunned, then burst into hearty laughter!

He meant to cooperate, so when the Spatial Runes appeared, he didn’t stop them, but he didn’t anticipate that this person would come.

"You?" Madam Joseph didn’t expect it to be this person either!

The person in white was none other than the frequently exploited King of Qin...

"Why are you here..." Madam Joseph was puzzled, she did not believe the King of Qin was with the other side; if there was the slightest causal connection, she wouldn’t have been deceived, to get caught in the trap, the King of Qin must have stumbled upon it by accident, and whatever method used, it had to be of his own ability!

But why was he here?

Ziyue slightly raised her hand, an eye had appeared in her palm at some unknown time.

At the same time, the King of Qin also looked at his own palm, where... there was also an eye!

"You two?" Madam Joseph never would’ve thought Ziyue would actually take the initiative to work with this person?

If the intelligence was not wrong, hadn’t they just narrowly escaped a life and death encounter?

"I have no other external support," Ziyue spoke coldly.

Before coming here, Chen Qing was not around, Xuu Hu, and others could only guard the Border Pass, she felt that this trip might be a trap, she needed an ally.

After much consideration, she thought of a role no one would expect.

She shared the Thousand Eyes Technique with him, and for this reason, the King of Qin was able to keep an eye on the situation here and hear... the entire truth!

From the moment the truth erupted, Ziyue knew that the King of Qin would stand by her side.

"Interesting... Quite interesting..." Madam Joseph clapped her hands, her face returning to the previous calm, her mouth even carrying a hint of mockery: "But what about it? Just with you guys?"