Page 1045

Won?

As Ziyue regained consciousness, she felt time pass excruciatingly slow.

Even though at this moment, it seemed that her adversary had completely lost the capacity to resist, Ziyue dared not let her guard down.

Such an ancient and cunning monster could have countless tricks up her sleeve; despite 40 percent of her body already transformed, Ziyue still believed that this person might suddenly lash out violently.

Legs, arms, including the head—half of Madam Joseph’s face was gone, and her ferocious expression was no longer visible. However, the terrifying aura capable of claiming the lives of everyone present was still there.

By all appearances, the other side should stand no chance now, at this moment...

Right as Ziyue was thinking this, suddenly, a familiar voice came from behind her.

"Ziyue!"

King of Qin....

Ziyue’s pupils contracted sharply. She had felt something was wrong since a while ago, and now, as that familiar figure surged forward and shattered the remaining half of Madam Joseph’s body to dust, she immediately figured out the joint.

"You....."

---------------------------------------------

"You have made great contributions this time, and you have many choices. Why choose to become a loach?"

In the Western Demon Realm, following the great battle, some people’s betrayal succeeded, and those familiar with the world’s rules and despised by many were utterly eradicated.

.. From then on, the nobility who had once stood at the pinnacle of Blue Star reestablished themselves at the apex in this new world.

At that time, a man who had eagerly joined the Western Camp was now humbly kneeling on the ground, reaping the fruits of his victory.

"There are not many thrones, and the good positions are all held by you Caucasians from the West. Instead of being a lower-class Demon King in the Demon Realm, I’d rather be at the top of a power—the very least, I stood atop the world during the days you slumbered."

"That’s not a bad idea...." The Caucasian nobility behind Madam Joseph all showed scornful smiles. The Dragon Clan, sacred in the eyes of mortals, were seen by them as merely slightly rarer food ingredients, and the kings of the Dragon Clan...

Starting with this choice, this shameless betrayer was destined to reach no higher station, after all, the potential of the Dragon Clan was limited....

"You Central Federation have an old saying, ’better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix.’ It truly fits the character of your race...."

"You are quite right...." The betrayer was extremely humble.

From then on, among the Four Seas Dragon Kings, there was an additional player; the eldest Dragon King was thus born. No one knew how long the Nanhai Dragon King had lived. It seemed to have existed very early on, yet no one could accurately speak of the rank of its seniority.

After all, those who knew such history had vanished within an era....

-----------------------------------

"You...."

Neither Ziyue nor Madam Joseph had anticipated that the final blow would be dealt by this person.

"Weren’t you already...." Ziyue was puzzled; she had confirmed repeatedly just now that the Nanhai Dragon King was indeed dead, not a breath of life left. The fact that Madam Joseph had been able to summon him just now was proof. But why... why was he standing here so vibrantly alive now?

Just what is...

"You... how is this possible..."

Madam Joseph was also shocked. She did indeed have one last trump card—a transformation to shift life and death once more, to resurrect those two shattered King Level beings.

But for some reason, when she tried to summon the Dragon King, she found that he was gone!

Before she could react, her last lifeline was crushed by the person before her...

"Time..." In Joseph’s final moments of consciousness, he immediately realized the sole possibility.

To escape death is not unheard of, in the world between heaven and earth, Innate Dao Fruits are of equal level. Death can terminate time, yet time can also reshape vitality, after all, all things are subject to Reincarnation.

In this world, there is only one person who can etch onto the fabric of time, and then resurrect someone at a fixed point in time!

The old man from the Liu Family of the Central Federation!

Madam Joseph was glaring furiously at the smiling Dragon King, unable to comprehend why Old Liu’s power was in his hands.

She had always been most wary of that one person, to the extent that at times, the seemingly magnanimous General Liu posed a more significant threat than Elder Long, that sly political schemer.

He was definitely in the Far North, he definitely...

With the last trace of consciousness dissipating in resentment towards the enigma, the pair of pitch-black eyes floating in midair suddenly parted, one positioned to the left and the other to the right, one above Ziyue’s head, the other above that of the newly revived Dragon King.

Ziyue could feel the eye above her head and confusion flickered in her eyes; she didn’t understand what was happening.

"Top-tier Innate Treasures are alive, just like Demons, but they are extremely fragile in themselves; hence any Spiritual Artifact of this class will rely on a powerful life force. Madam Joseph was the strongest life it previously knew, and now, with her demise at the hands of both of us, it is unable to discern who is stronger, so it’s contemplating. "

The tone of the Nanhai Dragon King was as mild as before, yet Ziyue felt a chill in her heart.

His tone was calm, as if everything was pre-calculated.

"How did you do it?"

"Why don’t you take a guess?" the Dragon King said with a laugh.

Watching Ziyue, he hesitated to approach easily, for the woman had just transformed one of Madam Joseph’s Forbidden Techniques, which was quite terrifying, and he could also sense that the forces of nature held a great malice towards her; an impetuous attack might implicate him as well.

"Of all the abilities I’ve seen, there is only one that can do what you do..." Ziyue stared intently at him, knowing that the slightest blink at this distance would lead to her death!

"That would be the Nine Heavens Mirror used by Chen Qing."

"The Nine Heavens Mirror can control time, allowing one to be reborn at a node, but that is only within the confines of a Formation. This kind of Formation can hardly trap king-level experts, nor could it happen without them noticing. This ability of yours is not the Nine Heavens Mirror... it’s Time! "

Laughing boisterously, he clapped his hands: "As clever as ever!"

"I remember you..." Ziyue looked at him: "You were not originally a member of the company. You joined later on. After I quit the gaming studio, and the game became popular, a lot of new people came in. If someone had planned ahead, they could have planted new recruits, so... you’ve been planted in the gaming studio from the start, infiltrating our team, right? "

"No wonder... I always felt that those traitors behaved strangely. Many were hesitant and not resolute, yet the timing of the betrayal was mastered too perfectly. Such coordination and planning could not happen without premeditation; those simple-minded programmers simply didn’t possess that capacity. "

"Who exactly are you?"

"Such an impressive woman..." the Dragon King sneered: "If father hadn’t arranged for me to be placed in the gaming studio early on, it really wouldn’t have been easy to outsmart you and Chen Qing..."

"Let me introduce myself, my name is..."

-------------------------------------

"Liu Yunxin?" Chen Qing, who arrived hastily, pondered this name, his expression dreadfully grim!

So that’s it... that’s what happened back then...

Everything fell into place, back in the day...