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Pale-faced, she looked like a child, but Heiyun knew that this girl might have already lived for more than a thousand years. Rumor had it that this person was an experiment from the Sorcerer Dynasty era!

Having cooperated with her several times, Heiyun was all too aware of the terrifying power she possessed....

Damn, wasn’t she locked up by an array? That was the Azure Dragon Formation, but it couldn’t contain this monster?

"I always thought that Mister Heiyun had left this place long ago, who would’ve guessed you’ve been under Daqing Mountain all this time?" Zi Yue lifted her head, her pale and delicate face breaking into a weak smile that could tug at anyone’s heartstrings, yet it sent a chill down Heiyun’s spine.

Zi Yue was usually expressionless, and when she did show emotion, it was mostly when she harbored thoughts of killing!

"I’ve been trying to find a way to save you," Heiyun took a deep breath and said, "But the defenses here are too strict. The barrier around Daqing Mountain is extremely sophisticated, and I can hardly get in."

"I believe...." Zi Yue nodded, stepping closer to Heiyun.

Don’t come any closer....

Heiyun stepped back hastily and said, "How did you escape? And how did you turn the array to your advantage?"

"The array isn’t serving me..." Zi Yue shook her head: "It’s an illusion...."

"Illusion?" Heiyun forced a smile: "Mister Zi Yue... you’re skilled in that too?"

"Eh? You didn’t know?" Zi Yue paused before nodding: "That’s right, after the King of Qin, there have not been many in this world whom I’ve needed to use illusion on. Actually, many people from the Qin Royal Mansion knew that my illusions are somewhat stronger than destructive techniques...."

Are you kidding me?

Heiyun swallowed hard, illusion mastery stronger than destructive techniques? How could the Siao Family fools not tell him this sooner? Weren’t they afraid that Zi Yue would use illusions to escape?

"So... did you break the situation with an illusion, sir?"

"Yes... it took some effort," Zi Yue said with a faint smile: "That Chen Qing is troublesome. If I make the slightest move, he notices, so as long as he’s in Lyuzhou, I dare not act. But I’ve always been planning, like sending that Yin-Devouring Monster to gather information. The Yin-Devouring Monster has an ability—to take the place of some living people, making those around forget the fact that the person has died. To break the Azure Dragon Formation, Ali’s talent must be utilized, and to restore Ali’s power, one needs to rid her of the Golden Crow Poison in her body, and second.

... blood and flesh of humans are needed to recover her strength! "

Heiyun: "....."

"Chen Qing cares deeply about his people. Anyone who enters Daqing Mountain is a believer in the Mountain God; the death of even one draws attention, which is very troublesome. So I could only use the Yin-Devouring Monster to pick them off one by one...."

"It’s very troublesome, nearly a whole year spent and not many were identified.

... If it hadn’t been for the influx of foreign merchants coming to visit Daqing Mountain lately, I wouldn’t have had any chance at all.

.. It’s truly the first time I’ve encountered a place where even ordinary people are so difficult to prey upon. ..."

As Heiyun listened, his heart grew colder. When he had worked with Zi Yue before, he only knew her personality as that of a confused little girl. Why did it now feel like she was as malicious and cunning as the lady of the Lu Family?

"Did you use the Yin-Devouring Monster to lure and capture mortals, allowing the Thousand-Faced Fox to replenish her strength, and then had the Yin-Devouring Monster to replace those mortals and descend the mountain?"

Heiyun seemed to understand her strategy; the Yin-Devouring Monster could imitate those it devoured.

Some of those who came to Daqing Mountain were temporary guests, not believers in the Mountain God.

After killing them, the Yin-Devouring Monster could impersonate them for a couple of days, and then disappear without a trace, not even a body to be found.

What’s more, since the Yin-Devouring Monster could devour spirits, not only were the bodies untraceable, but even the searching soul of Chen Qing’s system, the Wandering God, could not locate them.

If an outsider who came to visit had few relatives, for example, a bachelor, then their disappearance would go unnoticed....

No wonder.... No wonder Wei Gongzhan had reported to him before that the Yin-Devouring Monster that resembled the ex-husband of the Thousand-Faced Fox kept contacting the local farmers of Daqing Mountain.

He also had Wei Gongzhan continue the surveillance, but all the creature did was sporadically interact with people, then made them forget about it, like someone loafing about with a full belly and nothing to do.

This process had gone on for over a year, and finally caused both him and Wei Gongzhan to lower their guard. He could never have imagined that the ultimate goal was to select blood sacrifices for the Thousand-Faced Fox!

"But even if you could somehow restore the Thousand-Faced Fox’s strength, how would you manage to ensnare that Chen Ying?

" Heiyun asked with confusion: "Since Chen Qing has locked up the Thousand-Faced Fox, he must be aware of how troublesome her abilities are, and would certainly have warned Chen Ying, the controller of the array. Doesn’t she normally take precautions? "

"Of course we were cautious, very cautious..." Zi Yue nodded with a smile, "Moreover, that barrier has the effect of isolating any demon techniques, even the Thousand-Faced Fox wouldn’t be able to alter her memory through the barrier!"

"Then how did you..."

"We could only make her come in by herself!"

"Come in by herself?" Heiyun was startled, apparently thinking of something.

Illusion Technique?

"It seems you’ve thought of it..." Zi Yue walked forward again, waved his hand, and the barrier reappeared: "Imitating this barrier was troublesome, it took me a whole year of observation to make the energy fluctuations in the Illusionary Barrier seem so lifelike, enough to deceive the barrier’s original owner. "

As he spoke and waved his hand backward, Heiyun saw it—the original position of the barrier was about ten meters back!

The terrain here was very similar, and the ten-meter distance, if not carefully discerned, was actually imperceptible.

The enemy used an illusion to cover the original barrier, then created a new one with another illusion, if Chen Ying wasn’t careful enough in her observations, she could indeed accidentally walk into the former barrier.

"The Azure Dragon Formation is an inheritance formation, it absolutely obeys those with the inheritance," said Zi Yue with a cold smirk. "Chen Qing exploited this trait, allowing that woman to use a top-level formation she shouldn’t have been able to at her level, but the downside is, the girl didn’t grasp the entire formation through strength; even after studying for so long, she could only control it through the inheritance’s special traits, not the original methods of an Array Master.

So, can you blame us for also exploiting a loophole? "

Heiyun: "....."

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It looks like... we’ve truly been outmaneuvered...

Elsewhere, Old Qi of the Shen Family felt a chill in his heart as he looked at the breathtakingly beautiful woman in front of him.

Almost without thinking, he knew she was the infamous demon, the Thousand-Faced Fox, who could charm all under heaven!!

The opponent’s strategy was truly vicious, taking a year to lay out their plans, gradually weakening their guard, and seizing the opportunity when Chen Qing was away to deliberately trigger a surge of spiritual energy.

Chen Ying was cautious, but over such a short distance of about ten meters, it was really possible for her not to notice in a hurry!

And just as the opponent said, Chen Ying was controlling the formation through inheritance.

With her Azure Dragon spirit body, she could enter the barrier without any technique; a convenience for the inheritor to control the formation, which should have been flawless.

However, they never expected such a small detail to be calculated against them.

Luring Chen Ying into the barrier, changing her memory, and then using her to lead themselves into the ambush set at Daqing Mountain... truly cunning.

Before now, I didn’t know Mister Zi Yue was such a clever person!

"What do you think, Seventh Master Shen?" Ali said with a beaming smile, "Your techniques are excellent, and we have need of them as well. If you join us, we are willing to share a portion of the Dragon Palace inheritance with you!"

"Chen Qing said the same thing," Seventh Master Shen smiled. "And Chen Qing can offer more. His system could change the world. My Shen Family is now fully bound to his system. You’re asking me to jump ship now? For such small offerings?"

"No one can change the world..." Ali shook her head: "Chen Qing’s methods are indeed miraculous, but just like the King of Qin back in the day, such anomalies will be the first to be struck down. Do you really think the King of Qin could have been so easily harmed by just the Siao Family?"

"The King of Qin... was not a ruler for the humans!

" Shen Qi shook his head. "From the beginning to the end, he never stood on the side of the Human Race. Even if he had succeeded back then, I don’t think the Human Race would have fared well.

But Chen Qing is different, Chen Qing... stands on our side!"

"Chen Qing also deserves to be compared with the King of Qin?" Ali’s expression turned icy, "It seems Shen Qi, today you are beyond persuasion. Then... stay here!"

"I was eager to witness... the methods of the greatest magician of the Great Jin!"

A huge eye emerged above Shen Qi, and as it opened, even space itself began to twist and spin.

Many people are unaware that Seventh Master Shen’s Heaven Eye Technique is actually... an extremely rare Spatial Technique!