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Those who play with emotions, when their ship capsizes, it is truly terrifying.

First, you must ensure that when the person being manipulated loses their sense of reason, you can catch them, otherwise, there is a chance that you’ll get burned by playing with fire. Can Bai Yu handle Murong Yunji?

The answer is, of course, affirmative. Murong Yunji is strong, but compared to the Grand Sorcerers of the Shen Family, she is the easiest to manipulate. Even without Senior Zi Yue, Bai Yu had full confidence that she could control the other party, but now the situation is different.

Because not only is Senior Zi Yue gone, but there is also an unpredictable Chen Qing by her side!

And escape was not an option. Underwater, it’s very difficult to shake off a Wind Sorcerer... especially a top-tier Wind Sorcerer like Murong Yunji!

While occupying the body of Shen Lao San, she was, at her core, still a Magician. She knew that once Murong made her move, if she didn’t reveal her ultimate hand immediately, she might not even get the chance...

"Murong, you... calm down..."

Bai Yu looked at the other party, clearly attempting to make her hesitate with her words.

After all, Chen Qing’s guess was just that, without a shred of evidence. Murong, who valued sisterly relationships, would surely have some doubts in her heart and would certainly not...

Almost without any warning, that green light flashed before her eyes. Bai Yu was a Magician and naturally could not be faster than Murong. She couldn’t even react in time. While her eyes were still clouded with confusion, her head was plucked off!

Clearly, she understood Murong’s past but didn’t quite understand Murong the person...

The next instant, amidst the seawater, the area filled with clouds and mist. Murong didn’t even glance at the head she had just taken but instead stared straight at a spot where the clouds and mist had formed, where Bai Yu, like a dream, took shape again within those clouds and mist.

As for the severed head in Murong’s hands, it transformed from its initially bloody state into a faint wisp of mist.

Bai Yu, now turned into mist, still hadn’t come to terms with what had happened. After a moment of stunned silence, she looked at Murong in disbelief. Had the other party been so decisive in her attack?

"You were indeed wary of me..." Murong spoke with a cold voice, "If you were really by my side for tens of thousands of years, you shouldn’t have prepared such Techniques for defense."

Chen Qing, watching from a distance, suddenly laughed. Murong, at crucial times, still had a sharp mind...

To defend against a Warrior at close range, a Magician could only prepare Techniques in advance.

The best way to do so was to place a lock-on Technique directly on the Warrior.

Then, once the Warrior made a move, the Technique would activate immediately, perfectly avoiding the issue of the Magician’s delayed reaction.

Murong Yunji might seem like a Warrior in style, but she was actually a top Wind Sorcerer.

The moment she moved, she would naturally notice that Bai Yu had locked a defensive Technique onto her, otherwise, such an effect wouldn’t have occurred.

Of course, if Bai Yu hadn’t done so, then with Murong’s reflexes, she could have stopped her attack at the last moment to ensure she didn’t harm Bai Yu.

So, to find out who was true and who was false, all one needed to do was try.

"Do you have anything else to say?" Murong asked coldly, looking at the other party.

Bai Yu glanced at Murong, then at Chen Qing, and without hesitation, she turned into a wisp of mist and disappeared from in front of them.

"Running away?" A beast-like grin appeared on Murong’s cold face, as a dense Art Energy swiftly wrapped around her body. In the next instant, her entire being turned into a transparent green color, like Bai Yu, drifting apart!

The waves churned, and within ten thousand zhang, a tornado naturally formed, its speed rapidly siphoning the surrounding seawater, including the dense mist that Bai Yu had turned into.

None could escape, and within the tornado, there was a murderous intent everywhere.

One couldn’t see where Murong was, but it was as if she was everywhere within the vortex!

Almost instantly, both Chen Qing and Bai Yu recognized the Technique used by the other party.

Divine Wind Ultimate Technique: Tian Cang!

The terrifying siphoning force pulled Chen Qing in as well, but he did not resist. The exaggerated wind blades forming the tornado would likely shred any creature that was caught into billions of pieces, but they did not touch Chen Qing at all.

Chen Qing secretly breathed a sigh of relief. This was not his own doing but Murong purposefully avoiding him.

It seemed his thoughts were correct; Murong was not an Ancient Worm but merely had her memories altered.

The friendship between Shen Lao Qi and Murong had been real, so after learning that she had mistakenly killed Shen Lao Qi, Murong would presumably no longer want to harm him.

This wild woman from the plains, although from a family with beast-like nature, still had a baseline of decency not found in many noble houses.

It was not that he was utterly powerless to resist, but now he could not afford to waste any more of his faith power. The Heavenly Ghost Octopus had already consumed too much of his unnecessary energy. If he wasted even a bit more now, he feared he might not even survive the Dragon Palace.

After all, there were still many more challenges ahead!

But Bai Yu was not so fortunate...

She had never anticipated that Murong would directly employ this technique.

This was the forbidden technique of the Murong Family!

Tian Cang was the ultimate form, which allowed one to easily transform into a raging wind, but the chance of being unable to revert was extremely high.

In Murong’s memory, ancestral records showed that, throughout the family’s ten-thousand-year history, only three members of the Murong Family had mastered this technique, and of those three, only one had managed to survive after using it.

The remaining two, although also possessing extraordinary talent, were never able to revert to their human forms. Instead, they transformed into uncontrollable fierce winds, unleashing disaster after disaster on the grassland continent.

Just suppressing those two disasters had caused tremendous losses to the Murong Family.

This technique was originally a trump card that Zi Yue and she had secretly planned for Murong to use against the monsters of the Dragon Palace at a critical moment, but she never thought it would end up being used against her.

To manipulate someone using their emotions, one must not show any flaws. Murong, with her resolute and intense personality, was a double-edged sword!

Bai Yu felt a sudden wave of weakness and wryly smiled as Ali’s words echoed in her mind.

That damn fox, truly the harbinger of bad luck...

"Aren’t you going to play your trump card yet?" Chen Qing, within the hurricane, looked at the clouds and mist being drawn into the wind and mockingly transmitted his voice.

It had to be said, Bai Yu’s control over Murong was truly like lifting a rock only to drop it on her own feet.

Out of the nine ancient worms, this one was actually the most difficult to target.

This woman was the only one among the nine ancient worms who adapted to the Nine Heavens Mirror, because Bai Yu’s own family had a technique that was very compatible with the Nine Heavens Mirror Valley back in the day.

Even the Art Energy of the Nine Heavens Mirror Valley was derived from the Bai Family.

Of course, this secretive piece of history was known by few, but the history of the entire world was written by Chen Qing and the former supervisor together, so naturally, he was privy to it. No one in the world knew Bai Yu’s true capabilities better than him.

The name of Bai Yu’s technique was the Divine Cloud Technique, one of the Nine Divine Techniques. When cultivated to the pinnacle, one could transform one’s body into an element, becoming an indestructible entity.

If Bai Yu wanted to escape, there were very few in the world who could catch her. In the first version, Warriors’ physical attacks almost proved futile against her, which is why when she claimed she was almost eaten by Elder Shen, Chen Qing did not believe a single word of it.

To capture Bai Yu, there were only two methods: either advance to the next version, where Warriors could break through the void and form a combat body, or... possess a Technique that could restrain her.

The first method was, for the time being, completely unattainable for anyone, even if the ancient times were revived, those ancient monsters would still need time for their bodies to recover before reaching the level of a combat body.

As for restraining her, there were very few Techniques in the world that could do so.

Hence, Bai Yu was a nearly invincible existence, which also accounted for her greatest confidence...

But unfortunately, she had provoked Murong Yunji!

Perhaps even she knew that the Divine Wind Sorcery countered her, which is why she wanted to control this only existence that could restrain her from the get-go.

One could only say she was too greedy. If it were Chen Qing’s character, he would have killed Murong and Shen Eleven at the first opportunity, eradicating any being in this world that could restrain him, instead of thinking about using a piece of trash one last time, wanting Murong to contribute one last time.

"Chen Qing..."

As she was being swept into it, and the clouds and mist were about to be torn by the fierce winds, Bai Yu’s transmission carried urgency.

"A pyrrhic victory does neither of us any good, how about... we work together?"

"No collaboration..." Chen Qing shook his head with a smile: "I still prefer the way Senior Zi Yue put it just now. The saying about a pyrrhic victory is mostly used by foolish fish. In most instances, even if the foolish fish broke its scalp, it would still be unable to damage a broken net."

Bai Yu: "...."

"You will regret this!!"

"Predecessor, this behavior of yours doesn’t quite match your usual image," said Chen Qing, now smiling even more.

What he was waiting for was the opponent’s ace in the hole.

This was the key to his journey!