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That guy seems as if nothing could ever surprise him...

Just like now, even Elder Shen didn’t know the trump card that made Weichi Feihong look once and despair into submission. In that guy’s eyes, it still didn’t elicit a flicker of emotion, as if he’d known all his cards from the very beginning...

But she was very curious. Zi Yue had said that the Blood Corpse in the shell had surpassed the pinnacle of creatures in this world; even Great Jin’s invincible Emperor would only be able to temporarily avoid their sharp edge. What would Chen Qing use to deal with it?

"Run..."

Murong Yunji lifted her head to look at Chen Qing and struggled to spit out that word.

"Don’t talk..." Chen Qing helplessly shook his head and used Art Energy to freeze her shattered lower body, temporarily stopping the bleeding.

"Run away?" Bai Yu looked at Chen Qing with amusement.

"What can’t be run from?" Chen Qing looked back at her with amusement. "This woman just didn’t react in time. If she’d used Divine Wind Technique to flee from the moment you opened the shell, what could you have used to catch up to her?"

Bai Yu: "....."

"Is Lord Chen joking?" Bai Yu sneered. "At this distance, for a top-notch warrior like this, do you really think you could escape with Divine Wind Technique?"

"Could..."

Bai Yu: "...."

Chen Qing smiled: "Of course you could. The essence blood in the Blood Jade Conch Mother is incredibly domineering and can indeed allow one to temporarily break through their limits, but that blood isn’t his, especially in the case of General Weichi.

Submerged in the conch mother’s blood for an offering, his function may temporarily improve, but his body cannot, and a general like Weichi Feihong, with a physique that is once in a thousand years, just happened to be met by you.

He could accept such domineering blood in such a short time, but the flesh and bones can’t be nurtured to this extent in just two short years. .."

As Chen Qing spoke, he pointed to Weichi Feihong’s arm.

Bai Yu looked up and her complexion immediately darkened. Weichi Feihong’s punch had been overwhelmingly powerful, directly shattering Murong Yun’s Tian Cang, but his entire arm had turned red. Looking closely, one would notice it cracking like a spider web; the arm was on the verge of collapse.

Obviously, Weichi Feihong’s body wasn’t yet capable of withstanding such power...

Just like Chen Qing said, if Murong Yunji had fled immediately, Weichi Feihong wouldn’t have been able to pursue her at all.

To run required using his whole body’s strength; to surpass Divine Wind in speed, one had to use power beyond the limit, and if he wasn’t careful, his entire body would collapse in an instant!

"Why not..., use those other two?" Chen Qing pointed to the two enormous shells behind Bai Yu.

"Those two have been cultivated for a long enough time, right? They should be able to last longer than Weichi Feihong, shouldn’t they?" Chen Qing said, smiling: "However, I guess the Princess wouldn’t want to. After all... without one, you won’t be able to cultivate Dragon Blood Corpses!"

"You..." Bai Yu’s gaze was icy, yet her heart also felt a chill.

This guy... how does he know everything?

The secrets that should have been sealed forever with the destruction of her country eons ago couldn’t possibly still be documented in literature after tens of thousands of years, right? From a small island nation, at that?

Why does he still know?

"Just who exactly are you?"

"That’s not important..." Chen Qing shook his head: "What’s important is what does Your Highness want to do now? Risk it all with your last resort? Or choose a smarter approach?"

Bai Yu stared at Chen Qing for a long while before exhaling: "What’s this smarter approach?"

"I can help Your Highness escape this space. While the teleportation to the Four Dragon Palace is still available, you have one last chance to venture there and try your luck."

Bai Yu was silent for a few moments, then asked: "And what do you want in return?"

"That’s more like it... Now we’re negotiating..." Chen Qing immediately smiled.

"Cut the crap!"

"Alright..." Chen Qing smiled as he looked at the shell that had just held Weichi Feihong: "I want Weichi Feihong and the Blood Jade Conch Mother that was cultivating him. You have to get the worm out of his brain!"

"How is that possible?" Bai Yu sneered. "Once the Ancient Worm enters the body, what good does removing it do?"

"Of course it does..." Chen Qing sneered: "The top-ranking kin wouldn’t directly alter the kin’s body with a worm. They would certainly retain some instinct in the host to form the most stable evolution."

"You make me feel as if you’ve studied us for many years!" Bai Yu said coldly.

"Not at all, not at all..." Chen Qing immediately waved his hand, after all, the Ancient Worm was a creature that had only taken a week to go from conception to full formation; could that really be considered many years?

"Since that is the case, you should also be aware that the Ancient Worm and Weichi have already highly integrated. Once removed, Weichi is very likely to become an idiot...."

"Then that is no concern of Your Highness."

"It’s not worth it for me..."

"Oh?" Chen Qing smiled, "Does Your Highness think there’s still room to negotiate?"

"Of course..." Bai Yu said coldly, "If I spare no expense, you will surely die!"

"Tsk..." Chen Qing immediately narrowed his eyes, as if seriously considering the threat, "Then, Your Highness, what else do you want?"

"I want half of the Jade Stones around here!"

"Oh....." Chen Qing nodded, "It seems Your Highness is aware, this so-called Bai Yu..."

"Shut up!!" Bai Yu shouted fiercely, cutting Chen Qing off.

"Heh...." Chen Qing chuckled, "I can’t guarantee a half, but how about this? When the formation is broken later, you can take as much as you can carry. How about that?"

"You really do know..." Bai Yu gritted her teeth, "You even know about this secret power of the Blood Jade Conch Mother; what don’t you know?"

Chen Qing didn’t reply. He initiated the Technique in his hand, and a magical contract formed in mid-air.

The true vacuum of water surged around them, and as they were about to be submerged by the sea once again, Bai Yu could only grit her teeth, bite her finger, and imprint it on the magical contract formed by Chen Qing!

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"Thank..... Lord Chen!"

Thousands of miles away, after the contract was formed, the two of them cautiously distanced themselves from each other.

Neither of them wanted to encounter the other again.

After completely leaving Bai Yu behind, Weichi Feihong, whose eyes were no longer crimson, knelt down underwater and gave a deep bow in respect.

"General, there’s no need for this..." Chen Qing sighed, "The deal I made with you was just this. I was merely lucky to have traveled and honored that deal..."

"It was just a verbal agreement then..." Weichi Feihong continued to bow, "Yet Lord Chen could truly do it. To me, it is a rebirth. If you do not disdain it, from now on, Fei Hong will definitely lay down his life in service!"

At this moment, Murong, who was being held by Chen Qing and had only half a body left, had a blue face from the cold and looked at the two men eerily. When did these two fellows make such an agreement?

Chen Qing looked at Weichi, filled with emotion.

When he first met Weichi Feihong in Lyuzhou and heard about the terrifying power Weichi had encountered, he knew that the one who had planted the worm in Weichi’s brain was Bai Yu!

Bai Yu had gone to great lengths to demonstrate the power of the Blood Jade Conch Mother, shocking Weichi Feihong into serving her. Chen Qing understood that Weichi Feihong had a Steel Bone Physique that came around once in a thousand years, which was most suitable for blood nourishment.

At that time, Chen Qing had an idea: the arrival of the Ancient Worm indicated that the Dragon Palace was about to open. Besides the massive reserve of Bai Yu and the Daoist heritage there, what would most enhance immediate combat power was the Dragon Transformation Technique.

Even with the highest grade of dragon species and the best Dragon Transformation Object, the success rate of the Dragon Transformation Technique does not exceed fifty percent.

Players who participated in the Dragon Transformation were like opening blind boxes: those who succeeded were overjoyed; those who failed collectively cursed Chen Qing’s family.

But within this gambler-like situation was a bug-like existence: the Blood Jade Conch Mother!

"Chen Qing... what are you going to do?" Murong, seeing Chen Qing carrying her towards that giant shell, suddenly felt a wave of horror.

"If we don’t get in now, there’s no saving you. This isn’t Lyuzhou, and you are not of the Divine Path System. If you die here, I can’t pull your soul to the Lyuzhou Hell Ruler!"

"I..... I don’t want to turn into a monster!" Murong said through clenched teeth.

"Monster?" Chen Qing said with a laugh, "Do you even know what the Blood Jade Conch Mother is? Do you know the origin of that Bai Yu? If word of this got out, warriors from all over the world would fight tooth and nail for it, and you are still reluctant."

"What is it...?" Murong felt somewhat intimidated by Chen Qing’s tone.

This time, even Weichi Feihong was curious. Although he had a rough idea of what the Blood Jade Conch Mother could do, he knew nothing of Bai Yu’s past and was frankly quite curious.

"Where should I start...?"

Chen Qing pondered and then said, "Let’s begin with her title. Do you know what Bai Yu is?"