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West Sea....

"Years have passed, and finally... I’ve made it here!"

Unlike the two seas in the northeast, the situation in the West Sea was completely reversed!

A group of Blood Guards, along with two Yakshas bearing severe injuries, retreated to a certain ice mountain, while a larger number of Blood Guards and nearly ten Yakshas with crimson eyes surrounded them from the outside!!

No one probably expected that within the Dragon Palace of the West Sea, there could be such a proactive situation!

"Do you realize what you’re doing?"

The two Yakshas were incredibly ferocious, their wounds continuously blocked by ice, yet they could not stop the blood from flowing out, especially one, whose stomach wound was so deep that the insides were almost visible!

Clearly, the power that the Dragon Palace could muster was utterly insufficient to hold back their adversaries!

Inside the ice mountain, a huge shadow loomed, a cold female voice transmitted from within the ice, "That woman failed, huh? The Nine Heavens Mirror couldn’t trap you?"

"She didn’t fail..." Elder Shen merely shook his head, "It’s just that the Dragon Palace is unwilling to release greater benefits. For her, a mere mortal, to confine me for tens of thousands of years, that was the limit. In an era devoid of spiritual energy, you were so stingy that you wouldn’t even impart a single Dragon Palace grafting technique, so how much further did you expect her to go? "

At this, a rare wave of emotion flickered in the usually calm eyes of Elder Shen.

Tens of thousands of years...

That stubborn girl, with her group of followers, generation after generation, turned their people into array spirits using their own methods, managing to confine themselves until now.

She was indeed a formidable woman...

He had never thought much of humans before, but after that incident, his perception of the Human Race changed completely.

The woman from the past, the current Chen Qing, Princess Royale Siao Mingxue, and the Emperor Siao, plotting everything from the shadows, would have been on par with these so-called ancients if not for the innate deficiencies of the human race!

"That woman is too dangerous," the woman inside the ice mountain said softly after a moment of silence, "If she’d been granted enough life span, her threat might have even surpassed yours!"

"That’s a wise assessment," Elder Shen suddenly laughed, agreeing with the judgment that he was inferior to that woman...

"How did you manage to gather so many Blood Essence Stones?" the cold voice continued to inquire.

"Of course by throwing everything I had into it.

.." Elder Shen looked up, "You were very lucky that such a formidable woman helped you trap me for so many years, to the point that I could only enter when the Dragon Palace was about to be reopened. It was really close... just a little bit more, and I would’ve had no chance at all! "

"But your luck is also quite bad. Tens of thousands of years ago, it was thanks to a human that you kept me outside your door, and after tens of thousands of years, it’s again a human who has brought me here...."

Frankly, it also felt an immense sense of wonder...

When the Ancient Worm was suppressed, divided into nine parts, with all the memories inherited by itself, the young Ancient Worm escaped from the Dragon Palace and wreaked havoc freely in the human world, but never saw the sunlight, due to a fatal flaw.

After so many years, unable to endure this defect, it began to look for a solution.

Upon learning about the Dragon Transformation Technique, it started to search for the Dragon Palace, collecting countless ancient texts, spending immeasurable efforts, and finally found the dusty location of the Dragon Palace, only to realize.

.. the place it had sought for so long was actually the very place it once feared intensely and from which it tried everything to escape.

At that time, its state of mind became chaotic, turning into madness. The creature, usually so cautious for hundreds of thousands of years, began to spread its offspring widely and in the blink of an eye, exterminated over a hundred island nations!

And because its actions were too wild, it got detected by the Dragon Palace as a threat. In that crisis, the other side found an exceptional genius...

It was the being that year that seized the Nine Heavens Mirror to seal itself.

After dividing into nine beings, only it inherited the ancient worm’s anger and the ancient worm’s preparations from that year, those ancient kin sleeping deep beneath the array at the bottom of the sea.

Those that preserved their rich blood essence provided it with enough blood essence stones.

After briefly escaping from the Nine Heavens Mirror, its brothers and sisters all tried to infiltrate the human world, but it engaged in massive slaughter – not out of bloodlust, nor for military force.

Low-level living corpses had limited growth potential and were nowhere near as effective as precisely assassinating higher-level warriors.

The reason it slaughtered hundreds of islands in the West Sea was to collect enough blood essence.

But originally, it hadn’t held much hope...

The loosening of the seal on the Nine Heavens Mirror this time was due not only to the exhaustion of its energy but primarily because the Dragon Palace sensed the revival of the Earth Spirit and opened ahead of time, disrupting the original structure of the Nine Heavens Mirror, which led to the loosening of the seal and the escape of the split beings.

That also set the stage for the subsequent array hunting down the fugitives!

And now that the Dragon Palace had opened, it meant that those ancient creatures would awaken. With its current power, it was completely incapable of confronting them. Originally... it had been prepared to suppress the anger inherited...

According to Chen Qing’s prior plan, it would undergo Dragon Transformation first to resolve the issues with its own physical body, and then take things slowly from there...

But to its surprise, Chen Qing had presented it with such a great opportunity!

An accident had happened with the Celestial Dragon Palace; the Four Seas Dragon Palaces didn’t have enough blood essence to revive the nobility. It hardly took any thought to guess this was Chen Qing’s doing.

Really impressive!

Although it didn’t know how Chen Qing had managed to do this, that guy had always been a mysterious being. Now that the opportunity had come, it would naturally not let it slip by!

It immediately took control of several Blood Guards and then found the location where the Yakshas were secretly frozen...

These frozen creatures, no matter how strong, were now powerless. The bugs it brought with it broke through one restriction after another, soon burrowing into their brains.

These beings, whose body fluids had all evaporated, could only watch helplessly...

Of course, to control such high-level creatures, it had to be its best kin. Only the few oldest kin had a chance to control these ancient creatures.

It had been nurturing such kin for many years, and there were only about a dozen of them at hand.

Originally, they were meant for when it would undergo Dragon Transformation in the future and secretly lay its plans...

But now, Chen Qing had given it a perfect chairstool!

Without enough blood essence stones, the strongest nobles of the Dragon Palace couldn’t awaken, while the resources it had accumulated over the years could allow it to take control of a power that could temporarily overpower the West Sea Dragon Palace!

In that case... as long as it maneuvered wisely, taking control of the West Sea Dragon Palace was not impossible...

Wasn’t that stronger than undergoing Dragon Transformation and then, as a junior, trembling with fear while waiting for those ancient creatures to assess it?

For so many years, it had grown accustomed to controlling everything in its hands; it truly did not want to compromise in the previous situation unless it was absolutely necessary.

Chen Qing, ah Chen Qing, you truly are my biggest lucky star!