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The limit came faster than expected.....

The collapse of his flesh made Chen Qing clench his teeth, the intense pain of muscles tearing nearly caused him to lose his speed several times, but with life and death hanging in the balance, he could only persist. In the current situation, the longer he could hold on, the better his chances were!

But then.....

Crack!

A crisp sound of muscle and tendon tearing came, and the acute pain caused Chen Qing’s body to stiffen instantly. The Yaksha’s eyes lit up—a perfect opportunity!

Although the distance between them was almost ten thousand feet, to a being like it, that was merely a matter of one or two seconds!

However, Elder Shen, who was following behind, frowned; was this the end?

Was Chen Qing’s approach... just this?

Although it was commendable that one could hold out this long in front of a supernatural monster like the Yaksha—a feat for any mortal—Elder Shen still felt it was somewhat unreal.

Could the person who emerged from nowhere in the span of just one or two years, snatched Jiangnan from the clutches of these ancient creatures, and developed it to its current scale, really be defeated so easily?

Boom!

Without time to think further, in the next instant, the Yaksha sprinted in front of Chen Qing.

The Trident in its hand, with the speed of breaking through air, slashed through the water without causing a ripple, and the terrifying force, almost as fast as light itself, left Chen Qing unable to resist. The moment the Trident touched his body, the horrifying power shattered him completely!

Elder Shen had ordered a direct kill. Faced with Chen Qing, whose methods were magical, he didn’t want to give him any chance at all. Right from the start, he hadn’t planned on taking him alive.

He was quite aware that ordering the capture of such a person was to give him an opportunity.

But when the kill had gone smoothly, it felt all too simple to him.

Looking at the scattered flesh and blood, Elder Shen’s eyebrows were tightly furrowed. There was no mistake in the taste—it was Chen Qing’s blood; he had marked it a long time ago, unmistakably.....

But.... was it really just like that, was he dead.....

No sooner had this thought crossed his mind than something peculiar happened. Chen Qing’s blood and flesh surrounding them disappeared in the blink of an eye!

"What’s going on?" the Yaksha’s pupils shrank, watching the surroundings warily.

Elder Shen frowned, everything had happened too quickly, and it took him a moment to catch up, but it seemed that he had vaguely seen Chen Qing’s flesh reassemble in an instant.....

"Did you get a clear look?" Elder Shen asked his subordinate calmly. The other’s Yaksha body was a hundred times stronger than his own. Speeds that he couldn’t catch should be visible to them.

As expected, the Yaksha nodded: "A very strange scene. That guy’s flesh reassembled on the spot and then vanished in front of me!"

"Reassembled on the spot?" Elder Shen’s eyes brightened: "Then, was there any change in his expression?"

"Expression?" the Yaksha touched its chin, recalling what it had seen: "No change, I guess. It was exactly the same as before I killed him."

"Exactly the same as before you killed him?"

"Yes!"

"I see..." Elder Shen reacted immediately: "The Nine Heavens Mirror?

"Does the master know what it is?"

"Immediately go back!" Elder Shen sneered: "Don’t let him escape!"

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"You..... how did you come back?"

Seeing Chen Qing suddenly appear in front of her, Murong Yunji was completely dumbfounded and almost attacked.....

"How are things up there?" Chen Qing looked up and asked.

"I don’t know, I didn’t dare to take even a single glance upward, for fear of drawing attention."

"How long was I out?" Chen Qing hurriedly asked.

"About..... the time of one quarter of an hour, I guess."

"A quarter hour..." Chen Qing bit his teeth, the delay was simply too short!

After using the power of the Ghost Doll Thunder Division and invoking the retrospective ability of the Nine Heavens Mirror once again, it had only bought a quarter hour...

I should have persisted just a bit longer...

But he was helpless, for after all, he was not of true Warrior descent.

When it came to endurance of physical injury, naturally, he was no match for a real Military General.

Those generals had been rigorously trained from childhood and had experienced all kinds of battles, their tolerance far surpassing his own.

This time, Chen Qing had received a wake-up call.

The Path of Gods relied on trickery, using a special system to directly possess the power of one’s subordinates of divine lineage, but.

.. many things came at a price if not personally experienced.

Just now, if a regular Warrior under the same knowledge that they could turn back time, would likely have lasted far longer than himself.

A quarter hour...

Chen Qing took a deep breath, his trump cards exhausted, yet he had only managed to persist for a quarter hour. And this was only when facing a single Yaksha; he was still very weak...

"Chen Qing... Chen Qing?" Murong looked at Chen Qing in a daze, extremely anxious, even raising her voice in concern.

Chen Qing snapped back to reality and immediately charged to the first layer, where a vast array of Runes flared to life, instantly attracting the attention of many!

"All seniors!" Chen Qing immediately shouted: "This is the Formation of Nine Heavens Mirror, designed to trap Ancient Worms. Offer up your Art Energy, and there will be a sliver of hope for survival. If you withhold your trump cards now, you will absolutely not make it to Dragon Transformation!"

Countless House Centipedes looked at one another; these Ancient Sorcerers were mostly from clan-based lineages, each group guarding a candidate for Dragon Transformation.

Each was concerned with their own people, and even when facing the slaughter of Yakshas, they fought independently, an almost one-sided massacre.

Now confronted with a new possibility, their hearts skipped a beat.

Nine Heavens Mirror was known to the older Magicians as they had personally witnessed that woman learn its secrets to seal the Ancient Worm. They had some understanding of the Formation.

It wasn’t a fake...

The hesitation didn’t last long, as when those three Yakshas saw Chen Qing shouting, they didn’t hesitate to charge at him. All the Magicians tensed, knowing that if this young man died, they probably wouldn’t survive either!

"Detain!"

Very quickly, the first wave of Magicians who voluntarily projected their spirit out and channeled their Art Energy into the Array appeared.

Once the first followed the second batch, and then the third!

The Array in the sky rotated, and the three Yakshas pursuing Chen Qing quickly became enveloped in a fog. The fog rapidly expanded with the bolstering of the Ancient Sorcerers’ Art Energy.

The few Yakshas observing this felt a surge of panic, their memories flooded with recollections of being trapped for tens of thousands of years by the Nine Heavens Mirror. Without hesitation, they immediately turned back to avoid the spreading fog!

But they were so close, how could they escape the fog?

No matter how fast they were, the sinister fog followed closely behind. In less than two breaths, the three Yakshas were engulfed by the fog amidst a rage-filled roar, unwillingly swallowed by the mist...

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"Nine Heavens Mirror?"

From afar, Elder Shen, who was rapidly approaching, recognized the familiar fog from a distance; his expression immediately turned ugly.

Even the usually calm him couldn’t stay collected when faced with this thing that had trapped him for tens of thousands of years, and he quickly bellowed, "Retreat, quick, retreat! !"

The two Yakshas beside him hurriedly supported Elder Shen and retreated, clearly understanding just how terrifying this matter was.

"Master, wasn’t the Nine Heavens Mirror almost nonfunctional?" the Yaksha asked nervously.

"The Array spirit has not completely extinguished. As long as there’s enough Art Energy, along with the aid of a skilled Magician to operate and distribute the Array structure, it can forcibly be activated again," Elder Shen replied with a dark expression.

"That Chen Qing... he lured me away and then persuaded those Magicians to help him. What a clever trick!"

"This..." The Yaksha was taken aback, then asked, "So, Master, what do we do now?"

"We go back, continue the blood refinement, and gain control of a True Dragon Breed as soon as possible; then everything can be resolved!"

"Is there enough time?" another Yaksha worriedly asked: "The blood refinement definitely isn’t as fast as their Dragon Transformation!"

Especially those lower-tier Dragon Breeds’ transformations which could be even quicker, requiring only about a day to successfully transform...

"Of course, there’s time!" Elder Shen sneered.

"Those fools actually believed Chen Qing and lent a hand.

Do they really think this thing only controls Ancient Worms?

That woman, she feared the beings of the Dragon Palace far more than me back then.

The primary targets she wanted to seal with her Array were precisely these creatures with Dragon Blood! "

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"Damn it!!"

At this moment, the Western Sea Crown Prince, who had been shrouded in the mist and had become trapped in place with each attempt to escape, suddenly realized a truth...

"That damned woman!!!"