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"Your Highness finally figured it out?"

In a secluded spot, Chen Qing watched the recently revived Ao Zhen and gently asked.

Ao Zhen touched her face, a bit aware of the remarkable retrospection capability of the Nine Heavens Mirror Valley, but this vivid sense of death was still her first encounter.

Due to that artifact, the Eastern Sea had the bravest army in all four seas, because an army that did not fear death was always the most formidable. ..

"How many more times can you use this?" Ao Zhen directly inquired.

"This is the last time..." Chen Qing said with a smile.

Whether it was Weichi Feihong or Murong Yunji beside them, they couldn’t help but roll their eyes.

This ’last time’ was really heard too often...

"Did you anticipate that person?"

"No..." Chen Qing shook his head honestly: "He is a variable. As he said, among all the forces, he is quite an insignificant character. Although I sometimes feel there’s something off about him, I never thought that Siao Mingyue would fall into his hands one day!"

These words were true. Siao Mingyue had always been someone Chen Qing admired. In the face of the Emperor’s wariness, the exclusion by the external ministers, and without the support of reliable Sorcerer Families, he still managed to find a way through cooperation with the Ancient Worm.

He had top-class cunning and strategy. That such a person would fall to that Fei Fu Ma, the live tortoise, had genuinely not crossed Chen Qing’s mind, and he even thought it would be more normal if it had been Fifth Elder Shen.

After all, that Ancient Worm’s loyalty to a human to such an extent always gave off the impression it had ulterior motives.

But Fei Fu Ma...

Chen Qing sneered, that fellow whose own wife openly challenged him, yet stood by without daring to utter a word?

Are honest people this scary now?

Probably not an honest person at all.

"There’s another ancient aura about that guy," Ao Zhen suddenly said.

"Oh?" Chen Qing’s curiosity piqued: "Your Highness knows where it’s from?"

"Not sure... There’s a scent of Red Lotus Karma Fire on him, somewhat resembling that of the Demon Palace."

"Are you sure, Your Highness?" Chen Qing’s gaze grew more serious.

He had been cautious before, fearing that a follower of the Demon Palace, especially those madmen who worship the Red Lotus Karma Fire, might have infiltrated the ranks of the Ancient Sorcerers.

After all, that massive thing above was the perfect fuel!

"Not sure..." Ao Zhen shook her head: "He came from the Southern Sea, and I do not know the current situation there. Maybe... he encountered the seeds of the Red Lotus Karma Fire in the Southern Sea..."

Chen Qing: "...."

"Now that I’m here, how do you plan to cooperate?" Ao Zhen asked, looking at Chen Qing.

Chen Qing was about to speak, but Murong Yunji suddenly interjected: "I have a question that I don’t understand. Would Your Highness be willing to answer it?"

"What question?" Ao Zhen looked toward her while Chen Qing was startled, wondering what business she had joining in.

"Why did you choose to turn to us at the last moment? After all, as the Fei surname said, he is now of the Dragon King Breed, and according to the traditions of your Dragon Clan, as long as the Dragon Transformation is successful, he becomes kin. Joining with your lineage, a powerful alliance, even now with the chance to rule the four seas, wouldn’t that be good? "

Chen Qing’s expression changed, about to divert the topic, but Ao Zhen swiftly answered: "Because a long time ago, my father said the same thing."

Chen Qing’s expression darkened, while Murong became even more curious: "Your father? Did he suggest a foreign Dragon King Breed to you?"

Chen Qing: "....."

"Not exactly..." Ao Zhen shook her head: "What he meant was himself!"

"Huh?" Murong was momentarily stunned, but as someone from a steppe family, she quickly grasped the implication, her face turning an extremely pallid shade of green: "That is truly..."

"I don’t want that!"

Chen Qing choked, nodding repeatedly: "Understandable, understandable."

"So I kept honing myself, becoming stronger, stronger than anyone!

" Ao Zhen looked towards the depths of the Western Sea with a cold gaze: "I joined the united army of the four seas at fourteen, and I swore then that if I couldn’t earn my place on the battlefield, make my father wary, then I would rather die there! "

"Did you win?" Murong’s eyes shone with a hint of excitement.

"I won!" Ao Zhen smiled: "I am the Grand Marshal of the Three Armies of the Western Sea, appointed by all great Elders. So from that moment on, he dared not lay a finger on me!"

"I see..." Murong Yunji nodded with a smile: "Your Highness is truly impressive!"

"You must be as well..." Ao Zhen regarded her.

"I’m not at your level..." Murong shook her head with a wry smile: "If I had been stronger back then, I would not have married into Jiangnan."

"Ahem, let’s not bring up such melancholic matters," Chen Qing coughed lightly, interrupting the bond between the two heroines, and said: "Time is of the essence, so I urge Princess Your Highness to cooperate. As you can see, the Heavenly Ghost Octopus dares not enter below the sea of fire, and our Array won’t hold much longer. It will soon find us."

Ao Zhen turned around and faced Chen Qing, her eyes regaining their icy scrutiny with a hint of evaluation: "Why do I feel, Mister Chen, that you seem to know everything about Ao Zhen’s past?"

Chen Qing’s scalp tingled, and he forced a smile: "How could that be?"

"I imagine not, after all, that old thing still has some sense of shame. He didn’t make it public back then but instead hinted at it in secret. Apart from my mother, only I know about it..."

Chen Qing: "......"

Who wrote this damned script? Drag them out and beat them to death!

"However, Mister Chen, you didn’t seem surprised at all.

Is it because you’ve seen such things often?

" Ao Zhen glared tightly at Chen Qing. "And the conditions you set from the start were to have me stand against my father. It seems you already believed that my relationship with my father wasn’t good. "

"Ah... that..." Chen Qing said solemnly, "There are many more tragic happenings in the human world than Princess has mentioned, much more horrific.

I have seen many families who, not wanting a girl, would smother a newborn baby girl in manure pits.

Your Highness was born of such noble blood and even had the chance to prove yourself on the battlefield from a young age, which is very commendable! "

"Is that so..." Ao Zhen fell silent for a moment. She was aware of the human race’s preference for boys over girls, but she had not expected them to go to such lengths. From a biological perspective, it was incomprehensible.

"As for Your Highness’s relationship with the Western Sea Dragon King, well... it’s well-known that it isn’t good."

"You really are no ordinary mortal!" Ao Zhen looked at Chen Qing, even if many people knew about their poor relationship, that was tens of thousands of years ago. This person... a mortal whose lifespan is at most three hundred years, how could he possibly know something from so long ago?

The only explanation was that he was no mere mortal!

"I’m curious, since you’re not after my body, how do you plan to cooperate?"

Not only was Ao Zhen curious about this, but Murong by her side was too.

Members of the Dragon King Breed were immensely powerful, and Ao Zhen was even at the level of a War God.

Once such a person recovered, their power would be utterly overwhelming to them, leaving no equality in their relationship.

How could Chen Qing cooperate without any leverage?

Weichi Feihong, though, probably had some idea.

Sure enough, the next second saw Chen Qing conjure a massive divine seal that hovered overhead. Ao Zhen immediately felt a peculiar sensation, that power seemed to be connected to the entire West Sea, as if agreeing to it would turn her into a person from another world!

"What is this?" Ao Zhen asked sternly.

"The Western Sea Divine Seal!" Chen Qing replied with equal gravity, "This is the divine seal of the Western Sea God. If Your Highness is willing to have faith, you will become a follower of the Western Sea God. From then on, you’ll be one of the War Gods under the command of the Western Sea God. With your noble blood and formidable power, if you’re willing to become a follower, you will still be the Grand Marshal of the Three Armies of the West Sea in the future! "

"The Western Sea... God?" Ao Zhen was stunned. She had roamed the Western Sea for many years but had never heard of any god of the Western Sea...

Could it be an ancient force?

That would make sense. The resurgence from ancient times requires her service?

Behind Chen Qing, there truly were powerful forces supporting him...

No wonder, after all, a human recklessly colliding with the ancient past is a certain road to death!

But who is this Western Sea God?

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At this moment, Tian Heng, who was guarding outside of the Myriad Flood Dragons Array, was trembling with fear. The Array had been completed, and vast amounts of mist were already gathered successfully. Those terrifying flood dragons had long been eyeing his side with malice.

The battle on both sides was on the verge of breaking out, but Tian Heng was well aware that once the fighting started, his side stood no chance at all!

Alongside him, his compatriots from the Water God Army were standing their ground against the ten thousand flood dragons, every one of them with their scalps tingling, especially with the Yaksha there, who, after having delivered a bunch of huge clams, was just coldly waiting on the opposite side.

Tian Heng didn’t know what was inside those huge shells, but he was very clear that whatever could keep ten thousand flood dragons riveted had to be extremely important.

As for that Yaksha, he had never before seen such a fearsome being. One glance was enough to know that the Yaksha could kill him in an instant!

Does my lord really stand a chance?

The suffocating pressure had numbed Tian Heng to the point where he felt he could collapse at any moment. He wasn’t even sure how much longer he could hold out...

One day? Two days?

Tian Heng gave a wry smile. In truth, he knew very well that right now... he might not even last half a day!

Had he really chosen wrongly this time?

Boom!!

Suddenly, an unexpected change occurred that neither side had anticipated.

The Yaksha had been looking at Tian Heng and his men with disdain from afar.

He thought the person named Chen Qing dared to threaten the Western Sea Crown Prince because he had a lot of guts.

Just this? With these chicken-like humans, they wouldn’t need any military strength; he alone could slaughter them clean!

Now, he was just waiting for a command. He was guarding here to prevent the other side from hiding those pieces of white jade in unknown locations. As soon as the Crown Prince sent a signal, he was determined to make these humans regret ever threatening the Dragon Clan!!

One day and one night of mocking observation had made him restless, but just as he was preparing to try provoking the other side, a peculiar change occurred...

The human leader, for some reason, suddenly shot a look his way, and everything seemed to change!

Many, many years ago...

It felt like when he was newly born in this vast expanse of sea, he had this same sensation.

That feeling of being enveloped by the infinite expanse of sea, the birth of a petty life, the sea’s embracing, the gaze of nothingness...

He still couldn’t understand that existence, it was as if being watched by the ocean itself!

His mother said that Yakshas are the chosen race blessed by the ocean, and each Yaksha at birth would be watched over by the deities!