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"You don’t actually think he’s one of your kind just because Chen Qing looks exactly like you all, do you?"

Like a curse, these words endlessly circled in Murong’s mind, leaving her dazed and silent for a long while...

In fact, she had pondered this long ago...

Probably not just her, others under Chen Qing too, including the Shen Family members—those clever people must have thought about this question too, right?

With so many tricks up his sleeve and knowledge of so many secrets, was Chen Qing really human?

Many people likely harbored doubts deep within, yet they dared not show it—perhaps because they didn’t want to...perhaps... because they were too scared.

In such a dark world, the paradise Chen Qing had created was just too beautiful. If one day it turned out that Chen Qing was actually something else, with another purpose...

Murong Yunji felt an unparalleled sense of realization; what should be done at that time?

Ao Zhen simply smiled faintly, not paying further attention to the other party and sped up towards a deeper location, not stopping until he arrived in front of a huge Demon Statue.

"How can this thing... still exist?" The Yaksha exclaimed with wide eyes and tense skin, as if facing a formidable enemy!

It recognized the object at a glance; countless nations were burned, and terrifying resentful sacrifices called forth the first major Otherworldly Demon Statue since the Dragon Palace’s dominance of the four seas!

It was that time that the Celestial Serpent Palace was almost annihilated, and the Dragon Palace too suffered heavy losses.

The two major forces joined hands for the first time just to resolve the chaos triggered by the Heavenly Demon Statue.

Yet the Human Race, bold as they were, had Magicians who recklessly and secretly studied it.

Upon discovery, the Dragon Palace brutally slaughtered and cleansed many families who quietly researched the statues.

Still, many Magicians escaped, and through their studies of the Demon Statue, they turned into half-god-like freaks who are still on the run within the ancient Human Race’s influence to this day.

After cleansing the Human Race, the Celestial Serpent Palace and the Dragon Palace made a pact never to study these things. But the West Sea Dragon Palace has never been a power that follows rules.

The Yaksha had always assumed that the Dragon Palace was only secretly studying some minor statues since the risks were controllable. It never imagined that they would dare to research something of this caliber!

The Demon Statue before them was the lead schemer that invoked the Evil Fire Sect, burning countless nations back in the day and also the true master of the Demon Palace. The Red Lotus Karma Fire that could incinerate the world was brought here by it!

Wasn’t this thing destroyed back then?

How can it be here?

Murong Yunji snapped back to her senses and looked up, feeling her brain dominated by fear and nearly immobilized!

She was sure that if the thing wanted to kill her, she wouldn’t even have the courage to run!

"The West Sea Dragon Palace has never been a power that follows rules," Ao Zhen said with a cold smile. "Moreover, our father is a man of great ambition. What do you think, dear Father?"

Upon hearing this, the Yaksha’s pupils contracted. The King is here?

After a long silence in the darkness, a muffled voice finally came through: "How did you find this place?"

His own location was determined by five Turtle Prime Ministers, each responsible for a part of the process. Unless all five betrayed him simultaneously, none could deduce his exact position.

But his capable daughter still found him!

"Quite simple..." Ao Zhen said with a sneer upon hearing the question. "No matter how cleverly you’ve hidden yourself, you’d never dismiss the possibility of my finding you, and if I did, you certainly wouldn’t allow yourself to be left powerless.

Therefore, you must have chosen a location where, even if I discovered you, you would still have the power to resist."

"In the entire West Sea Dragon Palace, there’s almost no place that can stop me if you’re not awake, except for this place. So is there any doubt left?"

Dragon King: "...."

"I had actually thought that the Grand Marshal of the Three Armies of my West Sea was just a brawny brute who only knew how to wage war, who would’ve expected him to be so intelligent?"

"How could I win battles if I weren’t intelligent?" Ao Zhen locked onto a direction in the darkness, and it was clear that he had pinpointed the Old Dragon King’s location: "Father, haven’t you been out of battle for too long? Gotten a bit muddled, maybe?"

"Sharp-tongued!" The Dragon King’s voice also carried a cold sneer, "Even if you’ve found me, what can you do? As you’ve said, since I chose this place, it must be because here, you can’t touch me!"

Upon hearing this, Ao Zhen’s gaze into the darkness slightly dropped, and without a response, Murong Yunji was taken aback and cautiously asked, "Is that so?"

"That’s right..." Ao Zhen nodded: "There is a seal mechanism in place for this stone statue, and that guy has naturally bound himself with the mechanism. If I make a move, even touch it slightly, the mechanism would activate, and everything here would be released."

"I’m not afraid of other things, but this stone statue is a different story. If it’s released, then the world truly ends!"

"This..." Murong Yunji was startled and then quickly said, "But that’s okay, right? It can’t resurrect anyway, right? It’s all the same if we permanently seal it."

"That’s not possible..." Murong Yunji shook her head: "The Dragon King is treated differently than us.

It is the fail-safe mechanism of the Dragon Palace; its body has fused with the Dragon Palace.

As long as it can resurrect, even if the Dragon Palace is mostly destroyed, it can rebuild the Dragon Palace forces.

Therefore, when the Dragon Palace was originally sealed, the Dragon King was given a special treatment. "

"Special treatment?" Murong Yunji’s heart skipped a beat—this news... didn’t sound like good news!

"Once the Dragon Palace is activated, if the Dragon King does not resurrect within three days, the Dragon Palace Array will determine that the Dragon Palace faces a life-and-death crisis and will initiate the fail-safe mechanism.

The so-called fail-safe mechanism is to completely drain the bone marrow of the reserve Dragon Clan Elders in the bottom layer of the array to form Dragon Blood Essence, which the array would then directly transmit to the Dragon King! "

Murong Yunji: "...."

"Which means, in another day, it will completely resurrect because of the array’s activation!"

"Then why not destroy the array first?" Murong Yunji quickly asked.

"Obviously, because it can’t be destroyed!

" Ao Zhen gave her a disdainful look: "The array is incredibly secretive, and the critical points have various mechanisms for protection. If I rashly charge in, it’s like completely opposing the millennium legacy of the Dragon Palace.

What do you think the chances of success are? "

"Then what’s the point of you coming here?" Murong became somewhat anxious this time.

"My task is simply to be here." Ao Zhen’s voice turned cold: "In the agreement between Chen Qing and myself, I agreed to help him assassinate the Dragon King, and I have already fulfilled that promise, but I had stipulated before that if I encountered insurmountable obstacles, he would have to resolve them, and he agreed to that as well. "

"But he’s not here now!"

"That’s not my problem..." Ao Zhen shook his head: "I’ve done what I could, confirmed the Dragon King’s location, established the situation here, and I’ve already sent the intelligence to him through divine seal.

I don’t know who took him away, but if he cannot arrive before noon tomorrow and resolve the obstacles here, then I’m sorry, my agreement with him would thus be nullified! "

"Nullified?" Murong said in astonishment: "You say it’s nullified just like that?"

"Why not?" Ao Zhen looked at her: "This divine seal is the mark of my joining his divine forces, which only guarantees I won’t betray him, but if he dies by the Dragon King’s hands, then it’s no longer my concern."

"If Chen Qing dies, can you live?"

"Of course, I can live!" Ao Zhen laughed: "I am the Grand Marshal of the Three Armies of the Western Sea. This old thing has been wary of me for more than just a moment. He couldn’t kill me tens of thousands of years ago, do you think he can now?

As long as he still wishes to stabilize the Western Sea Army, he cannot lay a finger on me! "

Murong Yunji: "..."

She was wrong; she shouldn’t have assumed that he was completely on their side. But then again, on second thought, how could such a person not leave himself an out?

"My daughter really knows how to plan...

" From the darkness, a sinister smile came: "I’m quite curious, what kind of person has given you the thought of moving against me?

Even if he arrives, are you certain he can break through here?

Do you know what this place is? How complex the prohibitions are here? "

"I don’t know..." Ao Zhen shook his head: "I don’t know if he can do it; I’m just cooperating. If he can, naturally that’s best, if he can’t, I have no loss..."

"Hahaha! Interesting... very interesting. Chen Qing, is it? This king... is quite looking forward to meeting him!"