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Otherworldly Demon Statues...

Zi Yue looked at the familiar figure outside, now transformed into such a terrifying, tumor-like monster, and furrowed her brows tightly!

"What project group did the senior mention?"

"It’s nothing..." Zi Yue shook her head. "Those two were caught in Liu Yu’s scheme, infected with poison blood. If I’m not mistaken, that poison blood was extracted by Liu Yu from the Otherworldly Demon Statues!"

"Otherworldly Demon Statues?" Chen Baifeng said anxiously. "Didn’t the King of Qin forbid anyone from touching those Demon Statues?"

Even though decades had passed since the experience of sealing the Demon Statues, for many, it still felt like yesterday.

It was the first time in modern history that the great families encountered an ancient invasion, the first time they felt the power of the ancients.

The sheer gap in power, the realization of their own insignificance, and the terror that the leakage of just one could destroy the world, made Chen Baifeng, who had been involved back then, walk on thin ice to this day!

Despite their disapproval of the King of Qin afterwards, they had to admit that, back then... if it weren’t for that man, leading tens of thousands of great families in an unprecedented cooperation of the Human Race, perhaps... the world would have already fallen into endless terror.

Back then, when facing the terror of the ancients for the first time, not one of the great families was greedy, including Chen Baifeng himself. Compared to the Dragon Palace, the things brought by the Otherworldly Demon Statues were too terrifying!

But unexpectedly, that guy who seemed the most carefree dared to do such a thing?

"The King of Qin?" Zi Yue said with a smile. "The King of Qin might be able to guard against you all, but he certainly couldn’t guard against that guy, he couldn’t even deter him.

Back then, all of you revered the King of Qin, but only that person, the closest to the King of Qin, was also the least afraid of him. "

"Just like you?" Chen Baifeng suddenly looked at Zi Yue!

Back then, faced with the King of Qin’s seemingly omnipresent existence, the ones closest to him were Liu Yu and this fellow before her.

"Ah..." Zi Yue nodded. "Just like me!"

Zi Yue turned around and looked at Siao Mingyue and Gu Ying, who had already mutated.

"There are many kinds of Otherworldly Demon Statues, and each one’s leakage could bring destruction to the world. Unlike the ancient Dragon Palace, they are not here to enslave the Human Race; from the beginning, they came to destroy this world!"

"For example, the Red Lotus Karma Fire secretly kept by Nanhai Dragon Palace comes from one of those Demon Statues. Once leaked, if not cared for, it could burn everything in the world, turning all living beings into resentment!"

"I don’t know exactly what this thing before us is, but I am clear that it is not merely about destroying the flesh..."

"What do you mean?" Chen Baifeng asked anxiously.

"The powers of the Otherworldly Demon Statues all share one thing in common, that is transmissibility!

" Zi Yue squinted her eyes. "Like a virus, the ones that kill their host quickly are actually less likely to spread widely.

So its power is often not to destroy the host at first, but to strengthen it, giving the host enough time to spread this force! "

"The Red Lotus Karma Fire is the same; once it ignites, it burns for a long time. It doesn’t immediately kill the being; instead, it burns their life force, driving people or objects mad, igniting more people, or more things.

This is the characteristic of that kind of ghastly things.

By that logic... Siao Mingyue will not only not collapse in a short time, but likely grow stronger! "

Hearing this, the Chen Family members suddenly felt goosebumps rising all over their bodies. True enough, in the next instant, those two figures returned even faster, bringing with them an even more terrifying pressure, making their hearts beat faster each time!

"We should retreat, Baifeng!"

The injured Elder Chen roared. "Forget about the Dragon King for now, just retreat first!"

"How could we retreat from this?" Chen Baifeng immediately gave a bitter smile.

Zi Yue also nodded. "Don’t look at Chen Baifeng now as the Dragon King Breed; his physique might be stronger than Siao Mingyue’s, but he is not a Warrior by birth and his efficiency in utilizing his body falls far short of Siao Mingyue and the other’s.

Retreat now? I’m afraid they would be caught and killed instantly.

The Demon Statue’s power can erode not just the body, but also the soul.

Siao Mingyue might have already lost her calm by now! "

"Then what do we do?" A few Chen Family members turned pale. At this moment, they regretted their decision to get involved with this risk!

Reflecting on it, if Liu did not have full confidence, why would he have provoked so many? Now they were in the midst of it all, were they really just to wait for death?

Although the Chen Family had already planned an escape route beforehand, it was difficult for them to resign themselves to death, with their wait of hundreds of thousands of years turning into nothing. How could they accept that?

"Senior, is there still a way out now?" Chen Baifeng asked urgently.

The two figures outside were getting faster, and his immense spiritual power could no longer keep up. If this continued, he feared they wouldn’t last much longer!

"A way out..." Zi Yue lowered her head, thinking rapidly.

"What Liu wants is not a world corrupted by the Demon Statue, and he is certainly not a disciple of the Otherworldly Demon Statues.

He is just using the power of the Demon Statue.

Given that, he must have a way to control the situation, to prevent the chaos here from spreading out! "

As she spoke, Zi Yue suddenly looked up. "The Dragon King, that’s the way out!!"

Chen Baifeng and the others looked up sharply!

"The corrupt Divine Blood came from those Dragon Palace nobles, the Dragon Palace nobles willingly became bait for one reason only, which must be the Dragon King’s command.

If I’m not wrong, Liu used some method to control the Dragon King and issued a forceful order.

It would only be for the sake of the Dragon Palace and the Eastern Sea that these Dragon Palace nobles willingly let the Divine Blood infect themselves, to create this scenario! "

"That is the Dragon King, how can Liu control such a being?"

The Chen Family members were filled with disbelief!

In their tens of thousands of years serving the Dragon Palace, they could never believe that Liu Yu, a mere mortal, could control the Dragon King, even if the current Dragon King was extremely weak!

"Mister Hua Pi!"

"What did you say?" Chen Baifeng’s pupils contracted.

"There is only this possibility!" Zi Yue sneered, "Skin stripping and bone sculpting, all creatures can be spirited away. Any being in this world can be transformed by Mister Hua Pi; this is one of the Five Masters’ unique abilities!!"

"This..." Chen Baifeng suddenly looked up: "Are you saying that the Dragon King... is now a puppet?"

"A puppet that is not yet complete!" Zi Yue confirmed: "Otherwise, there would be no need for all this trouble. Just the power of the Dragon King alone could kill us. Taking such a risk to use the blood of the Demon Statue must be because it’s not yet complete. And since that’s the case, the Dragon King’s side must be safe because if the Dragon King were infected by Divine Blood, ha, this world would truly be finished! "

"I see!" Chen Baifeng immediately reacted, "Elders hold on!"

"Alright!" The spiritual power of several Chen Family Dragon Clan members suddenly spiked to the limit, their immense force of wind expanding to its full power, desperately pushing back Siao Mingyue and the other person!

Chen Baifeng then formed hand seals, a complex array of runes floated in the air above. In the next instant, a comet-like force of wind, like a long rainbow cutting through the sky, directly bridged the distance between Chen Baifeng and the Celestial Dragon King!

"Go!!"

With a roar, Chen Baifeng leaped up and soared directly towards the location of the Dragon King, riding the powerful stream of wind!

The remaining Chen Family members also hurriedly followed. Only Zi Yue, whether it was due to her own physical strength not being enough or some other reason, had fallen far behind with Fifth Elder Shen!

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"Oh? Quite clever indeed!"

Seeing the huge stream of wind coming through, Liu Yu revealed a smile.

They had indeed reacted, but how could he be unprepared?

Liu Yu then formed hand seals, and all of a sudden, the space in front of the floating Dragon King twisted slightly. The moment the gushing wind neared the Old Dragon King, it split into countless pieces, just like a shattered mirror!

Clearly, it was a pre-prepared Spatial Formation!

The huge stream of wind got sucked into the countless fragments.

Chen Baifeng, horrified, discovered that he and the Chen Family members were being sliced apart by the fragments as well.

And what was more terrifying was that the gloomily smiling nobles of the Eastern Sea and the tumorous-like transformed Siao Mingyue who had been chasing after them were also separated among the fragments!

"Not a single one missed, see, I was right, wasn’t I?" Liu Yu turned to the Old Dragon King and said.

The Dragon King’s eyes were constantly dripping with tears, yet he said nothing.

Looking closely, one would notice that the massive stream of wind, along with the vast currents around it, was also being sucked into the space fragments.

The blood that hadn’t yet had the chance to diffuse was also swept into the shards.

Countless pieces scattered around, but they were sealed off tightly!

Witnessing this scene, Chen Qing instantly recognized the setup was similar to that of the Celestial Dragon Palace, it was a spatial prison!

In an instant, he also understood that this was Liu Yu’s calculation!

From the beginning, he never intended to let the Divine Blood spread.

The Divine Blood was just a way to create panic, to throw everyone’s state of mind into disarray, letting the situation become critical.

And once everyone was thrown into chaos, they wouldn’t be as cautious as before, carefully guarding against Liu Yu’s other strength: his unparalleled mastery of Spatial Arts!

When they had approached before, all three factions moved carefully, step by step, fearful of falling into Liu Yu’s spatial traps. But all their vigilance couldn’t stand against Liu Yu’s psychological warfare, and in the end, they actively crashed into Liu Yu’s trap!

At this moment, the sky was full of fragments floating around the Dragon King, but there was no longer any external force present, everyone was trapped within the fragments, including the spreading Divine Blood.

Of course, Liu Yu had been within from the beginning.

Otherwise, with the purebred dragons’ sense of smell like Siao Mingyue’s, they would have found him long ago.

Liu Yu had been hiding inside the prison from the start, so as long as a few people weren’t fooled, Liu Yu actually wouldn’t be able to do anything to them.

But now it was different...

A content smile appeared on Liu Yu’s face: "Finally it’s quiet.

The Duke of Wei from the Northern Sea is dead, the situation in the Southern Sea is settled.

Just waiting for Mister Hua Pi to successfully transform, he can then drive the Dragon King to stop the Four Seas Great Array, and the Dragon Palace will be within our grasp. "

As he spoke, he turned to Chen Qing: "How about it, Lord Chen? Didn’t I uphold the honor of our ancestors?"

"Very impressive indeed..." Chen Qing couldn’t help but remark: "That fat man probably would never have guessed that he would have such a formidable descendant."

"That fat man?" Liu Yu was momentarily startled, then smiled, "You really do know my ancestor, you really... are not from this world."

"But no matter, your secret, I’ll dig it out bit by bit. I will figure out where you people come from, and I will find them," Liu Yu grinned, "I will find all of you!"

Chen Qing: "....."