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There was no logic to it; Chen Qing simply felt that the other party was lying...

As to why they would lie, whether it was to hide their incompetence or something else, he couldn’t say. But he had to be on alert.

"What do you think we should do now?" Chen Qing asked with a smile, squinting his eyes.

"Wait!" Sparrow Bee said, "Those two have probably been squatting to the east for a while now.

Bai Feng and I are different; it has a strong self-preservation ability and spreads poisonous mist around it.

The other guy hardly dares to approach. If we rush in rashly, we might not even need someone to take action against us.

If they just set up an illusion trap that causes us to run into Bai Feng, trouble will ensue! "

"That is a possibility..." Chen Qing nodded. It seemed like the other party was truly considering his own side’s welfare, still, there was nothing wrong with their words.

"Would it be a problem to just keep waiting?" Tianji asked, looking at their companion.

"Once the barrier to the east breaks, the whole seal will be affected. Cracks could appear anywhere, and my innate ability can locate the barrier the fastest. So as long as the refreshing location isn’t right next to them, it will be advantageous for us."

"Then why did we start by getting close to this place?" Tianji frowned.

"I need to know when the barrier here will break, don’t I? And I have to have at least some understanding of the whereabouts of those two. I can’t afford to provoke either of them."

"That makes sense!" Chen Qing said with a clap of his hands and a laugh. He then found a spot and sat down: "Then let’s wait..."

Tianji, speechless, glanced at the carefree Chen Qing and sat down next to him, whispering quietly, "Aren’t you afraid he’s just making stuff up? What if he’s actually waiting for his accomplice to show up?"

"He’s definitely hiding key information, but it’s unlikely that he’s waiting for a companion to show up.

.." Chen Qing shook his head. "At the very least, he’s a third version demon. Given the quality of demons he talks about, he wouldn’t be interested in the powers you or I possess.

On the contrary, being allies would be more beneficial for him. "

"However, he’s definitely hiding key information. As for what it is, we can’t guess it yet. With the current situation, there’s no use in us making wild guesses. We can only take things one step at a time."

"One step at a time..." Tianji looked at Chen Qing, his eyes showing some realization.

When he first followed the King of Qin, the guy had been calm and indifferent in the face of trouble, as if he had everything under control.

He and Ali and the others had been oppressed and reincarnated for tens of thousands of years, with tragic outcomes.

But that guy, in just one reincarnation, almost turned the tables on those predecessors with his group.

The current Chen Qing greatly resembled how he was when he first followed the King of Qin. These two people... who exactly was Pu Yunchuan?

Boom!!

Quite suddenly, before Tianji could even start to reflect on life, the sky shattered!

It was the entire sky that fragmented...

In that instant, Chen Qing’s pupils constricted, and without hesitation, he dashed towards Sparrow Bee’s position.

They were only five meters apart. To Chen Qing, who was bursting forth with all his might, this distance was equivalent to the speed of light and shadow. The space around him twisted under the explosive speed of his movement.

But alas, as Chen Qing had feared, the moment he touched the other party, there was nothing—it was mere illusion...

"Damn!"

Chen Qing’s heart instantly plummeted. He had been sufficiently wary, considering various possibilities, but he had not anticipated the enemy’s plan to act so quickly!

In the next moment, the surrounding environment shattered like a mirror. Was this a place of scenic mountains and clear waters? It was utterly dark and eerie, emitting a rotten stench everywhere, not a green leaf in sight. The entire forest was permeated with the scent of death!

In that moment, Chen Qing knew what was happening!

The other party was not as weak as they claimed; on the contrary, they were very strong, perhaps the strongest of them all!

He had concealed not only the Spirit Monkey’s divine skills but also two other layers. The Phantom and Celestial Fox he mentioned were on him, and he was just one step away from reabsorbing all his avatars and returning to his peak!

"Big brother, what’s going on?" Tianji swallowed hard!

The sinister and eerie atmosphere around them frightened him to the extreme. It felt as though a careless move could leave nothing of him, not even bone shards!

"Poison!" Chen Qing said cautiously, looking down the mountain, "We were tricked from the start. The other party approached us in the guise of a weakling, initially lowering our guard and relaxing it with the words that if they had real combat power, we would’ve been long dead."

"At first, I thought there was nothing wrong with what he said, but now that I think about it, it’s off.

If the opponent is strong enough, it’s true they could resort to severe torture to extract information, but getting close to us and letting our guard down would similarly yield intelligence.

Plus, he could use us; I was simply misled. "

"What does he want to use us for?" Tianji asked, looking around at the barren land, his throat parched.

"He wants to use us to test out this most dangerous avatar!"

Chen Qing said in a low voice, "If I’m not mistaken, this guy has already collected three avatars and just lacks the final one—the Bai Feng.

The Bai Feng is a creature of extreme poison, and if it starts to defend itself, even someone with the topmost assassination talent wouldn’t dare to act rashly, because one miscalculation could lead to a complete defeat, which is not worth the risk for someone who has already accumulated sufficient power. "

"So he’s been waiting, even spent half a year observing us, and only after he confirmed that we have a certain capability did he start to appear and mislead us."

"He wants us to test the Bai Feng?" Tianji frowned. "But why would we do that? We could totally just do nothing, right? We could even avoid the Bai Feng, couldn’t we?"

"I’m afraid that won’t work..." Chen Qing said with a wry smile, shaking his head.

Tianji frowned, being a clever person himself, he quickly grasped the crux of the issue: "We’ve been poisoned?"

"What do you think?" Chen Qing smiled bitterly. "We’ve been deceived by illusion techniques, followed them all this way, unaware of what illusions they used or how much poison we’ve inhaled!"

As Chen Qing spoke, he lifted his wrist and circulated his energy slightly. Sure enough, visible black lines spread through his veins!

Tianji’s eyelids twitched at the sight, and he smiled wryly, but then he wondered, "How did he avoid the poison gas himself?"

The moment the question was asked, he understood.

Indeed, illusion techniques. Perhaps tens of miles back, the other party had already left the two of them.

The one who had been talking to them was just an illusion all along.

Realizing this, Tianji felt a chill on his scalp. With such terrifying abilities, capable of misleading someone with a mere illusion from tens of miles away, it’s no wonder that being was once sealed away by a coalition!

"Now we have no other choice!" Chen Qing said through gritted teeth. "We have to meet the other guy!"

Tianji: "...."

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Newcomers?

In the depths of the Black Forest, a young man with pitch-black skin and pale complexion looked around; with his poison domain fully opened, he could sense the life of intruders through his own toxic mist.

He could feel that these two unfamiliar life forms were the first outsiders to enter this place in tens of thousands of years!

Cough cough...

The pale young man coughed up a mouthful of black blood, frowning as he looked into the distance, almost certain without thinking that it was the work of his vicious kin.

Of the four, two are already gone, and only himself... is the only one still struggling!

The other has the strongest assassin techniques, the strongest divination, and the strongest illusion techniques, which is why he doesn’t dare to dismantle his poison domain once he becomes the target.

It’s also thanks to his talent that has made the other wary; otherwise, he would have been a ghost under the knife long ago.

But keeping the poison domain active is not possible either. Using the poison technique relies on his own blood, and this Land of Seals is already lacking in vitality. Running out of his own essence is only a matter of time, yet the barrier is loosening.

He can feel that the seal will soon be destroyed, and when that happens, he will flee into the human world. Even if he has to seek refuge with other ancients, as long as he can save his life, he’s willing to do anything.

But he also knows that the other will definitely try to kill him before the barrier breaks and reclaim this last avatar!

What he never expected was that his kin would somehow find outsiders to come here.

Who exactly is it? Is it collusion with other ancients? Those who sealed him back then, where are they now? And now, the two newcomers, not fearing death, are charging straight at him.

What should he do now?