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"You really won’t come back with me?"

Chen Qing looked at the departing Wang Ye and asked again.

This time Wang Ye could come, and honestly, as a modern person, he was truly moved.

Three years ago, this guy didn’t hesitate to entrust his life to himself, and now he didn’t hesitate to come to save him— he owed him for saving his life twice!

"Mmm... I’ve been out long enough, and if I don’t go back now, I might not even be able to find that old guy."

Chen Qing was speechless. The old guy was definitely referring to Liu Yu, but he didn’t understand why Wang Ye cared so much for Liu Yu?

After all, Liu Yu was the person who almost calculated him to death.

"Is he that important to you?"

"Very important..."

Chen Qing was somewhat puzzled, "Why?"

"He’s a very complex person, with acts of kindness and also of evil.

He taught me so many things in the past; I don’t think he was deceiving me, but rather, he was trying to express another side of himself through teaching.

Meanwhile, his own desires reflected yet another side.

So I feel that there’s much more I can learn from him. "

Chen Qing: "....."

Chen Qing was now sure that this guy... had a bit of an artistic temperament...

"Can you reveal some things?"

"What do you want to know?" Chen Qing looked at him, somewhat curious. This was... the first time he had ever asked him for something.

"Liu Yu said that the chess pieces of the past will start to move across the chessboard of the world. I don’t understand this phrase, and he probably won’t tell me. Can you tell me?"

Chen Qing was speechless. If the other person didn’t want to tell you, he wouldn’t have mentioned this phrase, and since he informed you, he was hoping that you would come to ask me.

However, Wang Ye was clever, obviously guessing the other person’s intentions, only he didn’t want to show that he was willing to ask on behalf of Liu Yu. ..

This guy was really strange, why be so nice to Liu Yu?

Of course, he also couldn’t clearly explain why that person was so nice to him as well.

After thinking it over, he finally nodded and said, "Mister Tianji said that the ancient powers had left behind chess pieces before the decline of the Earth Spirit, preparing for their revival. Unlike the Dragon Palace’s preparations, these ancient beings come from special origins and have control over the future, so their arrangements will be closely related to the ancient powers that will inevitably appear in the future. "

"Control over the future?" Wang Ye looked at Chen Qing, "Does it mean they know everything like you do?"

"Not too different, I suppose..." Chen Qing could only explain this way.

Chen Qing wasn’t clear how much the first batch of players understood about this world. In principle, those people should only have access to internal data, but they’ve been through several cycles and might actually know more than public beta players.

So those people might truly not know less than what he did.

"You said their arrangements are closely related to the ancient powers that will inevitably appear in the future. Do you mean that some ancients may not revive, while others are sure to revive?"

"That’s the idea..." Chen Qing nodded.

The revival of the Earth Spirit is phased, with more powerful ancient forces requiring more resources and energy to revive, so not all ancients can come back to life, depending on which faction can gather more resources and energy during the second version stage.

Power in this world is a double-edged sword!

Tianji told him that to compete for resources, many high-level ancient powers would send someone to descend in reduced dimensions and possess others to fight for it in the early stages of Earth Spirit revival.

The Serpent Mother is probably one of them.

"What do you think those so-called chess pieces will be arranged? Will they be arranged in the Dragon Palace like this Serpent Mother?" Wang Ye asked directly.

"They might be... but more likely... they’ll be in the Celestial Serpent Palace!"

"Celestial Serpent Palace?" Wang Ye was taken aback, "Why?"

"The ancient forces that are now beginning to revive number three..."

"You’ve seen the Dragon Palace, the second force is the Ghost Domain, which is the collective name for the power of the ten kings on the Path of Yin and Yang. Our ’Your Majesty’ is one of them who has sought refuge, the newly-risen among the ten kings: King Gui Xiang."

"Such a grand array and this is just one of them?" Wang Ye took a deep breath, "Then it seems the future of the world will be more chaotic than imagined!"

"It will exceed your imagination..." Chen Qing said with a wry smile.

"Why do you think it will be in the Celestial Serpent Palace?"

"Because theoretically, the Celestial Serpent Palace should be the strongest of our time!"

"Ah?" Wang Ye was startled again upon hearing this because from all kinds of intelligence, the Celestial Serpent Palace didn’t seem like an overly powerful existence; it was just a bunch of wild beasts and Giant Serpents.

The records said the Celestial Serpents were huge, but no matter how large, they were still beasts, lacking the profound heritage of the Dragon Palace.

The Dragon Palace not only had a wide variety of aquatic creatures but also an immense legacy.

The prosperity of Jiangnan today is largely related to the Dragon Palace; its Formation techniques, Runes, various engineering arts, scholarly traditions from a hundred schools, and the Dragon Transformation Technique that could turn all beings into dragons, all perfectly showcased the heritage of an ancient force!

And what about the Celestial Serpent Palace?

From what we can see so far, it’s nothing but Giant Serpents...

"Does the Celestial Serpent Palace also excel in something formidable? Like the Dragon Palace’s Formation techniques and Runes?" Wang Ye thought for a moment before asking.

"No..." Chen Qing shook his head, "The Celestial Serpent Palace, apart from Giant Serpents, has nothing else..."

"And this still makes it the strongest?"

"There are some things in this world that don’t make sense.

.." Chen Qing said with a wry smile, "The Giant Serpents of the Celestial Serpent Palace have a very strong reproductive capability.

A single Serpent Mother can give birth to four or five thousand Giant Serpents in one go.

The key is that these Giant Serpents grow very quickly.

In just one year, they can grow into massive adults. Do you know what that means?"

Wang Ye, being a smart man, immediately realized, "A never-ending supply of blood essence?"

Talking to smart people is effortless...

"Don’t they need food? With such vast numbers?" Wang Ye asked in surprise.

"They do need it, but it’s like milking cows by eating grass!

" Chen Qing held his head, "This force is simple and crude; they only need to wait for the Earth Spirit to spur the Demons, which allows the first stage Celestial Serpent offspring to be born.

A single Wood Snake can breed over ten thousand, and of these massive numbers of new snakes, only the strongest and those with potential for evolution are kept.

The rest become material for refining blood essence stones, used to revive more powerful and ancient Serpent Mothers within the Celestial Serpent Palace.

Moreover, this force will use the surplus blood essence stones to catalyze the evolution of surrounding Demons. "

"This..." Wang Ye was dumbfounded: "Using... their own kin, refining blood essence stones and then nurturing the surrounding Demons?"

This kind of operation left him completely flabbergasted.

"Nurturing them is to make them evolve faster, satisfying the demands of the stronger Celestial Serpents’ larder."

Wang Ye "...."

He didn’t know what to say anymore. Was this a Serpent Mother or a sow? Its offspring used as feed? What kind of bizarre operation was this?

"This force, it’s all for evolving into a higher tier of Giant Serpent. Its special reproductive capacity allows this miraculous ancient force to grow rapidly in a very short time!"

"It’s... perfect for carnivores, right?" Wang Ye said somewhat speechlessly. Since the higher forces all need blood essence stones, then wouldn’t the Celestial Serpent Palace, with such enormous production capacity, be the best livestock farm?

"If you can control it, then it is perfect for carnivores..." Chen Qing said with a smile, "This is also its way of survival. All forces know about their breeding ability, so instead, they wouldn’t exterminate them completely!"

Perhaps this is the main reason why this straightforward and brutal force has survived through three cycles!

"But this ability will give them an advantage in the early stage, which is that their expansion speed will be very fast! Before all forces have infiltrated the human world, their growth and expansion speed are the fastest, and a slight lapse in attention could leave others far behind!"

Fast initial expansion, rapid troop build-up, simple and crude, and able to provide a vast amount of blood essence stones.

Such a force is key in the second round competition for the top ancient beings.

In Chen Qing’s view, the Serpent Mother’s King Xiang strategy is actually a niche path. If you want to set up pieces in advance, the Celestial Serpent Palace is the best choice.

Probably... it will be the most hotly contested place for those so-called descent players, right?