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"Second Brother, what... what are you doing?"

On the snowy mountain, while everyone else was still dazed, they noticed their Second Brother unexpectedly stood up and began tremblingly walking towards Beihai City.

"What else could I do?" The Murong Family’s second eldest didn’t even turn his head as he spoke, "Of course, I’m going to suck up to him. Haven’t you seen the power Jiangnan now possesses?"

The crowd silently looked towards Beihai City, where the flesh and blood of countless dead creatures piled up like mountains, nearly submerging the entire city. That massive amount of flesh and blood belonged to the very giant serpent that had driven them to despair.

They could hardly imagine how such a gargantuan monster could be defeated, yet the man on the ice was demonstrating it to them quite clearly...

How should I put it... it was a complete massacre!!!

If they hadn’t seen it with their own eyes, they wouldn’t dare to believe that the body of a single person could unleash such power...

At this time, to call him a god would probably be believable to some.

"I am Murong Yunfei. Are you perhaps from Jiangnan?"

Despite trying his best to calm his emotions, Murong Yunfei’s voice still trembled as he called out, the fear emanating from deep within his bones, something that couldn’t be suppressed merely by controlling his emotions.

"Oh?" Weichi Feihong didn’t mind the mess and began gathering the giant serpent’s flesh and blood into one place.

He turned his head to look at Murong Yunfei, who had leapt from the snowy mountain in just a few steps, paused what he was doing, and turned around to say, "The people over there on the mountain are from the Murong Family, aren’t they? "

Murong Yunfei felt a sinking feeling in his heart.

He and a few others had arrived on the snowy mountain days ago, using the Murong Family’s unique stealth Technique, hiding their physical bodies in the snow and ice, lowering their life energy, and blending into the snow like stones among the ice.

Under normal circumstances, even if one were right in front of them, a First Rank expert might not be able to detect them, let alone from a distance of tens of thousands of feet.

But now... from so far away, the other party had actually sensed them?

"You guys are quite bold..." Weichi Feihong continued to collect Mother Earth’s flesh and blood as he spoke, "The news of our arrival must have been leaked by you, right?"

"You misunderstand, sir, I swear it wasn’t us..."

"Chances are it was you." Weichi Feihong cut him off and continued, "My Jiangnan troops have launched surprise attacks here more than once or twice.

The Northern forces and we are still in the probing stage.

Without accurate information, Mother Earth would not have been pre-positioned here.

And only your Murong Family knew of our arrival, plus you people were hidden on the mountain early on. If not you, then who else?"

"Sir... it really is a misunderstanding..."

"I don’t know what you were thinking," Weichi Feihong continued without heeding the other’s explanation, "If you wanted to gauge Jiangnan’s strength, you should’ve at least hidden further away. With such a distance, if I hadn’t won today, do you think Mother Earth wouldn’t have discovered you?"

Murong Yunfei: "....."

It seemed there was no point in arguing, but what the other had said might indeed be true, because at the very moment Mother Earth struck, he knew they had been careless.

They hadn’t noticed when Mother Earth had positioned herself under Beihai City, which clearly had been before their arrival.

This meant that from the very beginning, they had been plotting right under the noses of their opponents. ..

"Sir, what are you gathering all this flesh and blood for?" Murong Yunfei tried to change the subject.

"Mother Earth’s flesh and blood are rare to come by..." Weichi Feihong grinned, and as he spoke, figures slowly approached from a distance.

Murong Yunfei looked over, seeing a rather large approaching group, about a thousand strong. They were all dressed in thick cotton clothing, warming their hands with Warm Jade, without a hint of energy fluctuations around them—they were clearly ordinary mortals.

This must be the informants from Jiangnan that the intelligence reports had mentioned.

And leading the group was none other than Murong Yunji, clad in white.

"My, what a grand display..." Murong Yunji remarked upon seeing the city soaked in blood, "Didn’t I tell you to be more restrained? With this, how much essence is left in the blood and flesh?"

"I was already holding back. I just didn’t expect it to be so fragile."

Fragile...

Murong Yunfei’s mouth twitched slightly, listening to the somewhat overbearing statement, but the fact was just as such. That huge Mother Earth... turned into this sky full of flesh and blood, after only three punches...

"And what about the young master?" Weichi Feihong turned his head to look.

"Gets a bit queasy at the sight of blood." Murong Yunji glanced back and at that moment, a frail and short youth trembled as he walked out from among the crowd, his pale face looking at the chunks of blood and flesh everywhere, unable to help but retch again.

"Faints at the sight of blood and still studies Blood Magic Sorcery?" Weichi Feihong frowned.

Murong Yunji gave him a sideways glance: "You have to consider the extent. With this scene, how many wouldn’t feel faint?"

"True enough..." Weichi Feihong grinned and said, "Hang in there, lad. Get the job done first."

The slender youth heard the comment, struggled to his feet, and walked over with the support of two others, smiling wryly, "I’ve disgraced myself, making the adults laugh."

"Not at all, not at all. The first time I went into battle, I was much worse than you are now."

The young man managed a weak smile, then approached the massive chunks of snake flesh.

Complicated Technique symbols appeared in his hands, and the vast flesh began to melt like snow, as dense blood essence gathered in the air, continually compressing and transforming from a viscous state into crystals.

Murong Yunji watched this scene, squinting as she recalled Chen Qing’s words.

Snakes are the best for rudimentary blood and flesh storage; their immense size spreads vast amounts of blood essence throughout the flesh and marrow, making it tough to digest and unrefined.

However, the storage is enormous, making it the preferred source of blood essence for Blood Sorcerers to extract.

This kind of resource is a fine thing. Be careful over there. The most fearsome thing in the North is not these so-called Giant Serpents; they are prey in the eyes of others. The danger always lies with the hidden hunters lurking in the shadows.

"Yunji?" Murong Yunfei cautiously asked.

"Oh, second brother..." Murong Yunji smiled, "Why have you come? Where’s elder brother?"

"Elder brother..." Murong Yunfei relaxed slightly upon getting a response and then whispered: "Recently he’s been acting oddly."

"Oh?" Interest piqued, Murong Yunji asked, "Odd in what way? Tell me more..."

Chen Qing had said, those hidden hunters might have already infiltrated the Northern Wasteland long ago!

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"You’re back?"

In the snow-covered Yan Yun City, there existed a scene unlike other fortresses, characterized by the steady rise of smoke from cooking fires—this was the only city in the North with signs of life, housing all the living Northern People.

Outside the city, hundreds of thousands of Giant Serpents coiled around, their cold gazes constantly fixed on the inside, but they restrained their wild instincts and dared not come nearer.

Obviously... within this city, there existed something powerful enough to suppress their craving for human flesh...

At that moment, a slender youth in white approached the city, and the sea of Giant Serpents parted before him, simply because he held a black lantern in his hands.

"Yes, I’m back." Wang Shiyu looked up towards the woman at the city gate; beneath the black lantern light, he smiled warmly, but within the darkness of the lantern, a bizarre face also smiled with him, its sinister and chilly breath prompting the tens of thousands of serpents that had quietly approached to recede like a tide.

"How was your trip to the Capital City?"

"Not bad..." Wang Shiyu began with a smile, "I saw some fine things. It looks like this cycle will see fresh blood infused into it."

"Oh?" The woman appeared surprised as she regarded him, "You think so highly of that Chen Qing? And how does he compare to the King of Qin?"

Wang Shiyu said darkly, "He is the King of Qin!!"