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Chen Ying knew she was in great danger this time, and she also knew there was a high probability she would die here, but she still made herself come.

This wasn’t heartlessness—Chen Ying understood very well because she knew that at this moment, everyone, including Chen Qing himself, needed to fight desperately!

Without desperation, one couldn’t break the current predicament...

Chen Ying knew that no one could help her this time. If she didn’t want to die and end up working at the Underworld Registrar... actually, being able to go to the Underworld Registrar was a rather ideal thought.

She had dealt with Wei Gongcheng many times, and she always felt that the Underworld Registrar was a decent final resting place, but that was only if Jiangnan could survive.

There was a change in Jiangnan, which she had only heard about from Chen Qing the day before. Honestly, she had never felt such an urgent desire to win as she did now.

The her from before, even though she was looked after by her master, with both talent and fame, was like a rootless duckweed, facing ostracism everywhere, without a home of her own.

Yet, these past few years in Jiangnan, she and Chen Qing had transformed what was nearly a land of the living dead into the prosperity and beauty it was today, into a place filled with joy and laughter.

Jiangnan Academy had been something she watched grow step by step, with talented students leaving her care one after another, loved by the world, participating in the construction of Jiangnan’s prosperity. This feeling... was an achievement she’d never had in the past twenty years.

Jiangnan was her foundation, and she would not allow anyone to destroy it!

Chen Ying took a deep breath, and a Dragon’s Chant sounded.

Myriads of azure air rose, forming thunderstorms, and the surrounding space fragments shattered one after another, with lots of Spiritual Energy spilling out, clearly the same as the Azurewood Spiritual Energy within the Azure Dragon Formation.

"Hmm... she’s prepared herself as well," nodded Zhang Xiaoyun. "Not stupid, either."

Chen Ying excelled in spatial formations, and storing Azurewood Spiritual Energy in advance was a very useful tactic. To be able to use so much Spiritual Energy from the Azure Dragon Grand Hall and still inject more showed this young lady’s strong confidence in her own control.

With this thought, Zhang Xiaoyun stretched his limbs, his eyes flashing a blood-red color, and in an instant, a terrifying and chilling aura spread out, sending a shiver down Chen Ying’s spine from afar!

The Azurewood Spiritual Energy was the gentlest in the world, soothing to the soul. In Daqing Mountain, this energy could suppress the Ghost Doll’s millennia of resentment, but here, it could not suppress the fury of the monster before her!

Divine Descent Technique!

Zhang Xiaoyun didn’t bother with testing the waters and directly initiated his most adept art.

With his body crackling, a sinister force pervaded him, completely changing his temperament in an instant. It was just like back at the Azure Dragon Gate when the seemingly harmless child transformed in a flash into an entity so terrifying it sent chills with just one glance.

Chen Ying found herself retreating uncontrollably, backing up over thirty feet!

Previously, Chen Ying had only briefly seen the opponent’s performance at the Azure Dragon Gate through the Image Jade. Through the screen, she could feel his terrible malice, but facing it in person now, she truly felt the horror.

No wonder those magicians were almost unwilling to resist, nearly all of them crumbling upon contact. This pressure... was arguably more fearsome than the Old Dragon King sealed in the depths of the West Sea at the Dragon Palace!

Even bathed in Azurewood Spiritual Energy, Chen Ying felt suffocated.

"So, it’s true... they actually managed to research it!"

In the Qiankun Hall, Shenyue, who had always been calm, finally revealed a smile, his gaze filled with eager anticipation...

This was the first time Chen Qing saw such emotion in the eyes of a being who had dominated the Human World for several reincarnations, and he was inwardly startled.

To get such a being to show this emotion, it must be quite extraordinary. Indeed... Shenyue must have taken a personal interest in something at the Heavenly Master Mansion this time!

What could it be... Chen Qing had his suspicions too.

He then looked back at Chen Ying on the screen with a flicker of worry. He had said all that he could advise, but now that it came to the actual fight, no one could help her. He could only hope that this girl’s combat talent was half as good as her learning talent...

"Earth Fiend Spirit?" Chen Ying asked, taking another deep breath.

"Oh?" Zhang Xiaoyun was taken aback, then a hint of keen interest flashed across her blood-red eyes, "Did Chen Qing guess it?"

"You think you could deceive the Monarch?"

"Of course, we can," the other party laughed. "If we couldn’t have, he wouldn’t have come here in person, nor would he have sent Zi Yue over."

Chen Ying: "...."

The Monarch must be right...

Behind the Heavenly Master Mansion, there is an extremely terrifying research project underway, and the subject must be the spirits of the Big Dipper and the Earth Evil Spirits!

In the past, during the era of the Sorcerer Dynasty, it was rumored there had been an unprecedented heyday.

Countless young talents went to the Royal Capital and received rewards from the Sorcerer Emperor, who was a monarch praised by numerous families to this day.

He brought prosperity to the Sorcerers’ Realm, generously spreading the top-tier techniques of the Big Dipper and Earth Evil Spirits across the world, giving rise to many millennial Sorcerer Families!

What these families never recorded was the number of talented youths they sent in those days to inherit these legacies, and how many people died in experiments.

Zi Yue’s memories painted the underground Royal Capital of the Sorcerer Dynasty as a battlefield of horrors, with young sorcerers from all over the country undergoing inhumane experimental studies after inheriting techniques. It was truly a nightmarish and terrifying experience.

She didn’t know how she had survived, as during those countless research trials, she felt her soul had plunged into never-ending purgatory, suffering endless torture.

Back then, Chen Qing was analyzing what it was all for.

Now it seems it was all for researching this thing!

The spirits of the Big Dipper and Earth Evil Spirits are incredibly powerful, transcending reincarnation, capable of passing on their divine skills to humans through mere imprints.

If their bloodline could be revived and coupled with the parasitic nature of Ancient Demons, nothing in this world could rival them.

And the guy in front of them must be one of the experiment subjects, and perhaps a very successful sample at that!

Cang Lei!

Chen Ying’s eyes became emerald green, and her body, nourished by the Azurewood Spiritual Energy, turned as clear and lustrous as jadeite, emitting a gentle green glow.

Then, the spiritual clouds in the sky roared thunderously as countless thunderbolts, unlike ordinary ones, densely struck down with terrifying intensity, like rain pelting down endlessly.

This left those who saw the Azure Dragon Sorcery for the first time utterly dumbstruck.

The thunder can be used like this?

But if these thunderbolts were to strike down, would the Magician herself survive?

In the next instant, however, an even more astounding scene unfolded. The myriad bolts of thunder that struck the lush Cang Wood caused not a single bit of damage. The Cang Lei turned into electric currents, flowing with the green Azurewood Spiritual Energy, causing no destruction whatsoever!

At this moment, many were stunned. Could this seemingly powerful lightning be a feint?

Why is there sound but no apparent might?

But the knowledgeable Magicians were filled with surprise and excitement, and Chen Baifeng nodded to himself in approval.

It was rumored that the Cang Lei within the Azure Dragon Technique possessed a spiritual nature, utterly different from ordinary thunder.

It was said that anything enveloped by the Azurewood Spirit could completely avoid the power of Cang Lei, whereas anything not protected would suffer the full force of Righteous Thunder’s Might!

This was also why the Azure Dragon Sorcery allowed for the use of Thunder Technique indiscriminately, regardless of direction or friend from foe, because its lightning only harmed the enemy, not the allies.

Anything wrapped by one’s own Azurewood Spirit, be it a single leaf or a clump of soil, would remain undamaged, but for an enemy, they would face the most terrifying Thunder Technique in this world!

"Excellent control!"

Facing the sky filled with thunderbolts, Zhang Xiaoyun’s eyes flashed with appreciation.

The girl had incredible mastery in controlling the Azurewood Spirit, not a single leaf was harmed; under such thunder, the Cang Wood forest was unaffected, continuously producing Azurewood Spiritual Energy and providing an endless energy supply.

In other words, if Chen Ying’s current state is not disrupted, her Thunder Technique... could essentially be sustained indefinitely!!