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Nobody could ignore Chen Qing; on the contrary, everyone, including myself, was incredibly vigilant toward him, even though it seemed like they had been driven to a dead end.

Chen Qing’s Vital Energy breakthrough had been a severe blow to life and death, and Commander Tian Heng, who came to their aid, suffered an attack by the Demon Statue.

The Western Sea Army appeared leaderless, like a lump of succulent fat, ripe for the harvest at any moment.

But still, no one underestimated him.

The Four Major Guilds relied on the accumulation of billions of years, the Emperor relied on the destiny of the Mortal World and the covert support of the Guilds at the beginning, but Chen Qing was a self-made man.

In just under a decade, he had managed to hold his own against several major forces, and despite many being reluctant to admit it, deep down, they were very wary of him.

Such a person, exiting the stage as soon as the game began, even with a reasonable exit, still made others cautiously wary of his next move.

The Emperor had always been cautious, so when Chen Qing hid in some space fragment, he had been secretly searching for him, but unfortunately, with so many fragments, he had never found him until he appeared here.

"Your Majesty is here too?" Chen Qing got up and greeted with a smile.

"Too?" The Emperor gave a noncommittal smile, "Lord Wang, this ’too’ is well used, as if you’re implying you were forced to come here."

"The fact is just so," Chen Qing smiled, "I also know Your Majesty might not quite believe this, but it is indeed true. The space outside is chaotic, and the Spatial Art that I am most skilled at from Jiangnan can’t be used. As a result, all three forces failed to find me. Didn’t Your Majesty suspect something at that time? "

Saying this, he even invited the Emperor to sit down and brewed some tea.

At this moment, the surrounding was styled like a Paint World, and so was the tea, looking bizarre, but the fragrance of the tea was real, refreshing the heart and lungs, giving the Emperor the feeling of entering a New World.

He did not pretend to be generous, actually taking the tea offered by Chen Qing, and he did not even intend to accept the invitation to sit.

The two were enemies, and with such a strange environment surrounding them, with his own condition being extremely bad, pretending to be magnanimous in such a situation would be foolish.

"Are you implying that from the beginning, you were captured by that Demon Statue and brought here?"

Chen Qing just smiled and, seeing that the other party did not take his tea, poured himself a cup and leisurely took a sip.

The Emperor frowned, not knowing why, he was quite curious to try it; the style around was so peculiar, the taste of this ink-painted tea genuinely piqued his curiosity.

But he immediately snapped back to reality, becoming alert.

He actually had this thought?

He was not someone who was particularly fond of tea, to have such a thought in this environment immediately felt wrong.

But Chen Qing was drinking quite contentedly as if not at all worried about any trouble brewing.

So... was he really captured, or was he... all along in collusion with the Demon Statue?

Actually, either was possible...

When Chen Qing went into hiding, all three forces were secretly searching, including himself, but none found him, which made him suspect that Chen Qing might have a contingency plan. If he could control that Demon Statue, indeed, it would be a dark move that no one anticipated.

If that were the case, the youngster was quite cunning.

Because everyone could see that Tian Heng’s injuries were real: he was almost in a state of near-death. To lay such a heavy hand just so that the onlookers would lower their guard against him?

To say Tian Heng was faking it, he would not believe it; he was confident in having seen Tian Heng make a move, Tian Heng was not a straightforward person, but the aura did not lie, no matter what, that state of counterattacking desperately could not be faked. At any rate, he could not fake it.

That meant, if the Demon Statue was controlled by Chen Qing, then Tian Heng’s ambush was unplanned, first incapacitating the commander of his own Western Sea Army, only to let everyone lower their guard—a cunning tactic, a ruthless heart.

Before, this fellow always appeared to be respectful and humble, but nobody expected him to be so viciously cunning, on par with the Black Empress.

But it wasn’t impossible; after all, he was captured and brought here.

That explained it, at that time Chen Qing had been severely injured, and the Demon Statue had always been lurking in the shadows. It was indeed possible that he captured Chen Qing while no one else was aware, for the Demon Statue employed strange methods that I had never seen before.

However, one thing the Emperor cared about greatly was the Spiritual Energy here... it was incredibly abundant!

Comparable to the Spirit Land in the Capital City that he had constructed at a great expense, which meant that lifting the King Level seal here would be effortless, and with the rich Spiritual Energy here, recovery from injuries would be particularly beneficial.

What was the purpose of this monster bringing them both in here?

"Does Your Majesty have any doubts?" Chen Qing leisurely set down his teacup and asked.

"Quite a few..." the Emperor replied, gazing at the teacup in his hand, "Aren’t you afraid that something here might be problematic?"

"Ah... at first, I was a bit worried," Chen Qing laughed, "As you saw, Your Majesty, at that time, to save someone, I had no choice but to lift the restriction. But I lack Your Majesty’s abilities; even after breaking through the King Level restriction, I couldn’t defeat the High Priest of the Ancient Demon Clan in a short time, which led to my desperate situation.

I had to forcefully apply a spiritual seal.

Frankly speaking, had there been no rescue, it would have been difficult to predict whether I would live or die.

Yet, in a critical moment, I was captured by this cursed thing and brought here. "

"And Your Majesty, you must know, if I hadn’t been captured and brought here, I would have had a ninety-nine percent chance of death. Upon arriving, in just half an hour, my body had almost fully recovered."

As he spoke, he picked up the teacup and swirled it: "The feeling in one’s body doesn’t lie.

At first, I was quite wary, but as I absorbed the Spiritual Energy here and started to recover, I knew that the things here were most likely harmless.

Otherwise, just the act of breathing in the Spiritual Energy would have caused problems for me, wouldn’t it? "

The Emperor fell silent. He had also breathed in the Spiritual Energy. It couldn’t be helped; the moment he was sucked in here, he wanted to rely on his own strength to destroy this place, and breathing was naturally part of it. Now, looking back, it had indeed been excessively careless.

Fortunately, the Spiritual Energy here was not harmful; otherwise, as Chen Qing said, he would have already been affected.

However...

With a cold laugh, the Emperor said, "How do you know that I killed the High Priest of the Ancient Demon Clan?"

The implication of the other’s words suggested they were not as capable as himself, but one could only come to such a conclusion after witnessing the defeat of the High Priest, right? Supposedly, being locked up here, how could you see what was happening outside?

"I saw it..."

Chen Qing’s words startled the Emperor, and the scene that followed was even more astonishing.

Chen Qing raised his hand, and a scroll unfolded before him, the outside world displayed in striking clarity!

"Besides not being able to leave, there really is nothing to complain about here.

.." Chen Qing remarked with a wry smile, "Your Majesty need not tire yourself with probing.

I truly was captured and brought here, in this respect, you and I are the same.

Just wait for another half an hour, and you will understand. "

Half an hour...

A flame flickered in the Emperor’s eyes; the Imperial Sister had exhausted more than eighty percent of her strength trying to save him. And now he was supposed to be trapped here for half an hour?

What a joke!

No... I must leave. I must...

Wait!

The Emperor quickly realized something was amiss...