Chapter 1800: Provocation
“~!@#$%^……” Cai Zhi’s face instantly turned from pink to red, then from red to gloomy. Following that, a fierce aura rushed to her head, and a gray wolf shadow directly exploded behind her: “Qianye… you’re asking for death!!”
“Cai Zhi!” Yun Che sensed great danger and quickly reached out, but grabbed empty air.
The demon wolf howled. Cai Zhi’s five fingers transformed into swords, pulling the demon shadow behind her as she fiercely tore five dark gray claw marks through the air, as if wishing she could shred Qianye Ying’er right then and there.
“Hehehe!” Qianye Ying’er let out a delicate laugh, her long sleeves fluttering as she used Cai Zhi’s force to fly out of the hall, far away.
At that moment, Cai Zhi’s slender waist was tightly embraced by Yun Che, who had hurriedly lunged over.
Rip!!
Black light burst forth, and the Three Yan Ancestors rushed in in panic: “Master, what has happ—”
“Scram!” Cai Zhi’s starry eyes blazed with anger.
The Three Yan Ancestors quickly retreated, slinking away with their heads lowered.
“Cai Zhi, she’s deliberately provoking you. Don’t stoop to her level,” Yun Che soothed.
“Humph!” Cai Zhi shook Yun Che off forcefully, her jade-like face still flushed with lingering shame and anger. She turned her back to Yun Che, refusing to look at him: “Go play with your Qianye! Why bother with me!”
“No! She was just provoking you! I… she… ah, Cai Zhi!”
He grabbed empty air again. Cai Zhi had already stormed off, angrily, not deigning to give him another glance.
“Sigh…” Yun Che raised a hand to his forehead.
Qianye Ying’er had once solemnly promised that wherever Cai Zhi was, she would keep her distance. But after successfully tricking Cai Zhi into returning, it was an entirely different story.
He looked to the north, his eyes gradually growing deep and distant.
Chi Wuyue, even faced with the Feimie Dragon God, you will definitely make it back unscathed, right…
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Within the Heavenly Poison Pearl’s space, Hong’er and You’er were sleeping soundly, but He Ling was nowhere to be seen.
Another attempt to enter the world of the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal, and another failure. After repeated attempts and a brief stay, He Ling’s figure then appeared within the Zhou Tian Pearl.
A vast white world with no end in sight and not a single trace of color.
He Ling’s eyes were closed, her mind focused. In the pale world, strands of invisible aura silently flowed, slowly gathering in the palm of her hand.
After the Profound God Convention of the Eastern Divine Realm, the Zhou Tian Pearl had staked everything on opening the Zhou Tian Divine Realm for a full “three thousand years.”
The price was an extreme depletion of the Zhou Tian Pearl’s power.
Over these years, the Zhou Tian Pearl had finally revived from its exhaustion, slowly recovering its strength.
Time was still short. He Ling could not yet control the Zhou Tian Pearl as perfectly as she did the Heavenly Poison Pearl, but during this period, she had been doing her utmost to guide and concentrate the residual power the Zhou Tian Pearl had recovered.
Though it was only scattered wisps and strands, if gathered together, it should be enough to briefly open the Zhou Tian Divine Realm once.
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North of the Eastern Divine Realm, at the border of the Northern Divine Realm.
After receiving the news, the Feimie Dragon God acted with extreme decisiveness, setting off immediately without any pause. Such a thunderous strike left the demons with no time to react.
He intended to bury the demons—who dared to try and evade the Dragon God’s wrath—in a sea of blood stretching ten thousand miles, right here at the northern border. And they would need only the two of them—because they were the supreme Dragon Gods!
Today, he would re-engrave the fear of the Dragon Gods into the souls of all living beings in this world.
Approaching the Northern Divine Realm, even the mighty Dragon God felt an uncomfortable, dark aura rushing toward them. The closer they got, the denser it became.
Feimie Dragon God and Suxin Dragon God both stopped at this moment.
They began to sense something was wrong.
“Strange,” Suxin Dragon God said, looking into the distance with a slight frown: “We are this close, so why is there no demonic aura?”
“Could it be that we were too fast, and they haven’t retreated this far yet?” Feimie Dragon God swept his gaze and divine sense toward the more distant space.
“No,” Suxin Dragon God replied. “Though our speed far exceeds theirs, in terms of distance, we are several times theirs. Moreover, when the news came, they should have already been moving for some time. Coupled with their haste, their speed would certainly not be slow.”
But the vast range of their spiritual perception was empty. In the east and the north, there was not a trace of demonic aura.
Could it really be that they were too fast?
Suddenly, Suxin Dragon God thought of something, and her expression darkened: “A few days ago, Zhou Xuzi mentioned a concern of his. The Zhou Tian’s most powerful spatial profound artifact, the Void Cauldron, fell into the hands of the demon race. If the demons have deciphered how to use the Void Cauldron and combined it with the special energy left behind by the Zhou Tian, they might be able to construct a teleportation array connecting the Eastern Divine Realm to the border of the Northern Divine Realm.”
“Could it be that Zhou Xuzi’s worry has already come true?”
“Impossible,” Feimie Dragon God said. “If something like that really existed, there is no way we would have been completely unaware of the spatial aura at that level.”
“And even if the demons did manage it, so what? The array eye cannot persist long in the dark demonic aura of the Northern Divine Realm; it can only be at the border of the Northern Domain. Destroying it would be easy! How many times they build it, we’ll destroy it that many times.”
At that moment, both of them felt a stir in their hearts.
They exchanged a glance. Suxin Dragon God waved her long sleeve, and a sound transmission profound formation releasing a thick dragon aura spread out before her:
“Brother, Suxin, we’ve been played.” It was the voice of the Cang Dragon God.
This unexpected statement made Feimie Dragon God and Suxin Dragon God, who were already harboring suspicions, change expression slightly.
“What happened?” Feimie said in a deep voice, his body releasing an invisible fury that made the air around him suffocating.
“The demons’ retreat to the Northern Divine Realm was a deliberate illusion. The mystic arks emitting heavy demonic aura actually contained only a very small number of demons. Even the scale was deliberately fabricated—it looked like a large-scale hurried evacuation, but in reality, it was all concentrated in the most easily detectable places. The total was a mere few thousand ships.”
“And those mystic arks all stopped at the northern border of the Eastern Domain an hour and a half ago. Upon investigation, they were found to be completely empty!”
“Feint… to the east, strike to the west!” Suxin Dragon God said slowly.
“Exactly!” the Cang Dragon God transmitted. “On the surface, they were withdrawing to the Northern Domain to temporarily avoid the Dragon God’s wrath, but in fact, they were channeling their forces into the Southern Divine Realm!”
“The movement to the north was quite loud and dramatic, but the movement to the south was exceptionally covert. It wasn’t until an hour ago that they stopped hiding, doubling their speed. In about a few more hours, they will have completely escaped the Eastern Divine Realm.”
When the demons’ aura no longer easily leaked out, they were undoubtedly several times more terrifying—especially in times like this.
“How… dare… they!” Feimie Dragon God clenched his five fingers. His crimson hair stood on end like erupting flames, and the space around him twisted wildly.
He, the foremost Dragon God of the Dragon God Realm, had been roused to fury for the first time in these years. He had made his move in person for the first time, only to come up empty… To put it bluntly, he had been made a fool of.
He was the Feimie Dragon God. Who could fool him? Who would dare?!
Suxin Dragon God raised her hand and patted Feimie Dragon God’s arm, saying: “Brother, the demons have always been cunning. There’s no need to be angry. This time, we were indeed too eager to avenge Huijin and neglected to be cautious.”
The Dragon God Clan always charged head-on; they had never stooped to such underhanded schemes. Even if such deceptive tricks succeeded, they would only regard them as a disgrace.
This was the dignity and pride of the Dragon God Clan.
The rising hair slowly settled. Feimie Dragon God’s fingers curled together, forcibly extinguishing the sound transmission profound formation that Suxin Dragon God had opened. He turned his body, his cold eyes sinking as he spoke in a deep voice: “Are you Northern Domain demons only capable of such despicable, petty tricks?”
Suxin Dragon God also turned around, furrowing her brow as she looked at the mass of gray mist in the distant sky, like a dark cloud.
“Oh my, we’ve been discovered.”
A soft, languid woman’s voice drifted into their ears. Just a short sentence, yet it was so soft and charming that it seemed to come from a dream, making the two Dragon Gods’ draconic bodies feel a wave of weakness, and their dragon souls seemed to be gently teased by a warm breeze and a feather.
Feimie and Suxin immediately became alert. They focused their minds sharply, and in an instant, their spirits were clear and calm.
And before them, as the gray mist gradually dispersed, three female figures walked out slowly.
The woman in the lead was shrouded in black mist, her face unseen, yet she exuded a dangerous, demonic charm.
The women following behind her both appeared to be only seventeen or eighteen years old, with extremely beautiful, cold, and expressionless faces. Their two jade-like faces were identical—even with the eyesight of a Dragon God, one could not find even the slightest difference.
Even more peculiar was that their auras were completely identical.
“Demon Empress, Demon Maidens.”
Suxin Dragon God’s eyes were cold as frost. She was seeing the person before her for the first time. But the enchanting danger like an endless deep pool, the thick darkness of demonic aura that was deep beyond measure, and the two young girls releasing the demonic aura of tenth-rank Divine Lords—these instantly brought to mind the Demon Empress of the Northern Domain and her strongest Twin Demon Maidens.
Chi Wuyue walked forward slowly, each step ethereal as if riding on smoke, seemingly unafraid of the terrifying auras of the two Dragon Gods:
“I am Chi Wuyue, Empress of the Northern Divine Realm and Consort of the Demon Lord Yun Che. Having long heard of the renowned names of Feimie Dragon God and Suxin Dragon God, I have come especially to pay my respects.”
“Hmph.” Feimie Dragon God suppressed the anger in his heart, his dragon eyes glaring straight at the woman before him who bore a fearsome demonic reputation: “I have long heard that the Demon Empress of the Northern Domain has a city-deep mind and countless schemes. It turns out she is only capable of such low and cunning little tricks. How disappointing.”
“Why are you here?” Suxin Dragon God suddenly asked. “Your purpose was to divert our attention here, so that your forces could smoothly transfer to the Southern Divine Realm. You have already succeeded, yet you appear here yourself. This seems rather contradictory.”
Her pale-colored eyes slowly gathered a hint of unusual light: “Could it be…”
Chi Wuyue stopped, standing only half a li away from the two Dragon Gods. A shimmering smile curved on her lips: “Long Fei, the strongest Dragon God of the Dragon God Realm for a full two hundred thousand years. Even though I am far away in the Northern Domain, your name thunders in my ears like thunder.”
“I originally only wanted to lure a few lesser dragons. But since the First Dragon God has ‘obligingly’ arrived, why shouldn’t I change direction and test your might?”
Whoosh—
A cold wind swept up, then stiffened and froze as it blew toward the Dragon Gods.
The anger in Feimie Dragon God’s eyes slowly dissipated. A faint smile, both teasing and mocking, pulled at the corner of his mouth: “You came here specifically to fight me?”
Suxin Dragon God beside him also gave a faint smile, but then her brows sank.
Wait!
From the Zhou Tian God Realm to here was extremely far. Yet the Demon Empress was already waiting here, which meant she knew—long before she set out, at least—that it would be Feimie who was “lured” here.
After receiving the news, Feimie Dragon God had made a snap decision, moved instantly, and never stopped along the way. With their abilities, it was almost impossible for anyone to detect them mid-journey… How could she have known in advance!?
Had the demon race’s spy network in the Western Divine Realm already infiltrated to such a degree?
Or…
“Of course.” Chi Wuyue replied with a cheerful smile. Her light laughter clung to the soul, but unfortunately, it was hidden by demonic mist, and no one was fortunate enough to see it.
“Hehehe, hahahaha.” Feimie Dragon God chuckled lowly, then burst into loud laughter, with a hint of anger hidden within.
With his perception ability, there was indeed no one else in this space. The Demon Empress, who clearly knew of his and Suxin’s arrival in advance, could have concentrated her forces and laid a net of encirclement… yet she brought only two Demon Maidens!
He laughed at the Demon Empress’s ignorance and arrogance, and he was angry that he, the Feimie Dragon God who had dominated the God Realm for over two hundred thousand years, was being looked down upon by a woman of the demon race.
It seemed he had truly been silent for too long.
“Demon Empress, are you not afraid that this will be the most regrettable decision of your life?” Feimie Dragon God narrowed his eyes.
“The one who has made me feel even the slightest bit of regret so far is only one person.”
Amid the demonic aura, Chi Wuyue’s jade hand extended, a pitch-black vortex condensing between her fingers. The profound darkness contrasted with snow-like whiteness, creating a dizzying allure: “And you, Feimie, probably don’t have that capability.”
“It seems that having ruled the Northern Divine Realm with an iron fist for so long, and having trampled the Eastern and Southern Divine Realms, has made you think that heaven is only as big as what you see.”
Feimie Dragon God smiled, and this time, the anger in his laugh had completely vanished.
In that case, how could this be a bad thing?
His left arm swept behind him.
Suxin Dragon God understood his intention and retreated far away.
Since becoming a Dragon God, Feimie had never joined forces with anyone—not once.
He would not allow it, and no one had such qualifications.
“All three of you,” Feimie’s dragon eyes were arrogant. He stood in the same void, yet his posture was one of looking down from above: “Come at me together.”