Chapter 45: Aotian

Fox Mei turned and bowed in courtesy, and Mo Qianxun followed suit, copying her movements.

"There is no need for such formalities, young lady. As it happens, I have not yet had the chance to properly tour Qingqiu. Miss Mei, would you be so kind as to show me around?" Although the Celestial Emperor spoke to Fox Mei, his gaze remained fixed on Mo Qianxun, observing her intently.

Strange, this young girl appears to be nothing more than an ordinary mortal, yet how did she manage to travel here from another realm?

Mo Qianxun returned the Celestial Emperor's gaze—

Change the world with the strength of a single individual? Xizi clearly realized that such a grand and heavy responsibility did not fall upon her; she was merely an ordinary person among the masses. Since mortals are destined to die, she now only wanted to live relatively happily and make this trip worthwhile.

Before Qin Zheng's voice had even faded, his mental projection arrived instantly within the subterranean core's temple, with Qin Xie following closely behind. Scanning the empty, vast hall, they found not a single shadow. Qin Xie looked around strangely, while Qin Zheng closed his eyes to scan the entire core temple, finally detecting their traces in a room along the corridor of the side hall.

"Ha, this is an illusory space. Weren't you all locked in here anyway? Do prison cells have to be divided into territories?" Yueying laughed, amused.

Yet, it somehow felt a little different; there seemed to be something unusual gleaming within Xiao Yao's eyes.

Sang Li, a member of the Twelve-Glyph Divine Clan, believing he had already secured absolute victory, retrieved the Amour-Entangled Gourd and shook it a few times in his hand.

"Look at you, in your past life as Zheng Yao, leading the Youzhu Demon Clan's million-strong army was effortless. The lower realm has at most one or two hundred thousand troops, you won't be worked to death," Ling Han said, his handsome face filled with utter frankness.

At that moment, a blaze of fire lit up in the distance. Upon closer inspection, it was a troop of men holding torches heading toward this side. The fire grew closer and closer, and I finally made out the figure under the flames—it was actually the Emperor himself, who had personally pursued them here.

With a thunderous roar, the Rakshasa King A-luo-sha thrust out a giant claw that blotted out the sky and imprisoned the void, gripping even the pitch-black firmament. Launching a sudden attack, he lunged forward to grab Adowa and Apuqhan right by the head.

"You... is your martial soul beast a member of the Dragon Clan?" When Lei Du asked this question, there was a clear sense of awkwardness on his face. Xiao Qi reckoned he could understand the embarrassment Lei Du felt asking such a question as a martial soul beast himself.

When he returned to the classroom, it was just the end of the first period. Seeing him come back, Xia Xinran hurried over and asked, "How did it go? Did the principal say how they are going to deal with you?" A group of classmates gathered around as well, watching him as if he were an exhibit in a zoo.

Now, Jun Mo was once again demanding the Subterranean Core's Cold Milk and the Spirit-Swallowing Enlightenment Stone. Could it be that he was preparing to make a breakthrough and ascend to a Three-Star Venerable right away?

However, everything he possessed was in Jingzhou. If he surrendered now, while he might preserve his life, he would lose everything else, ending up with absolute nothingness.

If Gao Zijian couldn't even grasp that underlying meaning, he wouldn't be fit to be a leader. Ever since Liu Zhanbin brought people over, he had already anticipated the other party's intentions, and even figured it out a step ahead of them, which showed just how formidable Gao Zijian's insight was.

The giantlong swooped down, carrying the momentum to destroy heaven and earth, instantly catching up with the four panic-stricken Emperor Controllers and charging straight through them.

"Beat him! Beat him until he's dead!" The playful smile vanished instantly, and the situation changed in a split second as an aura of tyranny spread across the local tyrant's face.

With the aid of the formidable genuine qi within Qingling's body, the nearly depleted spiritual energy of Ling Bingxi was nourished once more, and the ice wall condensed and transmitted to her sword became even more resilient against the erosion of the demonic Qi.

Guan Xing rode without stopping and rushed to Kui Pass, which was already in imminent danger. Guan Xing shouted at the top of his lungs: "Charge and kill!" He was the first to spur his horse and brandish his saber, charging straight toward the rear formation of the Wu army.

Wang Ming had no idea to what extent their training had progressed now, nor did he care about such matters at the moment. Releasing them was meant to sever their ties with the Great Yuan, and then see whether an opportunity could be found for Lu Yan, Gao Wu, and the others to exploit their vulnerability.