After interacting with her several times, Yang Kai found that Yu Rumeng wasn’t difficult to get along with, but she changed her attitude faster than he could flip a page of a book. Whenever they had a disagreement, it was as if she had become a completely different person, but it was also easy to coax her. He could simply say some soft words and follow her heart.
Having nothing to do, Yang Kai asked, “Did you really kill Li Shiqing?”
Yu Rumeng replied, “I was just joking, I didn’t kill her.”
Yang Kai nodded and felt relieved. If Li Shiqing had really been killed, there would be no way to explain things to Flower Shadow Great Emperor. Although the current situation wasn’t easy to deal with, Li Shiqing was still alive. Even if Flower Shadow Great Emperor had discovered Yu Rumeng’s disguise, she shouldn’t have done anything to her. At most, she would have used some kind of method to force her to reveal Li Shiqing’s whereabouts.
Suddenly, Yu Rumeng asked, “Do you want to see my true appearance?”
Since she was pretending to be Li Shiqing, she was naturally using Li Shiqing’s appearance to conceal her true appearance.
Yang Kai smiled and said, “Whether you’re beautiful or ugly doesn’t matter to me.” These words were the truth. With the Heart Seal Secret Technique, no matter how Yu Rumeng was born, Yang Kai wouldn’t be affected unless the Secret Technique was removed.
Yu Rumeng smiled sweetly, “Don’t worry, it won’t be any worse than it is now.”
“Don’t be distracted, heal your injuries first, we can talk about this later,” Yang Kai said before falling into silence.
In his heart, he was wondering if he should take this opportunity to check his condition with the Serene Soul Great Emperor and see if he could find a way to remove the Heart Seal Secret Technique. Otherwise, with the existence of this Secret Technique, he would always be restrained by Yu Rumeng! He didn’t feel any rejection towards it, but it was still the effect of the Secret Technique.
However, as soon as this thought appeared, Yang Kai immediately rejected it.
It wasn’t because Yu Rumeng had said that even a Great Emperor would not be able to break this Secret Technique, Yang Kai felt that she was obviously boasting. The Heart Seal Secret Technique was indeed strange, but after all, it was still within the scope of the Divine Soul Secret Technique. The Serene Soul Great Emperor was proficient in this Secret Technique, so if he were to take action, he might be able to break it.
The key was that Yang Kai’s Knowledge Sea had a treasure like the Seven Colored Soul Warming Lotus. If he were to ask the Serene Soul Great Emperor for help, the existence of this treasure would become impossible to conceal. Yang Kai couldn’t determine whether the Serene Soul Great Emperor would be tempted by the Seven Colored Soul Warming Lotus.
If he really led the wolf into the house, it would be impossible to clean up the mess.
Perhaps he could ask Senior Tian Yan for help…
Unfortunately, Yang Kai had no idea where Tian Yan was.
Everyone waited quietly as time slowly passed. The Demonic Qi continued to spread outwards, not slowing down in the slightest. In the next few days, everyone had been forced back several times. If one were to look down from the sky, the surrounding tens of thousands of kilometers of the Endless Sand Sea had been covered by Demonic Qi and reduced to Demon Earth.
The fact that Mo Huang and Yao Jun, who had left a few days ago, still had no response made Star Soul Palace and the others, who had been extremely confident in them, worry.
If even these two Great Emperors were lost, the Star Boundary would be finished.
But what exactly was there that could trap so many Great Emperors?
In the blink of an eye, another ten days passed, and the area covered by the Demonic Qi had expanded to over a hundred thousand kilometers. Everyone’s faces were filled with worry. If they didn’t find a way to contain this situation, the entire Western Region and even the Star Boundary would be filled with Demonic Qi. At that time, billions of cultivators would be reduced to Demon Race existences.
It was at this time that the people who had left for the Western Region’s great Sects came back.
A few of them had gone out, but only one had returned, covered in wounds and barely breathing.
Everyone was shocked and quickly helped him heal. Yang Kai also took out the Emperor Pill he had refined and fed it to him.
This man was a Protector of Star Soul Palace and his surname was Chu. Yang Kai didn’t know his specific name, but he heard everyone call him Protector Chu.
After stabilizing his injuries with great difficulty, the first thing this Protector Chu said when he opened his eyes caused everyone’s expressions to change, “The thousands of people from Star Point Sect have all become demons!”
“What?” Xue Zhengmao was shocked.
Previously, they had been wondering why this Protector Chu, a Second-Order Emperor Realm master, who could be ranked among the top in the entire Star Boundary, and had only gone to deliver a message, how could he have been beaten so badly? With the Star Soul Palace’s protection, how could the Sects of the Western Regions dare to act so rashly?
Now that he heard this, he suddenly understood.
The thousands of people from Star Point Sect had all fallen into a state of madness!
Xiao Yuyang’s expression became solemn, “Protector Chu, did you see this clearly? This kind of thing cannot be spoken lightly.”
Protector Chu smiled bitterly, “My injuries were given to me by Star Point Sect’s Sect Master Lian Zheng and several Elders, how could I be mistaken?”
The Star Point Sect was one of the top Sects in the Western Region, and its Sect Master Lian Zheng was naturally a Third-Order Emperor Realm master. The Sect also had more than a dozen Emperor Realm masters. If it had been any other Second-Order Emperor Realm master who had fallen into such a dangerous place, they would have certainly died. This Protector Chu had come from the Star Soul Palace and had the heritage of a powerful Sect, so he had barely escaped.
Hearing this, everyone’s expressions became extremely ugly.
The thousands of people from Star Point Sect had all become bedeviled!
This scene… was somewhat familiar, and everyone couldn’t help thinking back to the Plain Palace a few years ago. The entire Plain Palace had been bedeviled, and even Palace Master Lei Gu was no exception.
Now, it seemed that these Demon Consciousness had not only set up a trap in the Southern Domain, but also in the Western Domain. However, nothing had happened in the Western Domain until this time, when this Protector Chu had gone to inform them.
Yang Kai’s expression changed, “Everyone, I suddenly remembered something.”
“What?” Xiao Yuyang looked towards him.
“When I was chasing after Lei Gu, he seemed to have run towards the Western Regions, but under my relentless pursuit, he could only flee to the Southern Swamp and was eventually killed by me.”
Xue Zhengmao raised his brow, “You mean Lei Gu wanted to join up with the other Demon Consciousness?”
Yang Kai said, “Now it seems he really does have such thoughts.”
“Not good,” Xiao Yuyang’s expression suddenly changed as he turned to the nearby Star Soul Palace’s Emperor Realm masters and said, “Quickly contact the others and see if there is any response.”
Hearing this, Xue Zhengmao and the others also thought of something, their eyes twitching as they waited quietly.
A moment later, the Emperor Realms of the Star Soul Palace all slowly shook their heads, indicating that they had not been able to contact any of their fellow disciples.
“The Western Regions are finished, the few of them… I’m afraid they’re also doomed,” Xiao Yuyang said with an ugly expression. Protector Chu had narrowly escaped, but the others might not have such good luck. Being unable to contact them was the biggest sign.
A strange light flashed across Yang Kai’s eyes as he asked in shock, “Does Elder Xiao mean that the Western Region has been ruled by the Demon Race?”
Xiao Yuyang smiled bitterly, “Think carefully about the deployment of the Plain Palace. If it weren’t for you, what would the Southern Domain be like now?”
Yang Kai’s entire body went cold as he shouted bitterly, “The Demon Race is wreaking havoc, and all living beings are suffering!”
Xiao Yuyang said, “The Plain Palace's scheme was destroyed because of you, but how many of you are there in this world? On the Southern Domain’s side, at the very least, my Star Soul Palace is still able to resist. Even if the Plain Palace's scheme succeeded in the past, it may not be impossible for us to fight. But on the Western Region’s side… even Shadow Killer Palace seems to have colluded with the Demon Race, so how can the other Sects remain unscathed?”
That’s right, now that even Night Shadow Great Emperor was personally guarding the Void Corridor, what was the situation with all the top Sects like Star Point Sect and its thousands of disciples?
The situation in the Southern Domain and Western Domain should have been similar, but because Yang Kai had interfered and pulled away countless powerful reinforcements, the crisis had been resolved.
The Western Regions was not so lucky.
At this moment, Yang Kai and Li Wuyi’s expressions suddenly changed as they glanced at each other.
Immediately, the two of them disappeared from the spot.
A dozen or so kilometers away, a figure was stealthily hiding under a sand dune, silently observing the gathering place of the people from the Southern Domain.
When he saw Yang Kai and Li Wuyi’s figures suddenly disappear, he knew something was wrong and immediately fled in a certain direction.
However, after running a few steps, this person suddenly stopped because in front of him, a person was standing on the wind, staring at him coldly.
“Li Wuyi!” The man’s expression changed as he shouted, immediately recognizing Li Wuyi’s identity.
He was known as the number one person beneath the Great Emperor Realm, and as expected, he was extremely intimidating. This person didn’t dare face him head-on, quickly turning around and fleeing in another direction.
“You think you can escape?” Yang Kai blocked his path as if he had foreseen this and reached out his hand to slap him.
“F*ck off!” The man shouted, his originally normal body suddenly bursting with Demonic Qi, his aura surging as he punched out, seemingly intending to kill Yang Kai in one blow.
His cultivation wasn’t weak either, at least at the Second-Order Emperor Realm. Coupled with the eruption of Demonic Qi, even an ordinary Third-Order Emperor Realm master wouldn’t be able to withstand his fist.
However, Yang Kai didn’t try to dodge and instead used his Heaven Covering Hand to slap down.
With a loud bang, the Demonic Qi dissipated and the man’s jaw dropped, as if he hadn’t expected that with the same cultivation, he wouldn’t be able to withstand this palm strike.
Disbelief filled his eyes as he directly smashed into the sand, forcefully suppressing the surging blood in his heart as he dove into the sand. Seemingly cultivating some kind of Secret Technique, he was like a fish in water in this sand, diving over a thousand meters before quickly fleeing into the distance.
Li Wuyi didn’t move from his original position, but the Space Laws around him fluctuated wildly as he slowly reached out towards the direction the man was fleeing towards, suddenly clenching his hand.
A muffled groan came from a thousand meters below.
“Get out here!” Li Wuyi shouted as he raised his hand.
As the sand and dust flew about, a person was thrown out.
Without giving him a chance to resist, Yang Kai stepped forward and pointed his finger at his chest, sealing his attempt to resist.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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