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Mei's body trembled uncontrollably. She raised her finger, pointed to the high ground not far away, and said in a trembling voice:
"Brother, let's run away quickly!"
Chi's expression changed, and he glanced almost imperceptibly at Chi You, who was wiping the blade, before shouting:
“Mei, don’t say such things. You and I are both loyal to His Highness Chi You.”
Seeing that Chi You didn't react much, Chi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but then felt ashamed of his cowardice.
Yes, Chi You was far stronger than him and could easily kill him, but is that why he showed his ugly side in front of him?
He shyly avoided his sister's longing gaze, but Mei didn't stop; her voice trembled with tears as soon as she opened her mouth:
"But... the Yellow Emperor has already arrived."
In the eyes of the demons today, Chi You is already an irresistible demon king, so the Yellow Emperor, who can defeat the demon king, is even more terrifying.
After all, their brothers were of such low status in that era that they never even had the chance to meet the Black Emperor Nidhogg.
Chi's expression changed. He looked at the high ground his sister pointed to, where a person dressed in dark yellow armor stood majestically, looking down at them, the defeated generals.
In fact, upon seeing the Yellow Emperor, Chi felt a surge of submission, just as he had once heard the Black Emperor's angry roar at home.
That is the Word Power Emperor.
The demon also trembled, muttering, "Is that the Yellow Emperor? Is that the Emperor?"
Mei hid behind him, head down, as if she thought that this would allow her to escape unscathed.
At this moment, Chi saw Chi You throw down the cloth used to wipe the blade and slowly walk towards the Yellow Emperor.
Subconsciously, Chi shouted, "That's the Yellow Emperor! His Highness Chi You!"
Chi You stopped in his tracks, looked back at his last subordinate, and sneered, "Yes! I knew he was the Yellow Emperor, otherwise why would I have drawn my sword against him?"
Finally, Chi watched as Chi You roared meaninglessly like a dying beast, and with all his might, he launched a reunion towards the high ground where the Yellow Emperor was located.
Then he was stopped by the generals beside the Yellow Emperor, and this war god, already covered in wounds, did not create any new miracles.
He was brought before the Yellow Emperor, and Chi watched as the emperor-like man drew his sword and beheaded Chi You, whose head was still held high. Then he glanced at them lightly and waved his hand.
Thus, Chi learned of the fate of the brother and sister. He gritted his teeth and said one last thing to his sister:
"Mei, you will definitely survive."
Chapter 165 You can only go this far, you cannot go any further.
On the other side, the Fairy Demon watched as Jormungandr destroyed the solid fortress before her with the mere touch of a blade of grass.
At this moment, she finally understood why Feng Hou, despite repeatedly calling Xuan Nu a "demoness," had not actually taken any action against her.
At this moment, in the desolate wilderness, the scorching hot wind blew towards the two of them. Tiannvba did not think that anyone could survive such a devastating attack.
But in fact, it does exist.
She saw Jormungandr's lips curving into a smile as he looked at the tent before him, so happy he almost shouted.
"Norton, aren't you going to come out and greet your great sister?"
No one responded.
Only the vultures circling in the sky made trembling noises.
Seeing the awkward expression flash across the Dragon Girl's face, Tiannvba slowly approached her and said:
"Your Excellency, haven't you noticed? This tent is empty."
empty?
Jormungandr slowly suppressed the joy in her heart and looked at the barrier that she had previously considered insignificant.
She had no place for this fortress, nor for the soldiers inside.
However, after being reminded by the fairy, Jormungandr suddenly realized that the reason why no one had stopped them along the way was not because all life had turned to dust in front of her attack, but because it was a barrier that had been deliberately abandoned.
Once she understood this, and thinking about her performance just now, Jormungandr felt even more embarrassed, and she vehemently denied it:
"No way, absolutely impossible."
The Heavenly Maiden didn't say much, and the two proceeded inward along the barrier. She listened to the Dragon Girl's incessant emphasizing:
“There are bronze patterns everywhere here; Norton must have spent a long time here.”
“I saw an inextinguishable lamp burning there, which is one of Norton’s favorite decorations.”
"..."
Every time Jormungandr saw something familiar, she repeatedly emphasized her own correctness, saying that she had come here by virtue of half of Norton's authority and the blood of the person whose "egg" had once been parasitized, following the guidance of "fate".
How could Norton not be present here?
Wouldn't that make her look like a clown?
But as she ventured deeper into Jormungandr, her expression grew increasingly grim, for she had not seen a single corpse along the way.
It wasn't that she particularly wanted to kill, but rather that, as the Fairy Maiden had predicted, the place was completely empty. Even as she approached the camp, she saw no corpses, only the ramparts she had overturned, now lying askew in the wilderness, as if mocking Jormungandr's folly.
Soon, the two of them reached the tent at the very center of the fortress, but instead of moving forward, they both looked up at the same time.
The sky, which was originally a world where Fenrir, the "Yinglong," could roam freely, now had three dragons entangled with each other.
One larger one, and two smaller ones.
Their dragon scales gleamed in the light, and their claws tore at each other's flesh.
“Those are… Rain Master and Wind Master,” Tiannvba recognized the two smaller dragons, and she felt somewhat incredulous.
The shouts of battle from the distant battlefield were deafening, and the symphony of the generals' decisive battle had begun. However, Chi You's two most trusted "ministers" left him without hesitation at this moment.
This unexpected surprise left Tiannvba at a loss for what to do.
Jormungandr, on the contrary, was not particularly surprised. She laughed loudly, lowered her head, and stopped paying attention to the battle in the sky. Instead, she stared intently at the tent in front of her and corrected the Heavenly Maiden:
"It should be said that Samson and Abedon were loyal to a ruler who was never Chiyou, so when they betrayed him, they could do so without hesitation."
As she spoke, the dragon girl's voice became cheerful, each note strung together as if she were humming.
She gently raised the scythe of death in her hand and casually swung it towards the tent in front of her, as if the Grim Reaper were reaping lives, wantonly destroying the tent before her.
The Dragon Girl looked at the collapsed camp, now only a scene of devastation. The shocking aura of death stopped abruptly when it reached the middle of the camp, blocked by a sword burning with raging flames.
“The Branch of Ruin, the weapon that once wounded the Black Emperor,” Jormungandr stopped, a smile playing on his lips. “Norton, so you were here after all…”
Before she could finish speaking, Jormungandr froze, because the person who had blocked her scythe was not Norton as she had imagined, but rather a thin little boy in a white robe.
The boy sat calmly amidst the ruins, looked up at Jormungandr's astonished expression, coughed several times, and, with a forced smile, said:
"It's been a long time, Jormungandr."
He hesitated for a moment, then corrected the dragon girl's mistake, "Jormungandr, if I remember correctly, you are the sixth among the four monarchs, and you should even call me brother."
Jormungandr, his face grim, stared at the boy before him and loudly vented his anger:
"No way, absolutely impossible."
She gritted her teeth, staring intently at the boy. "Constantine, why you? Where's your brother?"
Admittedly, Jormungandr would have been overjoyed if she had stumbled upon Constantine at any other time, but things are different now.
The "egg" that Norton originally had buried inside the Flame Emperor's body was destroyed, and his general authority was stripped away. In a short period of time, it was impossible for this "King of Ash" to give birth to a new "cocoon".
In other words, if you kill him within this range, you can obtain the complete dragon bone without worrying that she has only devoured an empty shell.
As for Constantine in front of him, Jormungandr wanted to scoff at him; who knew where he had hidden his "eggs"?
This cowardly boy has always been well protected by his older brother, and even if Jormungandr were to kill him here, he would not gain any benefit from it.
The thought fueled Jormungandr's anger. She slowly approached the boy before her, and with each step she took, the dragoness grew taller and taller, and the scythe she held in her hand became darker and darker.
The Heavenly Maiden could sense the Dragon Girl's anger; with each step she took, she sank deep into the earth, as if a god were measuring His land and drawing a line for humanity:
"You may only go this far, but you may not go any further."
As the dragon girl advanced step by step, the boy coughed more and more frequently. By the time Jormungandr reached him, he couldn't help but cough up a mouthful of blood.
The crimson blood dripped onto the boy's white robe, making him look helpless and pitiful.
But Jormungandr was clearly not a girl with empathy for her own kind. She angrily slashed open the boy's heart with her scythe, exposing his still-beating heart to the air, her voice cold and furious:
"Now, Constantine, what do you think you can still do?"
The boy then burst into laughter, a much more hearty laugh than the forced laughter he had just displayed.
This may be his most pathetic moment, or perhaps Constantine's weakest moment, but he knows that this is also his proudest moment.
“Jormungandr, my brother has long since fallen into a deep sleep. He has found a safe place where you will not find him.”
The dragon girl froze, her eyes trembling slightly, a captivating light flashing within them. She had figured everything out, but she still couldn't quite believe it.
"That Kuafu beside Chi You was actually you."
Chi You was just an ordinary member of the Southern Barbarians at the beginning. Perhaps he could win a good position for his Jiuli tribe in the Shennong clan system with his bravery, but it was absolutely impossible for him to compare with the Yellow Emperor who occupied the Central Plains.
However, three years ago, after the Battle of Banquan, Jormungandr witnessed the Yellow Emperor strip Norton of half of his authority and use it as a foundation to create a new life through the alchemical kingdom of [Life Creation], thereby further dividing the authority of Bronze and Fire and weakening the throne of the King of Bronze and Fire.
Meanwhile, in the south, beside Chi You, appeared a man named Kuafu. He told this ambitious man that if he wanted to rule the entire Nine Provinces like Shennong and Xuanyuan, then he should appoint Kuafu as his assistant.
Chi You agreed.
Thus, the Jiuli tribe prospered under the leadership of a man named Kuafu. They learned the military formations of the mixed-race people from the Central Plains, as well as the short-lived, indestructible swords and the impenetrable armor.
In just three years, this originally insignificant southern barbarian tribe rose rapidly and became a major enemy of the Xiong clan in the Central Plains in a way that no one could have imagined.
During this period, the Yellow Emperor was too busy digesting the territory of Shennong to interfere with the southern world.
Thus, Chi You eventually launched a northern expedition.
He no longer wanted to stay with his brothers in that place full of rivers and swamps, mosquitoes, wild beasts and monsters; he also wanted a piece of land under the sun.
Along the way, the tribes that were subordinate to the Yellow Emperor were defeated one after another by Chi You.
In the end, Chi You even crossed the Yellow River and fought against the Yellow Emperor's army at Zhuolu, not far from the Battle of Banquan.
Jormungandr had always believed that the man named "Kuafu" who swore to "chase the sun" and "shoot down the sun to kill the insects" was Norton.
After all, even though he lost his authority over alchemy, Norton was still the number one alchemist among the dragons below the three supreme beings, and only he had the ability to quickly advance a tribe that was still in a barbaric state into an alchemical civilization within three years.
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