ASER - Chapter 244
Chapter 244: Total Annihilation
Probably not, because Qu Xia'er and Qu Jiangnan, two newly appointed Great Spirit Kings who had crazily enhanced themselves with mutated substances, cleared the way and quickly teleported over.
As soon as Song Ling and the others appeared, the national vein they had transferred also appeared.
When it appeared, outside the dimensional space, two powerful individuals, reminded by the Arbitration Council, decisively moved to attack A'Diao, but suddenly sensed a violent disturbance in the distance.
Turning their heads, they saw that in the same spatial stratum, powerful Celestial Clan energy erupted from Ying Si and Kunlun's direction.
So strong? It seems to far exceed Ying Si's level back then.
"No! It's not just Ying Si; another person is also emitting Celestial Clan energy."
The two were shocked, but soon sensed it – Ying Si was dead.
He was killed by Kunlun.
The two looked at each other. "Kunlun also has a Celestial Seed."
How could he possibly have a Celestial Seed???
Unless… the one causing trouble at the Sun-like Black Hole some time ago was him or Chen A'Diao.
Given the secretive deployment of methods to scheme for the national vein today, it must be Chen A'Diao.
MD!
This human junior is incredibly fierce.
"He's coming over!"
For a moment, the two were unsure whether to stay and fight Kunlun or to go and ambush A'Diao.
Suddenly, a thought entered their minds – enter the mortal realm, forcibly kill A'Diao, and reclaim the national vein.
Enter the mortal realm?
Entering the mortal realm would allow them to unleash their full strength one hundred percent, and they could reliably kill Chen A'Diao while she hadn't fully assimilated the national vein. However, if they entered the mortal realm, it would be very difficult for them to leave again. After all, Celestial Seeds had already been planted in their bodies, and they could no longer return to the Arbitration Council.
That place, the Arbitration Council, has special restrictions. Beings possessing Celestial Clan power can only enter, not exit. This issue has not yet been resolved.
Were they willing? Unwilling.
How could the mortal realm be as good as the Arbitration Council's world?
But…
They couldn't disobey, or they would be executed by the Archbishop upon their return.
So, the two gritted their teeth and plunged directly into the mortal realm. Kunlun, who was behind them, had intended to charge in and engage them, but after receiving a voice transmission, he paused, his expression slightly nuanced as he looked at the world barrier membrane before him.
At this moment, A'Diao had just absorbed the national vein. Dantai Lingyao and the others, in their panic, were like cornered dogs trying to jump over a wall. Meanwhile, the commotion caused by the Arbitration Council's experts tearing through space to enter was too great.
And there were two of them!
These were super experts comparable to Kunlun.
A'Diao knew very well how terrifying these two experts were, comparable to another Ying Si. She was definitely not their match right now – after all, they wouldn't give her time to absorb the national vein.
When Dantai Lingyao and the others saw the Arbitration Council experts enter, their morale soared. They felt they could finally stop A'Diao from absorbing the national vein. As long as she didn't absorb it, they could still retrieve it. However, the prerequisite was to kill these geniuses as well.
Dantai Lingyao was somewhat hesitant. After all, geniuses like Song Ling were also part of the nation's destiny, the future of Tang Song. But firstly, deep down, he cared more about the interests of his own imperial family. How could he not see that Song Ling and the others had completely sided with A'Diao and would no longer align with the imperial family? Since they were geniuses who wouldn't submit to his family, they deserved to die.
Moreover, before he could make up his mind, the people from Lie Qin and Nan Jin eagerly launched an all-out attack on A'Diao's side, wishing they could kill even top Tang Song geniuses like Song Ling along with her.
It was a bit terrifying; these geniuses had all become Junior Grandmasters.
Their cultivation was like a soaring rocket, only incomparable to A'Diao's. But their cultivation speed far surpassed those golden prodigies of the initial era. Moreover, it was clear their aptitudes had undergone a transformation, and they would only progress faster in the future – these weren't just Grandmasters; they would soon become a batch of Little Spirit Kings who controlled karmic luck and were still in their golden growth spurt period.
That would be equivalent to a pile of Chen A'Diao 2.0s and 3.0s.
How could they be allowed to live!
So they struck first to gain the upper hand. Anyway, they were in the same direction as Chen A'Diao, so a group attack would suffice.
Qu Xia'er and the others were indeed behind A'Diao and saw the attacks from Ji Sichen and his group. But the most important thing wasn't them, but the two Arbitration Council experts who were currently tearing through space to enter.
These people behind her, well, they had all been enslaved anyway. Except for Song Ling, who was initially one of her own, the rest were all lured by mutated substances, led into a trap, and then enslaved in one go. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say Chen A'Diao was a black-hearted slave owner trafficking people. Were they scared seeing this scene?
Of course, they were scared, because they had no idea what A'Diao was planning to do.
This matter of absorbing the national destiny was also something they were forced into after being dragged to the scene, like ducks being herded onto a perch. At first, they had no idea they were going to do such a heaven-defying act. And this time, if Chen A'Diao failed, they would all be branded as rebellious traitors, and their families would inevitably be annihilated.
If they hadn't been enslaved, they certainly wouldn't dare to complain openly, but inwardly they would be cursing Chen A'Diao for tricking them.
After becoming slaves, well, forget it. Every time they cursed her, they would be punished by the rules – so bitter, truly so bitter.
Because they knew nothing, they also didn't know how A'Diao would resolve the current situation.
The national vein has been brought over, but you don't have time to absorb it, right? Isn't that like drawing water with a bamboo basket?
Xia Sanlu touched his nose and thought: My boss is so treacherous, cunning, despicable, and shameless; she definitely won't suffer a loss, absolutely not.
It's just that the Arbitration Council's reaction and operational execution capabilities were too strong, and their main experts were even stronger.
While everyone was worried, perhaps only Qu Xia'er's intelligence was high enough to speculate on some of A'Diao's plans and methods. Qu Jiangnan didn't care, and Song Ling was a die-hard fan of A'Diao's endeavors…
Anyway, regardless of their inner thoughts, they were all prepared to counterattack and were about to launch attacks and defenses to resist this wave of fierce assaults.
Suddenly, someone sharp-eyed saw A'Diao throw out an array disk. The moment the array disk landed, it activated, firmly adhering to the ground like a suction cup.
Then she performed a two-handed operation.
With one hand, she activated the array disk, injecting her own spiritual path and a portion of karmic luck. With the other, she manipulated spatial molecules.
What was she going to do?
The two Arbitration Council experts who had successfully entered the mortal realm were seen plummeting like falling stars, locking onto A'Diao to launch their strongest attack as they descended.
However, they also noticed the change – from the array disk at her feet and the operation in her hands.
After all, they were peak experts from the Arbitration Council. They vaguely guessed it at that moment. Could she be planning to?
In an instant, both their expressions changed.
Is she crazy?
Is she a traitor to the human race?
Is she a lunatic?!!!
The array disk had already been successfully activated, and a huge rift had indeed appeared in space. As the spiritual path and karmic luck poured in, everyone heard a dull, ancient wail.
It was vaguely familiar, as if they had heard such howls and auras not long ago. Moreover, wasn't this rift connecting to the Demonic Spirit world?
So this was indeed…
Ah!!!
Even Yu Xuanji and the others were shocked. Baiyue Qinggu and a few other major figures siding with A'Diao were somewhat stunned.
In the mortal realm, Gu Shan, who had thought the human experts would hunt him down everywhere and had gone to great lengths to hide, soon discovered that the human experts had no intention of pursuing him at all. Chen A'Diao hadn't paid him any mind either. Later, internal strife broke out among the humans. He had originally thought this was for the best, as the Demonic Spirit Race would have a chance during the human internal conflict. Otherwise, if the Great Demon King's revival failed this time and the human race launched an all-out attack on the Demonic Spirit Race as a result, their situation would likely be extremely perilous.
But he never expected that a single Chen A'Diao would attract most of the human race's firepower, and now she was even…
Gu Shan was a Little Demon King and was naturally familiar with this kind of disturbance. At that moment, his entire family (metaphorically) was shocked.
"Opening the Demon Cave? The spiritual path descending?"
"Who is it? Could she really be an incarnation from my Demon King Palace? An incarnation of the Supreme One?"
Otherwise, this operation… is it something a human can do?
Previously, it was said she was a Celestial-Demon incarnation, but she denied it. Later, she directly thwarted the Great Demon King's revival, clearing her name. A few minutes ago, it was said she was a descendant of the Celestial Clan, which she forcefully refuted, and then in the blink of an eye…
"Great Demon King!!"
"Damn it!!"
"Pervert, lunatic! Madwoman!"
A'Diao was actually reviving the Great Demon King again!
And she even succeeded in reviving him!
In the Demonic Spirit world, at the resting place of the seven Great Demon Kings' remains after their spiritual paths were severed, the surrounding Little Demon Kings had already returned to their positions. Except for the Fox Demon King, who was recuperating after being on the brink of death, everyone else was dejected. However, they didn't expect that in less than twenty minutes, the situation would reverse.
How could this be?
The auras of the seven Great Demon Kings grew strong again. They were already stuck at the threshold of revival, and seeing the spiritual path being sent in, everyone was ecstatic.
"It must be Gu Shan's doing!"
"Amazing! Truly worthy of being the leader of our Little Demon Kings, awesome!"
"Quick, quick, quick! Quickly arrange the grand army to prepare for an invasion of the mortal realm, quick!"
This group impatiently reorganized the already arranged Demonic Spirit grand army. Then, there was also an order of revival for the seven Great Demon Kings.
The seven Great Demon Kings – Kuiwei, Bishi, Canmo, Jingyao, Canggui, Qizhen, and Jiuwei – lay in the positions of the Big Dipper. The huge bronze coffins trembled with thumping sounds, and immense demonic qi howled out. Soon, bang! Three coffin lids directly exploded.
Three black whirlwinds, like old demons, twisted and roared as they rushed out of the Demon Cave's entrance. With them clearing the way, the billions-strong Demonic Spirit grand army swarmed out with a buzzing sound.
The three Great Demon Kings howled out, just in time to meet the two experts from the Arbitration Council descending.
This wasn't a chance encounter on a narrow path, yet they met. The enmity between the two sides was already irreconcilable. The Arbitration Council existed in opposition to the Demon King Palace, and these peak experts were counterparts to the Great Demon Kings. They were mortal enemies who had fought each other since the initial era, and they recognized each other instantly upon meeting.
"Dantai Mohe!"
"Ji Ye!"
"Canmo, Jingyao, Canggui!"
Enemies meeting face to face, the three Great Demon Kings were filled with such hatred! Without a second word, they attacked.
On the other side, Dantai Mohe and Ji Ye actually didn't want to fight these three Great Demon Kings. Because Chen A'Diao had orchestrated all of this, she was the biggest hidden danger. They even wanted to first explain to the three Great Demon Kings and kill Chen A'Diao together. After all, if Chen A'Diao wasn't allied with their Demon King Palace, killing her first would be in their common interest, right? However, their calculations were doomed to fail.
First, they also suspected deep down that Chen A'Diao was allied with the Demon King Palace. Otherwise, was this something a human could do? It would have been more advantageous for her to escape at the opportune moment than to perform such an operation. After all, the revived three Great Demon Kings and the vast army of the Demonic Spirit Race were enough to eliminate the two experts from the Arbitration Council. They could easily spare a hand to kill her, and it wasn't certain she could escape midway. After all, the Great Demon Kings' methods were extremely terrifying; otherwise, the powerful Arbitration Council wouldn't have failed to invade the Demonic Spirit world for so many years.
Second, there was a discrepancy between the information known by the imperial families of the three nations and the Arbitration Council, and the information known by the three Great Demon Kings. This so-called information gap meant that the Arbitration Council and others knew Chen A'Diao was the instigator of this matter, so they were wary and had the strongest killing intent, further suspecting her collusion with the Demon King Palace. But the Demon King Palace knew this wasn't the case and couldn't imagine that Chen A'Diao would pull off such a wild move. They still thought Gu Shan was behind it. So, upon revival, they emerged from the Demon Cave, and upon emerging, they went on a killing spree. Anyway, apart from their Demonic Spirit Race, all humans were enemies and could be killed. Since that was the case, they would naturally kill those from the Arbitration Council first, and everyone else would be treated equally. This way, the risk was spread out, and A'Diao gained a chance to survive.
Experts from both sides were fighting, and these were old monsters who had cultivated for hundreds or thousands of years. Opportunities in battle were precious, and a momentary advantage could be fatal. Even if Dantai Mohe and his companion wanted to inform them that Chen A'Diao possessed the national vein and could be killed first, they feared that if the three Great Demon Kings learned of it, they might devour Chen A'Diao and flee, effectively absconding with the national vein. That would be even more troublesome than Chen A'Diao taking it.
In this dilemma, time was delayed. The fighting experts grew heated, every move filled with killing intent. How could they have any spare energy to think about persuading the other side to switch targets?
Even if you dared to say it, they might not believe you.
After all, from the perspective of the three Great Demon Kings, only the two from the Arbitration Council had the strength to threaten them. Chen A'Diao was already locked down; she couldn't beat them, and they weren't afraid of the duck getting fatter (i.e., her becoming stronger before they dealt with her).
But as both sides pondered their own strategies, neither expected there was a time difference with A'Diao.
This time difference wasn't about whether she could assimilate the national vein before they finished fighting and freed up a hand to kill her. Instead, she had no intention of fully assimilating the national vein; rather, she drove it into the ground.
Underground?
Damn it, what was she up to now?
What kind of array formation was it this time?
No, it really wasn't. She merely fused the national vein with another dragon vein's karmic luck deep within Qishan's mountain core.
That's right, she had hidden a dragon vein inside Qishan.
It was the dragon vein that belonged to her, which she had previously obtained in Guixu. She had hidden it in Qishan.
Firstly, dragon vein karmic luck is not an energy body; it's very mystical. The dragon vein could be in the north of the world, but if you are a karmic luck entity, it can drift to you far away in the south. It circulates and flows throughout the world, omnipresent, yet it can also completely disappear. Its travel speed is even countless times faster than the speed of light; no teleportation can match it.
Secondly, it's very ethereal. Unless you are a karmic luck entity, it's very difficult to sense it. Otherwise, when different countries attacked each other's national veins, it would be too precise. Why even fight wars? Just attack the national vein directly. Even if there was a backlash, it would be worth it.
Because of these two special characteristics, after obtaining Guixu, A'Diao began to trace the Tang Song national vein. After succeeding, she started to lay out her plans.
One of those plans was to hide her own karmic luck dragon vein in Qishan.
So, many people now had an epiphany – why the Great Demon King's revival site corresponded to Qishan. At the time, everyone, including Kunlun and Qu Xia'er, thought it was the protagonist effect.
Chen A'Diao was the center of the era, the C-position, the foremost specialist in stirring up trouble. It wasn't strange that her hometown was connected to karmic luck. At that time, no one had thought that a dragon vein's karmic luck was truly hidden deep within it.
Of course, they had initially thought about excavating and investigating it, but later, didn't they dig up a cesspit…
But they never, ever expected that the dragon vein's karmic luck was actually hidden deep beneath the damn cesspit, and she had concealed it with special methods.
So that cesspit was also intentional, right?
Attacking the mind is paramount.
From Baiyue Qinggu +5000 stars!
From Dantai Mohe +8000 stars!
From…
The masses frantically contributed star power, especially the group who had despised that old Daoist temple to death. At this moment, their expressions were incredibly colorful: Ah, this day of being played, this Chen A'Diao is truly thoroughly wicked, never playing by the rules.
Toxic, truly too toxic.
The mentally battered crowd watched as the karmic luck merged, with the dragon vein's karmic luck devouring the national vein. This efficiency was much faster than A'Diao absorbing it herself; it was a fusion of similar attributes. Thus, in the blink of an eye, A'Diao was about to take a shortcut and assimilate the national vein.
That was a national vein, the pulse of a nation. Three national veins even supported the core foundation of the Arbitration Council. Now, losing one-third of it had thrown the lofty Arbitration Council into a panic. One could imagine what kind of monster she would become if she alone assimilated most of this national vein's karmic luck.
At this moment, without needing Dantai Mohe and the others to shout, the three Great Demon Kings – Canmo, Jingyao, and Canggui – charged madly towards A'Diao to kill her.
Kill her, devour the national vein!
Everyone with killing intent rushed towards her, but Baiyue Qinggu and the others felt a sense of panic. As her allies, their thinking was: if Chen A'Diao had already laid out this entire scheme, then by arranging for the dragon vein's karmic luck to devour the national vein, she wouldn't need to lure the three Great Demon Kings and the Demonic Spirit grand army out of the Great Demon Cave. She was confident she could consume the national vein in a short time and then directly confront the two peak experts from the Arbitration Council. Even if it required some effort to stall them in the meantime, wasn't Kunlun outside? Kunlun could do that, but he hadn't come in. It seemed Ying Si was already dead, yet he hadn't entered, indicating that his not entering was part of Chen A'Diao's plan.
That also meant – this place had been designed.
Inviting the lord into the urn (a trap).
They were, after all, the founding ancestors who had commanded wind and rain in the initial era. They understood in an instant and subconsciously wanted to flee, but it was too late. A'Diao, facing everyone – including the two experts from the Arbitration Council, the three Great Demon Kings, everyone from the Nine Cauldrons factions, and the countless, overwhelming Demonic Spirit grand army that dominated land, sea, and air – smiled faintly, clasped her hands, brought her fingertips together, and began to chant an incantation.
It was said her talent for curses was number one, but she had rarely used it along the way.
People, well, if words suffice, don't resort to actions. If physical persuasion works, use physical persuasion. Curses and such made her seem too dark, too negative. But things had come to this point, and she was forced to.
So…
Under the control of the national vein + karmic luck dragon vein, the two Books of Civilization in her mind, which had been fully nourished by the vast Sun-like substance, merged into one.
As it merged, her Yellow Springs Eyes opened, and her mental sea world surged, expanding dozens of times.
Under this, she single-handedly controlled all the karmic luck.
The so-called karmic luck and national destiny, the mountain and sea world, her world, a world she could control.
Of course, that was an exaggeration, but… one Qishan was enough.
As she smiled faintly, the curse shot out in an instant. And so… everyone, including Qu Xia'er and the others, heard the blare of a suona. Then, the vast mountains and rivers of Qishan overturned, transforming into countless combined molecules… It became a colossal monster, covering the sky from the earth, with the likeness of azure dragons and fierce whales within, booming and striking violently.
Space, time, world – sealed within and utterly annihilated.
The most concentrated targets were the two from the Arbitration Council and the three Great Demon Kings, who instantly suffered a 360-degree violent attack from the sealed world within the area.
Space, metal, wood, water, fire, earth, and so on – after the perverted azure dragons and great whales, reorganized from all elements and material molecules, instantly manifested and struck violently… even though they were peak experts who could command wind and rain, they all burst apart, vomiting blood.
"No!!"
They struggled, attempting to fly towards A'Diao to kill her, but A'Diao controlled this world with one hand, crushing them with its combined power. With her other hand, fingers spread, she faced the billions of the vast Demonic Spirit army and the six cauldron factions, including the three great imperial families.
She stood high above and spoke.
"–––"
Her fingertips closed inward.
Countless earth bodies mixed with countless substances, cracking, devouring… entangling… engulfing… The people from the six cauldron factions were scared to the point of vomiting blood, and even those from Wu Mountain, the Heavenly Spirit Clan, and Lushan were no exception. They were all within this terrifying, massive earth-whale's engulfment.
The suona blared, a funeral dirge for the departed souls.
Death was close at hand.
The likes of Canmo, Jingyao, Canggui – their appearances hadn't even been clearly described, having just revived and appeared less than a few minutes ago.
The likes of Dantai Lingyao, Moluo Qiankun, what else…
Anyway, she wiped them all out in one fell swoop.
Everyone was within her grasp, and then… her fist clenched.
Crack!
In an instant, with no room for maneuver, the three great imperial families of the three nations were all buried alive, then burst into countless pieces of flesh, blood, and energy bodies through extreme crushing, mixing into the rocks, sand, and soil of Qishan.
On the other side, the five great experts in the sky attempting to flee were also torn into countless fragments by the azure dragon and then cruelly devoured.
What remained… the earth all receded, turning into a flowing ocean.
The Demonic Spirits, totally annihilated.
The imperial families of the three nations, totally annihilated.
The five great experts and experts like Dantai Lingyao, totally annihilated.
Only the six cauldron factions remained.
The three heterodox imperial clans and the three major sects were still alive.
Even Moluo Changsong, Taihao Qiankun, and Tong Qinghuang, she didn't kill.
So it wasn't a complete wipeout after all.
Merely regarding them as ants, looking down from above, she watched these people, still shaken and devoid of any of their former expert arrogance. She remained silent for a moment.
This silence was terrifying. Yu Xuanji even suspected that this crazy bitch would annihilate even them.
Too terrifying.
The emergence of the Three Gentlemen in Tang Song in the past had already led the initial era to believe that the feng shui of Tang Song was excellent, suitable for producing peerless individuals.
Who would have thought, this wasn't some peerless individual.
A peerless madwoman!
"I'm thinking of a sentence, how to elegantly show off and make you all instantly understand my meaning."
"Ah, I've thought of it."
She smiled faintly, looking down at the experts and geniuses of the six cauldron factions trapped in the mountain and sea, and said: "It is said that those who usurp a state shall be executed. For one who successfully usurps a state, authority rests in my hands, and I bestow glory upon you all."
"Understand?"
Everyone: "…"
At this very moment, the mixed karmic luck that had completed the annihilation task had completely merged, becoming national vein karmic luck. It glittered, extracted itself from the mountain and sea, and transformed into nine golden dragons swimming towards her.
Those golden dragons were so enormous, glittering, majestic, and full of vitality.
Weakened was Tang Song; powerful was Chen A'Diao.
And if Tang Song wanted to be powerful, wouldn't it be enough for it to become Chen A'Diao's Tang Song?
Therefore, everyone from Lushan and the Heavenly Spirit Clan knelt on one knee.
The others…
Had no choice.
In fact, they had no other thoughts, because ever since she controlled the Qishan world and annihilated... that kind of madness and grandeur was terrifying yet awe-inspiring.
Walk the villain's path, leaving the villain with no path to take.
Annihilate all enemies, suppress all resistance, eliminate all hidden dangers, and consolidate all authority in oneself.
How are eras divided?
Chaos gives rise to a chaotic era.
From a chaotic era emerge heroes and tyrants.
Heroes and tyrants contend for supremacy, and a king is decided.
She won, so she was high in the sky, and they knelt.
Watching all this, it was as if they had returned to the scene of the Lushan assessment back then, when she "physically" subdued all the geniuses.
The Yinglong is in the wild; the master of the era is in the heavens.
At this moment, A'Diao raised an eyebrow, looked up at the distant sky, and saw the roiling firmament. After absorbing the national vein's karmic luck, she saw everything with her Yellow Springs Eyes, saw the hidden gazes and jealousy behind space.
She smiled, raised her hand, and decisively gave the middle finger to the sky.
"What Arbitration Council? Thinking you're so noble and powerful? Just a bunch of stinking idiots leeching off the Celestial Clan. You can't come back because you were messing with Celestial Seeds, right? In that case, I'll gladly accept this world."
"By the way, I hope you guys put in some effort and make Lie Qin and Nan Jin hatch those old fogeys a bit faster. Otherwise, when the three nations unite, I'll strip your national vein underpants completely bare."
Her words were venomous, and she was vengeful down to the smallest grievance. She had detested the imperial families since she was young, and later, being constantly harmed and endangered, this hatred became bone-deep. That's why she annihilated all the experts of the three nations' imperial families, leaving none behind.
Conversely, she had no intention of exterminating Bronze Mountain, the Taihao Imperial Clan, or even the Moluo Imperial Clan.
This person's temperament was extreme; she could be generous to the point of being carefree, or ruthless to the point of eradicating all roots.
But it was mainly because the imperial families of the three nations affected her authority, while other forces could still be left as the backbone of the human race to resist the Demonic Spirits.
This person had always been calculating and shrewd, restrained and cautious, never indulging in emotional outbursts.
This was what was most terrifying about her.
Of course, Toilet felt…
"You just want to explode with mental power, don't you."
A'Diao: "Yeah, yeah."
Mental power surged like a tide. Qishan had returned to her control. The six cauldron factions trembled; this world was already in the palm of her hand.
The upcoming Lie Qin and Nan Jin were merely steps in the process.
Anyway, after humiliating the Arbitration Council, when Kunlun re-entered this world, he happened to hear A'Diao, squatting on the hill of Qishan's old Daoist temple, asking the pale-faced Baiyue Qinggu and others with a smile.
"Who among you is organizing the victory banquet?"
"None of you are willing? So stingy, not giving me face?"
"The Tang Song Imperial Palace? That's not too good, is it? I pretty much wiped out their entire family today… You guys are so mean."
"Alright, they'll host it… Then you guys pay up, huh! You're not even willing to spend this little bit of money for me? And you say you support me? What's the damn difference between this and wanting to sleep with me but not buying a condom? Are you scumbags?"
Watching Baiyue Qinggu and these people being bullied by her to the point where they couldn't maintain their expert composure and were about to explode…
Kunlun suddenly remembered that Chen A'Diao's greatest hobby in the past wasn't actually eating, but… making money.
Fleecing both enemies and allies alike.
Children from the mountains mature early, they know how to live frugally.
Kunlun had also been a beggar and still remembered the days of his youth when he ate tree bark. His gaze towards A'Diao grew increasingly gentle.
Then Baiyue Xiangsi suddenly came over and said to him softly, "I now understand why you never look sideways at others."
She seemed to have found release. Regarding her century of infatuation, regarding the bitterness of her unrequited love, she was finally starting to let go.
Because she saw the gap between them.
"Is it because you have a heart that is noble and transcendent, yet can enter the mortal world, a heart that is a great hermit hidden in the city?"
"While I am just an ordinary person."
Kunlun: "?"
Toilet: "…"
No, beautiful lady, these two oddballs are just stingy, gluttonous, and lazy!!!
Under a tree, Xu Ye stood with her arms crossed, leaning against the trunk, quietly watching A'Diao "tormenting" a group of old ancestors over there. Song Ling came over and handed her a storage ring.
"What is it?"
Song Ling: "Mutated substances, don't you want them? Other allocated substances will be distributed later."
Xu Ye took it directly. "How could I not want them? There's still a lot to do."
This world was actually not yet settled.
There was still the Arbitration Council and the Demonic Spirit Race.
She felt that A'Diao provoking the Arbitration Council was purposeful…
Dantai Zhuying finally found her own mother in a side palace, only to discover the latter was tremblingly drinking coffee.
My dear mother consort, your condition is quite good.
After asking, she found out her mother had also had a stroke of dog-shit luck. Back then, her damn emperor father had countless beauties in his six palaces, but her own mother was the absolute favorite concubine. But later, circumstances became overwhelming. Spiritual energy revived, and her damn emperor father wanted to regain his youth, so he married an Ice Phoenix Empress who could crush all the harem beauties with a single finger.
How could they compare? It was like a village girl versus a fairy in a novel; it was no longer a comparison of looks and figure.
After much thought, her mother decisively avoided the brunt of it, voluntarily gave up her former glory in the palace, and moved to a remote small hall. Relying on her daughter's cultivation talent, which ranked in the top five within the imperial family, she successfully maintained her treatment, becoming a model of retreating bravely from the rapids and quietly prospering.
Later, as expected, they encountered one mess after another.
The imperial family members died one after another, like leeks in a field.
This time was even worse; their nest was blown up, and the national vein was pried away.
"Luckily, you secretly befriended Daoguang Jingci before and also secretly allied with Chen Xun… Too terrifying, this Chen family is like they're using cheats."
The favored concubine wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, thought for a moment, and asked, "You and Chen Xun, did you… you know…"
These days, to secure oneself, marriage alliance was the most direct way.
Dantai Zhuying was amused by her mother's wild imagination. While instructing the guards to rescue some palace maids and eunuchs, she took a bottle of iced otaku happy water to drink, then smiled faintly. "People from the Chen family, the more outstanding they are, the more devoid of love they become. Wise people don't fall into the river of love. As for me… dear mother, my surname is Dantai."
The Dantai clan, ah. She looked at some of the surviving imperial family members and also saw the imperial kinsmen being escorted over not far away.
Escorting them were… Duanmu and other powerful figures, as well as the army.
They were completely under control; it seemed they had fully submitted to Chen A'Diao.
The rest who didn't submit were all eliminated.
Iron-fisted methods, thunderous suppression.
Taking down Tang Song completely in the shortest time and with the highest efficiency.
Although Dantai Zhuying had vaguely sensed before that the current operating rules of the imperial family would sooner or later be replaced, she hadn't expected it to be so fast.
"Actually, you shouldn't have entered the palace, and you…" The favored concubine reacted, a little nervous. She wanted to finish, but Dantai Zhuying stood up and walked towards the menacing army approaching from outside.
Then, the leader from the Duanmu family opposite them said, "Your Highness, the Eldest Princess, do you know how to organize a victory banquet?"
Dantai Zhuying: "?"
She, who had thought that as a royal, she would have to stretch out her neck for execution, never expected that she would next be the planner for a large dinner victory banquet…
No, is this Chen A'Diao a lunatic?
Probably because saving her life was paramount, the noble Eldest Princess then fully utilized her lifetime of professional experience in luxury and pleasure. In a short period, she used various departments to repair the imperial palace and then hosted a successful victory banquet and feasting scene.
Later, on the palace roof, she saw A'Diao sitting there, gnawing on a pig's trotter and drinking milk tea.
She inwardly complained "lunatic" several times, but she still asked her question.
"Aren't you afraid that we, the surviving Dantai imperial family, will threaten you in the future?"
A'Diao's mouth was greasy. She turned her head and looked her up and down twice. "What? Who? You guys?"
Not very damaging, but extremely insulting.
The Eldest Princess maintained an elegant and polite smile and ran off.
Toilet was actually also curious. "You don't seem like someone who would spare their lives, so you're keeping them for a reason, right?"
Although they were all locked up, not killing them directly was strange.
A'Diao indeed didn't care whether there were innocents or not among the imperial family. After all, as beneficiaries, they were all sharers of power. How could there be any innocents? And there was no such thing as 'good and not doing evil means one shouldn't die'.
Since ancient times, in power transitions, the greatest taboo is not eradicating the roots when cutting the weeds.
Imperial power and hegemony, the art of emperors.
But A'Diao still spared them. At this moment, she took a sip of milk tea and said slowly, "Naturally, they're useful. I want to see if the old Daoist will show up."
"Logically, these imperial family members should also be his prey."
Toilet: "Ah, what if he comes and kills them?"
A'Diao: "That would be best. What I fear most is that he doesn't come, that these people are not his target. That would mean their target is even bigger, not just the imperial families of the three nations."
Toilet was silent for a moment.
A'Diao was raised by the old Daoist and also cultivated by him. Neither side was a pushover. It absolutely couldn't figure out their line of thinking.
Anyway, they were both perverts, that's for sure.
But…
"Why aren't you in a hurry to collect the national veins of Lie Qin and Nan Jin? Are you afraid of a backlash? I really didn't expect you to be in a hurry to come back and eat first."
Toilet asked this. A'Diao put down her milk tea cup, sat cross-legged, and looked at the setting sun in the distance, smiling faintly.
"Don't drive a dog into a dead end, because a cornered dog will jump over the wall."
Toilet only understood after a delayed realization. But Qu Xia'er, who disliked the imperial palace and had returned to her old house deep in the mountains of Dianzhou, poured water into a cup. Looking at the courtyard flowers and plants warmly illuminated by the orange light, she quietly drank cold water. As a Corpse King, no matter how high her cultivation, she had lost all sensation, so her temperament would only grow colder.
She looked at all this, her hands resting on the counter, her slender waist slightly bent, letting the gentle breeze blow through her flowing long hair.
She had figured it out long ago, when A'Diao proposed the victory banquet.
"If all three national veins were taken by her, the Arbitration Council would be like having its foundation pulled out. It probably couldn't last long outside. In a desperate, do-or-die situation, they would definitely send all their experts into the mortal realm regardless of the cost. Leaving two national veins to keep them hanging makes them wary of throwing everything into the mortal realm, yet unwilling to let A'Diao take the national veins, so they will only deliberate on their methods. Right now, we all need to assimilate resources and grow. Time is far more beneficial to us than to those old fogeys in the Arbitration Council who are in their twilight years and rely entirely on Celestial Seeds. So, what we need to fight for is time."
However, Qu Xia'er also felt that A'Diao definitely had deployments in Lie Qin and Nan Jin.
Then, she estimated that A'Diao was also looking for the true hiding place of the Arbitration Council.
As long as her strength was sufficient, she would instead strike first.
This was already the final stage of the three-way game.
The Arbitration Council, the Demon King Palace, and Chen A'Diao.
Only one of the three parties could survive to ultimately decide the fate of the world and create a new era.
It was also the new era they desired.
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