It doesn't matter what the lord is.

"The smell of blood in the air has been getting stronger recently. Have you noticed it? When I was sleeping yesterday, I dreamed about Xiaobai and Lide. I dreamed that Xiaobai was beheaded at the execution ground, and that Lide died in the hands of the dragon clan. The dream ended with a pitch-black scene, as if I was in a lightless hall. I could faintly hear the roar of a dragon, but that roar was accompanied by a lot of noise."

Xiao Hei looked at Merlin and said with a wry smile:

"I was thinking, this might be a warning, telling me that time is running out." Merlin looked a little serious.

Last night, he also heard the roar of the dragon, but the sound was very small and did not affect his mind. But he believed that this was not an illusion, something was struggling underground, and its sound pierced the solid ground and reached everyone's ears. The sound carried an inextinguishable hatred and resentment, and one could imagine what a scene it would be when it broke out of the ground.

……

In Yuanyang City, the Lord of Xi Qin and a woman stood together on the highest building, overlooking the entire city. The woman raised her head, looked at the clouds in the sky, smiled and said:

"Ying Bai survived."

The Lord of Xiqin nodded expressionlessly, neither happy nor sad, as if he was listening to something that had nothing to do with him. The woman withdrew her gaze from the clouds and said to the Lord of Xiqin:

"Isn't this a good thing for us? Our child survived. Come on, smile a little." The Lord of Xi Qin said calmly:

"He survived because he was lucky. But his survival didn't change anything. Ying Bai was kind-hearted since birth. He has never killed many animals, let alone humans. He chose this path, and he will die on this path one day."

The woman smiled and said:

"I think he looks a bit like you." The Lord of Xi Qin glanced at her and replied:

"Really? For me, who is about to destroy most of the territory, mercy has always been an external thing." The woman followed his gaze and looked towards Yuanyang City.

There are countless people walking on the street, and there is a monster hanging above each of their heads, with their faces twisted and struggling on the monster's back. Looking from a high place, one will find that the lines on the monster's body seem to be hanging from a high place. Once you realize this, the sun, moon and stars above your head seem to be false things, and there is a scarlet sun hanging high in the sky, overlooking all living beings.

Those are the blood souls of countless people.

They gathered into a blood-red sun that was slowly expanding.

In a mansion in Yuanyang City, Qi was dozing off with his head propped up, not noticing that his temples and beard were gradually turning gray. A spider-like monster appeared above his head, greedily absorbing his blood and soul from a distance.

Qi Zheng's stupid son Aqi was outside the house, watching the scene quietly through the glass.

Aqi clapped his hands lightly and chuckled. There was a bit of fanaticism in his foolish eyes, and the smile on the corners of his mouth became more and more twisted and weird. "Dad is being eaten. Hehe... Everyone is going to be eaten."

42. Internal and external troubles

In the dim dragon cave, Iapetus, a royal bloodline of the giants who is over two meters tall, is chatting with Paluten, a royal bloodline of the elves.

They came this time because they heard that the Dragon King was going to choose a fiancé for his daughter Dong Li. It wasn't that they had any intention of marrying the dragons, after all, the elves had just been slaughtered by the dragons, and the relationship between the giants and the dragons was not very good. It was just that such a big thing needed someone to come and take a look, and the two of them were just going through the motions to see if they could get some useful information.

Who Dong Li marries actually means who the dragon clan will join forces with next.

"Have you heard? The criminal who killed the ninth son of the Dragon King, Ofland, died not long ago."

Even in a foreign land with wind and snow, Palutlin, as an elf, still maintains the upper-class aura of the elves.

He was wearing a luxurious robe, and his skin was more delicate than that of a young girl. At this moment, he was sitting by the stove, with one hand stretched out in front of his eyes, concentrating on applying antifreeze cream on the back of his hand. If you look closely, you can see that his nails are painted with light pink nail polish, dotted with some shiny gold powder.

Paluten told Iapetus the information he had just heard, but Iapetus didn't seem very interested.

Iapetus hadn't slept well these past few days. He always had a strange feeling, which was very similar to the feeling when his soul was sucked away by Clenus, the pain of being slowly deprived of existence. But this time was different from the last time, he didn't feel any pain, but his body instinctively rejected something, so he just thought it was the sequelae of the last time that had not subsided.

Seeing that Iapetus was not interested, Palutarin still wanted to show off his knowledge, so he said:

"The criminal's name was Lid. I heard he was a lord in the human race, but he died just like that. Those humans are a hundred times weaker than us elves. If the dragons really wanted to fight, they would probably be killed in an instant. Unlike us, at least we resisted stubbornly and drove the dragons out."

Palutarin took the credit for the dark elf without hesitation. After all, in his opinion, what credit could a slave have? It was all because of the master's good command. But Iapetus didn't listen to the second half of his words.

When Iapetus heard the name Lid, he was shocked.

It had naturally heard of this name. Although the intelligence agency of the giants was primitive, they had the means to capture a few humans for interrogation, just like the dragons. Not long after Lid brought the three high-level giants back to Yongtian, the giants had figured out Lid's information.

When Iapetus heard the news of Lid's death, his face turned very bad instantly. His sister Thesis was still in Yunyang, and now that the lord of Yunyang, Lid, was dead, he didn't know how the situation would develop.

However, Iapetus had to question the news of Lid's death. Others might not know, but he had seen Lid, and that man could even kill Clenus, so he shouldn't have died so easily. But Iapetus would not question it, after all, it had nothing to do with him, and he only needed to watch silently from the side.

Palutelin criticized the dragon clan's decorations a few more times, saying that the dragon clan's place was too shabby and they didn't even have a nice room. A barbaric race like this would still live in barbarism in a million years. They had all the power but didn't know how to live a good life. They were the stupidest creatures in the world.

Of course, in his eyes, humans are not much better.

"Only idiots like Delis and Cheng would believe that there is anything worth learning from humans. Humans are just more advanced barbarians. They are polite but cannot learn etiquette thoroughly. They are just the most clumsy imitations of us elves. Before long, the dragons will destroy humans. This is good. The dragons have taken over such a large piece of land, so they will not cause trouble for us. All of this is in our plan..."

Palutarin finally finished applying his antifreeze cream, then took out a mirror from his bosom and began to groom his eyebrows.

Iapetus thought for a moment. If the dragons really invaded humans, what would the giants do? What would his brother, Kronos, the pillar of the giants, do? Would they unite with humans to attack the dragons, or unite with the dragons to attack humans? How much land would the giants get in this war? Would Hyberion, Coens, and Thesis, which were far away in human territory, be in danger?

Iapetus looked at the demon prince Si who was passing by the door. It seemed that it had just come out of the Dragon King's Cave and was now walking towards the distance in a good mood.

With the sudden news of Reed's death, the situation that once seemed controllable suddenly became unpredictable, like a car with its brakes removed, rushing towards an invisible future.

……

Inside the Dragon King's Cave, the Dragon King was lying on the ground with his eyes open, silently watching the wind and snow outside.

When the main force of the dragon clan returned from the elves, it had the idea of ​​declaring war on humans. However, a small episode occurred during this process. The Abyss Church claimed that it had a way to open the restriction that sealed the Abyss Ancestral Dragon in the void, temporarily attracting the attention of the Dragon King.

The Abyss Ancestral Dragon has mixed the blood of Kungu and the dragon clan. If it can really reappear in the human world, it will be very beneficial to conquer humans. So the Dragon King didn't care about wasting a little more time and found Lid to interrogate him, intending to get the key to open the void restriction from him.

Lid died suddenly, but time would not stop for the Dragon King. The northern land was bitterly cold, and food was in serious shortage. Every day, the invincible dragon warriors became weak and even died due to hunger.

After much deliberation, the Dragon King summoned the eldest princess Dong Li again.

"I want to let Nopres and Frey take over the matter of the Abyss Ancestral Dragon." The Dragon King spoke calmly, saying:

"It's not that you did anything wrong. It's just that now that things have come to this, I no longer have any hope for the Abyss Church. Although the human civil strife will continue for some time, every day of delay will bring them one step closer to unification. If we let them form a complete empire, our attack will be hindered. I want you to lead the troops and start the crusade against humans immediately."

Dong Li replied:

"But in my opinion, my second brother and third sister don't have this ability." The Dragon King shook his head:

"I know. But I only have you." Dong Li remained silent.

The Dragon King continued:

"My dear daughter, you should not be bound here. Now I have to consider that perhaps the woman of the Abyss Church is just stalling for time. We cannot follow her pace. Although Nopres and Frey are not capable enough, they still have the help of the elders. But without you on the front line, the southern expedition to humans will be a long way off."

Dong Li exhaled, bowed slightly, and said to the Dragon King:

"I understand, father. Don't worry, I will make humans bow down to the feet of the dragon clan. Even without the Ancestral Dragon of the Abyss, I will conquer the land we want." On that day, the dragon clan declared war on humans.

The people of Yongtian Kingdom were forced to take up arms while cursing Lid for not relieving the Dragon King's wrath. Internal strife and external war came together.

43. Hunting Lead Plan

Inside the dragon clan's prison, Shi Yuan looked at Lid lying in front of her, and a smile slowly appeared on her face.

Although her mother had told her in Xi Qin that if she couldn't deal with Lid, she should get out as soon as possible and not get deeper and deeper because of curiosity. However, for Shi Yuan, who was young and held an important position in the Abyss Church and helped this behemoth that had been secretly developing for hundreds and thousands of years to go further, such a warning obviously did not convince her.

She believed that her mother was scheming and capable, otherwise she would not have made two heavyweight lords bow down to her at the same time. So she followed the woman's advice and let the Abyss Church continue to preach in Yunyang, but she was no longer responsible for Yunyang's affairs.

But perhaps God gave her a chance to control Lid, allowing her to meet Lid again on the land of the dragon clan... There was a smile in Shi Yuan's peach blossom eyes.

After accidentally obtaining the news of the Abyss Ancestral Dragon hundreds of years ago, the Abyss Ancestral Dragon has always been very important in the Abyss Church, second only to the Pillar of Immortality, Clenus. After all, it is a hybrid of Kungu and the Dragon Clan, and is the closest existence in the world to the Abyss God Kungu. According to the plan, Shi Yuan personally went to the Dragon Clan and persuaded the Dragon King to take her to see the seal.

But that was a restriction left by the void, and ordinary people could not unlock it at all.

At that time, Shi Yuan thought of Lid.

At first, she had a dream in which she saw Lid lying on the ground with wounds all over his body. The space above his body suddenly tore apart, and purple liquid wrapped him in it. After his injuries recovered, the liquid flowed back into the torn space. At that time, Shi Yuan guessed that Lid might be related to the void.

Later, Lide's father died a violent death, and the whole world laughed at Lide for killing his father and brother. Only Shi Yuan believed that Lide did not kill the previous Lord of Yunyang. He probably knew something about the void, but his memories were erased when he was questioned by Lide and was about to confess.

Why are there so few people in this world who are capable of investigating the void? Because the old gods live in the sky, Kungu lives in the sea, but no one knows where the void is. They may appear anywhere, and they can make anyone disappear from the world silently, so the void is the most mysterious race.

Throughout all these years of the Church of the Abyss, only Shi Yuan, who was favored by the Almighty Pillar Nyarrat, could find clues.

What made Shi Yuan believe that Lid was the key to unlocking the ban was mainly because there was a passage written in ancient language next to the ban: "The child of Wuxin, the vessel of God. Running around in the world, waiting for the right time."

"In the dark place, some people struggle, some are lost, and some are running." "The dragon of the abyss will be its minister. The gods of the past will be its servants."

At first glance, this passage seems to have nothing to do with Li De, but Shi Yuan has inquired about Li De's life. Anyone who is a little older in Yunyang Lingyun City knows that Li De's life before the age of twelve was a blank, nothing. At that time, Li De was no different from a fool. Anyone could say a few words to him and anyone could bully him. In the words of the people in the Lord's Mansion, he was heartless and his eyes were dull.

Of course, this perverted child suddenly became wise after he turned twelve, and he took a maid out to bully men and women all day long. This is something that happened later. At least before he was twelve, he fit the description of "careless child". The death of Lord Yunyang was strange, and Lide's biological mother died early. Shi Yuan believed that there must be something wrong here.

Shi Yuan couldn't explain the prophecy for now, but it didn't matter. She knew very well that Lid was the key to open the door. After knowing this, Shi Yuan once fell into a brief joy, but soon she realized one thing because of her serious nature - that is, just knowing this was useless, she had to make a lot of preparations for it.

First of all, she didn't know how powerful the Void was. If the Void had been paying attention to her, then when she was ready to use Lid, she might be wiped out from this world by the Void. So she reported the matter to the Dragon Clan and asked the Dragon Clan to summon Lid.

During this period, Shi Yuan spent a lot of effort in the Dragon Clan to set up the secret method of "Isolating Everything" passed down from Kun Gu.

This kind of magic is very powerful, but the price is also very high. It needs the blood of countless spiritual creatures as the foundation to support a world of less than ten square meters. The advantage is that within the range of this magic, the outside world cannot know what is happening inside the magic by any means, even the powerful Old Gods, the Void, and the Abyss itself.

The Abyss Church has a special organization to collect the blood of the middle six clans and the lower nine clans. On average, these people's efforts every hundred years can only keep the magic running smoothly for twenty minutes. Even so, people who believe in the Abyss will still spend their entire lives working for it. This is their only pursuit in life.

Shi Yuan placed this magic in the prison but did not activate it for the time being.

From then on, she had arranged the rest of the chess. She just lacked someone to cooperate with her, which made Lid fall into a state of suspended animation. Fortunately, Lid himself was quite competitive and somehow hooked up with the third princess, Frey.

When Fulei came to her on her own initiative, Shi Yuan finally filled in the last piece of the puzzle.

To be honest, Shi Yuan herself was not 100% sure whether Li De would take the life-saving pill. But she was 70% sure, because a person like Li De would not be willing to end it like this. As long as there was any chance, he would definitely want to take a gamble. This was his character.

After discovering that Reed was "dead", Dong Li dug the entire prison deep inside but found nothing.

In front of the abyss gate, Dong Li personally searched Lid and Alayya's body and put all the things on them on the altar. Shi Yuan looked carefully and found that the life-saving pill was not inside.

For Dong Li, getting nothing is bad news.

But for Shi Yuan, getting nothing is the best news.

Because nothing was found, it meant that Lid had taken the life-saving pill, and everything was going according to her plan. To the dragon clan, Lid was now just a corpse, but to her, Lid still had infinite value. Now, she would control everything.

Maybe what her mother said was right, but the situation is different now. She no longer needs to use any tricks to manipulate Reed, she will use the most direct way to make Reed her slave.

Then, through Lide, he could indirectly control the Abyss Ancestral Dragon, and even use the power of the Ancestral Dragon to influence the entire dragon clan. As the lord of Yunyang, Lide was not enough to influence the general situation of the world.

But as the Son of the Void, he has this ability.

Shi Yuan let out a breath gently, her beautiful eyes moving around with a kind expression.

She placed her hand on Reed's chest and quietly began to chant an ancient ballad.

44. One move away

"Rootless water, morning fog. Flowers in the wind, dust on the eaves." "I don't know where it comes from, I don't know where it goes..."

In the dim prison, there was a barrier in the air. A few hundred meters away from the prison, there were countless flying dragons monitoring every move here. They were all left by Dong Li to watch over the scene.

Unfortunately, even the powerful dragons cannot use their perception skills to break through the barrier set up by Shi Yuan. This is now an absolutely hidden and safe area.

In the barrier, Lid's "corpse" had been lifted up by Shi Yuan, and was now "sitting" cross-legged in the prison. Of course, due to the lack of external support, he was sitting very reluctantly, with his head drooping, as if he didn't know when he would fall down again.

Shi Yuan clasped her hands in front of her chest, looked at Lid, and continued to sing the ancient ballad like a lullaby: "My heart is your heart, and your heart is mine."

"The secular world is nothing but a dream, as fleeting as dew and lightning, elusive and hard to find...."

There were three candles lit between Shi Yuan and Li De, which were said to symbolize the three bright lights of a person. The candle flames were dim at first, but then became brighter and brighter. Li De's shoulders shrugged slightly, which seemed like a terrifying scene of a corpse resurrecting from the dead to others, but to Shi Yuan, it seemed normal.

"Therefore, this life is meaningless, existence is suffering, and death is liberation."

"But before we die, we have something to do. To do this, our consciousnesses will merge together." "Now, open your eyes..."

As Shi Yuan finished speaking, Lid's head, which had been lowered, suddenly raised up, and his eyes slowly opened, staring at Shi Yuan. There was no light in his eyes, no different from a dead person. But the candlelight between the two of them became brighter. Shi Yuan looked at Lid, and for a moment she felt a little emotional -

Time is also destiny.

Lid is also favored by the three tribes above, and is favored by the void. The same is true for Shi Yuan, as the second in command of the Abyss Church.

She was also favored by Kungu, although

To Kungu, this favor was no different from charity. The two representatives of the upper three tribes in the human world had never had a real conflict, but they had fought each other openly and secretly several times. Now, she was slightly better.

Shi Yuan looked at Li De with her beautiful peach blossom eyes, smiled softly, and said to him: "Call my name."

"Poetry......benefit........."

As Reed recovered from his suspended animation, his blood began to flow again, and the wounds on his neck and shoulders burst open again, bleeding non-stop.

His voice was hoarse, like two rough

The sandpaper rubs against each other, making an unpleasant and harsh sound.

Shi Yuan didn't mind. She leaned forward and looked closely into Lid's eyes. Only when she saw herself in Lid's eyes did Shi Yuan whisper:

"From now on, I am your master. Outside, you will be no different from usual, but you will fall in love with me, hopelessly and deeply. You have no way to disobey my orders, and you will not have any doubts, because I am the person you trust the most, the person you like the most, and the person who is most worthy of your life. There will only be me in your life, and the ultimate meaning of your life is also in me."

Reed nodded dumbly.

Shi Yuan's mouth curved up, she held Lid's cheek and said, "Remember?"