It doesn't matter what the lord is.

The cloaked man was silent for a moment, and a voice sounded in Lid's mind.

I couldn't tell the emotion, gender, or age. The cold and mechanical voice was like the wind blowing from the wilderness: "Don't explore, but you will eventually get it... The void has its own answer."

After saying that, his figure disappeared instantly, and the torn space behind Lid slowly closed. After helping Lid recover from his injuries, the purple liquid quickly flowed back into the torn space. The huge eye stared at Lid, and then slowly closed.

After everything returned to normal, Reed let out a breath.

Just now when he asked that question "Have we met before", he suddenly felt murderous intent from the other party.

That's right, murderous intent. This was the first time he felt murderous intent coming from the void. The mysterious beings who had helped him heal his wounds and cured Shi Yuan the moment before seemed to want to take him away the next moment.

The head on his neck. This killing intent came not only from the black-robed man standing there, but also from the right-hand eye of the tree. Everything around him would be completely destroyed. The surrounding space would completely collapse, and something - perhaps the real body behind the huge eye would appear and destroy everything around him, including him.

It was as if they wanted to destroy some evidence.

His intuition was always good, and he trusted his own judgment, so he pretended to be calm and changed the subject, but in his heart he guessed something else because of this test. The first formal meeting between the two parties ended here. It was a brief test, and both parties got what they wanted.

Now is not the time to explore these things. Considering that the Void is closely monitoring him, Lid plans to keep these things in his heart for the time being. He does have more important things to do. It is enough to know that the Void has not taken action against him or interfered with his thoughts for the time being. As for whether they will be enemies or friends in the future, we will have to wait and see.

Shi Yuan coughed up several mouthfuls of blood, and her distracted eyes finally slowly gathered some light.

Although she was not as energetic as before, as if she was covered with a layer of mist, she had returned from the gates of hell after all. She opened her mouth, exhaled a sweet and fishy breath, and said to Lid:

"What is this?"

"Pity, revenge, exploitation, robbery and rape - it's not love at all."

Lid sat beside her, moving his now-recovered hand, and sighed in his heart that these Void guys were really capable. He said to Shi Yuan:

"Don't think too much. The main reason for keeping you is because you are useful. After Meijiu's death, the Abyss Church must be taken over by someone. There are twelve people in the Pontifical Council, and there are countless small leaders under them. If no one is in charge, there will be chaos. And you have been developing for too long, and your foundation is too big. If you are allowed to fight among yourselves, the world will be in chaos again."

Shi Yuan turned her gaze towards him and whispered: "Tingchao can't kill Meijiu. He..."

Lid nodded and didn't let her finish: "I know. I know this better than you." Lid paused, stood up, and continued:

"So I will be the one to kill him. But before that, I have to let the old man fulfill his wish and rest in peace."

57. People I don’t want to see

After the Immaculate Tree disappeared, the defense line protecting it did not collapse, but still existed intact on this desolate land. Yunyang's army wanted to reach the heartland of Western Qin, so they first had to face the evil spirit that came and went without a trace.

Thanks to Changye's surrender, Fang Shisan had already learned a lot of intelligence in advance, so he didn't have to panic when faced with sudden situations. However, the constant harassment of the evil spirit still led to the loss of some soldiers, which was unavoidable.

"Let me make it clear in advance that these things are not products of the same system as us." Perhaps noticing the unfriendly look of the Yunyang soldiers, Changye briefly explained:

"They appeared not long after the Awakening Day. In addition to Mr. Ying and his [Divine Spell], the Shi He Da entered the country called 'Shi Fen Ji Mo Yan You Yi.../A What do they want to do? However, they surrounded the Immaculate Tree, which is also a natural barrier. We have not started to clean it up.

When Chang Ye finished speaking, it was not Fang Shisan who answered him, but Huang Yan's voice:

"...They are waiting for someone."

Huang Yan's voice was very calm, and it was confusing at first, but her tone was inexplicably convincing. Fang Shisan turned to the direction of Huang Yan, who was standing on the food and grass and looking into the distance. The figure of a ghost appeared beside her. In a place that only she could see, the eyes formed by the evil spirit were patrolling, and the mouth formed by the evil spirit was chewing something slowly.

The separated facial features wandered around in different places, as if waiting for the moment to merge into one. "Waiting for someone?"

While Fang Shisan was still chewing on these words, Huang Yan had already jumped down from the carriage, walked to Fang Shisan's side, and said to her:

"I'll stay here, and you guys go deeper. I can feel that they are wandering around this land, waiting for someone to return, and I can't control them, which means that the person they are waiting for is not me. But I think that person may be related to me - maybe there are other sons of Tianyan who have survived by chance besides me."

Huang Yan placed his hand on the hilt of the knife, and Fang Shisan said:

"Give Reed my regards."

Fang Shisan thought about it, nodded, and told Huang Yan to be careful. She would not force Huang Yan to stay in the army, on the one hand because Huang Yan was not a member of the Yunyang military system, and on the other hand she was familiar with Huang Yan's character. Fang Shisan was not sure if Huang Yan was looking for an excuse to stay behind, but she knew that no one in the army was more familiar with these evil spirits than Huang Yan.

Huang Yan left the Yunyang army, watched them go away, and then slowly drew out her sword. A cold look flashed in her eyes that seemed to contain stars. Beside her, the evil spirit that did not belong to this land began to slowly condense. Compared with the evil spirit gathered on this land, the evil spirit that appeared beside Huang Yan at this time was not strong, but this anomaly soon attracted the attention of the "local forces".

The evil spirits lurking under the land of Western Qin no longer harassed Yunyang's army like headless flies, but seemed to have found a clear target and began to slowly gather towards where Huang Yan was. These evil spirits did not have clear hostility, but they instinctively wanted to devour Huang Yan and make Huang Yan merge with them.

They gathered slowly, but on a massive scale, like a football field-sized net slowly tightening, trying to strangle a tiny ant inside. Huang Yan's face showed no expression, she calmly clenched the knife in her hand, watching the first Western Qin evil spirits that condensed into humanoid entities, and chopped them off, cut them open, and chopped them into pieces one by one.

……

Perhaps the evil spirit had broken the delicate balance within the West Qin territory. Merlin stopped running and turned his head. Anna, who was running in front of him, saw him stop and wanted to ask him something, but when she saw his frown, she didn't ask. After a moment, Merlin exhaled and said to her:

"Just keep walking."

Anna says:

"I wonder how Ying Bai and the others are doing..."

Merlin shook his head and said nothing. The clone he created with his magic was still functioning normally, but the pressure he faced was increasing.

Merlin's confusion grew deeper and deeper.

The deadlock between Qin and Nanchu was initially seen by the outside world as a dispute between two lords, but later the Abyss Church gradually surfaced, and the Dragon Clan was involved. Now, almost all the forces of the top three clans have appeared, and this place has become a stage for high-ranking people to compete.

There were many puzzles that he couldn't figure out, but he was very clear that each force took what it needed here, and if someone gained, someone else had to lose. The tens of millions of lives in the two territories of West Qin and South Chu were just a number in the eyes of the upper three clans. This chaotic situation was still confusing. When the evil spirit was flowing just now, Merlin suddenly had a question in his mind: he couldn't imagine what the relationship between these evil spirits and the upper three clans was, so he could only infer that in addition to the upper three clans, there was a fourth force making moves on this chessboard.

Who could it be?

He had no answer to this question, and no time to think about it carefully. He was thinking about Xiaobai's situation, and constantly evaluating the outcome of the fight between Tingchao and Meijiu. Finding Lid was what he had to do now.

What was slightly different from what Merlin had imagined was that he had originally thought that Xiaobai and Saint Huang Zhi would act together, supporting each other, and strive to take down Mr. Ying and Wumingzhidang, but in fact, the two acted separately. While Merlin was still thinking about the source of these evil spirits, Xiaobai had already exchanged more than a dozen moves with Mr. Ying.

, Huang Zhi was not by his side.

Mr. Ying was wrapped in bandages all over, with even his eyes exposed, but his perception was surprisingly sharp. Xiaobai's sword was unable to hurt him, nor could it force him into a desperate situation.

After more than a dozen moves, Xiao Bai showed a confused look on his face, and then regained his composure. He placed the sword in front of him and said to Mr. Ying:

"I remember when I was learning swordsmanship, everyone else learned to kill, but I was taught not to kill. When I asked why, I heard many high-sounding reasons. Only you told me in private that with my status, I don't need to do things that require the sacrifice of countless lives. Success based on countless lives may not be meaningful--"

Xiaobai pointed his sword downwards and stared at Mr. Ying silently.

After a moment, he said calmly:

"I think I should return this to you as it is, Father."

Mr. Ying was silent for a while, then he sighed. He reached out his hand and untied the bandage on his head. The bandages wrapped all over his body slowly fell down, revealing a fair, elegant face with indifferent eyes.

Xiaobai is very familiar with this face.

Xiaobai looked down along his face and saw a wound on his chest that went through his heart, as if an irrecoverable hole had been carved out in his chest.

At the same time, as the bandage fell off, the tumor on Mr. Ying's back began to move, and then a pair of pitch-black wings broke through the skin and gradually extended, appearing in front of Xiaobai in an incomplete posture.

Xiao Bai's eyes revealed a bit of melancholy. After exchanging more than a dozen moves, he vaguely realized the other party's identity. But if possible, he really didn't want to see this face again.

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