124: Chapter 117: A Son is Born!

124: Chapter 117: A Son is Born!

“Ali?”

Chen Qing repeated the name blankly, feeling an inexplicable thumping in his chest.

The address was very warm, clearly indicating that the other person was familiar with the Thousand-Faced Fox, but by the looks of it, the fox didn’t seem to recognise the other.

Moreover, for some reason, Chen Qing always felt that he had heard this name before…

had he?

The scene fell into a dead silence.

After about four or five seconds of standoff, the childish voice spoke again, “What are you all…

waiting for?

For her poison to take effect?”

Chen Qing frowned and glanced at Murong Yunji, who understood and, with a flip of her hand, a gust of wind whisked by, and then a very childlike face appeared before everyone!

Everyone was startled, including Wang Ye.

He had found the voice strange when he first heard it, but how could he have imagined that this so-called ceiling of magicians was a little girl who looked so young?

The girl had white hair, which was incredibly cute under the moonlight, and her skin was so white it was exaggerated, like porcelain.

If one really had to say, she looked a lot like a Ghost Doll.

But Chen Qing…

couldn’t figure it out!

“Mirror Demon, what is this?”

Chen Qing secretly transmitted his voice.

The Mirror Demon was silent for a few seconds before finally replying, “I can’t tell…”

“Like me?”

“Not like you,” the Mirror Demon said indifferently.

“You are an anomaly, and she’s not, she can only be like this because someone has concealed her fate, and in this world, only one person can conceal fate!”

Chen Qing immediately knew who the other was talking about.

Mister Tianji!

“No time left…” the girl said, sitting on the ground with somewhat wobbly legs, “I don’t have much time left, we must hurry!”

“You don’t have much time?” Chen Qing frowned.

“What do you mean?”

“I…

can only exist for a quarter of an hour!”

“Huh?”

———————————-

“Lady Ziyue, she can only exist for a quarter of an hour!”

Outside the Azure Dragon Barrier, several black-clothed people took off their hoods, revealing their true faces—almost uniformly old men with white beards, all of whom looked beyond the age of mortal concerns.

“She just used Turbid Moon, and I’m afraid she might not even last a quarter of an hour, what should we do?”

“Zi Yue cannot fall into the hands of Chen Qing!”

“But this Azure Dragon Barrier is too complex, even Zi Yue can’t break it immediately.

Did Chen Qing pass on the Azure Dragon Sorcery to Mu Hongqing’s disciple just to set this trap?”

The Azure Dragon Heritage was indeed powerful, but they had initially chosen not to act immediately because they believed that they had everything under control.

What could a Fourth Rank magician, even one who had received the Azure Dragon Heritage, do in such a short time?

As long as they accomplished the Emperor’s task, wouldn’t the sorcery inheritance on that young girl’s body become theirs?

But who could have thought that a Fourth Rank magician girl could create a barrier of such intensity?

This barrier was not much weaker than the one in the Capital City, right?

How could a young girl pull this off?

The old magicians, experienced as they were, didn’t take long to guess that this was Chen Qing’s trap.

This Daqing Mountain must be the site where the Azure Dragon Sorcery was passed down by the previous generation, containing a barrier left behind that could be activated by someone with the same heritage!

“Truly cunning!” the leading old man said, his face ashen.

“What do we do now?” Another old magician looked at the barrier.

“The outer layer of the barrier is not as strong as the inner one, but breaking in recklessly would reveal our position.

With Murong Yunji there, plus that young man’s unknown and bizarre methods, fighting them head-on in the land of the Azure Dragon Barrier would be…

risky.”

“Then we force him out!” The leading old man’s voice carried a chilling ruthlessness.

“How do we force him?”

“Kill…,” the old man looked towards Lyuzhou City.

“He, Chen Qing, has been working diligently these days, dealing with mountain gods and the underworld, isn’t he just building his own forces?

The so-called deities of Lyuzhou seem not that powerful either.

If we storm Lyuzhou, we can naturally force Chen Qing out!”

“This…” the others exchanged glances, hesitant.

“That’s not right,” said one of the older men, frowning.

“This is Jiangnan, not the north.

If word gets out…”

“Why would it get out?” the old man sneered.

“With the current situation in Jiangnan, there are countless reasons to deflect blame.

Besides, who says they are civilians?” He pointed at Lyuzhou City.

“Those people in Lyuzhou are already demonized by all sorts of means by Chen Qing; can they still be called civilians?”

“This…”

The men looked at each other, their eyes filled with hesitation.

“It’s not appropriate,” one of the elders said.

“Lyuzhou is a place of culture and education.

If you’re going to kill, you’d have to kill all the people of Lyuzhou.

If a few survive and the Shen Family gets hold of this, it could affect our entire clan.

And are you sure Chen Qing doesn’t have any contingencies in Lyuzhou?

Have you forgotten the man who forced Murong Yunji and Second Elder Shen out when they barged in earlier?”

Upon hearing this, the face of the leading old man turned even uglier.

He naturally remembered, and precisely because of this, they had dared not act rashly these past few days.

The mysterious young man, possessing inconceivably strong power, single-handedly repelled the Shen family.

With a cultivation in both sorcery and martial arts, the imposing aura he displayed that day was honestly more intimidating than the Emperor himself, he even doubted whether Your Majesty could win against him!

“Must we kill him head-on?” An elder beside him sneered ominously, “We magicians excel in roundabout tactics.

What does it matter how strong a warrior is?

As long as we deploy our methods correctly, we can force Chen Qing to show himself.

And when the time comes to retrieve Zi Yue and activate the Purple Phoenix Bracelet…”

“The Purple Phoenix Bracelet?”

Just as the group was discussing, an even more ominous voice sounded from afar, “Emperor Siao really went all out this time, not just allowing Zi Yue to leave the Capital but also bringing along the Purple Phoenix Bracelet.

Hmm…

but then again, right now only Zi Yue can use that thing.”

The crowd was shocked, immediately turning with horror to look, “Who’s there?”

Under the moonlight, that figure appeared brazenly, his body emaciated, his eyes blood-red, radiating an immensely terrifying chill.

“Second Elder Shen?” The elder’s eyes bulged, “How did you escape?”

When Second Elder Shen had first entered the city, it was they who had secretly interfered, allowing him to escape, and later capturing him; because they had been secretly detaining him, this zombie that Second Elder Shen had become never managed to wreak havoc.

They were not acting out of kindness, of course.

First, they wanted to trace the origin of this zombifying poison; second…

they also wanted to seize this opportunity to acquire Second Elder Shen’s Insect Sorcery.

The parasites within this zombified body were something they had discovered immediately, naturally realizing how crucial this Insect Sorcerer was.

If they could obtain the Insect Sorcery Technique and find a way to control the poisonous insects, how terrifying of a weapon would it be?

Indeed, once these zombifying parasites were released, the sheer horror was enough to make one’s skin crawl, and one misstep could result in a calamity for all living beings.

But that’s in a situation where they are uncontrolled!

Imagine, if these creatures could be controlled, and even used to implant into the bodies of warriors and then be controlled…

what would that scenario look like?

In such a world, would it still be one where martial arts were prized over sorcery?

It wasn’t even impossible for the age when magicians had been at their peak to return!

From the moment they had secretly harbored Second Elder Shen, they had no intention of reporting the incident.

Even Zi Yue was clueless about it.

But they hadn’t expected him to be able to escape!

That wasn’t supposed to happen, right?

The leader of the elders stared intently at the other party, the restraint on the opponent being the Heavenly Mechanism Lock of their own family, which even a Super First Rank warrior couldn’t break, and it had very strong resistance to various techniques.

There were very few in the world who could break it, and that definitely didn’t include Second Elder Shen.

“Who released you?”

Second Elder Shen cackled malevolently, dark aura billowing all around, instantly enveloping all the black-clothed sorcerers!

——————————————–

Zi Yue…

was still set free.

The other party was quite certain, but Chen Qing didn’t believe it.

However, that fox did believe.

The other party was very dangerous.

Normally, even if the fox had asked, Chen Qing wouldn’t have released it because to Chen Qing, the fox, and the child in its belly, even if it had the semblance of an Emperor, none of it was more important than the achievements he had already secured around himself.

He wasn’t really fond of that child anyway.

The only reason he had set up the trap was that he didn’t want a bunch of individuals with unclear strength targeting him from the shadows.

That feeling of having a thorn in one’s side was not pleasant.

But for some reason, this time, when the fox made its request, he found himself agreeing unconsciously.

It was a shitty feeling, like…

an instinctive trust emanating from his own body.

Could it be that the fox’s strength had recovered?

“You’ve already released the person, what are you being conflicted about now?” Wang Ye said beside him, amused.

“Exactly…” Murong Yunji also sat cross-legged on the ground, “Although I think your decision was quite wrong because you don’t seem like someone who is soft-hearted.

But what’s done is done, what’s the use in questioning it now?” As she spoke, she glanced at Zi Yue and Ali in another concealed spot, “And I have a feeling that the little one wasn’t lying.

Her condition is really bad; she probably can’t maintain that terrifying power from before.

You don’t have to worry too much.”

“Let’s hope so…” Chen Qing curled his lip, who knows if that was all an act?

But what made him more uncomfortable was his own unusual decision; Ali’s request wasn’t compelling, yet he had naturally agreed…

What the hell?

Chen Qing felt this should not be simple.

He knew very well what kind of person he was.

Murong Yunji was right; he…

was not a soft-hearted man.

“By the way…

Chen Qing, do you know?” Wang Ye, sitting nearby and looking at the sky darkening, suddenly spoke softly.

“Know what?” Chen Qing was taken aback.

Was this guy trying to comfort him?

With that tone?

“The child that the fox demon is birthing might turn out to be a complete demon.”

“Hah?” Chen Qing rolled his eyes, finding it funny, “Do you even need to say that?”

A human and a demon having a child, or rather a half-demon and a demon, of course, it might be a demon.

Demon genes were much stronger than the African genes from his own past life.

Despite Murong Yunji’s parents being a human and demon couple producing a human, under normal circumstances, most children born of a demon and a human were demons.

After all…

have you seen many black people giving birth to white children?

“Do you also know?

That King of Qin…

was born under such circumstances.” Wang Ye said hauntingly, “The King of Qin was born into a distinguished family, inheriting supreme family bloodlines, and his spouse was also a top-tier great demon at the time.

Right after his birth, the family of the King of Qin announced to the world…

that the King of Qin…

was human!”

Chen Qing: “…..”

“The Emperor wants to replicate it.” Wang Ye chuckled coldly, “Ridiculous, isn’t it?

The person who caused the King of Qin’s death, wants to replicate the existence of the King of Qin!”

As he was speaking, the cry of a newborn pierced through, immediately attracting everyone’s attention.

The child…

was born!!