Faced with Xing Yi's question, Ding Meng could not help but smile bitterly and shake his head. "You're oversimplifying things. Actually, I'm oversimplifying things too. This True Shifters Nation's Daemon King's calculations are far more complicated and shrewd than we imagined. I even suspect that the Green Tree Race, Steel Mane Nation, and Devouring World are all his tricks."
The Daemon King looked at Ding Meng with great interest. "Oh?
Tell me about it! "
Ding Meng looked him in the eye. "I heard that the True Shifters are the best at shapeshifting and can coexist with all kinds of life forms. They can also adapt to extremely complicated and harsh environments. However, they themselves are nothing special. At the very least, they cannot be compared to the people of Aiji, Mou, Demons, and Night Luan."
The Daemon King nodded. "I admit that."
Ding Meng said, "You followed the Sovereign King, the Celestials, and the Demons to Sacred Glory's main star system. Even if you're in spirit form, you can't completely hide your tracks. At the very least, the Elder Princess and the Demon Monarch should know that there are people from the six territories following you. Don't the Night Luan warriors have representatives in the human world?"
The Daemon King continued to nod. "Yes!"
Ding Meng said, "If you had shown yourself at that time, Henning and the others could have easily destroyed you. So, you had to hide quietly. What's the purpose of hiding? It's to waste time. After a long period of time, your opponents will also be in spirit form. Then, everyone will be back to the same starting line, and you will have a huge lead over the other races. At that time, you can openly start the Fertile Chalk Star System War and reach out to the rainforest system."
The Daemon King smiled. "Is it that simple?"
Ding Meng said seriously, "No, you're the same as General Henning and Elder Mou Xing. You're all afraid of exposing yourselves. You all have one thing in common, and that is, the stronger you are, the more careful you are. On the surface, the Hidden Front's Long Lin and the Black Handprint's Fifth Lord are both humans. Who would have thought that they were the leaders of the Celestials and Demons?
Just like you, no one would have thought that the leader of the Black Frog Clan was actually the spirit body of the Demon King of the True Demon Kingdom. "
The Demon King muttered, "I really didn't expect Henning to be the head of the Hidden Front, and Elder Miao Xing to be the Black Handprint Great Master."
Ding Meng said, "That's right. The few of you have been doing a lot of small things to eliminate each other's suspicions, but you are the one who has been doing the most. You could have easily taken over the Fertile Chalk Star System, but you just had to send an army to fight the Norse Empire for a few hundred years. This way, Henning and the elders will not suspect you. Of course, there is also a benefit to doing this. The resources that the Frogs have taken from the Fertile Chalk Star System can also be used by you. You can't deny that."
The Archfiend's expression sank. "You're right. At that time, I had already sensed Nanxun's presence in the Fertile Chalk Star System. Following that, I discovered that the Night Phoenix Empire had sent people over."
Ding Meng said, "That's why you didn't dare to act rashly. I even suspected that you were the one behind the Devouring World."
The Demon King smiled evilly. "The first generation Immortal Elemental Queen. She was just a mortal. How could she have survived in the poisonous world of Zeratul? If I hadn't secretly taught her techniques, she would have died a long time ago."
Ding Meng also smiled. "So, during the Devouring World War more than a hundred years ago, your Frogmen Kingdom pretended to attack the Devouring World and completely eliminated the other forces' suspicions about you."
Hearing this, the Demon King didn't hide it anymore. He smiled evilly and said, "I can also tell you a secret. Wen Yang is actually one of my people."
Ding Meng was completely shocked. "Oh?"
The Demon King said, "Think about it carefully. Wen Yang was so young. Why was he so strong back then?
Why did he insist on attacking the frogmen in the Fertile Chalk Star System? It was because he had a fortuitous encounter during the Fertile Chalk Star System's war when he was young. I was the one who deliberately let him find the Divine Light Cloak. "
Ding Meng was shocked. "The Divine Light Bracers and Wen Yang's Divine Light Cloak that I got from the Flame Star were secretly controlled by you?"
The Demon King nodded and said, "The Mou Xingguo's Divine Light equipment is of no use to me. It's better to give it to people like you who are useful to me."
Ding Meng stared at him. "Why?"
The Demon King said, "He got the Divine Light energy and equipment, so he naturally became a Divine Light martial artist. In the future, he would find the Divine Light array sooner or later. Moreover, with the identity of a Divine Light martial artist, I could also fish out the other Mou Xingguo people and Demons. I wanted to see who was hiding behind the scenes using human faces."
Ding Meng sighed in admiration. "What a good plan. However, Wen Yang still died in the end. He was just like the Fairy Elemental King, Dark Night Demoness. He was used by you from the beginning and didn't even know it."
The Demon King's expression was serious. "I still neglected a problem. In the human world of the Federal Empire, it's difficult to grasp the ambitions, human nature, and the complexity of your thoughts. People like Wen Yang can be said to be slaves to three families. Therefore, he deserved to die."
Ding Meng let out a long sigh. He had a very complicated feeling about Wen Yang. Back in the days when they were in the rainforest, he still admired the Empire's leader. For a moment, he even treated Wen Yang as a friend. However, after Wen Yang returned to the Empire, he became extremely cruel and terrifying. At that time, although Ding Meng did not agree with Wen Yang's various actions, he did not view Wen Yang as an enemy.
Until the end, when the Mou Xingguo Temple and the Divine Light array, Wen Yang completely stood on the opposite side of him and became his enemy in the truest sense of the word. However, when Wen Yang died, all the right and wrong, love and hatred, all disappeared and turned into sympathy.
Yes, Ding Meng was someone who truly sympathized with Wen Yang. Especially when Wen Yang's tragic cries before his death made Ding Meng unable to hate him. "Ah Min, Ah Min!
I'm back. I'm finally back. I'm a promising person now … "
Was Wen Yang's life not like Ding Meng's experience?
Perhaps Wen Yang had embarked on the path of evil, but was that what Wen Yang wanted?
He had no choice. If possible, Ding Meng might be like Wen Yang, who would rather never leave the small village in the suburbs and live his life by chopping firewood and hunting …
The Demon King suddenly interrupted Ding Meng's thoughts. "I neglected you even more. In the competition between the major forces, whether in the open or in the dark, you, a weak human, actually grew up. In the end, you actually grew to this point. I really did not expect it."
Ding Meng suddenly raised his head and said seriously, "But I thought of something."
The Demon King stared at him. "What did you think of?"
Ding Meng said, "When the Magic Light Array was activated, your Nether Sphere Mothership was also teleported into the space-time tunnel. You were actually able to become one with your starship. From this, it can be seen that the strength of your soul is far more terrifying than Henning, Zhiru, and the others who have true bodies."
He paused for a moment before continuing, "When the Night Phoenix fleet teleported over, perhaps you already knew how powerful that Mo Yan was. You knew that you were no match for her, so you had to think of a way to avoid her. If I remember correctly, the Nether Sphere Mothership was the first to attack the Night Phoenix starship. It used energy cannons to freeze the Night Phoenix starship on the surface, but our starship analyzed that it was a strange absorption energy. The Nether Sphere Mothership seemed to want to suck the enemy in, but that was not the case. You had already secretly sent your soul into the Night Phoenix starship through the energy cannons and then hid on top. In the end, when the Night Phoenix starship attacked the Nether Sphere Mothership, the Nether Sphere Mothership was directly blasted out of the space-time tunnel. At that time, almost everyone thought that you were done for, so they let down their guard. In fact, you were hiding inside the Night Phoenix starship all this time …"
This time, the Daemon King was completely shocked. "It's amazing that you could think of all this."
Ding Meng said, "I'm guessing that you did this to use the Night Phoenix fleet to find clues about the Holy Sanctum. Since you appeared here, I'm guessing that it has something to do with the clues about the Holy Sanctum. Then, the Demons' Singularity and the palace below are most likely the key clues. Otherwise, you wouldn't have taken such a big risk to reveal your true form. Perhaps, this has a lot to do with the Queen wanting to get rid of you …"
The Daemon King didn't speak for a long time. After a long time, he sighed and said, "If you weren't a Divine Light martial artist, we could've formed an alliance and achieved great things."
Ding Meng smiled. "I won't have an ally like you. You can betray the king and the Queen. Then, there's no one in this world that you can truly trust."
"Is that so?" The Daemon King's expression was a little blank. "Then, that's a pity."
As he said this, the others, including the two starships, took the initiative to retreat. The smell of gunpowder was already present in the two sides' voices.
Ding Meng said, "You're indeed powerful, but you're just a spirit."
The Daemon King revealed a strange smile. "Don't you think about it? My spirit state is still not something that you original bodies can compete with."
Ding Meng seemed to understand something. He said in surprise, "So, you came here to find a life original body that can bear your spirit …"
The Daemon King's expression finally changed. He interrupted him sharply. "You know too much!"
As he spoke, a strange aura erupted from his body. With him as the center, a thick black fog instantly spread out in a three-hundred-meter radius. This wasn't just the energy of the Demons. It also contained the powerful poison of the Demon Race. It was visible to the naked eye that the surface of the Divine Arrow starship and the Peach Blossom starship had rusted. One could imagine how strong the poison was.
Ding Meng didn't move, but his exposed skin felt a slight burning sensation. This Daemon King was a master of both the Demons and the Devouring World.
Seeing that Ding Meng was fine, the Daemon King sneered. "I forgot that you're not the same as the ordinary martial artists of the Divine Light. You're not afraid of poison."
Ding Meng opened his right hand and activated the Diamond Starfusing Art. All the black fog was sucked into his palm, turning into a condensed black ball. With a flip of his wrist, the black ball disappeared.
The Daemon King was surprised again. "It seems that you didn't live to this day purely by luck. To be honest, it's a pity to kill someone like you. But I can't sleep or eat in peace if I keep you alive. You know too much. Give me your life!"