Julie channeled the Divine Light energy in her body again, and a familiar aura rushed out. It was exactly the same as Ling Xingqi's aura.
Ding Meng was shocked again. "General?"
Julie said seriously, "Wrong!"
Ding Meng was shocked. "Are you … the real princess?"
Julie smiled. "Haha, even you think I'm the real princess?
Where are Ariel and the others? "
Ding Meng immediately raised his guard.
The Fifth Lord smiled again. "Don't be nervous. Ignorance and prejudice have long been worn away by the river of time. We now know that Princess Ariel and the guards are relying on you to be reborn. You also represent the most orthodox path of the Divine Light in our pearl race."
Ding Meng felt his mind was in a mess. "What is going on?"
The Fifth Lord sighed. "Actually, the princess and I have already reached an agreement. We decided that the general would take our spiritual bodies out. In the end, we chose the unknown Black Handprint Force and relied on the Fifth Lord and his daughter to be reborn. During this process, we were discovered by a strange person in the human world. She sealed the Black Handprint. You and Xin Jie should be very familiar with this person. Her name is Jiang Yanyun, and her code name is the Grassroots Empire!"
Ding Meng said, "I still don't understand. Why did she seal the Black Handprint in the first place?"
"It's a long story, but I'll explain it to you again so that you can have a deeper understanding of the overall situation!"
The Fifth Lord said slowly. "When the Mou Xingguo Empire was about to collapse, they actually retreated in five different directions. We were only one of them. The purpose of this was to avoid the pursuit of the Demonsky Empire. Of course, it was impossible to completely avoid them. The Demonsky Empire would definitely split up and move at the same time, but we didn't want their main force to follow behind us."
Ding Meng frowned. "Why?"
Julie explained, "With our strength at that time, we weren't actually afraid of the pursuers. We might have even intercepted and killed them halfway. But we thought about the long-term. We were only temporarily taking refuge. One day, we will return."
Ding Meng nodded. "You'll only expose yourselves if you try to kill him halfway."
The Fifth Lord continued, "Long before the war between the Mou Xing Kingdom and the Devil Sky Kingdom, the six territories were already in chaos. Because of that unprecedented battle, the six great experts severely injured their Sky Sovereign King, and the Sky Sovereign King took advantage of the chaos to escape. The Ai Ji Xing Kingdom was also shattered. Of the six great experts, only Queen Ming Yan was left. The Devil Sky Kingdom's Zhen Yan Emperor was killed by the Sovereign King, and the new Devil King Xie Yu replaced him to take control of the Devil Sky Kingdom.
Ding Meng asked, "Are you thinking of the king?"
The Fifth Lord said, "In this universe, if there's really someone who can deal with the Yeluan Kingdom and the Devil Sky Kingdom, it's undoubtedly the Sky Sovereign King."
Ding Meng was silent. He definitely wouldn't tell the Fifth Lord and the Fifth Lord that the Sky Sovereign King had died long ago.
Unexpectedly, the Fifth Lord said something shocking. "But in my guess, the Sky Sovereign King might have already fallen."
Ding Meng was shocked. "Why do you say that?"
The Fifth Lord's expression gradually became serious. He paced around the star map with his hands behind his back, seemingly deep in thought. "The Sky Sovereign King is a very smart, decisive, and resolute person. It wasn't by chance that he became the overlord of a generation. He didn't rely solely on his martial prowess, but also his tenacious willpower and resolute execution. After he escaped with his injuries, tens of thousands of years have passed. He hasn't returned for such a long time. Even if he makes a comeback, it won't mean much."
Ding Meng nodded. "Even if he recovers from his injuries and increases his strength, it's been such a long time. If he returns to the six dominions and finds that the Ai Ji Star Kingdom has already been destroyed, and Queen Mingyan's power has already been established, his chances of revenge will be even lower. Perhaps he returned to the six dominions to seek his own death."
The Fifth Lord looked at Ding Meng with admiration. Ding Meng's train of thought was undoubtedly very meticulous.
"But we must find the Sky Sovereign King himself!" Julie spoke again.
Ding Meng probed, "Are you sure he escaped to our Sacred Glory Star System?"
Julie didn't answer this question directly. The Fifth Lord sighed. "In the vast sea of stars, without specific coordinates, it's difficult to find even a planet or a star region, let alone a person."
Julie said, "However, when we arrived at the Rainforest Planet in the Fertile Chalk System, we found out that the main force of the Motian Empire was pursuing us. It was a group of experts led by the Motian Prince Xie Long. This Xie Long is Xie Yu's younger brother, and he's terrifyingly strong."
Ding Meng was obviously very smart. He immediately figured out the crux of the matter. "Both you and Xie Long know that the Sky Sovereign King must have escaped to this area, but you don't know where he is?
And I'm afraid that the Sky Sovereign King isn't the only person you're looking for. "
The Fifth Lord nodded. He knew that there was no point in hiding anything from Ding Meng. "The legendary Entropic Solitude Temple is only known to the Sky Sovereign King himself. Only after entering the temple, whether it's the Eji Star Kingdom or the Mou Star Kingdom, will we have the capital to revive our country. We'll have the capital to fight against the Night Phoenix and the Mou Star Kingdom."
Ding Meng smiled bitterly to himself. Even he, the Sky Sovereign King's heir, didn't know about the legendary temple, let alone them. The Sky Sovereign King's Seal didn't even mention the location of the temple. Even Sacas probably didn't know about such a huge secret.
The only thing that made sense was that only the Sky Sovereign King himself knew about this secret. However, the Sky Sovereign King was dead, and this secret was buried forever.
Julie then said, "After we arrived at the Wacok System, the Demons' pursuers arrived very quickly. Because the Evil Dragons were too strong, we had no choice but to activate the Divine Light Array to seal the remaining energy, including ourselves."
Ding Meng also understood this point. It was like sealing oneself up and not giving the enemy any chance to discover one's presence. Doing so would exhaust one's energy sooner or later, but it was the same for the enemy.
"I'm afraid that Xie Long has also died over the years, right?"
The Fifth Lord nodded. "I believe that he's already dead, but he didn't die of exhaustion."
Ding Meng was a little surprised. "Oh?
What do you mean? "
The Fifth Lord said, "The Demons are very powerful in our eyes, but they're actually very weak in the human world, especially carbon-based life forms. You can think of Demons as energy life forms. They exist in the form of energy. Some Demons are too powerful, but that's because they've cultivated over a long period of time to materialize their energy. Let me give you two examples. One is the True Essence Red Crystal formed by the Divine Light Energy, and the other is the low-level life forms in the Devouring Realm who cultivated their Immortal Apertures and advanced to the Soul Essence Realm."
Ding Meng listened quietly.
The Fifth Lord said, "Not only does maintaining the Demons require a large amount of resources, but the most important thing is to devour emotions, thoughts, and minds. From a human's point of view, these things are called negative energy. When we arrived on the Rainforest Planet, the human world was still in the slash-and-burn era, but now that we've entered the era of Origin Energy Technology, the human race's progress is extremely fast. Moreover, no matter how the human world develops and changes, they've always revered the good and the beautiful. This happens to be the opposite of the Demons' ideals. The human world's so-called love and peace coincides with Mou Xing's Divine Light Energy, and this happens to be the nemesis of the Demons' energy."
Ding Meng began to understand what he meant. "Positive energy restrains negative energy?"
Julie explained, "If this was a world where everyone was suspicious of each other and viewed each other with hostility and hatred, then the Demonic Sky cultivators would have a core source of energy that could allow them to continue and even evolve. They would become unprecedentedly powerful. On the other hand, if there was no hatred or war in this world, and everyone lived in peace, and everyone revered the good and the holy, what could the Demonic Sky cultivators possibly devour?
They could only rely on the energy they brought with them, and in the end, they would end up like the Gods who sealed themselves away, inching closer and closer to death as time passed. This is a very mysterious way of putting it, but I'm sure you can understand it. "
For a moment, Ding Meng could not help but recall the discussion between Little Rascal and Little Ai. In this vast and boundless universe, all matter could be analyzed, all phenomena could be relied on, and all changes could be found. However, there was one thing that could never be explained, and that thing was called love.
"Love" was neither matter nor energy. It could not be seen, touched, and had no precise definition. It also did not have wave-particle duality. It even violated too many laws in the universe, but it could often give birth to many miracles. Little Ai had once described "love" as an unparalleled ultimate weapon. No martial arts, divine weapons, starship cannons, or steel torrents could defeat it.
Therefore, Ding Meng could also imagine that it was very difficult for the Demonic Sky Warriors to survive in the Federal Empire. After all, trillions of people yearned for a better life and world peace. Although there had been the Southern Horizon War, the Devouring World War, and the Fertile Chalk Galaxy War, the mainstream of human development until today was still not the law of the jungle. Most people and things still had the quality of truth, kindness, and beauty.
The Fifth Lord continued, "The Demonic Sky Warriors will not be willing to die just like that. They are like us, self-proclaimed as a higher civilization. They will definitely find a way to change the situation, adapt to this human world, and find the most reasonable path to achieve their goal."
Hearing this, Ding Meng had a rough idea. "An organization like the Hidden Front was created by the Demonic Sky Warriors, right?"
The Fifth Lord revealed a bitter smile. "The evolution of a spirit body into a human is indeed a very long and difficult process. During this process, the Grassroots Empire discovered the existence of two alien civilizations. When they sealed me, they also sealed Xie Yu."
Ding Meng nodded. "Because an expert like her had already foreseen that when you break out of your cocoons and are reborn in the future, you will only bring disaster and destruction to the human world. Because the improvement of Shenguang Energy and Demons Energy far exceeds the steady cultivation of Origin Ability Users, and the lifespan of humans is too short compared to you. Whether it is the Federal Empire, the Devouring World Frogmen Race, or even the Divine Wars Starfield's Green Tree Race, everything will change in the future. If it is not the world of Shenguang Technology, then it will be the Demonic Domain that is surrounded by war."
The Fifth Lord said seriously, "So I want to thank you and my young friend Xin Jie. You have lifted the seal."
Ding Meng suddenly remembered the voice message left by the Grassroots Empire before he lifted the seal in the Fifth Lord's manor.
"Since you have lifted the seal, you must be mentally prepared. You will face an unprecedentedly powerful monster. Whether it is a friend or a foe, it is not within our expectations. In the future, it will be filled with countless variables."
This was Pandora's Box. Once it was opened, disasters would swarm in, but at the same time, countless hopes would be born, and the future would be filled with endless possibilities.