"Hehe, little fellow, are you surprised to see us?"
The Blue Dragon Beast grinned. Shortly after, he slyly said, "Back then, I purposely went easy on you in the Deep Sea Genesis Reservoir. I didn't expect you to be so greedy to give Dongxuan Ling to someone else. You made me lose all face."
Bai Ze glared at the Blue Dragon Beast and curled his lips. "You knew it would be like this. Don't make things difficult for him."
Qin Shi suddenly came to a sudden understanding. He finally understood why the Azure Dragon Beast had purposely allowed itself to be killed by him in the Eastern Xuan Region, and why Bai Ze had risked his life to save him in the Central Xuan Region. It turned out that they had done all of this on purpose?
Qin Shi already knew that it must be related to that bullshit fate. He couldn't be bothered to look into it. What's there to be afraid of when there are too many fleas? But facing the Long family elder, Qin Shi humbly said, "Senior, have you been waiting for me for the past tens of thousands of years?"
"Yes, you can say that. I've also completed the last task that fellow entrusted to me …" The elder smiled as if he was recalling the past tens of thousands of years ago.
"Are you referring to my ancestor?"
Qin Shi said. At this moment, he had already guessed the identity of this old man. It was most likely the Old Empress Dowager of the Long Clan that Long Yin often mentioned. She was also the person that he had always been curious about. Although he had already guessed that the Old Empress Dowager's identity wasn't ordinary and her strength wasn't weak, he was still shocked when he saw her today. He felt an unprecedented pressure coming from this old man. He asked in his heart, "Demonic Demon, what are your chances of winning against this senior with your current strength?"
"Chances of winning?
Haha, little fellow, don't joke around. Unless I'm at my peak, there's no way I can beat him. "
The demon paused for a moment before he suddenly sneered, "I really didn't expect that old dog to reach this level in tens of thousands of years. Back when I was following the Human Emperor, I could still beat him up. But now, it seems that he has reached that level."
"You know him?"
"How could I not know? He's a little snake that the Human Emperor took in in the Beast Realm. Later on, he became the Human Emperor's mount. He's the number one person under the Human Emperor apart from the three Wind Supporting Generals. It's just that I didn't expect that he actually didn't die. I originally thought that he should have died together with the Human Emperor."
"You, you're saying that he was my senior's mount back then?" The corners of Qin Shi's mouth suddenly twitched. Soon after, a strange look appeared in his eyes as he looked at the old man.
This was an existence that he couldn't even summon the will to fight. In ancient times, it was only a mount for his ancestor?
All of a sudden, Qin Shi found it hard to imagine just how terrifying the Human Emperor was back then.
"Hehe, since you're here, let's meet up." The empress dowager smiled.
"Let's see who's afraid of who!"
The Fiend Devil transformed into a baleful aura and appeared behind Qin Shi. "Hehe, old man, long time no see."
"It really has been a long time." The empress dowager looked at the fiend, but there was no trace of reluctance in her eyes.
"Tell me, you guys went around in such a big circle, and in the end, you deliberately tricked this brat into coming to your Long Manor. Just what is it for?
That stupid birth chart again?
Can't you be a little more novel?
What exactly is that birth chart?
Why don't I know about it? "
The fiend grinned at the empress dowager, but Qin Shi could hear the joy in the fiend's voice, as if they were old friends who had finally met again.
The empress dowager smiled. "Hehe, don't worry, demon. You'll find out sooner or later."
"Hmph!
You're playing tricks. But kid, I did tell you that as long as you submitted to me, I would put you in an important position. I could even give you the Beast Realm you wanted. Why did you choose to stay by the Human Emperor's side? "The fiend devil brought up the story.
The Long family disciples behind the empress dowager, Bai Ze, and the others couldn't help but twitch their mouths.
"Hehe, how dare he call the empress dowager a kid?
This guy … "Long Yan said helplessly.
Bai Ze smiled wryly inside. "In terms of seniority, our empress dowager is nothing but a kid compared to this demon … He was one of the two great demon sovereigns of the ancient times. Together with the Human Emperor, the world was divided into three parts. Now that the Human Emperor is dead, who else can compare to him except Zhe Tian?"
The empress dowager shook her head with a smile. "I can't help it. Everyone has their own ambitions."
"Pfft, is your ambition to keep vigil for the Human Emperor?"
The empress dowager smiled but didn't argue with the fiend. "Demon, you'll find out sooner or later that there are some things in this world that you can't defy. Not even you or Zhe Tian can do that. What Zhe Tian is doing now is to defy the heavens. You'll gradually understand that neither the human world nor the Beast Realm belongs to one person."
With that, the empress dowager gave Qin Shi a strange look.
The empress dowager thought to herself, Heh, I sensed that fluctuation not long ago. That should be it, right?
It looks like it's already out in the world.
"Kid, you have a lot of history with the Beast Realm. If you have the chance in the future, you might want to pay a visit to the dragons if you pass by. You might find unexpected benefits with this."
With that, the empress dowager opened her hand and handed Qin Shi an ancient dragon tooth that seemed to contain divine power.
"Is that the Dragon God Tooth?"
The fiend blinked, then laughed. "Haha, I didn't think that the Dragon God Tooth that the dragons have been searching for for tens of thousands of years would be in your possession."
"Not really. I left the dragons in a hurry because of some old matters, so I never had the chance to return the tooth. It seems that I won't get the chance to do so again. I'll have to trouble you to make this trip for me, young friend."
"Take it, kid. This is a keepsake from the head of the dragons. As long as you have it, you can do whatever you want in the Beast Realm and no one will dare do anything to you," said the fiend.
"A keepsake from the dragons?"
Taken aback, Qin Shi finally understood. So the so-called Dragon family was actually the dragons of the Beast Realm? "Heh, it's not just the dragons.
"Hehe, it's not as simple as the Dragon Clan. In the past, this little kid was the young patriarch of the Dragon Clan. However, because of an unforeseen event in the Dragon Clan, the Puppet Group intervened and wanted to dominate the Beast World. This little kid was framed by a scoundrel and was saved by the Human Emperor. However, in his body flows the purest blood of the True Dragon, which is the most noble of the Dragon Clan. I can see that this guy has something to ask of you. Once he opens his mouth, you must trick him a little. As long as you can get a drop of his dragon blood, the dragon strength in your body will become infinitely pure."
Qin Shi smiled wryly. It felt like the fiend was teaching him some shady stuff, but … he liked it.
It wasn't Qin Shi's character to pass up an advantage when there was one.
Clearly, the old empress dowager seemed to have heard the conversation between Qin Shi and the Evil Demon. Her old face involuntarily reddened. She bitterly smiled and shook her head, "Ke ke, just what have you experienced during these ten plus years to actually become this shameless? However, it is fine. It is only a few drops of dragon blood. Although the old me is about to reach the end of my life, I can still afford it. However, this is a matter for the future. Currently, he is unable to absorb the dragon blood of the old me."
"Senior, you deliberately called me over. Just what is the matter?" Qin Shi asked.
The empress dowager took a deep breath and slowly lowered her eyes onto the endless blood pool.
"Kid, you should have sensed it too, right?"
"Elder, are you talking about this strange blood pool?"
Taken aback, Qin Shi asked curiously, "This blood pool is very strange indeed. It feels like there's a power in it that's very similar to my soul, as if it's calling out to me. Elder, what exactly is this blood pool?"
The empress dowager smiled while stroking her beard. Then, as if recalling something from a very distant past, she said, "This blood pool contains the last mandate of heaven in this world!"
"The last mandate of heaven?" Qin Shi's eyes burned with passion.
Stroking her beard, the empress dowager nodded and smiled. "Back then, before the human emperor died, he fought against the firmament with his own body. In the end, he managed to steal a secret from the sky, using his own bloodline as a medium to seal the purest energy in the world in this blood pool. That is to say, the world beneath the blood pool is a world that existed at the dawn of chaos, when the world was first created. There, it can carry a brand new destiny and become a new secret." "That's right, the world beneath the blood pool is a world that existed at the dawn of chaos.
Qin Shi was overjoyed. A brand new mandate of heaven?
Wasn't that what he needed the most right now?
But suddenly, his eyes reddened. He could almost imagine what the Human Emperor must have been like when he fought for the heavens ten thousand years ago.
The empress dowager could read Qin Shi's mind and smiled bitterly. "Kid, you must have misunderstood him a lot after all these years, haven't you?
Because of him, you've provoked a fatal disaster. Because of him, you've become extraordinary, and your fate has become bumpy … However, do you know that what he did back then was far more difficult than what you're doing now!? "
"Back then, the Human Emperor said that the bloodline of the Qin Clan was the beginning of the world, the beginning of the founding of the nation. They must establish their roots with the world and establish their lives with the people. This is your destiny. Even if you want to escape, you won't be able to."
Qin Shi suddenly laughed at himself and shook his head, clenching his fists.
"I do have some misunderstandings …"
"But that's fine. I, Qin Shi, am no saint. Maybe I don't have a high level of understanding, but as a junior, I have no choice but to shoulder the old man's mission. I can't be known as an unfilial son, not to mention that I can't escape even if I want to."
The empress dowager smiled in satisfaction and stroked her beard. "See that, old man?
Everything you said back then has come true. "
"Heh, kid, I didn't understand it before I met you, but I finally understand now," said the empress dowager. "You're right. You're right.
"Senior, what do you mean?" Qin Shi was baffled.