Qin Shi had just broken Long Qi, Long Yin and Long Yi's curses. Initially, he wanted to break them one by one, but the fiend devil suddenly let out a startled cry, and the Heaven Devouring Void which had formed into a huge net quickly retreated, leaving Qin Shi with no choice but to stop. From the corner of his eyes, he glanced at the blood essence at the end of the remaining thirty-three vines and cursed in his heart, "What a pity, just a little bit more."
"There's nothing I can do. The murderous aura here is too strong. I can only hold on for half an incense stick's time. Let's leave this place first. Now that we know the cause of this curse, we can wait until you reach the Greater Completion of the World realm and can use the full power of the Dazzling Divine Sword. It won't be too late to break the curse then," said the fiend.
Qin Shi nodded. This was the only thing he could do now. He looked down at the three blood essences in his hand. "Fortunately, I didn't come back empty-handed this time."
After saying that, he stepped into the air helplessly. A pair of lightning wings quickly appeared on his back. With a big stride, he flew towards the top of the deep pool.
The empress dowager had been hovering above the pond the entire time. Her face flickered with excitement when she saw Qin Shi emerge from the water. Even though she didn't know what was going on, the ripples at the bottom of the pond had been unprecedented for years. She had clearly sensed some cracks in the pond when she was in the sky. She went up to Qin Shi and asked, "Young man, how was it?" "What do you think?
Qin Shi hesitated, then shook his head helplessly. "I tried my best, but the power in the lake is too strong."
The empress dowager's eyes darkened. She was a little disappointed, but at the same time, it was as if she had expected it. She smiled bitterly. "It's fine. I should've known that the Pi Group had gone to great lengths to trap the Long family here. It wouldn't be so easy to break the curse. But … if we can't break the curse, the Long family's line will really be cut off.
God is unfair. "" Senior, you don't have to be so extreme. "With that, Qin Shi opened his hand and three blood essences floated out of it.
"These are …!" The empress dowager's eyes lit up when she saw the three drops of essence blood.
"It's the Blood Essence of Longying and the other two. With my current strength, I can only save them from the curse. Senior, you don't have to worry. Give me some time. Within three years, I'll definitely find a way to completely remove the curse," said Qin Shi.
Delighted, the empress dowager said in satisfaction, "That's good enough!
The three of them are the last members of the younger generation of our Long clan. As long as the curse on the three of them is removed, our Long clan will be able to continue on. Little kid, I really don't know how to thank you. "
"Senior, you're too polite … We'll become a family sooner or later."
Qin Shi smiled wryly. Although he was very dissatisfied with what the empress dowager and the emperor had done, Long Qi was innocent. As a man, he had to take responsibility.
The empress dowager was taken aback, but she grinned and smiled mockingly at Qin Shi. "Heh, you're right. If you don't take responsibility for my granddaughter, I won't let you off so easily."
Qin Shi pursed his lips. If he really didn't take responsibility, the empress dowager wouldn't be able to do anything to him. After all, she was the one who set her granddaughter up. What did it have to do with him?
However, Qin Shi naturally kept that thought to himself. After a moment of hesitation, he said, "But senior, please forgive me for not being able to give Long Qi a proper status yet. I can't even take care of myself right now, so getting involved with me won't do her any good. I'll give her an explanation once everything is over."
"Don't worry about that. That girl seems to have her own stubbornness. As long as she doesn't do anything that will move you, she won't stick to you just because you had a relationship with her. I watched her grow up. Although she has some princess syndrome and I've spoiled her since she was young, she still has the pride of the Long family in her bones." The empress dowager smiled.
Qin Shi nodded as he recalled Long Qi's words. He didn't want Long Qi to do anything stupid.
Chen Yan's love was too selfless and great. He really didn't want that kind of love to appear in Long Qi.
"Old man, cut the crap and try to get close to me. Fulfill your promise first." The nefarious devil suddenly curled its lips.
The empress dowager was stunned, but she soon smiled. She raised her hand and a flash of light cut open a wound on her withered hand. A few drops of extremely powerful dragon energy flowed out. "Little guy, this is the purest essence blood of the dragon clan. Absorb it and the dragon energy in your body will become purer. However, I don't recommend you to absorb it now."
"Why not?"
Qin Shi took the essence blood, his eyes burning with passion. The purest dragon blood was a rarity, but he still didn't understand the empress dowager's words.
"The situation in your body is different from that of an ordinary person. An ordinary person would definitely become stronger with my pure dragon blood, but if you absorb it now, not only won't you become stronger, it might even weaken you."
The empress dowager paused for a moment before she continued, "Apart from dragon energy, you also have phoenix energy in your body. Dragon energy and phoenix energy are the most ancient and sacred energies in the world, but they're very similar to soul energy and spiritual energy. It's difficult to fuse them together, but there seems to be a force in your body that harmonizes them, allowing them to coexist in the same body. However, that force must be balanced. If you absorb my essence blood, the dragon blood in your body will be awakened and you will reach the level of a true dragon. However, the phoenix energy in your body isn't pure, so there will be an imbalance. When that happens, the phoenix energy in your body will be suppressed, and it might even be devoured by the dragon energy. You might have the true dragon energy, but you'll lose the phoenix energy."
Qin Shi came to a sudden realization. Losing the phoenix energy would indeed be putting the cart before the horse. Pure dragon energy might be powerful, but it might not be as powerful as the fusion of dragon and phoenix energy.
"However, if you can find a phoenix bloodline that's compatible with mine, you'll be able to activate both bloodlines at the same time. Not only will your dragon and phoenix energy not be weakened, but it will also reach its purest state. That will be the peak of your dragon and phoenix energy!"
The empress dowager smiled. "Haha, it's a miracle that the dragon and phoenix are in the same body. I'm looking forward to seeing how powerful you'll be once you fully activate the two energies."
Qin Shi nodded. But obtaining the purest essence blood of the phoenix … wasn't going to be easy.
But it didn't matter. He would go to the Beast Realm sooner or later anyway. He still had the Rainbow Magic Cloud Snake, which was as powerful as dragons and phoenixes. It was the most precious token of the imperial family. He hadn't seen Xiao Mi Cai for a long time and wondered how she was doing in the Beast Realm. But he was glad that Xiao Mi Cai hadn't been by her side all these years. Otherwise, given Xiao Mi Cai's personality, she wouldn't have given up so easily in the human world.
"Thank you, senior!" Qin Shi cupped his fists at the empress dowager after accepting the essence blood.
"I should be the one thanking you."
The empress dowager stroked her beard with a smile. Suddenly, a figure landed outside the cave. It was an elder of the dragon clan. He entered the cave and whispered something in the empress dowager's ear. The empress dowager's face darkened and her eyes turned strange.
Seeing this, Qin Shi hesitated for a moment, but finally asked, "Senior, what's wrong with the Long family?"
The empress dowager looked at Qin Shi and smiled wryly. "Not the Long family … it's the Qin Palace."
"The Qin Palace?" Qin Shi's expression changed and he asked anxiously, "Senior, what's wrong with the Qin Palace?"
The empress dowager could clearly sense that the smile on Qin Shi's face had started to fade when the empress dowager mentioned the Qin Palace. A frightening gloom slowly emerged, and at the same time, a chilling killing intent surged.
The empress dowager smiled wryly. "Is this the little guy's anger?
How terrifying. He's exactly the same as the Human Emperor back then. "
"It's the Tenth Palace. The Palace of Three Purities seems to have deliberately concealed the fact that you're still alive, so the outer regions still don't know that you've been resurrected. Now, under the Tenth Palace's summons, nearly a thousand sea palaces have responded and surrounded the Qin Palace. It seems that they want to destroy the Qin Palace!" the empress dowager said helplessly.
Qin Shi's expression changed. No matter how he looked at it, the Tenth Palace was the one stirring up trouble. Given Clerical Script's personality, Qin Shi knew very well that he wouldn't provoke the Tenth Palace first. Moreover, without Qin Shi, they would definitely hold back. In other words, the Tenth Palace was the one looking for trouble, and Qin Shi also knew that the Palace of Three Purities had something to do with it.
"Are there any casualties from the Qin Palace?" asked Qin Shi.
The empress dowager didn't know either. She turned to the elder from the Long family. The elder hesitated at first, but when the empress dowager acquiesced, he finally nodded helplessly. "The situation doesn't look good, but fortunately, there's a girl who's also in the World realm, which is rare in the outer regions. She single-handedly blocked quite a bit of the Tenth Palace's firepower, but there are already casualties."
Boom!
The air around Qin Shi evaporated, and four different colored flames burst out from Qin Shi's body.
The four flames materialized under Qin Shi's anger.
A ruthless killing intent was not concealed in the slightest between Qin Shi's brows.
"What a Tenth Palace!"
Qin Shi tightly clenched his fists. At this moment, he suddenly revealed a sinister smile. When the Long family elder saw that smile, he felt his hairs stand on end. It was as if he could already see the scene of the Ten Direction Hall being destroyed by that smile.
"You've finally made a move?
Don't blame me then! "
Qin Shi inhaled a deep breath of air. Although he had already expected that the Ten Direction Hall would definitely not stay put, he did not expect that they would be this impatient. However, this was also good. It also gave him sufficient reason to destroy the Ten Direction Hall.
Qin Shi took a deep breath and turned to the empress dowager. "Senior, I'll take my leave first!"
The empress dowager nodded. She knew that no one could stop Qin Shi now. Moreover, there was no need for her to stop Qin Shi. The Qin Shi of today was completely different from a year ago. A Divine Life Body with 12 Mystical Elixirs meant that his reappearance in the 7,000 Sea Palace would cause chaos that not even the Palace of Three Purities could resolve.