90. Chapter Ninety: Flames of War Erupt Across Four Continents
The Heavenly Dao's face darkened the moment it saw Shen Mo emerge. It had assumed that Shen Mo's lifeless state meant it had been killed by its own palm strike, but it had been deceived once again.
"Good...very good..."
He laughed in fury, his gaze fixed on Shen Mo, who was slowly rising until they were eye to eye. He spoke slowly, "I'll see how long you can be so smug!"
Shen Mo didn't even bother to say another word to Him; the curve of his lips was enough to make the already furious Heavenly Dao lose its mind.
The great battle has begun.
Knowing full well that he was not yet ready to participate in a battle of this caliber, Qin Moyu held a red lotus flame in his hand, and the words Shen Mo had just said before leaving echoed in his mind.
He said, "Mo Yu, the array base is right here. Be careful in everything you do."
Shen Mo had said before coming to the Frigid Land that the array Jiang Hua set up in the Frigid Land was perfectly formed and it was almost impossible to break through it by external force alone. Therefore, they could only find another way and let Qin Moyu, who had the same origin as the array and possessed the Red Lotus Karmic Fire, find the array base. It would be best if he could destroy it, but even if he couldn't, he could still stop the speed at which it gathered spiritual energy.
Although they had never met, Shen Mo had figured out the volatile and arrogant nature of the Heavenly Dao. Therefore, he used the Heavenly Dao's attack to conceal his aura in order to buy time to find the array base.
The two hadn't agreed to act out this scene beforehand, but the moment Shen Mo's aura disappeared, Qin Moyu immediately understood his meaning. The shout he made contained both acting and an element of attracting the attention of the Heavenly Dao.
It's a pity that the time gained was still too little. Shen Mo could only roughly sense that the array base was in this range, but he didn't know exactly where it was.
Shen Mo's figure disappeared into the clouds, two enormous streams of spiritual energy surged in the sky, and the howling wind was like a raging person, hurling down goose feather snowflakes from the sky like a madman.
Qin Moyu pulled his clothes tighter around himself. The harsh weather of the extreme cold was still a bit too much for him. Fortunately, he held the Red Lotus Karmic Fire in his hands. This extremely cold spiritual energy had become exceptionally vibrant after returning to its birthplace, silently permeating his body, allowing him to quickly adapt to the environment.
Now it was my turn to lend a hand.
Looking at the similar-looking igloos, Qin Moyu silently recited a phrase before walking alone into the quiet village.
The footprints left on the snow were quickly covered by the wind and snow again, just as the person who sent Qin Moyu to this world had said, there was a sense of destiny to save the world.
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The Demon Lord didn't actually know Fenqi, but he was deeply impressed by him.
When Fenqi became famous, she was not even born yet. When she was a child, she only knew about a mysterious family at the border of the two southwestern continents from conversations with her elders. At that time, she regarded them as stories and never thought that one day she would become a person in the story.
Later, her family suffered a dramatic change, and whenever she thought she had been saved, reality would cruelly tell her that it was all a lie.
So when Fenqi extended an olive branch to him, the Demon Lord simply did not believe that he was so kind.
The Demon Lord couldn't understand Fenqi's selfless help, nor could he understand the look in his eyes.
Pity, mockery, and disgust.
While saying that he was helping her because of fate, he made no attempt to hide his emotions. She told her Daoist partner about her suspicions and warned him to be wary of Fenqi's conspiracy.
What the Demon Lord didn't expect was that Fenqi hadn't used a conspiracy from the very beginning, but rather an open strategy.
Fen Qi openly revealed his ill intentions to the Demon Lord, and displayed his powerful strength while helping her. Over the years, the Demon Lord couldn't understand why his Daoist partner would suddenly say that she was also involved in the tragedy of that year, and why he would lose his mind and kill her without even listening to a word of explanation.
Considering her partner's restless appearance after returning that night, she strongly suspected that Fenqi had said something to him in private, which led to the series of tragedies that followed.
The massive formation blotted out the sky, plunging the heavens and earth into darkness. The closer they got to the location of the Fen family, the more and more fiery flames floated in the sky. Eventually, even the Demon Lord had to temporarily avoid their sharp edge and choose to fly low.
Unlike the desolate and gloomy landscape outside, where bone demons roam, the Fen family appears to be the same as before. The massive clan is hidden in the dense forest, but this once prosperous clan is now eerily quiet. The closer one gets, the more unsettling the silence becomes, as even the absence of insect chirps is palpable.
The moment the Demon Lord stepped into the Fen family, he received a telepathic message from Fen Qi.
"haven't seen you for a long time."
From the day he was placed in the Demon Lord's trap, Fen Qi had anticipated this day would come, so he wasn't too surprised. Instead, he was unusually calm and even felt a sense of relief, as if "it's finally here."
The Demon Lord cautiously scanned her surroundings. She could smell the strong stench of blood in the air. Her divine sense swept across the entire Fen family, but no matter how many times she checked, it only showed that Fen Qi was the only person there.
"I have nothing to do with you," the Demon Lord sneered, mocking, "You've been hiding your true colors all this time, haven't you?
Her response was a soft laugh from Fenqi.
"Come in, let's settle this once and for all."
The Demon Lord gripped his longsword tightly. Despite being mentally prepared, he was still momentarily shocked by Fenqi's current appearance.
Sometimes I really don't understand.
Fen Qi stretched out his hand, which was now covered in white bones due to the resentment of the Fen family. A strange smile appeared on his pale face. Coupled with the fact that half of his body was now melted into the blood array on the ground, it sent chills down one's spine.
This smile was different from his usual casual banter. Now he had no way out, and his whole being was filled with a strange madness, as if he were dancing on a red-hot iron, ignoring the stinging pain under his feet and the strong smell of blood, immersed in his own world.
"Why don't you just die—"
Before he finished speaking, a ball of fiery energy suddenly burst out from the corner and rushed towards the Demon Lord at an extremely fast speed.
The Demon Lord was drawn to Fen Qi's current inhuman and ghostly appearance. If it weren't for the reflexes honed by his many past assassinations, he would have been seriously injured if Yu Huo had attacked him.
"What a pity." Fen Qi summoned more Yu Huo with an expressionless face. At the same time, the bone demons made of the bones of the Fen family members also broke out of the ground.
The flickering flames danced before Fenqi, catching his eye and igniting the flames of jealousy he felt towards the Demon Lord.
On what grounds?
From the moment he first met the Demon Lord, he felt the injustice of fate once again. He risked everything to become His lackey, but his highest achievement was only to transcend the first level of tribulation. Although Zhou Donghan was a level stronger than him, he was also subject to the laws of heaven, which made him feel much more at ease.