Published: March 2, 2025
"I don't know." Lin Haifeng decisively answered.
"This really can't be guessed, but based on the known information, he shouldn't be able to go. If he could, it seems we wouldn't have any business left."
Wen Yu fell silent.
"That's right. If you hadn't placed a heavy bet on Heaven-Piercing, at that time, Heaven-Piercing wouldn't have come looking for me, but rather for you... Hehe, that result, I'm afraid, back during the Heart Lock incident, you would have been completely finished, while I would inherit all the power of the Heavenly Gifted Stone, truly becoming the only one in this world!"
The demon lord did not respond to this speculation; he remained silent until the sovereign spoke again.
"But you know yourself that you're just hanging on by a thread. Without Lin Haotian, without Heaven-Piercing, I still have Tang Haofei, and even Wen Yu. You see, this time, the heaven's mandate isn't on your side!"
"When you were at your weakest, two super strong beings appeared on Earth, although they can't compare to Lin Haotian and Heaven-Piercing, but you..."
The sovereign looked more closely at his nemesis...
That flame of life was like a candle in a storm.
The sovereign did not continue with his words; he simply changed the subject.
"I say, you might as well hand over half of the Heavenly Gifted Stone inside you. After all, you can't see any hope of winning... and I have no chance of losing."
After the sovereign finished speaking, the demon lord lightly coughed twice, seeming a bit fatigued from the previous conversation.
After a while, the demon lord finally spoke again.
"You can come get it yourself..."
The provocative remark seemed to infuriate the sovereign. He took a step forward, but sensing an inexplicable pull within him, he chuckled lightly and retreated to his original position.
"Playing like this is getting a bit bloody."
"What, are you afraid of an old man whose candle is nearly burnt out?"
"Not afraid, just... not worth it. When two fragments meet, the Heavenly Gifted Stone will remerge; my chance of taking control is seventy percent, yours is thirty percent. But here, I obviously have a method with a hundred percent success rate... it only needs time..."
The sovereign paused slightly at this point.
"I have all the time in the world!"
Hearing the sovereign's words, the demon lord just smiled.
"Unfortunately, my time, the time of the Demon Realm, is running short..."
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Five years after Wen Yu took over as Beijing commander-in-chief.
"According to the information collected from the Heavenly Palace, Heart Scar, Guli, Mill, Five Flower Cave Heaven, Reynolds, and other twelve treasure lands, along with the Demon Realm history you provided, we have roughly drawn some conclusions."
"Starting from the beginning, after the war of the twin kings, the demon lord established the Demon Palace to guard the Heart of the Demon Realm, in order to maintain the continuity of the Demon Realm. The sovereign escaped, and I suspect he very likely fled to the Mill Great World, temporarily staying there to recover from the injuries sustained in the fight with the demon lord."
"But after the demon lord dealt with the mess in the Demon Realm, he was still uneasy about the sovereign, or further, he still had thoughts about that half of the Heavenly Gifted Stone! Following that came the hunting. In my understanding, when the apocalypse began in the Mill Great World, the demon lord did not have a strong demand for the origin power of the Mill Great World. He just wanted to eliminate the sovereign, the great hidden danger, and seize the Heavenly Gifted Stone! The sovereign was not yet healed, or due to other reasons, so he decided to have a round with the demon lord in the Mill Great World."
"The sequence thus came about—at first, the sovereign might have wanted to unite all the powers of the Mill Great World to counter the demon lord and the demonic clan. Indeed, this was likely the initial reason for the birth of the sequence."
"Initially, it wasn't Aogules from the Mill Great World who was responsible for hunting the sovereign, but rather the demonic clan's army!"