Ding Hao was stunned, and then he suddenly understood something.
Xie Jieyu on the opposite side suddenly turned her body as a stream of flowing light appeared on it. Her original image gradually dissipated, and finally, it turned into a completely different figure. A woman appeared, wearing a long fire dress, a gold jade crown, and a flame mark between her eyebrows with a noble and majestic look on her face. Who else could it be but the Great Phoenix Saint?
“Isn’t she in seclusion?
“Then where is the real Xie Jieyu?”
A lot of thoughts flashed through Ding Hao’s mind in an instant.
With a strange smile in her eyes, the Great Phoenix Saint stared at Ding Hao. She restrained her breath and stood there like an ordinary woman. It looked like there was no energy fluctuation on her as if a gust of strong wind could knock her down.
But Ding Hao naturally did not dare to think so.
“Greetings, Your Highness.” Ding Hao bowed slightly.
“It seems that you are not very surprised.” Great Phoenix Saint smiled slightly, and there seemed to be a little cunning look in her beautiful eyes. This strange look made Ding Hao have a strange feeling as if he had seen her before.
Ding Hao braced himself and said, “Your magical power is amazing. The image you created was just flawless. I couldn’t see through it. With your great magical power, nothing you do would make me surprised.”
“Haha, I didn’t expect that the famous Saber and Sword Addict would also flatter me. Ding Hao, this is not your style!” The Great Phoenix Saint laughed out loud. The dignified and noble aura on her suddenly disappeared, and she looked like an eccentric and naughty girl.
Ding Hao was slightly stunned and felt that the Great Phoenix Saint was a little weird.
“Hey, do you want to know where Sister Jieyu… Bah, do you want to know where your sweetheart has gone?” Great Phoenix Saint rolled her eyes and suddenly asked.
Ding Hao thought for a while and asked tentatively, “Is she locked up by Your Highness?”
“Eh? You actually guessed it?” The Great Phoenix Saint frowned unhappily and said, “You’re too smart. You can even guess that. Humph!”
Ding Hao ad to hold back his laughter.
“Why is the Great Phoenix Saint like a child?”
The Great Saint then said angrily, “No matter how smart you are, there is something that you can never guess.” Speaking of this, she showed a proud smile on her face.
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On the Land of Divine Grace.
In the Stone Mouth City.
Everyone was busy in the military camp of God’s Palace. Black-armored soldiers were preparing for the battle. Black ships of the God’s Palace rose and fell one after another, carrying goods and troops without stopping. There was a tense atmosphere everywhere.
The entire Stone Mouth City seemed to have turned into an accurately functioning machine, preparing for the upcoming invasion war.
In the sky, a huge trace of the new space gate was getting bigger and bigger. It had now become hundreds of kilometers long. There were warships constantly entering the space gate as if divine dragons were entering the sea. These were the forces that had constantly invaded the Land of Infinity.
In addition, for the Land of Infinity, what was even worse was that after the top-level forces of the Land of Divine Grace learned of the exact coordinates of the Land of Infinity, they no longer had to pass through the space gate to open up a new transmission portal and descend directly into the Land of Infinity even though this would require a large number of resources.
In the God’s Palace Military Camp.
In the largest black gorgeous tent in the center.
“Old man, what is this place? Why did you bring us here?” Hua Mojian, who still had a fire dragon on his body, shouted angrily.
Huo Jun, however, paid no attention to him.
He was seriously injured, so he had to return to the Land of Divine Grace temporarily. With the help of the clear tides, power, and laws of heaven and earth here, as well as the accumulation of all kinds of resources behind God’s Palace, he could recover from his injury.
After swallowing a large number of divine materials and precious herbs, he sat cross-legged in the big tent and ran his Qi to heal himself.
Long and slender fire dragons as thick as a finger circled around his body, even darting in and out of it, ceaselessly dispersing the remaining power of the Great Phoenix Saint in his body while Huo Jun’s strength was constantly recovering.
Gu Xing’er stood quietly by the side.
She was not under control. Compared with the importance of Hua Mojian to Huo Jun, she was just a tool to him to threaten the boy. Moreover, since Hua Mojian was tied here, Gu Xing’er could not leave.
After a short period of shock, she had already found out where she was.
“We are actually here in the Land of Divine Grace.
“Is this the hometown of those Divine Grace Demon Mercenaries?”
It indeed seemed horrifying. The average level of power of the martial artists who had appeared in the surrounding area stunned her. She now understood that those Divine Grace Demon Mercenaries in the previous war were nothing more than cannon fodder that was used to scout the way. By the time the true army of the Land of Divine Grace came to the Land of Infinity, the place would face a terrifying disaster.
“What should I do?”
Gu Xing’er had no idea.
At the end of the day, she was just an ordinary girl. Although her career as an armed escort made her decisive in killing, she felt quite powerless when it came to the fate of the whole continent.
After thinking about it for a while, there was nothing she could do. Gu Xing’er could only close her eyes and cultivate.
Her cultivation was the Heart Sutra of Annihilation of the Extermination Swordsmanship Sect. She had been in a bottleneck phase recently and she could not break through it. But the moment she closed her eyes, the Qi in her body suddenly burst out like a flood. The bottleneck that had troubled her for a long time, like a piece of rotten wood that could not withstand a single blow, was instantly broken by the violent Qi.
“What… what’s going on?” Gu Xing’er was shocked.
After careful observation and sensing for a while, she finally understood what was happening.
It turned out that the speed of cultivation in this place was countless times higher than that in the Land of Infinity.
This discovery made Gu Xing’er extremely excited.
She hurriedly told Hua Mojian, who was standing by the side, to stop wasting time. She told him to hurry up and practice. Hua Mojian’s talent was above hers, and there were not many opportunities for him to practice like this.
A smile appeared on Huo Jun’s face.
“Although this girl’s aptitude is not great, and she doesn’t have an Ignis Body, she is careful and calm. She is also a worthy talent.”
At this moment, the curtain of the tent was suddenly lifted as dazzling sunlight shone in.
A thin and long figure walked into the tent.
Huo Jun immediately opened his eyes, and there was a flame in them as well as a flash of killing intent in the corner of his eyes. He said coldly, “Lai Pengyi, how dare you break into my tent while you are just an ordinary inspector?”
Lai Pengyi laughed and said in a cold tone, “My lord, I heard that you got defeated, so I specially came to congratulate you. Your army was defeated by a group of ant-like barbarians and all of you were wiped out. My lord, you are getting more and more powerful!”
Huo Jun suddenly stood up as his undisguised cold killing intent was released. Lai Pengyi was slightly shocked. His strength was not as great as Huo Jun’s, and he was no match for him. He did not dare to provoke this hot-tempered guy too much.
He opened his palm and a pale black token appeared on it. Lai Pengyi smiled coldly and said, “You need to understand that I was ordered by the God Emperor to ask you about the battle news. My lord, you’d better tell me the details of the battle.”
When Huo Jun saw the token, he snorted and took out a white jade slip. He threw it over and said, “The battle report is in it. Take it and have a look.”
Li Youyi took the jade slip as he ran his Divine Senses to read it. He was stunned, and then he said doubtfully, “Great Phoenix Saint? How could there be such a powerful person in that barren land? Besides, you’re the only one in the army who came back alive. How can I believe what you wrote?”
Huo Jun sneered and said, “What do you mean by that? Are you going to search my Divine Senses to confirm it?”
Lai Pengyi wanted to say yes, but he held it back when he was about to say it.
Although Huo Jun had a bad temper and was not very popular, he was a God Realm Master in the God’s Palace after all. Compared with other experts in God’s Palace, he was very young and had a promising future. Although the God Emperor had some doubts about him because he was willing to join the previous Western Expedition Army, once his loyalty was confirmed, it could be imagined that Huo Jun’s position in the God’s Palace would be unreachable to many people.
Although Lai Pengyi had the support of the Divine Son, he couldn’t mess with Huo Jun too hard.
Thinking of this, he rolled his eyes and looked at Hua Mojian and Gu Xing’er. From the jade slip he just got, he had learned the identities of these two people, so he said with a smile, “Of course, I don’t dare to search your sea of consciousness, my lord, but the memories of these two people from the Land of Infinity may prove something.”
Huo Jun sneered and said, “I’ll see who dares to touch the successor I’ve chosen.”
Lai Pengyi did not back down this time and said, “It was a serious crime for you to lead the army and return in defeat. Don’t be ungrateful. Otherwise, if His Majesty gets angry, you won’t be able to escape from the severe punishment and these two little guys will definitely die. My lord, I advise you to think it over. I’ll just search their sea of consciousness and it won’t have any effect on them, nor will they suffer any losses. But if you insist on refusing, I’m afraid that not only me but even the God Emperor will question you. When that time comes… oh my!”
Huo Jun’s imposing manner was struck as his expression changed drastically. Finally, he coldly said, “Lai Pengyi, I’m keeping this debt. Sooner or later, you will repay it a hundred times over. If you dare to do anything to them, I swear with the origin of the God Realm, I WILL make you die a terrible death.”
Lai Pengyi chuckled and did not speak. He stretched out his hand and slowly pressed down on Hua Mojian’s forehead.
Hua Mojian struggled as hard as he could, but the strength of the two was too far apart. Lai Pengyi was at the peak stage of the Saint Realm, so he quickly searched Hua Mojian’s memory, and then Gu Xing’er’s was no exception.
Fortunately, this kind of uninjured search consumed a lot of Divine Senses. Lai Pengyi only found some information about Huo Jun in their memories, so he didn’t go deep into the search.
“My lord, I’m sorry to have disturbed you.” Lai Pengyi turned around and left.
Just a moment ago, when he was searching Hua Mojian’s sea of consciousness, he also realized the boy’s physical talent and was shocked.
“Has Huo Jun actually found a talent with a Southern Underworld Ignis Body? This is a huge matter!”
