"The balancer? Heh, I expected you to come long ago." Sal suddenly smiled.

Large patches of black gas simultaneously erupted from the three shadow dragons.

The surrounding cave walls also began to emit countless shadowy black gases.

In an instant, the entire cavern was isolated from reality, entering the shadow space created by the three dragons themselves.

"Cut off from reality, what can you use to fight us!?" Sal laughed loudly.

Whoosh!

In a flash, he appeared behind the white-robed figure, his claw slamming down.

Bang!!!

A massive force exploded between the two.

The white robe was torn apart, revealing the true body beneath.

Her hand firmly gripped the dragon claw that Sal swung, but that hand was not human.

It was a furry forearm covered in soft brown fur.

At the end of the forearm was a paw with only four fingers.

"I told you, you have no chance of winning…" The white-robed figure tore off the upper part of the robe, revealing a strong, muscular upper body.

It was a tall squirrel with bulging muscles, like dragons and snakes coiling around each other!

Her bright black eyes stared down at Sal from above.

Her three-lobed mouth and button-like round nose were quietly exhaling heavily.

"What the hell!? A squirrel!?" Sal looked stunned and dazed.

"This is actually a squirrel!?"

"No… I am not called a squirrel…" the white-robed figure said calmly, "When this emperor became king, perhaps your father hadn't even been born yet."

She grabbed Sal's other dragon claw.

"So… Please call me King of Thousand Waters! Emperor Bai Hai!!"

Boom!!!

A terrifying roar exploded.

Sal flew out like a rocket, crashing into the shadow-filled inner wall of the space.

He had been slapped in the cheek by the squirrel, and a large lump immediately swelled up on his head.

The enormous force, several times greater than his own, instantly stunned him.

"Kill him!!" Ying and Fawn coordinated their attacks, Shadow Stepping to the left and right, striking together.

…More than ten minutes later…

The shadow space suddenly dissipated.

Alice the Squirrel knelt on the ground, her fur stained red, panting heavily. One of her claws was severed at the root, the wound filled with torn flesh and sinews.

The other three shadow dragons were scattered in three directions, two with missing arms, and one with half of its neck gone, as if cut off by a sharp blade.

"We won… Hahahaha!! We won!!" Fawn laughed, not caring about the blood seeping from the corners of his mouth.

"Idiots, if our limitations weren't so great…" Alice the Squirrel said unwillingly.

"The ritual… is almost complete," Ying said in a deep voice.

As soon as she said this, everyone's eyes focused on the throne above.

There, a dark red, crystal-like blood was slowly condensing.

It seemed to draw nourishment directly from the surrounding void, floating in mid-air without roots or support.

"Dragon King bloodline!! Hahaha! It's done!!! We succeeded!!!"

Fawn's emotions became almost crazed when he saw the blood.

"Go! Take it down quickly!!"

The three shadow dragons immediately struggled towards the blood.

Buzz!!

At that moment, three white streams of water lashed out from behind, binding the three dragons tightly in place.

It was Alice the Squirrel.

She held the source of the three streams of water tightly in her hand.

"Xiao Rou, go and take the Dragon King essence!! That is the foundation for your promotion this time!" she said sharply.

"Yes!"

From a broken hole in the cave wall not far away, a figure of a woman who seemed to be a dragonkin quickly walked in.

The woman quickly tore off the dragon scale disguise on her body and rushed straight towards the essence blood on the throne.

If Li Cheng颐 were here, he would immediately recognize that she was Zhao Xianrou, who had disappeared back then!

She was actually a spy placed by the Blank Slate within the Shadow Eaters!

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In another underground passage.

Li Cheng颐 and another white-robed figure stood facing each other.

"People from Xinghu Lake once said something similar to me," Li Cheng颐 said, looking at the other party thoughtfully.

"I've always wondered why there are powerful monsters guarding other blind spots, but not in reality."

He paused and looked at the other party.

"But now it seems I was wrong… It's not that reality doesn't have them, it's just that they are hidden."

"If escape is the only option, would you still continue forward?" The white-robed figure suddenly said something inexplicable.

"That depends on why it's the only option," Li Cheng颐 grinned. "Speaking of which, do you know the past of this world?"

"I know everything, but not you," the white-robed figure sighed. "You are a variable, and perhaps hope."

"Forget about hope. I've seen the past here. There are two scars on the shell of the world. They once existed, but now, they are all blocked," Li Cheng颐 said with a smile.

The white-robed figure was silent, and for a moment there was no movement.

He seemed a little surprised.

After a long time, he turned around.

"Advancing is death, retreating is death, and standing still is also death. Even escape is just a lingering breath. The only difference is the scale of the impact. If it were you, what would you choose?"

He turned his back to Li Cheng颐 and asked this question.

"How to choose…"

Li Cheng颐 seemed to hear the contradiction and sorrow in the other party's heart.

"…"

After a moment of silence.

He suddenly smiled.

"I choose to kill death!"

Silence.

The white-robed figure was stunned.

But he was not stunned, but his body trembled slightly, which was anger.

"You think this is a joke!?"

His voice trembled slightly.

"You think you can get rid of everything by just spouting a few words!? Get rid of the fate of certain death!? Get rid of destruction!?"

"Where do you put the previous efforts and sacrifices of countless people!!!"?

"So what!?" The peace in Li Cheng颐's eyes disappeared. He had vaguely guessed the other party's background.

"So you are desperate, and I should follow you!? Suffer despair, give up fantasy, give up all other possibilities, and cry and whine like you, resent the world and hate fate!?"

"You are really ridiculous!!"

His face was gloomy, his eyes flashed with golden light, and he looked directly at the other party.

"Scared, so you give up, fear, so you despair, which idiot told you these nonsense!?"

"I don't care what you are! But now, I, Li Cheng颐, want to tell you!"

With a whoosh, he Shadow Stepped in front of the other party, grabbed his collar, and lifted him up.

"If you're scared, you have to kill it! If you're afraid, you have to kill it! No matter what you encounter! Just chop! Chop it first!!"

"You don't understand anything!!" The white-robed figure also grabbed Li Cheng颐's collar and roared angrily.

"Anyone can say nice things! But what can you do!? You can't do anything!"

"I can't do anything?" Li Cheng颐 chuckled, "You think I haven't despaired!? You think I haven't been afraid?"

"You simply don't understand what we have experienced!" The white-robed figure roared.

"I don't know what you have experienced. I only know that stopping is death, advancing is death, and retreating is also death, so what are you afraid of!? Do whatever you want to do! Since all roads lead to death, why be afraid!!" ?

He grabbed the other party's collar hard and pulled him closer.

But a huge force instantly tore the white-robed figure's clothes, tearing off the mask and hood on his neck.

The mask shattered and fell.

Revealing the face below that looked somewhat familiar to Li Cheng颐.

Li Cheng颐's pupils shrank instantly, and a familiar name flashed through his mind.

"It's you!!?"

"…" Lien raised his head and took a deep look at Li Cheng颐, "You don't understand anything."

Poof.

In an instant, his whole body exploded, turning into countless white powder, fluttering and falling.

Li Cheng颐 stood there with his fingers empty, his face gradually becoming ferocious.

"Self-righteous waste!!!"

Boom!!!

He slammed his palm down in a fit of rage.

Countless white Blood Essence condensed into a huge palm print, turning into a giant hand more than ten meters in diameter in the blink of an eye, smashing into the ground.

The terrifying giant hand instantly broke through the ground, creating a straight passage leading to the underground.

Amidst the rumbling, the white giant hand penetrated all obstacles all the way, and finally with a bang, broke through the hard cave wall above the Dragon King's ritual.

In front of the ritual throne, the three shadow dragons were staring crazily at the Dragon King throne that was shining red.

The Dragon King essence condensed on the throne was their only hope for promotion!

And Zhao Xianrou was reaching out to grab the essence, her face full of ecstasy.

At this moment, a giant hand broke through the cave wall above, penetrated the shadow formation they had arranged, and grabbed straight towards the Dragon King essence.

Boom!!!

A deafening roar.

Gravel, dust, echoing sound waves, and a white mist of Blood Essence like silt.

The three shadow dragons and Alice the Squirrel were thrown high into the air by the giant force and flung out, rolling to the edge of the cave.

Before they could be shocked and investigate what happened.

At the Dragon King ritual throne, Zhao Xianrou let out a scream.

"That's mine!! No!! Give it back to me!!!"

Her body was hit by the impact of the white gas, and she vomited a mouthful of blood, but her ten fingers were still tightly扣着the armrests of the throne, and she would not let go even if they were broken.

Above the throne, a huge white hand was gently and skillfully holding the Dragon King essence in its palm, like embroidering.

"Give it back to me!! It's mine!!" Zhao Xianrou rushed forward crazily and slapped the giant hand wildly.

She had worked so hard to find the only opportunity to defy fate, and for this purpose, she had made a poisonous oath to become a Blank Slate forever.

But now…

Bang!

The giant hand flicked up a finger, hitting her chest squarely.

Zhao Xianrou's whole body was struck by lightning, knocked away, rolled several times on the ground, and spat out a mouthful of blood.

The giant hand decomposed into white gas, and in the white gas, Li Cheng颐 slowly appeared, looking down at the three shadow dragons and Alice the Squirrel.

As for ants like Zhao Xianrou, he didn't pay attention at all.

That level was not worth his attention.

"From the moment I stepped here, the ending was already doomed." He looked at Alice the Squirrel with a hint of sarcasm.

"You didn't think that letting someone hold me back would allow you to quietly seize the fruits of my hard work, did you?"

"That was clearly ours…" Sal roared, but before he could finish speaking, a stream of white gas hit his forehead head-on.

Boom!!!

His whole body was knocked backwards, exploding a circle of black gas, and the scales and skull on his body were smashed and exploded. His brains were almost smashed.

The white gas turned into a white bone cage and imprisoned him in it in the blink of an eye.

"It's just right. You four can be used as tools to help me vent the resentment I have suffered before." Li Cheng颐 grabbed the essence, and a trace of coldness appeared on his face.

He can't beat the Mother of Emerald, but he can't beat these three little trash!?

(End of this chapter)