Chen Yi temporarily set aside the matter of the contamination. After all, according to what Chen Six had said, the world barriers would isolate contamination.
Contamination within one plane could not spread to another.
Chen Yi decided to deal with the matter at hand first.
He took Sotuofeiren with him and began searching upward through the various levels of authority for the Realm Lord of the Sacred Dragon Realm.
They started with the kings of minor local kingdoms, then moved on to the empires governing vast regions, followed by the Heavenly Dragon Pavilion—the ruling organization above all the great empires—and finally the Dragon Lord Divine Palace, where the Realm Lord resided.
The Sacred Dragon Clan and the Dragonkin Clan were not supposed to be mortal enemies, but the Sacred Dragon Clan possessed an innate disdain for the Dragonkin.
Thus, the moment they saw Chen Yi and Sotuofeiren in their current Dragonkin forms, they refused to cooperate.
In that case, there was only one option: fight.
At first, Sotuofeiren was able to deal with their opponents.
But once they encountered the truly top-tier experts of the Sacred Dragon Clan, Sotuofeiren could no longer handle them.
After all, he was only one person. He could hold out for a while against overwhelming odds, but sometimes there would be several opponents at once.
Fortunately, Chen Yi was there. To the Sacred Dragon Clan, no matter how powerful or legendary someone was, they were still no more than a single slap away from defeat.
Watching himself and Chen Yi sweep through the Sacred Dragon Realm undefeated, Sotuofeiren could not help sighing with emotion.
“The two of us are really too powerful…”
After following the clues through layer after layer of investigation, Chen Yi finally found out who the Realm Lord of the Sacred Dragon Realm was, as well as the identity of the Young Lord of the Holy Dragon Realm.
The young lord was not the current Realm Lord’s biological son.
The Sacred Dragon Clan had great difficulty reproducing, and its population was extremely small.
Some Sacred Dragon people might go their entire lives without ever having children.
The current Realm Lord was one such person, afflicted with severe fertility problems.
But a lack of blood relation did not necessarily mean a lack of familial affection. Besides, to the Realm Lord and the young lord, this was a clearly defined succession—something that carried a significance even greater than family ties.
At this moment, the Young Lord of the Holy Dragon Realm was already dead.
Chen Yi brought his corpse to a cave.
Sotuofeiren looked at the dead young lord and asked, “Boss, why did we have to kill him? Wouldn’t killing eighty or a hundred late-stage Qi Transformation experts have been enough to make the Sacred Dragon Realm declare war on the Dragonkin Realm?”
“That would be too fake. How could the two of us spies possibly have such a huge impact?
“Besides, what I want is to make these two planes fight each other. The Sacred Dragon Clan is already small in number. If you killed another eighty or a hundred of their top experts, how would they be able to fight the Dragonkin Clan?”
“The boss really has thought everything through!”
“Did you leave behind enough ‘traces’?”
“Don’t worry. The Realm Lord of the Sacred Dragon Realm will definitely come after us.”
“Then I’ll leave the rest to you and my clone. Put on a good show.”
Chen Yi left Chen Six behind and warned him that he absolutely could not use power beyond the Martial God realm.
Then he flew away.
Before long, the Saint Dragon Realm Lord arrived at the scene where the young lord’s corpse had been dumped, accompanied by a group of high-ranking officials from the Dragon Lord Divine Palace.
From a distance, they saw two Dragonkin flying hurriedly out of a cave.
The Saint Dragon Realm Lord immediately roared, “Stop those two!”
A fierce battle erupted between the two sides. They fought to a standstill, every move aimed at taking a life.
In the end, one of them told the other to leave while he stayed behind to cover his retreat, dying heroically in battle.
The one who stayed behind was Chen Six. In order to “die heroically,” he had held back tremendously.
The one who escaped was naturally Sotuofeiren.
Together, the two had created the impression that they had secretly murdered the Young Lord of the Holy Dragon Realm, only to be discovered by chance. One of them had died, and the other had barely managed to escape.
They had done all this to make the incident seem more convincing.
The Saint Dragon Realm Lord looked down at the son in his arms, whose life had already faded and whose body had turned cold. His dragon eyes were bloodshot, and his body trembled slightly.
He said nothing. The atmosphere inside the cave plunged into an icy silence.
Someone roared furiously, “They’re spies from the Dragonkin Clan! Both of them were at the late Qi Transformation stage!”
“Damn those false dragons! To investigate the true strength of our Sacred Dragon Realm, they really were willing to pay any price!”
“They must have wanted to extract information about our plans for the realm war from the young lord. The young lord remained unyielding and refused to submit, so they brutally murdered him!”
“Young Lord! Your subordinate came too late! Alas!”
“We must avenge him! The young lord of our dignified Sacred Dragon Clan was actually killed by two spies. What a disgrace!”
Calls to launch a campaign against the Dragonkin Realm rose one after another.
However, some people remained levelheaded and pointed out that the Dragonkin Realm’s current strength was among the very best of the leading planes.
Moreover, its strength had been developing steadily. In its realm wars, it had advanced cautiously and methodically, suffering almost no defeats.
In the past, the Dragonkin Realm had always been near the bottom of the Sacred Dragon Realm’s list of targets. Now, it was even considered an opponent to be left until the final round.
Would it really be appropriate to launch a campaign against it ahead of schedule?
If two powerful forces fought each other, a third party might profit.
How could the Saint Dragon Realm Lord not understand this logic?
He had spent hundreds of years teaching and training his successor, only for him to die like this. The instant he entered the cave, rage had already ignited within his heart.
If the enemy had been anyone else, he would have announced an invasion immediately and crushed them without hesitation.
But the enemy was the Dragonkin Clan, so he had managed to restrain himself until now.
In the end, the Saint Dragon Realm Lord made the decision.
“Fight!”
“Realm Lord, please reconsider!”
“Fight—we must fight. But there is no need to escalate this to the level of a realm war. At the very least, the Dragonkin Clan must give us an explanation!”
This decision received the support of everyone present.
A month later.
Inside the Dragon Lord Divine Palace, the Saint Dragon Realm Lord met Humanity’s Dao Protector, Chen Yi.
This elegant, refined, and handsome human was an incredibly powerful cultivator.
If he wished, he could bring the entire Sacred Dragon Realm crashing down.
Therefore, even though the Saint Dragon Realm Lord had only just suffered the loss of his son, he still had to attend to Chen Yi with the utmost care and greet him with a smile.
“Senior, our Dao Protector has arrived.”
The Dragon Lord Divine Palace was a stone structure. Its design and craftsmanship were extremely crude, which was only natural, considering it had been built by the uncultured Sacred Dragon Clan.
The only notable feature was its enormous interior space. It was probably built that way so that the powerful Sacred Dragons working there would have room to transform into their true dragon forms.
Once the Dao Protector of the Sacred Dragon Clan arrived, Chen Yi formally explained the purpose of his visit.
Just as he had done in the Wing Realm, he needed the Sacred Dragon Realm’s Earth Spirit to nurture a Five-Element Root Artifact. He also required the Sacred Dragon Realm to dispatch experts to protect it.
“Is that a problem?”
The Saint Dragon Realm Lord whispered with the Dao Protector for a while before turning to Chen Yi.
“Of course not. However, could we wait a little while? I need to mobilize a group of Qi Transformation cultivators and take them with me to the Dragonkin Realm. It may delay us for some time.”
“Oh? What is the Realm Lord going to the Dragonkin Realm for?”
Chen Yi already knew the answer, but he deliberately asked.
The moment the Realm Lord brought up the matter, grief and fury twisted across his face.
“Those despicable Dragonkin murdered my beloved son. If I do not get to the bottom of this and demand an explanation, how can I answer to the entire clan?”
“Oh… My condolences. But no, I need you to protect the Earth Spirit and the Root Artifact from my realm within it right now. No one knows when the culprit behind this might strike again.”
The Saint Dragon Realm Lord was helpless. He explained that he could only recall the Qi Transformation experts currently away on the expedition; otherwise, there would not be enough people to provide protection.
The Five-Element Root Artifact placed in the Sacred Dragon Realm was the Heaven and Earth Mirror.
The Heaven and Earth Mirror had suffered the most severe damage, while the Earth Spirit of the Sacred Dragon Realm was one of the strongest among the many planes of the Void Realm. It was therefore the most suitable choice for restoring the Heaven and Earth Mirror.
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