Empress Yin was ruthless and cruel; once she set her mind on something, she would be impatient for quick results.
In contrast, the retired emperor was cunning as a fox, seeking only stability and enduring hardship for himself at all costs. He strongly advised Empress Yin to treat Wu Wei and Zheng Ya with caution and to delay the opening of the Dragon Palace Secret Realm.
Empress Yin was furious and insulted the retired emperor, calling him an old turtle and a coward.
Unfortunately, the retired emperor was in a good mood and no matter how much the empress dowager insulted and provoked him, he didn't fall for it and wandered around the world.
Under the guise of luring Zheng Ya and Wu Wei into a trap, they exposed their true nature of acting and plotting to seize the Dragon Palace Secret Realm.
Wu Wei was completely unaware of this. He was hiding in the cave, developing mechanical beast products, and using the mechanical signal source, he directed the evil forces of the world to launch a surprise attack and devastating blow against Zheng Ya's double and the financial group.
Ground-based information warfare has been fully launched.
Then, Shengxiang integrated the demon beast army of the Dark Yuan Dynasty and launched a full-scale attack on Zheng Ya's forces.
Zheng Ya himself cannot show his face, but eight of his stand-ins remain, traveling all over the world, cooperating with satellite networks and firepower to fight against the Wuwei forces' inside and outside attacks, creating chaos and fighting to a standstill.
Of course, the struggle between Emperor Chengping and the Regent was indispensable, leading to a chaotic situation of war throughout the land.
Thirty years of war have passed without a clear victor.
Unwittingly, the retired emperor and the empress dowager imagined that Zheng Ya and Wu Wei were acting, and they became increasingly cautious!
In the three days that followed, the Four Symbols and Eight Trigrams Heavenly Array was being set up in full swing, while Zheng Ya himself was stealthily traversing the void, searching the world for resources, and seeking a secret base to build a space-time teleportation array, all working tirelessly in sync.
On a dark night, Wu Wei, having developed the ninth-generation mechanical beast, launched sneak attacks on Zheng Ya's avatars who were traveling elsewhere, guided by the ground information network and the Tower of Babel mark: "Boom!"
The invisible horde of mechanical beasts simultaneously and synchronously bombarded the eight Stands.
The incident happened so suddenly that the eight stand-ins were killed by the horde of mechanical beasts hidden in the surrounding area before they could react.
One of the substitutes, who was cultivating in a cave in the mountains adjacent to the Dark Yuan Dynasty, was fortunate enough to have his fatal attack blocked by the stalactites in the cave, but he ended up with a missing limb and was on the verge of death.
"Squeak, squeak!" Just as the horde of mechanical beasts charged into the cave and began their destructive rampage, a dazzling light erupted from the substitute's body: "Buzz!"
A message was transmitted along with the light.
The information appeared in the ground information network built by Wuwei, but turned into a jumble of characters, which attracted Wuwei's great attention. They deciphered it and temporarily abandoned their strategic intention to pursue Zheng Ya's forces.
This beam of light entered the highest-level communication receiver that Zheng Ya had created, transmitting a message: "Zheng Ya, the Qian Yuan Continent awaits your transformation. Don't disappoint this saint!"
The message was sent out, and the double inside the cave turned to ash and disappeared into the air!
No more than ten people were able to decipher this message.
Daiyu was one of the people in the know, and she immediately forwarded the message to Zheng Ya: "This is the last substitute you left outside to mislead people. It is the message that you died and turned to ash, and then burst out with brilliant light."
Do you know the source and the inside story?
"Haha, you can focus on setting up the Four Symbols Eight Trigrams Heavenly Array. We'll talk about the rest later!" Zheng Ya paused in his stroll on the seabed, his mind in turmoil as he gave his response.
In fact, this message is quite simple and easy to understand.
Is this a tip, warning, jest, mockery, or a strategic move from the elite of the Qian Yuan Continent?
There are too many possibilities, and it is impossible to determine whether someone is friend or foe.
But she revealed a message: there are disagreements among the high-end population of Qian Yuan Continent.
Otherwise, how could the other side have secretly planted a fugitive like Zheng Ya as a pawn?
It seems that Zheng Ya's life trajectory was orchestrated by the other party, or rather, guided to break free from the enslavement of the Tower of Babel mark and plan for the future?
If that were the case, Zheng Ya felt a chill run down his spine for no apparent reason.
Is there any difference between being freed from the enslavement of the Tower of Babel's mark and being enslaved by it?
A sense of realization, lingering fear, confusion, powerlessness, and frustration overwhelmed Zheng Ya, leaving him completely numb.
At this moment, Zheng Ya realized a terrifying fact: since the high-end people of the Qian Yuan Continent have the ability to control the speed of operation of a star field at will, control the birth, aging, sickness and death of a world, and even directly destroy it, it is no big deal for them to deal with a weak superpowered person like him!
Sun Wukong wreaked havoc in the Three Realms, but in the end, his fate was still to be plotted against and die!
Thinking about it this way, Zheng Ya felt that from the very beginning, he had been born three times and was reborn as a human by merging the memories of his souls from those three lifetimes. He was just a lab rat created by others, and had been guided and schemed against step by step until now. Where was his freedom and future?
The key is knowing the outcome, yet still striving desperately?
After all, Zheng Ya knew very well that giving up meant certain death, and only by living could there be hope. There was nothing wrong with striving for hope, right?
The meaning of life is to keep fighting as long as there is breath!
Isn't it just being manipulated and used as a tool?
As long as he lives, and creates an unparalleled future, Zheng Ya feels he still has a chance to defy fate. Let's ride a donkey and read the script, and see how it goes!
Meanwhile, the retired emperor and the empress arrived at the East Sea coast, hiding among the rocks and jungle. Gazing up at the virtual screen a thousand meters above the sea, they were horrified: "No, this isn't real..."
"Old man, it's all your fault. Look at the mess you've made by delaying us. I wish I could kill you..." Empress Yin was furious and drew her sword, gritting her teeth.
The retired emperor avoided the situation like the plague, stepping aside to explain telepathically: "Empress Yin, stop! Wu Wei's sudden attack on Zheng Ya's forces, destroying over a hundred of their strongholds in one fell swoop, may just be a ruse to mislead us with fake videos..."
"Damn it, you're still trying to deny it even now?" Empress Yin bit her lip so hard that blood spurted out.
No one knows that to open the Dragon Palace Secret Realm, all that is needed is the Yin-Yang Key, combined with the essence blood of Emperor Zheng. Otherwise, Empress Yin would have already broken away from the Emperor Emeritus and acted on her own!
Since the Dragon Palace Secret Realm is a resource reserve for the restoration of the Zheng royal family's foundation, its opening method is defined as the blood essence of the current emperor, which, together with the Yin-Yang Key, ensures that the Zheng royal power will not fall into the hands of outsiders.
Even the Queen of the Underworld couldn't open the Dragon Palace Secret Realm on her own.
Having the Yin-Yang Key all to himself has rendered it useless.
The retired emperor also used this to control Empress Yin and use her for his own purposes: "Empress Yin, you must calm down, don't be deceived by them using online videos..."
"Old man, whatever you say today, you must give me a specific time to open the Dragon Palace Secret Realm, or I will fight you to the death!" The more Yin Hou witnessed Wu Wei and Zheng Ya display their powerful strength, the more uncertain she felt.
They completely shattered my composure.
An unstable Daoist mind is the most fatal flaw!
The Emperor Emeritus shook his head with a wry smile: "Empress Yin, you must calm down. Especially at times like this, we must both calm down, work together to analyze the situation, figure out the truth, and then we can make the final decision."
After all, we both know that opening the Dragon Palace Secret Realm is our only chance for immortality; it's a one-shot deal, and one wrong step could mean certain death!
"Fine, I'll trust you one more time. Quickly assess the situation, don't keep me waiting too long..." Empress Yin gritted her teeth and shooed him away, afraid that if he hesitated even a moment, she would draw her knife and fight to the death...
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