Ye Chen ultimately couldn't stay on Blue Star for a month. About three weeks later, the seventh-tier lord who had been transferred returned, bringing with him newly recruited mid-to-low-tier lords, and flew towards the Demon Flame Plane.
"Live well, and I'll come find you with our daughter!" These were Jian Mengyi's words to him before she left, and the images of the mother and daughter remained vivid in his mind.
"What? You're already reluctant to leave after just one trip?" Hua Xiyu's projection was beside him. She was another high-ranking lord who had just been transferred back from another plane.
"After all, they are my own children, so I'll always have some!" Ye Chen smiled, his tone completely undisguised.
“That’s good! The worst thing about becoming a lord is losing your human emotions and letting divinity replace your humanity! If you want to fight against darkness, you must stay true to your original intention and know what you have been protecting all along,” Hua Xiyu said, with a hint of reminiscence on her face, as if she had a past that no one knew about.
With the aid of spatial teleportation, the group quickly arrived in the Demon Flame Plane. As soon as they emerged from the spatial passage, they felt a dense aura of darkness wash over them, much denser than when Ye Chen left.
"It seems that things haven't been peaceful in the Demon Flame Plane these past few years!" Ye Chen sighed inwardly. The war in the Maya Plane was ended with only two high-level lords, but now there are already more than a dozen high-level lords in the Demon Flame Plane, yet there is still no hope of victory.
“If things were truly peaceful, we wouldn’t need to come and provide support, and there would be no need to seal off the entire plane!” Hua Xiyu said. “Could we contact the commander within the plane? Let’s see where we need to go next?”
"Okay!" Ye Chen nodded, took out his communicator and sent a message to Grandpa Jian, but after waiting for a while, he did not receive a reply.
"This isn't right? Is there a problem with the signal base station?" Ye Chen asked in confusion, and sent messages to the other lords again, but received no reply.
"No need to ask anymore. It must be that the dark creatures have imposed a second blockade on the Demon Flame Plane. It seems that the lord who went out to deliver the message was just bait to lure us here!" Hua Xiyu, who was well-informed, said, looking solemnly at the dark starry sky around them, which resembled a giant beast with its mouth wide open, ready to devour them at any moment.
Upon hearing her words, Ye Chen was immediately taken aback.
"A bait? To lure us here? What's the point?" Ye Chen asked, puzzled.
This isn't some kind of siege or luring enemy forces into a trap. What's the point of attracting them if we can't defeat the lords in the Demon Flame Plane?
“Hostages and food rations!” Hua Xiyu said. “If I’m not mistaken, this should be a small world separate from the Dark World and the Demon Flame Plane. Next, the dark creatures will release some of the aura from this small world to guide the lords of the Demon Flame Plane to come and rescue us.”
"If they come, we can easily catch them like turtles in a jar; if they don't come, we'll become their food, and by infecting us, they can send in more reinforcements!"
“High-ranking dark creatures are highly intelligent! As long as they can suppress their inner desire for life, their tactical skills and creativity are in no way inferior to our lords, and may even surpass them!”
Hearing Hua Xiyu's words, Ye Chen felt his scalp tingle. Such a tactic was something even a lord would find hard to conceive of, but according to Hua Xiyu, it was as simple as picking up a needle in a haystack for the dark creature.
Thinking of the dark civilization tools that have yet to be deciphered, Ye Chen suddenly felt that the wisdom of the lords might not necessarily be comparable to that of high-level dark creatures. At least, the ability to isolate space and intercept spatial teleportation is something that the current lords are not capable of.
"But that doesn't make sense either. They can't even defeat the lord of the Demon Flame Plane, so what's the point of splitting their forces and trapping us here? Even if the lord of the Demon Flame Plane really comes to our rescue, they might not be able to defeat him, right?" Ye Chen asked doubtfully.
Hua Xiyu looked up at him and said, "Who told you they needed to split their forces?"
"Um?"
“As I said, this is a small world independent of the Demon Flame Plane and the Dark Plane, so it is not affected by the rules of the Demon Flame Plane. In other words, there will be a brand new spatial passage and source of darkness here, without being limited by the throughput of the dark source in the Demon Flame Plane. All dark creatures can descend here at will, even high-level dark gods!”
Ye Chen was startled. The biggest reason why the lords were able to protect the Demon Flame Plane was that the eighth-order gods could not easily come out of the dark origin. If they could use this world as a springboard, wouldn't that mean that the Demon Flame Plane was already in great danger?
When he told Hua Xiyu about this idea, she shook her head and said, "That's not the case. A small world cannot support a true god. At most, it can only support a seventh-order demigod. The real difference between it and the dark origin is in quantity. This world is leaky everywhere. Dark creatures can do as much as they want without breaking a sweat, and they don't have to worry about traffic jams or crowds!"
"So our biggest problem is dealing with the endless stream of dark creatures. When the lord of the Demon Flame Plane comes to our rescue, we need to coordinate an attack from the inside and outside to break out in one fell swoop. That's our only hope of getting out alive!"
At this moment, Ye Chen finally understood that this small world was a transit station riddled with holes. Although there seemed to be nothing in the surrounding starry sky, there were actually countless dark creatures waiting for them. If a high-level dark god gave an order, all the dark creatures would rush in and devour them all.
"So now all we can do is wait? Wait for people from outside to come and rescue us?" Ye Chen asked unwillingly.
"Of course not!" Hua Xiyu said confidently. "Fate must be in our own hands!"
"They want to open the small world and release our aura to the lords outside. Naturally, some aura from the outside world will also leak in. As long as we find this entrance, we can fight our way out even without outside support!"
"Of course! The premise is that we need to withstand the truly endless dark creatures in the small world!"
As soon as Hua Xiyu finished speaking, roars of beasts rang out in the starry sky. Clearly, these dark creatures had never intended for them to stay here in peace from the beginning. Bait and food are not mutually exclusive!
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