At the beginning, I traveled through the wilderness, and I controlled the beasts to survive.

The strength of the high priest was far beyond Han Ning's imagination.

He clearly remembered that Qing Dou had said that the high priest was only slightly stronger than Akatos, and if they joined forces, they would probably be able to fight to a draw.

However, the facts ruthlessly slapped Qing Dou's face. Unexpectedly, the high priest almost crushed the barrier of the Emerald Forest and instantly killed the Abyss Beast that cast the Undead Jellyfish Shield.

"I don't know what happened to Mr. Akatos... We must prepare for the worst."

Han Ning muttered to himself.

Perhaps because of the silent annihilation of everything around him, the super soul skills that Akatos had just exploded were not as loud as when the high priest commanded the soul beasts to attack the Emerald Barrier.

As a result, the beastmasters in Yeming City were temporarily unaware of what was happening on the surface.

Seeing Han Ning's distraught look, Qing Fan, who had not yet left, suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart and asked with great concern:

"Han Ning, what happened on the surface? How are my father and the ancestor?"

"Something happened to Lord Akatos and Chief Qingdou..."

Han Ning's face was solemn, and he briefly explained what happened on the surface to Qing Fan.

"Barry..."

The more Qing Fan listened, the more anxious his calm eyes gradually became.

He paced left and right in the hall, repeating Barry's name, as if he was thinking about something.

Suddenly, he stopped and his expression became extremely ugly:

"I remember, Barry... I remember my father once told me that this person... was the Aratak who designed to assassinate Qingxuan's ancestor. Why did he become the high priest?!"

"I don't know... Anyway, we are currently unable to participate in the situation on the surface. The most important thing now is to quickly complete the follow-up work on the Gray Demon Whale and leave the Insect Continent as soon as possible."

Han Ning was worried that Qing Fan would do something stupid, causing the Dragon Blood Clan to fall into civil strife and affect the evacuation plan. He stepped forward and patted the latter's shoulder hard, saying in a serious tone,

"Qing Fan, I know you are in a hurry now, but don't rush to the surface for a momentary impulse. Even Lord Akatos and Leader Qingdou can't defeat the enemy. If you go... it's like a mantis trying to stop a chariot."

He shook Qing Fan vigorously for a few times and finally shook him out of his lost state.

Due to the particularity of the historical process, the Dragon Blood Clan was a group of insect masters of the same clan who huddled together for warmth in the early days, resulting in a much closer relationship between their relatives than other ancestral insect master families.

"In addition... I suggest that you better not tell other Dragon Blood people about the relevant news. At most, only tell the direct lineage that is close to your father." Han Ning suggested.

"Huh..."

Qing Fan took a deep breath, calmed the huge sadness in his heart, and nodded with a stiff face.

"I know, I will go to summon my father's confidants immediately. Excuse me."

"If you encounter any difficulties, tell me as much as possible. Remember, before evacuating the insect land, don't let the Dragon Blood Clan be in chaos. The Dragon Blood Clan now needs you, the young patriarch, to stand up and preside over the overall situation."

In more realistic terms, this incident did not happen to humans. Han Ning felt that what he said was quite "easy to talk without any pain in the waist", but in order to ease Qing Fan's inner emotions, he could only do this.

Qing Fan did not continue to reply, but nodded silently, walked in a hurry, and disappeared in the hall.

"Barry is an Alatak... So, the Dark Fire Wall of Night City may not be able to stop him."

After Qing Fan left, the hall fell silent. Han Ning stood in the dark conference room, and the dim light made his cheeks look gloomy.

"He should know nothing about the situation of the Gray Demon Whale... Otherwise, if he knew that there was a Gray Demon Whale with a huge amount of blood and spiritual energy in Night City, he would not give up... This probably means that Barry has been staying in the mysterious Queen's Temple in recent years and knows nothing about the situation inside Night City."

Speculations are speculations, and Han Ning would not completely believe that this is the fact. He gathered his mood, followed Qing Fan's footsteps, and walked out of the hall quickly.

He also needs to inform the human high-level of what happened on the surface as soon as possible to speed up the construction progress.

...

An hour later, with Han Ning's information, all human management learned about what happened on the surface.

Just as everyone was discussing how to speed up the construction progress and leave the Insect Land, a faint light suddenly appeared under the sky to the west of Night City.

At first, across Night City, Han Ning did not notice it.

Until the light turned into a meteor with a long tail flame, approaching the outer periphery of Night City for more than ten kilometers, Qing Yao and a group of followers of Akatos who were guarding the city, as well as Han Ning, who was at the fourth level of spiritual power, all felt the powerful spiritual energy fluctuation coming from the outside at the same time.

Han Ning, who was in a meeting, changed his face and did not even have time to say anything. He immediately summoned the egg pancake and rushed towards the direction of the spiritual energy fluctuation with Qing Yao who was guarding outside.

In the west of Night City, outside the Nether Fire Wall.

"It is the breath of Lord Akatos... not an enemy."

Han Ning looked solemn, looking at the shining meteor in front of him that was getting bigger and bigger, and signaled Qing Yao to hold up the spiritual energy shield.

The next second.

Boom! !

The meteor with a swaying cyan halo slammed into the ground in front of Han Ning and others, causing the ground to shake violently for dozens of kilometers in radius.

A large amount of green smoke rose from the sunken pit, vaguely revealing the huge size of the Emerald Aurora Dragon... and the figure covered in blood in its arms.

"Quick, it's Leader Qingdou, rescue him!"

Before Han Ning could finish speaking, Qing Yao and a group of jade dragons beside him released soft spiritual energy, dragging the jade aurora dragon and Qing Dou inside from the deep pit and gently placing them on the ground. superior.

The body of the Emerald Aurora Dragon looked normal, and there were no particularly serious injuries. However, its spirit was very depressed at this time, and it did not respond at all to the dragon language greetings sent by other dragons.

Qingdou in its arms looked even more miserable. The already rough lizard head was covered with blood, and the parts below the chest disappeared without a trace. This situation was very similar to Niya's back then.

In an instant, several soft healing rays of light enveloped the Emerald Aurora Dragon and Qing Dou, and the surrounding soul beasts each used healing soul skills to help them repair their injuries.

"Father!"

Qing Fan, who came quickly, passed through a group of soul beasts, and together with a dozen Dragon Blood executives, they gathered Qing Dou in the center.

Qingfan's call finally caught Qingdou's attention.

The leader of the Dragon Blood Tribe, who was curled up in a ball as if in a coma, suddenly trembled slightly with his closed eyelids, and then opened his eyes.

"Qingfan...ahem..."

Qing Dou coughed several times and coughed up a few mouthfuls of black bloody sputum. Then he turned his eyes and scanned around, finally landing on Han Ning, and said in a weak tone,

"Take me back to the city first...Han Ning, I have something to tell you."

"Okay, everyone, let's go in!"

…

In the spacious hall, Qing Dou was carried into a temporary soft bed by Qing Fan.

The smaller emerald aurora dragon was lying on the other side of the bed, its dragon eyes closed, its chest rising and falling slightly, and its breathing rate beginning to rise and then slowing down, looking extremely weak.

Seven or eight high-level officials from dragon blood and humans stood silently beside the bed. Their expressions varied, but they were all mixed with a hint of uneasiness.

After resting for a while, Qing Dou finally regained some strength. He leaned on the edge of the bed, pointed at the lifeless Jade Aurora Dragon, and said:

"Liu Guang's body hides the remnant soul of the ancestor. Han Ning... you are proficient in spiritual magic. Try to see if you can separate the remnant soul of the ancestor."

"Remnant soul? No wonder the Emerald Aurora Dragon looks so weak. It turns out that there is a being in its body that is more powerful than its spiritual power."

Han Ning understood in his heart, and then, he followed Qing Dou's request, walked to the Jade Aurora Dragon, used his mental power, and scanned its brain.

His brows furrowed unconsciously:

"I sensed two different spiritual auras...and both were very weak."

"With Lord Akatos' current mental state, I cannot take out its spiritual body. Even if I take it out... there is no suitable container to place it in. It is better to let it stay in the body of the Emerald Aurora Dragon until a suitable place is found. Then transfer the soul container," Han Ning suggested.

"Are they in danger?" Qing Dou asked with concern.

"There should be no problems with the Emerald Aurora Dragon within a few days... Lord Akatos... Its mental body is incomplete. In addition, it is a soul beast. The spirituality of its mental body is inherently inferior to that of humans, so it will be difficult to recover. ”

"Container..." Qing Dou's expression changed, "I remember that the ancestor once told me before his physical body disappeared... The life seed it handed over to you is also its power seed, and it is its understanding of the soul power. , if it is lucky enough not to die, transfer its remaining soul into the life seed... cough cough cough! "

After finishing a long sentence, Qingdou couldn't help coughing hard again.

"Seed of Life? Is this it?"

Han Ning touched his waist pouch and took out an ordinary seed, as big as a pea.

To be honest, he didn't see anything special about this seed at first.

Seeing Qing Dou's confused look, Han Ning knew that he couldn't figure out whether it was true or not, so he held the life seed and tried to use the Taiyin soul-draining method to pull Akatos out of the Emerald Aurora Dragon's body. .

Two dragon souls staying in one body will affect the spiritual world of the main soul over time.

The soft spiritual power is like a pair of big hands, pulling Akatos's illusory remnant soul and separating it from the body of the Emerald Aurora Dragon.

In an instant, all the beast masters of the third level and above clearly saw that an illusory emerald cracking rock dragon light and shadow, pulled by an inexplicable force, entered the life seed in Han Ning's palm.

As the remnant soul of Akatos entered, the emerald-green seed suddenly shone with a faint light, and then turned into an ordinary pea.

"Ahem... Han Ning, you are good at nourishing the soul. Lord Akatos will stay with you for the time being. Please..."

Qingdou said, staggering half of his body, and was about to perform the dragon blood ritual to Han Ning.

"No, Leader Qingdou is serious. Your Excellency Akatos is the savior of all of us. Helping it restore its life is what we should do."

Han Ning hurriedly stopped Qing Dou's actions, and then brought the topic to the great priest he cared about most.

"What happened on the surface? I heard Qingfan say that the great priest Barry is actually an Aratak?"

"Barry..."

When he read this name, Qingdou's eyes became cold.

"It was he who caused the death of the ancestor. Barry was originally the guardian knight beside Grand Duke Ye Ming. Even among the Aratak tribe with strict rules and distinct hierarchies, he still enjoys a title and a high position of power... I don't know him. Why didn’t he leave the Insect Continent with the other Arataks and instead become the high priest of the Queen’s Temple?”

"After the barrier was broken down, the founder unleashed his accumulated soul skills in advance, and at the same time exploded Barry's Eye of Fear, leaving a glimmer of hope for me and my contracted soul beasts. During the evacuation process, I You know, the prerequisite for an early explosion is that the ancestor burns more than two-thirds of his soul."

"In the original plan of the ancestor, it only disappeared physically and spiritually, leaving a dragon soul to leave with me. I would then look for an opportunity to use the talent of the high-level jade dragon to achieve nirvana and rebirth. Now..."

The dragon blood people around him became very angry when they heard Qing Dou's description.

But at best they are incompetent and furious. Apart from shouting and cursing, they have not made any changes to the status quo.

"What about Barry?" After a few seconds of silence, Han Ning continued to ask.

"I'm not sure. The Demonic Eye of Fear that he worked so hard to summon was torn apart by the ancestor's soul skill. He must have been seriously injured. I guess... he won't cause us any trouble in the short term, but... reality has happened. Things tell me that things will not develop in the direction I expected." Qing Dou sighed.

Han Ning was silent.

This time it can be regarded as losing his wife and losing his troops.

Speaking of which, the Undead Jellyfish Shield is a good treasure. It is placed outside the Gray Demon Whale to better defend against the outer space storm.

Now it's lost outside the Emerald Forest, and I'm afraid I won't be able to get it back.

"Father, why did the barrier suddenly collapse?" Qing Fan, who had never spoken, discovered a blind spot.

"What do you think? Of course there is a mole inside the Emerald Forest." Qing Dou snorted coldly.

"Cang Yuan Turtle? Is it that old turtle?" Qing Fan gritted his teeth and punched the stone table.

"Who else but it?"

After talking for so long, Qing Dou, who was mentally weak, gradually began to look sluggish again. He rubbed his forehead and cheered up, saying,

"The entire Emerald Forest and more than one-third of the continent's surface were destroyed by the soul skills released by the Ancestor. The old turtle has probably been evaporated by spiritual energy. If you want to cause trouble for it, you can only go to the underworld."

"Don't talk about this... Qing Fan, I am mentally injured now, and the time to wake up will be limited in the future. The affairs of the Dragon Blood Clan will be left to you and a group of elders to handle..."

"And Han Ning... I suggest that we leave the Insect Continent within 10 days, no, within 5 days. Barry must have seen the direction I left. I'm afraid he will find this place soon. We must hurry up!"