The Prison King Lineage

Within Chaos Mountain. Su Yu named this small hill Daoshi Mountain—the Mountain of the Dao’s Beginning. The beginning of the Great Dao. Of course, it was a grand name, but in reality, it was just an exceedingly ordinary hill among tens of thousands of peaks. If there was anything extraordinary about it, the sole distinction lay in the grand array here that shielded against the power of chaotic rules. …… At this moment, Su Yu was leading King Daming in surveying Daoshi Mountain. He wanted to trace the shielding power back to its source and locate the core of this concealment array. If it truly was an array, King Daming could learn it and set up formations across unoccupied hills among these tens of thousands of peaks. This place would then become a base of operations for the human race, for any members of the myriad races who came here would inevitably be suppressed. If it was not an array but a treasure, finding it would be just as beneficial, as it could be taken along at any time. With his Heavenly Gate open, Su Yu followed the shielding power, probing continuously. King Daming followed behind, constantly trying to judge whether this was truly an array. Was it man-made or natural? As an expert who had integrated the Dao through the Dao of Formations, King Daming possessed genuine skill. After trailing Su Yu and investigating for a while, King Daming's expression grew increasingly grim. After a long time, seeing that Su Yu had yet to find the source, King Daming said in a heavy voice, "Emperor Yu, there is something I must mention." "What is it?" "This might be an array, but some sort of treasure was likely used as its foundation." Su Yu nodded slightly. King Daming took a deep breath and continued, "That isn't the crucial point. The key is... this array feels somewhat familiar to me." "Familiar?" "Yes!" King Daming exhaled and said, "Familiar. When I integrated the Dao previously, I actually relied on the shielding array left behind by that fellow from the Prison King lineage. Her attainments in the Dao of Formations were mediocre, but the array she set up was extraordinarily powerful because it was completely formulaic! She probably only knew how to lay that single array, taught to her by someone else. She merely knew the steps to arrange and deploy it..." Su Yu's expression changed slightly. King Daming continued, "The more I look at the array here, the more it resembles that shielding array. Of course, there are differences! But the core Dao of Formations should belong to the same system." Su Yu asked solemnly, "You mean this might be an array laid down by the Prison King lineage?" "Mm. Didn't they say the Prison King once came here?" King Daming said in a deep voice, "I was wondering if this was left behind by the Prison King back then. If it was left by the Prison King, that's fine. If not... that means the Prison King lineage still has living experts, and... they might also be residing within Chaos Mountain!" Su Yu's eyes shifted. King Daming continued, "We always say the Prison King lineage betrayed humanity, but in the Upper Realm, there are only four human factions left right now—Marquis Anying doesn't even count. Four factions is very few!" "Marquis Zhennan, Marquis Huoyun, Marquis Yunshui, and General Yingwu. If the Prison King lineage were truly hidden among these people, they would be far too conspicuous..." Su Yu fell into thought. King Daming went on, "So I began wondering: is the Prison King lineage really among them? If not, where are they?" "Moreover, as traitors, appearing in isolation would be far too abrupt." King Daming said gravely, "Emperor Yu, do you think there's a possibility—if, and I mean *if*, this lineage truly exists and can carve out a sanctuary in a perilous place like Chaos Mountain, could a vast number of humans be sheltered by them? Or could some humans who fled back then, and the descendants they subsequently bore, actually all be within Chaos Mountain!" Su Yu frowned once more. King Daming continued, "As traitors, what is their purpose? Is it to exterminate the human race, simply to prevent King Wen and the others from returning, or to unify humanity under themselves?" Su Yu sank into deep contemplation. After a long pause, he said slowly, "So what King Daming means is that if the Prison King lineage truly exists and their aim isn't the extermination of humanity, they might have secretly cultivated a host of human experts and remained hidden in Chaos Mountain all this time!" Su Yu's gaze turned peculiar. "Here, the Great Daos are chaotic. If they could truly open up a pure land where the myriad races dare not enter and ordinary humans cannot reach, cultivating to the Sun and Moon Realm would be entirely effortless. The origin qi here is far too dense. The only concern is that confirming the Dao would be exceedingly difficult..." "Confirming the Dao is difficult... but Emperor Yu, do they have to confirm the Dao?" Su Yu was taken aback. King Daming added, "Did the ancient beasts confirm the Dao?" Su Yu furrowed his brows. "You mean..." "Simply strengthening the physical body, or even directly walking this chaotic Dao of Chaos!" King Daming said in a deep voice, "If so, their progress wouldn't be slow, nor would their strength be weak! Cultivating rule power isn't the only path! If all else fails, they could cultivate here to the peak of Sun and Moon, then find a place outside to confirm the Dao." King Daming drew a deep breath. "Right now, the only thing we must ascertain is what their true goal is. If it's to exterminate humanity, then what I said might not exist. If not... then this possibility is very real!" He sensed the faint, almost imperceptible shielding power and said solemnly, "I think this array was very likely not laid down by the Prison King himself, because... it's too far on the periphery!" "Even if the Prison King truly came to guard this place back then, he wouldn't set up an array on a tiny hill on the outer perimeter. To me, this hill feels more like an experiment." "An expert of the Prison King lineage probably conducted an experiment here, deploying an array to shield against the influence of chaotic power!" Through this array, King Daming had deduced a vast amount of information. Su Yu, too, was plunged into thought. King Daming added, "If that's the case, then the humans outside are actually abandoned pawns! The Prison King lineage used them to draw the attention of the myriad races; those people were cast aside!" "Meanwhile, their own lineage may have absorbed many experts or cultivated many on their own." King Daming looked toward Su Yu. "This lineage betrayed us from the very beginning! According to what you said, Emperor Yu, from the outset they sought to slay the descendants of the King Zhan lineage and wipe out the inheritance of King Wen's Brush Dao! Clearly, they knew of the Brush Dao's existence and did not want it to reappear in the world! Their betrayal did not start with the previous tide, yet it was only in this tide that we caught a few clues... Then what were they doing for the preceding ninety thousand years?" "Why did almost nobody know that this lineage had turned traitor?" Su Yu looked at him. King Daming gave a slight smile and said, "This suggests that throughout those ninety thousand years, they might have been hiding in the dark all along. Not many of them necessarily walked the world; instead, they were continuously building up their own forces!" "Occupying a treasure land like Chaos Mountain, they at least had no shortage of resources. In the Upper Realm, comprehending the Dao is relatively easy as well. If the Prison King lineage maintained an unbroken inheritance, I wouldn't dare say their Dao Integrators outnumber the entire human race, but in the previous tide, humanity had nearly a hundred Dao Integrators. What about the Prison King lineage?" "This is the complete inheritance left by one of the Four Extreme Heavenly Kings, perhaps even combined with what the Demon Emperor left behind... Two supreme experts! I suspect their heritage might be deeper than even the major races like the Immortals or Gods!" "The Prison King even knew that the ancient era would collapse one day, or perhaps he even actively incited it from the shadows. If so, would the contingency plans he left behind be fewer than those of the other races?" "Emperor Yu, we've always treated the Prison King lineage as a single branch within the human race. We were wrong. We should treat them as an entire race—an extraordinarily powerful race! Possessing two supreme existences, if classified by ancient standards, they would be a faction second only to the human race itself!" Su Yu's heart jolted. He looked at King Daming, speechless for a long time. Indeed, he had always thought that the Prison King lineage's betrayal was merely a branch within humanity. How many people could such a lineage possess? Ten? Twenty? Yet now, King Daming was telling him that they might not be a mere branch, but an entire race! The Prison King plus that ancient Demon Emperor—that amounted to two supreme beings, giving them a foundation deeper than that of the Immortals or Gods. If the ancient upheaval had been actively instigated by the Prison King... Even those caught unprepared like the Human Sovereign had left behind countless arrangements. What about the Prison King? Su Yu's expression shifted repeatedly. Princess Consort Xi alone was a Heavenly King-tier expert. Previously, Su Yu assumed she was probably the strongest existence in that lineage. Thinking about it now, was she truly? If she were their strongest, would they leave her in the Lower Realm merely to act as an informant? King Daming had arrived at these deductions through this array. Before this, everyone believed the members of the Prison King lineage were hiding among the remnants of humanity. Yet looking at Marquis Dingjun's situation, it was utterly miserable! With barely a thousand people, could an expert truly hide among them? Unless one were blind, searching through and probing them one by one would take little effort. Even if the other four human Dao Integrators with factions each held ten thousand subordinates, that was only forty to fifty thousand people in total. Was that a lot? Very few! Among so few people, hiding an expert would be far too easy to discover and expose. Now King Daming judged that the array stemmed from the Prison King lineage, and this was Chaos Mountain. Everything suddenly had an explanation. Back then, the Prison King had garrisoned this place and stayed for a thousand years. It was impossible for the Prison King lineage not to understand this land. Here, it was exceedingly perilous, yet also exceedingly secure. Likewise, it was exceptionally concealed! Without a pressing need, neither the myriad races nor the human race would come here; doing so was practically seeking death. King Daming added, "Alternatively, they planted a few people within various factions, but I believe that's only a minority. The majority remain hidden in Chaos Mountain—provided this array was indeed laid by them!" With this shielding array, one could avoid being crushed by chaotic power, allowing even the weak to survive. Moreover, ancient beasts would not easily discover them. If the array were even stronger, ancient beasts probably wouldn't notice their existence at all. Princess Consort Xi's shielding array had been extraordinarily formidable. When two peak Dao Integrators fought inside it, the myriad races hadn't sensed the slightest disturbance. Even before the array core was found, Su Yu had developed a headache from King Daming's words. Now, he said in a heavy voice, "According to King Daming's reasoning, this lineage really might have formed an independent faction! What you said is right—possessing the bloodlines of both the Prison King and the Yanhuo Demon Emperor, those are two unimaginably terrifying beings..." Saying this, Su Yu suddenly asked with an odd expression, "Yanhuo Demon Emperor... Was this Demon Emperor from the ancient era?" Was the Demon Emperor of the ancient era named Yanhuo? Su Yu hadn't paid much attention to this. After all, the ancient era had vanished, and the true names of those supreme figures were rarely mentioned. "Probably." King Daming wasn't certain either, answering casually, "The true names of those experts are rarely spoken of. Just like us—we don't know the Human Sovereign's name, nor the names of the Four Extreme Human Kings. None of us really know." *I know King Wu is named Zhou Taishan.* *As for the others, to tell the truth, I really don't know either.* *They are all honorary titles!* Su Yu knitted his brows. "Let's put that aside for now. So, according to King Daming's deduction, if... we treat the Prison King lineage as a race, their strength might be even greater than the Immortals, Demons, or Gods! Yet they haven't shown themselves for a hundred thousand years, only making small moves in secret..." "Those moves aren't small!" King Daming said gravely, "If the previous tide was orchestrated by them, then the human race and the myriad races combined lost nearly one hundred and fifty Dao Integrators in battle! Could such a move be considered small? Not in the slightest! Perhaps before, they lacked the strength to conquer all the myriad races of the heavens, but after the last tide, they might possess sufficient power!" Su Yu gasped. "Fuck, you mean the strength accumulated by this race might be enough to rival the current myriad races?" "It's not impossible!" King Daming looked toward the depths of Chaos Mountain and frowned. "This place is dangerous, but good things abound! Others cannot enter, so it's all their territory. Over countless ages without needing to campaign outside, accumulating strength here... how terrifying would that accumulated power be?" "Sending out just a few people could stir up a tempest." "Princess Consort Xi is remarkably strong, yet during the first nine tides she made no major moves. Only after the ninth tide did she enter the dead spirit realm to contact Western Heavenly King and the others. Why didn't she contact them earlier?" "Because they felt that during the first nine tides, all factions were too strong, making it unwise to expose themselves or reveal their presence. But after the ninth tide ended, they probably felt their strength was sufficient!" King Daming's analysis was logically sound and thoroughly reasoned. He was originally a Civilization Master and an old general with immense depth of scheming. Someone who could hide his son for hundreds of years, keeping him concealed until he confirmed the Dao without anyone finding out. Someone who could deceive the myriad races into believing his eldest son was dead—he was no simple man. It was just that with Su Yu's rise, King Daqin and the others successively gained Su Yu's assistance and rapidly integrated their Daos, making King Daming seem far more low-key by comparison. In truth, he was someone who had truly relied on himself to integrate the Dao. Strictly speaking, King Daming was the only true human Dao Integrator of this tide! Yes, the only one! King Dazhou wasn't from this tide. Lan Tian and Wan Tiansheng opened their own Daos, and opening a Dao was different from standard Dao Integration. Tianyue wasn't from this tide either. King Daqin and King Daxia were currently walking the Dao of the Desolate Heaven Beast. Only King Daming had stepped into the Dao Integration Realm of the Dao of Formations on his own, relying on Princess Consort Xi's array. Su Yu cast a peculiar glance at him. This old man was truly tight-lipped. Su Yu strongly suspected that King Daming might have harbored these suspicions and thoughts long ago, keeping them bottled up. Only at this moment, upon discovering something amiss with the array, did he spill it all to Su Yu in one breath. As expected of Zhu Tiandao's father! A man as shrewd as Marquis Xia had suffered losses at Zhu Tiandao's hands again and again. Great Ming Prefecture had plenty of smart people. After more than four hundred years of warfare, Great Ming Prefecture had lost very few people, yet its strength was formidable. Of the older generation of experts, Great Ming Prefecture likely retained the most. Currently, the prefecture had four Eternals—no, three Eternals and one Dao Integrator. Such strength didn't pale in the slightest compared to Great Zhou Prefecture or Great Xia Prefecture. Seeing Su Yu staring at him, King Daming smiled and asked, "What is it?" *Why are you looking at me?* *Did I say something wrong?* *It's just a reasonable deduction. Why does he keep staring at me?* *Do I have flowers on my face?* Su Yu smiled, then suddenly said, "King Daming, let me ask you something." "Go ahead, Emperor Yu." "Back then, Senior Xia Chen and King Dazhou each opened a ruin for you, which made Great Ming Prefecture the only one with two ruins while other prefectures only had one. Why didn't King Daming give the ruin to Prefect Niu, who had a better chance of confirming the Dao back then, and instead gave it to Zhu Tianfang?" King Daming gave a dry cough. "This... cough, Old Niu was quite famous back then. If he confirmed the Dao, everyone would know. Having one more overt Eternal didn't mean much. After Tianfang confirmed the Dao, he took charge of the Huang Department of the Hunting Heaven Pavilion, which is the source of Hunting Heaven Pavilion's intelligence... Frankly speaking, human losses haven't been severe over the years, winning eight out of ten major battles, which had a lot to do with Tianfang." He began claiming credit for his son, smiling. "Tianfang oversees the intelligence system. Emperor Yu is also skilled in warfare and understands the importance of intelligence! If not for Hunting Heaven Pavilion providing us with timely intelligence, humanity might not have held out until now, nor could we have gained a firm foothold in the later stages." Su Yu nodded slightly. King Daming added, "Moreover, Great Ming Prefecture is merely low-key; that doesn't mean our merits are inferior to Great Qin or Great Xia. On the contrary, in my opinion, Great Ming Prefecture's contributions surpass theirs!" King Daming beamed. "If nothing else, in our campaigns across the heavens, thirty percent of the military armaments of all the prefectures were supplied by Great Ming Prefecture! Could armaments forged by those brutes match those of my Great Ming Prefecture?" "My Great Ming Prefecture has the Pavilion of a Hundred Dao, which can mass-produce various low- and mid-tier armamentsmiths! Great Ming Prefecture has the most armamentsmiths in the Human Realm!" Su Yu nodded again. Indeed, there was a sense of formulaic, mass-production training for armamentsmiths there. He had entered it himself and knew that as long as you had the aptitude, you could become an armamentsmith without consuming raw materials. Not just armamentsmiths, but other professions as well. Mass production! Of course, those mass-produced weren't usually masters of supreme precision, but for formulaic manufacturing of military gear, it was more than enough. King Daming said with a laugh, "Not only that, Great Ming Prefecture has also made immense contributions in various other industries! Take storage rings, for instance—they were actually produced by Great Ming Prefecture! Not in vast quantities, but enough to meet our needs!" "For example, most of the low-end cultivation methods circulating on the market come from Great Ming Prefecture!" "Food, clothing, shelter, transport... Great Ming Prefecture has pushed all of these forward. Emperor Yu, to be completely honest, without my Great Ming Prefecture, humanity today would still be living like primitives. Only after my Great Ming Prefecture stepped up did everyone gradually live the kind of life we have today!" King Daming chuckled. "Sometimes, the most skilled warriors leave no illustrious feats. It's not just about how many people you kill! Among the Four Extreme Human Kings, my ancestor had the least renown, but that doesn't mean my ancestor made no contribution to the ancient era. Otherwise, relying on raw strength alone, could one definitely become one of the Four Extreme Human Kings? As far as I know, back then my ancestor was responsible for logistical support. When campaigning across the heavens in the ancient era, the front lines fought while the rear entirely depended on my ancestor to hold things together!" Su Yu laughed. "King Daming means..." King Daming also laughed. "Cough, nothing much. What I mean is, the Xia family is a bunch of brutes—decent at fighting, useless at administration! Once the world is conquered in the future, handing logistics and support over to my Zhu family will definitely be done far more splendidly than by the Xia family!" "..." Su Yu didn't know whether to laugh or cry! Seeing him laugh, King Daming immediately pressed on, "I'm not telling any lies! Emperor Yu, you've lived in both Great Ming Prefecture and Great Xia Prefecture. Do you think Great Xia is richer or Great Ming is richer? Is Great Xia more peaceful or Great Ming? Why should the common people at the bottom be so belligerent? Everyone should just perform their own duties! Look at Great Qin Prefecture with its total military control—that's not necessarily a good thing..." "Take Great Xia Prefecture: if a Civilization Master wants to conduct research, do they have sufficient funding?" "In Great Ming Prefecture, even if someone is as unreliable as Hu Xiansheng, a mere Shanhai running around researching spatial teleportation, Great Ming Prefecture gave him full support." King Daming said with a jovial smile, "We in Great Ming Prefecture eat, drink, play, and make merry, yet our merits aren't lesser than any other prefecture. Look at Great Xia and Great Qin, so bitter and deep-seated with hatred, living such miserable lives, and they haven't conquered that much territory either!" "..." Refutation was impossible. Su Yu had lived in Great Ming Prefecture for a period of time; it had indeed been very pleasant. Eating, drinking, and having fun were unconstrained. Various novel inventions also emerged in an endless stream. Su Yu smiled. "What King Daming says makes sense. Cultivation isn't purely for slaughter. Let's put that aside for now. According to your thoughts, King Daming, could the Prison King lineage be right here in Chaos Mountain?" "The probability is extremely high!" King Daming nodded. "Otherwise, in any other place, with so many experts in the Upper Realm, it's impossible that nothing would be discovered—unless they're all hidden within the factions of several human marquises, which is very unlikely." Su Yu also nodded slightly. He glanced into the depths of Chaos Mountain and exhaled softly. "Interesting. I overlooked this before. Or rather, neither the myriad races nor the human race ever considered this. In everyone's eyes, the Prison King lineage was assumed to be like the inheritances of the other three kings: either severed or faded into obscurity." Thinking of this, Su Yu smiled and quickly said, "Wait here for me a moment. I'll go bluff Princess Consort Xi." "..." King Daming was speechless. He had completely forgotten about that. Su Yu wasted no time. He truly needed to make a judgment—one he hadn't considered before. In Su Yu's fixed impression, the Prison King lineage was in the Upper Realm, concealed within the factions of Marquis Huoyun and the others, perhaps numbering just three to five people hiding very deeply. He had never thought: if this lineage was so powerful, why the hell would they hide? Why bother hiding among those people? Looking for discomfort? Princess Consort Xi alone had Heavenly King combat power. Among the humans in the Upper Realm right now, was there even a single Heavenly King? Did they even need sinister schemes of betrayal and sabotage? If they truly wanted to exterminate them, dispatching a Heavenly King once they knew their precise locations would allow them to kill them directly—or just sell them out to the myriad races. Perhaps the Prison King lineage truly hadn't betrayed Marquis Minshan and the others. Because they needed those people outside to create commotion and keep fighting with the myriad races. …… Inside the civilization chronicle. The small space. Princess Consort Xi was taken aback. *Back again?* Su Yu had returned remarkably fast this time. Seeing Su Yu, she didn't try to seduce him this time. Instead, she asked directly, "Where are we now? Why do I feel that my sealed Great Dao is being suppressed?" Su Yu raised an eyebrow. "You can still sense the outside world?" "Just a slight sensation." Princess Consort Xi chuckled. She conjured a bed, leaned against it, and said with a smile, "Since the Human Master is here, why not sit down and chat?" Su Yu couldn't be bothered to engage in pleasantries. He conjured a chair, sat opposite her, and said indifferently, "I'll find a way to have someone transport the items to the Upper Realm! However, the Life Realm is heavily guarded, so it will take some time." Princess Consort Xi smiled. "What's the rush? Take your time. Baizhan hasn't been unsealed yet, has he?" Su Yu glanced at her and said coldly, "However, some news has recently been sent down from the Upper Realm. I want to verify it with you." "What doubts does the Human Master have?" Princess Consort Xi smiled seductively. "As long as it can be told, Ziyan will certainly hold nothing back. After all, you and I are on the same path now." Su Yu sneered, then said, "Marquis Minshan is dead. Did you know?" Princess Consort Xi frowned. Su Yu hadn't mentioned this last time. At this moment, she raised her brows slightly and chuckled. "He died, so he died. What's there to be surprised about?" Su Yu said coldly, "It was done by people of your lineage! Although I don't think much of those old fellows in the Upper Realm, you bastards trapped and killed an ancient marquis yet again. Sooner or later, I will exterminate your lineage!" Princess Consort Xi scoffed. "Don't pin every blame on us! Minshan was useless himself and died at the hands of the myriad races. Isn't that perfectly normal? Su Yu, you're ridiculous. Whenever there's a failure, there's always an excuse..." Su Yu threw a palm strike, causing her to spit blood and shattering the bed. He said coldly, "Drop your insolence with me! Remember, right now, you are a prisoner!" Princess Consort Xi silently stood up, conjured another bed, sat down on it, and chuckled faintly. "You can only vent some anger on me. It looks like you're very furious. Why don't big sister comfort you?" Su Yu watched her with a cold face for a long time before speaking again: "There's another matter I want to ask you! When the battle broke out in the Lower Realm earlier, causing great turmoil, Marquis Xianzhan intended to descend, but was intercepted. The one who blocked him in the Upper Realm was a human of immense strength. Just like you, they were exceedingly mysterious, clad in black robes. When they struck, their attacks were laced with chaotic rule power, yet their combat prowess was terrifyingly formidable..." As he spoke, Princess Consort Xi showed no outward reaction, but her heart trembled slightly. However, within this space, Su Yu was supreme ruler; naturally, nothing could escape his notice. Su Yu furrowed his brows and said, "I asked King Dazhou and the others, but they all said they didn't recognize him and had never seen him. He isn't among the known human experts in the Upper Realm. You once stayed in the Upper Realm as well; do you know this person's identity?" "The Upper Realm is vast, and there may still be many hidden human experts. How could I know everyone?" Princess Consort Xi sneered. "To think you're asking me—how laughable!" Su Yu frowned. "Their attire was very similar to yours when you came to kill Hongmeng..." "Heh!" Princess Consort Xi gave a mocking laugh. "Plenty of people wear black robes. How utterly ridiculous!" Su Yu said chillingly, "If you keep up this attitude, I'll slaughter you!" Only then did Princess Consort Xi rein it in slightly, smiling seductively. "So during the earlier battle, there was so much excitement to see? That person could actually hold off Marquis Xianzhan... Xianzhan's strength is by no means weak..." "Indeed. Precisely because of that, I was wondering who this person is. Xianzhan likely has Heavenly King combat power, which means this person might also have Heavenly King combat power!" Su Yu pondered. "Could it be an expert from your lineage?" Princess Consort Xi smiled. "Why would my lineage block Xianzhan for your sake?" "True!" Su Yu nodded. "Precisely why I'm uncertain! But this person's Dao was very peculiar..." Su Yu still had his brow furrowed. "It was somewhat chaotic. Later, I sent people to investigate and inquire, and even the Immortal race didn't know this person's origins... Could it be that there's still a living human Heavenly King in the Upper Realm? If they can be subdued, once Baizhan comes out, we could resist him to some extent..." Princess Consort Xi smiled. "Then go ahead and subdue them." "Shut up!" Su Yu snapped in annoyance. "I'm worried it's a traitor from your lineage!" Princess Consort Xi smiled without speaking. "Since you don't know either, let's put it aside for now!" Su Yu exhaled. "One last thing. I've already forced out the location of the passage to the Upper Realm. I want to send people up to see if my subordinates can enter the Upper Realm first to scout the situation! Marquis Dingjun's people agreed to meet me at Chaos Mountain... But King Dazhou said Chaos Mountain has countless ancient beasts and is exceptionally perilous. I'm worried Marquis Dingjun might be intentionally trying to trap and kill me." Su Yu thought for a moment, then added, "Even if I don't go personally, I will dispatch top experts... I'm worried something will go wrong." Saying this, his eyes turned exceedingly ruthless. "Therefore, after careful consideration, I intend to arrange a meeting with all remaining human experts of the Upper Realm right in Chaos Mountain. But... I want to trigger a tide of ancient beasts to wipe them all out in one fell swoop!" Princess Consort Xi's expression changed slightly. Su Yu said in a heavy voice, "However, I need some help from you. You know that shielding array. I want King Daqin to go up, but I'm worried he might be killed. So, using your shielding array might allow him to avoid the beast tide..." Princess Consort Xi said indifferently, "Those ancient beasts aren't something you can trigger just because you want to. Do you think nobody ever thought of inciting a beast tide against their enemies? Usually, they end up dying first!" Su Yu sneered. "Nonsense, do you take me for an idiot? Of course I know that! However, King Daqin and the others inherited the Great Dao of the Desolate Heaven Beast. Strictly speaking, they are akin to one with the ancient beasts. From what I know, being fellow ancient beasts, there is a connection. I want King Daqin to try; perhaps he can trigger it... If that fails, I still have the corpse of the Desolate Heaven Beast in my hands. If I give that corpse to King Daqin and detonate it, do you think that could draw out the ancient beasts?" This time, Princess Consort Xi truly showed a change in expression. Of course, it vanished quickly, and she chuckled. "You really are insane, really vicious! You actually want to trap and kill those humans in the Upper Realm... Your heart is even blacker than my lineage's! Su Yu, you say my lineage is vile... In my eyes, you're the truly vile one!" Su Yu said coldly, "A real man doesn't balk at ruthless means! Since they won't support me, do I need them causing trouble for me? Besides, I don't need your judgment. I'm only asking you: with that shielding array, can one conceal oneself from being discovered by ancient beasts?" Princess Consort Xi sneered. "How could that be possible! You're dreaming, so your plan is doomed to fail." Su Yu frowned. "Really impossible? When we fought last time, almost no aura leaked out... Forget it, just hand the array over to me first. I'll have people study it. Whether it works or not, we'll try it first. For you, there's no loss whatsoever. Doesn't your lineage desire the extermination of humanity? Fine, then I'll wipe out all the Upper Realm humans!" Princess Consort Xi said indifferently, "I won't give it to you. Su Yu, that array is an unshared secret of my lineage. Don't even dream of it!" Su Yu said coldly, "It's just an array! It only has some aura-masking effects, not much killing power. If you teach my people and I go wipe out the Upper Realm humans, wouldn't that align with your desires? Or could it be that among Marquis Dingjun and the others, there are people from your lineage, and you don't want me to kill them?" Princess Consort Xi remained silent, offering no explanation. Either way, she simply wouldn't give it! She couldn't give it! If she gave it, this madman Su Yu might truly send people up to cause a beast tide in Chaos Mountain. Although the likelihood was slim, according to Su Yu, he had the corpse of the Desolate Heaven Beast, and King Daqin and the others had indeed utilized the Desolate Heaven Beast's Dao last time. The Desolate Heaven Beast was indeed an ancient beast. If its corpse detonated, would it cause upheaval in Chaos Mountain? Hard to say! Once it truly provoked an upheaval, that would be massive trouble. Therefore, the only thing Princess Consort Xi could do was refuse to give the array to Su Yu. And Su Yu certainly wouldn't be willing to let King Daqin and King Daxia, who supported him, perish. In that case, all of this could be averted. At this moment, Su Yu was furious. He grabbed her throat, squeezing it until it creaked, and raged, "You fool! Wiping out the Upper Realm humans brings only benefits and no harm to your lineage! It's just an array, why won't you give it?" Princess Consort Xi coughed up blood and smiled. "Ancestral precept: it cannot be passed to outsiders. Even if you kill me, it's useless." "Bastard!" Su Yu was infuriated. Soon, he snorted coldly. "Even if you don't give it, it's no big deal. This isn't necessarily the only array that can shield aura..." Princess Consort Xi coughed blood and smiled. "Stop daydreaming. It's impossible to succeed. The power of the Great Dao in Chaos Mountain is different from that of the Myriad Worlds. Nine times out of ten, arrays from the Myriad Worlds lose their efficacy there... You opened the Heavenly Gate, but you haven't been to the Upper Realm. If you were there, you'd discover that rule power is suppressed in that place. Don't be fanciful!" She smiled. "You don't have many Dao Integration combatants under your command to begin with. If you throw away King Daqin and King Daxia too, you will die sooner or later. Your death is trivial, but I don't want to be buried with you. I advise you to abandon this idea!" "Besides, if you truly wipe out the humans in the Upper Realm and they all die, once the Upper Realm opens, you won't even have a chance to struggle..." Princess Consort Xi smiled faintly. "Since you can send people to the Upper Realm, why not find a way to subdue them instead? After all, Baizhan hasn't been unsealed yet, has he? This is your chance." Su Yu frowned. Princess Consort Xi chuckled. "Su Yu, don't think about killing all day long. If I hadn't been captured by you, I'd want you to go killing, want you to die. But now, I actually hope you stay alive; otherwise, wouldn't I be doomed?" Su Yu frowned at her for a long time, then sneered. "Trying to bewitch me? I can't be bothered with you!" With that, his figure dissipated. As for Princess Consort Xi, after he left, she exhaled softly after a long pause. *Su Yu, this madman, actually wants to trigger a beast tide in Chaos Mountain... Could the corpse of the Desolate Heaven Beast really incite them?* She wasn't entirely certain. Princess Consort Xi felt solemn inside. Clearly, Su Yu had set his sights on Chaos Mountain. She only hoped this fellow would abandon that idea as soon as possible. …… Meanwhile, the Su Yu who emerged also showed subtle shifts in expression. Princess Consort Xi didn't want him to cause a beast tide in Chaos Mountain! Even when he claimed it was to exterminate the Upper Realm humans, she refused to hand over the method to set up the array. That "ancestral precept" excuse was utter nonsense! *What is she worried about? Worried that the beast tide will affect the people of the Prison King lineage?* *If so, King Daming's deduction might just be correct—this lineage is truly hidden within it!* *When I mentioned an expert capable of resisting Marquis Xianzhan, she didn't find it unbelievable at all. That was a Heavenly King! For an unfamiliar Heavenly King-tier expert to suddenly appear among humanity, shouldn't that be shocking? Yet she didn't even press for details, merely claiming she didn't know them...* *When Marquis Minshan was killed, I said it was caused by betrayal from her lineage, and she denied it...* Thoughts flickered one after another, and after a moment, Su Yu was largely certain. King Daming's deduction was, in all probability, true. This lineage was truly hidden in Chaos Mountain, and there were definitely still Heavenly King-tier experts among them. Princess Consort Xi probably assumed the black-robed person who intervened—which Su Yu had fabricated, of course, but she had taken as real—was one of her kinsmen, which was why she hadn't said anything. *I really want to kill her, consume her essence blood, and inspect her memories!* At this moment, Su Yu truly felt like finishing off Princess Consort Xi, but he also knew that killing her might draw out experts of the Prison King lineage and put them on alert. …… Seeing Su Yu emerge and remain deep in thought, King Daming did not interrupt. Once Su Yu regained his focus, King Daming asked, "How was it?" Su Yu took a deep breath. "King Daming may have judged correctly. This lineage might truly be in Chaos Mountain, with no lack of experts—and there are definitely Heavenly King-tier beings among them!" King Daming was not too surprised; after all, it had been his own deduction. At this moment, he sighed with some emotion. "They intend to play the fisherman! The myriad races and humanity have fought for years, while they quietly accumulated strength, whittling down the power of both sides bit by bit, waiting to strike all at once and seize control of the Myriad Worlds... If so, their ambition is truly immense!" With a cold face, Su Yu looked toward the depths of Chaos Mountain. After a long pause, he said, "It was one thing when we hadn't noticed, but now that we have, wanting to reap the fisherman's profits won't be that simple!" "This race definitely lacks the absolute strength to control the Myriad Worlds; otherwise, they would have charged out long ago. They are still waiting. The fact that Princess Consort Xi went to contact Western Heavenly King means their strength is still insufficient! They might even hope the Hundred Battles King will be unsealed, emerge to fight another round with the myriad races, and consume both sides' strength... Since that's the case, we still have time and opportunity!" King Daming nodded slightly. "Probably so! But if that's true, staying here poses no small danger to us." "I know." Su Yu nodded. However, this was the periphery; the other party had likely abandoned the outer perimeter long ago to avoid drawing attention. For now, there wasn't much danger. "Continue searching for the array core. Put the other matters aside for now. Also, do not disclose any of this to anyone outside." Su Yu gave a low, solemn warning. King Daming nodded without saying more. Leaking this news wouldn't necessarily be a good thing. As for informing the myriad races, not only might they disbelieve it, but even if they did, the timing had to be right.