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Chapter 1057 - 708

Chapter 1057: 708

"I know what you’re afraid of," the Queen of Xuan City said to the couple. "Rest assured, as the individual who pioneered the eighth generation of True Blood. I will take good care of your child and let her become the founder of a new era! Her bloodline will bring renewal to more of our people! This is her glory, and it is also her duty. Come, you two great heroes. You deserve the care of Xuan City, not to be our enemies."

Despite having a face more beautiful than anyone else’s, the words that came from the Queen of Xuan City’s enticing lips were chilling.

Exploiting human reproduction to create stronger bloodlines, and finding the most suitable adaptor individuals within.

To purify the True Blood, achieving a more perfect integration and adaptation between human genes and the Insect God’s True Blood.

During this period, the failures either became citizens of the Outer City or mutants of the Bottom Nest; those who remained were the perfect people of the Inner City.

And Xiao Nan had also caught a hint of something more.

"Just thirty years... to the eighth generation? What... have you done..." Xiao Nan’s delicate face turned pale with anger.

Li Changhe paused, then suddenly understood.

Yes.

The insect god had been in this world for just over thirty years, and at most, Xuan City had controlled it for that long.

How could the eighth generation of True Blood have been cultivated in just these short thirty years?

The neighboring Great Tang Protectorate’s sequence reached at most the third generation.

And the citizens of Xuan City’s Inner City, known for their extremely low birth rates, had reached the eighth generation?

How could this be possible?

"You... took the Divine Blood directly from those infants?" Li Changhe’s pupils flickered. "To baptize your citizens with their Divine Blood?"

The Queen of Xuan City did not respond, but her sweet smile sent shivers down Li Changhe’s spine.

Madwoman!

For the purification of bloodlines, she had taken the infants’ Divine Blood and used it to baptize the people of Xuan City in order to obtain more high-level individuals. Then those individuals would breed....

The cycle would restart, forcibly accelerating the rate of purification!

"Little Chen Guang, are you angry? Angry that I eliminated those children?" the Queen asked with a smile. "As a successor to the power of the insect god, you’re being too naive. You know that the birth rates of my Inner City citizens are extremely low, and the number of individuals capable of life ascension is very scarce. Even the citizens of the Inner City have a high chance of producing offspring fit only for the Bottom Nest or the Outer City. Rather than wait for the rare individuals to grow to an age where they can reproduce freely, it’s more efficient to spread their bloodlines among more people, thus creating higher beings capable of reproduction more effectively. Their sacrifice brings us one step closer to our dream."

Then, the Queen of Xuan City addressed the couple. "You also became citizens of the Inner City this way, have you forgotten? The True Blood in your veins also comes from a seventh-generation child you’ve never met. In return, I granted you longer life, greater strength, and more perfect beauty. I allowed you to meet and fall in love with each other, encounter your better halves. You’ve obtained a perfect life... and all you have to do is give me a child. That’s a good deal, isn’t it?"

"Queen... please," the mother knelt on the ground, wailing, "Spare her, I will give up everything you’ve granted me, please..."

But the handsome husband contorted his face, lifting the long sword in his hands against the overwhelming majesty brought by the Queen of Xuan City.

He stood like a mountain in front of his wife and daughter.

"How could I bear to harm you?" The Queen grinned, "You two are the only couple in the seventh generation who successfully bred a stronger individual. Compared to those couples who were gutted by their own offspring or produced children with regressed bloodlines, you are far more precious. You must live well, watch your bloodline grow stronger, and produce even mightier bloodlines. You are true heroes..."

"I don’t want any title of hero! I want my child to live!" The woman holding the swaddling clothes shouted, "I don’t care about bloodline ascension; I just want her to live!"

"That’s difficult. That is her destiny, her reason for birth," the Queen said with an air of difficulty. "How about you try to have another child? If the plan succeeds, your second child might live."

As soon as the Queen of Xuan City finished speaking, she looked towards Li Changhe and Xiao Nan.

She felt the hostility roaring towards her, undisguised, aimed directly at herself.

How many years had it been... that someone within her own Divine Country had harbored hostility toward her?

This made the Queen somewhat surprised, and then she regarded the two of them.

And a strange transformation was happening to Xiao Nan. Her soft, silky black hair began to turn white from the roots.

Not just that. Her eyelashes, her eyebrows, were all changing at this moment.

As her white hair fluttered in the wind, Xiao Nan had already transformed into a girl with white hair and white eyebrows.

Her celestial-like long white hair gave her a divine and distant temperament, making her seem untouchable, as if one’s sheer existence would defile her purity.

At the same time, the previously clear and cloudless sky seemed to be encroached upon by black ink. Dark clouds gathered and swiftly enveloped the entire range of the inner city.

This was Xiao Nan’s Sequence, Fuzhu!

Originally, because the transformation this state induced on her body made her somewhat embarrassed to display her Sequence in front of others.

But at this moment, in the face of the Xuan City Queen, she could no longer suppress her rage, and without any hesitation, she activated her most powerful state.

The Queen’s previous use of Chen Yu’s body to have an ambiguous relationship with Li Changhe had already made her feel wronged and uncomfortable.

Now, with the pathway to Divine Blood advancement revealed, she could no longer contain her killing intent.

Li Changhe, on the other hand, had a solemn gaze as he said to the Xuan City Queen, "It seems, I’ve made a significant error in judgment."

"Oh?" The Queen said with a slight smile and narrowed eyes, "Little Chen Guang, which aspect are you referring to?"

Li Changhe was surrounded by spatial fluctuations, his body sheathed in Mountain Pattern Armor. The azure flames illuminated the inner city beneath the dark clouds.

"I had hoped to use the strength of the Great Tang Protectorate to deter you, to make you hand over the insect god, to prevent the insect god from escaping confinement and endangering the world, and to stop this twisted ascension. It seems I was wrong," Li Changhe said as he pulled out the Azure Flame mask with a flash of spatial movement and slowly placed it on his face. "Create a new world? Lead humanity into a new era?"

"Stop making excuses for yourself. For what you call ascension, you treat humans like livestock, enslaving them and sacrificing countless human lives and futures. The eighth generation of Divine Blood? Even the eightieth generation of Divine Blood can’t satisfy your endless ambition and desire. You enemy of humanity!"

"Little Chen Guang," The Queen, facing the soldiers who released their murderous intent, showed a sorrowful expression, "Even you can’t understand me. Was the stake I put forward not enough?"

"This saddens me deeply..." The Queen sighed softly, her sadness flowing like autumn water in her eyes. Then the sorrow vanished, turning into a kind of expectation, "I understand now..."

"You haven’t yet recognized your own identity and duty. Yes, that must be it. You’re too young, too oblivious to the significance of your own existence. Let me assist you... You will understand, you are the only one of your kind."

As the Queen’s words fell, a golden giant statue emerged from the boundless void.

The next second, the whole inner city trembled as the power of the Xuan City overlord was being extracted and pooled; she was attempting to forcibly warp Li Changhe’s thoughts. She needed this ’kindred’ too badly; even if it meant warping his mind, she must have him.

Just as the golden giant statue was about to raise its spear to throw, a strange laugh echoed from the void, a pitch-black sphere floating in the emptiness like a black sun.

It opened its huge mouth full of sharp teeth and grinned at the golden giant statue.

In an instant, the spear in the hands of the giant statue was thrown, and the black sun opened its mouth wide, biting down on the spear that shot towards it.

Crack!

A brittle sound echoed in the ears of every citizen who believed in the overlord of Xuan City.

And in the Bottom Nest that extended outwards, the sleeping insect god finally opened its eyes.

Her plan succeeded.

Rousing Li Changhe, guiding the appearance of that couple, analyzing the Queen’s personality, and...

Waiting for the collision between God Sin and the overlord of Xuan City!

All her schemes and analyses finally allowed her a temporary escape from the oppression of the Xuan City overlord!

Now...

The insect god’s angry scream echoed throughout the Bottom Nest.

Countless Mutants, countless water ghosts, upon receiving the command, gave out a unison roar.

They were about to exact the most terrifying revenge upon the entire Xuan City!