Only then did Yan Nai’er clearly see Zhi Yan’s appearance. She couldn’t help but glance at her, then glance again.
This… perhaps this was the most beautiful woman in the world, without equal.
She was a princess, but the clothes she wore now were not the least bit luxurious, merely fine cloth. And it was not even a skirt, but trousers. The sleeves of her upper garment were actually narrow sleeves.
This attire was like that of an ordinary family’s girl.
But for some reason, any clothes worn on her body seemed to possess an ethereal quality, making her figure appear especially graceful and exquisite.
Seeing Yan Nai’er’s gaze, Zhi Yan said, “My teacher and I are crafting a musical instrument. It is manual work, so I must dress lightly.”
Nai’er restrained herself from looking at Zhi Yan again. Her face, especially those eyes, seemed to possess a magical power that enchanted people.
The two lion tiger beasts galloped swiftly. Behind them, several dozen riders followed closely, all royal palace experts of the highest calibre. Even if someone had eaten a leopard’s gall on this journey south, they would not dare to intercept them.
Yan Nai’er asked, “Princess, just who is this Fang Qingshu? Why does he target Sauron?”
Zhi Yan said, “He is my senior martial brother.”
Yan Nai’er said, “Why is his status in the Divine Dragon Temple so high?”
Zhi Yan paused briefly, then said, “Do you know of the Hidden Continent?”
Yan Nai’er nodded, saying, “I know, that… legendary Hidden Continent, with a history even longer than the Yan Empire?”
Zhi Yan said, “Yes, that Hidden Continent.”
The world, after long division, must unite. After long unity, must divide. The Yan Dragon Empire created by the Dragon Emperor had disintegrated in less than a thousand years.
And in the several thousand years since, the human kingdoms had taken turns rising and falling. Watching this nation rise, watching that nation perish.
Today there were four great kingdoms and one empire.
The Nu Lang Kingdom had been established for barely two hundred years. The Xi Liang Kingdom was also over two hundred years old. The Bei Feng Kingdom was less than three hundred years. The Yan Empire was over three hundred years.
The longest was the Dong Li Kingdom, already a full seven hundred years.
However, there were four mysterious powers in the world that had been passed down for over a thousand years. They existed outside the several great kingdoms, yet secretly influenced and even controlled many lifelines of all humanity.
These four powers were respectively the Hidden Continent, the Secret Continent, the Demon Continent, and the Underworld Society.
The Hidden Continent, originally called the Silver Continent, where did its power lie?
Nearly half of all gold coins and silver coins in the world were minted by the Hidden Continent. That is to say, half of all the money in the world came from the Hidden Continent.
Why was this so? Because the gold mines and silver mines of the human kingdoms were insufficient, completely inadequate to bear the currency circulation of the world.
However, before these four kingdoms and one empire were born, the entire world had circulated the currency of the Hidden Continent.
Legend said the Hidden Continent possessed countless gold mines and silver mines, therefore could mint astronomical numbers of gold coins and silver coins.
Where was the Hidden Continent? This was a secret, known to no one. Everyone only knew that whenever needed, there would be an endless stream of gold coins and silver coins coming from across the sea.
So many people suspected that this Hidden Continent should be a secret island overseas.
Zhi Yan said, “Fang Qingshu is a disciple of the Hidden Continent.”
Yan Nai’er said, “So that was it. No wonder when he was in Tian Ye City, his reception was comparable to that of royal family members.”
If Sauron were here, hearing of this Hidden Continent, he would certainly think of that legendary Freemasons on Earth, that secret organisation controlling astronomical wealth globally. (Of course, authenticity unknown.)
The four great powers of the world: the Hidden Continent minted gold and silver coins.
The Secret Continent controlled most of the world’s secret gold. All divine weapons and sharp blades, top tier armour, all came from the Secret Continent. So to use a phrase to describe it, the Secret Continent should be the world’s greatest arms dealer.
The Demon Continent produced only one thing: sorcerers. Almost all mysterious sorcerers came from the Demon Continent, including the one who changed Sauron’s face, and also the one who repaired Gui Qinshao’s hymen.
As for the Underworld Society, it mass produced assassins.
These four mysterious powers, passed down for a thousand years, were like an invisible net enveloping the human kingdoms. They hid behind this world, yet were omnipresent, influencing countless people, even the fates of certain nations.
Zhi Yan looked towards Nai’er, saying, “May I ask, you are…”
Up until now, she still did not know Yan Nai’er.
Yan Nai’er lifted her face guard, revealing a stunningly cold and beautiful face, saying, “Yan Nai’er. Sauron is my liege lord and beloved.”
She spoke truly directly, and this directness won Zhi Yan’s favour, causing her to almost for the first time carefully gaze at the girl before her. Truly beautiful to the point of making one hold their breath, especially this pure and innocent temperament. One glance and one’s heart would be moved to pity.
“How did you know to come find me?” Zhi Yan asked.
“Sauron told me to come.” Yan Nai’er said, “When we led the army eastward from Tian Ye City, we discussed what methods Zhi Li and Zhi Ning might use to stop our advance. Using the Divine Dragon Temple to directly arrest Sauron was a low probability event in our estimation, because we felt Zhi Li would not go to such great lengths. We did not expect this low probability event to still occur. Sauron said if by chance this happened, I should come find you.”
Zhi Yan said, “That is to say, he also had relevant mental preparation for this matter.”
“Yes.” Yan Nai’er said, “Then, are Fang Qingshu and Zhi Li’s relationship very close?”
Zhi Yan shook her head, saying, “They are a community of interests. However, Fang Qingshu targets Sauron more because of me.”
This sentence caused Yan Nai’er to carefully glance at her, then she spoke no more, focusing entirely on hurrying along.
…
Yan Nai’er and Zhi Yan did not pause in the slightest, not even sleeping or resting. Yet this round trip still required a full two days.
At this time, thirty six hours had already passed since Sauron was imprisoned in the Divine Dragon Temple Tribunal.
Fang Qingshu had asked the three questions no less than thousands of times.
“First question, what Dragon Seal relic did you obtain?”
“Second question, where did you obtain the Dragon Flame crystal?”
“Third question, Blood Shore Lost City is deep within barbarian territory. Once humans enter, death is certain. Your martial arts are not high, why were you able to enter and exit safely?”
Every time, the three spirit masters released even more powerful spiritual force, suppressing Sauron’s spiritual defences.
Stronger each time, stronger each time.
After twenty four hours, Sauron’s spiritual power had already begun to wither, his eyes already beginning to grow dim.
His spirit and will were about to begin collapsing.
But this result had already caused Fang Qingshu incomparable shock.
This Sauron before him had such terrible cultivation, yet who would have thought his spiritual power would be so strong?
But no matter how strong, it was useless. He was destined to collapse and be destroyed. Either hanged to death, or released as a walking corpse.
After thirty hours, Sauron was already relying on the Demon Star’s released spiritual power to sustain himself.
Regarding these three questions, he had already answered them no less than three thousand times.
After thirty one hours, his eyes could no longer see anything. He couldn’t even clearly see Fang Qingshu’s face.
After thirty two hours, he could almost no longer hear Fang Qingshu’s voice, as if it came from beyond the nine heavens, incomparably distant. He answered questions entirely by instinct.
After thirty three hours, he could no longer feel the existence of his brain, nor the existence of his body.
After thirty four hours, he felt that death itself would be more comfortable at this point. Just lie down like this, end this terrible torment and nightmare.
At this time, the torment he suffered was more than a hundred times more terrible than Tu Lingduo’s several days and nights.
Tu Lingduo’s torment was merely physical. And, perhaps due to some bizarre reason, her torment had not included blinding his eyes or castrating him. It was as if while tormenting him, she also maintained the integrity of Sauron’s body.
But today’s spiritual torment made Sauron truly wish he could simply die, it would be more comfortable.
On Earth, the most terrible interrogation method was not torture, but not allowing sleep, shining bright lights, repeating ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times.
But compared to the spiritual torment Sauron was suffering at this moment, fatigue interrogation on Earth was completely child’s play.
Although it had only been thirty four hours without sleep, Sauron was constantly being crushed by powerful spiritual force. His energy and will were rapidly being consumed.
This was completely equivalent to a normal person not sleeping a single minute for half a month or a month. This was not merely collapsing, but destruction.
No matter what he encountered in future, Sauron would remember this Tribunal interrogation. It would be a lifelong nightmare for him.
Of course, this was on the premise that he could walk out of here alive. And up until now, of all those who had entered the Tribunal, no one had been able to leave intact.
At thirty five hours, Sauron had completely lost perception of everything around him. Even Fang Qingshu’s distant voice could no longer be heard.
His lips answered the three questions in a completely mechanical manner.
A cold smile curled at the corner of Fang Qingshu’s mouth. This person before him was about to collapse and be destroyed.
As for whether his mouth would spit out the truth of colluding with barbarians, he completely did not care. Regarding Meng Tuoluo’s existence, he knew better than anyone, because they had been classmates and senior martial siblings for several years. Regarding what happened to Meng Tuoluo, the vast majority he had witnessed with his own eyes.
To speak of colluding with barbarians, the first people to arrest should be Zhi Li and Zhi Ning. Because Meng Tuoluo’s Viper Tribe had for a long time been Zhi Ning’s enforcers in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
But people and people are different. Zhi Li and Zhi Ning could openly utilise barbarians.
While Sauron, as long as there was suspicion of colluding with barbarians, Fang Qingshu could have him killed.
Now, what he needed to do was crush Sauron to death under legal circumstances.
And right at this moment, a knocking sound came from outside.
Fang Qingshu walked to the door, listening intently.
“Young master, Princess Zhi Yan has arrived. She will be here in two hours.” A voice came from outside.
And at this time, Sauron inside was still mechanically answering questions, completely without perception of everything happening around him.
“Understood.” Fang Qingshu said, then in the darkness raised his hand.
This was a signal. Time was up. No more playing. Kill Sauron!
Immediately, the three spirit masters in the darkness suddenly released incomparably powerful spiritual force, fully five times, ten times that of the previous time.
Moreover, like raging waves and towering billows, continuously without end.
Instantly, Sauron’s originally already extremely fragile spiritual defence completely collapsed and was destroyed.
Just like a reservoir dam that was already facing its limit, suddenly the water level surged several metres. The dam could no longer withstand it, directly destroyed and collapsed.
The flood of raging waves and towering billows suddenly rushed into the city behind the dam, instantly about to destroy everything inside completely clean.
Immediately one could see Sauron’s body convulsing and trembling violently, as if electrocuted.
Then, the pupils of his eyes suddenly dilated, and he continuously shouted mysterious words from his mouth.
These words were all the deepest secrets in his brain.
Because his spiritual defence was destroyed, all secrets in his brain domain had nowhere to hide, all pouring out.
“Done, this person is finished!” Fang Qingshu stood up. Regarding the secrets of someone like Sauron, he completely did not care, directly turning to walk away.
Suddenly…
He heard a mysterious incantation being recited from Sauron’s mouth.
An incantation that no one could understand, even not belonging to the language of this world.
Immediately Fang Qingshu’s body violently trembled, his face changing dramatically.
Simultaneously, the three spirit masters within the Tribunal also turned pale with shock, immediately stopping their spiritual force crushing.
One of the spirit masters quickly jumped down from the high platform, directly coming before Sauron, staring into his eyes, and suddenly injecting his own spiritual force.
Instantly, through Sauron’s eyes, he read the deepest secret memories in Sauron’s brain domain.
Completely fragmented images. Some in the Divine Dragon Temple’s Sky City, some in the Azure Dome Palace.
Endless stars, the brilliant Yan Dragon Empire, the mysterious and terrifying Dragon Emperor.
These memories were extremely fragmented, as if countless images flashed by.
These memories were all from several thousand years ago, memories not belonging to this space and time.
This spirit master read for a moment, then hurriedly stopped. His entire body began trembling, his breathing unsteady, as if struck by lightning.
Finished, a great catastrophe had been caused!
This spirit master immediately shouted in a hoarse voice, “Quick, quick save him, quick protect his spiritual brain domain!”
Then, the three spirit masters immediately rushed forward, releasing powerful spiritual force to wrap and protect Sauron’s brain domain, using their own spiritual force to build spiritual defences for him, preventing the loss of countless memory fragments.
Fang Qingshu’s face changed colour, saying, “What happened?”
This spirit master said, “This is a Temple Reincarnator, a reincarnator from three thousand years ago!”
What is a reincarnator?
The Divine Dragon Temple, in order to pass down certain high level secrets, employed two methods.
The first was the Heavenly Tomb, allowing certain spirit priests to become undead, storing important secret information in their brains to pass down.
The other was the reincarnator.
A certain great spirit priest was so powerful that even after death, he could preserve certain memories. When reincarnated and reborn countless years later, these memories remained sealed deep within the brain domain.
Of these reincarnators, some could awaken, but most could not awaken their entire lives.
Compared to the Heavenly Tomb plan, the reincarnator plan was rather a failure. These thousands of years, awakened reincarnators had been pitifully few, causing the Divine Dragon Temple to almost abandon this plan.
Who would have thought that today they would actually encounter a reincarnator.
If his spiritual defence had not completely collapsed, causing the deepest memories to leak out, perhaps no one would ever have discovered he was a reincarnator, including this Sauron himself.
In the Divine Dragon Temple, every reincarnator was incomparably precious.
Now, he had actually participated in destroying a reincarnator. The consequences of this…
The three spirit masters spared no cost, protecting Sauron’s brain domain and preventing Sauron’s destruction.
Then, the three knelt dejectedly in the centre of the Tribunal, pale faced, saying, “Lord Fang Qingshu, destroying a reincarnator’s self awakening, destroying a reincarnator’s ancient memories, either of these is a capital crime!”
Then, was Sauron a reincarnator?
Of course not. These memories were actually fragments retained in his brain domain when he devoured the female priest’s spiritual power in the Heavenly Tomb.
Sauron’s intelligence was nearly demonic. Having already guessed that the enemy might deploy the Divine Dragon Temple, this weapon of mass destruction, how could he possibly have come to the Tribunal with Fang Qingshu without any preparation?
At least up until now, everything was within his plans and control!