Meanwhile, two figures stood facing each other in a dusty living room inside an abandoned mansion on
the southeast side of the Imperial City.
"Priest Dean, were you successful in doing what I asked you to do?" A figure hidden in a dark red robe
talked to an old figure with grey hair.
"Yes, Your Royal Highness, everything is already set," the old man respectfully said.
The figure hidden in the red robe was no other than Alston, who had just killed Townsend only a few
days ago. He took over as the Heavenly Demon Clan's patriarch with the support of several advanced
spiritual race clans.
When Alston took over the position, the elders and some spiritual masters of the Heavenly Demon Clan
strongly objected. However, the objection suddenly stopped because three of the strongly opposing
elders disappeared overnight without any trace, and the reason behind this could be assumed. So, the
objection slowly disappeared.
The old man standing in front of Alston was Priest Dean who had been missing for quite a long time.
After Alston was defeated and his soul was sucked out in the Witch Palace, Priest Dean immediately
ran away when he realized that the situation was not in his favor. After that, he decided to go to Bryant
to save his own life. He told Bryant the things Alston had done to him to win Bryant's trust. However,
Bryant was not fooled, so he immediately ordered his people to imprison Priest Dean. It was not until a
few months ago that Priest Dean was released under the condition that he was not allowed to come
close to the Imperial City.
But he did not give up. All this time he had been hiding in the Imperial City, waiting for an opportunity to
regain his strength. However, with his current situation, he immediately became a poor outcast. It was
not until Alston found him that he saw hope again.
"The emperor's health is getting worse and worse by the day. I don't think he can hold on for long. I
have already asked my confidants in the Palace City to secretly add some deadly herbs in his meal to
make the emperor die sooner than expected. The deadly herbs can slow down the blood circulation in
the body. With the emperor's physical condition, he will mostly die within a month," Priest Dean
insidiously said with a smirk on his face.
"That's good to hear. What about the forces that I cultivated before? Are you already in contact with
them?" Alston continued.
"Yes, I have already arranged everything. Once you come back, they will definitely support and follow
you no matter what. Although Prince Crimson had won the favor of all the people in the Holy Dragon
Empire, many royal families were dissatisfied with the emperor's decision to appoint Basil's son as heir
to the throne. Besides that, they were also worried that if his son does become the next emperor, he
will surely dominate the empire. And judging from how he handled things before, the royal family may
be abolished and cleansed. So, if we capitalize on that, it will be easy for you to ascend the throne
again!" Priest Dean said in high spirits. For him, once Alston ascended the throne again, he would be
able to regain his strength and reach an even higher level.
"Now that I have finally become the patriarch of the Heavenly Demon Clan, I don't care about the
position of the emperor at all. But I still want that guy to show up. I believe that he will not disregard the
safety of his wife and son," Alston mischievously sneered.
"If that's the case, why don't we act now? With your current strength, you can easily catch Isis and her
son!" Priest Dean asked in confusion.
"That will be too easy for him. I must tarnish his reputation in front of everyone first and make him a
traitor of the Holy Dragon Empire. With that, he will be completely despised by everyone. I've been
waiting for that day for a very long time. Now it's time for me to finally get rid of my embarrassment
from the past. Besides, that guy holds a terrifying item now. If I were to face him alone, he would not
show any mercy. But if he were to face so many people, he would surely have some concerns," Alston
analyzed thoughtfully.
"Your Royal Highness, you are really thoughtful and resourceful indeed," Priest Dean flattered
immediately.
"Do what you should do now. I will treat you fairly as always." As soon as Alston was done speaking,
he immediately turned into a shadow and disappeared.
At that moment, a black light swept above the Myriad Ghosts Empire's realm in the Wild Spirit Land.
The black light was passing at an extremely fast speed and flew to the area known as the Hades Land.
Its name was enough to make people scared, and they were right because the Hades Land was indeed
creepy. It was like hell made on earth. There was no life that could be seen, only deathly stillness.
Countless large white bones were piled into heaps here and there. The only thing that could be seen
was ugly ghost-like supernatural beasts appeared and rampaged from the sky to the ground
sometimes.
The Ghost Master Clan's tribe was in the middle of the Hades Land. It was located on a towering black
stone mountain that was as dark as ink, as if it could twist out dark water. Not long after, the black light
approached the Ghost Master Clan's territory.
The whole black stone mountain was extremely steep. There were countless caves with faint red light.
At the top of the mountain was a huge skull that looked like it naturally came with the mountain. In the
mouth of the skull was a very magnificent but ghastly palace.
"This must be the Ghost Master Clan's territory." After the black light dissipated, a tall figure with a cold
and evil look on his face appeared. It was none other than Rocky.
Rocky raised his head to look at the mountain, then immediately climbed up. The reason why he came
to the Ghost Master Clan was he wanted to get the blood essence of their legendary guardian beast.
Now that he had the blood essence of the six legendary guardian beasts, the only left to be taken were
the blood essence from the Ghost Master Clan, the Giants Clan, and the Thunder Master Clan.
So, Rocky immediately went to the Ghost Master Clan to complete his mission as soon as possible. Of
course, the Ghost Master Clan's patriarch didn't expect that Rocky, the person who slaughtered so
many spiritual race beings, would suddenly appear in their territory.
When Rocky was about to fly towards the palace at the top of the black stone mountain, several ghost-
like figures appeared in front of him.
Rocky raised his head and saw that the figures in front of him were so ugly and frightening. If he hadn't
faced the Dark Lord, a Ghost Master Clan being whose Sea Blue Magic Jade had been taken away by
him before, he would have thought that he had encountered ghosts.
Of course, those spiritual slaves who were trying to stop Rocky were not a threat to him at all.
"How dare you sneak around here and break into our clan?" one of the spiritual slaves shouted at
Rocky in a strange human language.
"I came here aboveboard. How come you're saying that I'm sneaking around? Get out of my way at
once. I'm not in the mood to kill anyone today!" Rocky immediately sneered.
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