The regal creature entranced everyone present. But only momentarily. After people snapped out of the hypnosis, they ran for their lives, no caring about their comrades. Soon, the battlefield became a mass of terrified soldiers running for their lives. Some even sacrificed others selfishly in order to stall for time in a bid to survive, pushing them. They thought that if they could provide enough to satiate the hunger of the monster looming above them, they could survive.

Chen Yi soon awoke. He clutched his abdomen to see if he could stem the flow of blood. When he looked at the general site of the wound, he found that it was nonexistent. Almost as if he had never been hurt when he was wounded. Almost as if his blood had never been shed. Almost as if...if it was all an illusion.

But the stench of death around him was not an illusion. Neither were the corpses piled up in pyramids with acute 34-degree angles.

Despite feeling increasingly groggy-eyed, he stood up and scrutinized the situation around him, before stumbling to the ground after having his ears violated by a gut-wrenching howl. He slowly got up again.

He looked at the source of the bay in shock. Yet he sensed an almost paternal connection to it, one that he could not justify for himself.

“System, what is that creature in the sky above me? And why is it that I feel connected to it?”

“Host, the creature above you is yours. You nurtured it while it was in the egg by keeping it in the spatial ring. When you fainted, it first healed you and then punished those responsible for the wound. That creature is the endangered and infamous dragon snake. The last person to have reportedly had one was Cai Aiguo the Great who took the human civilization to great heights after defeating the demonic emperors! You truly are very fortunate to have been able to acquire such a creature.”

Chen Yi smiled in delight. He then “called” his new pet, who returned much to his delight and excitement. He tried to call the troops on his side back, but they were in too much of a rush to listen, especially when the “creature” was only a 100 meters away from them.

Using the chaos around him, Chen Yi decided to see if he could find the leaders of the rebellion among the mass of bodies. He rose up into the air and tried to find “the odd ones out”. It did not take long for him to find the leaders of the rebellion for they were in front of all the soldiers, using lots of speed techniques to flee.

After successfully locating his enemies, Chen Yi repeatedly used the Electric Manipulation skill to impede the departure of his enemies from the battlefield. After accomplishing that, he attacked them from behind, while they were still paralyzed. Then, he stored their corpses into his spatial ring, while they were still fresh.

Two rolling heads with bewildered expressions did not have any effect on the fleeing soldiers, but Chen Yi ignored them as it would be too difficult to deal with the enemy, especially as his compatriots were among them. Nevertheless, an army lacking a commander was like a cluster of loose sand; they posed no damage to him.

Chen Yi returned to his father to inform him of the battles’ outcome. He found Chen Hao, his father, pulling his hair out while being perched over a table. Chen Yi thinking it was due to his father being pessimistic towards the outcome of the battle, said, ”Don’t worry! We won the battle and the opposing commanders have all been slain by me!”

Chen Hao appeared to be lost in thought, his eyes were red as if he had been weeping, it appeared that the illusion of a strong man had displaced the positive emotions he previously had. He gave his only son a small smile as if the result of the did not concern him at all.

It was then that Chen Yi noticed something on the table. It was a cinematic crystal, one that many sects used to record world-changing battles or lost secret techniques of the past. He knew that his sect also had a few that they got from the secret realm that he himself had previously gone to.

He activated the crystal with his essence and the crystal lit up, playing the contents within.

It showed a filthy chamber, with insects freely crawling throughout the floor. The crystal panned across to unveil a woman with a scarred, both healing and healed, body. She was wearing a dress made with flimsy fabric, prevalent among the commoners, for the affordable cost that they were sold for. Her hair was messy and filled with lice. Her face had clearly been wounded, with the dried blood clinging to her face, her lips also contributing its own matt red.

The woman feebly spoke, “As I tell you this, I am being taken to a sect, one considerably larger and much more influential than ours. Please do not worry about me and live your life to the fullest.”

“We must retrieve mother back. How can we sit still and not do anything to get her back? Father, please let me get her back and retrieve her, I believe that I can fetch her back safe and sound!”

“Are you sure? You are merely an emperor body stage cultivator! Other sects are sure to have at least emperor spirit stage warriors guarding your mother. You are merely too frail in my opinion. Even if you were to go, I am afraid that only your mangled corpse would return. It is merely not worth it to risk your life. I shall ask Chen Wei and some elders to go and fetch Li Mei back.”

“Father… I have been meaning to tell you something about the leaders of the rebellion...”

Chen Yi’s spatial ring flashed and 2 cadavers emerged. A gasp resounded throughout the room.