Chapter 557: The Truth

Beneath the Imperial Capital of the Ten Thousand Demon Country, the bloody battle between several factions lasted for nearly half a month.

During these two weeks, every day was a struggle between life and death.

Whether it was the Yao Emperor, She Qiqi, or Chu Yaoyao,

none of the armies belonging to these three were anything but elite.

Every soldier was the kind of existence who could hold their own!

No one retreated, and no one showed any sign of cowardice.

Everyone fought with all their might until the very last moment of their lives.

This was a war of the Yao Race.

This was a war between Yao Race Cultivators.

The Yao Race was inherently bloodthirsty.

In this great war,

it could be said that the nature of all the Yao was completely unleashed.

Compared to those wars in the Mortal World,

compared to those struggles between dynasties,

when compared to this bloody battle, they were practically like children playing house.

After half a month, the banners still standing on the battlefield naturally belonged to the armies of She Qiqi and Chu Yaoyao.

She Qiqi’s side had lost over forty percent of its forces, with only sixty percent of its combat power remaining.

Furthermore, among that remaining sixty percent, many were wounded.

Naturally, Chu Yaoyao was not faring much better.

Whether it was She Qiqi or Chu Yaoyao,

their current combat power could be said to be evenly matched.

In this imperial war against the Ten Thousand Demon Country, neither of them held anything back.

Neither of them thought about how they would face each other afterward.

For both of them, if they held back even a little now, the future might bring total defeat; the Yao Emperor could absolutely not be underestimated.

They absolutely could not allow the Yao Emperor to counterattack!

They had to use their utmost strength to suppress the Yao Emperor to death!

On the battlefield, endless blood had already stained the land beneath the Ten Thousand Demon Country’s Imperial Capital a bright crimson.

The stench of blood permeated the battlefield, making anyone who caught a whiff feel like vomiting.

Countless corpses and bones were piled high like mountains.

In front of the gates of the Ten Thousand Demon Country’s Imperial Capital, the Yao Emperor stood there, holding a long spear.

The Yao Emperor was covered in blood, and the spiritual power within his body was exhausted.

However, for an Ascension Realm Cultivator, it was definitely not that easy to die.

If the Yao Emperor wanted to leave now, he still could.

But the Yao Emperor did not leave. The winner becomes king, and the loser is the outlaw; as an emperor, he had an emperor’s way to die, and he would not become a deserter here.

He was born on the battlefield, fought on the battlefield, and so, in the end, he should die on the battlefield!

For the monarch of the Ten Thousand Demon Country, this was his conviction and his perceived final resting place.

At this moment, She Qiqi stepped forward, one pace at a time.

The remaining hundreds of thousands of the Ten Thousand Demon Country’s army still wanted to struggle, but they were stopped by a gesture from the Yao Emperor.

The outcome was decided; further struggle was useless and would only weaken the overall strength of the Yao Race.

News of the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon Clan had already spread in the Myriad Laws World.

The legendary Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon Clan had already awakened.

In the future battlefields, there would be the Human Race, the Yao Race, the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon Clan, and perhaps even species from the Desolate Region.

The future would be a War of Ten Thousand Races.

That War of Ten Thousand Races would determine the future Dominator of this land!

In that War of Ten Thousand Races, the Ten Thousand Demon Country needed to preserve enough strength.

Whether it was She Qiqi or Chu Yaoyao, since they were both of the Yao Race, they shared the same origin.

This concerned the Great Dao of the races.

In the face of the racial Dao, their petty personal grudges were no longer important.

Moreover, defeat was defeat.

One must maintain the demeanor of a king even in defeat!

Why bother with so many complicated schemes?

She Qiqi stepped forward, took out a jar of aged wine from her Storage Pouch, and tossed it toward the Yao Emperor.

The Yao Emperor reached out and caught it, while She Qiqi took out another bottle and opened it.

Father and daughter sat cross-legged opposite each other, both pulling out the stoppers and taking a gulp.

Wine trickled down from the corners of their mouths.

The wine mixed with both dried and fresh blood, staining their clothes.

However, She Qiqi’s black dress had long since been stained with blood.

After drinking a third of the jar, the Yao Emperor set it down, let out a burp, and wiped his mouth, the wine on his lips tinged with blood.

“Xiao Qi, I didn’t expect that you would actually defeat me in the end.”

The Yao Emperor coughed a few times, spitting up some blood.

“You really are very similar to your Mother.”

“Back then, your Mother was just like you.”

“Beautiful, brave, and resourceful.”

“It can be said that if it weren’t for your Mother…”

“…I, your Imperial Father, would never have been able to ascend to this position.”

“If it weren’t for Mother, perhaps we wouldn’t have reached this point today.”

She Qiqi picked up the Yao Emperor’s words, staring into his eyes as she spoke slowly.

“Yes, if it weren’t for your Mother, we, father and daughter, wouldn’t have come to this.

“But what happened has happened.”

“And if I had to choose again, I would still make the exact same choice.”

“Why? Why did you sacrifice my Mother?”

She Qiqi shook her head in confusion.

“To you…”

“…could Mother not even compare to that small Province?”

“As long as Mother was there…”

“…I believe capturing that Province would have only been a matter of time.”

“Why did you use Mother as bait back then?”

“If you had given up that opportunity then, the Heavenly Frost White Snake Clan wouldn’t have suffered any major losses.”

“At most, it would have been delayed by a decade or so.”

“But Mother’s life was worth more than just those ten-odd years.”

“With Mother around, the Ten Thousand Demon Country might have even entered an unprecedented era of glory!”

She Qiqi asked, deeply perplexed.

In She Qiqi’s heart, her Mother’s passing had always been a knot that couldn’t be untied.

During that great war to overthrow the royalty of the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Clan…

…She Qiqi had led troops into battle just like her Mother.

However, while attacking a Province, she hadn’t expected her father to use her Mother as bait to draw away the vast majority of the enemy’s forces.

Even more unexpected was that her father abandoned the rescue; in the end, her father sacrificed her Mother and annihilated the Ten Thousand Demon Country’s opposition.

That battle was the turning point for everything.

After that battle, the morale of the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Clan plummeted.

It was also after that battle that the Heavenly Frost White Snake Clan seized the initiative; the entire army wore white cloth, for a sorrowful army is bound to win.

However, She Qiqi never believed that this was the final truth!