Hearing the voice from behind, a chill shot straight from Ye Ling's soles to his forehead.
He had encountered the boss of the Overseers!
Feeling the bone-chilling aura behind him, Ye Ling did not hesitate and immediately activated the teleportation rune, returning to Black City.
Tian Xing and A Yun, who had just seen Ye Ling off, were stunned when Ye Ling reappeared in Black City: "Ye Ling? Why are you back?"
"Big trouble! Run!"
Ye Ling quickly said to Tian Xing and A Yun, but before they could react, a giant hand appeared out of thin air behind Ye Ling, distorting all the space around them!
Ye Ling was grabbed by the giant hand with almost no resistance and dragged back into the distorted space!
"Ye Ling!!!"
Tian Xing and A Yun exclaimed as Ye Ling was taken away.
The next moment, Tian Xing found that the soul information and rune imprints Ye Ling had left in her hand had all disappeared.
"How could this happen..."
Tian Xing was struck by sudden change, and endless despair appeared in her eyes.
A Yun was also stunned, staring blankly at the place where Ye Ling was taken, her body trembling violently, and whispered, "That... that was... how is that possible?"
...
Meanwhile, in the endless void.
Ye Ling was bound by an invisible force, unable to move no matter how much he struggled.
And in front of Ye Ling, a man in a white robe and a mask was smiling at Ye Ling.
Ye Ling struggled a few times, and after realizing that their powers were not on the same level, he simply gave up struggling and asked the masked man, "Who are you?"
"You don't need to know who I am," the masked man chuckled. "You just need to know that whether you live or die now is entirely up to me."
"What is your purpose?" Ye Ling asked again.
The gap in power between them was so vast, yet the masked man did not kill him, which meant he was still useful to the masked man.
The masked man said, "I've seen your file. You are a very outstanding person. If you are given enough time to grow, it is inevitable that you will threaten our rule."
"If that's the case, why don't you kill me now? It would be a good way to eliminate future trouble." Ye Ling said directly.
The masked man laughed, "Although it's as easy as pie for me to kill you, it's meaningless to me... What I want to resolve is the person behind you."
"The person behind me?" Ye Ling chuckled. "How come I don't know there's someone behind me?"
"We're all smart people, no need to beat around the bush here," the masked man chuckled. "The methods of 'Good and Evil' faking their deaths are too perfunctory. They can fool others, but they can't fool me."
"Those fools have always believed that 'Good and Evil' only pose a threat of 'Calamity' and have focused all their attention on how to suppress the Primordial Seven Kings, unaware that 'Good and Evil' are our greatest threat."
"With the strength of 'Good and Evil', even if all those Overseer trash were to attack them, it's hard to say if they could even injure them, let alone kill them."
Ye Ling said, "You've been talking about 'Good and Evil' in front of me, but I still don't know what you want to do?"
The masked man said, "Ye Ling, as long as you tell me where 'Good and Evil' are hiding, I'll spare your life, and I can even let you join us. What do you say?"
Ye Ling said, "I'm very sorry, but from my perspective, 'Good and Evil' are truly dead. Even if you kill me, you can't change that fact."
"Still being stubborn?"
The masked man sneered, a sharp glint flashed in his eyes, and his soul power swept towards Ye Ling.
Immediately after, Ye Ling felt his soul being completely seen through by the masked man!
The masked man quickly searched through Ye Ling's memories. His hope gradually turned to disappointment, and he sighed, "What a pity. It turns out you were just a pawn used by 'Good and Evil' and know nothing. You made me excited for nothing."
Ye Ling chuckled, "So, I'm useless to you? Are you going to kill me?"
The masked man shook his head, then said, "I told you, killing you is meaningless to me. Even if you have the potential to grow and overthrow our rule, it's meaningless to me. Someone will naturally deal with you before you grow up."
"There is no shortage of variables like you in the Primordial Chaos. I've seen enough."
"What I want now is just to deal with 'Good and Evil'. On the contrary, keeping you might give me a better chance to find 'Good and Evil'."
Ye Ling said again, "Since you're not killing me, then let me go, right? We'll just pretend we never met."
"You are a wanted criminal with a threat level of Calamity, after all. Capturing you can be counted as one of my achievements. Why should I let you go?" the masked man chuckled again.
Ye Ling asked, "Since you're not killing me and not letting me go, what do you want to do with me?"
"I'll throw you into prison. There are quite a few criminals of Calamity and Disaster level locked up there. As for whether you can survive until the day of judgment, that depends on your own fortune."
After saying that, the masked man took Ye Ling and flew towards the giant palace.
The Overseers along the way showed extreme respect to the masked man, completely different from their demeanor in the Primordial Chaos.
Ye Ling could not resist the masked man's power and could only allow himself to be taken into the palace.
However, Ye Ling did not completely give up. Along the way, he was observing the structure of the palace, preparing for his subsequent escape plan.
He still had to save Nuo Ying and the World-Destroying Spiritual Fire. Since the masked man did not kill him immediately, it meant he still had hope of turning the tables.
Although the masked man was too powerful, he was also too arrogant, and his attention was entirely focused on "Good and Evil," completely neglecting to review Ye Ling's other memories.
Including the memories related to the Primordial Seven Kings.
In other words, the masked man did not know about the Primordial Flame King's escape plan.
Since Ye Ling currently had no chance to go to the Primordial Flame Domain, he could completely follow the original plan and release the Primordial Flame King, executing a strategy of "luring the tiger out of its den"!
'Although the process was a bit bumpy, at least I'm back to square one.'
'Now I can only hope that the prison I'm in is not too far from the place where the Primordial Flame King was sealed, so it will be more convenient for me...'
Ye Ling mused inwardly and was brought by the masked man to the outside of the palace's dungeon.
Ye Ling looked ahead, and there was a dark corridor that stretched as far as the eye could see.
On both sides of the corridor were giant iron cages hundreds of meters high, holding various giant creatures.
Those creatures were incredibly diverse and unique, but they all had one thing in common... an incredibly powerful aura.
The creatures in the cages were far more powerful than all the beings currently in the Primordial Chaos!
A considerable portion of the creatures in the dungeon were even stronger than the Overseers.
And outside the dungeon stood a jailer, burning with green flames, holding a large scythe, and without a physical form.
Ye Ling glanced at the jailer and realized that the jailer was also not to be trifled with.
"Ye Ling, you will live here from now on. Try your best to survive."
The masked man sneered at Ye Ling, then sealed all of Ye Ling's spiritual power, threw him to the ground, and ordered the jailer, "Lock him up in the Calamity Dungeon and give him special attention!"
The last four words were heavily emphasized by the masked man.
"Yes..."
The jailer respectfully saluted the masked man, then hooked Ye Ling's collarbone with his scythe and dragged Ye Ling into the depths of the dungeon!
As Ye Ling was dragged by the jailer, ignoring the soul-piercing pain, he stared intently at the masked man at the dungeon entrance, as if to imprint the masked man's image into his soul.
You...
Don't wait for me to come out.