The entire capital city was within the Qing King's view.

The once prosperous and bustling city was now a scene of ruin.

The entire capital was almost devoid of people. Everywhere he looked, tree vines stretched and intertwined with the crumbling walls, crisscrossing like a place caught between destruction and rebirth. Only the palace remained inhabited, but even there, it was just a matter of prolonging the inevitable.

The entire Qing Country was almost fragmented, on the verge of collapse.

The aura emanating from the spreading vines reminded the Qing King of someone from his memories.

But that person's name had become somewhat distant and unfamiliar, and his impression of that person had ultimately remained fixed on that terrifying Han River that almost no one dared to explore.

Mo… Qing?

Under the gaze of countless eyes, the Qing King in the high sky frowned slightly, but quickly smoothed it out.

His gaze paused briefly on the King of the Uyu Tribe before slowly rising, looking towards the clouds even higher up.

"Come down, is it that interesting to watch the show from up there?"

The Qing King's voice was calm, but it could be clearly heard throughout the entire capital.

The King of the Uyu Tribe frowned, wanting to say something, but he didn't dare to act rashly. The combined forces of the four great families' elders brought great pressure to him.

This wasn't just a simple matter of four Yu-level experts. The terrifying aura displayed by these four old men when they joined forces was fully qualified to fight against his Demon-level Guiji!

The Qing Country, capable of suppressing other countries and dominating one side for so many years, truly had a foundation to it. It wasn't just a simple matter of the royal bloodline.

Below, with the Holy Emperor's arrival and the four families' elders directly suppressing the situation, everyone was immediately excited.

"Qing Country is saved!"

"The current Holy Emperor is invincible!"

"So what if he's a Demon-level Guiji! He will surely die for disrupting our Qing Country's national fortune!"

Just as everyone was excited…

*Rumble!*

Under the illumination of the scarlet moon, a huge crack suddenly opened in the night sky filled with thunderclouds.

A dark shadow descended from the thundercloud rift, arriving before the Qing King.

With just one glance, Fang Yue recognized the dark shadow from its aura. It was actually… the Black Qing Guiji who had tried to kill him in the Black Green Mountain Range!

*Clap!*

*Clap!*

*Clap!*

The Black Qing Guiji slowly clapped, looking at the King of Qing Country with a smile.

"King of Qing Country, the undefeated legend, the true owner of the Guardian Stone Lion… you have many titles, but my favorite title is…" The Black Qing Guiji stopped clapping, approached the Qing King, and said in a low voice, "...the Qing Bird in a Cage!"

Almost at the instant the Black Qing Guiji's voice fell, the Qing King suddenly clenched his fists, and for the first time, a real killing intent appeared between his brows.

This killing intent was extremely faint, but it was grimly cold and incomparably pure.

"Whoa whoa whoa! Don't get excited, Little Qing Bird."

The Black Qing Guiji smiled and retreated, widening the distance, then narrowed his eyes and looked at the head the Qing King was holding.

"You and I both know that once you and I make a move, it will be difficult to hold back. Before that, there is one thing I would very much like to know."

"What is it?" the Qing King said coldly.

"As a bird in a cage, only able to become a legend within Qing Country, how did you kill a 'Xian' outside of Qing Country?"

"Kill an immortal? You think too highly of me." The Qing King sneered, raised the hand holding Mei Yu's head, and threw Mei Yu's head violently downwards, and the point of impact was actually… where Fang Yue was!

Instinctively reaching out, Fang Yue had already steadily caught the head of Immortal Mei Yu.

At the same time, everyone else's gaze turned to Fang Yue.

Puzzled, confused, dazed…

All kinds of gazes converged on Fang Yue, but Fang Yue himself was the most dazed of all.

By the time Fang Yue looked up at the Qing King, the Qing King had already spoken.

"Black Qing Guiji, you have no idea what I saw in Mirror Mountain."

"Mirror Mountain? I thought that was just a legend, not something that actually existed. So it seems… you've already been there? I heard that place is connected to the Jiuyuan (Nine Abyss), a place no one can go, not even I, a Guiji, would dare to approach rashly. You, a mere Qing King, dared to go alone and come back unscathed? No! Wait! Hehehehe! Could it be that the immortal wasn't killed by you, but died saving you?"

The Black Qing Guiji stroked his chin with interest. Obviously, the death of an immortal was very interesting to him, especially when this immortal was also related to the mysterious Mirror Mountain. Everything became even more interesting.

But the Qing King's sneer gradually grew louder.

"Do you know, in Mirror Mountain, I saw corpses. Immortal corpses, Demon corpses, human corpses, Guiji corpses… Corpses covering the entire mountain, creating a smooth, mirror-like Mirror Mountain! And among these corpses covering the mountains and plains, I even saw… your corpse!"

"My corpse?"

The Black Qing Guiji was stunned.

"I'm right here, where would I get a corpse…"

Before the Black Qing Guiji could finish speaking, he suddenly seemed to realize something, and his expression froze.

In the next moment, his expression visibly darkened.

Having been sealed for too long, the Black Qing Guiji seemed to have forgotten that he wasn't like this at all!

"You guys sealed my body in Mirror Mountain! No wonder I couldn't sense it… What ruthless methods, Little Qing Bird!"

The Black Qing Guiji's face gradually became ferocious. There weren't many things that could cause him, who had regained his strength, to have such violent emotional fluctuations, but this matter was definitely worth him getting angry about.

Faced with the Black Qing Guiji's anger, the Qing King became calm instead.

"You should praise Mo Qing. I don't have the ability to throw your corpse into Mirror Mountain. But I think Mo Qing shouldn't have had the ability to do that either. At most, he would have preserved your corpse somewhere. The ones who truly threw your corpse into Mirror Mountain should be… the Mei Yu Immortals."

As the Qing King said this, his gaze turned to Fang Yue below!

Fang Yue's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately realized that there might be more than one Mei Yu Immortal's split-body corpse in Mirror Mountain, and the Qing King should have personally seen more than one Mei Yu Immortal's split-body corpse.

Immortal Mei Yu once said that resisting Tian Shi (Heavenly Devour) required internal and external cooperation, and her split-bodies were the key to this 'internal' aspect.

But what was the point of bringing the Black Qing Guiji's body to Mirror Mountain? That kind of action was like…

"I guess… Immortal Mei Yu is feeding Mirror Mountain! She wants to bring Mirror Mountain into the world! She wants to bring the legendary Jiuyou (Nine Hells) back to the Qingchuan Realm! No! It should be… the entire Suo Zhi Guo (Lockdown Country)! If Jiuyou were to descend, the small Qingchuan Realm would be swallowed up in an instant. In front of Jiuyou, Qingchuan Realm is just a speck of dust, not worth mentioning."

"Although I don't know why Immortal Mei Yu would have such a destructive and terrible idea, based on the kindness she showed me back then, and the Immortal blood she provided before her death, I helped her complete her last wish… that is, to bring her corpse back to the Qing Country's refugees."