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Five hundred and ninetieth eight chapters lead a hair

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Knight Waldner of the Spilled Cross silently stared at the corpses of the Dread Knights scattered on the ground in front of him, his nose was sore, and tears almost came out of his eyes.

This fear knight, nicknamed "Evergreen" by his colleagues, has just turned six hundred and twenty years old this year, and is an uncompromising senior knight. If we look at the tradition of the fear knight, this fearful knight has a fierce fighting spirit and a strong personality.

Guoyi's elderly knight should have wandered into the woods long ago and lived a relaxed life of leisure - time is like an indestructible knife, cutting off not only the glory of the past, but also the sigh of the hero in his old age.

However, as Waldner is still active in the army, his sword skills may not be as fast as those of his descendants, and his arcane skills may no longer be sharp and domineering, but his extremely rich skills,

Experience and wise mind are still the most trustworthy guides for colleagues and superiors.

This time, the Behemoth 100,000 wolf cavalry suddenly counterattacked the Dragon Realm, which went beyond the expectations of all the demons, including the three great witch slave kings Bao Tuo. You must know that in the official propaganda of the demon world, these demons occupy the most important places in the hometown of the demons.

The evil races in Qin Continent are just cowards who are about to collapse at the drop of a hat!

Although the demons have lost to these cowards once in history, the demon soldiers still firmly occupy the psychological worry - there are so many "big cracks in time and space", but from ancient times to the present, have they ever seen the Aegean army enter the demon world?

But in the past few days of fighting, this sand coward used his throwing net and sword to really let the demon soldiers understand the facts that were completely different from the official propaganda!

Waldner only found out when he overheard the chatter of high-ranking officers in private. It turned out that these Aegean cowards who fought against the demons and came and went like the wind were the Beamon Wolf Cavalry! These Wolfs were the bravest among the Beamon warriors.

A cavalry that is good at fighting! These Wolfe also regard death as unyielding and remain stoic!

Waldner has been in the army for five hundred years, but he didn't know until today. It turns out that some top-secret files are not accessible to knights of his level, and there are uneducated secrets that an officer like him will never be able to access.

Contacted!

In just a few days, more than 60,000 Behemoth wolf cavalry were annihilated, but the demon army's own army fell to a total of 150,000 people. This was the result of air-ground coordination - this is what Waldner himself saw with his own eyes.

As a result, for a confident and proud demon fear knight, this number is undoubtedly humiliating and embarrassing.

As a knight, Waldner must recognize the bravery and fearlessness of his opponents. Whenever the war drum beats, countless wolf cavalry will rush forward like a feast, ignoring any obstacles and rushing forward like a tide!

Their cries are terrifying!

The cold arcs their scimitars created in the air have become a nightmare for the demon armies participating in the war!

The strong crystal armor and crystal weapons of the magic cluster soldiers are as fragile as a toy made of leather in front of this scimitar!

In the night when the waterfall turned into ice, these wolf cavalry had launched terrible attacks. Their bodies seemed to have completely forgiven the severe cold, and they were more determined and patient than the demons in this hot land!

Even the most outspoken Demon Cluster Knight has to admit that compared with the Behemoth army in front of him, the Demon Clan's army looks like a bunch of pampered young men; Waldner once saw a wave of more than ten people with his own eyes.

The wolf cavalry, under the special circumstances of being blocked in front and with no way out, still refused to surrender, formed a non-standard charging formation, launched the final attack on the demon soldiers, and chopped off countless heads flying into the sky along the way.

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Their eyes were indifferent, with disdain and ridicule from the bottom of their hearts! That kind of bravery and bloody bravery under the setting sun, every time Waldner thinks of it, it will be like the wilderness of the Great Helm Plains at night, from the bottom of his heart.

A bone-chilling chill spread across the soles of my feet.

This time the Six-winged King Stockton gave Lao Wa a very important task. He led the team to horizontally block the coastline of the "Ocean of Mist". The main army encircled the Behemoth Wolf on three sides and advanced.

The remnants of the cavalry rushed into the poisonous fog step by step - judging from the exchanges some time ago, the military power contributed by the coast to the mainland cannot bear such a war report with such a huge difference in ratio, which has a great impact on the morale of the army.

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If Six-Winged King Stockton's plan succeeds, with the highly toxic mist, the demon army can easily and completely wipe out this Behemoth Wolf Cavalry without even having to do anything themselves!

Waldner is very aware of the military mission he shoulders. The role he and the 15,000 brave demon soldiers under his command are to block the cannon fodder - to adopt a certain degree of resistance and to disrupt the Behemoth Wolf Cavalry.

The establishment of the organization deprived them of the opportunity to breathe and reorganize; more importantly, they must protect themselves and try to prevent the precious lives of the demon soldiers from being wasted in the homeland.

Lao Wa was quite confident in this plan at first, because the Behemoth Cavalry now has no way to retreat. As long as he and his 15,000 soldiers disrupt the final retreat rhythm of the Behemoth Cavalry, they will not be allowed to retreat near the coastline.

If the main force is pressed forward by then, no matter how powerful the Behemoth army is, they will not have enough time to make arrangements, and even a last-ditch battle will be a luxury.

By that time, no matter whether they are trapped beasts fighting without organization or plan, or they have to dive into the foggy ocean, they will all end up dead.

Everything was going for the best, but tonight Waldner received a very bad news. Fifty Dread Knights did not return within the specified time when they went out on patrol. The rest

The patrol scouts re-screened the patrol radius of the fifty fear knights in waves, and found their bodies on the gravel plain outside the coastline.

When he heard the news, Waldner cried in his heart. Among the fifty fear knights, there was one of his youngest sons. Like all young people, this child was fanatical and brave. He was eager to fight in the holy war.

Establish immortal achievements and enjoy the infatuated and admiring eyes of countless girls among the flowers.

Lao Wa brought his young son to the battlefield just to let him feel the atmosphere of war up close and to tell him that the bloody battlefield is not a stage that anyone can use as a show. Here, there are matters of life and death.

Distance, no passion and romance.

During this period of fierce fighting, every demon commander has basically figured out the details of this Behemoth Wolf Cavalry. These Behemoths did not bring the air force into the country, and there was no altar priest among them with flying magic.

, this is also the main reason why Lao Wa brought his favorite youngest son to the battlefield.

But the ruthless reality made a big joke on Laowa!

Looking through the corpses of these fear knights, Waldner's heart twitched.

Every fear knight has traces of burnt electricity on his body. In his eyes, the whole body looks like a farmland that has been dry for a long time. It is covered with radiating cracks and can be broken at a touch. The slightly better ones have huge wounds on their chests.

There were straight penetrating wounds, the flesh marks were twisted like lips, the whole body was charred, and the eyeballs exploded into liquid vitreous body.

One detail particularly made Waldner palpitate. He noticed that his petty Bohr only pulled the sword halfway out of the scabbard before he was shot dead on the spot. There were so many wounds on his body that it was as if he had been stuffed into a meat grinder.

Too miserable to gamble.

Together with Bol, these fifty Dread Knights all come from the glorious "Gloucester Squadron", which is an old elite force with a history of ten thousand years. It belongs to the Spilled Cross Regiment and fought in the Holy War.

, this squadron has turned defeat into victory in an unfavorable situation. Everyone has a Gloucester Warrant Saber engraved with the words "Royal Air Force" issued by the Dreadlord himself, and is known as the Saber Squadron.

Although it is only half a squadron, Waldner himself definitely knows how strong the fighting power and courage of the boys of the "Gloucester Squadron" are! What's more, under the training of young Boer, his martial arts skills have been greatly improved.

Back then, Laowa himself, fifty fear knights who were so powerful, were killed by the enemy without even having a chance to call for help or escape. There is no doubt that there must be more than two polars lurking among the Behemoth Wolf Cavalry.

Masters, these extreme masters are looking for an opportunity to kill the highest-level demon officer.

"Immediately notify the King of Heaven to mobilize two fang-level fear knights and claw-level gargoyles to gather near the coastline, and then mobilize a hundred nightmare knights and ten winged knights. I think we must strengthen our defense force.

It's over!" Waldner held back his sadness and calmly gave the order to his adjutant.

At this moment, the commander's sophistication and calmness are the best medicine for the soldiers. Otherwise, the spreading fear of the enemy will be an invisible disaster.

Just as the adjutant was about to salute, several huge thunderbolts that could completely shatter him rolled across the sky, and a heavy rain fell from the dark night sky without any warning.

The icy air caused the raindrops to quickly freeze into hailstones the size of walnuts as they fell. The sticks hit every night traveler in the face, creating a sad concerto with weapons and armor.

A huge black shadow clung to the clouds in the distance, shrouded in layers of black and white moonlight, and quickly approached the sight of Waldner and a group of demon cluster sky knights.

In the cold air, the piercing scream that cut through the air and the crisp sound of the hailstones hitting each other were extremely noticeable.

Due to the dense hail particles, the moonlight draped on this huge black shadow became increasingly hazy and dreamy as the distance got closer and closer.

After a while, a huge black shadow flew nearby.

It turned out to be a golden two-headed dragon with mountain wings, towering horns, and four huge lantern-like eyes radiating fierce light. Sitting on the back of this fierce dragon beast were four fierce and silent knights.

, driving the giant dragon through the crowd of demon air force without squinting.

Including Waldner's employees, all the demon soldiers were shocked by the other party's arrogance and watched them walk away. Some of them couldn't help but give up the channel to the other party.

Until the golden dragon beast dragged the four knights and disappeared into the misty ocean, Waldner and a group of magic cluster soldiers were still looking back.

"These demons should be killed." Lampard looked back a little regretfully: "Xile Xianzi's grinding noodles should be counted one by one."

"You can tell they are not masters just by looking at their sly eyebrows. Wouldn't it be a shame to kill them?" Liu Zhencheng squinted his cigar and blew the sparks at her: Wouldn't it be a bed to use energy weapons to deal with trash fish?

Shooting mosquitoes with a crossbow is overkill?

"But... there is obviously a big guy there... I think... he can't be considered a miscellaneous fish, right?" Xiaokong wrinkled his fur, thinking that these guys with horns on their heads are not the ones that the Feilengcui people say.

Dread Knight? Isn’t it said that the bigger the body, the longer it will be more powerful?

"What is the Dread Knight if it's not a bastard?" Liu Zhenzhen flicked the ashes of his cigarette in a very solemn and arrogant manner.

"I'm a member of Feileng Cui. If you want to do it, do it with someone big." Duncan grinned. The flat-topped dragon ball mirror cannon in his hand rippled with a layer of halo, floating in the misty ocean.

The heavy black poison gauze was lifted open, and black objects were rolling underneath, and all kinds of sea creatures disappeared in a flash.

There is no reason why the first golden ring warrior of Buertu should not be arrogant. For other people in the Aegean continent, magic weapons may already represent the highest pinnacle of the military industry, but for the two major arsenals on the red clay slopes, magic weapons

It can only be regarded as the second generation of cutting-edge equipment.

Excluding rare metal weapons and war song weapons, energy weapons are the cutting-edge equipment of the fourth generation of Emerald City.

After the investment in Boye Ancient City, the lord accidentally discovered that the "magnetic storm lamp" used by the vulture warriors would not be controlled by the Forbidden Demon Dragon Domain of Cicheng. Since then, he has established the "Wish of Light"

The Feilengcui Arsenal, which houses the "Tower" and the "Magnetic Storm Lamp", has been concentrating on developing energy weapons, attack equipment that transcends the times.

Energy-picking weapons that use pure natural power as a means of attack do not have high requirements for alchemical processes, but the requirements for raw materials are very demanding. Moreover, no matter how high the level of the alchemist is, he cannot use his outstanding skills to claim the title of "Buyuan Group".

The cry of lack - this is a huge limitation that cannot be covered.

At first, Feilengcui was unable to mass-produce "Moyun Magic Lamp", "Wenna Gloves" and "Light Begging Tower". But with the "Jade Wash", the situation was completely different. The mirror inlaid with "Moonlight Gem"

Although the cannon has a range of only three to four hundred square meters, it is better because the halo covers a radius of one hundred square meters and has a powerful coverage and lethality. The mirror cannon inlaid with "laser gems" has a range of up to one thousand five hundred square meters. With its super-concentrated ultraviolet halo,

It's enough to kill an intermediate level monster instantly!

As long as there is enough time, Duncan absolutely believes that the Radio and Television Knights under his command will be able to put together a mirror cannon aviation squadron that is high-speed and low-block, capable of both single-target and group-killing, and is equally domineering!

Lampard, the leader of the Phantom Beast Knights, also had the same idea. Today, he annihilated fifty fear knights to try out his skills. The Templar Dragon Knight showed the boss the skills used by the scholar warriors in the Yunqin Empire.

The thunder barrel, shaman claws and three-pointed two-edged sword are such powerful energy weapons. With the research and smell of metal by the wild dwarves, one of the four pure-blooded Duigals, as long as they melt a weapon,

The specific metal type and proportion can be quickly separated. By that time, imitation is not a matter of course, and no matter how rare the metal is, it cannot withstand the "jade-washed" water molecule audio vibration reproduction!

Lampard suddenly felt that it was no longer a dream for him to lead the first aviation wing in the Pan-Continent to use energy weapons. By then, it would be difficult not to leave a name in history!

Once a person falls into lust, time will pass quickly. Without any effort, Liu Zhenshao found the demon sea tribe living in the foggy ocean.

Like all sovereign countries, the Sea Tribe of the Demon Realm has also deployed its own border guards on the border areas to symbolically guard the safety of the entire coastline.

Huge shells tens of meters high were accumulated together to build a large-scale sea clan military fortress in the thick ink-like sea fog. A large number of staghorn corals naturally grew into a solid deer fort; each honey-colored shell was The fish cages are hung in every corner of the giant shell fortress. The cages are filled with a large number of luminous plankton, shining in the black mist.

The grotesque coral islands, colorful fish creatures, and the poisonous fog ocean of the devil world are also the crystallization of nature's perfect scenery. The giant shell fortress in the background is far away from the smoke and smoke of war, adding to the elegance of the underwater scenery for a few days.

For the four uninvited guests who came to visit on a golden dragon, the giant shell fortress of the Demon Sea Clan was in chaos. The name of the Aegean dragon spread far and wide in every plane. For most creatures, the giant shell fortress was in chaos. The difference between dragons and gods is not very big, at least they both have great dominance in controlling life and death.

After a period of not-so-friendly exchanges, the king of the Demon Sea Tribe, protected by a large group of high-level guards, quickly came to this remote fortress and met with the Archmage Shengxiao from the Aegean Continent. Had a face-to-face communication.

There are three continents in the Demon Realm, and on the coast of each continent, there is a powerful maritime nation occupying the dominant position.

Near the Bollywood continent is the world of mermaids, which is the hometown of Raquel Welch; and near the Hollywood continent is the territory of the Banfeixu sea urchin people, which is similar in appearance to the rainbow people of the Behemoth Trench. It is very similar to the Sea Clan of the demon world; the coastal area of ​​the coast contribution continent is the territory of the Sea Dragon people of the Mike Skoffey Clan. The Sea Dragon Clan is not a real dragon family, it is just that their heads resemble dragon heads, and their bodies are not the common flesh and bones. The body is made of bones and flesh, and the character is violent. He is an abnormal person.

Like the civilization evolution process of all intelligent races, the Demon World Sea Race not only studies the arcana of the venom series and the aerosol series, they also study the arcana of the Demon World---the "space magic" in the mouth of the Aegean Master. Has great achievements.

In the foggy ocean, long-distance transportation vehicles such as crystal teleportation arrays are also not uncommon, and the civilization of the Sea Tribe can also amaze anyone.

Facing the only Archmage Shengxiao in the Aegean Continent, His Majesty the Sea Dragon King Redondo of Nasdaq Sea Kingdom narrowed his eyes sharply. He did not hide his deep hostility.

Any place where intelligent races live will not have very little information. The general information about every top powerhouse and every plane world has an extremely rapid spread speed. The fall of the two holy lands once reduced the power of the Aegean continent. He was gloated by those who cared about his misfortune, but the sudden appearance of a Shengxiao Archmage was enough to make all the strong men tremble.

Although I don't have exact information about the Archmage of Aegean Shengxiao, a top master always has the aura of a top master. This most direct business card cannot be hidden from Lao Jianghu. His Majesty the Sea Dragon King Redondo has no doubt about his vision.

"I'm here to see you this time. I just want to do business!" Liu Zhenshao looked at His Majesty Redondo with warm and peaceful eyes. He used the eyes of praise and expectation that a super master would use to look at underachievers.

It's very heartwarming. Recently, he has been looking at others with this perspective: "A business that will benefit you, the Demon World Sea Clan, and will also be of great benefit to our Aegean Behemoth!"

"If it's business, then Master, your performance is really heartbreaking." Feeling the shocking and terrifying spiritual power of the Aegean Holy Sky, His Majesty Redondo secretly felt something wrong with his eyebrows: But this is not to make a person

The reason why the king surrendered must be explained at least to the dozens of charred sea tribesmen lying in a pool of blood outside the giant shell fortress.

"Please allow us to put aside the conflict just now and discuss it later. Let me tell you my friendly intentions first." Liu Zhencheng went straight to the topic without any fuss: "I came here this time because I want to give you something."

You Demon Realm Sea Clan provide you with an opportunity to get ashore safely, because my men have invented the Li Shui Moisturizing Badge. In the words of our Aegean, it is a kind of "An'erle Badge". I know that you Demon Realm Sea Clan are Li Shui Moisturizing Badge.

The reason why you don’t open the mist ocean is actually not because of the toxins, but because you can’t live without the mist, which moisturizes your skin at all times. This is exactly the same as our Aegean tribe.”

"I have heard of the name of this badge." His Majesty Redondo, King of Nasdaq, glanced at Old Liu with a slightly strange look: "But I remember that this badge seems to have been invented by you Aegean Mermaids, not

A land race like yours."

"Ha! I happen to have a group of freshwater mermaids under my command, and I happen to be a foreign mermaid myself." Facts speak louder than words. Liu Zhanzhen took out a stack of scallop-shaped magic metal badges and "cluttered" in his hands.

A long dragon was washed out, and the faint rhythm of elements on the badge was like the sweetest spring, slowly flowing into the heart of the Sea Dragon King.

"Think about it, once you escape from this sea of ​​poisonous fog, your life span will be tripled, from three hundred years to one thousand years! You will be able to see the wonderful moonlight and sunshine with your own eyes, and enjoy it to your heart's content

Enjoy the comfort of the warm wind, and you can see the blue sky, the earth, and the green." Liu Zhenzhen felt that the other party's eyes were like fish hooks, hanging on his Li Shui badge. The more he used that

He instigated in an extremely charming tone: Have you ever seen the desert? The sun sets over the long river! Have you ever seen the snow-capped mountains? The window contains the ever-changing snow of the Xiling Mountains!"

Liu Zhencheng felt that he was really a god at this moment. It was almost like telling an Aegean human, Damn, heaven is right in front of you. You idiot?

"There is no moonlight falling in vain in the sky. Please tell me, great Aegean Holy Sky, why do you do this? Why do you think you can help us? A dozen badges are too few. My kingdom has a population of more than hundreds of millions.

?" Sea Dragon King spent a lot of effort to regain his composure.

"Your Majesty, you must be very aware of the war between our Aegean Behemoth and the land demons, right?" Liu Zhenhan asked nonsense.

"What kind of war is this? It's just a child's game." His Majesty Redondo blew out a stream of black air from his nose and said disdainfully: "Even in your last war, you only mobilized a total of

More than 10 million troops. This is incomparable to the scale of our sea clan's war! It seems that only the "Battle of Dragon Sea" between your Aegean and the land demon clan more than 10,000 years ago was somewhat valuable."

"The area of ​​the ocean is dozens of times that of the land, and the scale of the sea tribe's wars is naturally dozens of times larger than that of the land. For this, I think I must pay my respects!" Liu Zhenzhen doesn't mind others talking about him.

Blowing in front of Bulbe: "But the current situation is like this. The second war between gods and demons has started again. We Behemoth have an army of about 30,000 people. Unfortunately, they were ambushed after entering the demon world. Now they have been

The land demons are approaching the coastline of the Contribution Continent. I alone cannot save them, so I think Your Majesty Redondo can help..."

"How to help?"

"I want your majesty's arcanists to open up a huge fog barrier. This shouldn't be difficult for you sea arcanists who are wandering in the clouds. My request is very simple. As long as you can

All 30,000 Behemoth troops are included, and we can just let them enter the sea without being poisoned."

"An army of thirty thousand people? If you think about it this way, I would have to spend nearly one-fifth of my arcanists to lay out a large enough giant barrier!"

"Based on the fact that your arcanists number 20,000, one-fifth is only 4,000. I think Your Majesty, you should rise from the ground."

"The benefit for us is to get your "Anerle Badge"?"

"No!" Liu Zhenzhen refused very simply: "If you want to get the "An'erle Badge", you must also provide me with 30,000 "Nau Platinum". In other words, you have to help me get these 30,000 wolves.

All cavalry are transformed into beast cavalry!"

"You have a really big appetite. Do you know how difficult it is to refine "Nao Platinum"?" His Majesty Redondo sneered: "After exhausting all my inventory, can I get the 30,000 mutant beasts needed? Now

Still an unknown!”

"Then I have nothing to do. My time is extremely limited. If you can't give me an answer now, my wolf cavalry will be wiped out by the land demons. By then, it will be meaningless for me to do business with you.

"Liu Zhencheng's tone did not sound like a businessman at all: "I want to make it clear that I am in a hurry right now, so I am not here to bargain with you. If it works, it will work, and if it doesn't work, it won't work. It's just a one-shot deal! If you agree,

Immediately dispatch the arcanist, and when the wolf cavalry enters the sea safely, I will immediately provide you with the original magic circle diagram and split structure table of the "An'erle Badge". I think there is no shortage of crystals in your sea, so I will provide you with magic manufacturing equipment.

It will not be provided.”

"Even with the arcanist's fog-proof barrier, we still can't keep your wolf cavalry from touching the fog miasma for a long time. After all, the arcanist's mana is limited. Even if I deploy all the arcanists across the country, I

There is no guarantee of a long-term barrier arrangement." His Majesty Redondo thought about it for a long time and thought of a problem that was difficult to solve: "In this case, you will eventually have to leave the sea and return to the land, and the land demons will not let it go.

Thirty thousand Behemoth soldiers, how do we calculate our deal?"

What the Sea Dragon King said is true. If this fundamental problem is not solved, Aegean Shengxiao will hand over the original decomposition design drawing of the "Water-Lifting Moisturizing Array" when he sees all his soldiers dying. That would be called seeing the undead.

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"This is easy to handle. There are countless islands in the foggy ocean. We just need to transfer all 30,000 wolf cavalry to the islands and let them escape from the poisonous fog through the altitude. That will be enough! Don't worry, Your Majesty Redondo,

I don't need you to provide supplies for these 30,000 wolf cavalry, they will starve to death!" Liu Zhenzhen had already thought of this problem.

The sea dragon king of Nasdaq, Redondo, stared at Lao Liu for a moment, as if he was trying to determine whether this guy was lying.

"If you have any doubts, I can make the heaviest oath to you in the name of the God of War. If you still can't believe it, I can also make a written contract for you. In my capacity, I have the possibility of breaking the written contract.

You can check it yourself." After waiting for a long time, seeing that the Sea Dragon King still looked suspicious, Liu Zhensha sighed firmly. The Aegean tribe is the race that least believes in oaths. Unexpectedly, the Demon Sea tribe is also the same.

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"Thirty thousand desperate cavalry have turned into thirty thousand arcane beast cavalry. You are really shrewd in your calculations." The Sea Dragon King was silent for a while again, and finally nodded.

Although the opponent was a mermaid who fell from the sky and offered a favorable condition that all the demonic sea tribes dreamed of, he could not play any tricks or hide any weird traps; as long as he removed the arcanist,

Those 30,000 Behemoth soldiers are really not a piece of cake. Although the matter is so mysterious that it is difficult to believe, His Majesty Redondo quickly understood these simple principles.

Nonsense! Would you believe it if there were no black spots on the condition? Liu Zhenzhen felt a burst of curse in his stomach.

Dragon Knight Lampard glanced at his boss with complicated eyes. The boss was definitely playing with fire. Once the manufacturing method of "Li Shui Moisturizing Badge" is provided to the Demon World Sea Clan, no one knows what terrible consequences it will have in the future!

One Aegean Sea Clan is enough to cause chaos in the world, let alone the involvement of the Demon Realm Sea Clan?

Lao Liu doesn't understand this truth, but he already cares about his head and body, and can't care about so much. The moon under the water is the moon in the sky, and the person in front of him is the person in his eyes. For him who doesn't have any strategic vision, he can take care of the immediate situation first.

It is already the kingly way.


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