347: Chapter 347 The Demon Emperor of the Third Floor

To be honest.

When Lin Mengxue was the campus belle at the Jiangcheng Beast Taming Academy, she was very confident!

She even felt a little bit haughty!

After all, for a woman, beauty is a very good bonus!

She possessed a stunning appearance, so naturally, she had the capital to be proud.

Moreover, she had awakened the SSS-rank Ice Dragon bloodline!

However, ever since she followed Chen Yi, she realized that she was actually quite ordinary.

She didn't have Luo Shiyin's illustrious family background, she didn't have the beauty of Yun Zhiyao, the hot figure of Yan Jiuyue, the unfathomable power of Black Rose, the intellectual maturity of Shi Yuying, nor the innocent cuteness of Chu Feiyu---

She couldn't even compare to Lilian's precognition, Su Taotao's devouring talent, or the Hua sisters' light and dark support!

Her only highlight—destructive power—seemed insignificant in the face of Chen Yi's outrageous strength.

This often made her feel a little inferior.

But never did she expect that even so, Chen Yi still thought of her and valued her.

He even thought of her first when it came to such an important matter as a Beast Tamer having children!

Power? Status? Wealth?

Those things didn't matter anymore.

What mattered was that Chen Yi loved her, and that was enough!

Hearing the system prompt that Lin Mengxue's favorability had reached the maximum, Chen Yi was stunned.

Good heavens, Lin Mengxue had already reached the maximum?

He had thought that it would definitely require some special test to break through to the maximum favorability!

He didn't expect that just a few short promises would be enough?

In fact, what Chen Yi didn't know was that what Lin Mengxue pursued was never so-called power or status.

What she wanted was just this simple happiness—being alone with the man she liked, talking about their meeting and the future, and longing for the days of growing old together.

Power was just a means to achieve this happiness, not a necessity.

And Chen Yi had given her everything.

He gave her happiness and also the power to protect that happiness.

“Brother Chen Yi--- thank you!”

“Xue'er, you are so beautiful.”

“You are too, Brother Chen Yi, so handsome.”

“Seeing that Xue'er is so beautiful---”

Chen Yi blinked, “I'll work harder tonight and work overtime for another hour or two!”

Lin Mengxue's eyes lit up: “Really? Thank you, Brother Chen Yi~~~ Or should I say, thank you Master is better?”

“F*ck!!!!”

The next morning, Chen Yi gathered everyone.

Crystal Palace, central square.

“It's been two months.”

Chen Yi began, “Our strength has improved enough. The outside world is probably getting impatient. The prodigies of various countries may have already given up, or perhaps they have already fallen!”

“But now, we are ready.”

“Today, we will continue to explore the Ultimate Darkness Zone!”

“This time, we must find the secret of the world, find the source of the Space-Time Rift, and find a way to solve all the problems.”

“Yes!!!”

The girls responded in unison.

This was what they had been waiting for!

Chen Yi smiled.

“Then, let's go!”

Inside the Ultimate Darkness Zone, time seemed to have lost its meaning.

Chen Yi and his group explored in the darkness for a full half month, but they found nothing.

There was nothing here except eternal darkness and the cold rocks beneath their feet!

There were no monsters, no heaven and earth spiritual treasures, not even a trace of life.

Everyone was currently resting on a huge black rock.

The surface of the rock was lit up by Lilian using a light-element skill, forming a circle of light with a diameter of ten meters, dispelling the surrounding darkness.

“What on earth is this place---”

Su Taotao complained, “We’ve almost turned the whole area upside down, and we haven't found a single hair!”

“It is indeed strange!”

Luo Shiyin frowned and pondered, “Logically, as the deepest area of the Antarctica secret realm, the Ultimate Darkness Zone should hide the biggest secret, but now--- there is only boundless darkness.”

Yan Jiuyue leaned lazily on Chen Yi's shoulder, her nine tails swaying gently behind her: “Maybe the secret itself is that there is nothing? After all, the word 'Ultimate Dark' itself implies an ending or a limit!”

“That would be such a scam!”

Hua Yuetong pouted and complained, “We worked hard to break through to the Ninth Rank, only to explore an empty, crappy place? What a scam!”

Hua Xingtong also echoed: “Exactly! I thought we would encounter some earth-shattering big BOSS, but there isn't even a Slime!”

Lin Mengxue sighed softly: “So--- did we really go the wrong way?”

The atmosphere became a bit dull for a moment.

Just then, Black Rose, who had been silent, suddenly spoke: “Maybe we thought wrong from the beginning!”

Upon hearing this, everyone looked at her.

“Rose, do you have any ideas?”

“Do you still remember the Demon Emperor we met on the third level?”

“The third level?”

Shi Yuying was stunned, “Isn't that the Misty Zone? Is there a Demon Emperor?”

She joined the team relatively late and didn't experience that part, so it was normal that she didn't know.

Chen Yi explained: “The third level--- normally, there is indeed only fog there! But after I let Tao Tao use her devouring ability to absorb the fog, a completely different scene was revealed!”

“Hell!”

Su Taotao continued, “It wasn't a forest at all, but--- a purgatory made of countless resentful spirits and corpses. And a Demon Emperor so powerful it was indescribable!”

“Thirteenth Rank.”

Chen Yi continued, “According to my observations, that Demon Emperor was at least Thirteenth Rank or higher! At that time, we all thought we were dead, but it--- let us go.”

“It let you go?”

Shi Yuying opened her eyes wide, looking incredulous, “A Thirteenth Rank Demon Emperor, would it be so kind?”

Because she was a Demon Emperor herself, she had experienced the brainwashing of the Demon Emperor's resentment in the initial stages.

That monstrous murderous intent towards humans was really hard to hide!

If it weren't for her memories of her past life and knowing how to calm her mindset, she really wouldn't have known how to solve the problem of that massive murderous intent.

Letting human intruders go?

That was almost impossible!

“It is indeed very strange.”

Luo Shiyin nodded, “At that time, the Demon Emperor just said to pass as soon as possible and not to break the rules, and then it disappeared--- I feel that it might have been guarding something!”

“That's possible!”

Black Rose analyzed, “That Demon Emperor's strength far exceeded the normal standard of this secret realm. Its appearance on the third level was the biggest anomaly, and--- it letting us go might mean that we weren't qualified to know the truth yet?”

“Qualified?”

Chen Yi recalled their state at that time.

The whole team only had Black Rose at the Seventh Rank, and everyone else was around the low-to-mid Sixth Rank.

Looking at the levels alone, although not weak, they definitely couldn't be called top-tier.

And now, everyone is at the Ninth Rank, their strength has skyrocketed several times, and they have even toured the entire Ultimate Darkness Zone.

Perhaps, they are already qualified to contact that Demon Emperor.