384: Exchange information

To be precise, Heavenly King Yao Xi wants to see the Hall Master of Tianji Hall!

Although Xiao Shi’s identity as Fourth Heavenly King has been revealed to the public, no one knows that he is the Hall Master of Tianji Hall.

His identity as the Hall Master of Tianji Hall has always been deeply hidden.

Even if Xiao Shi knew that he only needed to stay within his own domain to be safe from any threats, he still did not reveal his identity as the Hall Master of Tianji Hall.

This also left the three demigod Heavenly Kings with no clue about the identity of the Hall Master of Tianji Hall, and they couldn't even imagine that the Saint occupying the Fifth Domain was the Hall Master of Tianji Hall.

Even with their abilities, at most they could only contact Wu Muzhen, the Proxy of Tianji Hall.

They couldn't reach the Hall Master of Tianji Hall at all.

And even Wu Muzhen, the Proxy of Tianji Hall, his identity was a mystery in their eyes.

"Did she state her intention?" Xiao Shi asked.

Wu Muzhen nodded.

"She said she wants to make a deal with the Hall Master, but she didn't reveal the specific details of the deal to me. She only asked me to relay the message to the Hall Master."

"A deal?" Xiao Shi pondered this thoughtfully.

He knew without a doubt that Heavenly King Yao Xi clearly wanted to obtain some important and hidden information through him.

After all, Tianji Hall itself is famous for its intelligence.

Even the most obscure secrets and long-lost legends, Tianji Hall has the means to uncover them.

Xiao Shi thought seriously for a while.

He nodded and said, "Agree to her."

"Yes!" Wu Muzhen respectfully nodded...

Heavenly Secret City.

Under Wu Muzhen's management, the entire Heavenly Secret City has now become prosperous, completely unlike when Xiao Shi first entered it, when the entire city was desolate and barren.

At this moment, the vast Heavenly Secret City is filled with exquisite and magnificent buildings.

At the same time, the members of Tianji Hall in Heavenly Secret City are bustling, making it extremely lively.

When Xiao Shi returned to Heavenly Secret City, he couldn't help but feel a great sense of emotion about the current changes in Heavenly Secret City.

At this moment, he was in a grand hall within Heavenly Secret City, sitting on the throne at the very top of the hall.

He looked down, observing Heavenly King Yao Xi, who was seated at the lower end of the hall.

Heavenly King Yao Xi was just as Xiao Shi first saw her: her face was exquisite, like a meticulously carved work of art, and her figure was alluring and graceful.

Her pair of porcelain-white beautiful legs were crossed, and she gazed at Xiao Shi above with a relaxed, smiling posture.

Even though in her line of sight, the Hall Master of Tianji Hall, seated above, was enveloped in darkness, preventing her from clearly seeing the Hall Master of Tianji Hall's figure and appearance, she still gazed at the Hall Master of Tianji Hall's position.

It must be said that Heavenly King Yao Xi indeed possessed the most perfect face and figure in the world.

Even in her current soul form, she maintained perfection, without a single flaw on her body.

"What do you wish to trade with me?" Xiao Shi's deep, aged voice resonated.

Although his stance and hers were adversarial, he truly wanted to know what kind of deal she wanted to make with him.

Anyway, their meeting was within Heavenly Secret City, and Xiao Shi would not meet her in reality.

Naturally, there was no need to worry about identity exposure or his own safety.

This place... is his territory!

With the current development of Tianji Hall, besides Tianji Hall members being able to enter Heavenly Secret City, these Tianji Hall members also possessed the ability to bring one non-Tianji Hall member into Heavenly Secret City.

However, when these non-Tianji Hall members entered Heavenly Secret City, there would be many restrictions.

They would only be able to enter a few specific buildings within Heavenly Secret City.

Most buildings would not be open to them.

Moreover, their time within Heavenly Secret City was limited.

Once the time was up, they would be forcibly expelled from Heavenly Secret City.

And now, members of Tianji Hall are spread across the entire Tianwu Continent, and naturally, there are Tianji Hall members present in the Yaoxi Great Territory, which is governed by Heavenly King Yao Xi.

Therefore, Heavenly King Yao Xi could enter Heavenly Secret City directly by being brought in by these Tianji Hall members.

When Heavenly King Yao Xi saw that the Hall Master of Tianji Hall immediately got straight to the point and directly inquired, without any intention of discussing other matters with her, she could only set aside her idea of trying to probe through other topics.

She knew that if she insisted on discussing other topics, the other party would likely stop the conversation immediately.

It would then be much harder to contact the Hall Master of Tianji Hall again.

Immediately, she said with a serious expression, "I want to inquire about a piece of information from the Hall Master. The Hall Master can assess its value based on this information, and I can pay for the value of this information in any form."

Xiao Shi was not surprised by this.

He knew that she sought him out to inquire about information.

This was also an important reason why Xiao Shi was willing to engage with her.

He really wanted to know... as a demigod Heavenly King, one of the strongest individuals in the current Tianwu Continent, what else was there that she didn't know?

Perhaps he could glean some important information from the news she wanted to inquire about.

At the same time, if the information she wanted to know exceeded his own understanding, he could also find a reason to refuse, without any loss.

"Tell me," Xiao Shi said in a calm tone.

"I want to know... if the remaining destiny of the Great Wu Dynasty is in the hands of the Saint who governs the Fifth Domain." Heavenly King Yao Xi asked with a serious expression.

As soon as her words came out, Xiao Shi's gaze immediately sharpened.

He instantly realized an extremely important piece of information from Heavenly King Yao Xi's words: that Great Wu Crown Prince... had not fallen into her hands!

Consider this: if Great Wu Crown Prince had fallen into the hands of these three demigod Heavenly Kings, then it would be impossible for them not to know that he had previously plundered the numerous destinies sealed within the left eye of Great Wu Crown Prince.

Heavenly King Yao Xi would then have no reason to specifically seek out him, the Hall Master of Tianji Hall, for information.

At the same time, it could also rule out the possibility that Great Wu Crown Prince fell into the hands of the other two demigod Heavenly Kings.

After all, the three demigod Heavenly Kings entered the Imperial Domain simultaneously at that time.

Even if one demigod Heavenly King acted faster and seized Great Wu Crown Prince before the other two demigod Heavenly Kings, the other two demigod Heavenly Kings would not allow him to monopolize the spoils.

They would definitely make this demigod Heavenly King share information related to the Great Wu Dynasty's destiny.

Otherwise, the other two demigod Heavenly Kings would certainly not let it go and would directly join forces to attack.

And from all current indications... Xiao Shi felt that Great Wu Crown Prince had not fallen into the hands of these three demigod Heavenly Kings.

However, to confirm his suspicions, Xiao Shi still said, "Before I tell you this information, I need to know what the situation was like when you entered the Imperial Domain?"

Heavenly King Yao Xi pondered for a moment and said, "When I entered the Imperial Domain, Great Wu Crown Prince was already gone, and I also didn't see the Saint who governs the Fifth Domain."

"However, I learned from the Saints in the Imperial Domain that before we entered the Imperial Domain, Great Wu Crown Prince's left eye was gouged out by the Saint who governs the Fifth Domain..."

"I suspect that Great Wu Crown Prince had sealed the Great Wu Dynasty's destiny within his left eye at that time. I also learned from the Saints who witnessed this scene that the Saint who governs the Fifth Domain chose to self-destruct before we entered the Imperial Domain."

"But I still have a few questions I don't understand."

"According to what those Saints said, Great Wu Crown Prince was already severely wounded at the time, so how did he escape right under our noses?"

"And since the Saint who governs the Fifth Domain chose to self-destruct, why is he still alive? And how was he able to take away the eye that contained the Great Wu Dynasty's destiny?"

Heavenly King Yao Xi was very puzzled by this.

Although they did not see Xiao Shi's true body after he self-destructed, they knew that if Xiao Shi had died from self-destruction, the Fifth Domain would directly become ownerless land.

However, there has been no change in the Fifth Domain now.

So, it goes without saying that the Saint who governs the Fifth Domain must still be alive.

Xiao Shi also realized from Heavenly King Yao Xi's words that the information she had obtained was basically from the Saints who had witnessed everything earlier.

Looking at it this way... Great Wu Crown Prince indeed employed some unknown special method to escape before the three demigod Heavenly Kings entered the Imperial Domain.

It's just that all of this is truly too bizarre and suspicious.

Since Great Wu Crown Prince had such an escape method, why didn't he use it before?

One must know that Great Wu Crown Prince had not escaped before Xiao Shi self-destructed.

And after Xiao Shi self-destructed, the three demigod Heavenly Kings had already entered the Imperial Domain.

In other words, Great Wu Crown Prince escaped from the Imperial Domain in an extremely short period of time, and even the three demigod Heavenly Kings had no prior awareness and no time to stop him.

Such a powerful escape method, yet Great Wu Crown Prince didn't use it before?

There must be a big problem here!

Although he was very confused, Xiao Shi knew that now was not the time for deep thought.

The level of involvement here was very high, and even these three demigod Heavenly Kings hadn't noticed any clues.

Perhaps only when his cultivation reached the Upper Three Realms would he be able to investigate the specific reasons through the Eye of Heavenly Secrets.

To prevent Heavenly King Yao Xi from continuing to dwell on this issue, Xiao Shi said indifferently, "I will only answer one question."

Heavenly King Yao Xi nodded. "I understand. So, what I want to know is, are the destinies of the Great Wu Dynasty in the hands of the Saint who governs the Fifth Domain?"

Compared to Great Wu Crown Prince's bizarre escape, Heavenly King Yao Xi was clearly more concerned about the Great Wu Dynasty's destiny.

After all, their main reason for seeking Great Wu Crown Prince was for the Great Wu Dynasty's destiny.

If the Great Wu Dynasty's destiny was indeed in the hands of the Saint who governs the Fifth Domain, then Great Wu Crown Prince's whereabouts would no longer be important to them.

Xiao Shi gazed at Heavenly King Yao Xi below.

If she wanted to know the whereabouts of Great Wu Crown Prince, he naturally couldn't answer, as even he didn't know.

But since she was asking about the Great Wu Dynasty's destiny... he thought for a moment and said, "I can tell you this information, but I need you to exchange it for two other pieces of information."

"I can," Heavenly King Yao Xi nodded in agreement.

"First, I want to know what conditions are required to establish a Martial Dynasty?" Xiao Shi asked.

Heavenly King Yao Xi was taken aback by Xiao Shi's question, finding it somewhat unexpected.

She hadn't thought that he would ask this question.

After all, in her opinion, as the Hall Master of Tianji Hall, it was impossible for him not to know this information.

However, she suddenly remembered that this Hall Master of Tianji Hall had only recently become the Hall Master of Tianji Hall, and his grasp of various intelligence information was clearly not as comprehensive as the previous Hall Master of Tianji Hall.

It was reasonable for him not to know this information, as it already belonged to the highest level of information on the Tianwu Continent.

Regarding this, Heavenly King Yao Xi stated frankly, "To establish a Martial Dynasty, four conditions must be met."

"First, the Tianwu Continent must be in an era without an emperor, an ownerless era."

"Second, the person establishing the Martial Dynasty must have a certain degree of control over the Tianwu Continent."

"Simply put, it refers to the size of one's own domain. The larger one's domain, the more control one has over the Tianwu Continent. To establish a new Martial Dynasty, one's own domain must occupy at least one-third of the Tianwu Continent's area."

"Third, destiny!"

"When the size of one's own domain reaches more than one-third of the Tianwu Continent, one can condense destiny within one's domain."

"However, under normal circumstances, the condensation of destiny is often extremely slow. For example, the Great Wu Dynasty also condensed this destiny only after experiencing a prosperous era and thousands of years of long years."

"To establish a new Martial Dynasty, there must be enough destiny to support it. If there is not enough destiny, even if other conditions are met, a new Martial Dynasty cannot be established."

"Fourth, realm!"

"To establish a new Martial Dynasty, one must possess the cultivation realm of the Martial Dao Ninth Realm! If the realm is insufficient, a new Martial Dynasty likewise cannot be established."

Xiao Shi suddenly understood.

No wonder these three demigod Heavenly Kings were so concerned about the Great Wu Dynasty's destiny.

If they wanted to establish a new Martial Dynasty, they had to get their hands on the remaining destiny of the Great Wu Dynasty.

Otherwise, even if their Great Domains controlled more than one-third of the Tianwu Continent's area, it would still take an extremely long time to condense enough vast destiny to support them in establishing a new Martial Dynasty.

This was consistent with Xiao Shi's earlier conjecture.

The Great Wu Dynasty's destiny was indeed the key for these three demigod Heavenly Kings to establish a new Martial Dynasty, but it was not the only condition.

Judging from these four conditions, currently, these three demigod Heavenly Kings have only met the first condition.

The second condition can only be considered barely met.

After all, although those lords have made their choices, their domains have not yet been incorporated into the Great Domains of the three demigod Heavenly Kings.

Only when all of these lords' domains are incorporated into their Great Domains can they fulfill the second condition.

The fourth condition requires them to break through demigod and reach the Martial Dao Ninth Realm, becoming the true strongest individuals on the Tianwu Continent.

This condition was also within Xiao Shi's expectations.

After all, the establishment of a Martial Dynasty also marks the creation of a new era.

As the founder of a new era, one must be the strongest in the Tianwu Continent!

However, as long as the Great Wu Dynasty's destiny is in Xiao Shi's hands, even if they meet these three conditions, it will be difficult for them to establish a new Martial Dynasty in a short period of time.

Of course, if any of them break through to the Martial Dao Ninth Realm, then the Nine Dragons Divine Sky Formation protecting Xiao Shi's domain would no longer be able to act as a barrier.

A supreme expert of the Martial Dao Ninth Realm can easily break through the Nine Dragons Divine Sky Formation!

"For the second piece of information, I want to know everything about the Martial Dao Ninth Realm!" Xiao Shi said in a deep voice.