Eastern Emperor's current strength was at the Ninth Stage Late Phase. Zhu Hui seemed to have received some help from Les and had also reached the Ninth Stage Late Phase. Their speeds were comparable as they flew directly towards the direction where the Winged Clan was located.
This time, Zhu Hui didn't stop Eastern Emperor. He knew that he couldn't stop him on his own. He could only secretly inform Su Chen, hoping that Su Chen would send reinforcements. They were not a match for the Winged Clan's leaders.
With their speed, they soon approached the location of the Winged Clan, and they were spotted by a patrol team from the Winged Clan.
"Get lost!" Eastern Emperor roared, slapping these Winged Clan members to death with a single palm.
However, this stirred up a hornet's nest. A group of Winged Clan members flew over from a distance, including some Eighth Stage Winged Clan members.
What was strange, though, was that apart from the Small Galaxy Ninth Stage Winged Clan, there was no sign of a second Small Galaxy Winged Clan. It seemed that the Space Channel had significant limitations.
This provided an opportunity for the two of them to break in. The two Emperors went on a rampage within the Winged Clan, and Winged Clan bodies fell from the sky from time to time.
However, there were too many Winged Clan members, and even though their strength was formidable, it still consumed their energy.
They faced many enemy attacks, and some wounds appeared on their bodies. However, Eastern Emperor paid no attention to them. His eyes were fixed on the interior of the Winged Clan's headquarters. He wanted to see Du Jing!
"There are too many enemies. It's too dangerous to continue like this. A Cheng, let's retreat for now," Zhu Hui shouted.Eastern Emperor remained silent, and his attacks intensified.
Zhu Hui sighed. At this moment, five Ninth Stage Winged Clan members appeared in front of them, surrounding the two.
"Don't underestimate humans!" Zhu Hui roared, causing space to tremble around him, directly affecting the five Winged Clan members, freezing their movements.
Suddenly, Eastern Emperor's figure appeared behind one of the Winged Clan members. He delivered a punch that shattered the Winged Clan member's head. Their coordination was flawless.
The remaining Winged Clan members emitted sharp screams, and powerful soundwaves swept through the area. Eastern Emperor suddenly felt that he couldn't hear anything; his eardrums had burst.
No matter how powerful Transcendents were, losing their hearing still had a significant impact on them. Eastern Emperor had to rely on his own senses to deal with the enemies.
It seemed that the Winged Clan had targeted him. Three Ninth Stage Winged Clan members surrounded him while one engaged Zhu Hui.
"Brother, I can't hold on much longer. Why haven't you come yet?" Zhu Hui called out in his heart.
In a battle between Ninth Stage experts, every second counted. In a short amount of time, Eastern Emperor and Zhu Hui had sustained serious injuries, and their bodies were covered in blood.
If they continued like this, they would eventually die here.
"Stop!"
Suddenly, a voice rang out, and the Winged Clan members who had been attacking them obediently stopped fighting and spared them.
Zhu Hui didn't understand the situation and hurried over to Eastern Emperor. Eastern Emperor's injuries were more severe than his.
"Is it the Winged Clan leader who's intervening?" Zhu Hui was worried. He had learned from Su Chen that the Winged Clan leader possessed Small Galaxy Ninth Stage strength, which was a level he could only admire from afar.
However, what Zhu Hui never expected was that the one who appeared before them was Du Jing!
Du Jing had white wings growing from her back, and she floated in the air in front of them, looking exactly like the Winged Clan members.
Clearly, the words spoken just now had come from her. However, Zhu Hui couldn't fathom how Du Jing could command these Winged Clan members when she wasn't the leader of the Winged Clan.
Upon seeing Du Jing, Eastern Emperor's face finally showed an expression, but it wasn't the joy of a reunion; it was a suppressed anger.
"Du Jing, what are you doing?"
Eastern Emperor's furious roar echoed throughout the surroundings, as if the whole world were reverberating with his anger.
Upon learning of this situation, Eastern Emperor's initial reaction was disbelief. However, this information came directly from Zhu Hui's mouth, leaving him with no choice but to believe it.
This meeting was meant to answer one question: had Du Jing truly changed?
Du Jing's expression remained eerily calm, and her gaze upon Eastern Emperor seemed to treat him as a mere stranger.
"What am I doing? You should be well aware," she calmly replied.
Crack!
Eastern Emperor clenched his fists, his veins bulging on his arms, his eyes fixed on Du Jing, his entire body trembling. It was a sign of extreme anger.
"Is this your intention?" He managed to suppress the surge of rage and spoke in a low growl.
Du Jing, still serene, responded, "Whether it's my intention or not, you should be the one who knows best, Eastern Emperor Wu Cheng!"
Suddenly, Du Jing's calm expression was like throwing a stone into a calm lake, creating ripples. Her expression became extremely volatile, almost grotesque as she continued, "Wu Cheng, he's your son! How could you bear to harm him? Tell me, why did you want to kill him? Tell me!!!"
Her piercing cries carried far, laden with an overwhelming sense of resentment.
Zhu Hui furrowed his brows. He should have anticipated that once Dunn had died, Du Jing would seek answers. However, at that time, Du Jing hadn't taken any action, so he had let his guard down.
He never expected Du Jing to take advantage of his predicament, causing trouble when everyone else had left Earth. It was too late to prevent it now.
"Because he deserved it! He betrayed humanity, and no one is exempt," Eastern Emperor's voice was cold and merciless, yet no one knew the pain he carried within.
That was his son, the child he had raised with his own hands. It was precisely because he couldn't bring himself to do it personally that he had chosen to let Leng Yuwei take action, ensuring Dunn's departure from this world without suffering. It was the limit of what he could bear to do.
"Hahaha!" Du Jing burst into maniacal laughter, tears streaming down her face.
"Wu Cheng, you have a heart as cruel as stone! You can even harm your own flesh and blood. Are you still human?"
Du Jing's expression gradually distorted, a mixture of tears and laughter, her features contorted in a grotesque manner.
A hint of pain flickered in Eastern Emperor's eyes, but he quickly concealed it. "No one, not even I, can betray humanity. What right did he have to survive?"
Eastern Emperor's words were resolute, and his loyalty to humanity was beyond question.
"Hehe, Du Jing, did you hear that? He said it himself. Do you still think everything I told you was a lie?"
Within Du Jing's heart, two versions of herself appeared, and one of them spoke to the other.
"Did he really kill our son?" Du Jing sobbed uncontrollably.
You see, the information Du Jing received was that her son had died while on a secret mission. She had never considered that her own husband could have been responsible for her son's death.
But what no one knew was that, through a stroke of luck, Du Jing had acquired something she had never told her husband about. It was a small, sky-blue stone that she had picked up by chance and kept on her person.
During one battle, when her body was wounded by a Mutant Beast, the stone came into contact with her blood, and astonishingly, it fused with her body, causing her to undergo a mutation. (To be continued)
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