CHAPTER 346: CHAPTER 219: BERMUDA TRIANGLE, BATTLEFIELD DIVIDED

A few minutes ago, inside the Imperial Palace.

Li Qingping, holding the Divine Concealment Umbrella, slowly walked towards the King’s chambers with Cezar, and after a few seconds, they stopped at the entrance of the room.

Unexpectedly, the King’s chambers were completely empty. The old King lay on the bed with hands folded, eyes open. At this moment, a bone-white staff and a compass lay beside him.

Cezar recognized these two items, the former being the "White King’s Staff," symbolizing supreme royal power, and the latter being the notification device of the "Royal Court Hall."

Before falling into slumber, the old King had mentioned to him that if someone invaded the Royal Court Hall, the compass would briefly awaken him.

In times of urgency, the King could even use the compass to destroy the Royal Court Hall to prevent the generational Anecdotes preserved within from falling into the hands of thieves.

Under the shadow of the umbrella, Li Qingping surveyed his surroundings cautiously as he stepped inside.

"Father."

Cezar’s lips moved silently, whispering as he slowly emerged from underneath the umbrella and approached the bedside.

However, at this moment, Li Qingping’s expression changed, and he suddenly called out to him:

"Something’s not right..."

Suddenly, a huge triangular pattern lit up simultaneously on the ceiling and floor of the chambers, merging into a massive pillar of light that swallowed Li Qingping and Cezar within it.

Li Qingping understood whose trick it was, the Royal Court Team’s Koajenna—the holder of the Anecdote Fragment "Bermuda Triangle."

When they came to their senses, Li Qingping and Cezar both lifted their eyes.

They found themselves above an island, facing a stunningly long tunnel with ghostly blue hues flickering inside.

Li Qingping had visited this place numerous times and could not mistake it; that was the "Whale’s Mouth," and passing through this tunnel would allow them to leave the Whale Terrarium and return to the Real World.

But right now, five figures in white robes stood directly in front of the Whale’s Mouth, their robes marked with the "White King’s Staff," revealing their identity:

The Royal Court Team.

The leader of the five was a woman with sea-blue long hair and sapphire earrings. She was unmistakably Ruth, the captain of the Royal Court Team.

She slowly lifted her ocean-blue eyes to look at Li Qingping and Cezar.

Behind her stood the other four: Di Rejie of the "Tunguska Explosion," Lewis of the "Tower of Babylon," Laine of the "Sword in the Stone," and Jiugui Suye of the "Night Parade of Hundred Demons."

Only Koajenna of the "Bermuda Triangle" was not present; she was likely guarding the Empress and the Princes—Li Qingping and Cezar had been transported here by her move earlier.

"It seems we’ve been caught," Li Qingping said softly.

Cezar was taken aback.

"Li Qingping... you must go now." He said expressionlessly, his white hair blown by the wind.

Even as they spoke, the Royal Court Team, led by Ruth, each took out an orange-glowed card from the Anecdote Atlas.

Seeing this, Li Qingping called out his Anecdote Atlas while protecting Cezar behind him.

He sighed, "I didn’t expect you to have kept this hidden; truly merciless."

No one from the Royal Court Team responded, not even Lewis, who was usually relaxed and smiling, for they all knew what was about to unfold.

Li Qingping continued, "You never thought we would be foolish enough to try and fly to the Whale’s Mouth on a sled, so you had Koajenna pre-emptively set a trap in the King’s chambers using her ’Bermuda Triangle’ skill, luring us with the White King’s Staff."

Just then, a prolonged cry echoed across the horizon. Looking towards the source of the sound, two reindeer pulling a sled descended from the sky, rushing toward Cezar. At this moment, the two mimic puppets on the sled had collapsed into soft clay, gradually dissipating in the wind and snow.

"It seems it’s impossible to pass through the Whale’s Mouth for now. I’ll hold them off, Your Highness Cezar; you must take the sled and escape toward Yaguba and ask it for help... don’t look back, I need you to find it, understand?"

With that, Li Qingping grabbed Cezar’s collar with one hand and forcefully threw him toward the descending Christmas Sled, while the other hand crushed the Anecdote Fragment of "Red Dragon Wales."

In an instant, six orange light patterns flashed and disappeared in mid-air.

Day turned into night, and the world faded into colorlessness.

....

....

When it came to, a three-meter-long shark opened its eyes, slowly lifting its head and blankly looking around.

Surrounding it was a dense fog, and at this very moment, Yaguba was plummeting through the air, the gale raging against every inch of its body.

Yaguba reacted quickly, manipulating dark-colored water streams to form a curtain, halting its descent, and then looked upward, riding the curtain of water.

The view that met its eyes was still the Whale Terrarium, a blood-red twilight shrouding the world.

At this moment, Yaguba hovered directly above the sea, strangely, no matter which direction it looked, the scene was identical: only the sea and the sky, even the cloud formations in all directions were identical.

This feeling was as if... trapped within a perfectly symmetrical space.

Clearly, it was trapped by Koajenna’s "Bermuda Triangle" in a corner of the Box Garden World.

"This is bad... is this the power of the Bermuda Triangle?" Yaguba wondered, "How are Cezar and the others?"

Encased in dark water streams, it rampaged through this symmetrical space, but whether soaring into the sky or diving into the earth, or moving north or south, upon reaching the boundary point of the space, it would always return to the starting point, as if manipulated by an invisible force.

"No, it can’t rely solely on brute force to escape here..." Yaguba stopped trying.

It suddenly thought, "Right, how about using that move?"

At that moment, Yaguba’s body suddenly swelled to a massive length of a hundred meters, its jaws clenched, as hard as if covered with a layer of dark metal. Its giant beast eyes were raised high, casting a shadow that blanketed the sea.

Tremendously formidable, the giant shark, enveloped by colossal waves, fiercely charged toward the boundary of the barrier, its mouth wide open.

At that moment, it activated the "Dark Fang." Dark light shrouded each sturdy and sharp tooth. As if biting the air, it fiercely snapped at the space boundary.

Instantly, its teeth touched the boundary of the "Bermuda Triangle," tearing open a fissure with teeth that could obliterate any element. Subsequently, the entire space shattered like a broken crystal ball.

To facilitate flight, Yaguba instantly shrank to a body length of two meters.

It floated in mid-air, squinting, its pupils raised high.

Its vision expanded countless times at once, almost as if wearing binoculars, seeing all the way to one end of the horizon, spotting the high-floating islands and the grand structures atop them.

The direction of the Imperial Palace was far from here.

"I have to go back to get Cezar and the others." Just as Yaguba thought this, it suddenly heard a booming sound behind it.

It paused, then swiftly turned its head, squinting its eyes.

On an island at the horizon, the silhouette of a massive red dragon swayed unsteadily, its roar tearing through the sky, heard from miles away. A screen of flames rose, scorching the sea and cutting a cliff-like ravine across the ocean.

The seawater poured into it like a waterfall, instantly turning into countless strands of scalding white vapor that hissed into the sky.

"Li Qingping? Why is he there?"

Yaguba was stunned for a moment, then rapidly transformed into a streak of black light, shooting forward.