CHAPTER 531: CHAPTER 97: RISE OF THE DARK ARMY

An hour has passed.

The waters of the Balkan River have returned to normal.

The Sky Bandit Leader’s knees are still soaked in the Balkan River.

He bowed his back, appearing like a devout believer, yet his mind was racing.

Although the Dark Emperor, a man of unknown origin, displayed an extraordinary demeanor, his hoarse voice, youthful appearance, and somewhat unfluent expression indicated that he must be a young and inexperienced member of the Dark Demon Clan.

The Sky Bandit Leader thought secretly: "This group of Dark Creatures is exceptionally strong, but unfortunately, only this young man before me can control them. I must pretend to be deferential, find a way to take control of these Dark Creatures, and gain his complete trust. Then, when the time is right, I will strike."

About Dark Creatures, although most Dark Practitioners on the continent know very little about them, as a prisoner exiled to the Senluo Sea, the Sky Bandit Leader had much more sensitive sources of information than those on the continent.

Ten thousand years ago, the God and Demon War ended with the subdued victory of the Creator God.

Most of the Dark Creatures involved in the God and Demon War were eternally suppressed in Dark Hell, devoid of reincarnation.

A few extremely powerful Demon Ancestors managed to escape to other Planes using Dimension Gaps and Demon God Soldiers.

Although it was a victory, the Creator God, along with the Holy Beast Clan, also suffered heavy losses during the war. To isolate the Dark Demonic creatures and also to hold the territories on the Plane with the most abundant Spiritual Power, the Creator God divided the Sun and Moon Plane based on the war achievements in the God and Demon War.

He then independently established the Star and Moon Planes, where the Human Race alone resides.

The Plane that could potentially harbor living Dark Creatures and remnants of the Demon Clan was named the Chen Plane.

Among the Four Great Planes, the chaotic Cloud Sea acts as a boundary, and the ice meteor thunder calamity marks the limit, not easily crossed.

This divine rule, known by later generations as the Four Great Planes Law or the Heaven and Earth Laws.

Every Dark Practitioner on the Canglong Continent is almost thoroughly familiar with the Heaven and Earth Laws.

However, this batch of Dark Creatures has successfully broken through the Plane Prohibition and invaded territories that don’t belong to them.

"You, lift your head," the hoarse voice of the man from Dark Hell echoed in his ears.

The Sky Bandit Leader showed a look of delight, barely lifting his head when his eyes widened in fear.

Below the man’s feet, where there once was a Transmission Array, now appeared a Five-star black light.

The black light flashed past, and behind him appeared two women.

These were two women beautiful enough to instantly capture someone’s heartbeat.

One of them had golden wavy long hair, and a seductive gaze that could make hundreds of men crawl at her feet, her stunning figure was provocatively outlined under a layer of aqua-colored chiffon, fiery to the extreme, like a flame that could burn everything.

The other woman, in contrast, also had dense golden hair but cut short to her neck, appearing sharp and neat. Unlike the eye-catching temptress, the short-haired woman was as cold as frost. Her robe extended to her ankles, concealing every inch of her skin. Every movement she made carried an intensely cold aura.

"My Heart Language Technique tells me he is full of lies. The Human Race is the most despicable race; they had an extremely negative historical record even during the ancient times of Gods and Demons," said the exceedingly provocative lady, sneering.

As soon as the words from the fiery lady were out, the robed lady standing on the other side started chanting an ancient spell.

The Sky Bandit Leader watched in horror as the part of his body exposed above the water rapidly froze, quickly draining the life force from his body.

A Dark Heavenly Master, in front of these two eerie women, was just like a toy made of clay, at their mercy to manipulate life and death.

The two women, clearly, were disgusted with the Sky Bandit Leader.

"Bang--" The ice shattered, and the Sky Bandit Leader fell sitting into the water, gasping for air and looking in horror and confusion at the person who suddenly rescued him.

"Contractor, you dare defy the intentions of us sisters?" The fiery lady roared angrily, her golden hair transforming into hissing serpents because of her anger.

"Snake hair... snake hair," as if seeing some grotesquely ugly Dark Beast, the Sky Bandit Leader trembled like a sieve.

He finally realized the origin of these two women.

Yan Ruhua, with a nature as sneaky as a snake, is one of the famous Ancient Demon Gods from Dark Hell, the Snake Woman Queen, born as a Ninth Rank Peak Dark Beast, who reached adulthood and directly ascended to become a Dark Holy Beast, the Snake Woman Queen.

The eldest sister, Meisha, is fiery and stunningly beautiful. The second sister, Sisi, is cold as ice, capricious. The third sister...

The Sky Bandit Leader did not see the third legendary Snake Woman Ge’er.

Unlike other dark creatures, the Snake Woman sisters boast a much higher cultivation and status than other members of the dark army.

As surviving Dark Beasts of Holy Beasts from Dark Hell, they would not willingly form a contract with this young man who had massacred Demon Mountain, if not in search of their missing third sister, Ge’er.

"I too am of the Human Race. Let me repeat, on the Canglong Continent, Dark Practitioners are revered, and I am the supreme." Fa Xiaoyi’s gaze was like two sharp ice picks; even Queen Sisi, known for her cold demeanor, couldn’t help but shrink her pupils at his stare.

"You!" Queen Meisha was so angry that her face turned red, wishing she could devour the Human in front of her alive.

Yet she could not touch him, confident as she was in her strength to defeat this Human, the past few months had shown that if truly provoked, he might just end it all, destroying both him and the sisters.

What a madman!

Infuriatingly, knowing his insane nature, they were nonetheless forced to submit to him.

Because he is a Demon Summoner, a rarity on this continent, only through him can the sisters break the Plane Prohibition set by the Creator God from ancient times, and enter this foreign land, in search of their beloved third sister.

Realizing he was no longer in danger, the Sky Bandit Leader breathed a sigh of relief.

"Don’t be too happy too soon, I don’t keep useless people, give me a reason to let you live?" Noticing the Sky Bandit Leader’s feet, now poisoned by the Life Spring Water, Fa Xiaoyi raised an eyebrow.

This place, a very secretive dimension gap from Dark Hell to the Canglong Continent.

Why here, traces of Death Spring Water, that only exist in Dark Hell, would appear?

"I am very familiar with this continent, and I know there is a place that is currently most suitable for you and your army to be stationed," in order to save his life, the Sky Bandit Leader had to sincerely submit, and at the same time, he proposed the location that in his view was most suitable for today’s Dark Army to invade and use as a base.

Shang Kingdom, that kingdom rumored to have just experienced a rebellion over a year ago, temporarily controlled by the Imperial Concubine Sha Fei in the political scene.