My System Is Three Thousand Years Early

Chapter 667: Chapter 178: Enormous Appetite! The Dragon Lord is the Sky! (Please Subscribe)_3

“To think that I, the Abyss Demon Emperor, would have to affiliate myself with him…”

Gu Wushuang, upon hearing these words, merely paused for a moment, not even fully reacting before realizing that her heart didn’t stir much when she heard Cheng Guang utter such wild claims.

It only took a brief moment for her to come around and accept what Cheng Guang had said.

Gu Wushuang did not argue. Instead, she began to carefully consider the advantages and disadvantages of following Cheng Guang’s proposition.

Gu Wushuang fell silent for a while, then shook her head slightly. When her autumn-water-like eyes looked towards Cheng Guang, they were full of complex emotions.

“There’s no need. I must return to the Abyss Demon Sea. I’ve been away too long; I don’t know into what chaos the Abyss Demon Sea has descended.”

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“That jerk from Hell disappears for years on end, and the major forces and many powerhouses of the Hell Demon Sea have grown accustomed to it. But if I suddenly vanished, the title of Abyss Demon Emperor might no longer be mine. I might even lose my foundation.”

Cheng Guang nodded slightly, “Alright then.”

Cheng Guang was not too concerned, simply nodding before preparing to have Black Cub take him back to the Four Directions Mortal World.

At that moment, Gu Wushuang spoke again, “After I return, I will look for that Buddha statue at the bottom of the Abyss Demon Sea. I feel that the Buddha statue in the abyss and this one here are almost exactly the same.”

“If I discover something, shall I inform you?”

Cheng Guang smiled, “That would of course be good.”

For Cheng Guang, the Buddha statues represented those ancient powerful beings who had sealed themselves in slumber.

The one in the Ten Thousand Mile Dragon Cave had already awakened but was still suppressed by the Dragon Clan, which is why it hadn’t caused a particularly great commotion. Otherwise, it might have stirred quite a storm.

Cheng Guang also didn’t know whether the Buddha statue at the bottom of the Abyss Demon Sea, the being sealed within, had awoken.

If it had not fully awakened yet,

Cheng Guang himself might still be able to discover the other party in advance and then bring them under control.

Not to mention completely using the Buddha within the statue for himself,

from the Buddha’s mouth, he might learn about the events of the ancient past and the schemes of the Western Buddhas who had sealed themselves in slumber until this era.

You see,

in the system task’s hints, only this current task has mentioned the word “Buddha.”

Before this, the word “Buddha” had never appeared.

It is foreseeable that, in the real timeline of the Princely Heir, Buddha is still a mysterious existence,

even more so than the Heavenly Court.

Although the Heavenly Court is mysterious, people with a certain level of cultivation and strength are aware of its existence. But Buddha is unheard of by anyone.

The struggle for fate and fortunes between the Celestial Gods and the Western Buddhas is probably still extremely thrilling behind the scenes.

However,

bringing the topic back, where is the battlefield of the struggle for fate and fortunes between the Celestial Gods and the Western Buddhas?

Why is it that, from the perspective of the real Princely Heir, aside from a reshuffling of the world’s powers, no new situation has arisen?

In the future, the world still revolves around the royal bloodlines.

Though the control of the various dynasties’ royal families has diminished, they remain the sovereigns of the land.

With the power of both the Heavenly Court and the Western Buddhas, they could have completely wiped out all the forces within the Four Directions Mortal World.

But they chose not to.

They merely reduced the strength and the territory under control of the major dynasties to a minimum point.

Even to the extent,

most of the world, in name, belongs to the World Royal Family, but in reality, it is divided among countless forces.

The World Royal Family still holds the name, but their power is gone.

As for the other dynasties, Cheng Guang is still unaware of their fates at this point in time, but just taking the Great Zhou Dynasty as an example, @@novelbin@@

in the timeline of the real Princely Heir, Empress Wu Ling of Great Zhou had only managed to hold onto a single city.

Though nominally still vast, the territory Empress Wu Ling of Great Zhou truly commanded was nothing more than that single city’s span.

The contrast was too great to ignore.

If such was the case with Great Zhou, the other dynasties were likely not faring any better.

Just thinking about this, Cheng Guang felt that the motives and methods of the Celestial Gods and the Western Buddhas were utterly incomprehensible to him.

He pondered for a long while.

Finally, Cheng Guang came back to his senses.

While Cheng Guang was deep in thought, Gu Wushuang’s autumn-water-like eyes were also watching him closely.

Even Gu Wushuang herself didn’t notice the occasional flashes of reluctance that streaked across her beautiful eyes as she watched Cheng Guang.

“Then I shall leave, Princely Heir. Until we meet again,” she said, taking a deep breath and pursing her lips lightly, saying those words before turning around and taking a step forward.

Gu Wushuang’s figure instantly disappeared from the spot.

Simultaneously, a Void Rift appeared a short distance away in front of her.

Gu Wushuang stepped into the Void Rift, and her figure vanished in an instant.

Cheng Guang watched Gu Wushuang leave, gazing for a while where her figure had vanished before gently patting Black Cub on the back.

“Let’s go,” he said.

Then he lied down lightly, reclining on the broad back of Black Cub, gazing up at the firmament.

The sky was not very blue.

The firmament of the Eight-layered Devil Realm is completely different from the Four Directions Mortal World.

Its sky, like shattered glass all around, with the center of the sky clear,

but as you look further towards the edges, it becomes pitch black.

And from time to time, you can spot flashes of silver light amidst the darkness,

permeated with fearful and lethal auras.

Cheng Guang, just by looking at the sky’s expanse in the distance, could sense the danger lurking in those parts.

Who knows what lies at the very edge of the Eight-layered Devil Realm,

where the whole world seems broken.

Void Rifts completely open.