You don't want your secret to be revealed by others, right?

"Jiu Xiang?" The Demon Saint furrowed his brows and looked towards the Jiu Xiang Demon King.

"A fair fight? Is that all?"

Lin Yue smiled and said, "Since you are bringing up fairness, let me ask you, I have only been cultivating for sixteen years, how long have you cultivated?"

The Jiu Xiang Demon King furrowed his brows slightly.

Sixteen years?

He had been cultivating for almost two thousand years!

If not for the naturally long-lived physique of the Demon Clan, he wouldn't have been able to cultivate for such a lengthy period.

If talking about time, when he had cultivated for sixteen years, he indeed was far from being as accomplished as the Seventeenth Prince at this time.

"Not talking anymore?"

Lin Yue mocked him with a glance, "It seems you also understand that all this talk about fairness is nonsense, so stop being so self-righteous and spewing nonsense under the guise of being a 'genius'."

The Jiu Xiang Demon King, with a frown, took a deep breath and said solemnly, "Since that's the case, once you follow me back to the Demon Clan, before you achieve Harmonization, you can challenge me at any time, under the same rules as before. Do you dare?"

"Challenge?" Lin Yue shook his head slightly, "So you just want to prove yourself through me, the number one genius of the Human Clan? Have you been defeated by a first genius of my clan in some other era?"

The Jiu Xiang Demon King's eyes flickered.

At this moment, he couldn't help but recall the encounter with a Human Clan prince over a thousand years ago on the periphery of the Great Yong Divine Formation.

He, who considered himself the number one genius of the Demon Clan, wielding several paths and Semi-Divine Artifacts of Heavenly Reversal, encountered a Human Clan prince who was at the Three Talents Heaven Barrier level. Out of interest, he attempted to gauge the prince's strength.

Unexpectedly…

Among the entire Dawn Army, the most terrifying was not the leading Saint of the Human Clan, but that Human Clan prince!

When that prince made a move against other Demon Saints, with just one strike, he swept across many Demon Saints broadly, inadvertently affecting him who was spying from a distance, nearly costing him his life!

If it hadn't been for the life-saving Miracle Item bestowed by the Dream Demon Ancestor, he would have truly died then!

What humiliated him the most was that…

That Human Clan prince had not even targeted him; he was merely affected incidentally!

This made him feel an insurmountable gap.

Later, he found out that the prince was the number one genius of that era, the second child of the Divine Emperor.

After returning, he began to cultivate desperately, only to find that the Second Prince had achieved Harmonization and became a Saint not long after.

Now, a thousand years had passed.

His current self could only hope to contend with the Second Prince of that time.

But that Second Prince had long since Proven and Transcended, and even eighty years ago, when the outer periphery of the Great Yong Divine Array was breached, this Second Prince alone balanced the Demon Ancestors, preventing them from breaking into Great Yong.

The difference was already vast a thousand years ago, and now, after a thousand years, the gap had only widened even more.

It was like heaven and earth!

This left him constantly stifled and he understood deep down that he had no hope of catching up to that Second Prince.

Thus, when he heard that this Seventeenth Prince was the first genius of the Human Clan, he wanted to try for a 'fair fight,' as a way to vent his frustrations.

"Oh? I was just guessing, but it seems I guessed correctly?"

Lin Yue keenly caught the change in the Demon King's eyes and couldn't help but smile, "Tell me, which prince defeated you?"

"Enough talk."

The Demon Saint said coldly: "You're already a turtle in a jar, what's the use of winning with words? Quickly hand over the Original Divine Blood and surrender!"

He felt somewhat uneasy.

Though he said this, this Human Clan prince had already fallen into a dire situation, and there were no Proven powerhouses in Eternal Night to help him, but...

Why did he seem so calm?

It was as if he didn't care about them at all?

Currently, the Void was sealed, making it impossible to use Teleportation, and with ten of them present, no one below the level of a Proven expert should be able to save this Seventeenth Prince!

"Is that so?"

Lin Yue, smiling, swept his gaze over the ten Demon Clan powerhouses, "Since that's the case, let me ask you one last question."

He looked around and said, "The Human Clan traitor from over a thousand years ago, Xiahou Shou, after becoming a Demon God, he still has a Second Primordial Spirit, right?"

"Xiahou Shou?"

The ten Demon Clan powerhouses, upon hearing this, were all slightly startled.

They naturally knew of Xiahou Shou, the Human Clan's traitor from over a thousand years ago, who had become the Prison Demon God. However, they had not known...

The Prison Demon God actually possesses a Second Primordial Spirit?

Such a secret about the Second Primordial Spirit was extremely rare, and warriors who possessed it were few and far between.

"This matter is a secret of our Demon Clan. If you wish to know more, come back with us to the Demon Clan afterward," declared Demon Saint Tan Yuan coldly.

"Is that so?"

Lin Yue smiled. From the reactions of these Demon Clan powerhouses, he could discern a few things.

"The goal of this journey has been reached. I have other matters to attend to, so I won't chat with you any longer."

Lin Yue's gaze swept over the Demon Clan powerhouses and he said in a calm voice, "There will come a day when we meet again, and then we'll have a long chat."

Tan Yuan Demon Saint's expression slightly changed, but he still coldly snorted, "Do you think you can still leave?"

During his speech, he had already used Divine Thought Transmission to communicate with everyone present.

"Something's wrong. Seal him now!"

At that moment, ten Demon Clan powerhouses acted at the same time. All sorts of treasures were simultaneously activated, unleashing terrifying powers and completely enveloping Lin Yue.

Yet Lin Yue did not pay any attention and instead closed his eyes.

At that moment, a peculiar silver Token appeared in his hand. With a thought of Divine Thought, it was activated instantly!

"Boom!"

Suddenly, the sky and earth changed colors.

At that instant, the enormous and dazzling Great Yong Divine Formation, thousands of miles away, suddenly fluctuated.

The surface of Great Yong Divine Formation suddenly gathered a ripple-like glow, and an immense aura and pressure instantly descended, making all the beings around the outskirts of Great Yong Divine Formation sense this terrifying anomaly.

Instantly, a dazzling pillar of light pierced the sky, breaking through the void, swiftly covering thousands of miles, and enveloped Lin Yue.

The forces of the ten Demon Clan powerhouses had just started to descend and had not yet enveloped Lin Yue when they were blocked by the dazzling pillar of light.

Compared with the vast and unparalleled terrifying power of this beam of light, their power seemed as feeble as ants shaking a tree.

Whether it was all sorts of treasures or Semi-Divine Artifacts, they could not affect this beam of light in the slightest.

"This...this is..."

"Impossible... The Great Yong Divine Formation is actually protecting him?"

"No... this looks more like the Great Yong Divine Formation proactively opened a passage..."

The Demon Clan powerhouses were all shockingly speechless at this sight. Although each had different thoughts, they all realized that it was no longer possible to capture the Seventeenth Prince.

However, they still didn't understand why the Seventeenth Prince, who had such means to leave at any time, had deliberately spoken to them for so long?

It clearly wasn't any useful probing; rather, it looked more like... buying time?

Under the enveloping heavenly light, with power gently oscillating, Lin Yue floated up uncontrollably.

Watching the surrounding Demon Clan powerhouses, he only managed to slightly raise his neck and made a throat-slitting gesture before disappearing without a trace in the column of light.

In an instant, the long, rainbow-like column of light also retracted.

Eternal Night returned to its quiet darkness, and everything calmed down.

"Breaking barrier teleportation..."

Tan Yuan Demon Saint took a deep breath, "The Human Clan really values this Seventeenth Prince highly, willing to pay such a price to protect him?"

"But... why did the Seventeenth Prince want to buy time?" another Demon Saint couldn't help but ask.

"I understand now."

Tan Yuan Demon Saint slowly said, "He must have been with the Dawn Army when they set out. The Dawn Army was probably also outside the Great Yong Divine Formation. The commotion we made earlier when breaking the formation must have been known to the Dawn Army. He must have been trying to buy time for the Dawn Army to retreat within a thousand miles inside the Great Yong Divine Formation..."

The multitude of Demon Saints were startled by this realization.

At that moment—

"Whoosh."

The Jiu Xiang Demon King suddenly took flight, heading directly toward the direction of the Great Yong Divine Formation.

"What?" a Demon Saint couldn't help but ask, "Jiu Xiang Demon King?"

"He must be thinking of hunting down that Dawn Army," said Tan Yuan Demon Saint with a slight shake of his head, "Even if he makes it in time, it will probably be difficult."