The Natural Empire of the Oceanic Dragon

Atilan's pupils shrank, and he asked with a strange expression:

"Are you saying that this young centaur woman beside you is your first love, and the condition for you to join the devil is that the devil help you resurrect your first love?"

The old centaur was silent for a moment before saying:

"No, at first I just thought they were two similar people, but as I got to know her better, I realized that it was indeed her! She's back!"

This time it was Atilan's turn to be silent. As expected of a devil, the seduction technique used was so vicious, perfectly matching the old centaur's heart, making it impossible for him to refuse. Even knowing that what lay ahead was the abyss, he resolutely chose to sink into it.

Originally, I thought the old centaur could lead the centaur tribe to its current scale in a stable manner, that he would be a rational mind, but now that he's old, his love brain has actually been activated again.

Atilan stroked his chin. He found it difficult to judge whether the old centaur's series of actions were influenced by his sea dragon blood wine. After all, a young and restless body could indeed influence people to make irrational decisions.

"How do you know it's her? What made you confirm her identity?"

Facing Atilan's question, the old centaur subconsciously replied:

"Of course, it's because of her tone of voice, her style of doing things, and those beautiful memories that only the two of us know!"

Atilan held his forehead, unable to help but sigh at the old centaur's love brain.

"Old centaur, you must know that resurrection is not a simple matter, especially since this matter is also related to the devil. Forging memories is not difficult for the devil."

"What you see and what you feel are just illusions created by the devil. Only your self-deceiving mentality will fill in the loopholes that originally existed, covering your ears and eyes, and pretending that nothing happened."

As he spoke, Atilan conjured a vine covered with sharp thorns, raised his hand, and fiercely whipped it on the old centaur's back.

"Do you know you're wrong?"

The old centaur gritted his teeth and endured it, forcing Atilan to use more and more force.

"Atilan, leave me alone. I know there must be something wrong with Phantom's return this time, but I have the confidence to restrain her and not let her affect the overall situation of the forest."

Phantom looked at him with icy eyes.

"Even knowing she's a devil, you still want to be with her?"

"Yes! Even if the final outcome is to sink into hell with her!"

Phantom's eyes revealed a hint of murderous intent.

"Very well, since that's the case, I'll let you be together for life, and for all eternity!"

Atilan shrank his neck. Old centaur, old centaur, it's not that I don't want to save you, it's that you're courting death yourself.

"Teacher's wife, shall we go and catch those two devil spies now?"

Odette curiously leaned forward.

"Isn't it just his lover, one centaur who has been transformed into a devil?"

Atilan narrowed his eyes slightly and said coldly:

"Besides the old centaur's little wife, his newborn son is also one!"

Hearing that his son was identified as a spy, the old centaur panicked.

"Don't, Master, Mao Mao is just a child, he doesn't know anything."

Atilan shook his head helplessly. Only now does he know to be afraid. He was given so many opportunities just now, but he didn't want them.

"Mao Mao is at most a Tiefling, he can't do anything. By the way, isn't the Druid Alliance researching how to use the power of demons? Mao Mao can serve as an experimenter for demon druids."

"Master, please spare Mao Mao's life."

Phantom looked at the old centaur deeply, but said nothing, and then directly cast a spell to seal the old centaur.

This time, it wasn't just using vines to restrict his ability to move like before. The magic power circulated, and now the vines were taking root and sprouting on the old centaur's body, absorbing his magic power, and at the same time injecting a special plant toxin into his body.

Making it impossible for him to condense his mental power. Now, the old centaur can't even control his body, let alone cast spells. The whole person is completely unable to think normally.

"Just in case, take the old centaur with me to catch Phantom."

Phantom is just a means. The devil's real goal is to corrupt the old centaur, using him, an old druid who has been in the forest for a hundred years, to implement a plan to disintegrate Bearman Forest from within.

Phantom is in the centaur tribe in the forest. For this little wife, the old centaur specially asked Flower Girl for a lot of beautiful flower seeds, which he planted around the tree house he built for Phantom. The breeze blows, and the bursts of floral fragrance are indeed intoxicating.

The person who understands flowers the most in the forest is not Flower Girl, but the Fairy Master Jiana. She took the two dragons and one centaur directly to the sea of flowers.

Looking at the tree house woven from intertwined branches and this sea of flowers, Phantom could feel the old centaur's intentions, but the rules of the Nature Council could not be violated. There is no good end to making deals with devils.

Devils are so cunning. Unless they are sure they can chew your bones to pieces, they will not propose a deal. You think you can resist the devil's temptation, but in fact, the devil has already studied you thoroughly.

Devils are like cockroaches. By the time you see a cockroach, it has already been living with you for who knows how long.

"Phantom, come out."

Someone like Phantom can simply be said to be a fairy who is encountered once in four thousand years in the centaur pile.

Phantom looked at the motionless old centaur lying on the ground, and she immediately understood.

She lovingly stroked Mao Mao's head twice, and looked at Phantom with a gentle tone and said:

"Master, Mao Mao is innocent. Can he stay in the forest and learn from you? Just go to that Druid school. I remember that the student council president in the school is a Tiefling."

"Mao Mao is also a Tiefling. I think Mao Mao can also become an excellent Druid."

"No, I can only guarantee that your family of three will stay together."

Phantom didn't resist when she heard this, but silently lowered her head.

"Back then, I watched you and the old centaur grow up together. Things have evolved into what they are now. I can only guarantee that you will not be affected by the devil's subsequent methods."

"Okay, come with me."

As she spoke, Phantom symbolically conjured vines to tie up Phantom and Mao Mao.

Ma Wang saw that the situation here was not right from a distance, and immediately strode over.

"Master, what happened?"

As he spoke, Ma Wang looked at Atilan, his eyes inquiring about the cause and course of the matter.

Atilan looked at Phantom, and only after Phantom nodded did he begin to explain.

"The matter is very simple. Phantom is no longer a centaur. Her soul is now a devil, just living in a centaur body similar to her previous one."

"The master discovered that the situation in the forest was not right, so after a series of investigations, he locked onto the old centaur and Phantom. After confirming that there was a problem, he took action to arrest them all."

Ma Wang looked at Phantom seriously and asked:

"Master, Grandpa, has he been eroded by the power of the devil? Can he be saved?"

"Don't worry, I will do my best to purify the devil's power in his body. You must also carefully check the situation of the tribe and try to purify all the devil's influence."

Ma Wang respectfully lowered his head.

"Yes."

Phantom took out a pink crystal from the dimensional bag and handed it to Ma Wang.

"Use your magic power to drive the crystal. Any place where a purification reaction occurs indicates that it has been eroded by the power of the devil. You can rely on the crystal to purify it."

Holding the crystal, Ma Wang's heart was very complicated. Originally, he thought it was just an old man going crazy for love for the last time, but he didn't expect that he was really crazy and caused such a situation for the tribe.

The tribe is not big or small. If you want to clean up the devil's erosion, it will take at least several months. This is troublesome.

"Ma Wang, has this Phantom been staying in the centaur tribe all the time, or does she often go out for a walk?"

Ma Wang understood Atilan's meaning and said after thinking for a moment:

"She mostly stays in the tribe. Even if she goes out, it is with Grandpa. Now the work of the tribe's priest has also been handed over to my father, but Grandpa is still a member of the forest and will never do anything to harm the forest."

The old centaur probably also understood that there was a big thunderbolt on Phantom's body. Before the thunderbolt exploded, he would take protective measures to avoid hurting other people in the forest.

"Okay, you go and check the tribe first. We'll talk about the old centaur's matter later."

Phantom's hand occasionally released a magical brilliance, probing the family of three non-stop. The movements were very smooth, but Phantom's brow was furrowing more and more tightly.

"Teacher's wife..."

Phantom raised her hand and shook her head.

"Let's talk about it when we get back."

However, this time the destination of the teleportation was not Moonshadow Lake, but under the Thunder Pool.

Attilan widened his eyes and pointed at the Thunder Pool.

"Master's wife, I think the old centaur family of three can still be saved. It hasn't reached the point where they need to be thrown directly into the Thunder Pool for purification, right?"

Audrey looked at the Thunder Pool in front of her, especially the swaying silver thunder plasma within, and inexplicably felt an urge to take a sip. She couldn't help but move her throat and took two steps forward.

Attilan quickly grabbed her hand.

"Stop, you can't drink this."

The Vine Woman waved her hand, and the ground beneath her feet suddenly began to shake, quickly revealing an opening. Inside was a long stone staircase, leading to an unknown place.

The family of three floated in the air, following behind the Vine Woman into this underground chamber.

Attilan also pulled Audrey, who was still longingly staring at the Thunder Pool, and followed them in.

"The energy inside has been purified into liquid. Taking a sip will greatly help the dragon body's growth. Although we are ocean dragons, we still possess lightning breath."

"Drinking this thunder-transformed plasma will provide improvements second only to those of a Thunder Dragon."

Attilan's mouth twitched.

"Still thinking about improvements? I'm afraid before you even improve, your throat will be burned through by the thunder plasma."

With their current dragon body strength, drinking thunder plasma would be like an ordinary human drinking molten iron.

"This isn't ordinary thunder plasma. It's an energy field that my master painstakingly created. It took hundreds of years to cultivate this thunder plasma."

Especially since this thunder plasma was very likely influenced by the divine power of the Ocean Dragon Soul and the Purgatory Dragon Soul. Even if it's just a little bit, the thunder created by the collision of the two divine powers still contains a special divine might.

Arriving at the depths of the underground chamber, Attilan discovered that this was actually a prison. Silver-white lightning flickered on the blue iron bars. The Vine Woman gently waved her hand, the lightning dissipated, and the bars opened. The old centaur was rudely thrown inside.

On the other hand, the Phantom was directly placed by the Vine Woman on a hexagonal platform made of thunder amethyst, while Mao Mao was handed over to Attilan.

"Didn't you say you could purify demons? Then help Mao Mao purify her."

Hana doesn't purify the demon bloodline because the demon bloodline gives their mother and daughter powerful talents, while Mao Mao's Tiefling bloodline is not much stronger than the old centaur's nearly one hundred years of natural physique bloodline from practicing Druidism.

Moreover, it hides a backdoor that could be controlled by demons, so it's better to purify it.

"Mao Mao, come over here. Brother has candy for you."

Mao Mao cautiously glanced at her mother, and after receiving an affirmative answer, Mao Mao took a step towards Attilan, looking back with reluctance.

Attilan put a piece of soft candy made from honey, gum, and pig skin into Mao Mao's mouth, then placed his hand on Mao Mao's head.

"Eat slowly, I have more here. Now, brother will check your body."

Attilan's mouth twitched, he felt something was strange.

Just as Attilan was examining Mao Mao's body, the Vine Woman said to the Phantom:

"I just examined your body, especially your soul. The situation is not optimistic. You are the Phantom, but you are not the Phantom."

Such a cryptic statement immediately stunned the Phantom.

"Master, could it be that a demon has tampered with my soul?"

The Vine Woman nodded and waved her hand to release magic, lighting up the magic circle under the Phantom's feet.

"The specific situation needs to be checked with this purification magic circle. The process may be painful, so bear with it."

The Phantom smiled and shook her head.

"It's okay, a little pain is nothing."

Then, the amethyst platform flashed with bright thunder, slowly injecting into the Phantom's body.

At first, the Phantom gritted her teeth and didn't make a sound. As the thunder became brighter and brighter, the Phantom couldn't help but let out a painful scream. The old centaur, who was lying lifelessly on the ground, suddenly felt a surge of power in his heart.

He actually got up from the ground, grabbed the bars with both hands, and anxiously looked at the Phantom.

"Master, the Phantom is innocent! Kill me!"

Attilan shook his head helplessly. It seemed that the Vine Woman had been too heavy-handed, and the old centaur's brain was broken.

The Vine Woman turned her head, and the bars suddenly flashed with lightning, causing the old centaur to scream miserably. He wanted to take his hands off, but his hands were firmly locked on the bars by the lightning and couldn't move.

The Phantom's examination was still very fast. The thunder made the Phantom weak and unable to stand, but she still gritted her teeth and asked:

"Master, how is my situation?"

"Not optimistic. Your soul is only pieced together with half of the Phantom's soul and some soul fragments of hell worms. The hell worm's soul fragments won't last long. Problems will arise in about a year."

"At most three years, and you will die."

The lightning strike on the bars restored the old centaur's clarity of mind, and he anxiously looked at the Vine Woman.

"Master, I can't lose the Phantom! Please save her!"

The Vine Woman shook her head.

"There is only one way now: to take back the remaining half of the Phantom's soul from the demons. I can remove the spell cast by the demons when they divided her soul and reassemble the two soul fragments."

Attilan originally thought that the Vine Woman had brought their family of three to the Thunder Pool in order to use the power of the Thunder Pool to purify their family's demon power, but he didn't expect that it was actually to use the power of the Thunder Pool to purify the demon power in their bodies.

Sure enough, the Vine Woman was still kind-hearted and couldn't bear to let lovers be separated by life and death.

"Master's wife, there is actually another way, which is to lift the seal set by the demons when they divided the Phantom's soul, allowing the remaining half of the soul to absorb the soul fragments of the hell worms and grow stronger."

"The soul nurtured in this way, although not as good as the Phantom's original soul, will at least ensure that she won't die."

The Vine Woman looked at Attilan curiously.

"Where did you learn this soul manipulation technique from?"

Attilan said with a confident smile:

"Actually, when I caught that demon spy before, it wasn't a complete loss. I awakened the human soul in his body and obtained some demon knowledge through the connection between the human soul and the demon soul."

The Vine Woman frowned and walked to Attilan, bright pink light illuminating Attilan's dragon body and soul, thoroughly examining it three times inside and out.

"Alright, there are no signs of being eroded by demonic power."

The Vine Woman was still a little unconvinced. Obtaining knowledge doesn't mean you know how to use it.

"Tell me, what knowledge did you obtain?"

"That demon was a pharmacist on the surface, and he was actually a pharmacist, but he wasn't an ordinary pharmacist."

The Vine Woman couldn't bear it anymore and directly hit his head.

"Get to the point!"

"He was a pharmacist who used potions to modify other people's souls and then absorb them to strengthen himself. Therefore, I think his potions can be used to strengthen the Phantom's soul."

The Vine Woman frowned and said:

"The problem isn't about strengthening the Phantom's soul. That seal restricts the integrity of the Phantom's soul, but it also ensures that the soul and the worm's soul fragments are entangled together."

"Breaking the seal in any way will cause this half of the Phantom's soul to dissipate."

Attilan smiled mysteriously.

"Master's wife, this arrangement is just used to threaten the old centaur to work for them. Even if the old centaur agrees, they won't hand over the remaining half of the soul."

"The old centaur will only get the worm's soul fragments that maintain the soul's current state!"

Only medicine that won't kill you but also won't cure you is good medicine. It seems that these demons have figured it out. What a poisonous honey trap, worthy of being demons.

"Tell me the knowledge you obtained, and I will make soul potions to supplement the Phantom's soul."

Attilan immediately took out a piece of bark paper from his pocket and handed it to the Vine Woman.

"Please take a look, Master's wife."

As soon as she read the beginning, the Vine Woman's brows furrowed.

"This kind of soul potion is not easy to refine, especially since it needs to be adjusted according to the Phantom's situation."

After all, she needs to save a person, not a demon.

"It will take a long time. Until then, your family of three will stay here."

The old centaur braced himself and asked:

"Master, can I see the potion recipe?"

The Vine Woman directly handed it to him.

"Take a look. If you know how to refine it, it's not like I can't let you out."

The old centaur only took one look and immediately felt dizzy.

"What kind of text is this? It can actually disturb people's minds."

"This is the text of demons, a mind-disturbing text. You should hold the bars a few more times to clear your head."