Chapter 1266: Tomb Palace

So, it turned out Queen Talia wasn't at the Scorpion clan's headquarters to fight, but to renovate? After she led Xu Yang around the entire Scorpion clan's headquarter city two or three times, the whole city had undergone a radical transformation, no longer resembling its former self.

At that moment, the three leaders of the Scorpion clan, who were just emerging from their palace, were completely dumbfounded the moment they stepped out.

They stared at each other for a long time, then couldn't help but rub their eyes, all thinking they had fallen into an illusion or were still asleep and dreaming.

The third leader even slapped his own face repeatedly, finding it hard to believe what was happening before his eyes.

"What on earth is going on? Big Brother, Second Brother, I haven't had too much to drink, have I?"

The first leader was also utterly bewildered; it took him a long time to react, and then he gently shook his head.

"You shouldn't have had too much to drink, because none of us drank yesterday," he said. "This scene before us must be real, but I truly don't understand what kind of power could transform our headquarters into this state overnight."

Little did they know, at this moment, Queen Talia and Xu Yang had already arrived at the perimeter of the Scorpion clan's central palace. The queen stood with her hands on her hips, a smug look on her face, smiling as she gazed at the strangely shaped palace.

"I don't know why, but whenever I see this palace, endless hatred wells up inside me."

"I want this palace to disappear forever. No! I'll turn it into a giant tomb. Let those three stinking scorpions be buried here forever, as solace for the souls of my Serpent clan's previous leaders in heaven."

Xu Yang, standing beside her, also showed a faint smile.

"Don't worry, boss," he said. "Just close your eyes, wait three seconds, and then open them again. You'll see exactly what you envisioned."

And so, Queen Talia closed her eyes with a look of pure delight, and at that moment, a rumbling sound echoed in her ears.

At the same time, the three leaders of the Scorpion clan, standing on the other side of the wall, turned around in despair, because they felt the palace behind them begin to tremble uncontrollably.

It trembled wildly under the influence of a terrifying, unfathomable power, as if enveloped by an irresistible curse, bearing the wrath of some hidden god.

The three brothers, filled with despair and indignation, turned around, and finally saw the massive shadow crashing down from above.

If not for the second brother, who was resourceful and always the most clear-headed and quick-witted, immediately throwing his two brothers out of the shadow's perimeter, the first and third leaders of the Scorpion clan, two prominent figures, would likely have been crushed into rubble by this sudden event.

The Scorpion clan's exclusive palace for its leaders thus collapsed, and as the surrounding endless dust gradually dispersed, Queen Talia opened her eyes once more.

The spot where the palace ruins had been, had now, under the influence of Xu Yang's Law of Earth, transformed into a massive rectangular tomb.

Talia, experiencing something dreamlike, couldn't help but touch her cheeks, to assure herself that this wasn't a dream, but something truly happening before her eyes.

"If you told me now that you are the only god in this world, I would believe it without hesitation. How could this possibly be the power of a human?"

"It's simply miraculous! Your power is so immense that you can arbitrarily change the dimensions of surrounding objects? What kind of cultivation technique could possibly threaten you now?"

Facing Queen Talia's utterly shocked exclamations and praise, Xu Yang maintained a humble and composed demeanor, responding with a smile.

"I just want to say that beyond the desolate reaches, in the outer world, there are countless vaster skies."

"Although the Yingzhou Continent seems incredibly vast to you, to me, who comes from a higher realm, it was merely a system established with a clap of the hands. Let me tell you an unknown secret. I come from the desolate reaches. The reason I appeared on the Yingzhou Continent..."

"...is solely to find the Creator God of your world, the ancestor of the Yun Imperial Dynasty, Yun Wangji. This is my sole purpose in coming to this world."

"In other words, you could also understand it as: only the gods of your world can maintain a cultivation level on par with mine."

After hearing this revelation, Queen Talia fell into a daze, her expression a mix of seriousness and bitter sorrow.

This was because Queen Talia had originally harbored hopes of gaining Xu Yang's affection, perhaps even keeping him by her side forever.

But once she truly understood Xu Yang's identity and stature, Queen Talia immediately realized that such a thought was nothing more than a pipe dream.

"I could only sense your immense power, but I truly never imagined you possessed such an astonishing identity and origin. Now it seems that if you truly could rule the entire Great Northern Wilderness, making me your spokesperson wouldn't be an idle boast after all."

Xu Yang burst out laughing. "If I wished, conquering the entire Great Northern Wilderness and gifting it to you would be no problem."

"But ultimately, I do not belong to this world. If I were to wantonly destroy the rules of this world and disrupt the balance between races with my power, it would be detrimental to the future development of the entire Yingzhou Continent."

"To give you a simple example: if I were to sweep across the entire Great Northern Wilderness with my power now, and make your Serpent clan the unrivaled leaders of the entire wilderness,"

"do you think this vast wilderness would still experience the same prosperity as the current Ten King Domains in the future?"

"The starting point would merely be to satisfy your personal desires, but the outcome would be the destruction of the entire wilderness's racial growth system for tens of thousands of years to come."

"Perhaps ten thousand years from now, apart from your scarce Serpent clan warriors, there would be no other thriving species left in the entire wilderness."

Queen Talia was not an unreasonable person. The reason she was so eager to conquer the Scorpion clan and gain more living space for her people...

...was merely to fulfill her promise as the Queen of the Serpent clan. She was not an evil woman with boundless ambition or unchecked greed.

Hearing Xu Yang's explanation, Queen Talia immediately understood what he was trying to convey, and naturally, she no longer made any excessive demands.