Chapter 1958: Ten Directions Legion

“How about we make a deal? I can guarantee your safety, and in exchange, I need a chance to read your memories.”

The young girl was clearly naive and inexperienced. She didn't even know that top human experts possessed such abilities. She froze on the spot, then fell into deep thought.

“Are you trying to find secrets about the Evernight Empire in my mind?” The young girl’s large eyes looked particularly youthful. Xu Yang, with a calm expression, nodded, having no intention of deceiving her. After all, with his strength, even without the girl Pearl's consent, he could easily invade her soul world.

However, doing so would cause irreversible damage to Pearl's soul world due to her instinctive resistance. Xu Yang was doing this to protect her.

“Alright then, but you must keep your word. If you go back on it, take my memories, and harm my body, my brother will never forgive you!”

Xu Yang smiled and nodded.

“Frankly, I don’t fear your brother, or even the supreme Emperor of the Evernight Empire. But I am a man of my word; I will never go back on what I’ve promised you. I will certainly keep you safe.”

Seeing Xu Yang’s sincere expression, Pearl finally nodded reluctantly. Although she knew that as a member of the Evernight Empire, doing this was somewhat disloyal to her empire, being in Xu Yang’s hands now, no matter how powerful he was, she felt a profound fear.

Relinquishing the slight instinctive resistance within her soul world, Xu Yang’s powerful mental energy swiftly entered Pearl’s soul world, acquiring a portion of her memories.

Soon, Xu Yang’s mind was imbued with a large amount of knowledge and scattered memory fragments. This gave him a comprehensive understanding and grasp of the Evernight Empire.

According to Pearl’s memory fragments, the most powerful martial force in the Evernight Empire was known as the Ten Directions Army, consisting, as the name suggests, of millions of sea beast warriors.

Originally, these sea beast warriors were far weaker than human martial artists. However, a thousand years ago, after Wushang, the current Emperor of the Evernight Empire, ascended to the throne, he displayed a very special ability: he could extract a powerful source of energy from his own life force. This was a pure, sky-blue radiant life force.

In fact, Emperor Wushang of the Evernight Empire was not originally the rightful successor to the throne. However, he mysteriously awakened this unique innate ability, successfully gaining the favor of the previous Evernight Emperor, who then passed the entire empire into his hands.

The first thing he did after ascending was to transmit this powerful combat talent through formation arrays, allowing all sea beast warriors in the Evernight Empire to achieve significant power enhancement, greatly improving their standing and survival in the ocean.

Consequently, this generation’s Emperor Wushang attained supreme rule throughout the empire, with everyone supporting his reign. This also made him the most powerful and influential monarch in the empire’s history.

Not long after he gained the supreme throne, he divided the empire’s most powerful fighting force into ten legions. Pearl’s brother was the leader of one of these ten great legions, specifically the Third Legion, and also the supreme commander of the sea area where Xu Yang had just landed in the Evernight Empire.

Simply put, Xu Yang had truly trespassed on their territory. Without Pearl under his control, Xu Yang would likely have encountered far more trouble, and his plan to infiltrate the Evernight Imperial Palace would have faced greater obstacles.

Sure enough, not long after the two were at sea, large numbers of powerful sea beasts appeared around Xu Yang and Pearl, encircling them directly.

Then, a massive, powerful sea beast, clad in dark red armor, suddenly appeared. This was Pearl’s brother. Although he still appeared to be in his complete sea beast form, his combat prowess was almost a level above all other powerful sea beasts; he was a true Martial God-level expert.

Furthermore, if he were to face elders of the Seven Martial Gods of the Changyun Celestial Sect, this individual would likely be even stronger, as he possessed the unique and formidable combat talent of the sea beast race, in addition to his skill at that level.

In a one-on-one duel, this individual was undoubtedly a Martial God-level killer. However, no matter how powerful he was, he truly had no reason to be arrogant in front of Xu Yang.

Any Martial God-level expert encountering Xu Yang would be as helpless as a mouse facing a cat. At that moment, the opponent immediately recognized Xu Yang’s unparalleled power and did not instantly order his subordinates, the "shrimp soldiers and crab generals," to charge to their deaths, as doing so might well enrage Xu Yang.

As expected of the absolute leader of the Third Legion, he spoke slowly with a calm expression.

“Please state your demands, sir, and I will do my best to fulfill them. However, my condition is simple: you must not harm my sister in the slightest. Otherwise, everyone here will fight you to the death.”

Xu Yang appreciated the man’s straightforward nature and nodded with a smile.

“Very well. I have no intention of harming your sister. In fact, bringing her along was to gain some convenient access. My only request is that you provide me with a path. I wish to go to the Evernight Imperial Palace to meet the Evernight Emperor in person. I have something very important to tell him. If you refuse this request, then we will fight, regardless of the cost.”

Xu Yang also gave a very clear response. At the same time, he gently waved his hand, sending Pearl directly back to her brother's side. This action greatly impressed the powerful, red-armored expert before him, who then burst into laughter.

His gaze towards Xu Yang now held a hint of respect and admiration.

“There are few like you among humans, so free and unfettered. I like your character. If you can tell me the true purpose of your meeting with the Evernight Emperor, perhaps I might genuinely choose to help you.”

Xu Yang, not one to beat around the bush, directly stated his true identity and his sole purpose for coming here.

“What? Are you saying that several great empires have sent a joint army into the outer reaches of the Martial God’s Sea?”

Xu Yang smiled and nodded.

“That’s right. I must deliver this news to the Evernight Emperor. If the Evernight Empire continues to isolate itself as before, disaster will soon befall you.”