My Wife Turns Out to be an Empress of the Dynasty-Chapter 525: Storm on the Horizon

"These youngsters are not enemies of the Dragon Clan. Let them leave," came the elderly voice, causing a slight pause in the red-armored woman's expression. She wasn't sure why the Elder had suddenly issued this command. However, as a protector of the Dragon Clan, she naturally obeyed.

The red-armored woman immediately retracted her aura, her flaming spear vanishing as the crimson flames around her dissipated back into her body. "You may leave now," she said indifferently.

Hearing her words, both Zhe Liang and Gu Xiaoqi, along with Gu Simu, were equally astonished. They had been prepared to fight just moments ago, but now, the conflict was over before it even began.

Gu Xiaoqi stood there, momentarily stunned, looking to Zhe Liang for guidance. Meanwhile, Gu Simu's eyes sparkled with a hint of delight. She had a gut feeling that this woman, who looked so much like her elder sister Hanyi, wasn't a bad person, and now it seemed her instinct was right.

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"Thank you! We apologize for trespassing into the Dragon Clan's forbidden grounds. We will return to offer our formal apologies another day," Zhe Liang said respectfully. With that, he summoned a Divine Ship. As it expanded, Gu Xiaoqi and Gu Simu quickly entered it, and the group used Divine Stones to activate the ship, swiftly departing from the Starry Sea.

The red-armored woman watched them leave without interference from the giant ships commanded by the shrimp soldiers and crab generals. While she was curious about the Elder's orders, they were not entirely unexpected. What left her more puzzled was the strange sense of familiarity she felt toward the girl. It was a rare emotion for her to experience.

The Starry Sea was vast, dotted with islands of various sizes, each covered in lush vegetation and adorned with vibrantly colored flowers. Under the setting sun, the islands seemed to glow uniquely, like stars in the sky, giving the Starry Sea its name.

As the red-armored woman gazed toward the distant Cloud Peak, she wondered whether the Elder's order had anything to do with her lost memories or something else entirely. Despite her curiosity, she had more pressing matters to attend to as the Dragon Clan's protector. Summoning a pair of flaming wheels beneath her feet, she sped toward the shrimp and crab forces' warship.

In the Starry Sea, 108,000 islands stood tall, and from each one, the sound of war drums echoed, their beat reverberating into the heavens. The Dragon Clan and Ocean Clan members who heard the drums immediately dropped what they were doing and made their way toward the Dragon Clan's forbidden grounds at the center of the Starry Sea.

"Why are the Dragon Clan's war drums sounding? Could the Dragon Clan be facing a threat of extinction?"

"The last time those drums were heard was during the ancient Sealing Demon Battle. The seven great houses of the Immortal Realm united to coerce the Dragon Clan into fighting. When the Dragon Clan refused, they were lured into a battle against a million extraterrestrial entities, which resulted in severe losses, forcing them to relocate from the Immortal Realm to the Demon Realm.

They haven't fully recovered since."

"Now that the war drums are beating again, the Six Realms may be facing turmoil."

As Zhe Liang and his group passed by, overhearing the discussions, they couldn't help but glance at each other. They had just left the Dragon Clan's forbidden grounds, and now this was happening—how could it not be connected?

However, since the Dragon Clan had let them go, it was probably unrelated to them.

"The Demon Realm seems to be on the verge of chaos. We should reach the Purple Moon Wolf Clan as soon as possible and avoid further complications," Zhe Liang urged. He didn't stop at the Starry Sea, instead driving the Divine Ship straight toward the Purple Moon Wolf Clan's territory.

While they traveled, the entire Demon Realm erupted in turmoil due to the Dragon Clan's war drums. The constant skirmishes among the Demon Clans suddenly ceased, as if a storm was brewing in the eerie silence that followed.

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At the same time, the atmosphere in the Immortal Realm's Nine Heavens had also shifted. Ever since the Great Competition of All Clans ended, and each realm had returned from the Xiantian World, there had been a notable quiet, with even the normally high-profile Bright Clan sealing off their territory. No one could enter, and no one could leave.

The angels dispatched by the Bright Clan were all recalled to the Immortal Realm, which led to disturbances at the extraterrestrial entity sealing points in the Immortal and Demon Realms. Many entities managed to break through and wreak havoc, but fortunately, the Immortal Demon Alliance had been prepared. The entities were quickly subdued, and the sealing points came under the alliance's control.

Although this seemed like a good thing for the Immortal and Demon Realms, a new rumor emerged: the Divine Son of the Bright Clan had reached the legendary God Realm and begun receiving the most mysterious ancient inheritance of the Bright Clan.

Rather than alleviating pressure, this news intensified the strain on the Immortal and Demon Realms. Both the Feng Yang Emperor and the Demon King of No Start also began their own attempts to ascend to the Divine Realm.

Whether the rumors about the Bright Clan were true remained unclear, but all seven great houses of the Immortal Realm, like the Bright Clan, started summoning their disciples back to their sects.

All these actions were causing an unspoken tension to build among cultivators across the realms.

"A storm is brewing, and the winds are rising," remarked the sect master of God's Reign Sect as he sent out a talisman that vanished into the sky. Immediately after, he activated all the protective formations of the 33rd Sky of the Divine Realm.

"From today onwards, the God's Reign Sect will be sealed! All disciples, return to the mountain at once!"

His voice echoed through the 33rd Sky of the Divine Realm, causing all the sect's cultivators to pale in shock. If even God's Reign Sect was closing its doors, something major was surely about to happen.

Independent cultivators, always cautious, began gathering resources and preparing to retreat into secluded cultivation in remote areas.

However, none of this seemed to affect the newly rising Lanyan Royal School. In the remnants of the Snow Clan, masters from both the Immortal and Demon Realms were completely absorbed in building the new sect's grounds. Over the past decade in the Earthly Realm, they had gained more insights than in hundreds of previous years.

Part of this was due to Gu Lan's profound understanding of formations and refining tools, but it was also thanks to the open exchange of knowledge between everyone.

In the Earthly Realm, many of their innovative ideas had been limited by the realm's thin spiritual energy, but now, in the Immortal Realm, those limitations were gone, allowing them to unleash their full potential.

"Senior brother, have the elders gone mad? How can you stack a killing array on top of a trapping formation? If the restrictions conflict, it could cause spatial instability—or worse, a space storm!"

"Isn't that the point? That's what makes it a killing array!"

Two disciples of Lanyan Royal School debated animatedly.