"Chen Hao, according to what you've said, was it the Sword of Dust that summoned you here?" Lin Huashan asked.

Chen Hao nodded slightly, his eyes full of uncertainty, "It should be, and I suspect it was also this sword that brought us to the Dust Realm. It sensed the presence of Yin Qi Spiritual Power within me, so it brought me here to this seal, then trapped me here forever. In doing so, it could avenge its master, King Mieji."

Hearing Chen Hao's words, both Lin Huashan and Yi Ning were somewhat taken aback. If Chen Hao was right, then they would be trapped in the Dust Realm until they found a way out.

What instilled fear in them was that they did not know what kind of world the Dust Realm was or how long they would have to stay there.

Just as the trio fell into a fearful silence, suddenly, a deep voice rang out, "I am the true master of this sword!"

Yi Ning and Lin Huashan were shocked, frightened by the sudden voice.

Chen Hao's brow furrowed because this voice was the one he had been faintly hearing since he entered the Dust Realm.

"It was I who brought you here!" the deep voice continued.

"Who are you?" Chen Hao looked at the Sword of Dust and questioned, "Why bring me here?"

Laughter suddenly echoed, only stopping after a while.

"I brought you here to thank you!" the voice explained, "It was you who killed that traitor, allowing the sword to return to my side. It was also the sword that recognized your power, which is why I opened the doors of the seal for you to come to the Dust Realm."

"Traitor!" Chen Hao was surprised, "Are you referring to King Mieji?"

"So, this traitor is known as King Mieji in the Netherworld. Looks like he's done well for himself after leaving the Dust Realm, even earning a royal title."

Chen Hao approached the Sword of Dust, and then looked carefully at the deep pit where the sword was embedded, cautiously asking, "You say the sword has returned to your side, could it be that you are sealed beneath it?"

As he spoke, Chen Hao activated his Nether Vision Technique in his left eye. However, he saw no seals below the sword, nor any person or body.

"Wrong! These continuous mountains around us are all my corpse!"

"The entire mountain!" Chen Hao, Lin Huashan, and Yi Ning were all dumbfounded.

"This corpse is way too large!" Chen Hao muttered in amazement, "What kind of monster are you?"

Suddenly, the earth shook violently.

"How dare you! I am no monster!" the voice grew angry, "I am the Dust King, Chen Ji!"

"The Dust King!" Chen Hao exclaimed. After a pause, he continued to ask, "You say the Sword of Dust is yours and that King Mieji betrayed you, and your body now lies in this wilderness. So, according to you, King Mieji was a trusted confidant by your side who abandoned you after you were framed and took your Sword of Dust with him?"

"Exactly! He was one of my personal guards from the old days..."

Following that, the Dust King, Chen Ji, told Chen Hao and the others:

The Dust Tribe originally lived atop the Huiyin Mountains. A hundred thousand years ago, the Volcano King and the son of the Glacier clashed in battle on these mountains. The Volcano King's flying mount, the Netherworld Azure Bird, set the Huiyin Mountains ablaze in an instant, turning them into a sea of flames. Chen Ji's grandfather, the third Dust King, used ancient magic to create a Sealing Void Realm and led all the Dust Tribespeople into this void to take refuge.

This void was the Dust Realm. From that time on, the Dust Tribe never left the Dust Realm.

For tens of thousands of years after the successive deaths of his grandfather and father, up until he inherited the throne to become the Dust King, the Dust Realm had been very peaceful.

Later, he married a queen named Yingji, the most beautiful woman in the Dust Realm at that time. In the following years, they got along harmoniously, and Yingji even bore him a prince and a princess.

However, good times didn't last long. In the three hundredth year after he married Yingji, he suddenly discovered that his queen was having an affair with his brother Chen Yu. He was very angry and sent assassins to Chen Yu's home that very night to kill him.

But on that night, not only did his men fail to assassinate Chen Yu, but they were also bribed by Yingji and Chen Yu to turn against him.

When those men returned to report their mission as completed, first they lied about killing Chen Yu, then took advantage of his carelessness while celebrating to stab him.

Subsequently, Chen Yu led a rebellion, stormed his palace, and surrounded him.

Later, dozens of personal guards fought desperately to carve a bloody path for him, and he managed to escape the encirclement with serious injuries and fled to this place.

That night, he handed the Sword of Dust to the guard carrying him here, used a secret incantation only known to the Dust King to open the Sealing Void Realm's gate of the Dust Realm, and asked the guard to summon the ancient Dust Warriors from the Netherworld using the Sword of Dust, then return with them to help him reclaim his throne.

Unexpectedly, after the guard left with the Sword of Dust, he never came back.

After waiting several years with grievous injuries, he died resentfully, his body transformed into a hillock, which, over tens of thousands of years with the accumulation of dust, slowly expanded into the range of mountains seen today.

And the guard who betrayed him was none other than King Mieji.

Due to the deep resentment in his heart, his spirit did not dissipate after death.

..

"I never imagined that this Sword of Dust would suddenly return to my side a few months ago," Chen Ji remarked with a bitter smile, "even less did I expect that the person who brought the Sword of Dust back to me would come near the Sealing Void Realm's gate of the Dust Realm!"

"What a coincidence!" Chen Hao sighed.

Suddenly, he furrowed his brow and exclaimed, "Wait!"

"What's wrong?" Lin Huashan asked anxiously.

"You bringing me to the Dust Realm can't just be to thank me, right?"

"Hahahaha!" Chen Ji's cunning laughter echoed through the air, "You're right, I need your help with another matter."

"You want me to help you take revenge? To kill your brother and queen and then install your son as the Dust King?" Chen Hao said.

"You're very clever, I indeed didn't judge you wrong! Don't worry, if you help me out, I won't let you down. I will bestow the Sword of Dust upon you as a token of gratitude, and I will also grant you all my powers," he promised.

"But why should I believe you and agree to help you? Logically, you should pass on the Sword of Dust and your powers to your own son."

As soon as the words were out of his mouth, Lin Huashan and Yi Ning, standing by Chen Hao, suddenly let out a scream, and Chen Hao turned to see Lin Huashan being sucked into a vortex of dust; Yi Ning faced the same fate on the other side.

"Because you are my only hope. I dare not deceive you, I will definitely fulfill the promises I have made, and therefore, you will believe me; and as for those two girls, they are in my hands, so you will help me," he said.

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