Chapter 167: Swords Recording History
On the 7th of the 4th month of the Tian You Calendar, Wu Fei arrived at Lelang City. All the water sources in the city’s wells changed from murky yellow to clear. This well water was not just ordinarily clean, but purified after “neutron irradiation sterilization.”
This was really too clean! Great Extinction-style clean.
Lelang City had been illuminated by the Evil Moon, and now after Wu Fei entered the moonlight, the reflection of the lotus seed in his hand directly fell onto the green area of the Evil Moon.
For the “lotus seed,” since the illusory could be reflected in reality, why couldn’t reality be projected into the illusory?
In space at the green Evil Moon location. At first, the light spot shining on the green “Garden” was only the size of a little finger, but two days later, the irradiated light spot area on the green Evil Moon expanded to a one-kilometer range.
In the area enveloped by the lotus seed’s radiance, all those flourishing “rotten” “spores” “microbial symbiosis” and “Mutation” completely ceased their coexistence and mutual prosperity under the power of this “clearing heat and detoxifying fire” substance from the neutron star, decomposing into the purest organic structures.
This reflected light spot that fell into the Evil Moon was actually a gamma ray stream crossing tens of thousands of light years; this ray stream carried massive amounts of information, which was the “root system” implanted into the Evil Moon after the lotus seed sprouted!
The perspective returned to Lelang City illuminated by the Evil Moon. The “Golden Dou burial ground” that Wu Fei had originally planned to explore disappeared in Lelang City.
That is, the underground prison built by Wu Hanluan was now directly gone, and that place turned into a flat piece of land three meters wide.
Speaking of this prison, it originally occupied about sixty-six mu, and now not only was it gone, but its area had been compressed, and the other buildings originally adjacent to the prison were now facing each other.
It was as if a portion of space in Lelang City had vanished overnight.
Confirming that the entire city’s water sources were all clean to an unbelievable degree, Wu Fei, carrying the lotus seed, temporarily could not find the “Golden Dou” to settle accounts and began to reorganize Lelang City.
Flag orders were conveyed, bronze gongs were sounded. Wu Baichuan and the first wave of soldiers purified by the lotus seed scoured the streets and alleys to gather scattered troops.
Wu Fei checked team by team, recruited personnel for statistics, and the city’s standing army returned from a state of plague contamination on the verge of mutiny to stability.
The soldiers who had previously wandered despairingly in the city due to illness, spitting into the wells, now stood again under the great banner.
The east, west, north, and south great banners of Lelang City began to rise; the city gates opened wide like a giant beast opening its mouth, while the gate-guarding soldiers were like the giant beast’s teeth, revealing Military Killing Intent.
The plague energy in Lelang City was now completely gone, but since the Golden Dou was still deeply buried below, polluting the Earth Vein, Xuan Chong narrated to himself: so we cannot take the plague across all of Chong Land lightly.
With scout reports, Xuan Chong learned: the wells twenty li outside Lelang City were still spewing yellow water, and fish in the rivers were wriggling with maggots inside the water.
Even from reports from various places: this filthy energy from underground, after bypassing Lelang City, was spreading toward Chong Land at an accelerated speed.
Wu Fei looked at the current prefecture’s map. The map showed that the veins of the Mountains and Rivers were still gray-black, indicating that the hidden danger had not been eradicated. But after his arrival, Lelang City had now been scorched clean and refreshed.
Wu Fei whispered: Everything will be alright.
However, in the perspective of certain guys outside: Lelang City, as the central hub of this prefecture’s land, falling into Wu Fei’s hands, this Human Realm was tainted with a tremendous Killing Intent, and not only that, all the various forces involved in this matter also showed “blood light omens” in Yao Calculation.
…The Immortal Path has been tainted by the Mortal World tribulation…
The disciples of Immortal Sects who exerted effort to seal off Chong Land, totaling five hundred. They now deployed the formation according to the array diagram left by their ancestral masters; that pillar of light connecting to the dome of the sky originally, now showed cracks under the impact of waves of Human Realm power!
The mounts of those Immortal Sects also crouched trembling, raising their heads, opening wide eyes to watch the scene of spiritual energy spilling like a bursting dam. The grand formation set up by their own sect disciples developed red cracks under the impact of Earthly Killing Intent and Constellation forces.
The mountains where the magic treasures were located crumbled like they had suffered thousands of years of weathering, while the rivers grew shallower and began to dry up. Killing Intent spread to all suspended magic artifacts in the sky during the process of infiltrating the formation.
The glowing magic artifacts became uneven. Immortal swords cracked, Treasure Cauldrons began to rust.
For mortals, the Human World mortal dust aura is formless, just like fish in the ocean submerged in seawater, unable to feel the surging power of the waves.
But in the fish’s perception, those towering steel great ships floating high were terrified of the ocean’s ups and downs.
Killing Intent originates from the killing intent of Human Realm mortals. When one person harbors killing intent toward a neighbor, it’s nothing, just like a small fish flicking its tail to splash water.
Even when a hundred people harbor mutual suspicion and generate killing intent internally, it’s nothing, just a messy current; even when tens of thousands in an entire prefecture are in an apocalyptic state, with tens of thousands slaughtering each other as enemies, the Killing Intent still doesn’t reach the level of great winds and waves.
In Da Yao, the servants who die yearly from illness, starvation, or being whipped to death by Powerful Clans are not more numerous than those dying in northern warfare; these acts of harming lives don’t generate much Killing Intent. Because these thoughts of “harming lives” aren’t greatly murderous!
What is the situation where a person emits the greatest Killing Intent? This person doesn’t just want to kill a neighbor or take revenge on street fellows, but feels that all “enemies in the Under Heaven” can be killed! Wu Xiao Que, this Military Strategist wielding weapons of slaughter, generally doesn’t get angry, but when he has to draw the knife, he thinks “a certain kind of people all deserve to die!”—this Killing Intent is overwhelming.
When a person wants to kill “a certain kind of people Under Heaven,” his Killing Intent is a hundred or thousand times that of those who “kill one person, ten people” in fights for valor!
And when such a group gathers, all coalescing the intent to kill “a certain kind of people Under Heaven,” terrifying waves have already appeared.
At this time, mortals’ thoughts are no longer insignificant; if an immortal happens to have his own mortal world family and friends locked into the killing intent range, then he is within the Killing Intent envelope!
The reason the ancient “Chan” and “Jie” factions caused the Great Tribulation, with countless immortals falling, was because the Under Heaven split into two camps, each with tens of thousands of great soldiers wanting to kill the other camp Under Heaven!
The disciples of the “Chan” and “Jie” factions, since their relatives and friends were in the Human World, naturally stood up for these friends and became targets of the other faction’s Killing Intent, and after being tainted by the mortal dust, all their powerful Supernatural Powers were corroded and could only be used limitedly.
And thousands of years later, the predecessors of those Immortal Sects from back then either sat in meditation or ascended away from this planet. The later generations had already forgotten the terror of the “life-killing opportunities” from ancient times.
Over this millennium, cultivators considered themselves transcendent and otherworldly.
Whenever floods or heavenly disasters appeared in the Human World, cultivators regulated thunder, wind, and rain, making clouds and rain, and after receiving kneeling worship from Human World commoners, gradually became complacent!
Moreover, due to years of continuous warfare these past few years, many great households prayed to these immortals, making upper sect disciples even more think that regulating wind and rain for the people above and below was a grace.
What’s more, in Immortal Sects, since “making clouds and rain” is labor-intensive work, everyone doesn’t care about that bit of Merit power at all.
Many sects have outsourced this type of work to outer sect disciples. The immortal guests in the sects pursuing freedom have no one willing to take this shift (go to work).
Is Merit power useful? Over these few hundred years, many sect disciples thought it useless, as it neither increases cultivation speed nor boosts magic power. Indeed, it’s quite useless.
Under Qian Cuo’s manipulation, Wangheng Sect and other sects, when intervening in Chong Land’s plague situation, got entangled in great karma with the Military Strategists. This karma ultimately triggered the Under Heaven “end of the Dao” event.
At this moment, the inexperienced second generation disciples of the Daoist Sects looked in horror at Lelang City’s Military Strategist momentum. —As if earth-shaking war drums filled their ears, all Daoist Magic spiritual energy trembled like being slashed by a thousand knives.
When the heads of these Immortal Sect direct lineage disciples were all emitting “blood light,” only those outer sect disciples who regularly made clouds and rain were currently fine. The “Merit” from benefiting one side in ordinary days was crucially important for Immortal Family disciples to avoid the Great Tribulation.
The last time, the disciples of the “Jie” and “Chan” factions who survived en masse were actually those outer sect disciples doing hard labor in the Human Realm; this is why Yu Li, this ancient Dragon Descendant, felt that this realm’s Immortal Sect inheritances were missing.
For the Immortal Path orthodox lineage, Merit is something one regrets not having enough when needed.
…Perspective to the Divine Path…
At yin hour, the City Gods of the Five Prefectures of Chong Shui were now gathered together. Speaking of which, when Prince Lelang created the “gladiatorial arena,” Lelang City’s City God had already fallen, and after Wu Hanluan took over, there was no new City God.
However, now, with a lotus flower blooming in Lelang City, the various deities knew whom to align with.
In Chong Land, underworld little ghosts carried their City Gods, avoiding the polluted “green Yellow Springs” and madly rushing on the road, so hasty that many village folk saw them midway. But those who saw the City Gods traveling had no current official status.
Wu Fei as a general currently held world-shaking military achievements like “recapturing Bo Prefecture” and “capturing Sheng Long Pass”; the so-called “shocking ghosts and spirits” was not false for the Divine Path at this moment.
The City Gods were extremely anxious in their gathering because their current methods to contact Wu Fei had all failed.
These City Gods entering dreams were not to harm Wu Fei, but rather hoped he would show mercy.
In Bo Prefecture, Wu Fei was loved by ten thousand people; Mountain Gods and ghost officials would, because of Wu Fei’s casual word, finalize with a coffin nail. The various gods of Chong Land now dared not offend this lord.
Here one must mention Bo Yan’s licentious sacrifices; before Wu Fei went, there were rumors in the ocean of evil gods, and coastal residents needed to sacrifice boys and girls to go to sea safely.
After Xuan Chong confirmed this was licentious sacrifice and feudal superstition, he set up cannons on the mountaintop and fired a few shots, then sent Guiche to sea to hunt Sea Beasts.
This step of firing cannons, Wu Fei thought nothing of it; in his previous life, using “magic” to counter “superstition” was routine, in Wu Fei’s eyes just fooling the ignorant masses.
But in Da Yao’s Divine Path system, with Wu Fei’s illustrious battle records, that Killing Intent-filled cannon fire could really blast cracks into a local sea god’s divine position.
Moreover, since the Guiche statue was enshrined in City God temples in Huangyu City and Hu City, the divine duty of sea safety was inadvertently snatched by Wu Fei, then attached to Huangyu City’s statue. Those few evil gods in the sea really vanished!
In a still clean and unpolluted land temple, these City Gods squeezed together. This small land temple was clean because Xuan Chong passed by and plucked a leaf.
Lao City’s City God: “Now we can’t enter dreams (send dreams to Wu Fei), what to do?”
The other City Gods were powerless to help; they had collectively sent dreams but were all blocked by the divine light on Wu Fei.
When the Lao City incident happened, Lao City’s City God was extremely unlucky to be dragged down by sect disciples, opening “no taboos” promises, so that very night Bai Cunxi could launch the rebellion; in this Great War, if any mortal supplied the “City God”…
Lao City’s City God was now very worried about being smashed by Wu Xiao Que. As for the other City Gods?
These Incense and Fire gods had not directly cooperated with sect disciples, but the Powerful Merchants who offered them incense had covertly cooperated with sect Noble Families and external forces like Ji Prefecture.
What is Wu Xiao Que’s temperament? Li Huo Sect controlled the Southern Border for four hundred years, supporting dozens of Mountain God priests, yet just because they were associated with Li Huo Sect and didn’t help at all in unifying the Southern Border, he uprooted them all. Then after the train opened, stations were named after Southern Border’s fallen warriors, directly seizing their divine positions!
Iron Prosperity Station, Striving Station, Hundred Prosperity Station—all these soldiers’ names, and these station names also turned into new Mountain God lands as passing merchants chanted them.
Lao City’s City God might have “slightly” offended Wu Xiao Que, but the other City Gods hadn’t helped the Wu Family in this Great Tribulation either. So the City Gods calculated they might be implicated, and their City God temples might change.
While the City Gods were worried, suddenly a little ghost popped up with an idea: “That Wu Yuanchang is a Constellation descended from Heaven. We can’t pay respects to him, but can we enter the dreams of other Wu Family disciples to have them plead for us?”
The City Gods suddenly saw the light.
…Matters of strange powers and chaotic gods, Wu Fei currently under “objective” conditions could not hear. The history teacher had now begun “shielding”…
On a Lingnan hill, Yao San Niang held a Lotus Lamp, and above the Lotus Lamp leaped a mirage.
This mirage showed Lelang City thousands of li away; looking at the city sealed by the Immortal Family grand formation, she observed for a bit, slightly worried, and raised her son beside her, letting him climb a big mulberry tree.
After Wu Lu climbed the tree and wanted to look around, he got a fierce whack on the butt with a feather duster; Yao San Niang: “Don’t come down, see if your father is in the city.”
Wu Lu: “Mom, the city is too high, can’t see.”
Yao San Niang: “Your dad has auspicious clouds above his head; now miasma is covering it. Your eyes are bright, look for mom, see if there are any there.”
Wu Lu: “There is a fire cloud.”
Yao San Niang: “How is it?”
Wu Lu: “There seems to be a stinky gas in the city; the fire cloud seems suppressed. But, um, the stinky gas also seems suppressed.”
Yao San Niang, hearing this, showed a joyful expression.
Then Wu Lu said there seemed to be a lotus flower swaying in the city.
Yao San Niang frowned; where did this white lotus come from? She became wary in her heart.
She said to Wu Lu: “Stay outside the city, don’t move.” Then to Wu Qing beside her: “Watch the Young Master; I’m going to Lelang City.”
Beside her, Jia Mude said: “Madam, the General is currently fine in the city; if you go in and something happens, won’t it disrupt the General’s composure?”
Yao San Niang picked up the Lotus Lamp beside her: “Those evil charms temporarily can’t approach me.” Just as she was about to act rashly.
Suddenly Wu Lu said: “Mom, I see it; Dad’s auspicious cloud is floating, flying to the south.”
Beside her, Jia Mude said: “Madam, you’d better wait; the Commander should have returned via the Peacock’s spatial magic.”
Sure enough, the Peacock at home opened a Teleportation Gate here in Tianchi City, and Wu Fei returned home. However, Yao San Niang looked at the mirage lit by the Lotus Lamp and revealed a mysterious smile.
She now saw clearly that those few City Gods were trembling in fear, trying to use Dream Power to find someone; she prepared to enter the scene.
…Line break for mobilizing troops northward…
After Wu Fei returned to Tianchi City, the elders at home immediately asked about the situation; upon learning that Wu Hanluan’s corpse could not be found in Lelang City, the family elders sighed, roughly accepting the northern explanation.
But Wu Fei did not accept the crimes thrown by Da Yao and Immortal Sects! He immediately summoned various allies in Tianchi City and clarified three things.
First thing: Wu Hanluan is unrelated to the rotten plague; Wu Hanluan has now fallen, but the plague remains.
Second thing: The plague is very likely caused by Northern Sect evil faction disciples and other Noble Families coveting our Zhenzhou! Our Wu Family has been loyal for generations; now Corrupt Ministers are jealous of the able and deliberately framing our family’s loyal ones.
Third thing: This matter is not over; Southern Route Army, all listen to orders, march north to eradicate evil!
Morale immediately surged; as Wu Fei, the decision-maker, threw out his attitude, the entire Wu Family, even all of Lingnan, found their backbone.
No one wants to be accused; now everyone wants a voice to claim “justice.”
Now what Wu Fei says everyone loves to hear: yes, Wu Hanluan is gone, but the corrosion remains? It must be external sects colluding with local Noble Families to do evil sorcery, it must be!
Lingnan Wu Family and multiple other interconnected Noble Families all expressed willingness to follow Wu Fei’s command.
With Wu Fei calling soldiers and generals, the Wu Family Southern Route Army total mobilization began. This time not exiting seclusion southward, but northward! News spread, and Lingnan families all rallied their men; everyone recalled the good days after accompanying Wu Fei out of seclusion and returning home to share money.
As for whether Wu Hanluan really had guilt? Now Wu Fei was flipping the shit pot back, preparing to let his uncle enter the earth cleanly and peacefully; history is written by the victors.
