Chapter 247: Entering Evil Moon, Xuan, Zhao, Jia
In the 8th year, 7th month of the Tong Zheng Calendar, Xian Daoren arrived at New Yao Capital. Obviously, wherever there is “plot,” there he is.
Compared to the simple ramming earth city wall from 1 year ago, the city interior has now turned into a construction site. Four canals have begun excavation, each canal presenting a ring shape, like concentric circles; at the excavation sites, batches of slave monsters fitted with shackles are obediently digging soil with shovels.
These slave monsters include some Sha Prefecture digging tree sloths and some great apes from the mountains. These guys who awakened spiritual intelligence all took advantage of the great chaos in the human world to bring their kin to wreak havoc in the human realm.
Now, after being implanted with fixed spirit taming runes, they have begun working.
Obviously, this is Zhen State technology. Now the entire under heaven, only Zhen State fundamentally does not talk about things like “kingly benevolence” or “Daoist Magic natural,” directly taking from the surplus and adding to the deficit; directly allowing after city breach, the entire city to be enslaved.
In terms of how to tightly control slaves, various shackles, spirit taming talismans, and gu worms can all control them; related technologies are all in development.
In recent years, due to tacitly allowing human slaves to become literate and rational, eliminating slave status, large batches of slaves have decreased; so various powerful merchants have begun capturing various monsters from mountain ridges to labor. Chong Lord calls them “Paru,” no, “fear slaves.”
Now under the collaborative effort of these “Paru” and wooden ox and flowing horse machinery, new Yao Capital is being built very smoothly.
In terms of overall scale, the new capital’s scale is no smaller than the old capital city, except without the suspended heavenly palace; as for the heavenly palace, it is now scattered across the high skies in all directions of the Nine Provinces, currently only Palace of Exchange and Li Palace are docked with the human realm.
…Changed…
Xian Daoren passed by the construction site, following the butterfly fragrance toward the city interior. On the road, he saw pure firearms troops training, somewhat stunned, a trace of reluctance flashing in his eyes.
Once upon a time, on the previous timeline, or perhaps the one before that (Xian Daoren cannot distinguish the past), when he had just transmigrated to this world, he also assembled such a firearms army, trying to use the Common Union system to bridge commerce, but ultimately was extinguished by Da Yao’s heavy cavalry charge.
Xian Daoren quickly came back to his senses, he walked into the palace, at this time in the palace, Empress Dowager Li was holding a debauched banquet, men and women were comforting each other.
Victors stood firm, losers erupted fountains and were then cast aside, batches of venomous snakes swarmed toward the weaklings with wide-open defenses, devouring flesh.
Snake heads plunged into body cavities in one go. Screams of fear and laughter were incessant.
Xian Daoren looked at Li Shi immersed in revelry, involuntarily pinching his fingers to conjure a ball of flame, flipping through her portrait from twenty years ago; at that time, she was still pure love, but now she had changed into this state.
“Change?” Xian Daoren revealed a satisfied smile: “Time for the final blessing.”
…Evil…
In the palace, suddenly Empress Dowager Li sensed something. Her hair turned white, she was stunned, before she could take a second breath, her satin-like hair poured down like an unleashed faucet, and these hair threads, upon falling to the ground, seemed to gain their own consciousness, began floating, then searching for something. Soon these threads moved toward her body uncontrollably, in no time wrapping her into a cocoon.
And others in the palace, seeing the Empress Dowager enveloped in the cocoon, were stunned, but before these pleasure-seekers could think “what happens next,” the wandering threads, like feeding beasts suddenly spotting “food” peeking nearby, immediately reacted cruelly.
This cocoon shot out countless threads like bullets, threads piercing through everyone’s bodies like steel wires, locking bones and every sensitive point on the body, pulling pain nerves, making them howl.
Those who could be near Empress Dowager Li were all handsome men and beautiful women, these graceful figures swayed rhythmically with the thread pulls, turning into an extraordinarily bizarre puppet music dance party.
And large numbers of butterflies appeared, forming a barrier.
The palace immediately turned into an untouchable area.
…Drama…
Tong Zheng Emperor was participating in firearms training process on the training ground.
When the mutation came from the palace, his mind involuntarily surged with fuzzy memories of the palace fall incident in his childhood, at that time his mother “protected” him, opening a red domain for him, blocking certain external things—Jia Ying could not remember exactly what was blocked, he only remembered lying in his mother’s gentle embrace.
This is also why Empress Dowager Li has become increasingly depraved in recent years, yet he has always turned a blind eye. As a son, he must never question elders no matter what.
Tong Zheng Emperor is a good child, after understanding Emperor Ling’s seizure of power from Emperor Shu, he saw it as a disgrace and firmly unwilling to do so.
Thus, guided by “filial piety,” he now disregards everything and charged into the palace. After his guards’ dissuasion failed, they could only follow this monarch together.
Little did he know, when he stepped into the domain composed of butterfly swarms, Xian Daoren disguised as a stone sculpture on the palace periphery revealed a smile, his next step was to lure this young promising monarch to—go—to—go do what again?
A golden light flashed in Xian Daoren’s pupils, suddenly forgetting his own plan.
Narrator: The original shocking plan was to have the young Yao Emperor kill his biological father, then realize his bloodline connected with the other. However, the golden system detected harmonious vocabulary and directly deleted the related plan.
…Perspective to the west…
Xuan Chong has always been paying attention to the chaos level in central Da Yao, after all, after “Nine Palaces” scattered under heaven, Zhen State has always been trying to receive these scattered Nine Palaces, among them “Palace of Exchange” and “Li Palace” are currently fixed in Zhen State territory, “Central Palace” is currently drifting toward New Yao Capital.
According to Sitian Cheng’s statement: when five of the Nine Palaces can be fixed, the overall mountains and rivers will be in a stable state.
Zhao Cheng is leading troops in Hedong to exterminate the blood madness rebellion, Xuan Chong is highly attentive to this; because from his perspective, Zhao Cheng has now mistakenly entered the related area and is spiraling upward, just like his own situation back then during the Lelang City expedition against the green Evil Moon.
Vaguely, Xuan Chong sensed something, opened the system, and sure enough, under Xuan Chong’s gaze, the “final exam” is imminent. The “Moon Conquest War” not completed on the Feathered People southern territory will ultimately be done by him.
In Lelang City, Xuan Chong summoned Wu Juwang and various strategists, once again instructing how they should manage the rear after “he is away”; and left each of Wu Juwang, Wu Rui, Wu Zaixing a box. Telling them to open when encountering certain emergencies.
Wu Juwang looked at Xuan Chong, wanting to say something? But ultimately pursed his lips. He called Wu Ling and began preparing the expedition corps.
This corps’ strength is extremely luxurious, with four heavy Mu Luan, five war kui. Plus Nine Phoenix this elite guiche and two soul-devouring guiche. And three cavalry teams totaling one hundred eighty people. Plus thirty wooden ox and flowing horse war chariots loaded with steam furnaces, remainder five thousand infantry.
Wu Zaixing saw this configuration and said he wanted to go too, he could be deputy. Then was kicked back to his position by Xuan Chong.
Xuan Chong opened the system, system’s task prompt: current Immortal Sect pollution points’ space distortion is sufficient; Chaos Green Lotus root system following pollution points downward, corps can follow these points to kill into Evil Moon.
Xuan Chong looked at the path on the map, first step is directly advance to Aotian Ridge Dingyun Sect.
Tong Zheng Calendar 8th year, 7th month, 7th day, Dingyun Sect is already under blue Evil Moon illumination.
When Xuan Chong’s troops stepped into the sect domain, a teleportable tunnel gate appeared before them, after the entire army entered this vortex gate, just like entering the great tunnel in the initial battle with snake people back then, directly entered the sect interior. And as the army arrived, originally isolated various mountain peaks linked up, forming a platform for the army to deploy.
Its sect alchemy furnaces were constantly firing, but in the treasury, the so-called medicinal materials were batches of children. Cultivators threw them into the alchemy furnace for alchemy, and during refining, eyes on shoulders watched the heat, fifth hand on back gripped a tuft of fetal hair on child’s head, scraping dust off furnace wall.
These alchemy cultivators now do not feel anything wrong, even took out ancestral pill formula for comparison, finding ancient alchemy method is just like this.
However under Xuan Chong’s Eye of Insight, these so-called pill formulas’ segments using children for medicine were just adding an “child” character; for example ginseng child, lingzhi child, orpiment child. As for exactly when these “child” were added, and how these mutated alchemists understood “child” as children. No need to investigate.
Ultimately Dingyun Sect was annihilated, accurately speaking, mountain breached and temple felled.
After Dingyun Sect was annihilated, Xuan Chong engraved on the cliff local suitable farming crops and specialty livestock.
However just as Xuan Chong finished this, a space tunnel hung down from the sky, accurately speaking this is “Chaos Green Lotus” hung down root tendrils.
As root tendrils hung down, another vortex teleport gate opened.
…Chaos Green Lotus has connected all polluted points on Da Yao…
When Xuan Chong’s corps entered it, next second appeared at the next pollution point in Xi Ren Realm: Wangheng Sect.
When sect cultivators the previous second were still breathing in moon essence toward the blue Evil Moon.
Next second in their perspective, golden mist floated from the sky, forming a platform. Xuan Chong’s corps appearing in the clouds arrived at their sect gate, these cultivators completely baffled why their sect gate with surrounding mountains and perilous terrain suddenly had such a “heaven-reaching avenue” around?
As unprecedented “military disaster” appeared in the pure cultivation land. Wangheng Sect cultivators saw their ancestral hall smashed collapsed by a war kui ram. They wanted to sword control to break air and flee, but surging killing intent made them feel extremely heavy once airborne, forced to land back in the sect.
As rows of bullets flew, these cultivators looked at the huge blood holes bullet-made on their chests, incredulously plummeting down.
After Wangheng Sect was annihilated, next is Yunxiang Sect, that sect with fluttering ribbons and numerous suspended immortal palaces.
This place was once a female cultivator sect. But now, sect disciples’ upper bodies are still beautiful immortals, but lower bodies, some are spider lower halves, some are immortal cranes, some are fish tails.
This place was irradiated by purple moon, those tender-hearted beautiful immortals purple-mutated first and rushed to the moon.
And now those remaining here are Dao Heart firmer ones able to resist purple corrosion, single-mindedly aspiring to the Dao “aloof” immortals. But these aspiring to the Dao, after encountering blue Evil Moon irradiation, gradually became this bird appearance.
These aloof immortals, seeing Xuan Chong’s corps enter, all bared sharp fangs, tongues turning into whips attacking.
Ultimately this immortal sect was also annihilated. After beautiful heads decapitated, turned into fish heads, spider heads, crane heads.
A space gate opened, next another space gate. Xuan Chong must breach nine sects to reach blue Evil Moon area.
As the corps step by step along the path forward, actually walking higher and higher.
On the way, mountain ranges increasingly bizarre; Evil Moons that originally in Da Yao places could only be seen every few months, here almost rise every time sun sets.
And each time, Evil Moon’s size in the sky different, even its surface constantly changing moment to moment.
For example Evil Moon’s blue areas covered in scale-like lattices; previous second looking up lattice hexagonal, slightly lower head and look again quadrilateral and triangular, as if Evil Moon surface is a kaleidoscope labyrinth.
…Deity slaying journey…
And for most officers and soldiers, Evil Moon is not directly observable.
On the fifteenth shichen of marching, Xuan Chong came to the military medical department, here sat fools who had removed armor.
Some staring at wood claiming it gold; some gulping at a nearby dried water canteen claiming it fine wine.
Xuan Chong sat beside a fool, held up four fingers, asking how many.
Result this guy said: this not fingers, this octopus.
Xuan Chong muttered: “Did he eat poisonous mushrooms?”
Ultimately, these soldiers with severe hysteria recovered normally under “ice marrow soup” treatment.
But awakened soldiers mentioning that feeling, when describing “future”; eyes leaped with unusual “divinity,” then muttering to nearby soldiers: “Let me tell you, I saw xxx” “We are actually all sacrifices”
Xuan Chong sharp-eared, heard these whispers, thus immediately dropped the “consoling” smile, put on settling scores expression.
“You say you saw the future”? These hysterical soldiers, under Xuan Chong’s pressure, one said: “Everyone’s future.”
Although this baffling, Xuan Chong indeed very clear his meaning. “Everyone’s future” means everyone will mutate on this land, and they could see the mutation process.
“Slap,” Xuan Chong slapped the face of this riddle-speaking little soldier, cursing: “Hey! You’re scaring me huh.”
This little soldier stunned, then said: “Future will give answers.” Xuan Chong understood again: Evil Moon will bestow blessing on everyone.
Xuan Chong kicked again, cursing: “Bless your paralysis!”
Ultimately, the beaten sore little soldier’s “hysteria” vanished, dazedly realized he just spoke nonsense, thus in most supportive tone loudly shouted: “Marshal will lead us to sweep evil hordes.” —A future godstick thus fell.
…Dao…
Several shichen later, about another twenty kilometers walked. (This actually walking twenty kilometers in interstellar space)
Xuan Chong: Gathered some ores, discovered inconceivable situation among them, some metallic ores upon prying open had flesh patterns, certain stalactites had human fingernails.
From this visible, what those hysteria patients saw not completely false. But what is mutation principle? Involves what physical conditions? That damned system again claimed “no explanation.”
Xuan Chong could only reluctantly classify as Evil Moon radiating “information pollution” created.
For this, Xuan Chong very annoyed opened the exchange system, looking at now having twenty-nine points exchange system, deep breath, decided to spend a tiny bit of academic credit to exchange for preserving army method.
Xuan Chong: “System, I need my corps to have resistance to this ‘information pollution.’ Give me some exchange references.”
System as usual rummaged some things, provided a “ten” academic credit option, named “Moon Washing” plan. Icon very exaggerated: directly soaking Evil Moon like a dumpling in another area (plane).
Of course this nonsensical thing directly skipped by Xuan Chong.
“Academic credit consumption too high.” Xuan Chong: “My twenty-nine academic credits minus ten is seriously affecting my evaluation!” Although unknown what this evaluation for, but based on his student experience, scores the more the better.
Hearing Xuan Chong wants cheap, system seemed to sneer, um, Xuan Chong forcibly ignored this disdain, in list “sort by price low to high,” picked the cheapest, 0.043 academic credits.
…School gate outside…
In outer space, Pu E finally waited for shuttle opportunity, Evil Moon now fully focused on final contest with Xi Ren Realm’s will, no time for her ascension plan to other planets.
She prepared to relocate the one hundred thousand subjects accumulated in Da Yao to next planet!
In spacetime tunnel, she looked back at “Xi Ren Star and Evil Moon entanglement” scene, slightly relieved, then whispered: “This is not for me to manage.”
At this time in her eyes, Evil Moon’s information pollution almost invading mantle layer. Just like rotten fruit, mold surface large patch, rot about to reach core. Soon terminally ill, hard to handle.
And just as she prepared to lightly leave, suddenly, her stable spacetime tunnel had external force intrusion. Just as she to stabilize her tunnel, suddenly received a golden beam notice, this is “temporary requisition space tunnel” usage right.
Pu E slightly stunned, then put down hand, because what behind this golden power? She clear very well.
This is this plane, top transmigrator force here forged one of greatest highest order.
This universe, this space, many consciousnesses transmigrated over. Some consciousness transmigrated, merely in certain civilization development small theater, celebrated their extra years, lived a leisurely life, like ants flashing unnoticeably in time flood, not even worth recording.
And some existences, millennium accumulate sand into tower, daily arch one foot, ultimately stanning moon chasing.
Such consciousnesses are “monarchs” in dimensional transmigration.
These monarchs, upon arrival also no different from mortals; but they in carefully selected eras, step by step accumulate forward, ultimately forge glory touching this world core. And after creating such results, things left in this world called “fruit positions.”
And things involving powerful transmigrators’ “fruit positions” left on plane, are taboos Pu E these small transmigrators must know upon arriving explored planes.
Pu E upon entering this spacetime zone, was taught to avoid “monarch glory” spacetime zones; otherwise, once provoke karma, even transform million spacetimes, will be targeted.
Facing requisition, Pu E gritted teeth, ceded the space tunnel.
Subsequently, three thousand golden light points passed through the tunnel, falling toward Xi Ren Realm.
Pu E slightly stunned, she recognized what these light points are! This is this plane spacetime, Xi Ren royal court marked “merit positions,” i.e., in many planets’ civilizations like Xi Ren Star human planets, highest hoped-for medals by planet guardians. Medals universal on all human planets, wherever recipient goes, they can borrow “human emperor” power.
However, these three thousand packaged “merit positions” just sent over.
Pu E looking at direction below, realized the existence that forced her off this planet has far greater authority in this plane than she imagined. Suddenly, she sharply felt Zhao Cheng reappeared in her system, only Zhao Cheng avatar below has a golden note.
…Character cannot recruit…
Heluo region, Zhao Cheng in army. He gathered twenty thousand, once again entered blood land, preparing to solve all those cannibal non-farming mad disease rebels.
When he riding jade lion forward, suddenly saw golden light pillars in sky.
Immediately after, some golden light pillars fell on him and some soldiers beside him. Then, he found himself lost contact with rest of army, his troops entered a mist.
Front mist increasingly thick. Zhao Cheng’s troops unable to see each other, could only brace forward. But walking walking, sky Evil Moon increasingly large.
Zhao Cheng felt nearby troops losing contact more and more, of course, those selected by golden light always there.
…Very late fellow traveler…
Xuan Chong saw golden light pillars fall from sky, entering his own troops.
Simultaneously some fell other directions. Then Xuan Chong prompted, next reinforcements arriving.
System also began issue task; System: “If you complete this task, can pre-borrow a book in library. This book can let you understand source of two ends obsessions entanglement.”
Xuan Chong: “What, borrow book?”
System: “After class, you will know.”
