Chapter 58: The Sacred Ground of Zhongzhou
“Tell An Mu to hold out. It will only take three more days for the allied forces to fall.”
“Yes!”
“Tell the Imperial Horse Directorate and the Ceremony Directorate to capture a few enemies alive. I’m afraid it’s not as simple as it seems for Zhao Seven to have the Dark Yin Sect attack us.”
“Wasn’t he doing it for revenge?”
“If it was only for his revenge, he wouldn’t be able to mobilize so many people. How could he make all those Dark Yin Sect disciples follow his order?”
Liu Rui asked with knitted eyebrows.
The senior asked her to find out who was behind Zhao Seven.
This meant that there must be someone behind him.
She decided to start the investigation by finding out what was Zhao Seven’s motivation for the invasion.
Half a day later.
The allied troops who had retreated from the frontline realized that they were almost being disciplined by a group of strangers.
They were even under the command of a general from a different troop.
The evening came.
Without adequate discipline, warriors of the allied troops escaped in large groups.
The next day, everyone woke up.
They found that the people around them were gone.
Even those in the neighboring tents had disappeared.
Swis.h.!.+
A sword flashed in the distance, and large groups of people dropped down and laid weltering in blood.
The sword tracked warriors in the camp and killed them all.
The killing first started with the saint-level warriors among them.
Warriors of the Spirit Manipulation Realm were targets of the second attack.
A few moments later, the entire army collapsed.
“Hurry up, tell An Mu to capture them alive. With so many people as our prisoners, Xia will have enough labor force for decades,”
Liu Rui said aloud.
She immediately led the disciples of the Baiyun Temple to rush into the enemy’s camp.
If they didn’t capture some enemies right now, these enemies would all be killed by the senior.
Li Mu’s killing went on for half a day. After that, he went straight to the Luoshen Mountain.
He got the location of their headquarters from a few senior members of the Dark Yin Sect.
In addition, he also acquired a long list.
The list included all the sects and clans that had turned to the Dark Yin Sect.
It took several days for Li Mu to kill everyone on that list.
In the underground palace beneath the Luoshen Mountain.
Li Mu stood in sullen silence.
So many years had pa.s.sed, but Zhao Seven still couldn’t change his ridiculous habit.
He still built his headquarters in the underground palace.
Did he really believe that he could hide in the underground palace without being discovered?
Boom!
Li Mu manipulated his true qi.
A wave of overwhelming aura, with him at the center, enveloped the entire underground palace.
Boom!
He then unfolded his field.
The entire underground palace was covered by this field.
He manipulated his sword with his mind.
The sword qi flew across his field.
The underground palace was dismantled into wooden pieces in the blink of an eye.
The Dark Yin Sect members in the underground palace were also dismantled into pieces.
Some were even chopped into mush.
Li Mu had already entered the perfection level of the Perfected Person.
His field was powerful enough to contain all things surrounding him.
With a move of his hand, some of the rosters that were already cut into pieces by the sword qi were rejoined together, and flew to Li Mu’s hand.
He examined the two rosters and compared them.
He had a few more names in his mind.
When he was done, he started a big fire and destroyed the underground palace.
After that, he started his killing again.
Ten days later.
Li Mu returned to the imperial palace of Xia covered in bloodstains.
During these ten days.
Li Mu killed and checked-in all the way.
The whole land of Nanzhou became a sea of blood.
Once Li Mu finished his ma.s.sacre, only women and the elderly were left to survive in Nanzhou.
There was barely any trace of strong men and warriors.
In the imperial palace.
Liu An received the message of victory and let out a long sigh of relief.
It was finally over.
The Xia troops captured another hundreds of thousands of warriors.
The State of Xia could now start its large construction plans.
For Xia, this was a big war of attrition.
Barriers and fortifications that had been built years ago were all destroyed.
Kerosene and gunpowder acc.u.mulated in the past decades had also run out.
Fortunately, the war didn’t hurt Xia’s vitality.
“Pa.s.s my order to give Eunuch Li at the Shouning Palace a three-rank promotion. In addition, the palace will recruit new eunuchs.”
The war was over.
There was no more external enemy.
The internal enemies were more afraid to move.
Liu An’s prestige had reached its peak.
The people of Xia were more united than ever before.
When Li Mu came back from the underground palace, five eunuchs holding a red robe stood in the courtyard of the Shouning Palace.
At a sacred ground for martial arts in Zhongzhou.
“I recently heard that someone from the Demon Sect had showed up in Nanzhou. You should go out to find what actually happened. The reappearance of the Demon Sect is a matter of great importance to us humans.”
On the training ground.
Sect leader Qiu Shuzhen scanned the five personal disciples in front of him.
Some time ago, there were rumors of a devil appearing in Nanzhou.
He had sent his five personal disciples to track the devil down and investigate the Demon Sect, as part of their final training.
If they could finish this task.
They will be the leader or Elders of the sacred ground.
“Yes!”
The five disciples bowed as they said their goodbyes.
When hearing the news of another demon cultivator appearing in Nanzhou, many disciples in the sacred ground had already prepared themselves.
In the past, Nanzhou was a barren place where many disciples were reluctant to go to.
But killing the devil was an opportunity to earn their fame.
Warriors in Zhongzhou had been dreaming about killing the devil and becoming heroes admired by people all over the world.
The whole purpose of entering the sacred ground was for such a moment.
The heroic act of killing the devil and saving the human race.
How powerful could the devil in Nanzhou be?
It would be a piece of cake for them. They could take it easy and relax.
Once they returned to the sacred ground, they would obtain generous rewards.
The best bonus of the sacred ground was the reward for killing devils.
No matter how powerful the devil might be, as long as it was a devil, that reward was enough to feed a martial cultivator.
“Personal disciples always get the benefits!”
Outside the square, other disciples of the sacred ground looked at the five. They were envious, jealous, and unconvinced.
“Why should they take advantage of all the good things?”
“It’s not as easy as it looks. They are going to deal with a devil. Even though the devil is in Nanzhou, it is still a devil after all. Let’s wait and see what happens. WHo knows, maybe one of them might come back alive.”
“You’re just jealous you don’t get to go!”
“What can we do about it anyway? As disciples here, we aren’t allowed to go out of the sacred ground as and when we like. If we can go out, humph, those personal disciples will stand no chance to take credit for killing the devil.”
“Everyone knows that those personal disciples are the offspring of the Elders, and the resources of the sacred ground are meant for them. They were all born to be superior. We are just a group of slaves.”
There were voices of dissatisfaction all over the sacred ground.
“You are dissatisfied, so what? Do you dare to go up and talk about it?”
“I wouldn’t dare! If I go up there and talk about it, you can see my corpse tomorrow at the bottom of the mountain or in the garden of spirit beasts.”
“Not necessarily, maybe you will just disappear, or be killed by the devil.”
Several disciples shook their heads and left.
They were not interested in the sect master seeing his personal disciples off.
In the underground palace, Li Mu floated at the mouth of the well, silently improving his cultivation.
He had checked-in by the well for many years.
Gradually, Li Mu could stay in the well for longer and longer.
The frightening aura in the well affected him less and less.
He practiced the fifth level of Zaohua Sutra twice.
Li Mu jumped out of the well.
“I’m currently unable to reach a higher level. It’s time to go to Clan Xia.”
The Dark Yin Sect had been cleaned up.
Even if there were some unimportant members left, Liu Rui and her Baiyun Temple could handle them.
Li Mu took out the round token from his pocket, opened the map left by Liu Yu, and then disappeared.
Muguang Mountain.
The mountain stretched for thousands of miles, with peaks that were hundreds of thousand-feet high.
The mountain was occupied by a large number of with demons and monsters.
It was the dividing line between Zhongzhou and Nanzhou.
It was impossible for ordinary warriors to climb this mountain to reach Zhongzhou.
Even the safest road linking Nanzhou with Zhongzhou required at least saint-level warriors.
For warriors in Nanzhou.
This mountain almost prevented the possibility for most warriors to travel to Zhongzhou.
For warriors in Zhongzhou, they even didn’t want to come to this barren place.
In Zhongzhou, warriors from Nanzhou were not welcomed in the least.