Chapter 669 War
Unexpectedly, Fang Huaji received the thunder for testing into his hands. Did a Great Emperor… have such a powerful strength?
With a cold snort, Fang Huaji drew opening a round portal with his right hand and then threw the light in his grip into it, “I don’t dare to accept this ‘great gift’. Here you are.”
As soon as Fang Huaji finished speaking, a round portal appeared above the Fate Palace. The violent thunder blasted down, but it directly dissipated into the air when approaching the Fate Palace.
Fang Huaji coldly snorted at this and didn’t care at all.
“Everyone, my refining weapons are under your feet. As long as you are willing to fight for the Qingshui Circle, you can take up them. Mortals can kill pract.i.tioners in the Zhuji Realm with them! Pract.i.tioners in the Zhuji Realm can kill the ones in the Jindan Realm with them! By a.n.a.logy, if you are in nature’s test, you can even join forces to kill a Junior Emperor. The spirituality in my blood net is the cornerstone for you to use spiritual weapons!”
At the moment when Fang Huaji’s voice spread throughout the Qingshui Circle, all living beings who had some understanding of the cultivation circle were in a state of utter shock.
Mortals were the most numerous in the whole Qingshui Circle!
What a great feat it was to give every mortal the strength to fight with a cultivator!
Hearing Fang Huaji’s plan at the moment, even Bai Su couldn’t help but freeze there without a word for a long time.
“How can one tolerate others encroaching on his preserve?
“As long as you guys volunteer to take up weapons, our power will be far superior to Bai Mo’s!”
…
At this moment, living beings in every region gradually focused their eyes on the blood-red veins under their feet, whether they were mortals or pract.i.tioners.
Instead of panic, they were full of fierce fighting spirit!
Finally, an aged grand elder took out a weirdly-shaped spiritual spear from the blood-red veins. The moment he touched the spear, he understood its usage, and his cloudy eyes lit up.
“I would risk death for the Qingshui Circle!”
81 regions in the Qingshui Circle rose in rebellion at the same time. Countless pract.i.tioners surged toward the teleporting matrixes, and even countless mortals made bold to join them.
“Crazy… they are all crazy!”
Someone didn’t want to take up weapons and muttered with a frightened look, “How can a mortal be a match for a pract.i.tioner? The old fox behind this idea is a madman!”
But no matter how hard he tried to dissuade, the only young mortal who could see supernormal hope and was full of fantasy still entered the teleporting matrix without looking back.
Bai Su turned white and said in a trembling voice, “It’s gonna kill a lot of people. Both mortals and pract.i.tioners will die! Fang Huaji, you’re not saving but worsening the Qingshui Circle!”
“How can there be no deaths in a war?”
Fang Huaji remained cold and averted his eyes, “A naive man like you is not destined to succeed. I am the real candidate for the revenge of the Qingshui Palace.”
Bai Su was stuck dumb and choked with grief, “Even though it’s hatred, you shouldn’t harm the innocent. Fang Huaji, you’re… really a lunatic devil.”
“Without being lunatic, I wouldn’t have become a devil.”
Fang Huaji gazed through the s.p.a.ce and seemed to see the constant flas.h.i.+ng light of the teleporting matrix, “A long time ago, I said I only cared about revenge and nothing else.”
In the Fate Palace, the lord of the Shengtian Shrine and others were finally summoned by Bai Ming.
“You guys should also see the Tianhe Sect’s big move.”
Bai Ming picked his fingernails and looked up with a smile, “It’s interesting. Fang Huaji came up with this idea.”
“Your Excellency the Fate Ancestor, how do we deal with it?” The lord of the Shengtian Shrine, Ling Kun stepped forward and asked initiatively. Recently, he always felt that Bai Ming gave him a very odd att.i.tude, but he couldn’t describe it.
“Kill him!”
Bai Ming changed his hand movements. He crossed his hands and swept his sharp eyes over the leaders of the top three holy sects, “This time, the Huangxing Hall and the Ankui Valley will be auxiliaries, while Ling Kun, you will be the commander-in-chief. The Shengtian Shrine’s position is worth it.”
Ling Kun shook with shock, and his eyes lit up. He hurried to kneel, “I dare not. I will obey Your Excellency’s order and fight with all my might!”
“Then go to a.s.semble your men. With Fang Huaji’s agitation, you don’t have much time to prepare.”
“Yes!”
Qu Liancheng listened aside in silence and pondered, “Bai Ming really wants to ruin the whole Shengtian Shrine in the war, but what is his purpose?”
In just a few hours, more and more pract.i.tioners and mortals appeared in the Holy Region. The Tianhe Sect had long made preparations to put all elders in charge of the army. Every elder was in nature’s test, and due to their hold of the spiritual weapons in the blood-red veins now, they were like Junior Emperors enough to lead an army of pract.i.tioners.
A war broke out unsurprisingly!
In the center of the Qingshui Circle, also the plain between the top four holy sects, there was a rumble of fighting and wholesale slaughter.
In the beginning, the war was in a stalemate. But as more and more reinforcements came from 81 regions, and the mortals’ spiritual weapons could attack pract.i.tioners in the Zhuji Realm from a distance to kill them in one blow, the army led by the Shengtian Shrine had a surge in casualties and couldn’t hold on.
Ling Kun calculated casualties every day and was very upset about it. They couldn’t take the spiritual weapons in the blood-red veins, so their overall strength was much lower. If this went on, they would be all killed by the army of the Tianhe Sect within one month!
By the time the attacking army reached the gate of the Fate Palace, even if he died ten thousand times, it would not atone for his crime!
“Every pract.i.tioner of our Shengtian Shrine has survived among many corpses and is nothing difficult in fighting 10 enemies alone. Why are we so vulnerable?”
This was what puzzled Ling Kun the most, but he looked around and couldn’t find anyone to investigate the matter.
“Ling Li…”
Ling Kun cast his gloomy eyes at the b.l.o.o.d.y-soaked theatre of war and fell into silence for a long time.
Flames of war had been raging for half a year.
By the third month, the Ankui Valley and the Huangxing Hall all appeared to attend the war with 17 great holy sects.
At this moment, Qu Liancheng’s poison finally broke out. The blood poison began to spread. For every death in the Shengtian Shrine, dozens or even more pract.i.tioners would be killed. The situation was reversed little by little.
27 sects couldn’t wait to attend the war regardless of Bai Su’s warning! Then the Fate Palace’s side was once again suppressed and beaten.
The flames of war became more even raging and dyed the whole Qingshui Circle red. Countless living beings died every day.
In the empty hall, Bai Ming looked at the image emerging in the small golden tower, and his smile grew wilder.
“That’s good. Fang Huaji, you’re really my helper!”
With a cheerful smile, Bai Ming stood up and straightened his clothes. A silent hole gaped beneath the small golden tower. He stepped down and walked for a long while.
Finally, a huge fiery Circle Nucleus came into view. Sensing Bai Ming’s arrival, a ferocious human face immediately appeared on the fiery Circle Nucleus, and a scream of hatred echoed through the s.p.a.ce.
“An inferior clan is trying to devour the Circle Clan. Our clan won’t spare you!”
Bai Ming looked at the human face happily, “Do you see? The living beings you bred are killing each other and going to extinction, while your natural law will be under my control and obedient to destroy all those who started this war.”
At this point, Bai Ming clenched his palm. Then black “ink” poured into the void slowly soaking the Circle Nucleus, which made it difficult for the human face to appear.
“Bai Mo! You won’t succeed. No way!”
The Circle Nucleus barely maintained its form and shouted in a crazy voice, “You’ve forgotten the special being you brought with you. She is your nemesis, but you are afraid of me getting out of the trap and don’t dare to leave here for a long time. That’s your biggest weakness, Su Li… her background is far beyond your imagination. You’ll fail… you’ll definitely fail!”
“So noisy.”
Bai Ming kept a poker face and clenched his palm. Immediately, the Circle Nucleus uttered a heartrending cry, and its human face collapsed.
“I seem to be crazy to have thought that you would beg me for mercy and offer up your life nucleus. It’s nothing…”
Bai Ming turned away.
“When I destroy 90% of the foundation of this circle, you will collapse, and the Chimo Circle will also be destroyed. Then I can harvest two Circle Nucleuses at a time. That’s enough to replenish my losses…”
Time pa.s.sed relentlessly in the flames of war. It turned into the ninth month of the war under tragic circ.u.mstances.
On one day of this month, Fang Mu raised his head numbly with scarlet eyes but found no one to kill in front of him.
“Did we… win?”
He muttered in a daze and choked up while looking at the blood-red surroundings.
There was no winner in this war.
Lots of people had died. Many elders of the Tianhe Sect he was familiar with were killed in front of him. Even the grand elders of 27 sects were mostly dead because of the blood poison suicide bomber thrown out by the Fate Palace.
At this moment, Fang Mu stretched his thinking instead.
He kept wondering where his big brother was now?
“Reorganize our forces. Sadness can’t change anything, so we should destroy the Fate Palace in one fell swoop!”
Fang Huaji’s sonorous voice came, “Now listen to my command. Go to the Fate Palace and win the war at one blow!”
“No need.”
A voice suddenly came from the sky, “Fang Huaji, I’ll allow you to die in your own sect out of kindness, okay?”
A white figure appeared from the distorted s.p.a.ce and stood not far in front of Fang Huaji. The face gradually became clear. It was none other than Bai Ming.
Bai Su sighed and closed his eyes.
Was the picture in his previous divination about to appear?
The dialogue between the two sides spread the whole Qingshui Circle through the blood-red veins. In this instant, the remaining pract.i.tioners converged towards the Tianhe Sect at once.
“Bai Mo, have you finally stopped being a coward?”
At the sight of Bai Ming, Fang Huaji gave an increasing murderous look, “Today is your day of death!”
Bai Ming tilted his head and smiled at Fang Huaji, “No, I’m here today specifically to thank you.”
Fang Huaji snorted coldly, “Do you think I will believe your story?”
“Believe it or not.”
Bai Ming’s expression was casual and pleasant, “Now that your mission is complete, you shall die.”
Fang Huaji’s eyes suddenly turned red, and his robe melted into residue shadows.
Bai Ming didn’t dodge and uttered softly, “Destroy Thunder.”
Boom!
Millions of pure black thunder tilted down from the sky without warning. In just an instant, the gate of the Tianhe Sect turned into fly dust with the mountains.
Only its area was protected by Fang Huaji and just turned into ruins instead of powder.
“Destroy Thunder?”
Bai Su sat aside with a face of vicissitudes and looked at the black thunder felling in a daze.
This was his second witness to the Destroy Thunder.
Nine months had pa.s.sed. Bai Su’s black hair returned to white and his face wrinkled like the furrowed bark.
Besides, his use of astrology had shortened his life, so he would die of old age after a few moments.