Chapter 1077 - 164: Fierce Battle, Mass Extinction of the Immortal Realm’s Population!
Zhongluan Domain.
Command Headquarters.
Wanluan Sect Leader recently felt increasingly uneasy.
Being Wan Luanfeng’s elder, he is the current Sect Leader of the Immortal Venerate forces, unquestionably a True Immortal Great Perfection.
He looked at the reports from various battlefields: "What’s going on, why is the intensity of the warfare so strong? How has the war suddenly gotten out of control?"
The True Immortal generals responsible for the war lowered their heads, not daring to make a sound.
They had no solutions either.
Originally, it was supposed to be skirmish warfare, with both sides controlling the situation to avoid excessive casualties.
It wasn’t yet time for a decisive battle.
But now?
The war suddenly spiraled out of control.
A group of bloodthirsty warriors charged madly, leading the killings.
As a result, some cultivator armies were swept in and rushed forward, making the battle extremely brutal.
Wanluan Sect Leader was so angry that veins popped on his forehead: "With things like this, how am I supposed to explain to the Immortal Venerates? I’m the one who’s dying!"
"Tell me the reason!"
The True Immortals below exchanged glances, trying to find the issue.
One True Immortal said: "It’s probably the hatred, right? After all, they’ve killed so ferociously that their eyes are swollen."
Another True Immortal added: "And they aren’t afraid of death, believing there’s a 50% chance they’ll leave behind Embers after dying?"
A True Immortal restrained himself: "Because they are very brave."
Wanluan Sect Leader was furious: "Brave? What kind of joke are you making."
But this True Immortal wanted to say that what he was describing was reality.
These immortals are indeed very brave, brave enough to not fear death.
Because he saw with his own eyes a courageous youth angrily shouting, "Give back my father," then recklessly charged towards a True Immortal and died.
A few days later, he again saw a girl who looked similar, shouting, "Give back my brother," then charged forward and died again.
They are brave and fearless, true warriors.
They choose to fight boldly on the battlefield for victory in the Immortal Realm, backed by various grand reasons!
I’ve always thought they were a group of brave people.
In the Immortal Realm, with people like them, there should be no fear of war; vigor is forged in battle, and national dignity is built upon stepping over corpses to reach the top.
——This is my testimony for covering up for them.
Wanluan Sect Leader heard the True Immortal’s analysis and chuckled in anger:
"Regardless of other Immortal Domain’s battle zones, we, Zhongluan Immortal Domain, will withdraw our troops; starting today, we will gradually begin to defend, slow down the offensive."
However.
A few days later, the offensive did not slow down.
And the battles in various areas of the Immortal Realm completely spiraled out of control, with fires raging everywhere, thousands of battlefields of varying sizes.
Countless civilians, cultivators, sects were swept into the battlefield meat grinder by the overwhelming tide.
An immense national war erupted.
Ning Zheng: "..."
Ning Zheng was somewhat frightened.
He suddenly remembered Jiucai Rong’s previous joke: "Even if we become enemies of the world, we will still help the Manor Master...."
Are these people crazy?
Rushing to their deaths to make money.
Is it possible that I am the culprit behind this war’s full outbreak?
But fortunately.
Those Heaven’s Chosen True Immortals established their own Heaven’s Chosen Guild and knew when to stop!
They began instructing their immortal subordinates to temporarily slow down the front lines, no longer earning death money but earning injury money.
After all, if injured, they can claim free Pill Medicine, cultivation resources.
Thus, they changed strategies and transitioned from "death" to "severe injury," returning with a large supply of medical resources.
But they didn’t use the medical resources they brought back, instead opting for suicide, which had a better cost-benefit ratio.
The free-gained medical resources were then sold back through Xi Rong’s official arms collaboration channels.
Thus emerged a very peculiar phenomenon.
The Pill Medicine they acquired freely was sent back, claimed again...this Pill Medicine became a perpetual motion machine.
At this moment.
In a private room of a tavern in Chongshan Town.
A group of True Immortals sat around a table, smiling.
True Immortal Momei was astonished: "Old Dog Pi, you and the twelve ways of the Demon Immortals do have something, so many insiders."
The Demon Sect Marketplace leader named Old Dog Pi chuckled:
"Don’t forget, we were doing this ourselves before, specifically assisting some high-ranking officials in providing cash-out channels."
How competitive are various industries in the Immortal Realm?
Any industry with demand has long been a complete sector.
Previously, they were the black gloves for bigwigs and part-time intermediaries, linking official bigwigs for profit.
This time, they leveraged their entire network.
Old Dog Pi said: "Just having friends in the officialdom isn’t enough, we still need our special intelligence-organizing Black Market leader, Nine-Eyed Immortal, right?"
The nearby Nine-Eyed Immortal smiled, "All friends are supporting each other, surely friends are planning to open their own Black Market sub-branches here, aren’t you?"
Everyone laughed.
This time, the covert alliance of evil forces netted a substantial gain.
They decided to set up their intelligence network here too, and take on some assassin jobs and so forth.
As for embezzling public funds continuously?
It’s quite normal.
Even during times of peace, considerable military expenditures in the Immortal Realm quietly flow to unknown places every year.
...
PM at night.
Sword Casting Manor Forum, a group of blacksmiths were chatting like crazy.
Jiucai Rong: "According to statistics, we’ve been quietly sidelined by the big shots! They secretly have meetings themselves without inviting us to join! Boohoo, Celestial Destiny Village has already become their shape! Damn Tauren!"
Su Yuniang: "We only made a 30% profit, and the remaining 70% of the fraudulent insurance fees all went to them."
Night Mad Cultivator: "Made 70%, no wonder they’re so organized and disciplined, their own network is strong enough for them to play."
Swollen Eyes: "Did we make too little?"
Jiucai Rong: "Are you kidding, being sidelined is normal, their backgrounds are powerful, we’re just a merchant platform like Meituan or Taobao, we’re neutral, the big cut will always go to them."
"Otherwise, would they risk using their connections for you, open official arms dealer collaboration channels for you? Supply arms for you? If they don’t take the big cut, would they risk their lives for corruption? Make war profits?"
Night Mad Cultivator: "Exactly! We led the way, and then those True Immortals instantly organized swiftly, teaming up, setting up to fleece, whether through official cooperative channels or battlefield insurance fraud, they planned it meticulously."
The crowd thought for a moment and came to realization.
Indeed.
Without some mid to high-level officials, or even the True Immortal Generals responsible for certain war zones, secretly covering up, no matter how many times you died in public view, it would easily reveal a flaw.
Ultimately, it was the spontaneous actions of these Heaven’s Chosen.
And the blacksmiths earned a 30% cut, mainly from resurrection fees.
After all, Sword Casting Manor still followed the old rules, with resurrection fees set increasingly higher with the number of times.
But there would be some special missions released to reset resurrection fees.
Basically, it followed the old steward’s regimen, special missions could reward certain races, reset resurrection counts, open certain functions...
Snap!
Ning Zheng closed the forum, feeling speechless.
He noticed these natives [Heaven’s Chosen] were even wilder, more adept at stirring trouble than the players [Blacksmiths].
But these native Heaven’s Chosen still had their boundaries, they wouldn’t fish the waters dry.
Their actions were more fierce, swift! More ruthless!
Among them were probably quite a few black market leaders, and evil organizations, probably most of the evil forces in the shadows of the Immortal Realm had settled in my Xi Rong Black Market.
Meanwhile.
They were also afraid that this Auspicious Beast Xi Rong would be discovered by the Immortal Venerates.
After all, the Immortal Venerates had their own Auspicious Beasts, and now these Celestial and True Immortals also counted as having their own common Auspicious Beast...
In line with that saying: You wouldn’t want Xi Rong to be discovered by the Immortal Venerates, would you?
Their moves were also swift and lively.
No matter what, Ning Zheng decided to lie low, the big shots had already spontaneously formed a force, he’d wait and see how far they could go.
He would make sure to take his share of the cut.
If they were wiped out, Ning Zheng would decisively flee!
...
Several days passed.
The intensity of the situation kept growing, although there were fewer deaths, there were too many injuries.
Chaos Outer Domain.
Both sides’ Immortal Venerates were in a furious standoff.
There were two battlefields, and their combat styles differed.
In the Immortal Realm, each Immortal Domain had one to three Immortal Venerates, forming an Immortal Venerate Domain, collectively forming a world.
The Netherworld side also had over twenty Immortal Venerate Domains, collectively forming a world.
The two worlds clashed, battling over the Great Path.
In other words.
Though it seemed like the Immortal Venerates from both sides were fighting, it was still in a restrained two-army confrontation stage, merely an exchange of aura from afar.
But at this moment, a Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Venerate suddenly received intelligence from within the Immortal Realm, becoming furious, "How dare they be so audacious, do they truly think our Immortal Realm is empty?"
The opposing Immortal Venerate also grew enraged: "It’s you who think our Netherworld is empty, injuring so many of our good fellows! We will not rest until you hand over the Immortal Veins!"
Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Venerate sneered: "Just you lot?"
The Netherworld Immortal Venerate’s expression turned cold, "Though we may not defeat your Immortal Realm, we have Embers Immortal Venerate, with continuous self-detonations, we can certainly make you suffer!"
Opposite, Venerable Zhongluan’s expression shifted slightly.
The Immortal Realm’s Immortal Venerates were very powerful, generally stronger than other civilizations by a large margin.
But those Netherworld Immortal Venerates never aimed to kill them; they wanted to seize the Immortal Veins in the Immortal Vein Domain!
And how to seize them?
It’s simple!
Both sides’ Immortal Venerates were holding each other back, allowing True Immortal and Celestial Immortal armies to invade the Immortal Realm.
As long as the Yin Yang Five Elements Array protecting the Immortal Realm was broken, the Immortal Realm would lose its Law solidification and become an ordinary Nine-State World or Celestial Destiny World, very fragile.
Even the Self-Transformation Realm could destroy half of a Nine-State Continent, let alone a Celestial Immortal?
Once the Immortal Realm Solidification Array was dismantled, and the Immortal Realm shattered, the Thirteen Domains would explode, the Immortal Vein Domain would naturally fall out...
Moreover, you Immortal Venerates would lose your home base!
At the level of Immortal Venerates, no ordinary world could accommodate them... If the Immortal Realm exploded, they could only wander in the Chaos Region of the All Heavens World.
The Netherworld Immortal Venerate sneered, "We will leave you homeless! Since you disregard the rules, causing so much death and injury in both armies, there’s no need to hold back!"
With that said.
Outside the Chaos Region, several hidden Netherworld Immortal Venerates suddenly appeared, personally pushing a tomb world wrapped in intense black Tribulation Qi.
These tomb worlds had been excavated and were now treated as weapons to be hurled into the Immortal Realm.
In an instant, four worlds, like black meteors, fiercely slammed into the barrier of the Immortal Realm.
"You have the audacity! Do you really want mutual destruction?"
"You wish for mutual destruction, killing our good lads, so I’ll accompany you to the end!"
Boom!
Four colossal world meteors, carrying Tribulation Qi, slammed into the Immortal Realm.
In Chongshan Town, a few blacksmiths suddenly pointed at the sky in a daze, "I suddenly remembered an ancient story."
"What story?" Another Su Yuniang also stared at the sky in a daze.
"Meteor impact, dinosaur extinction, the end of an era of life and civilization." Another Su Yuniang’s eyes were filled with shock.