Chapter 1062 - 149: The Rebel’s Combo, Art of Combat
However, Ning Zheng’s complaints aside, the real issue now isn’t the Embers’ front desk, but that he feels something big might happen if he were to enter this cave mansion to cultivate.
He stayed outside, watching from a distance for a while.
He noticed that today the number of cultivators coming to the Stream Speed Cave Mansion for cultivation is three to four times the usual.
Ning Zheng became slightly cautious and silently stepped back: "I fear the Immortal Realm is ready to fish and begin the counterattack."
"Who are these people suddenly coming to the cave mansion to cultivate?"
"There’s an eighty to ninety percent chance that they’re tribulation cultivators like me who just looted a wave and are now loaded, ready to cultivate instantly."
Ning Zheng sighed; the Immortal Realm is truly full of treacherous hearts.
Painters, they are good for nothing...
These Immortal Venerates have started scheming, and this war machine got caught off guard with a first-time kill, starting its official launch.
And they chose the best solution, letting Embers become the clerk.
Meanwhile, in various locations, they’re stationed at Stream Speed Cave Mansions, ready to catch people.
Estimating a batch of celestial tribulation cultivators suddenly raiding everywhere that day will be caught, hanging them, making a list to intimidate the world.
This intimidation list might number in the hundreds of thousands!
And after killing them?
The Immortal Venerates will likely make use of the waste, fifty percent of several tens of thousands of celestial Embers, having them work for them, rooting down as eternal servants to the Immortal Venerates!
Gasp!
Ning Zheng took another breath:
"I hope it’s just my imagination, otherwise the Immortal Venerates might already know this, merely choosing not to act directly against their own, instead deliberately indulging?"
He thought perhaps he was being too conspiratorial.
Learning bad habits from that Night Mad Cultivator, always considering things from a negative perspective.
"Who cares; the struggles of the Immortal Venerates are terrifying, deeply cunning. It’s better to watch the fires burning across the river, and secretly develop."
Now back to the present.
Entering this Stream Speed Cave Mansion might not necessarily lead to trouble, but will surely lead to various investigations, tracking, divination of what you did yesterday...
After all.
There’s media involved in divination.
Yesterday, there were so many cultivators stealing and raiding everywhere; vague, broad divination is surely pointless.
The cultivators stationed here will precisely divine each person, figuring out what you did that day, making it easier to catch people.
"I can’t withstand the scrutiny."
Ning Zheng silently retreated, ignoring those happy celestials entering.
Feeling these celestials might have been blinded by happiness.
Considering the sheer number of celestials, there are surely straightforward folk among them.
"Recently, I’ve relied on divination; I’ve grown a bit arrogant, becoming less inclined to think, realizing the situation only upon arriving here."
Ning Zheng silently took the lesson to heart, leaving this place of troubles, turning towards a wave of Celestial Destiny World.
Rustle!
The Celestial Destiny World.
Ning Zheng arrived outside a Daoist town.
He set up an array to isolate from the outside, utilizing the flow speed of the Celestial Destiny World for cultivation.
Though this place can’t compare to the Immortal Realm, Ning Zheng had money and simply absorbed Immortal Stones, applying a little bit of luck to compensate for the enjoyment of the environment.
A true genius can still strive in the harsh, challenging End of the Dharma environment.
...
...
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
These three days were extremely fulfilling, with several major events occurring while Ning Zheng was in seclusion.
Firstly, Chongshan Town had been completely taken over by the Golden Core Business Alliance.
The Immortal Venerate Business Alliance didn’t interfere.
After all, Xi Rong was nominally setting things right, killing the painter forces in Chongshan Town, maintaining the Immortal Venerate’s forces, taking action against rebels.
We are the good people and deserve rewards instead.
Not to mention, Xi Rong now has many True Immortals backing him, pulling one hair moves the whole body.
Moreover.
The turmoil that day was incredibly vast.
No matter who Ning Zheng covertly robbed, he openly targeted only a trashy Chongshan Town, which was very honest.
Others were busy dealing with bigger bandits, those who robbed True Immortal Sects like True Immortal Momei’s kind.
But when laws don’t hold the crowd accountable, this applies in the Immortal Realm too.
The extraordinary world is pyramid-structured, no mistake about it.
But the Immortal Venerates fear the upper-tier True Immortals fleeing.
Immortal Venerates don’t want to become solitary commanders; even the strongest Immortal Venerate, without subordinates, cannot manage that much land.
Mid-levels and higher are extremely important.
And also need to suppress the Immortal Realm’s [Realm Array], requiring the Yin Yang Five Elements in seven directions across various Immortal Domains, a large number of attribute True Immortals to suppress this realm’s laws.
In this way, the Immortal Realm won’t easily shatter.
Otherwise, with a wave of their hand, Immortal Venerates could blow away a large region.
Forget Immortals; a single One Heart Period, Self-Transformation Realm cultivator could wipe out mountains with a wave, and if the Immortal Realm were as fragile as the Nine-State, how would it survive?
Immortal Venerates surely can’t go to the desolate chaos of other worlds to eat dust, right?
Enter one world, and it would blow up another world.
So in this period, Immortal Venerates don’t want to account for that day’s turmoil; they’re busy constructing new cities, catching pseudo-humans, detecting pseudo-humans.
Searching for painters among the crowd.
As for Embers? They’re completely indifferent, as Embers are neutral and burst out at fifty percent, which benefits the Immortal Realm considerably.
But the work of catching pseudo-humans is inherently difficult.
Considering that day, who knows how many citizens have already become pseudo-humans and mixed back into the population.
Divination?
Sorry.
On that day, Immortal Venerates combined efforts to confuse celestial secrets and used supreme treasures to suppress the pseudo-human race’s luck.
It’s all meant to disgust you.
The pseudo-human race’s current luck is vast, reportedly suppressed by seven or eight Immortal Venerable Supreme Treasures.
...
Chongshan Town.
In a tavern.
A group of guests chatting, discussing matter, bragging while drinking, enjoying themselves freely.
As if the chaos from a few days ago felt like a dream, quickly returning to peace.
"I’ve heard the Immortal Venerates are seriously disgusted."
"See? The pseudo-human race has instantly become the first esteemed family in the Immortal Realm!"
"This luck, don’t know how many Auspicious Beasts are suppressing it, tsk tsk, really a meteoric rise."
"Sigh, our Immortal Venerates, they reportedly suffered considerable..."
"Fellow Daoist, speak cautiously, speak cautiously! Be careful, walls have ears!"
...
The guests in the tavern chatted.
Sun Moon Su Yuniang managed the tavern, seeing this scene left her speechless: Cautious speech, yet you still chatter? I fear you’re all acting!
"These people, quite a few among them might be pseudo-humans."
Sun Moon Su Yuniang complained.
These pseudo-humans, wickedly cunning, spreading ill news everywhere.
Since peace was restored, in taverns, tea houses across various lands, large groups of water armies often appear.
Playing rational guests, recounting the deeds of pseudo-humans, speaking on the bad situation of Immortal Venerates, which Immortal Venerate was severely injured...
Spreading rumors everywhere.
"It’s definitely that Painter scoundrel, clandestinely learning our Xi Rong family’s water army tactics."
The nearby Medical Fairy clenched her teeth, "In our family tavern alone, countless pseudo-humans have been caught."
The Immortal Aunt angrily exclaimed, "That Painter with wicked interest knows Chongshan Town is our stronghold, likely increasing water army deployment here, deliberately showing off his water army skills, disturbing us at our lair!"
The crowd criticized.
Anyway, any blame, any oddity, just push it onto the Painter.
"In the long run, the Immortal Venerates will have no authority." Sun Moon Su Yuniang showed an interested expression.
This is a combo attack!
The outbreak attack on that day was only the beginning; now it’s the second phase in overthrowing the Immortal Venerates.
Digging your roots, undermining your people’s hearts.
Just like the previous pseudo-human invasion in the Nine-State.
Suddenly erupting on a certain day, a blitzkrieg, then quickly subsiding, pseudo-humans mixing into the crowd, slowly infiltrating your descendants.
How will you find them?
Can only watch it spread helplessly; surely won’t kill all the citizens, right?