Chapter 1918 - 1922: Liu Island Joins the Army
How many troops had Liu Island gathered?!
As the supreme commander, Li Ruohai naturally knew best.
Golden Core Cultivators served as Auxiliary Troops, numbering a full hundred thousand, and the main force of Nascent Soul and above totaled fifty thousand.
Added together, that was a full hundred and fifty thousand in the Cultivator army!
And just now, after that white sphere fell, it actually wiped out more than sixty thousand of the Cultivator army?!
And the reason—was simply that they had fallen into chaos because of the Heavenly Lord’s arrival?!
A chill seeped into Li Ruohai’s heart, bone-deep, as if his whole body had been thrown into a world of ice and snow!
Beside him, Zhang Tong was petrified with fright, her beautiful features drained of color, her face pale as paper!
The Power of that white sphere just now had already made her tremble, but the Heavenly Lord casually obliterating tens of thousands of Cultivators over a single disagreement chilled her blood even more!
One had to know, these were all a Cultivator army that was supposed to follow the Heavenly Lord into battle!
The Heavenly Lord’s Envoy merely watched coldly from the side, not wasting a single extra word.
The Heavenly Lord might usually not be too harsh on his subordinate forces, but that never meant the Heavenly Lord was some merciful fool!
He refrained from being harsh simply because he had no need to!
Now he needed war, he needed Liu Island to be stable, and since Liu Island had failed him, he did not mind wiping Liu Island out!
Li Ruohai seemed to sense some nameless threat of death transmitted between Heaven and Earth; he hurriedly spoke: "Honored Envoy, I, I, I’ll reorganize them immediately! I’ll reorganize them right away!"
Right now he felt thorns stabbing into his back, his whole being about to explode!
All he could think about now was one thing: hurry and patch things up!
If he didn’t, he was afraid he would die!
"No need."
The Heavenly Lord’s Envoy suddenly spoke.
"Honored Envoy, Honored Envoy, we’ve worked together, we’ve served His Majesty the Heavenly Lord side by side! Please, show me some mercy, give me some time, I’ll fix this in the shortest possible time!" Li Ruohai panicked, hastily pleading with the Heavenly Lord’s Envoy!
He thought the Heavenly Lord’s Envoy was displeased with him and was preparing to report him.
So as he begged, he also prepared to take something out as a gift!
"Don’t beg me, and don’t try to slip me anything!" The Heavenly Lord’s Envoy shook his head lightly and refused. "Li Ruohai, you don’t need to say more. I’ve reminded you time and again because I felt you were still decent, someone who got things done! But alas..."
Hearing this, Li Ruohai felt there was still hope, and quickly prepared to speak again.
Even Zhang Tong reacted, hastily readying herself to kneel.
"Stop. There really is no need." The Heavenly Lord’s Envoy spoke again, then looked toward the Thirty-Three Heavens out over the sea, and said coolly, "This matter is already beyond what you or I can decide."
Li Ruohai’s body went rigid, then he turned to look in the direction of the Thirty-Three Heavens.
Soon, he saw several tiny black dots speeding toward them!
Cultivators!
And all of them Cultivators with utterly terrifying Cultivation!
In no time, the few black dots landed on Liu Island!
Seeing who had arrived, Li Ruohai felt his scalp go numb, his whole body trembling!
Not for any other reason—though he didn’t recognize these people, just from their Qi he knew: every one of them was a Tribulation Crossing Cultivator!
Which meant that the few casually dispatched to deal with this incident were all Tribulation Crossing Cultivators with the same Cultivation realm as him!
Terrifying beyond words!
"We’ll take over here."
One Tribulation Crossing Cultivator looked at the Heavenly Lord’s Envoy and said.
"Then, my lord, I shall take my leave."
The Heavenly Lord’s Envoy immediately bowed low, then began to stride across the sea toward the Thirty-Three Heavens.
Though he himself was not a Tribulation Crossing Cultivator, the spatial turbulence had already subsided, so he could traverse the sea freely.
Li Ruohai saw the Heavenly Lord’s Envoy leaving and wanted to say something, but under the gazes of the several Tribulation Crossing Cultivators, no words would come out!
"Li Ruohai, Lord of Liu Island, ignored the Heavenly Lord’s Horn—punished under military law."
One Tribulation Crossing Cultivator glanced at Li Ruohai and spoke indifferently.
Then he continued, "The people of Liu Island: having wantonly incited chaos, they are to be swiftly suppressed."
"Yes!"
The several Tribulation Crossing Cultivators immediately scattered!
Very soon, the entire Liu Island became a Hellish scene of rivers of blood and severed heads rolling!
Cultivator armies that disobeyed orders—kill!
𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚
Loose Cultivators who fled wildly—kill!
Mortal folk who left their homes and did not return—kill!
Demon Clan shouting and screaming—kill!
Demon Beasts rampaging across the islands—kill!
And of course, Li Ruohai, Zhang Tong—kill!
Li Ruohai and Zhang Tong regretted it so much their guts turned green!
They had never imagined the two of them would lose their Lives over this!
Saving face?! Heh heh heh, saving face?!
How utterly stupid!
...
Half an hour later.
Liu Island fell silent.
Of course, a third of its Lives were gone.
Yes, what was missing was a third of all Life, not merely a third of the humans!
Any who failed to obey the Heavenly Lord’s Horn—kill them all!
Even if it meant slaughtering everything, it did not matter!
...
Another half hour passed, and envoys from the Thirty-Three Heavens once again took control of Liu Island.
Liu Island formally joined the Thirty-Three Heavens’ external battle forces.
After that, the islands of the Thirty-Three Heavens began Floating past Liu Island one after another, heading in a single direction!
Though they already knew, when they saw those colossal island clusters Floating on the sea, they still felt waves of creeping dread!
Just what level of Cultivation was required to make entire islands Floating on the sea?!
Even Mahayana Cultivators absolutely could not do such a thing!
Then, a strange anticipation began to stir within them—would they also be brought up to the Thirty-Three Heavens?!
And just as those battle-weary troops on Liu Island, all like frightened birds, were wondering which of those Thirty-Three Heavens islands they’d be going to—
"Boom!"
A bout of earth-shaking tremors erupted once more.
Then, in horror, they realized that this time the quaking was not coming from the sea, but from Liu Island itself!
Luckily they had just survived a blood-soaked slaughter; otherwise they would have gone into a fresh panic all over again!
Next, under their stunned and terrified gazes—
They suddenly discovered that their island had begun to move!
Yes, it was moving!
Just like those Thirty-Three Heavens islands Floating outside on the sea, their Liu Island had begun to drift as well!
In an instant, the faces of everyone on Liu Island turned deathly pale!
They might have wanted to go up to the Thirty-Three Heavens to experience what those Floating islands felt like, but that did not mean they wanted their own island Floating out on the sea!
The feeling was completely different!
You had to understand, dry land was what gave people the greatest sense of safety; as long as they stood upon solid ground, their hearts would be filled with security!
But now, the land under their feet was Floating?!
The sensation was as if someone had suddenly thrown a huge pile of banana peels under their feet; maybe it wouldn’t really make them fall, but they still instinctively dropped prone to the ground!
It was a subconscious instinct, utterly unavoidable!