Chapter 467 - 466: Annihilating the Parks
Yunyang hovered high above the Lü Zon Capital, his Divine Thought sweeping out to probe everything below.
It was not yet late, and the people of the Lü Zon Capital all saw Yunyang hovering low in the sky.
No one was afraid. Although the Daoists of Celestial Xia had once shattered a skyscraper in Berkeley with a single lightning bolt and spirited away a stone pagoda from Sakura Country, they had never actually committed a large-scale massacre.
So, the people of the Lü Zon Capital looked on with curiosity at Yunyang hovering in midair. Some even took out their phones to take pictures and record videos, wondering what this person had come to Lü Zon to do.
"Is he from Lü Zon?"
"No way we could have someone that powerful!"
"Is he a Superman from Huaqi Country?"
"Could be, but he might also be from Celestial Xia. I heard their Daoists can fly."
"What’s he doing here?"
"No idea."
The crowd on the ground buzzed with discussion. The Lü Zon Capital had its share of wealthy people, some of whom had high-powered binoculars. Through their lenses, they saw Yunyang glance around for a moment before a smile broke out on his face.
The next moment, Yunyang took out the gourd at his waist, pulled out the stopper, and held it upside down in his hand.
"Capture!"
With Yunyang’s command, his Divine Sense blanketed a nearby scam compound. The scammers inside suddenly felt their bodies constrict, as if bound by an invisible force, and then they involuntarily rose into the air.
"AHHHH!"
"What’s happening?!"
"Help, I can’t control myself!"
"Why am I flying?!"
Yunyang hadn’t silenced them. He wanted them to be able to scream, as this would strike even greater fear into the hearts of other criminals in the area.
CRASH! BANG! SMASH!
CRASH—SHATTER—
It was the sound of shattering glass. Bound by Yunyang’s Magical Power, these people weren’t given the chance to use the stairs. He dragged them along the most direct route—straight through the windows, leaving them bloodied and battered.
"Help! Help me!"
"I was wrong! I was wrong! I’ll never do it again!"
"I’ll never scam Celestial Xia People again!"
As they burst through the windows and flew into the sky, they saw Yunyang hovering in midair. The Celestial Xia People among them easily recognized his Daoist robes and the gourd in his hand.
How could they not realize that Yunyang had come for them?
"Master, spare us! Immortal, have mercy!"
"We were all tricked into coming here! We were forced!"
"That’s our boss! He’s the ringleader!"
As the scammers wailed and screamed, the surrounding Lü Zon locals watched in shock and terror. Realizing this flying Superman was actually here to capture people, they finally cried out and scattered for cover.
Yunyang was high in the air, but he heard every word they shouted.
He now possessed several hundred years of Dao Practice; with a mere flicker of his aura, he could distinguish who among the crowd had been forced, who had joined willingly, and who was in charge of the compound.
However, this manager wasn’t the true boss of the compound, so Yunyang didn’t kill him. Instead, he absorbed him into his gourd along with everyone else.
From the perspective of the people in the Lü Zon Capital, they saw several thousand people fly out of the industrial park below. The massive swarm flew toward Yunyang, shrinking as they got closer, before vanishing one by one into the gourd in his hand.
Everyone: !!!
Thousands of people! All of them captured in a single gourd!
There were quite a few Celestial Xia People in the Lü Zon Capital, many of whom were familiar with Celestial Xia culture or had even seen the TV series Journey to the West. They easily recalled a certain Magical Treasure.
"Taishang Laojun’s Purple Gold Red Gourd!"
"They used that gourd to capture dark clouds and hold a Golden Mountain! I never thought it could actually capture people too!"
Just after Yunyang finished capturing the thousands of people from that industrial park, he turned the gourd toward another direction.
The next moment, another group of people flew out from a different industrial park, shattering glass and splattering blood in the air as they howled and screamed before being absorbed into Yunyang’s gourd.
Then, everyone in the Lü Zon Capital could only watch, wide-eyed, as Yunyang held his gourd aloft and captured tens of thousands of people from seven different industrial parks, completely wiping out the capital’s telecom fraud industry.
Afterward, Yunyang hung the gourd back on his waist. He then reached out his hand and grasped, and a Treasure Sword materialized in his grip.
’Time to show off... no, I mean, time for a public display of power.’
Yunyang brandished his longsword, and a massive Dharma Aspect of Lü Zu, dozens of meters tall, appeared behind him. It held its own sword across its chest, perfectly mirroring Yunyang’s stance.
"Sword rises, a star in flight, to punish across ten thousand li, / As wind and thunder follow, and the driving rain roars."
Yunyang’s voice echoed throughout the Lü Zon Capital. He then pointed his longsword forward, and behind him, Lü Zu’s Dharma Aspect mirrored the motion, pointing its own massive blade.
A brilliant ray of Sword Light shot out from the tip of the Dharma Aspect’s sword, striking the central building of an industrial park.
Then, with the central building as the epicenter, every structure in the park began to collapse. It happened from the inside out, and in just a few seconds, the entire compound was reduced to rubble.
Yunyang nodded in satisfaction. He then flicked his longsword to the side, and another beam of Sword Light shot out, crossing half the Lü Zon Capital to utterly demolish a second industrial park.
’The power of that strike must be at least comparable to a cruise missile, right?’
Unfortunately, there were no experts present. If that serious-looking middle-aged man from the Taoist Office had been there, he would have surely told Yunyang that a single strike capable of annihilating an industrial park covering tens of thousands of square meters was far more powerful than any cruise missile.
Unless one were to use a cluster bomb, no single missile could match the destructive power of Yunyang’s sword strike.
Strategic weapons, of course, were another matter entirely.
Yunyang swung his sword five more times, destroying the five remaining industrial parks in quick succession.
And with that, every scammer in the Lü Zon Capital had been captured, and every one of their industrial parks had been razed to the ground.
’Besides this one, there are industrial parks in two other cities,’ Yunyang thought, recalling the intel he had reviewed en route. He got his bearings, and with a flash of movement, he shot off into the distance, leaving a trail of clouds in his wake.
Over the next half hour, news came from two other cities in Lü Zon: a Superman who could fly through the air had arrived, captured all the workers from several industrial parks, and then destroyed the parks with a single sword strike!
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Meanwhile, Jing Chun Taoist arrived in the territory of Shan Country. He followed the same procedure as Yunyang, first capturing the people in the industrial parks with his gourd, then unleashing the Taoist Divine Prison and smashing it down from above.
After an earth-shattering roar, the local industrial park was reduced to ruins.
The lingering pressure of the Taoist Divine Prison’s Divine Thought, along with the terrifying visage of the Divine Prison Ghost Generals it had revealed, was seared into the minds of the local onlookers, teaching them the meaning of awe.
Taoist Yuan He’s method was even simpler. After capturing the scammers, he made a Sword Pointing gesture.
His Pure Yang Flying Sword executed the Refining Sword into Silk technique. A dense, golden Sword Net swept through the area, dicing the buildings in the parks into countless fist-sized chunks.