Chapter 2016: The Nightmare I've Long Known

Wanqiliang frowned.

"The prisoner said that the Heavenly Palace's Dharma Protector also sent a commander from the Yao region to Guo Bai Yu, who usually interferes in military affairs, but that person is not here either."

Wanqiliang pondered: "What does this 'commander' look like, and who is usually with him?"

The subordinates brought forward a prisoner, who was originally a leader in Guo's army, and he explained in detail: the commander is a robust man in his thirties, often accompanied by a girl of sixteen or seventeen with an ordinary appearance. Guo Bai Yu also issued strict orders that no one in the army should slight this Miss, and her food, clothing, lodging, and travel were given extra attention.

Judging by what was said, this girl is very likely the "Divine Descent Vessel" sent by the Heavenly Palace to Guo Bai Yu, but Wanqiliang has wiped out two batches of enemies before, and their so-called Divine Descent Vessels were all fake. Those local tyrants only realized they had been tricked by Qingyang when they were dying.

So, is the Divine Descent Vessel that she sent to Guo Bai Yu genuine or not?

But then, the enemies Wanqiliang had dealt with before never had a "commander" sent by the Heavenly Palace. Does this mean that Qingyang values Guo Bai Yu more?

After all, Guo Bai Yu performed better in the War Against the Dragon Gods.

Wanqiliang thought for a moment and then asked the prisoner: "Has Guo Bai Yu ever attempted to summon the Divine Descent?"

The prisoner shook his head and honestly replied: "I don't know what 'summoning the Divine Descent' looks like."

"Praying, chanting spells, continuing for a period of time."

"No, the commander has always been busy."

Wanqiliang asked a few more questions, got no useful clues, and then withdrew his troops and returned to the city.

……

The flesh-and-blood fortress was breached, and the Dragon God Army and the Bixia people who had been blocked outside rushed over.

The Bixia army had fought hard for a long time, but upon seeing the Nine Abysses Great Emperor, they collapsed on the spot—

because he was holding the head of the Heavy Martial General!

He is the pillar that has allowed Bixia to struggle until now; his fall means the breaking of Bixia's main beam.

This is the turning point of the Bixia War.

After that, there is little suspense: He Lingchuan cleared the obstacles ahead, and his troops approached Anrong City. The old chieftain of Bixia saw his son die miserably, knew the situation was lost, his heart turned to ashes, and immediately committed suicide.

Bixia has a grudge against the allied forces, and Bixia was also ordered by the Heavenly Palace and Qingyang to oppose the Nine Abysses Great Emperor, which dooms the Bixia chieftain to have no retreat and cannot surrender to the Nine Abysses Great Emperor like the allied forces.

Defeat means only a dead end.

His death gives the Bixia people a hope of survival.

The Heavy Martial General and the old chieftain died one after another, and Bixia's resistance collapsed instantly.

Their war with the allied forces has already lasted two years, both sides equally impoverished and exhausted. Now the chieftain father and son have died on the same day, and Bixia has lost its last bit of spirit.

What meaning is there in continuing resistance, other than increasing casualties?

On this day, the officials of Anrong City led the clansmen out to surrender the city.

This is also why He Lingchuan lured the Heavy Martial General to attack him: although Anrong Ducheng is not as solid as Yaoducheng, capturing it would not take just a day or two, which does not match He Lingchuan's strategy of quick victory. So he had to set a trap himself, shatter the Bixia people's hope in one blow, and make them lose heart and lose the will to resist.

In other words, as long as he captures the Heavy Martial General, this matter is seventy to eighty percent done.

Afterwards, He Lingchuan took control of Anrong City, held a reward banquet in the old palace, and fulfilled his promise to his subordinates:

Let them eat a rich breakfast in the Anrong Palace City.

At this time, the sky was still not bright.

The Bixia people surrendered en masse, the Bixia territory was annexed into the Dragon God's domain, and the war in the eastern and western parts of the Jinshin Plain thus ended.

He Lingchuan must admit that he had a preconceived notion, thinking that the best support Qingyang gave to the Heavy Martial General was the Divine Descent Vessel, which would allow him to summon a true heavenly god.

But that was narrow-minded.

The Jinshin Plain still has many great demons that can be used by the Heavenly Palace and Qingyang, and there are also mysterious and unfathomable secret divine arts, such as the flesh-and-blood fortress and the Jin Du ghost offspring, and even if used well, this is more effective than directly summoning a god.

Not to mention ordinary people, even immortals have hardly ever seen the power of the Jin Du ghost offspring, and combined with the flesh-and-blood fortress, it truly harms one person after another.

From detouring around the mountain bend, He Lingchuan and the Black Armor Army actually entered the flesh-and-blood fortress after its disguise. And the few monsters before us, plus those slain by He Lingchuan and the Black Armor Army, are all ghost offspring born from the womb of the Jin Du ghost mother.

The woman at the bottom of the lake is their human mother, or rather, the vessel of their birth.

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And the endless stream of small monsters summoned should be one of their abilities, but it depends on the mother body to work. So once the woman dies, both the flesh-and-blood fortress and the small monsters disappear.

Because this flesh-and-blood fortress is activated by her body, and this process is filled with terrifying and extreme pain, especially when large and small monsters suck the mother's life force to heal their wounds.

The woman is not a Divine Descent Vessel, but she received the nourishment of Emperor's Essence and Profound Crystals; otherwise, she could not possibly sustain such consumption.

The horror of this deadly place lies in the fact that enemies trapped in the flesh-and-blood fortress often think it is a formation, and then waste time and energy searching for a way to break it, only to be slowly drained to death.

Only those who understand the operating principle of the flesh-and-blood fortress have a chance to survive from within.

Although the name of the Nine Abysses Great Emperor is frightening, neither Qingyang nor the Heavy Martial General believes he has seen such a strange thing.

Almost no one can break the flesh-and-blood fortress in a hurry; this is a special manifestation of divine art in the human world, not something that should naturally exist in the human world. The Jin Du ghost mother herself is a special existence among heavenly gods, almost using a bug-exploit method to cross the two-world barrier and place the ghost offspring in the human world, and the ghost offspring themselves have growth potential, making them completely different from ordinary Divine Descent Vessels.

But no one knows that, long before, He Lingchuan personally experienced the terror of the flesh-and-blood fortress in the Panlong World.

At that time, his small team almost failed to escape, until the Red General arrived and killed the necrophage, ending everything.

Therefore, He Lingchuan's impression of that battle is extremely deep; upon seeing the flesh-and-blood stone patterns in the stone tablet, he immediately recalled the past memories and also knew where the fatal weakness of this trap lies.

Today's battle, I don't know whether to say He Lingchuan was too lucky, or the Heavy Martial General and Qingyang were too unlucky.

But He Lingchuan finds one thing strange:

The flesh-and-blood fortress is the necrophage's divine ability, but when fighting the Heavy Martial General, no necrophage appeared inside the flesh-and-blood fortress; otherwise, the difficulty of this campaign would have increased by at least one level.

The number of offspring the Jin Du ghost mother gives birth to is not fixed; at most she can produce nine in one litter, but the chance of producing a necrophage is extremely small and not artificially controllable.

He Lingchuan has seen a necrophage in the Panlong World, and in the real world's demon nest swamp he has also seen the nest left by necrophages, and after that he has heard no more news of such demonic creatures.

I also don't know where Qingyang obtained this flesh-and-blood fortress, but it can only be said that the Qing Palace's collection is still too rich.