Chapter 272

Holding this jade plaque was regarded as holding the special authority of the Yingtian Division.

One could pass through the borders of Chang'an Prefecture!

"So it is an official from the Yingtian Division."

The soldier holding the gun carefully verified the information, confirmed that his identity authentication was true, and his expression softened, "After verification, you are allowed to enter Chang'an Prefecture."

He turned around and clicked on his identity device continuously.

After undergoing heavy verification procedures,

he finally turned to the side and cleared the way for Jiang Jian.

"Thank you."

Jiang Jian thanked him and successfully entered Chang'an Prefecture.

Upon entering it,

the spiritual energy between heaven and earth instantly became rich.

Chang'an Prefecture was the same as before, prosperous and bustling, with flourishing cultivation scenes.

At a glance, it seemed as if nothing had changed.

"Car calling service activated, estimated arrival in 1 minute!"

A cold mechanical sound rang out.

Not long after,

a brand-new hovercar landed in front of Jiang Jian, and the cabin door opened with a roar.

Jiang Jian walked up the gangway and boarded the hovercar.

The cabin lights flickered, and notification sounds followed.

"Destination: Yingtian Division."

"Estimated arrival time: 2 hours and 40 minutes."

The cabin door closed.

The hovercar emitted a humming sound.

Amidst slight vibrations, it rose rapidly!

Jiang Jian sat by the window, his gaze passing through the porthole, looking at the firmament behind him.

Outside the Chang'an Prefecture border,

below the firmament,

that massive Mercury warship had already sailed into the firmament crack and left safely.

The tens of thousands of teams it carried when it came, only a few dozen flying boats, barely completed the mission, returned to the warship, and managed to save their lives.

Tens of thousands of Mercury living beings

had mostly died here!

At the same time,

the identity device flickered urgently, and regional communications arrived one after another.

The casualty figures brought by this firmament crack had already appeared.

"Casualties from the Baiye Prefecture crack are as follows."

"Earth citizens."

"Divine Gift Realm: 3210 people."

"Spring Realm: 42 people."

"Unofficial citizens: estimated around 10,000."

The information was very brief.

But in a short time,

these casualty figures caused a huge uproar on the forum!

Countless Earth citizens were furious and filled with righteous indignation.

The related discussion posts had already exceeded one hundred million!

Mercury living beings formed teams, not attacking the center of the prefecture, but choosing surrounding cities, counties, and towns, falling in all directions, and launching crazy attacks.

Their main targets were almost all ordinary people!

In these places, Spring Realm experts were scarce,

and most of the civilians were Divine Gift Realm cultivators, who usually neglected cultivation, and their resistance power was almost non-existent!

However,

these prefectures seemed to have been prepared long ago.

Whether it was the subordinate pavilions of the Star-Governing Palace or the Prefecture Yamen escort fleet, they had all been sent out early, ambushing and distributing in the cities and counties of the continent.

Once a Mercury team landed, they would annihilate them with thunderous force.

Reducing the casualties of ordinary civilians to the minimum!

Despite this,

in the deep mountains and wilderness, there were still many civilians who were tragically slaughtered.

Outside the ambush circle, or in remote areas where rescue was too late, several thousand ordinary people were also easily slaughtered.

"So the Surface Realm side had long known the Demon Monarch Baxia's intentions and had made many preparations in advance."

Jiang Jian took back his gaze.

The Surface Realm had a total of seven cracks.

At each crack, there were tens of thousands of Mercury living beings, scattering and landing!

These Mercury living beings were all in the Spring Realm!

If the Surface Realm truly had no precautions,

then

the death toll of this attack would definitely have skyrocketed to an unimaginable level!

Jiang Jian thought

that in his Guangling City,

the population was three million.

Spring Realm experts, however, were no more than a hundred.

These people lived in luxury and had mediocre talent.

If they were to fight, being able to block a move or two from a Mercury living being would be considered a great surprise.

As long as a few Mercury teams landed, without preparation, the miserable end of this city would be unimaginable.

Jiang Jian looked through the identity device, recalled the regional communication from not long ago, and understood in his heart.

With the world portal of the Chang'an Nine-Layer Realm sealed,

the Surface Realm was able to organize an ambush of such scale in a short time, even penetrating every city and county, greatly reducing civilian casualties.

The Star-Governing Palace's overall planning was indispensable.

Soon,

the identity device light flickered, and notifications came one after another.

The Earth planetary barrier self-repair was complete.

All seven firmament cracks had returned to their original state!

The total death toll of Earth citizens was calculated.

Casualties of the two realms' citizens were less than 30,000.

These people were basically ordinary civilians in the deep mountains and wild ridges outside the ambush circle.

At the city, county, and town level, they received the most attacks, but there were almost no casualties!

This was because,

within the ambush circle,

not only were there "cultivators" and "Elders" sent by the subordinate pavilions of the Star-Governing Palace,

but there were also Divine Palace Realm living beings sitting in town, rushing to rescue.

On the contrary,

near the seven cracks,

unofficial citizens suffered the most casualties.

According to preliminary statistics,

the number of casualties had already exceeded 100,000.

Although the Surface Realm's response was impeccable, almost perfectly resolving this offensive,

everyone knew clearly

that this was just Mercury's probing.

Mercury living beings almost completely became cannon fodder, used to consume Earth in the early stages.

What was even more shocking was

that Mercury, with just one vanguard offensive, could throw out 100,000 Spring Realm experts without feeling any pain.

If this were on Earth,

such a thing would be completely unimaginable!

While pondering,

Jiang Jian sat in the hovercar.

Deep in his mind, he vaguely sensed

that the mission he had accepted had become somewhat heavy at some point.

Tianjing was located in the Ninth-Layer Realm and was the highest official office on the surface.

It was also the true hub of Chang'an Prefecture.

The entire Ninth-Layer Realm belonged to Tianjing.

All major political decrees of the seventy prefectures of the Surface Realm and all affairs on the Earth's surface were issued from Tianjing.

But at this very moment,

most of the high-ranking officials of the Tianjing Hub were trapped in the Ninth-Layer Realm.

This defensive ambush was almost entirely led by the Star-Governing Palace, and the role played by Tianjing was merely auxiliary coordination.

The overlap between officials of the Star-Governing Palace and Tianjing serving in the Surface Realm was extremely high.

That was why they could act smoothly without any obstacles.

"Yingtian Division, Deputy Chief Zhang Bai Mu."

Jiang Jian lowered his gaze, looking at the wooden box in his hand.

After pondering for a moment, he still didn't put it into the storage space.

This wooden box was specially made by Shen Xi to contain the World Origin fragments.

It had many arrays, and its effects were not very clear.

Jiang Jian could not be sure if putting it in would expose the storage space.

Under these circumstances, he had no need to take risks at all.

Suddenly,

deep in his soul,

the Ksitigarbha Tin Staff floating there trembled slightly.

Jiang Jian put away the wooden box, his mind freezing.

This was the Guiding Envoy's prompt for him.

The Favored One of the Seventh Palace had highly likely ascended to the position of Palace Master.

This meant

that the Yinshan Wonder Realm battle was about to officially begin!

Once the Ksitigarbha position battle truly opened, any Favored One could not withdraw at will.

Even if they were defeated and died, they could not escape from it.

Time passed quickly.

Unknowingly,

the hovercar slowed down.

It landed on the top of a steel giant building, a pricey toll ship field.

There were not many ships coming and going here, and it was very quiet.

Jiang Jian did not get off, but sat in the cabin seat, opened the identity device, and entered a string of citizen numbers.

The Yingtian Division was crowded and noisy, and he didn't plan to go directly.

Instead, according to the identity device serial number provided by Shen Xi, he directly connected to Deputy Chief Zhang Bai Mu.

The friend request was sent, but it was not responded to for a long time.

Jiang Jian leaned against the seat, feeling no impatience in his heart, but closed his eyes lightly and cultivated quietly.

3 hours later,

the wristwatch finally flickered, and a mechanical notification sound rang out.

"Friend request accepted."

At the same time,

the other side of the communication sent a voice message.

"Sorry, the Star-Governing Palace official positions are already full."

A man's voice came, deep and thick, "No matter who recommended you, I am powerless."

Hearing the voice, Jiang Jian's expression was strange.

This voice message was actually a group message.

In other words,

in the past two days, many people might have added Zhang Bai Mu.

As the Deputy Chief of the Yingtian Division, he held great power.

Only noble families with deep backgrounds could get his identity device serial number and take the initiative to add him.

Zhang Bai Mu was in a high position and naturally did not want to offend others.

He accepted all additions.

Previously,

he had scanned Jiang Jian's communication information.

Seeing that he was less than twenty years old but had Spring Realm cultivation,

he immediately concluded that he must be some kind of connection-based person, wanting to enter the Star-Governing Palace through others' recommendations to get an official position.

That was why he didn't hesitate at all, directly copied the voice message, and sent it out in a group to the other few new additions.

"This Deputy Chief Zhang seems a bit overwhelmed."

Jiang Jian regained his senses and smiled.

His fingers swiped, and he typed a text message on the holographic screen.

"Second-Layer Realm, Guanxi Pavilion Master."

This message was sent, and in less than ten seconds,

Zhang Bai Mu's message box flickered urgently, and he directly dialed a real-time communication!

The next second,

the communication was connected.

"Old Shen's idea was indeed feasible, you really came out!"

Zhang Bai Mu tried his best to remain calm, his voice thick, but his tone was hard to hide his excitement.

Clearly,

Shen Xi, although in the Academy World,

had long used the identity device to communicate with him secretly.

Moreover,

as a flash of inspiration Shen Xi had,

this plan had long been formally reported and, after approval by a Spirit Platform Realm True Monarch, became a true official mission!

"Hello, Deputy Chief Zhang Bai Mu."

Jiang Jian held up his wrist and said politely, "I am currently located east of Chang'an Prefecture; is it convenient for you to come over?"

Zhang Bai Mu calmed his mind, his tone solemn: "Classmate Jiang Jian, please encrypt and send me your surface coordinates; I will report the mission progress and set off immediately!"

The communication hung up.

Jiang Jian lowered his gaze, looking at Zhang Bai Mu's message box, and fell silent.

Since this mission had already been acknowledged by the official authorities,

and even became one of the many means the Surface Realm wanted to try to break the world portal ahead of schedule,

but his coordinates still needed to be "encrypted" and sent.

This matter was very thought-provoking.

Ever since the Nine-Layer Realm suffered spatial squeezing and was completely sealed,

everyone had been helpless against it.

Only a True Monarch of the Moon Realm possessed a secret treasure whose characteristics could forcibly shatter the realm portal.

But this secret treasure had not been activated for a long time.

It required massive resources.

And it needed to be nurtured for at least a year before it could barely be used.

This was also the official means that the four realms of Earth and Moon had been waiting for.

A year was not long.

But if placed in the current ever-changing wartime situation,

time was precious and could be called a race against time!

Precisely because of this,

countless Earth-Moon living beings used countless methods to try to open the world portal ahead of schedule.

But these methods, without exception, all failed!

This led to the so-called "opening the portal ahead of schedule" gradually becoming an extravagant hope.

No matter how many means or methods, they could not shake the realm barrier.

Over time,

even if new methods appeared,

most officials still held a wait-and-see attitude and simply didn't dare to believe it.

Shen Xi inadvertently noticed that Jiang Jian was the Favored One of the Yinshan Wonder Realm, and with a flash of inspiration, he came up with the method of transporting the World Origin and locking onto the realm coordinates.

Although he thought of the method,

but it hadn't been practiced, so no one could be sure if it was feasible.

Therefore,

Shen Xi did not tell too many people about this plan.

But there were no walls without cracks in this world.

Ever since not long ago,

that Spirit Platform Realm True Monarch affirmed this method and let Shen Xi try it,

many living beings in Chang'an Prefecture and even the Nine-Layer Realm began to pay silent attention to this.

(End of chapter)