Chapter 1136: Military Talisman

Several years later, with the assistance of the Central Array Spirit Computer, Jiang Ding obtained a detailed intelligence report.

The Horn Demon Imperial Clan and the Skull Blood Vine Demons were contending for the dominion of the realm.

Among them, the Horn Demon Imperial Clan excelled in physical strength, was adept at military formations, and at the same time had extremely strong individual combat power, with top-tier defense and recovery;

Coincidentally, the Skull Blood Vine Demon clan was also adept at military formations.

Not only adept, but extremely adept!

The most terrifying thing about the Skull Blood Vine Demon clan was their nearly endless sea of skeletons, spread across the starry sky. You could blast apart a hundred thousand skeleton puppets with one punch, and they would regenerate two hundred thousand or even three hundred thousand puppets in an instant; the speed of your killing could never outpace the speed of the skeletons' regeneration!

This hegemon race specialized in the Dao of Souls and the Dao of Bones, attaining extremely high mastery in these fields and possessing an absolute numerical advantage in military force.

Then, what about abandoning the countless skeletons and choosing decapitation?

The strong of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan thought the same.

However, they discovered that apart from the poorly skilled bloodline cultivators of the Skull Blood Vine Demon Imperial Clan, they could not find any trace of the Skull Blood Vine Demon strong of the same rank at all. Even if they found them, they could not easily assassinate them successfully. The lives of the Skull Blood Vine Demons were directly connected to the countless skeletons under their command; without destroying the sea of skeletons, it was difficult to slay the Skeleton Sovereigns.

The two great powerful clans waged a life-and-death slaughter in the Jiao Jiao Mingyu.

At first, the Horn Demon Imperial Clan advanced triumphantly, breaking through one Minor Thousand World after another, and the Skull Blood Vine Demon clan could not resist.

But later on, as the cultivators of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan had their strength worn down, a sky-covering sea of skeletons swept over from the starry sky, and the Horn Demon Imperial Clan gradually fell into encirclement. Although they repelled countless attacks and slaughtered countless skeletons, even killing many Imperial Blood Vine Demons, they were still unable to completely annihilate the enemy.

Under such circumstances, the Skull Blood Vine Demons chose to destroy the foundation of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan's existence — their weak clansmen.

The Skull Blood Vine Demons fully utilized their advantageous military force, launching attacks everywhere, opening battlefields in all directions, specifically targeting the weak of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan for slaughter, causing the Horn Demon Imperial Clan to suffer heavy losses. In that era, almost every strong cultivator of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan lost their kin in battle; their corpses were refined into white bone puppets that attacked themselves.

At that time, the Horn Demon Imperial Clan was nearly in despair.

Almost all the battlefields were covered by endless white bone skeletons, the entire starry sky was a ghastly white without a trace of any other color, and the great Skeleton Formation ground the strong of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan to pieces one by one like a millstone.

"The Skull Blood Vine Demon clan is really strong…"

Jiang Ding saw this and felt a slight exclamation of admiration in his heart.

This did not quite match the image the Horn Demon Imperial Clan had always promoted. In the historical records of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan, they themselves were the Mandate of Heaven's Sovereign, and although the Skull Blood Vine Demons were somewhat cunning, they were quickly eradicated.

But in the inherited memories of the Skull Blood Vine Demons, it was not so.

In the slaughter, the Horn Demon Imperial Clan was not

their match. The endless sea of skeletons could drown everything, and it was already constantly wearing down the lives of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan's strong. Even Great Emperors began to fall; the undying and indestructible bodies of Great Emperors exhausted the last trace of spiritual energy before the endless sea-of-skeletons great formation.

No matter how frantically furious the strong of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan were, crushing patch after patch of white bone skeletons, the Skull Blood Vine Demons could always regenerate more skeletons, as if endlessly.

"If the records here are true…"

Jiang Ding's eyes lit up: "Then the Skull Blood Vine Demons must have extremely outstanding mastery in the recycling of spiritual energy and matter, forming some kind of indestructibility, and it must certainly be related to their race's core innate talent."

"If the Immortal Gate can crack it, the Immortal Gate's endless metal robot army seems to be able to be officially commissioned…"

The Immortal Gate's nano-liquid robots had always existed, but the cost issue had never been resolved, and they had always been unable to be commissioned for the entire army. Now, propelled by foreign technology, there seemed to be a glimmer of dawn.

Once this was achieved, the survivability of the Immortal Gate's fleet would surely be greatly enhanced, and there would still be a chance to turn defeat into victory after being breached by the enemy.

This was the necessity of exchange between civilizations.

Jiang Ding wrote a proposal and submitted it, then continued to watch the Skull Blood Vine Demon clan's records of the final battle.

"…Just as the Imperial Clan was about to win, Ming, appeared."

This was a sentence from the bloodline inheritance of the Skull Blood Vine Demon clan, followed by a long silence.

Bloodline inheritance often appeared among demon clans, and its inherited content was usually imprinted by one of the most outstanding strong in the race's history. This bloodline inheritance came precisely from the last-generation Skeleton Ancient Emperor of that year, who ultimately died at the hands of Ming, his soul and spirit utterly destroyed.

Ming was the first Sovereign in the history of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan.

The "Ming" in Jiao Jiao Mingyu came from this Sovereign's name. Strong cultivators of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan through the ages all revered and worshipped him, regarding him as the founding ancestor of the race.

Jiang Ding held his breath slightly.

Through this sentence of the Skeleton Ancient Emperor, he seemed to personally feel the Skeleton Ancient Emperor's indignation, unwillingness, defiance, and sense of injustice at that moment. Clearly, he was an Ancient Emperor of his generation, an Ancient Emperor about to advance to Sovereign, clearly about to win, but in the end…

"Ming, brought the Horn Demon Military Talisman."

"Military Talisman."

The Skeleton Ancient Emperor closed his eyes in agony, writing during the gaps of fleeing with a remnant soul and lingering on: "The Ancient Gods, clearly already perished, destroyed by a terrifying great enemy, the passage severed, we no longer had to be bound, we were free… the clan no longer had to step onto battlefields again and again that had nothing to do with us…"

"But, why does Ming possess the Horn Demon Military Talisman!"

"…The entire domain's… formation… was activated…"

"…King-rank blood battle… this is an unfair king-rank blood battle, the children were shackled, while the kings of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan were blessed by the Heavenly Dao

, the children were slaughtered like ants…"

"…With the blood of our children… curse… unwillingness… Ming is nothing more than a defeated general under this Emperor…"

What followed was a large pile of meaningless rage, along with some things of unclear meaning. It seemed the last-generation Skeleton Ancient Emperor who made the bloodline inheritance encountered tremendous danger, and thus stopped recording.

"Military Talisman?"

Jiang Ding was shocked in his heart, his expression solemn.

In the inherited records of the Skull Blood Vine Demons, they were about to win, having slain countless strong of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan, even killing several Ancient Emperors of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan, and were almost able to be crowned as the Sovereign of the realm.

However, an Ancient Emperor of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan called Ming appeared.

In his hand, he held something called a "Military Talisman," which activated a terrifying formation that already existed in the Jiao Jiao Mingyu, forcibly seizing all living beings below the Void Refinement rank to conduct an unfair blood battle.

In this blood battle, the Horn Demon Imperial Clan was greatly strengthened, while the Skull Blood Vine Demon clan was enormously weakened.

With one increased and the other decreased, the Skull Blood Vine Demons, who originally held the overwhelming advantage, were forcibly slaughtered. All clansmen below Void Refinement were slaughtered, and finally, under that terrifying unknown formation, condensed into a single drop of Curse Blood, forcibly cursing all Skull Blood Vine Demon Great Emperors and greatly weakening their strength.

The Skull Blood Vine Demon clan thus met the fate of extinction; even the last clansman was killed off.

It was not until several hundred thousand years later that, through the arrangements of the Skull Blood Vine Demon clan, they once again revived from the constantly occurring mutations of the myriad races, and with the aid of much good fortune, the clan reappeared.