Chapter 117: Apprehension!

Leveling the peak of a mountain peak triggered a landslide and earthquake akin to a natural disaster.

This effect did not surprise Su Ping.

In the Cultivation World, it is a common occurrence for battles between Great Cultivators at the Foundation Establishment stage to cause mountains to collapse and cities to be destroyed.

Especially when aided by an Array and extensive preparation, the destructive power of a Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator can often be amplified several times over!

Not to mention the existence of Dharma Artifacts, Spirit Tools, and Secret Techniques that amplify destructive power.

He had used the Beidou Tanlang Fist to condense his power and shatter the peak of a mountain with a single punch.

For Su Ping, this was within his expectations.

Yet for the small town at the foot of the mountain, it was as if they were witnessing the arrival of the apocalypse, leaving them in despair and terror!

As a town situated at the foot of General Bahadur's lair, the people in the town were naturally those the old general trusted and who had stood the test.

As for the relatives of the personal guards who had a shred of conscience and refused to do dirty work, while they wouldn't be killed, they certainly wouldn't be arranged in this strategically important town, but would instead be sent to work in other districts.

Because of this, when the elders of the town saw the phantom of the Greedy Wolf appear, they all knelt on the ground in unison, loudly repenting that they were wrong and begging for the heavens' forgiveness.

And as the mountain collapsed and the earth split, giant boulders were about to come crashing down!

Some of the kneeling elders wept bitterly, even raising their hands to welcome this terrifying natural disaster:

"This must be the punishment of the Ghost Gods!"

"This is the retribution we, who are heavy with sin, deserve!"

Boom, boom, boom!

Giant boulders and the wreckage of the buildings submerged most of the area of the small town below; those houses were destroyed like cheap toys, falling apart and becoming part of the natural disaster...

Mortal bodies are like ants beneath this great power, and one can only hope for the favor of the goddess of luck to have any chance of survival!

Then, as the sounds that had echoed through the mountains and fields gradually quieted down.

Su Ping, who had no intention of dealing with the ruins below—or rather, who intentionally left them—returned to the Outer City District to clear away the various supernatural traces there and took away all the corpses.

After Su Ping disappeared, the dark clouds suddenly dispersed, and the Wind Technique vanished as well.

Only two patches of ruins, one at the mountain top and one at the foot, remained to remind passersby that a tremendous disaster had just occurred here!

One or two hours passed.

Only then did people arrive by car from afar, following the mountain road to first see the tragic state of the town, and then climbing to the top to see the devastated Outer City District.

These people cautiously stopped at the entrance of the Outer City District; no one ran in to get first-hand information just for the sake of performance.

By the time more and more people and professional equipment gathered, the strength in numbers and the general feeling that enough time had passed for any danger to have moved on led them to proceed.

These people first used Drones and robots to lead the way, and only then did they carefully enter this fortress, which had once been General Bahadur's private space, in groups.

They soon discovered that the mountain top where the Inner City District—which should have housed the buildings—was located... had actually vanished entirely!

Only an irregular, empty, and jagged cliff remained.

"What happened here!"

"Ghost Gods above, where is General Bahadur, his residence, and those personal guards?"

"The Inner City District is gone! How could such a large area just disappear! Damn it, could it have fallen down and crushed that town?"

"What on earth happened in the Outer City District! Why can't we find a single survivor or a single corpse?"

Investigation teams from different factions were strictly ordered to conduct a thorough inspection of the Outer City District.

Yet the more they inspected, the more suspicious points they found, and the more eerie and abnormal it felt! It made these veterans feel a chill rising from their hearts.

They saw many bullet holes and traces of massive modern firepower.

They could even see bloodstains on the ground and walls, telling the story of what those soldiers had encountered.

However, what was abnormal and eerie was that they could not find any relevant weapons or remains of corpses.

Even the heavy weapons and equipment in the warehouse and on the fortress's combat platforms, which were clearly not easy to move, had vanished into thin air!

This made them wonder how the other party had managed it, as according to the data, there had been no large-scale convoys or transport aircraft fleets visiting this area in the last two days.

Without transport vehicles and equipment, the other party couldn't have moved them away by hand or on their backs, could they?

Furthermore, what left these people feeling astonished and uncertain was that they could not find any traces of counter-fire in the Outer City District that differed from the attacking force!

It seemed as if these personal guards of General Bahadur had fallen into great Chaos after encountering the first wave of strikes, and until the entire army was wiped out, they hadn't been able to mount an effective counterattack?

This made some experts feel it was so absurd that they dared not trust their previous judgment of the weapon traces.

As more people caught wind of the news, more and more people learned that General Bahadur's lair had been taken out.

Many major factions also became interested in and wary of the person or organization capable of such a feat.

As more information surfaced, the mysterious and unknown nature of the opponent's methods and their lightning-fast response made everyone who saw the intelligence wary.

Yet as the investigation deepened, they found that they seemed to have discovered something, yet also seemed to have discovered nothing at all!

Inside a camp nearby, an Elite official from the north was analyzing the night's findings with their subordinates.

"According to the experts' calculations, most of the firepower traces are from top to bottom, most likely from above the city gate."

"About fifteen meters or so above the city wall, and the width might have reached a hundred meters..."

"Some speculate that the Chixiao Battle Armor from Eastern sci-fi films has been put into practical use, so it hovered at an ultra-low altitude to fire, but I personally think that theory is bullshit."

"With such a large flying object, even if the nearby cities' radars couldn't see it, it's impossible that there wasn't a single report observing its movement!"

"Some think a Drone swarm is more likely, but the experts didn't find any traces of Drones appearing at the scene."

"Likewise, the transport equipment carrying so many Drones couldn't have bypassed the surrounding cities without being discovered; even if they weren't discovered at first, with so many of us here, we should have been able to find the tracks left behind!"

"But unfortunately, we found absolutely nothing!"

"I am also completely baffled by this; I can't come up with any logical speculation supported by evidence..."

"Then the good news is, on the expert team's side, someone dug up corpse remains mixed with mud and stone from the buried town."

"They even found the wreckage of a helicopter."

"Preliminary confirmation shows that this helicopter and the corpses are related to General Bahadur, it looks like..."

This northern official paused, his expression serious as he said:

"It is as if they were shattered along with the building and the mountaintop, and then thrown down..."

"It has caused our investigation work a great deal of trouble!"

"The bad news is regarding the satellites..."

The official said this and opened the projection.

Instantly, a high-altitude perspective appeared on the screen, its view obscured by dark clouds.

"Regrettably, we do not have the luxury of resources to mobilize professional satellites to monitor such a godforsaken place twenty-four hours a day."

"We can only rely on satellites that happen to pass by during that time slot to obtain relevant data."

"But as you can see, the dark clouds that suddenly appeared at the time blocked the view, and these non-professional satellites do not use technology capable of penetrating dark clouds."

Having said this, the Elites in the entire tent fell silent, feeling that this operation might turn into a protracted war!

Meanwhile, in Nierbojiade City, as the kidnapped mages returned to the temple and loudly proclaimed that the great Ghost God had punished the Evil General Bahadur and his servants.

The mages in the temple and their disciples, beyond envying the kidnapped mage for being able to witness the might of the Ghost God, became even more devout and excited.

Although everyone says their own Ghost God is omnipotent when they pray.

But in fact, everyone knows that even if a Ghost God exists, there is a distinction between the strong and the weak.

This incident with General Bahadur undoubtedly proved that the power of their own Ghost God exceeded the best expectations they had previously imagined.

It is a great Ghost God that can truly intervene in reality, destroy cities, and annihilate nations!

If it weren't for Su Ping having already requested through his Registered Disciples that they only summon people to the temple to pray.

I fear these mages would immediately exhaust their family fortunes to form an army to protect the faith and head to various places to open branch temples.

And the status of Huang Zong and the other five Registered Disciples rose accordingly.

It had not even been twenty-four hours, yet many phone calls from big shots they could not reach before were now being proactively made to Huang Zong and the others.

Several big bosses who had already booked their flights and were well-informed chose to charter planes directly, bringing their trusted aides to come to Gade City to meet Huang Zong and the others.

And they readily signed contracts promising large amounts of help in terms of manpower and material resources.

After Huang Zong and the others learned the news that General Bahadur's lair had vanished into thin air in a single afternoon, they were also incredibly invigorated.

And when meeting others, their confidence in acting unfathomable was even greater!

At the same time, the news of Lu Daheng fighting a group of thieves with dual guns also spread, making the locals firmly believe that these Easterners had all received the favor of the Ghost God and could request the Ghost God's help in times of crisis!

They became increasingly respectful toward Huang Zong and the others.

Those various factions starting to collude in the factory district, after hearing these incredible pieces of news, also chose to pause their original plans and wait and see for a while.

The security chief at the Gade City port, that very evening, confirmed through multiple news channels again and again that General Bahadur's lair was truly gone.

And that General Bahadur was also likely gone!

This local tyrant, who controlled the largest armed force in Gade City, personally drove to the temple outside the suburbs to carry a rod on his back and beg for forgiveness.

He knelt at the entrance of the Main Hall of the temple, and stayed kneeling for an entire night without getting up.

He only prayed to be forgiven by the Ghost God.

It was just that... the mages of the temple were very embarrassed.

Including Mage Tapu, whose prestige was the highest because his granddaughter had been chosen.

They knew their own situation.

Where would they have a channel to contact the Ghost God!

They had no choice but to enviously and jealously report it to Huang Zong and the others, then wait for notification.

It was not until noon the next day that this security chief, who had knelt until his body was about to fall apart, finally waited for Mage Tapu to come and pass on a message, telling him he could go back and rest easy.

Not long after returning, this security chief announced that he would take out half of his family fortune to promote the Exorcism Dharma Assembly.

The first step was to use money and time off as a promise to get the workers in the port district to go to the temple to worship...