Chapter 798: Peak of a Chaotic Era, a State Within a State

The man stood up and stood with his hands behind his back.

The Wei Zhao Xu Ji, one of the five great ancient divine beasts, divided its physical body into three human forms.

The Wei Zhao Xu Ji used rule-based sorcery to thoroughly sever the connection between the three human forms and malice.

In one respect, the Wei Zhao Xu Ji was already dead.

And the three human forms were the continuation of its life.

This person was, shockingly, one of those three human forms.

However, an independent human form is difficult to integrate into the entire human environment; he needed a background, he needed connections.

More importantly, ancient divine beasts do not possess the human way of thinking or logic of behavior.

This is the same as humans not understanding the logic of behavior of ants.

Thus, this human form devoured the current head of the Zhang family, Zhang Xing.

And the one who helped him was none other than the eighth-rank ancestor of the Zhang family.

Only after devouring Zhang Xing's body and memories did he gradually understand the living habits of humans.

Only now did he understand that the human race needs to eat, needs to wear clothes, and needs to exchange greetings.

Only now did he understand that the human race would look down upon the human race, and that the human race would be more insidious than ancient divine beasts.

It was also at this moment.

Knock, knock, knock.

The door to the cultivation room was knocked upon.

Zhang Xing waved a hand, the door opened, a man in white robes walked in, and he closed the door to the cultivation room softly and carefully.

The man in white had a face like a jade crown, eyes like bright stars, and a posture as straight as a jade tree.

He looked extremely young, but in reality, he was the Zhang family's eighth-rank ancestor, Zhang Wang, whose age already exceeded one thousand years.

Zhang Wang looked at Zhang Xing, a trace of wariness flashing in the depths of his eyes, and said:

"There is news from the Great Xia side."

Zhang Xing swept a cold glance at Zhang Wang, and without waiting for Zhang Wang to speak, he said:

"Kneel."

Zhang Wang was stunned, lowered his head and clenched his fists, but still knelt down.

Zhang Xing stepped on Zhang Wang's head and muttered:

"So, is this the feeling? Is this how you humans rely on such behavior to obtain pleasure?

Not only does it create enemies, but it also allows so-called pleasure to interfere with your emotions, causing you to gradually lose rationality.

Truly... a logic of behavior that violates natural principles; how has your human race survived until now?"

His voice was stiff, but a smile appeared on his lips involuntarily.

This was the emotion and logic of behavior belonging to the original Zhang Xing, now gradually being understood by this ancient divine beast.

Unknowingly, he was becoming a human.

"Remember, from now on, you must kneel when you speak to me; you are not qualified to stand and talk to me."

As Zhang Xing said this, he turned around.

And Zhang Wang's forehead was already covered in sweat.

"Speak, what is it?" Zhang Xing said.

Zhang Wang took out a sheet of gold paper:

"This is written by the current acting ruler of Great Xia, Xia Yuan, and this document has been published throughout the entire Great Xia."

Zhang Xing glanced at it.

He saw that the writing on the gold paper was bold and vigorous.

【Order to Slay Traitors】

【The national destiny is declining, the state is in peril; at this critical juncture of survival, there is an urgent need for divine generals to emerge to hold up the collapsing Great Xia.】

【However, the might of a divine general cannot be proven by empty words; it must be achieved through bloody battles on the battlefield to show the true measure.】

【Now, I proclaim to the world: anyone who can slay fifty thousand enemies shall be included in the list of candidates for divine general.】

【If one can annihilate two hundred thousand enemies, I shall personally set up a ceremony to confer the title of general and proclaim it to heaven and earth.】

【I shall further bestow the title of a prince of a different surname to reward their merit of reconstruction!】

Zhang Xing narrowed his eyes.

Xia Yuan's words were telling the whole world.

If you want fame, go to the battlefield and take it yourself; killing fifty thousand enemies is enough to enter the divine general candidate list.

Killing two hundred thousand of the Five-Race Alliance Army would allow one to be titled a divine general.

Zhang Wang sneered:

"These people actually want the Venerable One to go to the battlefield first; who doesn't know that Great Xia can no longer hold on?

The Venerable One need not pay attention; when Great Xia is in crisis, they will come kneeling to beg the Venerable One to emerge from the mountains."

Zhang Xing's gaze was cold:

"Did I ask you to make suggestions for me?"

In an instant, Zhang Wang's face turned deathly pale.

Even if he were eighth-rank, so what?

The Wei Zhao Xu Ji was a top-tier eighth-rank ancient divine beast; it had too many ways to destroy him.

The longer he lived, the less he wanted to die.

Yet at this moment, Zhang Xing smiled:

"Since that is the case, the Zhang family will head to Qinzhou. They want me to perform a meritorious service, so I will perform one for them to see."

Zhang Wang was stunned; he had not expected Zhang Xing to truly want to help the Great Xia.

Why?

Zhang Xing seemed to see through Zhang Wang's confusion and said calmly:

"Do you know why the Ancient Gods have been suppressed by the human race for so long?"

"Why?" Zhang Wang was stunned.

Zhang Xing said leisurely:

"Because you humans are more evil, more cunning, and more treacherous.

Without using the schemes of your human race, it is impossible to make you lowly beasts truly recognize reality."

Zhang Xing said no more.

The reason why the Weizhao Void Sacrifice transformed into three human bodies was to completely disrupt the entire human race.

If the human race's Eighth Rankers do not enter the war, the Ancient God Beasts cannot truly threaten the human race.

Therefore, the three human bodies each have their own purpose.

And Zhang Xing truly is helping the Great Xia.

Since Zhang Xing will help the Great Xia, there will be another human body helping the Five Clans.

Under such circumstances, the human world will be completely shattered, right up until the Ancient Gods awaken.

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At the same time.

Qi Zhou.

A surging great river lay across the ley lines, with black waves towering to the sky, stretching for ten thousand miles, rushing and swallowing distant mountains.

This was the Qilong River.

It traverses the six great states of the Great Xia: Xiuzhou, Qi Zhou, Xuzhou, Yunzhou, Qinzhou, and Tiezhou.

It originates from the Qingcang Plateau in Xiuzhou, flows south through Yunzhou and Qinzhou, and finally pours into the sea at Tiezhou.

Qi Zhou, Black Dragon City.

This place was filled with black fog and pervasive malice; between the villages and cities, the earth was eroded and the trees were scorched.

The vast Black Dragon City was now empty of people.

Since the war began, the south of the Great Xia had suffered floods and the north had suffered droughts, with millions of hectares of fertile land destroyed by natural disasters.

Whenever a nation is in turmoil, its national destiny is often fraught with misfortune, and disasters in various places are common.

The common people suffered, and the world was filled with sorrow.

But ordinary natural disasters seemed ordinary at this time.

The more serious disaster remained the nightmare that had haunted the hearts of the human race for ten thousand years.

Malice.

The Qilong River was just like this.

The once clear and vast Qilong River was now pitch black, as if it were flowing asphalt.

Even viewing it from afar would cause one's physical body to be corroded by that terrifying malice.

Within the black fog, several figures exuding the power of will stood in the void, looking from afar at the surging Qilong River.

The leader was Yin Qingshuang, and behind her, Yin Youming, the former Second Rank General Star, was recording everything obediently.

"How did the perfectly fine Qilong River end up like this..."

Yin Qingshuang sighed aloud:

"When a wall is about to collapse, everyone gives it a push; the Ancient God Beasts are now in league with the Five Clans. As long as the Great Xia is not destroyed, they will not die..."

Just at this moment.

Boom—!!!

A sound like the earth shaking and mountains swaying echoed out, and the entire Qilong River set off towering giant waves.

Under the shocked gaze of Yin Qingshuang and the others.

Amidst the churning of the pitch-black river, a giant object broke through the surface.

Roar!!!

Accompanied by this, a dragon's roar resounded.

Within the dense black fog, a heaven-supporting object extended from its starting point in the Qilong River all the way to the high heavens.

"That is... what is that..."

Yin Youming raised his head, staring blankly, his eyes filled with shock and terror.

Only to see.

This was a giant dragon with a pitch-black body.

Three dragon heads reached down from the high heavens, staring at the world.

Endless malice and pressure were vast and mighty, infinite and inexhaustible.

The three heads were ferocious, the middle one being a dragon head with horns like dark iron.

The left head dripped with viscous black liquid, its features indistinguishable, like an inexhaustible fountain.

The right head was a twisted mass of thousands of human heads piled together, each face wearing an extremely perverse expression.

On the entire thick dragon body that pierced through heaven and earth, countless tentacles danced wildly.

At the tips of the tentacles were rotating eyeballs reflecting the shadows of the river bottom, carrying towering black waves as it soared into the sky, its roaring making the wilderness hum.

Yin Qingshuang's face turned pale instantly, staring fixedly at this monster that had sprung out from the Qilong River.

Eighth rank!

An eighth-rank ancient divine beast!

Why would such a terrifying ancient divine beast be gestated within the Qilong River?

The several investigators behind Yin Qingshuang were already each wanting to flee.

"What are you fleeing from?" Yin Qingshuang shouted coldly:

"If an eighth rank wants to kill us, it is effortless; what use is there in fleeing?!"

As Yin Qingshuang's voice fell, Yin Youming and the others steadied their minds, though the horror in everyone's eyes remained full.

Yin Qingshuang looked toward the Black Dragon and spoke:

"May I ask, is the current upheaval of the Qilong River your doing, Excellency?"

Yin Qingshuang's voice fell.

The three dragon heads that had reached out from the firmament slowly lowered, until the massive central dragon head was only a hundred meters away from Yin Qingshuang.

Compared to the Black Dragon, Yin Qingshuang and the others were like sesame seeds compared to a vast tree.

An intense sense of oppression and a foul stench washed over them.

Yin Qingshuang narrowed her eyes, saying nothing.

Yet she roared inwardly; the Great Xia has the eighteen provinces' province-seals to suppress malice, so it is fundamentally impossible for such an ancient divine beast to grow up.

But the scene seen before her eyes was truly and solidly happening.

Could this Black Dragon not fear Lu Xunyang?

Or was it that Lu Xunyang's Dao injury had become so severe that even an eighth-rank ancient divine beast could ignore him?

At this moment, even Yin Qingshuang felt a sense of desolation, as if the country had fallen but the mountains and rivers remained.

"My name is Black Dragon King!"

A hoarse and grand voice resounded; this voice was guided by a peculiar power, spreading out in all directions.

"Today, I establish the Dragon Kingdom here.

I summon the ancient divine beasts of Great Xia to all enter my kingdom!

The people of Great Xia shall all be food for our kind!"

The hoarse and sinister voice resounded just like that, stretching endlessly, echoing throughout the inside and outside of Great Xia.

In an instant.

Gaze after gaze looked toward where the Qilong River in Qi Province was located.

"Dragon Kingdom, a kingdom within a kingdom?"

"What immense audacity; is it not afraid that Lu Xunyang will come to look at it in a moment?"

"Hahaha, Great Xia is about to perish, ancient divine beasts will ravage the world!"

………………

Roar, roar, roar!

Across all parts of Great Xia, within the abysses, upon the deep mountains, and amidst the ancient forests, ancient divine beasts that had previously hidden themselves in every way let out hisses and cries.

Endless malice echoed throughout every part of Great Xia.

In an instant, hearts were filled with panic, and the heavens were about to die.

Yin Qingshuang led Yin Youming and the others away; in the end, the Black Dragon King did not even spare them another glance.

This was a kind of disregard and self-confidence.

A kingdom within a kingdom had appeared in Great Xia; now that Xiaoyang was about to perish, there were internal troubles and external threats.

The chaos of the troubled times had reached its peak.