Chapter 566

The Red-Clad Cultists belong to the Fire-Worshiping Cult, the primary religion in the Great Food region. Their transcendents belong to a specialized priestly lineage of the Fire-Worshiping Cult; their power is immense, and their transcendent abilities are bizarre. The only flaw is that they require a massive amount of sacrificial offerings.

However, in this regard, even the transcendents within the borders of the Song Dynasty are exactly the same.

Su Xing has looked into the transcendents of the Song Dynasty; basically, they all utilize negative energy of the Yin attribute. They rely either on human suffering, negative emotions, flesh, and souls, or on so-called Yin-land energy to sustain their consumption. Every type of transcendence is extremely cruel.

He did not expect that civilizations outside the Song Dynasty would be like this as well...

He killed three Fire-Worshiping Cultists in a row, all of whom died in miserable states, unable to live and unable to die. The key point is that even their souls could not find release.

These transcendents are masters of playing with negative emotions and souls. They know best how to make a person suffer incomparably without dying, thus accumulating a massive amount of negative energy to use as material. Therefore, they certainly know how painful it is for a life to be treated this way, and they... absolutely, absolutely do not want to be treated like this!

Su Xing is well aware of this.

In his previous life in the 21st century, there was a saying: "Better to give to foreign nations than to domestic slaves." Su Xing remembers many people discussing this phrase, only to criticize how vicious the ruling class who said it was.

But Su Xing has a different understanding of this: it is precisely because the ruling class who said this was so vicious in ruling the people that she naturally knew how painful and terrifying it would be if she and her own kin were treated this way. That is why it was "better to give to foreign nations than to domestic slaves"!!

And now, Su Xing is using these transcendents' own most terrifying methods against them. With only three Fire-Worshiping Cultists having died this way, the rest immediately knelt down—they knelt with such decisiveness and finality, even tearing off their own clothing and the flame patterns on their skin, each prostrating themselves on the ground. Not one of them even attempted suicide... The physical body can die, but what about the soul?

"Venerable God, spare us! We are willing to serve the Venerable God as our master for all eternity!"

The lead priest roared loudly, kneeling and kowtowing on the ground incessantly; he did not stop even when his scalp was broken.

Su Xing remained expressionless. He just casually picked up a Fire-Worshiping Cultist, flicked his finger, and tossed him down. Then, everyone saw this person begin to roar and self-mutilate crazily again. Only when his skin was completely rotten and his flesh and internal organs had been gouged out by his own hands did Su Xing pull out his soul and stuff it into the negative energy of his sea of consciousness. Immediately, the soul let out a terrifying, extreme wail, and all the people kneeling around trembled violently.

Everyone knelt. The transcendents in the Song Dynasty territory originally lacked courage. Those who hadn't seen Su Xing still held some extravagant hopes; after all, according to the descriptions of the transcendents who escaped from Bianliang, they felt this disciple of the immortals was only slightly stronger than them. Even if he had killed the three-hundred-year-old wild boar giant demon, he himself had been severely injured and was no match for a true immortal.

But the moment Su Xing appeared, he crossed thousands of miles in his physical body, charging straight from the horizon. With one kick, he shattered the Demon God's Claw that had only manifested after the sacrifice of tens of thousands of souls, and then grabbed that Demon God and kneaded it. This combat power alone was already high up in the heavens; they didn't even dare to imagine it.

Is this still a disciple of an immortal? Isn't this already an immortal!?

As for the Cross Cult side, they originally had some courage because they were truly not afraid of death; if they died, they would go to heaven—at least that was what they believed.

But who knew Su Xing's methods would be so terrifying and cruel.

Go to heaven? Your soul will be refined into nothingness!

This was truly too terrifying. Not only did these dozens of transcendents kneel, but the thousands of rebel soldiers who had watched the entire process also knelt.

At this point, the rebel army outside Jiangdu City slowly stopped their long-range bombardment. Then, seeing the sky-piercing pillar of energy rise and the transcendents they regarded as powerful immortals fall silent, the commanders leading these rebels lost their nerve, and the entire besieging rebel army began to flee.

All of this was within Su Xing's perception. He didn't care and killed another Fire-Worshiping Cultist, saying again: "Tell me, how to save the souls of those commoners? I will give you a quick death, and I will let your souls depart as you wish. How about it?"

The priest wailed: "We can't do it! Those souls were sacrificed. From a theological perspective, they already belong to my Lord Ahura Mazda. This is a rule of causality and fate; otherwise, how could the Demon God's Arm be summoned? Unless my Lord descends with mercy and allows those heretics to be reborn, they will remain in the fire hell for all eternity..."

Su Xing didn't care. He grabbed another Fire-Worshiping Cultist and flicked his finger again, repeating the extremely cruel torture. Finally, after consuming his soul, he said in an incomparably calm tone: "I don't care. If you bring back the souls of those commoners, I will keep my word. If you can't, at least come up with a way to bring them back. Otherwise, I will crush you one by one, and then go to your country, your hometown, your cities, and crush everyone of your sect one by one, and then crush every believer of your sect one by one. You can bet on whether I can do it."

The priest wailed, his face full of despair. He didn't even dare to commit suicide and couldn't do it; he could only kowtow and beg for mercy, his entire being stunned and numb.

Just as Su Xing was about to pick another lucky Fire-Worshiping Cultist, one of them suddenly shouted loudly: "Venerable God, I have a way, I have a way!"

Su Xing stopped, but he did not withdraw his arm, instead looking at this Fire-Worshiping Cultist.

He didn't care about anything else. Under his super survival instinct, he shouted urgently and quickly: "Perform another large-scale sacrifice, using the most magnificent sacrificial offerings. We have believed in my... believed in Ahura Mazda for a thousand years. We have a covenant with Him. Even if this human-divine covenant is to be broken, it requires the faith of our world to drop to a certain level. Perform a large-scale sacrifice as soon as possible. Even if He does not respond, His divine kingdom's holy fire must descend. At that time, you, Venerable God, will certainly be able to find the location of His divine kingdom!"

Su Xing slowly withdrew his palm. He thought carefully for a moment, then spoke: "Main Brain, if I want to actively mark a dream world where a root is located, can this be done?"

"Judging... Judgment complete. It can be done. Depending on the strength and level of the root, it will cost between 500,000 and infinite points as a standard coordinate imprint."

Su Xing let out a breath. He looked at this Fire-Worshiping Cultist and said: "How to perform the sacrifice?"

In just a few seconds, the roots of this Fire-Worshiping Cultist's hair turned white, and wrinkles appeared on his face. He didn't care about this and immediately said: "Blood sacrifice. My Lord loves souls... only blood sacrifice will do."

Su Xing looked up, thought for a moment, and asked: "This 'magnificent sacrifice' of yours, how many people must be blood-sacrificed at once?"

The Fire-Worshiping Cultist said: "At least 100,000 people or more. The more, the better. The more there are, the stronger the effect of the covenant, and the less He can refuse!"

Su Xing then said with satisfaction: "Very good, not bad at all. Then it's decided, it will be you... I will go to your country next, and then use your transcendents, the families of the transcendents, and the most fanatical believers as sacrifices. I believe that for you, being able to go to Ahura Mazda's divine kingdom should be the thing you dream of most, right?"

This Fire-Worshiping Cultist was immediately dumbfounded, but he was clearly a ruthless character. He immediately knelt and said: "Please let me serve the Venerable God; I will surely fulfill any decree the Venerable God issues!"

"No."

Su Xing said in a flat but firm tone: "You must die. All of you must die. However, I keep my word. I can let you die more easily, or I can let your soul depart as you wish. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; when a person dies, the debt is cleared."

Unexpectedly, this Fire-Worshiping Cultist let out a long sigh of relief. He immediately knelt before Su Xing and said respectfully: "It is as the Venerable God wishes. After I die, I will turn my soul into a ghost form and can still serve the Venerable God, as long as the Venerable God agrees to let me serve!"

Su Xing was stunned for a moment. He didn't react immediately, thought for a few seconds, and then looked at this person with the gaze of someone looking at a talent.

So you can play it like this, huh?

However, he would not take back what he had said. He immediately said to this Fire-Worshiping Cultist: "You must complete this sacrifice. Now you can choose three people from among them as your deputies. Think carefully about how to complete it, how to effectively lure that Ahura Mazda to me. If you can't do it, then I will still make sure you never find release for all eternity!"

"Yes!"

The Fire-Worshiping Cultist shouted in agreement. Without hesitation, he directly picked three people from the remaining Fire-Worshiping Cultists. These three immediately felt as if they had been granted amnesty and ran behind him, immediately taking him as their leader. As for the remaining Fire-Worshiping Cultists, Su Xing couldn't be bothered to care. He flicked his finger at each of them, and a burst of qi landed on them. The remaining Fire-Worshiping Cultists all began to wail, tearing at their own flesh with extreme despair.

Su Xing ignored them, and once their physical bodies died, he extinguished their souls just the same!!

Then he turned to look at the Song Dynasty transcendents and the White-Clad Cross Cult transcendents who were all lying on the ground. He said: "If you were just resisting reform, starting a rebellion, or straight-up saying you wanted to get rid of me, or wanted to kill the Song imperial court along with me, then no problem. You come, I go; whether you bring a great army or gather all the transcendents to kill me, you are welcome!"

"If you kill me, then you're awesome. In this world, no matter what you do, I won't have any complaints. But if I win, the most I'll do is kill you. I won't torture you, nor will I do anything to your souls... I haven't done that before, whether it was the transcendents of Bianliang, the Jin transcendents, or the northern transcendents; the most I did was kill them."

At this moment, perhaps terrified to the extreme, thinking they were also going to be tortured to death and unable to escape even with their souls, a female Song Dynasty transcendent suddenly jumped up and screamed: "You're lying! When you went to the north, after you killed my fellow disciples, you cut off their heads and boiled them all with quicklime! I saw it with my own eyes!!"

"That was, that was..."

Su Xing's old face flushed, and he shouted loudly: "Shut up! That was just a punishment after death!"

Having said that, Su Xing slapped the female transcendent, but didn't kill her; instead, he broke her four limbs directly, letting her roll on the ground.

"Now, I'll give you a chance. Although you cannot escape the death penalty, I can choose to just kill you without torturing you!"

Su Xing looked at these transcendents kneeling on the ground and said: "From now on, go find those local squires, wealthy landlords, high-ranking officials, or other transcendents who plundered commoners, massacred commoners, or exploited commoners while starting the rebellion. Each of you must find at least one hundred people, and they cannot be mere soldiers following orders. Once found, I will let you have an easy release. If you haven't found enough before I suppress all the rebellions..."

"You won't want to know the result, believe me. Of course, you can also try to run away, you can try to see what happens."

After speaking, Su Xing ignored these transcendents and turned his gaze to the thousands of troops kneeling in the distance.

"Decimate one in two..."

Su Xing's voice rang in the ears of these soldiers and officers: "Start the execution."

Decimate one in two!?

Thousands of soldiers were stunned, the entire army was silent. Then Su Xing shook his head, walked to the side, lifted a giant rock at least ten meters high, and threw it into the army. With a bang, at least hundreds of people were crushed into meat paste by the giant rock as it rolled and ground through them. A bloody, mangled path appeared in the entire army formation, with flesh and blood splattering all around. Some soldiers wiped their faces in a daze, their hands full of meat paste and broken bones. Immediately after, the entire army exploded; thousands of people began to flee crazily, and some soldiers frantically picked up weapons and hacked at those around them.

The transcendents didn't even dare to raise their heads. Under the gaze of such a fierce person, even if they followed his orders, the best result was a quick death. Each felt aggrieved and desolate, and for a time, quite a few transcendents actually began to cry.

Seeing Su Xing's Spirit-Shattering Blade flash in his hand, as if he were about to start a massacre, Huang Rong couldn't bear it in her heart. She said softly: "Brother Pifu, they... they were just following orders. Decimating one in two is truly too cruel."

Su Xing answered seriously: "Rong'er, you don't understand. Don't pity those who massacre the innocent. If they had hardships, followed orders, or were forced, then who should the innocent people they massacred go to to complain about their grievances? I must kill those who instigated all of this. Not only must the chief culprits be killed, but those who assisted from the sidelines and those who took advantage of the chaos must be killed. Even these people who were used as tools by them, I will kill them all!"

"Not only will I kill their physical bodies, but I will also mobilize all the Confucian scholars in the north and south of the Divine Land to punish their hearts. I will compile their deeds into history, and then send these Confucian scholars to tell the story over and over again across the mountains and plains, like storytelling. I will also gather all their corpses and suppress them in one place, and then every few years, I will organize all the high-ranking officials, wealthy landlords, and local squires of the entire Song Dynasty to come and watch, to educate them that if they don't treat commoners as human beings, not only will they die, but these lackeys they ordered, or anyone who acts as a knife, will also die!"

"Let the high-ranking officials, wealthy landlords, and transcendents suffer a bit more. I will bear the infamy. Ten years, a hundred years, I don't believe it!"

Su Xing raised his blade, stepped forward, and left only one last sentence for Huang Rong.

"...I will kill my way to a bright and clear world where all commoners are treated as human beings!"