Chapter 1124: I Am Truly a Daoist Ancestor

In the center of the town, Fang Yu unleashed the Soul Reaping technique from the Three Thousand Great Dao, annihilating tens of millions of rat beasts in an instant.

Those so-called endless, boundless rat swarms—whose numbers could trigger a qualitative transformation—meant nothing to Fang Yu, who had mastered the Three Thousand Great Dao.

He had never feared sheer numbers.

At this moment, as Fang Yu reached out his hand, tens of millions of souls were drawn forth, sufficient to forge a Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

Of course, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner forged from rat beast souls was of abysmal quality.

"I came here to become a Dao Ancestor; as for Demon Ancestor, I'll have none of it."

Fang Yu thought to himself that if he now unleashed the Great Blood Essence Technique of the Three Thousand Great Dao, he could turn all things to blood, transforming the corpses of the dead rat beasts into boundless blood qi, creating a scene as if a Blood Demon Ancestor had been reborn—yet that would be unseemly.

"This rat swarm should be over."

Fang Yu spoke.

"Is it really over? This rat swarm… ended?"

Beside Fang Yu, Lu Gang's eyes brimmed with utter shock—had this elder simply waved his hand and slain every single rat beast in the town? How was that even possible?

He could not even discern how this Daoist Priest elder had done it.

There was nothing visible—he merely flicked his wrist, and countless rat beasts dropped dead?

Such power—even Earth's strongest beings, "Hong" and Lei Shen, could not achieve it.

Had humanity possessed such a powerhouse earlier, how could so many have perished during the Great Nirvana?

"Elder, had our human race possessed someone like you earlier, Earth would still be ruled by humanity."

Lu Gang could not help exclaiming, "Elder, if you are willing, would you come to our human survival base? All of humanity would welcome your emergence."

"This journey out was meant to enter the mortal world. Let's go—I wish to see the human realm."

Fang Yu hummed in agreement.

The two walked through the void toward Jiangnan City's base.

During the Great Nirvana, humanity clashed violently with countless demonic beasts, losing vast territories and being forced to consolidate populations in key cities; the entire world eventually coalesced into twenty-three human bases—twenty-three cities.

In ancient Huaxia, six major bases existed, one of which was Jiangnan City.

Jiangnan City housed nearly two hundred million people. Around this human survival base lay numerous supply bases, from which many warriors ventured into ruined, demonic-beast-occupied cities to slay beasts and hone themselves.

Lu Gang, a being of War God caliber, had once set out from a supply base to slay demonic beasts in ruined towns—until he fell into a rat beast trap; had Fang Yu not intervened, he would have perished.

As Fang Yu and Lu Gang stepped down from the sky and arrived at a supply base, many warriors gathered at its entrance, their faces filled with anxiety and excitement.

"I never expected a Level Three rat swarm—thankfully we didn't venture too deep into the city, or we'd have been doomed!"

"Yes, those black clouds of rats—so many! If I hadn't been lucky, I'd have been eaten!"

"Those damned rats—individually useless, but when they swarm, we humans must tread carefully. I wonder if Old Liu and the others survived—we got separated during the escape."

"Freak, you're alive! Good! I'm so glad to see you again."

"…"

Countless voices echoed through the supply base; many warriors greeted each other, for a rat swarm outbreak was perilous beyond measure—luckily, this was only a Level Three swarm; had it been the legendary Ruins Rat Swarm, it would have been a catastrophe for the entire Jiangnan Base.

"Hmm, look—who's that? How is he in the sky?"

"Nonsense, who's in the sky? Are you talking about an airplane? No—my god, who is that? He's walking freely through the air?"

"One looks like a young Daoist Priest; the other—I think I've seen him—he's War God Lu Gang!"

"It really is War God Lu Gang! A War God has come to our survival base?!"

"War God has arrived! Let's go see him!"

Upon hearing that War God Lu Gang had arrived, every warrior in the survival base rushed out—and when they saw it was truly Lu Gang, the entire base erupted in joy.

A War God!

In this era, a War God-level being was humanity's most precious asset, revered wherever they went.

In human society, most were ordinary people; only through arduous training and cultivation could one gradually ascend from Junior Trainee to Intermediate Trainee, then Senior Trainee, and finally, transcend into a Warrior.

Indeed, for most, reaching Warrior status was a leap to heaven—granting privileges across human society; even a destitute pauper, upon becoming a Warrior, would be offered a villa and billions in rewards—entirely normal.

But becoming a Warrior was merely the first step; Warriors at this initial level were called Soldiers. Most Warriors remained Soldiers for life, unless they gained rare fortune or possessed extraordinary talent, granting them a chance to ascend to War General rank.

Ordinary Soldiers could still be killed by conventional weapons, but once a Warrior reached War General rank, conventional weapons could hardly touch them—War Generals could effortlessly dodge all ballistic fire through reflexes and speed.

Above War General stood the War God level—each War God could walk unscathed through hailstorms of bullets, moving faster than lightning, reacting with impossible speed, capable of destroying entire buildings with a single punch or kick.

That was the War God level.

Thus, when the warriors of this survival base saw War God Lu Gang arrive, they were ecstatic, eager for his guidance—receiving even a single word from a War God might grant a Warrior sudden insight and a leap in cultivation.

"War God Lu Gang has come! Let's hurry to meet him!"

"Strange—how can Lu Gang fly?"

"And who is that Daoist Priest? He looks incredibly powerful too."

Countless voices reached Fang Yu and Lu Gang's ears, making Lu Gang feel embarrassed.

It was this Yuhua Sect's First Fuzhang, Elder Fang Yu, who had saved him—Fang Yu's power far surpassed his own—yet now all these junior warriors focused their attention on him, leaving him ashamed.

"Everyone…"

As Fang Yu and Lu Gang landed, Lu Gang gazed at the throng of jubilant juniors and signaled for silence.