Chapter 1045

Wuguo's great army became extraordinarily stern.

The territory I have taken is mine.

The civilians I have saved are also mine.

Regardless of your original dynasty, divine sovereign, human holy land, or even Wa Island.

Demons and monsters continually offer sacrifices; Wuguo experts continually break through to the Venerable level.

Wuguo's military strength, especially its top-tier combat power, expanded like a rolling snowball; as its strength grew, Wuguo's military attitude became increasingly stern, and, because Li Ergouzi took the lead, it even showed a bit of proactive provocation.

The Heavenly Court's four major corps, in just over a year, erupted into hundreds of clashes, big and small, with Wuguo's great army.

Wuguo, relying on its numerous Venerable-level experts and its massive Colossal Divine Soldier legion, forcibly inflicted losses upon the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise corps.

Battlefield Earth Character Yi 377.

Here is extremely distant from the Wuguo homeland and the Glazed Buddha Kingdom; relying on the Myriad Spirits Void-Devouring God-Slaying Ship's divine ability to shift through space, even though a distance of hundreds of millions of li can be crossed in the snap of a finger, one still needs to travel continuously for nine months to return from here to the Wuguo homeland.

The situation on this continent is dire.

The original human dynasty had long been utterly destroyed by a group of demons and monsters. Countless human civilians were either slaughtered as sacrifices, turned into demonic food, or penned like livestock to supply these demons with all kinds of provisions for clothing, food, housing, and travel.

Even describing this place as a human hell is not quite fitting.

Even hell is not this terrifying, hell is not this grim; even if one suffers the torments of the eighteenth level of hell, it is not as bad as the suffering endured by the civilians here.

The vast Wuguo great army is currently locked in fierce battle with the gathered demon army.

Units of Colossal Divine Soldiers, coordinating with Heavenly Martial Army soldiers, search the ground cities, slay the defeated fleeing minor demons, and rescue the penned humans.

One after another, small flying vessels shoot straight up from the ground to high altitude, sending the rescued human populace into the God-Slaying Ships.

Wu Tie stood with his hands behind his back on high ground, overlooking the battlefield below, his face extremely grim.

For several days now, the civilians rescued by the Wuguo army have not been normal at all—everyone has become mad and delirious, none with clear minds.

Especially those women; their plight is something Wu Tie dares not describe in words.

Just say this: the demons on Battlefield Earth Character Yi 377 have fully carried out the divine edict transmitted from the gods beyond the heavens; in this vast battlefield, among a million human civilians, they have selected only a single survivor to keep alive.

And these demons need blood food; they need materials for cultivating demonic arts and sorcery; they furthermore need slaves to mine, farm, brew alcohol, make clothing, and so on and so forth...

Having killed so many, where does the population come from?

Having killed so many, where does the blood food come from?

Nothing more than using evil arts to force production.

Their condition... even the eighteenth level of hell is not this cruel, this grim.

"You all deserve to die." Wu Tie gazed icily at that group of demon chiefs whose bodies were suffused with towering killing intent.

These demons wear shining divine armor and wield mighty divine weapons, clashing loudly and vividly with Wuguo's great army.

From time to time they let out a long howl to the heavens, and divine light descends from the high sky, empowering their divine armor and weapons.

Because they fully carried out the divine edict of the gods beyond the heavens, the demons on this continent have received extraordinarily abundant divine blessings. Especially those Venerable-level demons, the projections of the heavenly artifacts and supreme artifacts they summon possess immensely great power.

Even when Wuguo's Venerable-level experts band together in groups of three to five, or even a dozen, they cannot deal with these demons clad in divine armor and wielding divine weapons.

Farther away, several fleets of the Heavenly Court observe this situation from a distance.

The Heavenly Court's army arrived on this continent even two months earlier than Wuguo, and they had engaged these demons sooner. However, facing demons empowered by divine artifacts, the Heavenly Court's great army faltered.

They did not fight these demons to the bitter end; instead they chose to bypass this continent, leaving only a few ten thousand to monitor the situation here.

Wu Tie said these demons deserve to die, and he even said those Heavenly Court fellows deserve to die!

Black and golden sword radiance sprayed from Wu Tie's sleeves; a huge innate Taiji diagram hovered beneath his feet, two sword beams like pillars holding up the sky shot upward. Accompanied by a piercing tearing sound, countless fish-like sword beams flowed across the sky, enveloping that demon army.

With just one strike, the gathered demon main force was slain ninety-nine percent; only a dozen or so Venerable-level demon leaders, clad in divine armor and of highest cultivation, were heavily wounded by the sword beams, howling as they fled in all directions.

Behind Wu Tie, three thousand strands of white vapor shot up to the heavens, transforming into three thousand white dragons that merged into the sword formation.

The sword formation's power surged a hundredfold; the sky-full of sword beams swirled once more, and those demon leaders successively spilled blood and fell.

Glancing at the distant Heavenly Court fleet hastily retreating, a sword intent poured down from the void, blasting dozens of great and small divine vessels into fragments; a group of Heavenly Court soldiers howled, covered in wounds, as they fell from the shattered ships to the ground.

"Thoroughly sweep this place clean……all demons must die!"

Wu Tie let out a low growl, then flashed to the wreckage of the fallen Heavenly Court divine vessel, seizing the disk of a deliberately retained teleportation formation.

This is a super-long-distance teleportation array crafted by the Heavenly Court; Wu Tie directly activated it and then transmitted himself through it.

In the next instant, he arrived amidst an immensely vast Heavenly Court great army.

The vast Heavenly Court great army was facing off against a demon legion numbering over a hundred times their size; the commanders on both sides spat and exchanged curses, quoting scriptures and hurling insults at each other.

Wu Tie threw a punch; the Heavenly Court great army shattered, all its soldiers severely wounded and collapsing to the ground.

Then another punch shattered the demon army; hundreds of millions of demons were blasted until their bones broke and tendons snapped, each wailing miserably as they fell from the void, hitting the ground heavily, and many lower-cultivation demons were simply flattened into meat patties.

Wu Tie shook his hand and dropped dozens of crystal pillars; a massive spatial disturbance erupted, accompanied by a 'hiss-hiss' sound, and a super-long-distance spatial gate slowly opened; shortly thereafter, several small God-Slaying Ships shuttled through the gate.

Following that, large numbers of Wuguo warships and countless Colossal Divine Soldiers surged forth.

"Thoroughly sweep this place clean, all demon sacrifices……all Heavenly Court affiliates, completely imprisoned!" Wu Tie coldly eyed the Heavenly Court personnel lying in thick clusters on the ground: "Heh, with a Pool of Transcendence, you think you can't be dealt with? As long as we don't kill, just severely wound and imprison, let's see what tricks you have left."

Amidst the shattered Heavenly Court fleet, Wu Tie picked up several super-long-distance teleportation arrays.

Following the same pattern, he proceeded in exactly the same way.

He transmitted over, located the Heavenly Court's main force, shattered it with a strike, then shattered the demon main force with another strike, then released a super-long-distance spatial gate to let the vast Wuguo great army rush to the battlefield to mop up.

Wu Tie began a frenzy of activity; in just a few months he swept across hundreds of battlefields, inflicting heavy losses on the Heavenly Court, and countless divine vessels, floating clouds, and large war machines that had cost a fortune to forge were either destroyed or became Wuguo's spoils of war.

As Wu Tie's busyness continued, battlefield after battlefield, hunting ground after hunting ground were taken over by Wuguo's ever-expanding army.

Wuguo's Divine Martial Army expanded its scale by hundreds of times; on every battlefield and hunting ground, low-ranking divine spirits reincarnated in the cycle, from the lowest stratum of people incarnating as people, lurking within the human dynasty.

These people, some of them cooperated with those demons and monsters, breaching the human dynasty.

These people were naturally executed.

More people, like Xia Rumeng, became immersed in human life; they not only failed to follow the gods' orders to attack humanity, but instead exerted all their strength to resist the demonic corruption.

These people were naturally incorporated into the Divine Martial Army, enrolled into Wuguo's military system.

Numbering in the millions, low-ranking divine spirits undergoing reincarnation are spread across every battlefield and hunting ground; they preside over the altars, directly offering the sacrificed demons and monsters to themselves, and intercept all the sacrificial offerings.

In the void, inside the Heavenly Crystal Battle Star, the spoils of war obtained by the gods are shrinking to an extremely terrifying degree.

Every day, the roars and howls of Xuanwu and others can be heard from within the Heavenly Crystal Battle Star; each day, divine spirits beaten until their heads are bloody and bruised flee the Crystal Stone Hall clutching their heads.

Heavenly Court, Lingxiao Palace.

Qingning stood before a huge floor-to-ceiling mirror, squinting as she admired her reflection.

She and the Qingning within the Heavenly Crystal Battle Star seem able to share all sensory perception; everything that occurs inside the Heavenly Crystal Battle Star lies fully within her sight.

With a soft 'pfft' laugh, Qingning said leisurely, 'Now, are you going to panic? If you don't act now, you won't even have a chance to regret it.'

'Over these years, you have painstakingly planted those reincarnated little lackeys among humanity, yet their loyalty is far too low—but you deserve this; couldn't you have treated those little lackeys even a little better in daily life?'

'Now, reckoning up, there are also millions of those little lackeys you painstakingly planted who have betrayed you, right?'

'You, too, should be panicking. Who else could possibly help you solve this problem now?'

Qingning laughed brightly.

Immediately after, the entire Lingxiao Palace was shaken by a tremendous boom, swaying a few times. Gongsun Yao's roar made the halls of the Lingxiao Palace reverberate with a constant 'humming' sound; the aura of the Three Thousand Great Ways of the Primordial Scripture, cultivated to perfection, vibrated the void, and wave after wave of terrifying primordial energy tides surged forth, shattering the one-foot-thick crystal floor-to-ceiling mirror before Qingning with a 'crack' into pieces.

'Impudent child.' Qingning furrowed her brows, and with a light touch of her right hand, intangible, traceless time undulations surged; the shattered crystal mirror reassembled, and in an instant it reformed into a flawless bright mirror.

'You are already a Grand Heavenly Sovereign of the Heavenly Court, destined to become the supreme of humanity—why are you still so impatient?' Qingning shook her head: 'Ah, this must be your fire rising; these years, Yao'er's temper has never been this explosive.'

Qingning's body flickered, and she went straight to behind the Nine Dragons Holding Up the Sun great screen in the main hall of the Lingxiao Palace.

Gongsun Yao stood behind the dragon case, hands braced on it, glaring angrily at the high-ranking human officials in the main hall.

'In just over a year, less than two, aside from the Qilin Legion that I personally command, the other four legions have lost over thirty percent of their forces!' Gongsun Yao roared: 'Are those demons and monsters truly that formidable? Is the so-called Venerable rank really that powerful?'

Gongsun Yao stomped his foot and roared: 'You humans, your secretly passed-down inheritances and foundations, those hidden treasures…… for example, your Suiren clan's Fire Transmission Grand Formation, your Eastern Wasteland lineage's Golden Crow Essence, your Shennong clan's Myriad Medicines Grand Formation……'

'These are great divine abilities and mighty skills capable of suppressing, even slaying, Venerable beings…… how dare you tell me you've suffered losses and casualties to this extent?' Gongsun Yao's eyes even turned a little red.

A light cough sounded, and a middle-aged man of stalwart build, handsome features, and a faint halo of solar divine light hovering above his head stepped out of the ranks.

'Grand Heavenly Sovereign, it's not that our people are incapable…… it's that our Heavenly Court army, when facing those heretical evils, does have wins and losses…… the sole problem lies with Wuguo!'

'When Ji Baojie was still the lord of the Heavenly Court, the Wuguo army had already clashed with them, and the Heavenly Court suffered a great loss; this can be known from the elderly survivors of the Thunder Department.'

'Ji Kui and Ji Wuliang father and son replaced Ji Baojie, taking command of the Thunder Department's Demon-Suppressing Division's main force and renewing war with Wuguo. The main force of the Demon-Suppressing Division was annihilated, Ji Kui and Ji Wuliang father and son, together with the high-ranking members of that Ji clan branch, all perished. Wuguo's fangs were thus revealed.'

'However, in that battle, Wuguo deployed nothing more than a single general and a detachment.'

'Now, Wuguo is like a frenzied demon, especially its lord Wu Tie, whose divine powers are vast, whose mana is boundless, moreover cruel and ruthless, striking decisively; our Heavenly Court army is no match for him.'

After a light cough, the middle-aged man said softly: 'As for our clans' foundations…… take the Suiren clan's Fire Transmission Grand Formation, the fire that suppresses that formation—in Wu Tie's hands it's practically just feeding him nourishment. He possesses a dreadful furnace that has consumed untold amounts of our Heavenly Court departments' foundations……'

Gongsun Yao snapped: 'Wu Tie, again Wu Tie…… is there no one who can deal with him?'

Gongsun Yao glared at the department heads in the hall: 'As the proud human race, do we have no way at all to handle this petty Wuguo?'

Inside the hall, the high-ranking human officials remained silent.

After a long while, an Elder of the Shennong clan finally said slowly: 'Our humanity's few most valiant and warlike tribes have seen hundreds of their Elders severely injured by a single punch from him…… perhaps he truly is unbeatable.'

Gongsun Yao trembled with rage, and he snapped: 'If that's the case, I will personally go meet him…… go, send a single person to deliver a message to Wu Tie, saying that I invite him to a battle.'

Behind the large screen, Qingning slightly furrowed his brows, then gently shook his head, and gently nodded.

Within the vast palace complex of the Heavenly Court, inside a secret palace hidden deep in the earth's core, Ji Baijie, dressed in splendid robes, and his close subordinates such as Lei Zhen and Ji Ting, etc., laughed in unison, raising their cups and drinking heartily.

"You young whippersnapper, you really can't hold your breath, you're angry already?" Ji Baijie smiled and said: "Good, very good. They dare to scheme against my Heavenly Court; I will let all the human races see that besides me, Ji Baijie, no one can control the Heavenly Court; besides me, Ji Baijie, no one can save the human race!"

"All human races can only, under my leadership, Ji Baijie, defeat all evil heresies and restore the ancient glory."

"The plan can proceed to the next step." Ji Baijie set down the wine cup in his hand, calmly said: "Those heavenly court soldiers captured alive by Wuguo should truly become subordinates of my Heavenly Court."