Chapter 1075

Wu Tie's body swayed, and his right hand lightly patted forward.

The time Dao seal, moreover the time Dao seal of the great perfection of the tenfold heaven realm, emitted light like flowing water, enveloping the void where tens of thousands of divine slaves had just been.

These god slaves, Wu Tie does not believe they should be killed so casually.

Wu Tie even feels that the reason these god slaves became god slaves is not their fault, but the fault of the entire human race!

Wu Tie recalled the scene from years ago in the underground world of the Fuxi Divine Kingdom, when the Ice Spirit Divine Clan's You Jieya led people to massacre Shibao and plunder talented young men and women.

Because your tribe, because your people were unable to protect you, you were plundered by the so-called divine spirits.

You were brainwashed, you were devastated, you were subjected to cruel torment and abuse, causing you to forget your own people, your own civilization, your own ancestors, your own faith.

They knelt at the feet of their enemies, their devout faith, worshipping their enemies.

In their bloodline, foreign blood has been integrated.

Their thoughts are filled with the foreigners' devotion.

Is this their fault?

Those who were plundered, those who were harmed, they are merely victims; the truly guilty are those so-called gods.

The truly guilty are those who hide within the human race, openly seizing these gifted monsters of the new human generation, placing them on altars to sacrifice to the gods—these scum!

These god slaves do not deserve death.

Therefore Wu Tie is willing to give them a continent, shatter their cultivation, so they may live out their natural lifespans like true humans, peacefully aging in bed until their natural lifespan ends, rather than being worthlessly slaughtered on the battlefield like pigs and dogs.

This is not Wu Tie's 'Saint Mother Mercy'; he is merely adhering to the bottom line in his heart.

The one at fault is the entire human race.

This fault should not be borne solely by these pitiful sacrificial victims.

Gongsun Ye slaughtered tens of thousands of god slaves with a single punch; Wu Tie was unimpressed—'If you're really that powerful, go take down those lofty divine spirits!'

If you're really that powerful, make the entire Mu Dalu return to its primitive state, so the human race need fear those so-called divine spirits no more!

Slaughtering the weak—what kind of martial skill is that?

Especially these god slaves, many divine clans brought the vast majority of god slaves to Wahuang Island to fight; among them are countless men, women, old and young, the feeble, women and children. Of the tens of thousands of god slaves just slain by a single punch, there are white-haired elders, youths in their prime, and even naive children aged seven or eight, eleven or twelve.

Your punch, Gongsun Ye, is mighty, overbearing, and impressive!

Wu Tie forcibly reversed time; before him appeared vast illusions, as the tens of thousands of god slaves he had just killed were being forcibly pulled back to the mortal realm by Wu Tie.

The Dao of Time, the Dao of Life, the Dao of Reincarnation, the Dao of the Soul… dozens of Dao seals flickered around Wu Tie.

Time flowed backward, reforging the body, recondensing the spirit, flesh and spirit reuniting… Wu Tie's veins bulged on his forehead; before countless humans and divine spirits, he sought to resurrect those tens of thousands of slain god slaves!

Gongsun Ye's expression shifted slightly as he sneered, 'Martial King, are you going to champion these demonic lackeys?'

Wu Tie glanced askance at Gongsun Ye: 'That day you and your mother were besieged by the Heavenly Court, nearly killed; I truly should not have saved you…'

Gongsun Ye's expression instantly turned extremely grim.

His mother Qingning told him he would surely become the supreme human emperor, and an emperor should be flawless, should be defect-free—he cannot fail, nor can he have a record of failure.

Wu Tie spoke these words publicly; how could Gongsun Ye bear it?

Here there are so many civil and military officials of Wuguo, so many Hidden Dragon elites, and so many divine spirits and god slaves!

Gongsun Ye drew a deep breath; above his head likewise appeared time Dao seals, death Dao seals, destruction Dao seals, withering Dao seals, aging Dao seals, and other great Dao seals. One after another, overwhelming Dao power surged toward Wu Tie, eroding the Dao resonance field he emitted.

Tens of thousands of semi-transparent figures, almost recondensing into solid form, shattered with a crack.

Tens of thousands of god-slave divine realm beings, Wu Tie sought to reverse time from a state of nothingness to resurrect them—this in itself was an enormous burden.

Just as earlier at the Wahuang Miao, Wu Tie could not save the dying old matriarch; he is not an omniscient, omnipotent being, merely a powerhouse who is virtually invincible at the Venerable level.

To save these tens of thousands of god slaves, Wu Tie has already exerted his utmost effort.

Gongsun Ye made his move, likewise condensing three thousand great Dao seals, and further, by relying on the Wahuang clan's ancestral spirit space's endless incense and faith power, he raised his cultivation to above the Seventh Heaven of Venerable—like slamming a huge mountain onto a fragile scale.

Spacetime backlash; the tens of thousands of god slaves were utterly destroyed, with no possibility of revival.

Wu Tie's body shuddered, and suddenly signs of the Five Declines of Heaven and Human appeared all over him: a foul stench welled up from his whole body, black sweat poured from his armpits, withered flower-petal light and shadow fell from his head, his skin quickly withered and wrinkled…

The terrible backlash caused Wu Tie to spit out a mouthful of blood.

This is a head-on impact of the heavenly dao's law, so the backlash damage Wu Tie suffered is extremely severe.

But Wu Tie's profound reserves instantly surged; the vast, sea-like life essence within his body gushed forth, the aged appearance vanished at once, and he became youthful and vigorous again.

His entire skeleton trembled, emitting a low rumbling; powerful chaotic power surged from his bones, instantly cleansing his whole body, washing away the omens of the Five Declines of Heaven and Human until spotless.

"With your ability, can you save me?" Gongsun Ye secretly resolved, telling his first lie in life: 'Martial King, you are so feeble a single strike could fell you—what qualifications, what ability do you have to save me?'

He arrogantly lifted his head, telling his second lie in life: 'What qualifications does the mere Heavenly Court have to oppose me?'

Pointing at Wu Tie, Gongsun Ye told another half-truth, his second-and-a-halfth lie in life.

This lie carries little responsibility for him; at most the responsibility falls on his mother Qingning. Yet although he is unaware, he still told a lie:

"Wahuang Island is in crisis, the human race is in crisis; I, by the order of the Wahuang Island's senior matriarchs, oversee all personnel of the Hidden Dragon Plan, lead the human race, counterattack extraterrestrial demons, and rectify the human race's Dao lineage!"

Gongsun Ye seized the Wahuang Command atop his head, then flashed it in all directions.

Mu Dalu is vast and boundless; the young talents cultivated by Wahuang Island over these years are randomly distributed across various battlefields, hunting grounds, and fate fields. These lands lie at varying distances from Wahuang Island, and the Hidden Dragon talents have varying levels of cultivation, so they rush to reinforce Wahuang Island, arriving at different times.

As Gongsun Ye held the Wahuang Command and proclaimed it to the surroundings, strong Venerable-level youths continued to arrive, panting.

Upon seeing the Wahuang Command, they immediately dropped to one knee on the ground.

Wu Tie remained silent.

Gongsun Ye's words left him speechless. When a person prepares to become shameless and begins telling his first lie, his lies grow smoother and more eloquent, his bottom line lowers, and eventually he habitually lies about everything.

In the end, he will become a purely profit-driven creature.

Just like the elders of Xigu Valley, they are pure egoists, purely profit-driven beings.

Wave after wave of experts from the Gongsun clan kept emerging from the Wahuang Cave; they all possessed Venerable-level cultivation, and their aura was vast and stable, far stronger than the Venerable-level experts under Wu Tie's command!

These Gongsun clan experts directly consume the incense and faith power accumulated by generations of ancestors in the Wahuang clan's ancestral spirit space, wildly boosting their cultivation.

As for the Venerable-level experts under Wu Tie's command, they merely used the sacrificial method to break through to Venerable, and then all their cultivation came from their own gradual training—among them, even Huang Lang, the earliest to break through, has only condensed Dao seals for a few years.

In terms of cultivation and combat strength, the current high-level of Wuguo is far insufficient to match the present Gongsun clan.

Wa Island lightly trembled.

All around Wa Island, small islands rose one after another from the deep sea. These islands, like pearls, were entirely composed of crystal-clear coral, magnificent and brimming with primordial energy. These islands encircled Wa Island in the center, and endless streams of heaven-and-earth primordial energy continually spouted from these islands, then were absorbed by Wa Island.

Amidst a low rumbling, pillars of light shot up from these small islands, and then ice coffins formed from ten-thousand-year-old profound ice flew out from the islands.

Inside these ice coffins, youths who appeared to be only in their twenties, at most thirty years old, with strong auras and heroic, upright bearing, lay silently asleep.

Gongsun Yao shook the Wa Imperial Command in his hand, and these ice coffins, accompanied by faint cracking sounds, shattered into ice fragments and fell.

The youths sealed within the ice coffins opened their eyes, and then vast, pure venerable-level auras shot up into the sky.

"The Hidden Dragon Plan is Wa Island's ultimate power secretly prepared for humanity." Gongsun Yao arrogantly looked at Wu Tie: "Only those most trusted by the Old Matriarchs, only the most outstanding heroes of humanity, will be entrusted with this important task and command the Hidden Dragon!"

Gongsun Yao proudly revealed the full details of the Hidden Dragon Plan.

The Old Matriarchs of Wa Island, diligent and meticulous, carefully selected youths from within humanity who possessed talent, good virtue, positive attitude, and passionate vigor; after years of thorough examination, they secretly used the Wa clan's ancestral spirit space to cultivate them into venerable-level powerhouses.

As previously said, these youths were pure, hot-blooded, kind, and upward-looking; thus they were loyal, daring in battle, and willing to shed their blood and lay down their lives for humanity.

After they became venerable-level powerhouses, Wa Island would let them develop on their own for hundreds of years, strengthening their power and accumulating foundations; then they would be summoned back to Wa Island, while their hot blood had not cooled, their consciences had not changed, and they remained loyal and willing to shed blood for humanity, at which point they would be completely sealed in ten-thousand-year-old profound ice.

Only these passionate, pure, sacrifice-willing youths would, when their strength reached its peak and before they had fully enjoyed life's beauty, willingly self-seal for humanity's future, silently sleeping in the deep seas surrounding Wa Island.

Many of them have been asleep for an unknown number of years.

They sleep there, merely waiting for a person holding the Wa Imperial Command to awaken them.

When they awaken, it is either when humanity faces a life-and-death crisis, or when humanity launches a full-scale counterattack; otherwise, they cannot possibly awaken from the ice coffins.

They are all venerable-level beings, having freed themselves from the limits of lifespan; in the seal, they suffer no consumption at all.

They are the entirety of the Hidden Dragon Plan, they are the Old Matriarchs' greatest trump card.

Other examples such as humanity's elite who reincarnate, those who have self-sealed as half-step venerable, and even the mighty human army of Xigu, in the Old Matriarchs' eyes, are merely humanity's regular forces.

In the Old Matriarchs' eyes, Wu Tie was merely a reserve candidate for the Hidden Dragon Plan!

Although Wu Tie performed well, he already possessed the foundation of a nation; his status no longer met the Hidden Dragon Plan's requirement to select from the grassroots. Wu Tie was merely placed on the observation list, and he did not necessarily have the chance to enter the ancestral spirit space.

A great upheaval changed everything.

Wu Tie rose relying on his own strength, and the full scope of the Hidden Dragon Plan has now appeared before everyone.

Beyond the waters of Wa Island, several Elders of the Xihuang lineage had grim faces.

They knew the Old Matriarchs were stockpiling humanity's elite in the life field, risking great danger to let the high-ranking commoners of humanity reincarnate, maintaining perfect peak condition, to stockpile human strength.

They also knew the Old Matriarchs sealed, via secret arts, those half-step venerable human experts whose lifespans were nearing end but who dared not risk reincarnation, regarding them as humanity's final line of defense.

Before, they scoffed at the Old Matriarchs' practices—those who did not reach venerable level were ultimately just cannon fodder.

No matter how many half-step venerables there are, a single venerable expert can slaughter thousands with a flip of the hand; it is utterly meaningless.

They firmly believed that only that elite force of Xigu was humanity's strongest power……

They never dreamed that the Wa clan's ancestral spirit space would have such a miraculous effect.

"The most venomous thing is a woman's heart!" a Xihuang lineage Elder muttered: "These crazy old women, they actually, actually, actually played this trick on us……"

Several Elders looked at the outskirts of Wa Island, at the tens of thousands of ice coffins currently thawing, and the ever-increasing number of ice coffins rising from the surrounding islets, feeling only a wave of bewilderment.

What happened to the promised mutual aid between the Xi and Wa clans?

What happened to the agreement that the Xi clan handles warfare while the Wa clan handles rituals?

You bunch of terrible old women, that's not right……

The Hidden Dragon forces already visible now are far stronger than the elite painstakingly cultivated by Xigu……

"Human hearts are not ancient, morals have declined." a Xihuang lineage Elder gave a bitter smile: "Fortunately, they are all dead…… tsk, otherwise who knows how many strange things would have happened. Since this ancestral spirit space is such a mighty weapon of conquest, it should rightfully belong to our Xihuang lineage to oversee!"

Several Xihuang lineage Elders glanced at each other, then lightly nodded.

Their hostile gazes fixed on Gongsun Yao.

At this moment, Gongsun Yao had already been listed as the first name on their must-kill list in their minds.

On the contrary, Wu Tie, who had caused a huge ruckus in their Xigu and inflicted heavy losses upon them, had become irrelevant.

At this moment, Gongsun Yao, holding the Wa Imperial Command, represented the human orthodoxy recognized by the Wa lineage; he occupied the moral high ground, so even the heads, clan chiefs, and Elders of humanity's commoners had to be polite when facing him.

Not to mention, he wielded the Hidden Dragon forces in his hand!

One by one, the venerable-level and divine-realm experts released from the ice coffins all knelt before Gongsun Yao, who held the Wa Imperial Command.

Sealed in ice for ten thousand years, ten million years……

The youths of that era, their blood still not cold!

"For humanity!" the giant raised his great battle-axe: "Willing to fight to the death!"

From all directions, countless Hidden Dragon youths, along with their comrades-in-arms behind them, simultaneously raised their weapons: "For humanity, fight to the death!"

Gongsun Yao contemptuously glanced at Wu Tie, then lightly pointed at Wa Island: "Exterminate all evil demons!"

He then looked at Wu Tie again: "Anyone who dares to obstruct is part of the evil faction; only by exterminating them completely is it right!"