Chapter 1094: Heavenly Court, Plunder

Nüwa Island was shrouded in an unusual atmosphere.

Hidden Dragon elites each employed secret arts, investigating the truth of how various gods had invaded Nüwa Island.

Zhao Xiaoxiao, Jin Yuxiu, Luochen and other Hidden Dragon Army commanders, not knowing where they had dug up some captured gods and god‑slaves, tortured them day and night with severe interrogations, seeking every possible clue of value.

Because of this, the Hidden Dragon Army also clashed several times with the Gongsun clan's people.

Gongsun Yao issued an order: slaughter all the gods that had invaded Nüwa Island, and slaughter all the demons, evil spirits, and god‑slaves they had gathered.

The Hidden Dragon Army secretly captured many prisoners, which clearly violated Gongsun Yao's command.

The Gongsun clan's people must uphold Gongsun Yao's authority.

The Hidden Dragon Army, however, sought to uncover the truth of Nüwa Island's attack.

Furthermore, many high‑ranking human civilians hurried to Nüwa Island, bringing their elite subordinates.

Just as before earthquakes, hurricanes and other natural disasters, keen‑sensed birds and beasts always detect faint omens; these human high‑rankers sensed that a great upheaval within humanity was imminent.

They had to garrison Nüwa Island, to hold the core battlefield of humanity's upheaval, thereby protecting their own and their clan's interests.

One after another, elite armies from the great clans and tribes marched into Nüwa Island, spreading far apart, each setting up camp and laying defensive formations. Among the human populace, alliances formed left and right, pacts were sworn, and for a time Nüwa Island bustled with activity.

Amid this tumultuous, gloomy atmosphere, Gongsun Yao returned alone to Nüwa Island.

He solemnly declared to the human high‑rankers that the culprits who had colluded with extraterritorial demons and invaded Nüwa Island were none other than the Heavenly Court!

The Hidden Dragon Army expressed great doubt about this.

Gongsun Yao, meanwhile, accused the Hidden Dragon Army of harboring malicious intent.

The two sides exchanged heated words; the young and fiery Hidden Dragon Army could not contain its anger, and Ju Wuba, Zhao Heiwa and others clashed fiercely with Gongsun Yao's subordinates.

The human high‑rankers rose up in condemnation, blaming the Hidden Dragon Army for disrupting humanity's order and suspecting it of colluding with the Heavenly Court to bring chaos upon mankind. For a time the Hidden Dragon Army lost the moral high ground completely, being pressed by Gongsun Yao and his allies until they could barely breathe.

At this juncture, above the Gongsun clan's ancestral holy temple, a colossal God‑slaying Ship over six thousand li long burst forth from the void with a terrifying roar. Countless bolts of lightning coiled around its massive hull, and like heavenly dragons, thunder dragons swooped down the instant it appeared, smashing into the temple's roof.

The Gongsun clan's holy temple's great protective array activated at once, but the lightning struck and shattered the array to pieces.

Countless Heavenly Court Thunder Division soldiers, clad in lightning armor and exuding awe‑inspiring aura, surged from the God‑slaying Ship, shouting as they stormed the Gongsun clan's holy temple and in a few blows routed its defending tribal elite, looting everything inside.

As one of the major human tribes, and moreover a branch of the strongest human clan, the Youxiong Tribe, the Gongsun clan's ancestral holy temple housed many precious treasures.

Moreover, the Gongsun clan's holy temple secretly stored one hundred and seven fragments of Primeval Supreme Treasure.

A huge Crystal Divine Stele slowly rose from the God‑slaying Ship; within the stele, the great Gods' Roll exhaled purple‑gold light, as the Thunder Division commanders, holding the heavy treasure fragments with both hands, carefully merged them into the stele.

The Gods' Roll swallowed those treasure fragments whole; golden light blazed across its great banner, its aura rising step by step, and the aura of the Heavenly Court Thunder Division soldiers aboard the God‑slaying Ship rose in tandem.

The Gods' Roll is a Primeval Curious Object, and moreover the core lifeline of the present Heavenly Court.

Those belonging to the Heavenly Court imprint their natal divine souls upon the Gods' Roll; they need not cultivate, for as the Roll's origin grows stronger and its rank rises, their strength continually increases.

In just a quarter of an hour, the Heavenly Court intruders who had stormed the Gongsun clan's holy temple saw their cultivation levels rise on average by three minor stages.

Especially Ji Ting and the other Thunder Division commanders, whose cultivation leapt directly from half‑step Sovereign to full Sovereign.

Before the Gongsun clan's people could react, Ji Ting and several other Thunder Division commanders whose power had been vastly increased roared, and by drawing on the God‑slaying Ship's amplifying divine formation, they boosted their own strength a hundredfold.

Dozens of thunder dragons, each tens of millions of li long, howled as they tore through the void and came crashing down upon the Gongsun clan's territory.

As one of humanity's powerful tribes, the Gongsun clan's territory naturally boasted splendid mountains and waters, its underground spirit veins winding like dragons, with countless verdant mountains, clear waters and blessed lands.

One after another, huge thunder dragons fell from the sky, howling as they burrowed underground.

The earth trembled, the void writhed, and across the Gongsun clan's territory, mountain ranges, lakes and great rivers were forcibly ripped out by the terrifying power.

Moreover, the cities and villages where the Gongsun clan's people gathered were likewise swept up, along with those mountains, lakes and rivers, by the thunder dragons from the ground.

The terrifying thunderclap exploded, stunning the Gongsun clan's folk in the cities and villages into unconsciousness; the tribe warriors of Divine Realm cultivation were shattered to dust, turning into a mist of blood, while only the weak‑bodied women and children survived.

Mountain ranges, lakes, rivers, cities and villages were swept up by the thunder dragons and forcibly packed into the vast interior of the God‑slaying Ship.

When the Gongsun clan's main fleet arrived from all directions, the Heavenly Court raiders had already finished their looting; the colossal God‑slaying Ship's prow spat out a fierce divine light, instantly tore open the void and vanished without a trace.

Countless Gongsun clan warriors who had rushed to the scene raged, beating their chests and stamping their feet, shouting aloud, some even vomiting blood.

Thirty‑six giant God‑slaying Ships simultaneously launched surprise raids on the human populace and the great tribes; each ship strictly followed its pre‑set plan, hovering for a fixed moment of one quarter‑hour above the ancestral holy temple and forbidden‑land ancestral shrine of every major clan and tribe.

In just two hours, more than a hundred major human clans and tribes were ransacked, and tens of thousands of fragments of Primeval Supreme Treasure, large and small, were plundered.

The great clans and tribes lost not only the treasures secretly stored in their holy temples and ancestral shrines, but also astronomical amounts of materiel and resources, and the number of their people taken captive by the Heavenly Court exceeded a hundred billion.

The news swiftly reached the human high‑rankers assembled on Nüwa Island; the island fell into terror, and the human leaders were shocked.

Gongsun Yao's voice quickly coalesced into the collective proclamation of all human high‑rankers: 'Heavenly Court, the scourge of humanity, they have consorted with extraterritorial demons and wantonly harmed mankind… they must be eradicated!'