Chapter 1112

Wu Tie lifted the unconscious Gongsun Yao and walked out of the prison that had confined him.

Behind him, on the bronze divine pillar, a 'Gongsun Yao' remained bound.

Wu Tie's great divine ability of myriad incarnations had reached perfection; he used a drop of Gongsun Yao's lifeblood essence to directly catalyze an incarnation of Gongsun Yao, substituting for his true body, which was imprisoned here.

Furthermore, he employed an immense divine power to disturb the heavenly secrets, severing the connection between Gongsun Yao's incarnation and his true body.

Thus, even if, a few days later at the execution, a powerful Wu clan expert used terrifying witchcraft, it could not endanger Gongsun Yao's true body.

Leave Wa Island, then flee this place as quickly as possible.

Wu Tie and Old Iron fled all the way back into Wuguo territory; ultimately, they returned to the former Three Kingdoms continent, the former Southwest border marsh province of the Jin Divine State, Daze Prefecture.

This is where Wu Tie once served, and also where he met Pei Feng.

This place is a remote, desolate backwater, extremely isolated; it was formerly used by the Jin Divine State to exile criminal officials and convicts.

But as Wuguo grew strong, Daze Prefecture, as Wu Tie's "land of dragon's rise," gradually acquired an unusual aura. Especially, Wu Tie's foremost civil minister Huang Lang, along with his entire clan, began to follow Wu Tie in Daze Prefecture.

Therefore, under Huang Lang's resource allocation, Daze Prefecture has been developed quite well over these years.

Its territory spans over a hundred million li, and its populace numbers in the hundreds of millions; especially, many tribes from the subterranean Fuxi Divine State are continually migrating in, continually filling Daze Prefecture.

At present, Daze Prefecture is in its most chaotic yet liveliest period.

Wu Tie employed divine power to seal all of Gongsun Yao's memories, and moreover sealed ninety-nine percent of his cultivation, restricting his strength to the level of the fifth heaven of the Divine Realm.

The former aspirant to the Human Emperor's throne, Gongsun Yao, has vanished forever; in the Daze Prefecture government office, a magistrate named Huang Yao has appeared. In Wuguo's official records, Huang Yao is a cadet branch of the Wuguo Huang clan, a distant nephew of Huang Lang.

This identity is sufficient to ensure that "Huang Yao" can live leisurely in Daze Prefecture.

Moreover, a son of Huang Lang stepped forward to propose marriage to the Wuguo Mo clan, already arranging for Huang Yao a direct-line Mo clan daughter as his fiancée.

The Mo clan, which virtually monopolizes Wuguo's casting industry, need not be mentioned for its court influence; the Mo clan is immensely wealthy, absolutely a top-three wealthy great clan among Wuguo's many aristocratic families.

Thus, even if Huang Yao merely idles away his days, he will never lack money.

Under Wu Tie's direction, before Huang Yao even married his fiancée, he acquired two additional concubines. Both concubines come from the cadet branches of the old Sui generals' families; both generals' families are the old guard of Xiahou Wuming, wielding considerable influence in the Wuguo military.

Thus, with a wealthy principal wife and two powerful concubines closely tied to the military, having money and connections, Huang Yao need fear neither starvation nor bullying; as long as he lives modestly, he will surely spend his life carefree and happy.

Qing Ning hopes he will branch out and have many children.

Wu Tie decided to fulfill Qing Ning's final wish.

Besides the principal wife and two concubines, Huang Lang is actively gathering a list of further consorts, servants, and maids for Huang Yao, totaling over a thousand people, already prepared.

Barring mishap, Huang Yao will at least be the progenitor of a large family with a hundred sons and a thousand grandsons, his lineage flourishing.

Regardless of whether this arrangement satisfies "Gongsun Yao," Wu Tie feels that "Huang Yao" will certainly be satisfied. A life arranged thus—fine clothes and jade food, riches and honor, beautiful wives and concubines, numerous offspring, and the prospect of securing a good position in the Wuguo court—wouldn't that be splendid?

Therefore, Wu Tie believes that "Huang Yao" will surely be satisfied, and Qing Ning will have no complaints, right?

At the north gate of Wuguo's capital, Wu Tie sat astride his horse, blade at his side, on the ridge of the gate tower, eyeing before him a square mirror wholly black, about a zhang high and over three feet wide.

This is an auxiliary divine artifact of the Wisdom Divine Clan, inherently a pair; its sole function is that characters written in one's own blood on its surface instantly appear on the surface of the other mirror.

No matter the distance—whether ten li, a hundred li, ten thousand li, or hundreds of millions of li, or even if blocked by endless Hongmeng chaos—this pair of mirrors can effortlessly transmit messages.

Qing Ning and her brother, now the divine emperors ruling the entire Wisdom Divine Clan, have thus devised a series of plans.

The siblings' plan, when described, is not complicated.

Qing Ning's brother is responsible for stirring up trouble in the gods' ancestral land, expending the Wisdom Divine Clan's full strength to disturb the divine order and provoke a full-scale divine civil war. This led to the five major divine clans dispatching a batch of elite youths to raid the observation outpost, severing the crystal bridge of the Heavenly Crystal War Star, cutting off the gods' route to the outpost, thereby allowing them to monopolize the human resources of Mu Dalu.

Under the leadership of Qing Ning's brother, the divine civil war is bound to fall into endless attrition.

It is like a group of mighty giants continually bleeding each other with small knives, gradually growing weaker.

Meanwhile, the Wisdom Divine Clan that instigated all this hides in the shadows, like a parasite, incessantly sucking the blood shed by those giants, thereby growing stronger itself.

After the crystal bridge was severed, the observation outpost retained only young royal lineages such as Xuanwu, Youzu, Chiwei, Yanzun, and Xuapo.

They possess ample potential, and even more ample resources to drive their continual strengthening.

However, they lack experience—whether in warfare or in scheming and intrigue—by a great deal.

Qing Ning, on the Mu Dalu side, with a single maneuver, easily brought about a catastrophic disaster for the gods at the observation outpost—although in the end it was not Gongsun Yao arranged by Qing Ning who succeeded, but Wu Tie who seized the Heavenly Crystal War Star; yet the final outcome remained unchanged.

The gods' forces at the observation outpost were shattered in one fell swoop; if everything had proceeded according to Qing Ning's plan, Gongsun Yao would now be the strongest contender for the Human Emperor's throne, nearly the sole contender, while other human elites would have no standing to compete with Gongsun Yao, who had achieved monumental merit.

Merely a series of coincidences or accidents caused Qing Ning's plan to come to naught.

Likewise, on Qing Ning's brother's side, the gods were fighting so fiercely that their brains spilled out; just as the plan was proceeding smoothly, a terrifying mishap occurred.

In the ninth month after Qing Ning's imprisonment, the gods' frenzied civil war was forcibly halted by three primeval immortals.

This matter must be traced back to the outbreak of the ancient divine war.

The gods' invasion of humanity began when the vanguard scout legion discovered humanity's then habitat; from the outbreak of sparks to full-scale war, it lasted nearly ten thousand years.

The gods' vanguard scouts discovered humanity's habitat, then began continually spreading news through the Hongmeng chaos, summoning ever more vanguard scout legions to stream in, continually joining the assault on humanity's habitat.

Then they dispatched a portion of the vanguard scouts back to the divine homeland to relay intelligence to the higher divine authorities.

That was an extremely long journey; they spent a thousand years painfully trekking before returning to their homeland. After the divine high command learned of humanity's overall strength at that time, they merely nonchalantly dispatched a "sufficiently strong" allied force, which painstakingly marched to attack humanity.

This gave humanity sufficient time; they swiftly turned from the technological side path they had strayed onto, returning to the proper cultivation path.

Humanity's strength was recovering, while the gods' allied force fell into the unlucky "oil-pouring" tactic—continually pouring troops into human territory, inflicting heavy losses on humanity, yet humanity kept growing stronger in the war.

Eventually, the gods of that time could no longer restrain themselves; led by a host of the mightiest immortals, commanding numerous divine ancestors, ancient gods, divine emperors and other powerful beings, they marshaled countless divine allied forces and frenziedly slaughtered into humanity's territory.

That battle……the ultimate result was that human civilization was nearly utterly annihilated, yet due to the gods' selfish motives, they hesitated slightly and did not completely exterminate humanity; meanwhile humanity had already triggered Mu Dalu's "reformation" divine formation, borrowing the vastness of Mu Dalu to set up the final ultimate protective grand formation.

That battle……the gods likewise suffered grievous losses, with human immortals and divine immortals perishing together; the surviving divine immortals were all heavily wounded and on the brink of death, forced to arduously return to their divine homeland, relying on the immense primordial power of their own clan's origin to recover their injuries.

The observation outpost system thus came into being.

The major divine clans established sealing grand formations, enclosing the entirety of Mu Dalu, continually shearing its wool and harvesting human resources.

Meanwhile, the heavily wounded main forces of the gods returned to their homelands to rest and recuperate, licking their grievous wounds and striving to restore themselves.

Thereafter came a tremendous upheaval among the gods.

The powerful divine clans that led this war of human extermination, such as the former ruling clans of the five great divine clans, all fell into decline due to the massive consumption in the war. Formerly merely mid-tier divine clans, various divine clans rose overnight; spurred on by the Wisdom Divine Clan, they boldly joined forces and annihilated those once supremely powerful divine clans.

The peoples of those supremely powerful ancient divine clans were slaughtered to the last, their classics burned to ashes, their lands utterly destroyed; their vassal peoples were then cursed by the gods' joint effort with the most vicious malediction, thoroughly lowering their bloodline tier and wisdom, so that from mighty wise clans they nearly degenerated into ignorant beast clans.

Thus, the mighty Ancient God Clan vanished without a trace, while the Ice Spirit God Clan, Heavenly Crystal God Clan, Lava Giant Gods and other god clans rose to prominence.

In the midst of this god clan civil war, which was raging like fire, the major god clans suffered heavy casualties.

Three ancient immortals who had taken part in the war to exterminate humanity, been gravely wounded by humanity's immortals and nearly died, suddenly appeared on the largest battlefield.

With just a single strike, they heavily wounded the dozens of God Emperors showing off on the battlefield, utterly annihilated nearly a thousand God Kings, then devoured their divine essences to heal their own injuries.

Death God Clan, Water God Clan, Earth God Clan...

The three immortals came from different god clans, and these three great clans belonged to the ranks of the once mighty Primordial Mighty God Clan; their civilizations had been completely destroyed by the Allied God Army, and their peoples had long been slaughtered to the last by that army.

Just how mighty were these three great god clans of old?

Once, the Dark Soul God Clan was merely a vanguard of the Death God Clan.

Once, the Heavenly Crystal God Clan was merely a lackey of the Earth God Clan.

Once, the Ice Spirit God Clan was merely a branch of the Water Holy Clan.

The three immortals were still badly wounded, their strength not yet restored to its peak, but even a wounded tiger can easily swat a grasshopper in its prime...

The gods, rapidly descending into mad civil war, were swiftly given a hysterical thrashing by the three near‑mad immortals.

The three pitiful immortals never imagined— they had bled and sweated for the gods' benefit, fighting desperately alongside humanity, only to be gravely wounded and near death, sent back to their god clan's homeland to sleep and recover, when their own lair was suddenly overturned completely?

Within just a month, among the hundreds of god clans, a large number of the powerful divine spirits who had participated in the ancient massacre of the old god clans were executed; the gods fell silent, not a single one daring to defy these three mighty primordial immortals.

Frankly, after harvesting Mu Dalu for so many years, the great god clans now haven't even managed to cultivate a single immortal!

Frankly, the human resources harvested by the great god clans are to be scattered like flour, evenly distributed among all the big and small god clans; within each clan, they must also contend and compete according to strength, influence, faction, and family ties.

Mu Dalu provides an enormous amount of resources, but once they are evenly distributed, that amount becomes insignificant.

Among the major god clans, the strongest divine spirits at present are merely barely stepping onto the threshold of half‑step immortality.

The three immortals, without mercy, used the vicious God Ban to turn all those half‑step immortals into god slaves.

Next came the news that Qing Ning had received from her elder brother: the three immortals had swiftly brought the major god clans under control, a new Heavenly Crystal War Star had already begun construction, and a vast legion of divine spirits, under the three immortals' command, was now spanning the Primordial Chaos and marching toward Mu Dalu.

They wanted to plunder humanity's blood essence and soul crystals, using these human resources that hide miraculous creative power to heal their wounds, condense their bloodlines, then refine the blood essence and re‑evolve their own god clan!

Beside Wu Tie's ear, it seemed he could hear Qing Ning's hysterical laughter once again.

"That bunch of foolish old fogies, they refuse to make this deal with me…… they're doomed to die……"

"Within a thousand years, at most a thousand years, those three old immortals will bring the main force of today's gods down……"

"Right now, only you in the whole human race know this news…… you are merely a minor God Emperor, and the entire human race has only you as its God Emperor…… a thousand years, only a thousand years!"

"Isn't it desperate? Isn't it helpless?"

"Heh, hehe……"

"Before the supreme immortals, a God Emperor is but a tiny ant."

"Will you choose resistance…… or utter surrender? But this time, with the wrath of those three old immortals, they will absolutely not accept humanity's surrender."

"Humanity will plunge into total darkness, you will be wiped of all civilization, you will become utterly ignorant beasts, raised in captivity, to become nourishment for the revival of the three ancient god clans."

"Martial King Wu Tie, are you desperate? Or are you desperate?"

"But Yao Er is different— my elder brother already knows of his existence; he and his children can survive as in‑laws of the Wisdom God Clan…… while you, you too can survive, but only like livestock."

"Hah, hah, hah hah hah!"

"Just thinking about your future, how could I not be unhappy?"