Chapter 312

A detachment of the Demon-Suppressing Hall's Patrol Battalion was wiped out.

Translation: "A detachment of the Demon-Suppressing Hall's Patrol Battalion was wiped out."

A detachment of the Demon-Suppressing Hall's Patrol Battalion was wiped out.

Wu Tie sat on the back of a giant dragon lizard, legs crossed, watching twenty members of the Wu Clan busy at work.

Translation: "Wu Tie sat on the back of a giant dragon lizard, legs crossed, watching twenty members of the Wu Clan busily at work."

The giant dragon lizard, the Wu Clan's members were busy at work.

【13】

Translation: "He destroyed the enemy's warship, but he carefully avoided its main cannon."

The warship's main cannon.

【17】

Translation: "This is a specially crafted 'Pure Yang Demon-Extinguishing Aurora Cannon' of the Great Jin Divine Kingdom; as long as enough origin crystals condensed from heavenly and earthly origin energy are supplied, this big gun can unleash, within fifteen minutes, an uninterrupted barrage equivalent to the full-force attack of a mid-stage Fetal Storage Realm expert."

The Great Jin Divine Kingdom's Pure Yang Demon-Extinguishing Aurora Cannon, drawing on heavenly and earthly origin energy and origin crystals, launched a full-force attack by a mid-stage Fetal Storage Realm expert.

【20】

Without a doubt, on the battlefield, this is a formidable weapon.

Translation: "Without a doubt, on the battlefield, this is a great killing weapon."

【24】

Translation: "If used to kill enemies, destroying cities and capturing strongholds becomes effortless."

Turned in for military merit, such an aurora cannon is worth the merit of three to five Fetal Storage Realm experts of the same rank.

Translation: "Exchanged for military merit, the value of such an aurora cannon equals that of three to five mid-stage Fetal Storage Realm experts of the same rank."

is commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "After all, the Great Jin Divine Kingdom's armament techniques far surpass those of the Fuxi Divine Kingdom, and its master artificers often apply their ingenious ideas to various large instruments, continually upgrading and replacing these great killing weapons."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "An aurora cannon employing new technology is definitely worth more than the heads of three to five mid-stage Fetal Storage Realm experts."

Chinese.

Translation: "Wu Zheng personally directed his clansmen to dismantle the aurora cannon from the shattered ship's cabin, treating it like serving ancestors, and stored both the cannon and a huge energy furnace into his storage bracelet."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "Afterward, the group began to clean up the battlefield."

Chinese.

Translation: "Six Life Pool Realm cultivators and hundreds of Chonglou Realm cultivators carried plenty of good stuff; plus the origin energy crystals from the warship's storehouse and the supplies carried by the Demon-Suppressing Army, this is a considerable fortune."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "Even though Wu Zheng and his companions come from the Wu Clan, the wealth of any random Chonglou Realm warrior from the Demon-Suppressing Army far exceeds theirs."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "Wu Zheng walked over to Wu Tie's side, watching the Wu Clan juniors strip the armor from the fallen Demon-Suppressing soldiers, and he couldn't help but grin: 'All good stuff, this armor…… hey, compared to these guys, we down there……'"

commentary.

Chinese.

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "He licked his lips and Wu Zheng murmured: 'With the same rice seeds, the rice we grow down there under the False Sun yields at most a thousand catties per mu…… while they, even on the poorest land, produce several times what we do per mu.'"

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "'Moreover, there are other origin herbs, and spirit herbs atop them, immortal herbs atop those, divine medicines, and even heaven-earth marvels more precious than immortal herbs and divine medicines…… down there, yields are scarce, but here they are abundant, abundant.'"

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "He pointed at the surrounding bare peaks and Wu Zheng sneered: 'They can waste resources without restraint. For example, to prevent us from getting supplies in this mountain range, they spare no effort using divine powers to turn this range into a wasteland.'"

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "'Not a blade of grass grows, even the earth's veins have been shifted, and under constant scorching sun, it often goes years or decades without a drop of rain.'"

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "'Originally, this was a land of auspicious feng shui. At least a thousand years ago, the Fuxi Divine Kingdom first opened the ninth-numbered military supply route, deploying troops to this mountain region; the land here, according to the ancestors, was so fertile it flowed with oil.'"

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "Saliva dripped from the corner of Wu Zheng's mouth."

Chinese.

Translation: "He gazed at the all-around pitch-black, bare peaks where no grass grew, the rock walls smooth and icy like iron, and said longingly: 'An ancestor who participated in a surprise attack a thousand years ago said that back then there was a great river between these valleys, and the fish in its water could be scooped out with a clay pot.'"

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "'On these mountains there were dense forests, inside which roe deer, great deer, and muntjac could be knocked unconscious with a single stick by any child and dragged back for barbecue, without needing divine powers.'"

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "'Everywhere grows spirit herbs a hundred times more precious than origin herbs; in many places one or two astonishing immortal herbs can be found, and within ten thousand miles a divine medicine is certain to appear. Even my Wu Clan's ancestors joined forces here to slay a heaven-earth marvel that had cultivated into human form, forging it into a clan-protecting strange treasure enshrined in the ancestral hall.'"

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "'But now, humph, look— they really went ahead and did it, with just a world-upending divine power, this region of a hundred million li has been utterly destroyed.'"

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "'A land of auspicious feng shui spanning a hundred million li— if it were ours, how many children could it support? How many experts could it raise? How many clanspeople could it feed? But they, just to keep us from getting supplies here, destroyed it overnight.'"

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "Wu Tie moved his left hand."

Chinese.

Translation: "He listened to Wu Zheng's complaints, recalling the fairyland scenery of this vast mountain range a thousand years ago, when lush green mountains and clear waters filled the view."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "The Fuxi Divine Kingdom opened a troop passage here, and the Great Jin Divine Kingdom without hesitation destroyed this mountain range; such methods, so ruthless and decisive, make the deep grudge between the two sides obvious without further words."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "He chewed the super-grade origin herb scavenged from the bodies of several Life Pool Realm Demon-Suppressing soldiers."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "These origin herbs had grown for many years; their base was merely top-grade origin herb, but over time they had accumulated vast amounts of heavenly and earthly origin energy, becoming translucent jade-like throughout, surrounded by spiritual mist and rosy light, showing faint signs of evolving into immortal herbs."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "Thus, these origin herbs belong to the super-grade category."

Chinese.

Translation: "Upon ingesting a single super-grade origin herb, a vast yet gentle energy surged within his body."

Chinese.

Translation: "The flesh and blood of his left hand, vaporized by the aurora cannon, regenerated rapidly, layer upon layer growing visible to the naked eye, accompanied by unbearable stabbing pain and itch."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "In the Great Rift Valley, massive swarms of poisonous bats screamed as they surged into the sky."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "Countless swarms of poisonous spiders also climbed up the rock walls, while countless dwarves, pygmies, ratfolk, snakefolk, and lizardfolk clung to giant dandelion-like seeds and floated up on the gale."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "This stretch of twenty-odd forts had already been destroyed by Wu Tie and his companions, and the dark masses of troops pouring out of the Great Rift Valley easily established a beachhead here."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "Whether poisonous bats, poisonous spiders, or the warriors of those lowly tribes, they gathered in the mountains to amass strength, eating, drinking, and recovering stamina; once their numbers reached a certain level, they turned into true floods of beasts, sweeping wildly eastward and westward."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "They successfully formed a combined encirclement of those castles on both flanks."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "They surrounded and attacked fort after fort from all directions; under their fearless charges, with other hunting squads of Wu Clan juniors assisting nearby, another dozen forts fell within just a few hours."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "The Great Jin Divine Kingdom's defensive line erected on both sides of the Great Rift Valley was built with those forts as cores, each fort a bloody extermination point."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "Such a long serpentine defensive formation, if a master broke through even a little, would trigger a snowball effect, causing nearby forts to fall one after another until the entire Great Rift Valley's defensive line collapsed completely."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "Wu Tie moved his left arm."

Chinese.

Translation: "After the flesh and blood finished regenerating, the new skin was somewhat overly pale, but as waves of heat from the bones continually tempered it, within a few breaths it matched the rest of his skin."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "Wu Tie rose to his feet, stood on the back of the giant dragon lizard, and gazed into the distant sky."

Chinese.

Translation: "His brow eye suddenly opened, a vast divine light shooting out hundreds of li, and he saw that opposite the Great Rift Valley, in the high sky hundreds of li behind that line of forts, seven warships identical to the previous ones had already gathered."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "On the prow of each warship stood six Life Pool Realm experts."

Chinese.

Translation: "A half-step Fetal Storage Realm commandant of the Demon-Suppressing Hall evidently noticed Wu Tie using divine power to spy, he snorted coldly, drew a bronze treasure mirror with his right hand, and waved it toward Wu Tie."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "About a chi in diameter and three cun thick, the bronze treasure mirror, upon a sway in the wind, burst forth a blazing rainbow tens of zhang long."

commentary.

Thus: "About one Chinese foot in diameter and three Chinese inches thick, the bronze treasure mirror, upon a sway in the wind, burst forth a blazing rainbow tens of Chinese zhang long."

We'll do that.

Chinese.

Translation: "The vast divine light came rushing in, and within the rainbow's divine light faintly appeared threads of metal sharp qi as thick as a thumb, extremely bright and piercing, whistling forth to blind Wu Tie's brow eye."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "Without a doubt, this is a treasure mirror specially made to counter various divine eyes and law eyes."

Divine eyes, law eyes, treasure mirror.

Chinese.

Translation: "Wu Tie gave a cold snort and closed his brow eye."

Chinese.

Translation: "The blazing rainbow flew through the air and landed on Wu Tie; he gave a soft laugh, and suddenly black lotuses blossomed continuously around him, then fell to the ground, withered, while black wind kept spraying from the lotuses and swirling back."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "The rainbow's divine light was caught by the black wind, instantly reversed, and came crashing down heavily upon the half-step Fetal Storage Realm commandant of the Demon-Suppressing Hall."

Chinese.

Translation: "The commandant of the Demon-Suppressing Hall, who had been smiling and chatting with his comrades, let out a miserable wail as his eyes suddenly burst open, and his body was pierced by dozens of transparent holes from the metal sharp qi contained in the rainbow's divine light."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "The commandant staggered back a few steps, then collapsed face-first to the ground."

Chinese.

Translation: "Several warships fell into chaos, and several cultivators who trained law-eye divine power suddenly opened their eyes, emitting various divine lights to look toward Wu Tie."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "Wu Tie chuckled as he stood on the giant dragon lizard's back, hundreds of li away, allowing those Demon-Suppressing Hall personnel to size him up as they pleased."

commentary.

Chinese.

Translation: "Wu Zheng laughed 'hahaha', threw down his great battle axe, tore open his own clothes, took out a bone dagger, and slowly carved a deep blood groove into his chest."

commentary.

Fresh blood flowed down from the wound, Wu Zheng dabbed at his own blood, drawing strange totem symbols on his face.

He roared loudly at the Demon-Suppressing Army several hundred li away: "Coward, come on, play with your Grandfather Wu Zheng? Be a man, play to the death? Who's coming?"

Several Life Pool Realm cultivators who had opened their Dharma Eyes remained silent.

The Demon-Suppressing troops on several tower ships also showed no reaction.

They simply hovered in midair, seemingly indifferent to the battle situation on Wu Tie's side, watching blankly as one fortress after another was stormed and captured by the vast army of the Fuxi Divine Kingdom.

After about half an hour, the tower ships gathered there numbered twenty, the Demon-Suppressing troops at Life Pool Realm totaled 120, and other cultivators at Chonglou Realm exceeded a thousand.

Soon, a loud, sonorous horn sounded from afar; the twenty tower ships formed a line and roared toward Wu Tie and Wu Zheng.

Still over a hundred li from the Great Rift Valley, the twenty tower ships' aurora cannons fired simultaneously at full blast, blinding aurora bolts slamming into the dense, tide-like army of the Fuxi Divine Kingdom, while dazzling mushroom clouds accompanied by piercing lightning continually shot up into the sky.

Vast swarms of poisonous spiders vaporized, vast swarms of poisonous bats vaporized.

Countless dwarves, gnomes, snakefolk, lizardfolk and other low‑rank warriors with faintly red eyes also vaporized under the aurora cannon barrage.

Twenty half‑step Embryo Storage Realm Demon‑Suppressing commandants rose into the air at once, including the commandant who had previously been struck by Wu Tie's divine ability reflecting the treasure mirror, blowing out both his eyes; in just two hours he had somehow taken some elixir and his eyeballs had completely regrown.

Twenty half‑step Embryo Storage Realm cultivators stepped on flowing clouds and, moving many times faster than the tower ships, surged straight at Wu Tie and Wu Zheng.

Whether Wu Tie or Wu Zheng, they were merely Life Pool Realm cultivators, their aura unhidden; anyone with a little experience could tell their true strength.

As for Wu Tie's earlier counter‑wind‑return‑fire that wounded that commandant……no one believed it was his true power; everyone preferred to think he possessed some strange treasure that restrained the enemy's mirror.

Thus the six senior commandants hesitated not, joining forces to attack.

The twenty tower ships hovered above the Great Rift Valley, one every hundred li, continuously bombarding the valley with shafts of white light.

Within the Great Rift Valley, billowing clouds of fire kept erupting skyward, and countless mournful wails echoed from its depths; no one knew how many living beings had been pulverized by the aurora cannons of those twenty tower ships.

Suddenly, a frenzied roar rang out, and a burly figure shot straight up from the Great Rift Valley into the high sky.

He gripped a Taowu wooden shield in his left hand, firmly blocking the main cannon blast of a tower ship, then flew beneath it and swung his great axe with his right hand, cleaving a huge gap in the ship's hull.

Immediately afterward, three figures engulfed in blazing fire dove into the ship's cabin.

Wu Tie gripped the White Tiger Fissure, about to meet the six commandants, when his heart clenched violently, a surge of blood rushed to his head, his vision darkened, and his whole body tensed abruptly.

He jerked his head toward the tower ship that was continuously spewing flames and thick smoke and glanced at it.

"Wu Jin! Elder brother!"

Wu Tie's heart pounded faster and faster, his blood racing through his body.

He sensed it—Wu Jin was inside, inside that tower ship.

Besides Wu Jin, there were three clusters of familiar yet unfamiliar auras, likewise tugging at his blood and making it tremble, also within that tower ship.

Wu Tie let out a low, mournful whimper.

Two Demon‑Suppressing commandants rushed up to Wu Tie, each holding a four‑pronged golden halberd and bringing it down upon his head.

Wu Tie made no defensive move; instead he thrust his head forward, letting the two heavy golden halberds smash onto his skull.

With a tremendous crash, Wu Tie's scalp split open, the two golden halberds blasting his head's flesh and bone almost to pieces.

The two commandants burst into delighted laughter, their hearts suddenly lightening.

The golden halberds in their hands were secret divine weapons of the Demon‑Suppressing Palace, imbued with the earth‑dragon power nurtured by the land's veins; a single strike was like an entire ten‑thousand‑li mountain range slamming onto the head, enough to flatten even a diamond‑steel titan.

They then turned their gaze to Wu Zheng, completely ignoring Wu Tie, whom they already deemed certain to die.

Wu Tie's White Tiger Fissure let out a piercing, soul‑penetrating roar; "pfft‑pfft," two shots struck the commandants' heads, shattering their Life Pools directly.

The Soul‑Scattering Banner erupted from atop Wu Tie's head; as the long banner swept up, the two souls were drawn into it.

"Wu Jin, I'm here!" Wu Tie screamed hoarsely and charged toward the tower ship several hundred li away.