Chapter 836

Blood Prison Mountain.

Pei Feng stood on a mass of thick black clouds, with three thousand bare-chested ox-headed giants standing behind him.

Unlike the ox clan of the Three Kingdoms continent's netherworld, these ox-headed brawny men are minor demons cultivated from the West Yao Country's specialty, the moon-watching unicorn rhinoceros. With human bodies and rhinoceros heads, they each possess cultivation at the peak of the Womb Storage realm.

Three thousand war drums lined up in a row, the ox-headed brawny men held the leg bones of Kui ox beasts and frantically beat the war drums made of thunder-python skin.

The drumbeats shook the heavens, and the nine blood rivers beneath Blood Prison Mountain surged with towering waves.

Pei Feng held the lifeblood tail feather of Blood Prison, and amidst the flashing Blood Light, orders were continuously transmitted downward.

Countless thumb-sized birds with human heads and bird bodies chirped ying ying, flapping their wings, darting back and forth in the void like lightning, constantly conveying Pei Feng's orders in all directions.

Pei Feng temporarily could not truly train the great and small demon troops under Blood Prison Mountain, nor could she train them into genuine elite soldiers like the Tianwu Army of Wuguo. But at least now she could make the demon troops of Blood Prison Mountain less chaotic in battle.

Previously, the demon troops of Blood Prison Mountain fighting the Sui Dynasty border troops had utterly no command or coordination; the great demons acted as they pleased, striking wherever they wished. Moreover, some clans had innate mutual restraint, directly inflicting massive casualties on friendly forces.

Thus, many times the Sui Dynasty border troops needed only pay a tiny, insignificant price to rout the demon troops of Blood Prison Mountain completely.

But with Pei Feng's command…

Having already crossed the third blood river and gradually penetrated Blood Prison Mountain's territory, the Sui Dynasty border troop commanders gradually realized something was amiss.

The great and small demon clans of Blood Prison Mountain acted increasingly strangely, secretly conforming to military formations and harboring profound mysteries.

If one was not careful, several detachments of the border troops would be lured by swarms of minor demons; after a chase of tail-to-tail pursuit, suddenly large forces of powerful demons would appear between them and the main central army.

Luring the enemy deep, cutting off encirclement, gathering to annihilate… there even arose such clever tactics as feigning an attack point to draw reinforcements, sounding east while striking west, and creating something from nothing.

These great and small demon clans, having grown in Blood Prison Mountain, are intimately familiar with its terrain; their innate divine abilities allow them to move freely within it. Especially the maternal forms of giant cockroaches and spiders—each one is an army in itself, their movements even more unfathomable.

If one was not careful, the Sui Dynasty border troop commanders who came to attack Blood Prison Mountain, together with the reinforcements of over ten main army corps sent to aid them, would find themselves already ensnared in layers of encirclement.

However, these demon clans ultimately rely on innate instincts for sustenance, and compared to the well-trained elite of the Sui Dynasty, they are still inferior by one grade.

As long as logistical supplies remained uninterrupted and the grand teleportation arrays continued to function normally, the many Sui Dynasty generals commanding from the central headquarters firmly believed that Blood Prison Mountain could at most cause them some trouble; even if they could not capture Blood Prison Mountain, they could still withdraw safely.

Suddenly, behind the main camp of the central forces, the grand teleportation arrays operating at full speed abruptly dimmed their light.

No matter how the army's formation masters tried to activate them, over a hundred grand teleportation arrays completely lost their transmission ability.

Finally, a strand of dim light shot out from one teleportation array, and an imperial edict bearing the seal of the Sui Dynasty's Divine Sovereign flew forth from the array.

The edict ignited upon meeting the wind, a crimson light shot straight into the sky, and a gigantic humanoid figure hovered within the red light—none other than Feng Rong, clad in the Sui Dynasty Divine Sovereign's robes, wearing the Qianyuan Divine Bell on his head, with a tank-sized cluster of Sui fire sparks floating before his chest.

"You all are rebels; your crime deserves myriad deaths, and your nine clans shall be exterminated."

"Considering you are fighting the Western Yao Country, shall you demonstrate your loyalty to me by fighting to the death?"

"If anyone dares to leave the army and desert… your disloyalty to me is rebellion; rebellion warrants extermination of the nine clans."

Feng Rong gave a hee hee laugh: "Let me see your loyalty… otherwise… hehe!"

The crimson light faded away, and the entire Sui Dynasty border troop force that had invaded Blood Prison Mountain descended into utter chaos.

The soldiers below were each panicked and bewildered, while the officers in the army were drenched in cold sweat, each having lost their composure.

Only then did they realize that over ninety percent of the commanders dispatched this time to attack the Western Yao Country were those who usually got along well with Feng Shang, who had firmly expressed their support for Feng Shang's ascension to the throne in the imperial court.

Yet in the edict they had just seen, Feng Rong held the Qianyuan Divine Bell and the Sui fire sparks, seated solemnly in the imperial audience hall—clearly Feng Rong had inherited the throne of the Sui Dynasty Divine Sovereign!

"This is a strike of retaliation!" a border troop commander bellowed hoarsely.

"Damn it… the damned Feng Rong…" some commanders directly cursed Feng Rong, but someone nearby immediately covered his mouth.

No one knew what had happened in Sui Du, why without any omen Feng Rong had become the Divine Sovereign… but the deed was done, Feng Rong already sat in that position, and any disrespectful word toward Feng Rong is a capital crime.

Moreover, they had already been labeled as rebels; if any new charge were to arise, they would surely die, and their nine clans would be utterly exterminated.

"What exactly happened in Sui Du?" a border troop commander shouted angrily: "Contact Sui Du immediately to investigate the cause and effect."

"And… what should we do?" a somewhat clear-headed Sui Dynasty general asked cautiously.

Not only Blood Prison Mountain, but this time the Sui Dynasty, due to the incident at Ink Bamboo Dyke being ambushed and because the spies and traitors of the War Opportunity Hall were violently purged by the Western Yao Country, dispatched large numbers of border troops to launch a surprise attack on the Western Yao Country.

The Western Yao Country had long been on guard, and the Sui Dynasty border troops' surprise attack initially ended in broken heads and flowing blood.

But just as with this border troop's surprise attack on Blood Prison Mountain, thanks to internal cooperation, dozens of Sui Dynasty border troops, using the teleportation arrays, bypassed the Western Yao Country's defenses and penetrated deep into its territory.

But now, each grand teleportation array has come to a complete standstill.

Before them lay a stronghold similar to Blood Prison Mountain; behind them stretched the Western Yao Country's border defenses.

Unable to fly, lacking heavy armaments, with logistical supplies completely cut off, and countless restless great and small demon clans stirring on all sides…

All the Sui Dynasty border troop units that had penetrated deep into Western Yao Country territory now find themselves in a dire situation.

"Contact Sui Du… and also contact the Second Imperial Prince."

"We cannot die bearing the stigma of rebellion."

"We can die, but we should die on the battlefield, not bear the name of rebellion and drag our kinfolk down with us."

Countless commanders' roars echoed across the battlefield: "Sui Du, what on earth is happening? Feng Rong… what virtue or ability does he possess?"

All the commanders who had been shouting and cursing were again had their mouths covered by nearby comrades.

Pei Feng precisely seized this opportunity, taking advantage of the Sui Dynasty border troops' shattered morale and loosened formations, she drove vast swarms of insectoid demons with extraordinary reproductive power to launch a frenzied assault on the Sui Dynasty border troops.

The Sui Dynasty border troops beneath Blood Prison Mountain, after desperately holding out for two days and three nights, exhausted all their arrows and supplies; furthermore, due to the perilous environment of Blood Prison Mountain, an acute plague broke out among them, and they finally collapsed.

The lord of Blood Prison Mountain immediately contacted several nearby demon country titans; under Pei Feng's strategic planning, she commanded the subordinates of the great demon lords to launch a full-scale surprise attack on each Sui Dynasty border troop unit.

They slew few, captured countless, and seized armor and weapons; these great demon lords each grinned so wide their big teeth nearly fell out.

The Three Kingdoms continent, originally the Divine State of Great Jin.

The seven‑colored flood has vanished; the crystal stone celestial bodies of the Celestial Crystal Race suffered a heavy blow. Wu Tie forged the Grand Dao Crucible, but he had no time to thoroughly test its power and profundity.

Wu Tie rescued Xi Wu Le, Xi Bu Bai, and others; they naturally could mobilize manpower to restore order on their own territories.

Apart from the Four Villainous Families once again suffering misfortune, being ordered by the furious Xi Bu Bai to be demoted to the lowest slaves, everything returned to normal within just a few days.

Xi Bu Bai, Xi Wu Le, and other high officials of the Fu Xi Divine State returned to the Nine‑Layer Divine City to confer with the current Fu Xi Sacred Emperor on countermeasures.

The Sui Dynasty, as well as the near‑demonic Xi Yu and Wa Zhao, are crises that the Fu Xi Divine State must confront head‑on.

Especially Xi Yu, who by such cruel means purified the Fu Xi sage bloodline, gaining unfathomable divine powers; yet his nature has become so perverse and twisted, posing a tremendous threat to the entire Fu Xi Divine State.

Not to mention, there's also Nuo Zhao on the side stirring up trouble and fanning the flames, huh?

Wu Tie, on the other hand, has already left the Fuxi Divine Capital.

Feng Shang led hundreds of thousands of Wuguo's imperial guards and a hundred thousand Red Lotus Temple disciples, already on the march for over a month; they should have reached the former Three Kingdoms battlefield, possibly even entered the original territory of the Great Wu Divine State, and the Divine Martial City is likely not far away.

Although Wu Tie had already decided that the Wuguo's high-ranking officials, especially the Wu clan people, should withdraw completely.

But Wu Tie feared that Feng Shang might do something irrational… If Feng Shang acted like Feng Rong, wreaking havoc in Divine Martial City… Wu Tie could not accept that outcome.

Fortunately, Wu Tie had earlier ordered the Yin-Yang Daoist with the fastest escape speed to return to Divine Martial City at full speed.

Using the special resonance between Wu Tie and his three-corpse clone, after Wu Tie bade farewell to Xi Wule and the others and flew out of their sight, Wu Tie directly activated the special divine ability shared with his three-corpse clone.

Beside the Yin-Yang Daoist, the void twisted for a moment.

Wu Tie, the Five Elements Daoist, the Canghai Daoist, and Nuwa Mother appeared together.

As the Five Elements Daoist's back flashed with five-colored divine light, 120,003 Wu clan youths appeared in neat rows behind Wu Tie.

As soon as they appeared, Wu Jin started patting his own head, grumbling in a muffled voice: "Wu Tie, you brat, every time you drag us around in that Five Elements space, treating us like piglets to be hauled around?"

Wu Tie gave Wu Jin an apologetic smile, while Nuwa Mother's face sank like water, and she slapped Wu Jin's head with a 'Pa!'

"As the elder brother, your cultivation is inferior to your younger brother's, and you're useless… All you do is complain all day; it's truly a waste having you as a son."

Wu Jin slunk away to the side, making faces with Wu Yin and Wu Tong, winking and grimacing.

Tsk, I see, indeed the old lady dotes on the youngest… Ah, speaking of which, their daughter-in-law seems to be the same?

At this moment, Wu Tie finally began to carefully survey the surroundings.

The place they are now is exactly the former Three Kingdoms battlefield near the border of the Great Wu Divine State. Here, several important passes have been fortified by Mo family Divine Realm Elders into military cities with astonishing defensive power.

Li Xuan'gui, Yuan Qilin, and others joined forces, and near these pass military cities they mobilized the earth's veins, inscribing vast quantities of sealing yuan energy and a grand formation that prohibits flight. As for the various illusionary, trapping, and killing formations, who knows how many were set up.

Inside all the military cities, not a single living person could be seen.

Only hordes of giant divine soldiers stood packed in the military cities, their eyes flickering with scarlet ghostly light, emanating a chilling killing intent from thin air.

Old Tie stepped forward, spear in hand, striding up: "Little Tie, you brat, you've finally come back… Otherwise, I'd feel uneasy in my heart. Ah, that Wuguo army… I hear even their weakest soldiers are Divine Realm?"

"Their cultivation method isn't that impressive; they're merely 'inferior gods' who forcibly broke into the Divine Realm via secret arts." Wu Tie smiled and nodded at Old Tie: "Although they are Divine Realm, in combat against the Embryonic Treasury realm, one can at most handle five or six high-level or even peak Embryonic Treasury opponents."

"With the advantage of terrain… especially, we use the giant divine soldiers… hehe."

Wu Tie laughed brightly, his bright smile infectious; the many elders of generals and aristocratic families behind Old Tie instantly felt their hearts lighten.

"Where is Pei Feng, the girl?" Old Tie immediately lowered his voice.

"I will rescue her back." Wu Tie's face also darkened, and he said in a low tone: "After dealing with Feng Shang, I'll go to Wuguo to find her… Or wait for them to attack? Hehe, better we strike first."

In the distance, a blaze shot up into the sky; Feng Shang's forces—several hundred thousand imperial guards and a hundred thousand Red Lotus Temple disciples—were rushing forward at high speed.

Although the military city where Wu Tie and the others were located was still over a thousand li away, the speed of Feng Shang's flagship suddenly slowed. Only the huge lotus carrying the Red Lotus Temple disciples, supported by a golden radiant hand, continued to fly swiftly toward Wu Tie and the others.

The Laughing Buddha sat on a mat, which pressed onto the back of an old, weary turtle, transforming into a stream of light that surpassed the huge lotus and reached straight to a point less than ten li ahead of the military city where Wu Tie and the others were.

"What's the point of a mantis trying to stop a chariot?" the Laughing Buddha said, lightly turning a string of prayer beads in his hand, smiling softly: "The sea of suffering is boundless; turning back is shore… Benefactors, my Red Lotus Temple possesses infinite wondrous realms; if you are willing to join my Red Lotus Temple, you will surely attain great fortune."

The Laughing Buddha, while smiling, looked at Wu Tie: "I haven't yet experienced the Martial King's techniques; how about the Martial King pays a visit to my humble monk's palm Buddha realm?"

Behind them, Feng Shang's fleet approached leisurely, still continually slowing down.

Suddenly, a roar rang out; a stream of light shot from the central flagship, and within the red light curtain, Feng Rong leisurely read out the decree of judgment against Feng Shang.

Feng Rong, in his capacity as the current Divine Emperor of Wuguo, angrily accused Feng Shang of plotting treason and conspiring rebellion, labeling him a traitorous villain.

And those Wuguo imperial guards who followed Feng Shang all turned into rebel troops.

Feng Rong declared that if any of those Wuguo imperial guards dared to set foot in Wuguo, the military and civilians could kill them to claim a great reward.

As for Feng Shang…

Feng Rong announced that whoever could take Feng Shang's head would be ennobled as a king!