Chapter 866

Pitch-black endless void, the crystal star of the Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan sped rapidly.

Translation: "In the pitch-black endless void, the crystal star of the Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan sped rapidly."

In the pitch-black endless void, the crystal star of the Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan sped rapidly.

Within the crystal hall, a wailing, wolf-like praise rang out.

Translation: "Inside the Crystal Hall came a wailing, wolf-like chorus of praise."

A wailing, wolf-like praise.

"Miwu, we really ought to describe you as 'great'!"

Translation: "\"Miwu, we really should use 'great' to describe you! \"" Keep quotes.

On Xuanwu's massive palm lay piles of divine soul crystals like a small mountain, blazing bright and emitting powerful soul fluctuations.

Translation: "On Xuanwu's huge hand lay a mountain-like pile of divine soul crystals, blazing bright and emitting powerful soul fluctuations."

Divine soul crystals piled up like a small mountain, blazing bright and emitting powerful soul fluctuations.

"Praise the God of Schemes and Tricks..." Beside him, Youze happily swung his huge semi-translucent azure fish tail, opened his mouth, poured a bowl of blood essence into it, and let out a satisfied burp.

Translation: "\"Praise the God of Schemes and Tricks... \" Youze happily flicked his huge semi-translucent azure fish tail, opened his mouth, poured a bowl of blood essence into it, and let out a satisfied burp."

Youze had a huge semi-translucent azure fish tail, a bowl of blood essence, and let out a satisfied burp.

Miwu smiled reservedly, perfectly revealing a hint of restrained dissatisfaction, glanced sideways at Youze: "Respected Prince Youze, we... are the Wisdom Divine Clan!"

Miwu smiled reservedly, perfectly revealing a hint of restrained dissatisfaction, glanced sideways at Youze: "Respected Prince Youze, we... are the Wisdom Divine Clan!"

"Well, praise the God of Wisdom." Youze readily agreed and immediately changed his address.

Translation: "\"Alright, praise the God of Wisdom. \" Youze readily complied and changed his address."

As long as he is given enough divine soul crystals and blood essence, there's no need to even crown the God of Schemes and Tricks with the beautiful name 'Wisdom'—if he had enough divine soul crystals and blood essence, he could even publicly announce that the God of Wisdom is the greatest Ancestral God!

Translation: "For him, as long as he got enough divine soul crystals and blood essence, there was no need to even crown the God of Schemes and Tricks with the name 'Wisdom'... If he had enough divine soul crystals and blood essence, he could even publicly declare that the God of Wisdom is the greatest Ancestral God!"

There's no need to even crown the God of Schemes and Tricks with the beautiful name 'Wisdom'; he could even publicly announce that the God of Wisdom is the greatest Ancestral God.

As long as the price is right, integrity? Hah, that thing's fit for dogs—dogs wouldn't even care!

Translation: "As long as the price is right, integrity? Hah, that thing's fit only for dogs—dogs wouldn't even bother!"

Integrity? Hah, that thing's fit for dogs—dogs wouldn't even care.

"Chidu, we finally annihilated Chidu!" Yizun excitedly slapped his chest, splashing countless magma and flames, nearly engulfing the entire hall.

Translation: "\"Sui Du, we've finally wiped out Sui Du. \" Yizun excitedly slapped his chest, spraying countless magma and flames, nearly engulfing the whole hall."

"Those idiots Yanhao, them, and their predecessors wasted all those years, failing to achieve what we have accomplished." Yizun laughed triumphantly: "This proves we are superior to them, so we should become the leaders of our respective divine clans."

Translation: "\"Those idiots Yanhao and their predecessors wasted all those years failing to do what we just did. \" Yizun laughed triumphantly: \"This proves we're superior, so we should become the leaders of our respective divine clans. \""

Those idiots Yanhao and their predecessors.

Yizun glanced sideways at the reservedly smiling Miwu and said in a low voice: "Of course, Miwu Prince contributed a tiny bit here. But Miwu Prince must always remember that power alone decides everything; scheming and tricks—or your wisdom—are useless!"

Yizun glanced sideways at the reservedly smiling Miwu and said in a low voice: "Of course, Miwu Prince contributed a tiny bit here. But Miwu Prince must always remember that power alone decides everything; scheming and tricks—or your wisdom—are useless!"

Beside him, Chiwu loudly munched on the just-transmitted divine soul crystals, speaking gloomily: "I agree with Yizun—power rules everything; so-called wisdom is merely a trivial ornament."

Translation: "Chiyu beside him crunched on the just-transmitted divine soul crystals, speaking grimly: \"I agree with Yizun—power rules all; so-called wisdom is just a trivial trinket. \""

"So, Miwu, keep serving us with your pitiful bit of brain juice, and we can reward you with whatever you want."

Translation: "\"So Miwu, keep serving us with that pitiful brain of yours, and we'll reward you with whatever you want. \""

"But if you, and... fortunately present Holy Warrior, you dare to overstep, to entertain any thought you shouldn't..." Chiwu drew from his sleeve a dagger flashing cold light, serpent-shaped, and lightly swung it.

Translation: "\"But if you, and... the fortunate Holy Rong present here, dare to overstep or entertain any improper thoughts... \" Chiyu drew a cold-light flashing serpentine dagger from his sleeve and gave it a light swing."

Holy Warrior

Holy Warrior

Holy Warrior and Wind Warrior

Now we need to update glossary entries: replace Shengrong with Holy Warrior. Also we need to ensure we have entries for both.

Miwu, Youze, Xuanwu, Chizuo, Yizun, Xupo, Yanhao

Now we need to adjust glossary accordingly.

Holy Warrior

Now we need to update glossary list: remove Shengrong, add Holy Warrior.

Holy Warrior Prince

Now we need to re-evaluate line 15 translation with Holy Warrior.

"But if you, and... fortunately present Holy Warrior, you dare to overstep, to entertain any thought you shouldn't..." Chiwu drew from his sleeve a dagger flashing cold light, serpent-shaped, and lightly swung it.

Translation: "\"But if you, and... the fortunate Holy Warrior present here, dare to overstep or entertain any improper thoughts... \" Chiyu drew a cold-light flashing serpentine dagger from his sleeve and gave it a light swing."

Miwu's gaze was strange as he swept over those present: Xuanwu, Chiwu, Youze, Xuopo, Yizun, and the Holy Warrior sitting opposite him.

Translation: "Miwu glanced anciently over those present: Xuanwu, Chiyu, Youze, Xupo, Yizun, and the Holy Warrior sitting opposite him."

The Holy Warrior sat to the side, his eyes flashing with a cunning light.

Translation: "The Holy Warrior sat to the side, his eyes flashing with cunning light."

Now we need to adjust glossary accordingly.

Now we need to ensure we have entries for Holy Warrior.

Wind Warrior

Holy Warrior Prince

Now we need to update glossary list.

Now we need to translate each line with these adjustments.

Let's go through lines again with updated translations.

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"Miwu, is your blood essence clone in Chidu a eunuch?"

Translation: "\"Miwu, is your blood essence clone in Sui Du a eunuch? \""

"If you dare to have any thoughts you shouldn't, I will help your true bodies become eunuchs." Chi Ji burst out laughing kakaka.

Chi Ji laughed, Yi Zun also laughed, and then Xuan Wu also laughed.

The Barbarian God Clan, the Molten Rock Giant God, and the Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan—these three groups are absolute worshippers of martial power. When they hold absolute advantage in strength, they bully the weak with violence—even if that weak one is their own "companion"—this brings them immense joy.

You Zu and Xu Po giggled lightly, compared to those three violent maniacs, they held a certain advantage in intellect.

You Zu said slowly: "Turning all the people of Sui Du into vengeful ghost bodies, draining their souls and bloodlines completely—this is an unprecedented huge harvest... but it's still not enough."

"Your Highness Mi Wu, just a single Sui Du is merely a tiny part of the vast Sui Dynasty."

"Keep striving, let us... reap the whole Sui Dynasty... let our great Sui Dynasty's divine emperor leave Sui Du. Let him set the war flames ablaze across the whole Sui Dynasty!"

Xu Po also stood up, shouting hoarsely: "They themselves destroyed that damned fire inheritance grand formation... Sui Dynasty is now naked and bare, having lost all defenses."

"Let our ancestors' arranged realm of the four-direction demons and monsters launch a full-scale attack... cooperating with Feng Rong, sacrifice the whole Sui Dynasty!"

Xuan Wu played with the soul crystal in his hand, speaking slowly: "Sacrifice? Hehe, eternal life? Foolish humans, do they really believe our lies? Well, no, we Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan have always been honest and steady; these lies are all fabricated by you, Mi Wu."

Mi Wu shrugged, laughing lightly: "Oh, no, Your Highness Xuan Wu, I didn't fabricate lies... according to information gathered by our Wisdom Divine Clan... in Mu Dalu, if it weren't for our ancestors shattering Mu Dalu's heavenly dao system, they could have produced 'eternal beings'."

The laughter in the hall came to an abrupt halt.

"Not only that, in the first few descension wars when our ancestors attacked Mu Dalu, the 'eternal beings' among them, who called themselves 'sages', were terrifying existences that dealt devastating blows to the ancestors of all the clans."

"Some of these blows were even destructive. You surely don't want to know how many members our great divine clans originally had... the number of divine clans we have left now is less than one percent of what it was at its peak."

"Your Highnesses, our ancestors won, but the price of victory was that the once-powerful, prosperous divine civilization almost collapsed, almost exterminated."

"For example, Your Highness Xuan Wu, your Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan is merely a vassal clan of the Holy Crystal Civilization, one of the seven supreme divine clans at their peak."

"If it weren't for the complete destruction of the Holy Crystal Civilization's twelve core holy crystal skulls, causing their civilization to instantly perish, the Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan could never have risen."

Mi Wu spoke at length, revealing the knowledge he knew, but which is taboo among the Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan, the Barbarian God Clan, and other groups.

Knowledge—Mi Wu's Wisdom Divine Clan opens all the knowledge repositories they know to all their people; as long as you are willing to learn, you can obtain all the data preserved by the Wisdom Divine Clan.

And the other great divine clans... they tamper with history, compiling a glorious struggle history for their ancestors, erasing some of their ancestors' unsavory black history—this is just human nature, very common.

So, Mi Wu got carried away speaking.

Seeing Xuan Wu, You Zu, and others staring at him like dumb birds, Mi Wu became even more excited, spilling out drunkenly the truths about Mu Dalu, about 'eternal beings', and about the initial primordial descension wars.

"So, if it weren't for our interference, if we hadn't polluted and weakened Mu Dalu's heavenly dao operating mechanism, if it weren't for our ancestors' great sacrifice suppressing Mu Dalu's self-recovery ability..."

"Mu Dalu can naturally give birth to 'eternal beings'; this is determined by its great dao mechanism."

"Precisely because our ancestors made so many sacrifices and paid such a great price, we can stand upon Mu Dalu's heavenly vault, look down on them, dominate them, and reap them to our heart's content!"

Mi Wu raised a cup and gulped it down: "So, our promise to Feng Rong of eternal life is not a lie."

You Zu suddenly interrupted Mi Wu's long-winded talk: "Eternal life is a divine taboo none of us can fathom... our lifespans are immeasurably long, but we dare not say we can reach 'eternality'... could it really be possible?"

Mi Wu remained silent for a long time.

After a long, long while, he finally said softly: "Otherwise?"

Mi Wu's gaze was strange as he swept over those present: Xuan Wu, Chi Ji, You Zu, Xu Po, Yi Zun, and Sheng Rong sitting opposite him.

"This knowledge, within our Wisdom Divine Clan, can be easily looked up with my status and position, though it's restricted for ordinary clanspeople... Ah, I see, Your Highnesses, you really don't understand the core secret of the observation outpost, do you?"

"The soul crystal and blood essence of the Pangu remnant clan can help us break bloodline shackles and ascend to a higher life level!"

"But isn't the ultimate goal of this ascent 'eternity'?"

"Whether we can ultimately achieve eternity, our ancestors and elders do not know if our bloodline limit can be eternal."

"And Mu Dalu has once produced 'eternal beings'; therefore, there is a chance for eternity here... this is the ultimate goal for which we have continually sent elites to garrison this place."

Mi Wu smiled proudly, a sense of intellectual superiority making him a bit light-headed.

"So, Your Highnesses, this time you five great clans joined forces, not hesitating to destroy the Crystal Bridge, cutting off the sole passage between the ancestral land and the observation outpost... you think it's just to monopolize these resources that can quickly strengthen us, right?"

Mi Wu laughed lightly.

Sheng Rong sat to the side, a cunning light flashing in his eyes.

Xuan Wu suddenly grabbed the huge wine cup beside him and smashed it hard into Mi Wu's body, blasting him straight out of the hall.

Mi Wu spat blood mouthful after mouthful, lying helpless outside the hall doors.

Xuan Wu growled low: "Don't think that just because you know something we don't, you can act recklessly and arrogantly before us... we control your lives, and that is enough."

"Strength is what decides everything... if it weren't for you still having a tiny bit of use, we would hesitate not to slaughter all the foolish Wisdom Divine Clan members at the observation outpost."

"However, thanks for telling us the information our elders kept from us... so, next time's spoils, we'll give you a larger share... merit rewarded, fault punished."

Xuan Wu said in a cold voice: "Hurry up and get to work. We hope to see the day when the entire Sui Dynasty is dyed red with blood."

Mi Wu struggled to stand up. Just now, Xuan Wu's strike had broken at least a dozen bones in his body. He panted, spat blood, and said in a low voice: "I didn't mean to offend, Your Highness Xuan Wu, Your Highnesses. I just couldn't help sharing with you all this tiny bit of knowledge from my mind…"

"I will do everything I can to help you, Your Highnesses, and obtain as much benefit as possible from Mu Dalu."

"I will, as much as possible, search for clues to 'Eternity'…"

Xuan Wu and the other five shouted in unison: "Shut up!"

Then, they quickly glanced at each other.

Damn it, the way things have turned out is a bit beyond their expectations.

Originally, they thought they had come only to seize Mu Dalu's soul crystals and bloodline essence for themselves.

But now, looking at it, it seems things aren't that simple.

"Your esteemed father, you've even kept your most beloved son in the dark……" You Zu played with a head-sized soul crystal in his hand, sighed resentfully: "In human terms, it's like wanting the horse to run but not eat grass… truly a generous and fair father."

Xuan Wu and the others all snorted coldly at the same time.

Sui Du, nearly ninety-nine percent of the living people in the city were wiped out by the dark soul's infiltration.

Their souls were harvested, their bloodlines drained, their bodies burned, their lifespans burned, and the painstakingly cultivated magical energy burned.

All the massive energy produced by their burning was fused into the faint innate spiritual light remaining in their bodies after their souls were taken, ultimately transforming into an existence similar to the vengeful spirits of the Southern Ghost State.

Countless black shadows emitted shrill howls, darting through the city at breakneck speed like a whirlwind.

They had their intellect obliterated, lost memory and emotion, retaining only the most basic predatory instinct imparted by the dark soul's infusion.

They need flesh and blood, they need souls.

They need to devour living beings, and need to release their nature through slaughter and bloodshed.

But Sui Du has become a haunt of ghosts, with tens of millions of living beings turned into vengeful spirits.

In midair, Bai Su Xin's body trembled violently; he stared in disbelief at Qing Wu and roared hoarsely: "What have you done?"

Qing Wu, 'scared,' curled up into a ball, hid behind Wa Qing Luan, and stammered in a shrill cry: "Servant, servant I am merely, merely a loyal servant, helping Your Majesty exterminate the rebel army outside the city!"

Bai Su Xin shouted furiously: "Where did that evil thing come from?"

Qing Wu's body swayed, and he likewise shrieked hysterically: "Servant, servant I unintentionally bought it from the market!"

Bai Su Xin was so angry his eyes almost popped out.

Bought?

Bought from the market?

This evil treasure capable of destroying Sui Du in an instant—you say it was bought by a lowly eunuch like you with silver from the market?

"Do you take me for a fool?" Bai Su Xin roared!

Feng Rong also screamed: "Uncle, what are you doing here brandishing your claws and teeth? Hurry, take your disciples and escort me… to… to the Southern Border… I want to gather loyal ministers and capable generals in the Southern Border, form a loyalist army, and pacify the world!"

Feng Rong looked complacently at the black mist spreading below, at Sui Du already turned into a ghostly haunt: "This mess—just let him clean it up."

Bai Su Xin waved his hand, then laughed at the several old eunuchs standing nearby, drenched in cold sweat from fright: "Spread the word across the world: say that Xiahou Wuming colluded with demons, destroyed the National Protection Grand Formation and the Fire Transmission Grand Formation, and used sorcery to slaughter all the citizens of Sui Du!"

"Tsk tsk, truly ruthless… truly, my excellent Grand Tutor!"

"Hehehe, you cut off my foundation, I will destroy your reputation!"

"First I will defame your name, then kill your body, then imprison and torment your soul, exterminate your nine clans, making you suffer eternally with no chance for regret!"

"When I achieve an immortal indestructible body, when I become the supreme and strongest king-god, you rebels and traitors, I will personally slay you one by one!"

At the command, Feng Rong led a large crowd rushing toward the Qian Yuan Dian.

Meanwhile, outside the city, Wu Tie and the others stared in stunned silence at the black mist enveloping Sui Du.

The viscous black mist rolled over the city walls, spilling outward, and more black mist surged out from the four city gates; any militia soldiers who accidentally touched it near the gates burst into black demonic flames.