Chapter 925

With his hands on his hips, he had a bit of the swagger of a street‑wise hero, and Wu Tie chuckled as he watched the men and women sprawled limp on the ground.

With the hall's black‑iron décor and dim lighting, at first glance it looked like a slave trader standing before a group of kidnapped children, the air permeated with an evil, ferocious aura.

Lan Ying - Blue Shadow

After thinking for a while, Wu Tie was still excited and loud‑voiced, but he delivered the welcome speech in a dry, flat tone.

Exactly twenty‑seven, twenty‑seven essence‑blood avatars of the Wisdom God race that had descended; apart from that previous occasion when the Primordial Dragon King Ao Chi and other primordial gods laid a trap and slew over fifty descending divine spirits, this was the first time Wu Tie had ever encountered so many living gods.

Moreover, last time the Primordial Dragon King Ao Chi slew the descending gods, those spirits were each vicious and brutal, shouting for battle and slaughter—whereas the Wisdom God race members now, subdued by Miwu's tricks, are … peaceful, tranquil, and adorable!

"Miwu, you damned … bastard!" a girl who looked about eighteen, pretty and lovely, with a bit of the charm of the girl next door, stared fiercely at Miwu and greeted him with enthusiastic fervor.

Miwu shrugged, pointed at the girl, and said: "Your Majesty, her name is Lanying… Of course, that's a transliteration; in our Wisdom God race's native language, the meaning of her name is …"

Wu Tie pointed at Miwu and said: "A transliteration is fine; I don't care what her name actually means… What do you want to say?"

Miwu gave an embarrassed smile, pointed at Lanying and said: "I just wanted to say she's a thoroughly wicked little slut… Don't be fooled by how charming and cute this avatar of hers looks; she's actually over twelve hundred years old, and by human standards she's a haggard old crone!"

De facto God King - De facto God King

Lanying turned purple with rage, she struggled wildly, inching forward with tiny wriggles toward Miwu, opening her mouth to bite his ankle bone.

"A young, pretty-looking haggard old crone, and moreover vicious, extremely vicious… When she was thirty, for a copper apple that could beautify and protect the complexion, she sparked a war between the Wisdom God race's two most powerful vassal tribes."

Observation Outpost - Observation Outpost

Miwu lightly pointed at Lanying and said: "This is the first time in her life she has used her racial talent to start a war… Three hundred years ago she came to the observation outpost. In the nine hundred years before she was sent to that outpost, the tribal wars she provoked caused a total of seventy‑five billion two hundred million wise beings to die."

Wu Tie stared in shock at Mi Wu: "Seven hundred…… fifty…… two hundred million?"

"As for her lifespan, less than a hundred million battle deaths per year……" Mi Wu casually spread her hands: "Just an average result. You should know, our Wisdom God Race has tens of thousands of vassal tribes, occupying vast territories in the boundless star sea."

"War…… especially, wars of intelligent races numbered in the trillions……"

Mi Wu laughed lightly.

Wu Tie recalled the healing archive from Lao Tie's inheritance; before the era of ancient myths, those human ancestors were still using inferior gunpowder weapons, on a tiny planet formed from a fragment of the shattered Mu Dalu, slaughtering each other, the information of war.

In just a few short years, there could be tens of millions of casualties.

By comparison, the war started by Lan Ying, over nine hundred years, only over seventy billion……

No, Wu Tie slapped his own forehead, he had been dragged into a ditch by Mi Wu; forget about time—these so-called gods have a completely different sense of time from Wu Tie.

Over seventy billion sentient beings died because of the war started by Lan Ying.

Wu Tie looked at Lan Ying, lifted his foot, and stomped down heavily.

A sharp scream rang out; a layer of dim divine light surged from Lan Ying's body, trying to block Wu Tie's stomp. The divine light shattered, and Wu Tie's heavy stomp landed on Lan Ying's chest.

Then came a loud bang; the hall trembled slightly, blood gushed from Lan Ying's mouth, her eyes rolled back, and she nearly fainted.

"Your Majesty, the Martial King…… don't you think cooperating with Mi Wu is completely unnecessary?" Lan Ying spat out several mouthfuls of blood, panting, and hurriedly spoke a long string of words.

"I am a woman, I am beautiful; my father is also the actual god-king of the Wisdom God Race…… choosing to cooperate with me, whatever Mi Wu can do, I can do as well…… not only that, I am still a beautiful woman!"

"The physiological structures of the Wisdom God Race and humans are almost identical; I can satisfy all your needs!"

Lan Ying smiled, straining to lift her chest: "I am more valuable than Mi Wu…… because I am a woman!"

Wu Tie froze, staring at Mi Wu.

Mi Wu smiled, bowed slightly to Wu Tie: "Although it's a bit embarrassing to say, this is just the nature of our Wisdom God Race…… we are not good at fighting; our talent and nature lie in using……"

Mi Wu pointed to her own head: "Everything can be a pawn, everything can be a stake—including one's own flesh and soul, they can become stakes…… scheming and plotting, calculating against each other, this is our race's nature……"

"I schemed against them, letting them fall under a witch's curse and be captured and brought here."

"So they chose various means to retaliate against me, to scheme against me, to overturn the disadvantage—this is exactly what Lan Ying and they are now doing."

Mi Wu looked seriously at Wu Tie: "But, Your Majesty, you know I am different from that bunch of lowlifes…… they are merely blood essence avatars, while I, here, am my true self!"

Lan Ying, together with the other twenty-six men and women, widened their eyes.

"Mi Wu, are you crazy?" a handsome young man shouted loudly: "Your true self has descended? You…… ah ha, what do you want to do? Damn it, your ambition has reached this extent!"

In this young man's eyes flickered mad, fervent light; saliva dripped from the corner of his mouth, yet he was completely unaware, merely staring fixedly at Wu Tie and Mi Wu.

"What do you want to do?"

"What matter is worth you, Mi Wu, taking such a risk to descend your true self onto the terrifying Mu Dalu?"

"Ah ha, let me guess: the connection between the homeland and the observation outpost has been completely severed, the crystal bridge destroyed, those elders of the tribe cannot reach the observation outpost, which means……"

"If you collude with humanity and kill Xuanwu and Youzu and those five self-important fools, the entire observation outpost will be ours."

"The entire resources of Mu Dalu are ours!"

"Our Wisdom God Race alone can utilize the entire resources of Mu Dalu to wildly enhance ourselves."

"When we become strong enough to surpass even the strongest ancient gods of the major divine races, our Wisdom God Race—no, we ourselves, this group of brothers and sisters—could even become gods among gods, kings of all gods!"

"Too magnificent!" the handsome youth fervently gazed at Mi Wu: "Although I always thought you were my lifelong enemy, constantly pondering how to use my wisdom to kill you…… but I must admit, this plan is truly too magnificent."

Mi Wu's face darkened.

Wu Tie wore a dazed expression.

The handsome youth's words seemed to unlock a fervent gate in the hearts of those young men and women lying on the ground; their gazes simultaneously turned intensely fervent, each glaring fiercely at Wu Tie and Mi Wu.

"Mi Wu, you truly have descended your true self!" Lan Ying smiled at Mi Wu: "Then, how confident are you in your plan?"

Mi Wu remained silent.

Wu Tie remained silent.

Lan Ying coughed once, then softly laughed: "Your Majesty Wu Tie, dear cousin Mi Wu, if our Wisdom God Race could unite in cooperation, then we might be able to take down those five lofty divine races."

Wu Tie felt some strange thoughts arise in his heart.

These little brats of the Wisdom God Race…… what are they thinking in their heads?

Could it be that humanity is not their enemy?

Why are they able to be so joyful, so fervent, so proactive, in proposing to join forces with Wu Tie to exterminate those spirits?

Mi Wu's gaze wandered a bit as he looked at the twenty-seven brothers and sisters of his own race on the ground, and he muttered darkly: "Ah ha, unity and cooperation—what an ironic saying…… our Wisdom God Race has always only been on guard against each other; unity and cooperation? You're overthinking it."

The handsome youth coughed, he gasped and said: "Exactly, our Wisdom God Clan has always only been on guard against each other, scheming against each other, but in certain specific circumstances, we……our ancestors also had precedents of working together in unity."

The gazes of all the male and female members of the Wisdom God Clan simultaneously became flickering and mad.

"Mi Wu, do you still remember the nine great 'Wisdom Wars' recorded in our Wisdom God Clan's secret canon? That is a secret known only to our clan, with no outsiders aware……Those nine great wars, each one shook the entire Divine Realm world, each one was the crystallization of our ancestors working together in unity, pooling the wisdom of the entire clan."

Mi Wu looked thoughtfully at these clansmen: "So, the sole prerequisite for us to work together in unity is……"

Lan Ying smiled alluringly: "There is a being strong enough, wise enough, a Sovereign. Our Wisdom God Clan has always been a loose sand, but whenever we have a Sovereign strong enough and wise enough, the united wisdom will cause the entire Divine Realm to……change colors."

Wu Tie interrupted their speech, he smiled as he looked at Lan Ying: "That strong enough, wise enough Sovereign definitely cannot be Mi Wu, right?"

Lan Ying and the others' faces twitched; after a long while, Lan Ying bluntly said: "The Wisdom God Clan possesses pride and dignity unique to our clan; we will never……"

Wu Tie drew his Black Sword and stabbed it into the chest of a youth lying beside Lan Ying.

One sword pierced the chest, fresh blood spurted up seven or eight feet with a 'pfft' sound; that youth, hoarse from exhaustion, roared at Wu Tie: "Why me?"

Wu Tie shrugged, smiling as he shook his head: "Killing the chicken to scare the monkey, you are the chicken, she is the monkey."

Wu Tie's sword tip touched Lan Ying's brow: "Pride and dignity? I have not seen such……virtue on Mi Wu."

Shaking his head, Wu Tie laughed: "Right, I forgot to tell everyone, Mi Wu's life and death are now under my control, so he is not my partner but my subordinate……Do you all now understand the true situation?"

Wu Tie laughed brightly.

Mi Wu laughed reservedly.

The twenty-seven youths of the Wisdom God Clan, each like wolves and gluttons, stared at Mi Wu with abnormal viciousness.

Like nails, their gazes locked onto Mi Wu; the twenty-seven adorable divine spirits of the Wisdom God Clan, with the fawning expressions unique to special occupations such as eunuchs, officials, attendants, and bamboo-splitters, smiled as they looked toward Wu Tie.

Including Lan Ying, the girl who vomited blood from being stomped by him, and the youth whose chest was pierced by his sword.

"Your Majesty the Martial King, we wish to offer our loyalty." The handsome youth nodded repeatedly at Wu Tie, smiling: "I am Huan Wu, Mi Wu's cousin……Abandon Mi Wu, that waste; in both wisdom and strength, I surpass him."

Huan Wu laughed brightly: "If it weren't for him grasping the Wisdom Staff……"

Wu Tie narrowed his eyes at Huan Wu: "Intellectually disabled?"

Huan Wu sighed helplessly: "The Wisdom God Clan's supreme divine artifact, the Wisdom Staff, can greatly enhance spiritual power, create spiritual labyrinths, produce massive illusions, and even control hearts, cleanse souls, letting people be completely controlled without realizing it."

Wu Tie raised his eyebrows, glanced askance at Mi Wu: "Good stuff……don't let anyone snatch it……they're trying to replace your position."

Mi Wu laughed and shook his head: "My wisdom and strength surpass Huan Wu's. Your Majesty, wise as you are, you should understand: if Huan Wu were wiser than me, how could he be lying here like a dead dog?"

Wu Tie clapped his hands, chuckling lightly: "I don't care about your disputes……Now, please cooperate, let me, through this sliver of your divided spirits, control the life and death of your true forms……hehe!"

Wu Tie laughed warmly and kindly, like an old man handing out lollipops to children, full of springtime vigor.

Once you all become my people, feel free to scheme against each other……As long as you don't interfere with my affairs, you can scheme against each other to the death……That too would be a pleasing sight.

Wu Tie laughed, Mi Wu laughed……Huan Wu, Lan Ying, and the others also laughed extraordinarily brightly, laughing with incomparable wickedness and distortion.

Next, Wu Tie summoned Wu Yu and other Wu Clan Elders, laying out a massive Wu Formation.

Huan Wu, Lan Ying, and the others indeed cooperated without reservation, showing none of Mi Wu's earlier struggle and resistance; they obediently assisted Wu Tie, using the Wu Formation to send the terrifying Wu Curse into the bodies of their true forms.

Furthermore, through their true forms, they directly transmitted the Wu Curse into other essence-blood clones of their true forms.

Such cooperation, such effort—once the twenty-seven Wisdom God Clan members were completely under Wu Tie's control of life and death, Wu Tie couldn't help but lament:

"You Wisdom God Clan……really……I truly cannot comment on your……integrity!"

Huan Wu flicked his sleeve nonchalantly, saying calmly: "What is integrity? Is it edible? Our Wisdom God Clan……seeks only practical benefit, thus we disdain those illusory things."

"Don't talk about integrity……chastity……we've never taken it to heart!"