Chapter 946

In the 108th city of killing ghosts, Wu Tie looked at the bronze mirror floating before him, disdainfully curling his lip.

Truly noisy! Efficiency, efficiency, these demons, don't they understand efficiency?

Playing with an iron walnut, Wu Tie muttered, "Wasting our time is wasting our lives; this is... a grave sin!"

Old Tie and the others narrowed their eyes at the flickering image in the bronze mirror, shaking their heads.

Demons are demons... demon hearts are desires... Pig Ganglie lying beside Wu Tie, chomp, chomp, gnawing on a papaya, mumbled: "To get them to yield a result, you still have to push them."

As one of the top elders of the former Western Demon Country, having dealt countless times with the Eastern Demon Country, Pig Ganglie understood what these demons were.

Lady Peony was forcibly intercepted by her own 'companions' and sent back, strictly forbidden from carrying out the plan to sneak into Wuguo's capital and bewitch the present Wuguo king Wu Tie.

The dozen or so newly arrived demons were male and female, old and young, varying in height and build; their auras also varied wildly. Some had an ethereal bearing like immortals, some a fierce bearing like ghosts, and some had twisted, ever-changing faces, unfathomable like the legendary heavenly demons.

Nearly twenty demons gathered before the teleportation array set up by the golden-armored youth of the Fufeng Divine Dynasty, arguing fiercely.

Their thinking was erratic, unfettered, and illogical, so their words were extremely intense, incoherent, leaving listeners bewildered; only they themselves knew what they were thinking and saying.

This place is good; we should monopolize it.

Monopolize it—aren't you afraid of military discipline?

Military rules—so scary! I'm really afraid... tsk, was this grand array set up by the Fufeng Divine Dynasty? Are they dead?

Oh, the Fufeng Divine Dynasty people? Did you capture them? Or kill them?

They aren't already at the end of their rope... tsk, I don't know if this land is fertile or not.

Hey, what if we destroy this grand teleportation array now?

My concubine just bore me a pair of dragon-phoenix twins... I can't bear to part with those grandchildren.

Cut the chatter, go seize the territory—are you going or not?

After a confused, nonsensical argument, someone suddenly flew into a rage, and a group of demons wildly fought each other with crackling sounds; immediately an old man, a maiden, and a youth spat blood, staggering away dozens of li.

No fleeing; before we reach a decision, whoever leaks what happens here will die!

Cut the nonsense, hurry up and decide... such a big piece of meat, every extra bite counts.

Isn't that right? If more people come, the share will be thinner!

Hey, this young master doesn't care about the jars at home, wives, concubines, children, etc.... As long as there's great benefit here, staying here directly wouldn't be bad.

What can we do with so few people?

Few people is the kingly way... idiot!

Blade light and sword shadow flared up again; a white-haired, fiercely aggressive old woman was besieged by seven or eight demons, her body shattered instantly, a strand of innate spiritual light shot up trying to escape, but was knocked down by a dozen or so weapons emanating demonic energy.

Thus, Wu Tie and the others quietly watched through the bronze treasure mirror as these demons entangled for a little over half an hour.

A vessel over seven hundred zhang long, an old-style flagship once equipped by the armies of the Three Kingdoms continent, slowly approached... This flagship, to show its decrepitude, had people specially hack and slash it before departure, using spells to damage dozens of spots.

The external armor plates were covered in scars; the several levitation arrays in the hull occasionally burst out sheets of sparks; the stern trailed thin wisps of black smoke, as if the flagship might disintegrate at any moment, slowly approaching the Myriad Transformation Wind and Thunder Grand Array.

At a distance of over three hundred li, the flagship's bow main gun suddenly protruded, then whooshed toward the core of the Myriad Transformation Wind and Thunder Grand Array's gigantic teleportation gate, firing off consecutive dozens of beams of light.

When the bow main gun fired, the energy-storage arrays at the base of the barrel sputtered sparks and scattered radiance, the array overloaded, already unable to bear the load, possibly exploding at any moment.

On the ground, over a dozen demons reacted extremely quickly, they shot up into the sky, and over a dozen demonic treasures with rising black energy lined up side by side to block the gigantic teleportation array.

These old-style flagships of the Three Kingdoms armies, even their strongest main-gun attack, is at most the peak of the Tai Cang realm.

Dozens of beams of light blasted out, easily blocked by these demons.

The demons were stunned, then burst into hysterical laughter.

Just now, Lady Peony and her group had described to them the 'great combat strength' of Wuguo's southern border garrison; now they personally witnessed the 'super-strong attack power' of this 'large flagship', and they immediately had a measure.

This place's military strength is so weak, we could perhaps... A black-robed old man stroked his half-black, half-white long beard, chuckling: "How about we carve out our own domains, each proclaiming ourselves as sect founders and ancestral masters?"

The demons' eyes lit up, and they all clapped and cheered.

Regardless of how the people of the Fufeng Divine Dynasty found this place, regardless of why they set up this teleportation array... anyway, the meat that's reached our mouths, if we don't eat it, we'd truly be sorry to our ancestors.

A maiden in a light-green robe, adorable as jade and snow, looking about eleven or twelve, her eyes spitting intense black demonic flames, laughed loudly: "So, that grandson just now was right—what's the point of bringing home all those jars and such?"

The little maiden excitedly waved her arms and legs: "Such vast territory, great things can be done, great things can be done, we..."

A low, stern shout came from behind the light curtain.

Vast territory, great things can be done? You lot, what do you intend to do?

Over a dozen demons' bodies stiffened simultaneously, each twisted face turning toward the light curtain.

A low footsteps sound came; great ranks of troops, neat and orderly, clad in black heavy armor, their armor dense with twisted demon-god relief decorations, appeared formidable and domineering as they marched forward.

A figure over three zhang tall, his whole body wrapped in a layer of gray demonic flames, clad in black heavy armor, a blood-red scarf around his neck, his face bluish-gray, four fangs protruding from his lips, the fanks likewise wreathed in demonic flames, a sturdy man riding a one-horned skeleton horse, leading the charge at the forefront of the armored troops.

Over a dozen demons who had been arguing nonstop without making a decision stiffened, floating in midair, afraid to move.

After a breath's time, that jade-and-snow adorable little maiden first went thud and knelt on the ground, bowing to the man riding the skeleton horse: "Yin General, my meaning is..."

The black-armored sturdy man, Yin General, spat out a wisp of demonic flame from his hand, condensing it into a whip as thick as a fist, over ten zhang long, densely covered with barbs; with a crack it lashed heavily onto the little maiden's body.

A wail rang out; the little maiden spat blood in big mouthfuls, flung hundreds of zhang away by the whip, headfirst striking a jade pillar of the Myriad Transformation Wind and Thunder Grand Array; everyone heard the sound of her bones shattering.

You scattered demons, lackeys like dogs and hawks, also have the right to call yourselves 'subordinate officials'?

Yin General coldly rebuked, then lifted his gaze to the half-ruined flagship half a li away in midair. His tone turned extremely strange: "You, harboring disloyalty, all deserve to die."

From the light curtain, more black-armored soldiers surged forth; soon there were over ten thousand mighty auras, all divine-realm or above soldiers, rushing in.

Over a dozen demons all knelt on the ground; Lady Peony coquettishly complained: "Yin General, how could I, a mere woman, harbor disloyalty? Unjust, unjust... we aren't..."

Yin General waved his hand, coldly saying: "No excuses; if I say you have disloyalty, you have disloyalty... otherwise, you should have sent a demonic message to me upon discovering this place right away; why the delay?"

Lady Peony and her group were stunned.

Yin General drew a deep breath, sneeringly gazing at the dozen or so demons kneeling before his horse, saying word by word: "Feel the heavenly and earthly qi here... your demonic qi has already spread hundreds of li; you've been here at least half an hour."

Half an hour, and you made no report to me... you harbor disloyalty! You want to monopolize this discovery! You are disloyal to the supreme demon nation!

The demons trembled with fear; even Lady Peony, usually the most flirtatious and flighty, turned ashen and speechless.

You, originally summoned by imperial decree, forcibly conscripted into the army to serve as scattered demons, beings like pigs and dogs... yet you dare to harbor such treacherous disloyalty... well, from today on, you will be transferred from the scattered demons camp to the death-defying camp.

Yin General waved the long whip in his hand, lashing each of the demon heads kneeling on the ground.

"Peony, you're the exception……come serve in this general's great tent……well, the others, all go to the Death-Defying Camp." Yin General split his mouth, spewing out a large expanse of thick gray demon mist, which quickly spread in all directions.

The demon heads were beaten until they cried to heaven and shrieked to earth, rolling and twitching wildly on the ground.

Only Lady Peony was not whipped; her lovely eyes turned, she immediately stood up, smilingly approached the front of Yin General's horse, and wrapped both arms around his calves clad in metal war boots.

"General, I'm the first one who discovered this place……hee, speaking of it, it's interesting—this place is a divine dynasty called Wuguo, and their military strength is terribly weak."

Lady Peony "pah-pah-pah-pah"edly recounted, in exhaustive detail and with embellishments, everything that happened after a group of over ten demon heads arrived here, especially the fact that some demon heads wanted to destroy the giant teleportation array and monopolize this territory, for which she harshly filed a small report.

Yin General, lost in thought, looked around for a moment, then he waved his hand: "Tear down this damned Myriad Transformations Wind and Thunder Grand Formation, quickly……set up the Nine Kill Yin Demon Grand Formation to hold this place, and likewise set up the Nine Kill Yin Demon Grand Formation opposite."

"At the fastest speed, send a message to Lord Demon Marquis, just say……we've discovered a huge piece of meat!"

Yin General bent over, grabbed a handful on Lady Peony's pretty face, then sternly shouted: "You scattered demons, just hesitating and fearful as mice……whether this is a plot of the Fufeng Divine Dynasty or not, I, the Supreme Demon Kingdom, fear no schemes or tricks."

"This huge piece of meat, we've got it in the bag!"

In the distant high sky, the seven-hundred-zhang-long flagship that was still continuously firing went "Boom"—the main cannon's energy storage formation finally exploded under overload pressure.

A large chunk of the ship's bow was blown off, and faintly visible were some severed limbs and such spraying out.

The levitation formation beneath the flagship immediately exploded in dozens of places; the flagship spewed thick smoke and fire, slowly descending downward.

On the flagship, thousands of soldiers screamed shrilly, and under the leadership of a commander at the Half-Step Divine Brightness Realm, they swiftly flew out of the flagship.

A jade talisman lit up at the commander's waist; a shower of light enveloped the thousands of soldiers, whoosh—slicing through the void, fleeing northward as fast as lightning.

The flagship crashed heavily into the mountain ridge with a tremendous roar, fire shot up to the heavens, a small mushroom cloud shot up over a thousand zhang high, and seven or eight mountain peaks were completely flattened by the exploding flagship.

Yin General, lost in thought, watched the fleeing Wuguo soldiers: "Peony, you said it……indeed, their talent for escaping is not bad; this escape-light speed is something even I, the general, cannot catch up to."

After a moment's contemplation, Yin General suddenly broke into a grin: "Could it be that the Wuguo army, from top to bottom, excels only at fleeing? Hehe, their rickety warship, hehe, such a rickety contraption……"

Tens of thousands of Black Armored Soldiers busied themselves; they quickly dismantled the Myriad Transformations Wind and Thunder Grand Formation, then used countless gigantic bones that glowed with phosphorescent light as the formation base, laying out a strange grand formation with killing intent soaring to the heavens around the giant teleportation gate.

Two hours later, large numbers of Black Armored Soldiers began to pour out of the light curtain like a flood.

Four hours later, several warships, each stretching a thousand zhang in length, pitch-black all over, grotesque in shape, everywhere decorated with twisted, agonized demon god faces, and everywhere hung with skulls of various sizes and colors, flew out silently from the light curtain.

"Thud, thud, thud……"

One after another, towering puppets a thousand zhang tall, cast entirely of metal, with demonic flames rising on their surfaces and terrifyingly strong auras, slowly moved their steps, stepping out of the light curtain one step at a time.

Moreover, many bare-bodied, scar-covered sturdy men emerged expressionlessly from the light curtain, carrying various materials, they began to build camps and dig foundations around this giant teleportation array.

After another day and night passed like this, a military city three hundred li long and wide suddenly stood tall amidst the mountain ridges.

Then more sturdy men rushed out of the light curtain; they were like diligent worker ants, busy day and night, and outside the three-hundred-li military city they built row after row of city walls, set up camp after camp, and constructed countless formations and prohibitions.

A flagpole, supported by magical power, ten thousand zhang high and as thick as a water jar, rose erect atop a high mountain; at its top, a gigantic military banner three thousand zhang long and over two hundred zhang wide danced wildly in the wind.

"'Supreme Demon Kingdom Southeastern Expedition Envoy, First-Rank Demon Marquis Yin Wujiu'!"