Chapter 981

Pei Feng was in a daze.

Blood Light...... Blood Light, by nature a bit vicious, is holding a bunch of Great Dao Treasure Pills that are very effective for cultivation, provoking a fight among a group of little ones.

One side is the little ones from the Iron-Tooth Dog-Headed Tribe of the underworld of the Fuxi Divine State; the other side is the little demons from the Ba'er Dog Demon Clan of the original Western Demon State.

Mu Dalu, the various major branches of the Pangu human race, are truly marvelous and wondrous in creation, infinitely mysterious.

The little ones of the Iron-Tooth Dog-Headed People are born with the form of dog-headed humans; while these Ba'er Dog Demons, when born, are in the shape of small dogs, and only after achieving success in cultivation can they transform into dog-headed human form.

But they converge in the end: whether innate dog-headed people or later cultivated dog demon tribes, upon reaching their final form they are all the same; moreover, after cultivating to the Divine Manifestation Realm, they can completely transform into human form.

Around ten years old, the Iron Chiyou Dog-Headed little ones, wearing iron armor, wield wooden sticks and shout "Ao ao" as they charge forward fiercely.

Around thirty or fifty years old, but having just attained the dog-headed human form, the Ba'er Dog Demons are weak in strength and have intelligence comparable to that of a ten-year-old Iron-Tooth Dog-Headed one; they likewise wear iron armor, wield wooden sticks, and charge and strike fiercely.

As the wooden sticks are swung wildly, with the sound of breaking wind, these little ones each cry out in pain, tears dripping, shouting "Wang wang" wildly.

Blood Light laughed until her eyes narrowed into slits, laughter causing saliva to flow from the corners of her mouth.

She enthusiastically asked Pei Feng, who was spacing out beside her: "Little sis, you say this marvel of creation is truly mysterious. Those ox-headed people are born exactly like ox demons; those snake people and python people also resemble snake demons and python demons exactly; and those sheep-headed people also resemble sheep demons exactly..."

"It's really strange—how did these innate human subspecies and the later cultivated demon tribes end up on the same path?"

Pei Feng rolled her eyes wordlessly, snatched the Great Dao Treasure Pill that Blood Light was tossing about in her hand, and casually threw it to the group of little ones drenched in sweat: "Hurry up and take it back, let your parents prepare it for you…… Remember, your cultivation is too low; this Great Dao Treasure Pill must at least be soaked in a tub of medicinal liquor, drinking a small cup each day will be enough for you."

For these little ones whose strength is at most the Sensual Mystery Realm and who haven't even reached the Chonglou Realm, the medicinal potency of a single Great Dao Treasure Pill is excessively huge; a little carelessness could burst their souls and shatter their bodies.

What Pei Feng said is the gentlest, safest method of consumption.

A group of little ones excitedly divided up the Great Dao Treasure Pill completely, then kowtowed several times to Pei Feng and Blood Light, and then waddled away.

"Older sister, if you have free time, go to Triple Linked City and read more books…… Therein also lies the *Treasury of Creation* that expounds the origin of the myriad things of heaven and earth; it clearly states that all the living beings of Mu Dalu are transformed from the essence blood of the Pangu sage."

"A blade of grass, a tree, an insect, a fish, even birds and beasts, demons, monsters, and humans—all are descendants of the Pangu lineage. Though our innate forms are myriad and strange, after cultivation we ultimately converge."

"Our most perfect form is the innate human form, which is also the appearance of the Pangu sage back then."

"The ultimate goal of cultivation for all our peoples is to continually strengthen the physical body, fortify the innate spiritual light, allowing the true body to infinitely approach the Pangu sage…… Well, if possible, if we could surpass the realm the Pangu sage attained back then……"

"Don't say more! My head hurts!" Blood Light covered her forehead with her left hand, raised her right hand to block Pei Feng's mouth: "Don't say more! By nature I dislike reading; hearing these gives me a headache."

"I just cultivate according to the bloodline inheritance template, becoming whatever the template dictates…… We are descendants of the Chaos Clan, relying on our innate endowment to get by."

"Studying, learning characters, studying culture…… What's the point of knowing all this?"

Blood Light rubbed her forehead hard, lowered her hand, and looked at Pei Feng with a chuckle: "By the way, do you have time today to keep me company…… Have those damned documents been processed? Hey, did Wu Tie go out running around again?"

Pei Feng spread her hands: "Today there's not much to do; a few documents have already been approved."

Pei Feng smiled slightly, lifted her gaze to the drifting clouds in the sky, and said leisurely: "Wu Tie isn't just out running around; there's a major enemy plotting mischief in the south, and we don't know their details, we don't know their strength—if we don't investigate thoroughly, it will ultimately be a hidden danger."

Blood Light waved her hand, drew her waist sword with a manly spirit, and with one strike shattered the exquisite white jade railing in front of her into fragments: "Little sis, rest assured—no matter what the hidden danger, if anyone dares to invade my Wuguo, I, your older sister, am itching to act and will chop them down for you."

Blood flashed in her pupils, a tremendous ferocious killing intent surged forth; Blood Light licked her crimson lips and muttered softly: "Older sister, I too am a Venerable old monster, yet the world is so vast that I have no rival…… Old Geezers, Old Nets, older sister I would go challenge them at their doors, but they keep their doors shut and hang up a truce flag."

"Truly, it's lonely at the top!"

Behind Blood Light, countless magnificent blood-colored peacock tail feathers slowly unfurled, countless bloody eyes appearing on the feathers; heavenly blood light shrouded half of the rear garden, and all the female officials, attendants, palace maids, etc., far and near, lowered their heads in awe.

"Here, I recall—weren't a group of little ox-headed ones just recently joined the Imperial Guard to learn marching? Quickly pick a dozen or so strong ones…… Then go to the west outside the city and have the Great Strength Ox King send over a dozen or so of his offspring under a hundred years old."

Blood Light laughed extraordinarily brightly: "Hehe, I want to play a bullfighting game today, to see which of these little ox-headed ones and little ox demons has the harder head!"

Pei Feng had no reply, and slapped her forehead with a "Pa" sound from her right hand.

At that moment, inside the palace city of Martial Capital, underground, in a certain secret hall, a tremendous spatial fluctuation suddenly appeared and then rapidly spread outward in all directions.

This spatial fluctuation was extraordinarily strong, almost condensing into substance; inside and outside Martial Capital, countless Embryonic Storage Realm, Divine Manifestation Realm, and Venerable experts sensed this fluctuation emanating from the palace city, and countless streams of light shot up into the air, hovering and gazing toward the palace city.

Pei Feng flew into a rage, stepping in a single stride into the high heavens, looking down from above upon the direction of the secret hall from which the spatial fluctuation came, her stern rebuke echoed throughout Martial Capital: "Who dares to invade my Wuguo?"

Outside Martial Capital, in dozens of large and small military camps, within each enormous dock, one after another, warships shaped like evil sharks, 150 zhang long and entirely black, rose into the air.

On the warships, countless low-strength but dexterous dwarves and gnomes, who possessed an innate keen sense for all kinds of machinery, screamed shrilly; amidst the orderly commands of officers of all ranks, the densely packed warships, like living beings, incredibly agile, formed neat formations in the air within just a few breaths.

In just seven or eight breaths, at least a hundred thousand new-style warships rose into the sky from the four sides of Martial Capital, approaching the city walls from all four directions.

Ten formations of ten thousand Wuguo Imperial Guard each had already densely surrounded the palace city, encircling the vast palace city so tightly that not even water could seep through.

Each of the ten formations of a hundred thousand Imperial Guard soldiers consisted entirely of cultivators at the Divine Manifestation realm, and even the lowest-ranked guards possessed the strength of an Earth God, having at least broken through into the Divine Manifestation realm via five or more Great Daos.

Moreover, the commander of each hundred-thousand-strong formation was entirely a brother of the Wu clan's main line, and all were powerful cultivators who had previously broken through to the Venerable level.

Around the palace city, within the vast Martial Capital, towering, matchless auras shot up into the sky, transforming into war-smoke banners hundreds of li high, standing like flags between heaven and earth, exuding an immense pressure that made one breathless.

The vast Martial Capital activated its countless layers of city-defense grand formations with all its might.

Huge numbers of colossal divine soldiers, silently and without sound, spewed scarlet eerie light from beneath their feet, rising like dark clouds into the sky; they formed neat, dense assault formations behind the ten Imperial Guard formations.

The number of these colossal divine soldiers was so enormous that their dense gathering instantly plunged Martial Capital into darkness, with not a single ray of sunlight able to reach its ground.

Wu Tie did not like luxury, and Pei Feng shared the same disposition.

The palace city of Wuguo directly inherited the imperial city of the Sui Dynasty, except that inside, the decorations mainly in red tones, the splendid jade, gemstones, silks, candle stands and lamp racks, etc., were mostly given by Wu Tie to his civil and military officials; the palace interior was filled everywhere with metal racks cast from black iron, piled with various kinds of armor and weapons.

Weapons, metal, a cold industrial aesthetic—that is Wu Tie, and also the ideal aesthetic style of his Wu clan ancestors and brothers.

Precisely because there was no large-scale construction or warfare in the palace city, the Sui Dynasty's imperial city contains many secret halls and many hidden arrangements that have not been fully discovered.

Pei Feng and Xue Yu, leading a large contingent of Imperial Guard, surrounded a great hall near the rear garden of the palace city.

The hall trembled slightly; its central floor sank, accompanied by a low mechanical sound, as a staircase paved with red jade appeared, and low footsteps were heard, whereupon a line of over a hundred people marched out from the staircase.

Xue Yu raised his eyebrows: 'Down there, they actually set up a teleportation array?'

Pei Feng shook his head: 'Probably not; if there were a teleportation array, this place would have been filled in long ago. Precisely because there is no formation arrangement down here, just an ordinary underground hall, it has remained.'

The vast palace city of Wuguo truly has only two masters: Wu Tie and Pei Feng.

Countless palaces and pavilions—how could the two of them possibly live in them all? Moreover, Wu Tie often runs about outside, so year-round only Pei Feng remains stationed there.

Therefore, for those discovered secret halls and pavilions that lack any formation arrangements and appear ordinary, Pei Feng leaves them idle, without undertaking major construction to fill them in or repair them.

Let them stay as they are; they could serve as a treasury in the future—that is Pei Feng's idea.

But unexpectedly, above this hall, inside this seemingly ordinary secret hall, today a tremendous spatial fluctuation erupted, and then a group of people walked out.

'The person who set this up is amazing… at least, more amazing than those Mohist old fogies.' Xue Yu muttered contemptuously: 'Those Mohist old fogies, they inspected the inside and outside of this palace city thoroughly, yet they didn't notice that someone else's arrangements were left here.'

Pei Feng shook her head slightly: "You can't blame the Mohists; they are versed in formations and forging, but many strange methods they may not necessarily know."

After a brief pause, Pei Feng said in a low voice: "After all, the Flame Dynasty's cultivation civilization far surpasses that of the Three Kingdoms era…… The arrangements here might come from a place even higher than the Flame Dynasty."

Xueyu closed their mouth.

Pei Feng and Wu Tie are well acquainted, so she naturally had heard of Nüwa Island's existence.

Nüwa Island, faintly suggesting a holy land of the Mu Dalu human race, secretly controls the destiny of humanity; they represent humanity's greatest power and most advanced civilization. If the arrangements in this secret hall stem from a similar force, it's only natural that the elders of the Wuguo Mohists would notice nothing amiss.

A group of over a hundred people walked out of the great hall.

From all directions, countless imperial guards and colossal divine warriors filled the void tightly.

Among this group, a middle-aged man dressed in coarse hemp clothing, his long hair tied into a large ponytail with a hemp rope hanging behind his head, standing over fifteen feet tall, with a dignified appearance and imposing bearing, strode forward two steps.

Pei Feng, Xueyu, and the others simultaneously noticed that the middle-aged man was barefoot, wearing no shoes or socks.

His hemp trousers reached only three inches below the knees, exposing a long section of his shin.

Yet his legs and feet were spotless, without a speck of dust.

Xueyu curled their lip: "Just pretending to be mysterious!"

Pei Feng's face turned cold as she stared at the middle-aged man and asked in a cold voice: "Who are you, and why do you invade Wuguo?"

The middle-aged man raised his brow, lifted his head, and said coldly: "This is the imperial city of the Flame Dynasty; where does Wuguo come from?"

Xueyu quickly interjected: "Ah, you mean the Flame Dynasty? The Flame Dynasty's high and low are a bunch of good-for-nothings, messing up state affairs to the point of near total overthrow, with countless common folk on the verge of falling into dire straits and hell..."

"The Wuguo martial king and my younger sister Pei Feng, wise and brave, quelled the Flame Dynasty's internal turmoil, swept away its demons and monsters in all directions, gave the common folk a bright sky and peaceful world, so the Flame Emperor, feeling incapable, forcibly abdicated, yielding the Flame Dynasty to the martial king."

Xueyu narrowed their eyes, coldly smiling at the group: "Alright, the background's been explained…… Well, hurry up and confess honestly: who are you? Where do you come from? Why did you invade Wuguo's inner court? How did you get in? Also, first put down all your weapons, produce all hidden arms and armor, or else……"

The middle-aged man lifted his head and sneered: "What then? It turns out you've taken over the magpie's nest and already annexed the Flame Dynasty!"

The middle-aged man suddenly stomped his foot hard; the earth violently trembled, dozens of splendid palaces and pavilions around collapsed instantly, and rings of scarlet fire waves surged outward.

The middle-aged man roared: "You have great gall…… I know Nüwa Island let some fortunate brat who calls himself the martial king become the Flame Dynasty's regent prince…… But he truly has the audacity of a dog, how dare he usurp the Flame Dynasty's mandate?"

The defensive grand formation within the palace city suddenly lit up, countless auspicious vapors and rosy light shielding the intact palaces and pavilions all around.

Wave after wave of fire struck the palace city's defensive grand formation, accompanied by repeated thunderclaps, the earth violently shaking, heat waves shooting straight into the sky, the high temperature steaming and causing countless flowers in the rear garden of the neighboring palace city to wither and dry up.

Pei Feng's face suddenly changed: "Take them down!"

Among the ten imperial guard formations surrounding them, the auras of ten Venerable experts of the Wu family shot up to the heavens.

The middle-aged man's face suddenly changed, then a gleam flashed in his eyes, hysterical, and he shouted in an unusually excited, sharp voice: "You…… Venerable of humanity? You have committed heinous crimes, Nüwa Island, Nüwa Island will not let you off!"