Chapter 81: Like a God (Part 1)

The mother and son met on the sandy beach facing the sea in the market town.

Caiyang Duojie already knew by now that it was absolutely impossible for her to pull her son back into an ordinary yet safe life.

Although she had countless words she wanted to say, she only reached out to touch Zhang Gui's face, saying with a face full of maternal love:

"You're back.

Come, Amu will go make you shrimp paste noodles."

Zhang Gui knew that behind this plain and simple sentence from his mother, countless exhortations and instructions had been omitted.

For a moment, ten thousand words of comfort welled up in his heart, yet he could not say a single one.

In the end, he only nodded heavily.

Taking his Amu's rough palm, he walked toward home, one footprint at a time...

At the same time.

In Benfo Tubo, which sat at the highest geographical point of Dongsheng Continent and was known as the "Kingdom in the Clouds."

For ten million years, this place had used "Zang" as its "provinces."

It was divided into the four regions of Front, Middle, Rear, and Secret Zang.

Front, Middle, and Rear Zang each had at least five hundred cities and over a thousand manors built.

Secret Zang, however, was hidden deep within the mountains, difficult for ordinary people to reach, and thus its situation was unknown.

Many of the Benfo Tubo serfs living in Front and Rear Zang even thought this place was all mountains and little water.

Yet in reality, the "Tianhan Great Lake" in Middle Zang was boundless.

Within it were hundreds of large islands capable of housing people.

The largest island, "White Elephant High Nose," was slender in shape, with an area of over three thousand miles.

Millions of mu of fertile land had already been reclaimed.

Crops and fruits such as highland barley, millet, sweet potatoes, and pumpkins were grown there.

It supported the ten thousand shamans and million serfs of the "Great Elephant Majestic Temple," the largest Bon religion temple in Middle Zang.

Yet today, this place, considered a holy land by the Middle Zang Bon believers, had been reduced to a hell of smoke, broken walls, and ruins everywhere.

The Yuan Mountain army, wearing leather helmets and leather armor with bow-legs, had finally killed the last shaman of the "Great Elephant Majestic Temple" after four years of life-and-death fighting.

They had completely exterminated the oldest, most orthodox, and most authoritative sect of the Bon religion in the Middle Zang region.

No prisoners, no surrender, leave no one alive!

Afterward, the victors followed the rules set by their emperor, Chang Sheng Tie Mu:

Those who do not surrender, the city is to be looted for ten days, and blades are not to be sheathed.

They wantonly burned, killed, and engaged in debauchery on the streets in the enemy's land.

And as the leader of these devils, Chang Gong Zhe Bie did not participate in this "feast."

He stood alone on the stone steps in front of the left side hall of the "Great Elephant Majestic Temple."

Gazing at this island that had finally been conquered, he suddenly collapsed to the ground as if he had lost all his strength.

For a Class B transcendent powerhouse who had experienced a hundred battles and had not died directly in the fighting, this was simply inconceivable.

But for Chang Gong Zhe Bie, the order personally given to him by the king he revered like a god had finally been completed after going through a thousand hardships and dangers.

The string that had been taut in his mind for several years loosened, and the giant stone in his heart fell; how could others understand this?

The word "revere" actually clearly explained that the two emotions of "respect" and "fear," after breaking through a certain boundary, were actually not much different.

Thinking of the emperor's eyes, which were as deep as the sea, he couldn't help but mutter with a trembling voice:

"Great Eternal Heaven, I have finally not failed your expectations!

I have conquered the 'Great Elephant Majestic Temple'."

As the commander of an army of one hundred thousand, a moment of weakness was already a luxury.

Seeing the sunset, Chang Gong Zhe Bie stood up and walked down the stone steps of the side hall.

On the ten-thousand-mu square of the "Great Elephant Majestic Temple."

Many Yuan Mountain soldiers who had had their fill of looting and killing today were leading their horses, drawing water, brushing them down, and feeding them.

As herdsmen for generations, cutting off an enemy's head and taking good care of their partner-like mounts were the two things they needed to learn from the time they became sensible.

Blood overflowed everywhere.

It splattered onto the boots of a group of young Yuan Mountain military officers.

But for them, who were competing to see who had cut off the most Bon warrior heads, nothing mattered except the round heads hanging from their waists.

"Haha, I cut off nineteen heads.

One of them even had a gold-cast nose ring hanging from it; it was clearly a great warrior.

It should count as three, no, five ordinary warrior heads.";

"Forget it, Lie Qiang Bateer, if you really encountered a fleeing Bon great warrior.

Even if his hands and feet were broken, the one losing his head would definitely be you.";

"You are really mean when talking to your Anda, Heiyang Chaogecang.

Bon great warriors are indeed powerful, but if their hands and feet are broken, how could they defeat Bateer?

Could it be by relying on the sharp spear below to stab him, hahahahaha."

Although the young Yuan Mountain people now still maintained the good habits of old herdsmen, the strangeness of their words already made old men like Chang Gong Zhe Bie feel uncomfortable.

But he didn't say much.

Because among this group of young military officers betting, there was a true surname.

It was neither the warrior family surname based on "weapon names" traditional to the "Changsheng Great Prairie";

Nor was it the herd-owner family surname based on "livestock names," but "Bozhijin."

The surname Chang Sheng Tie Mu had before he became the overlord of the entire "Changsheng Great Prairie."

Bozhijin!

Quietly waiting for the young people to decide the winner of their bet.

Chang Gong Zhe Bie called out to a tall, unremarkable-looking person among them,

"Baori Eshen, you come here."

In fact, many Yuan Mountain people on the square had long since seen the figure of their commander.

But according to the rules set by Chang Sheng Tie Mu:

"During the period of slaughtering a city after a great victory, warriors do not need to distinguish between high and low status.

Even if the lowliest soldier grabs treasures or beauties, the ten-thousand-man commander must not covet them.

When meeting each other, there is no need to salute, just act as you please."

So when Chang Gong Zhe Bie didn't speak, no one saluted him.

Now hearing him call someone, they stopped their movements slightly.

And Baori Eshen, who was called, had his expression change slightly, and he trotted to Chang Gong Zhe Bie,

"General Zhebie, this is the 'good time' after breaking the city.

Why are you calling me?"

Chang Gong Zhe Bie softly called out Baori Eshen's true surname,

"Bozhijin Baori Eshen, today you are going to leave Benfo Tubo.

As the 'Guard Envoy,' you are going to Hanli, your mother's hometown."

Baori Eshen stiffened for a moment, then a sharp light flashed in his eyes,

"Have the iron hooves of our Yuan Mountain people already stepped onto the land of the Ming Song people?"

"What a smart Bateer." Chang Gong Zhe Bie laughed, "Because it was the critical moment of the great war at the time, all news was not spread out.

Follow me."

After speaking, he led the bewildered Baori Eshen to the side of the mandala in the center of the square and made the motion of drawing a bow and shooting an arrow.

In the air over a hundred zhang high above their heads.

A giant cavalry bow the size of a mountain range, nocked with a giant arrow like a towering tree, slowly manifested.

At this time, whether it was accidental or intentional, a group of monks was receiving the "Great Elephant Majestic Temple" accompanied by the Great Staff Officer of the Shogunate.

Seeing this scene, they shouted in great alarm:

"General!

The 'Conquest Benfo Tubo Shogunate' has an order.

After breaking the 'Great Elephant Majestic Temple,' nothing on 'White Elephant High Nose' can be looted, and no one can be killed.

Only the altar of the Great Elephant Majestic Temple must not be touched.

This place has already been enfeoffed to Guru Padmasambhava to be the main temple of the 'Heavenly Zang Five Veins Black Religion'."

Before the words were finished, the giant arrow in the air had already pierced down!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 82 =====