get-shopping Chapter 192 The Dark Sky Curtain, Seizure of Jingzhou
Chapter 192 The Dark Sky Curtain, Seizure of Jingzhou
Chapter 192 The Dark Sky Curtain, Seizure of Jingzhou
In Jingning City, the Golden Wolf Flag was replaced by the Blood Sea Flag, symbolizing the Blood God Cult, which was planted on the city wall and fluttered in the wind.
Inside the city, small teams patrol and hunt down the Golden Wolf soldiers hiding in the city. Occasionally, a scribe descends from the sky to preach and educate the city's residents.
As one of the few cities that was not ravaged by the Golden Wolves, Jingning City has its own value. If Erden escapes here by taking a shortcut, it can also give him a surprise.
The Blackrock Fortress hovered above the city, casting a large shadow that covered most of the city, causing fear and anxiety among the residents.
This floating fortress, transformed from Daze Mountain, is unrecognizable from its former self. Not only have the villages on the mountain been demolished, but even the vegetation on the surface has completely disappeared, leaving only jagged, peculiar black rocks.
These black stones all originated from alchemy arrays. After alchemy modifications, their hardness was significantly increased, and they became more resistant to foreign energies.
Even if Huangfu Chong, with the support of the Black Armor Army, and in coordination with the Shooting Wolf, fired an arrow at it with all his might, he might not be able to scrape off even a scrap of its body.
Inside the mountain of Blackrock Fortress lies the fortress's control center.
Eight massive alchemical engines are located here, constantly drawing ether from the ether layer through the symbiotic flesh and blood abominations inside, converting it into energy to supply the fortress's anti-gravity array and various other parts.
Tens of thousands of Blood God Cult members were coming and going inside, including fortress guards, fortress engineers, and paratroopers.
As the first major artifact of the Blood God Cult, Blackrock Fortress is bound to attract the attention of various forces. For its safety, Mordi has also sent many Blood God Sons to be stationed there.
Normally, they would disguise themselves as ordinary members of the cult within the fortress, only revealing their true identities at crucial moments.
Even the higher-ups of the Blood God Cult were unaware that there were these imposters inside the fortress.
"Holy crap, a malevolent god, an evil god, Mahakala... that's what they call this thing, right?"
Modi dissected a huge, black body, examining its internal structure while questioning Du Yuanping, who had just returned victorious.
Du Yuanping nodded and said, "That's right, Mahakala, this tongue-twisting name belongs to this evil god."
"I know that, it's the Dark Heaven, but I didn't expect to run into it here... You said there's a group of strange monks in the Golden Wolf army?"
"Yes, as far as I know, the Golden Wolf people call them Lamas." Du Yuanping's tone was tinged with disgust.
He despised those who threatened civilians.
"So they're lamas. I didn't expect the Golden Wolf Royal Court to be involved with Tantric Buddhism. That's quite intriguing. I remember they worshipped other evil gods, so how did they get mixed up with Tantric people?"
The lamas of Tantric Buddhism differ quite a bit from the monks of China.
Judging from the magical artifacts in their hands, this group of people who like to make magical artifacts from human parts appears to be more bloody and brutal.
Mahakala, also known as the Great Black One, was originally a Hindu demon god, but was later incorporated into Tantric Buddhism.
You can tell how cruel they are just by looking at them; they can be said to have taken "human-centeredness" to the extreme.
Blood, flesh, skin, bones, and filth—all have their uses and can be used as raw materials. Isn't that "people-oriented"?
Modi imbued the scalpel with a layer of Styx death energy, allowing it to easily cut through Mahakala's skin, revealing the bronze-cast flesh beneath.
"An interesting structure. It seems it was originally a bronze-cast inanimate object, but after being possessed by some unseen force, it came to life, and even its bronze body transformed into bronze-cast flesh and blood."
Modi continued dissecting, but couldn't find any internal organs; its body contained only flesh and blood, nothing else.
Even the three eyes on its head, two of them are decorations, only the one between its eyebrows is a supernatural organ.
Needless to say, it doesn't have a brain at all.
The mouth is also just for decoration; it's completely blocked inside.
"You're saying you saw it sipping pig brains?" Modi raised an eyebrow, looking shocked. "Where does the pig brain go after it eats? It can't just disappear into thin air, can it?"
He checked it again and confirmed that the thing had no stomach or intestines, so he could only guess that it had completely digested the brains as soon as it put them in its mouth.
Perhaps it transforms into energy, or perhaps it transforms into the flesh and blood of the body.
"These bronze-cast flesh pieces are interesting. We can cultivate them and install them in our alien mounts and flesh engines. As for the rest, only the eyeballs in the center are somewhat valuable."
Playing with the eyeball that had a distinctly different texture, Modi tried channeling some ether into it, and in an instant, darkness surged out.
"We can figure out a spell, let's call it Dark Sky Curtain." Alright.
Modi threw his eyeball into the sea of blood, and in an instant, he completed his analysis of it.
Its methods of utilizing and converting energy have been completely mastered by Modi.
"Du Yuanping, what's the situation in Jingning City down below?" he asked again.
"Everything's normal, everything's under control." Du Yuanping added after saying that, "The people here are frequently oppressed by the Golden Wolf soldiers. Those barbarians routinely bully men and women; I reckon the grievance sessions will last for days."
"We'll rest for a day, leave some of us here, and the rest of us will go up to Blackrock Fortress. After we've rested, we'll immediately attack our next target."
Modi planned to launch a surprise attack on the rest of Jingzhou, which was under the control of the Golden Wolf Royal Court, before Erden could react.
This function originates from the Heavenly Book and was only recently deciphered. The principle is the same as the teleportation ability of the hunters back then. It can only work in this virtual world, which is itself constructed by the Heavenly Book.
As for whether this counts as cheating..... Modi thinks it doesn't. He analyzed it based on his own ability, so why should he be accused of cheating?
He didn't use any authority to access the Heavenly Book; he relied entirely on his own understanding of it, and therefore did not violate the original agreement.
If the agreement is not violated, it is not considered cheating!
Several days later, when Erden rushed back to the Golden Wolf Royal Court's main camp in Jingzhou, which was Jingzhou City, he suddenly heard the terrible news.
"What did you say? Half of Jingzhou, gone?"
The Golden Wolf Khan immediately gasped, and before he could even tend to his wounds, he grabbed his lieutenant and demanded an explanation:
"What happened? Did the Great Qian Dynasty join forces with the Blood God Cult to attack?"
The lieutenant shook his head awkwardly, "Neither of them. From beginning to end, it was only the Blood God Cult."
"The Blood God Cult? You're talking to me about the Blood God Cult?!"
His eyes widened in astonishment.
Rationally speaking, he didn't believe the Blood God Cult had that capability.
Let's not even mention which army can conquer cities and capture strongholds for several days in a row without ever suffering a defeat.
Moreover, the distance of half of Jingzhou is not something any army can cross in just a few days, not to mention that they also have to cook and destroy cities and strongholds along the way.
Even he, a grandmaster-level expert, took several days to reach Jingzhou City, despite being severely injured and having several dependents with him.
How could an army possibly do that?
"According to recent intelligence, the Blood God Cult has apparently built a celestial mountain that can instantly teleport above any city in Jingzhou, like this..."
The lieutenant suddenly froze, pointing shakily to the sky.
Erden looked back and saw a huge blue vortex appear in the sky, from which a massive phantom gradually emerged.
"That's the Blood God Cult!"
He clutched his chest, his already severely injured body suffering an additional internal injury.
But Erden had no time to recover and only gave the order: "Withdraw, the entire army withdraws from Jingzhou City. No, leave a portion of the incorporated Qian people's army to cover the rear, and the rest will withdraw with me."
Jingzhou is too dangerous. He wants to withdraw from Jingzhou City, or even from Jingzhou altogether, and stay far away from the Blood God Sect.
As Blood God Cult soldiers began to rain down from the sky, he immediately summoned a golden wolf of a different breed and led a group of guards to gallop out of the city. Half an hour later, the resistance in Jingzhou City was completely crushed, and the Blood God Cult successfully took over the city.
The remaining garrison was originally from the Gan people and had little will to resist. Apart from those garrison soldiers who had been brainwashed and believed themselves to be honorable Golden Wolf people, they basically defected and surrendered as soon as they faced the enemy.
"It's a pity that Erden still managed to escape," Du Yuanping said regretfully. "This time, he'll probably flee directly out of Jingzhou. I wonder if he'll end up in Qizhou or Yuzhou, one of the three northern prefectures."
"No matter where he escapes to, he will no longer be able to pose a threat to us. Now, the entire Jingzhou is ours."
Modi stood in the command room, looking at the projection in front of him, pondering his next target.
After capturing Jingzhou, should we continue to attack the neighboring Yuzhou, or move south?
Heading south would mean clashing with Daqian and the Umbrella Corporation.
The five sects, which should have been formidable enemies of the Great Qian Dynasty, are now in a state of utter disarray. Only Hidden Sword Peak is still putting up a fight. The other four sects have either been defeated or have moved their entire sects to Hidden Sword Peak, intending to consolidate their strength and jointly resist the Qian Dynasty.
"It's too late for the Five Sects to understand this now."
He couldn't help but wonder if he had made the wrong choice in assigning Wan Jinghan the title of Master.
After all, Modi hadn't expected that this person was only thinking about himself and his sword, and had no ambition whatsoever.
"Unless Wan Jinghan can single-handedly overthrow the entire Qian Dynasty, they are doomed to defeat."
Mo Di thought this was very risky; the current Great Qian Dynasty was not the same as the Great Qian Dynasty of the past.
Since abandoning its moral bottom line, Daqian has become increasingly ferocious.
Various kinds of demons emerged one after another, and even a giant demon tens of meters tall was created.
Similarly, there was the Hundred Poisons Cult, which also went mad.
According to intelligence reports, the Hundred Poisons Cult, in collaboration with the Umbrella Corporation, has developed a large number of new products, turning the Hundred Thousand Mountains into a bloody forest.
If it weren't for the joint efforts of Daqian and the Umbrella Corporation to restrict it, that bloody forest would have already spread to other states.
"Speaking of the Umbrella Corporation, I remember there are two Blood Gods in Jiangzhou. I wonder if they've found out anything."
Modi was extremely interested in this troublemaker who claimed to be a protector; perhaps he could use them to make contact with the interdimensional forces behind them.