Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 132 - 129 Brother Qian, I Misjudged You!

Chapter 132: Chapter 129 Brother Qian, I Misjudged You!

Those revered as Heavenly Officials by the Sect, perpetually suspended at the highest point of the "Undying Tree," although powerful, normally found it difficult to break through the "Heavenly Gate" and descend to the Mortal World.

For nearly hundreds of years, they slept outside of heaven, responding to their believers only by instinct.

However, this time "Nine Phases Corpse Deity Dao" took advantage of a brief loosening of the "Dragon Qi Prohibition" to successfully borrow a sliver of strength from their Sect’s Venerable God, the "Fangzhang Corpse King."

It triggered a mass rising of corpses on Beimang Mountain.

The corpses gasped for air.

The chilly wind howled furiously.

Howl—!

The bodies scattered across the mountain, each at different stages of decay, cocked their heads and opened their dark, rotten mouths as if gateways to hell, issuing a pitiful wail in unison with their decomposed vocal cords.

Then, all at once, they took tottering steps and wildly ran towards Luoyang City.

The multitude of footsteps fell, and half of Beimang Mountain seemed to tremble slightly.

Behind this tide of corpses, all sorts of evil creatures, previously hidden, now emerged, laughing loudly and raising their arms in shouts:

"Hehehe, the Dragon Energy is broken, today we shall offer a blood sacrifice to Luoyang City!"

"Slaughter and feast right away, the taste is unparalleled! This fresh essence is truly priceless!"

"The vital blood of a robust man surpasses any wine in the world! Today I shall drink to my heart’s content, hahaha..."

"..."

Protected by the "Dragon Qi Prohibition" for the past two hundred years, these demons and heretics had to act secretly, even when killing and eating people.

Now, Luoyang City, momentarily left completely unprotected by the "Dragon Qi Prohibition," was like an uncovered rice container, or a young girl stripped of her clothing, soon to be at their mercy.

Moreover.

Due to the high-ranking members of the Tao Lineage fearing death, unwilling to act as cannon fodder and personally brave dangers,

The highest level of cultivation amongst the evil creatures near Luoyang City was only at the "Red Seal Mid-Stage [True Qi Realm]."

In normal times, when would such a favorable situation fall into their hands?

Now that the opportunity had come, they screamed eagerly, following the tide of corpses and rushing towards Luoyang City.

On the other side.

The organization of Sects, supposedly more tightly knit, was hardly any better than these loose evil creatures, and even more fanatical.

"The Old Buddha descends, the Ming King is born. Change heaven and earth, create Qiankun!"

The "No-Life Dao," venerating the Heavenly Official "No-Life Buddha"; the "Plague Dao," venerating the "Mud Saint"; the "Heavenly Eye Dao," venerating the "Hundred-Eyed Spirit Official"...

The "Nine Phases Corpse Deity Dao" that worshipped the "Fangzhang Corpse King"...

Each Sect had its own unique ideology, teachings, and strategies for action.

Indeed, those who had come here were primarily from a few branches of the Sects, the ones most concerned about the Dynasty’s future.

However, when probing the solidity of the "Dragon Qi Prohibition," they showed no intention of cooperating with each other.

Even the "No-Life Dao," the most active and fanatical of the Sects, with the most followers, seemed to have no control over the heads of other Sect factions.

A joke circulated within the cultivation world.

Although the Venerable Gods of the Sects found it difficult to come down to the Mortal World, if all the Sects could unite and share in weal and woe amidst chaos, they would sweep the cosmos and establish a religious state on earth.

In reality, it was even more preposterous than "Red flowers, green leaves, white lotus roots; the three teachings are originally one family."

Keep in mind that even within the human Dynasties that symbolized order, deadly chaos reigned, and naturally, the "Killing Tree" lineage, chaotic by nature, was even more incompatible with "harmony."

The most Scholars could do was send their enemies down the Netherworld Road and their families into the Teaching Bureau.

Though the Sect Venerable Gods were of the same origin, their infighting was far crueler than that of the Scholars.

In most cases, such entities could not be killed; being utterly devoured was the inevitable end.

Fighting independently was already their best method of coexistence.

Inside Luoyang City across.

Facing the tide of corpses madly charging from across the mountains, even border Soldiers with countless experiences in the smell of blood and gusts of wind could not help but turn pale.

"General of the cup-mouth cannons, open fire!"

Merely instinctively, they followed their trembling commanding officers, loading and aiming their guns.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!...

Oranges and red gunfire lit up the city walls of Luoyang, illuminating the gloomy sky in an instant.

The fierce cannonballs flew over Luoshui.

The solid shots bounced on the ground like skipping stones, crushing all the corpses in their path into minced meat.

Fragmentation bombs bloomed brilliant red lotuses amidst the dense tide of corpses...

The stench of decay, the smell of scorching, the odor of gunpowder... a mix of nauseating smells instantly filled this ancient capital that had weathered many dynasties.

And yet.

Corpses that still moved were just corpses. They were unaware and unfeeling, neither knowing life nor death.

When gaps formed in the charging formation, other corpses immediately filled them, merging into a combined tide of black and yellow, foul-smelling water.

They poured over the Luoshui Bridge, the Yellow Path Bridge, the Star Bridge, crossing Luoshui, and crashed against the high walls of Luoyang City.

As the distance closed, rows of firearms atop the city also fired.

But the singing lines of fire were even less effective than the cannons.

Even when hit by the searing lead, those corpses were unaffected, save for an additional hole.

Even a bullet to the head didn’t matter.

What drove them was not the brain, muscles, organs, or bones, but the mana of a Heavenly Official.

Upon seeing the situation,

"Kill!"

Immediately behind the ordinary soldiers, a group of dismounted [Iron Cavalry] broke out.

They bent their knees and pushed from their stance, their bodies shaking as if they had leapt forward fiercely on a Thousand-Mile Horse.

Borrowing the "horse’s" momentum, they violently shook their spears in hand, harshly sweeping at the corpses that swarmed onto the city walls like ants, one stepping on another.

Boom!

The power exploded, and the thick iron spears nearly shattered the upper bodies of a row of corpses.

Causing them to fall from the city walls like tattered rags.

Paired with the horses, they wielded the spears as swiftly as cutting down grass when killing!

Unfortunately, these total two banners of seventy-two [Iron Cavalry], despite killing back and forth across the city walls, erratically here and there, still couldn’t reverse the overwhelming tide.

There were just too many reanimated corpses.

Even as many as they killed, the corpses on the distant mountains seemed to have no end in sight.

In just a short quarter of an hour,

As the first soldier let out a pitiful scream and was pulled down from the city walls, the situation gradually began to spiral out of control.

This group of iron-strong border soldiers couldn’t help but feel desperate.

Even if these corpses could move only for a quarter of an hour, it was enough to turn the city behind them into a city of death.

Only after losing it did they deeply realize just how important the "Dragon Qi Prohibition" was.

...

Outside the city, atop the hill.

Wang Yuan stomped fiercely, crushing the rotten skeleton beneath his foot.

Clang—!

The long sword at his waist unsheathed, hacking into pieces all the corpses that lunged at him.

He also did not forget to whip up a chill wind to shield Huang Wu and Lady Peach Fairy from the foul liquid seeping from the rotten bodies.

Immediately afterwards,

Wang Yuan led them to fight on all fronts, moving with the sword, clearing all the corpses on their side of the hill.

In reality, he knew this was but a drop in the bucket, almost negligible in the grand scheme of things.

"Corpses that have come to life are still just corpses.

Even in hordes, they pose no threat to [Daoist Soldiers] or the ’Integrated Force.’

But the biggest problem is that they no longer have any vulnerabilities, their heads can be chopped off, and they can still keep moving.

Only by dismantling their limbs can their mobility be neutralized, leaving them to lie on the ground and slowly wait for death.

To bring so many corpses ’back to life’ at once, even if borrowing power from a ’Corpse Dissection Immortal,’ certainly cannot be sustained for long."

"The issue is, I fear the civilians in the city simply cannot afford to wait.

Unless... a [Yellow Seal Mage] proficient in area attacks takes action, even a Military Leader of the fourth realm ’Military Dao Dharma Image’ would be useless here."

Looking at the tribulation energy gathering and rolling above him again,

Wang Yuan had a premonition that if he allowed over three hundred thousand civilians in the city to be blood sacrificed in a short time, it would lead to some terribly dreadful chain of events.

At least he knew one thing.

Birth, aging, sickness, death, resentment, separation, unfulfilled desires, raging internal demons.

The terrifying negative emotions gathered by the countless people before their deaths could potentially summon a [Weird], as formidable as a Sage of the third realm Green Seal.

Before the Court could react, the subsequent casualties in Junzhou might rise by several times.

Yet,

Even though he had been continuously promoted recently, Wang Yuan could only ensure his own safety and was still inadequate to reverse such a catastrophe.

At that moment, as if he had thought of something, he suddenly turned his head and asked,

"By the way, I’ve been hearing a tinkling sound all this time, what is that noise?"

The little ghost girl who had been floating behind him pointed with her slender fingers at the [Money Box] cradled in Lady Peach Fairy’s arms, her face filled with joy,

"Xiao Yuan, it seems we’ve accidentally... struck it rich."

The pleasant tinkling sound was precisely from the [Money Box]!

Ability: Gathering Treasure, within a radius of thirty paces, unclaimed silver and treasures that fall to the ground are automatically collected and stored within the money box.

Because nearly half of Beimang Mountain’s corpses were in upheaval, they also brought many buried funeral objects to the surface.

That’s why the [Money Box] hadn’t stopped the sounds of gathering treasure until now.

Don’t be fooled by the [Deceit Object] having shrunk quite a bit, indeed it couldn’t hold too much else.

But "else" doesn’t include money!

Its greed for money was even greater than its greed for food, at least when it comes to collecting money, it hasn’t yet shown its limit.

A small money box, a vast fortune!

"We have money? Luoyang City can also be saved!"

In an instant, a flash of light struck Wang Yuan’s mind.

"How could I not have thought that the [Money Box] also comes with its own provisions?!

I’m sorry, Brother Qian, I’ve wronged you!"

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