Chapter 858: The Beginning of the Great Chaos

The reason Wu Qi had only imprisoned Lord Bowang but not killed him was to avoid overly provoking Heaven. Even though he was brutally tortured, so long as he was alive, Heaven would not react fiercely. As their final plan was about to be commenced, Heaven would not want to get into an unnecessary fight for their crown prince, who had got himself into trouble because of his lust for a woman, unless Wu Qi killed him.

For the same reason, Wu Qi had only chased away Lord Boyang but not killed him. What good was it to kill a second-tier Heaven Immortal? And if he did, he would only make Heaven launch an attack against Dong Hai. Besides, he did not believe that the third prince of Heaven was cultivating slowly because of an incomplete soul. Who knew what kind of secret affairs were hiding behind this prince? It might be that he was backed by some almighty expert. Wu Qi did not want to offend too many people rashly.

In any case, that was it. Let Lord Bowang suffered a little first. So long as Heaven did not make a move, Wu Qi would not do anything.

And so Wu Qi returned to the spirit cave. He resumed his cultivation of Heaven Refining Grand Magic, continued to stabilize his foundation and improve his magic power and cultivation base. With the memories of his past life and the various supreme cultivation techniques he obtained in this life, he fused everything he had learned together. He felt his Dao Heart was clear and transparent, and he had made great progress comparing to his previous incarnation.

This time, he asked Princess Zhang Le to cultivate together with him. He was not in a hurry to continue improving his magic power and cultivation base. Instead, he focused all his attention on helping the princess. The Primordial Dao of Divinity was mysterious, unfathomable, and powerful. It could kill someone without being noticed at all. That made it a great help. Although he was strong, there was only so many enemies he could handle alone. He had to have enough assistants who were as strong.

So Princess Zhang Le entered the Heaven Refining Cauldron and was tempered by the heavenly fire day and night with Wu Qi.

As the couple was working hard to improve their cultivation bases, Patriarch Jiang Yun began to study the Scripture of Alchemy Wu Qi had given him. With his two wives, his best friends Qing Xin, Qin Shen, and Qing Yi, they led about ten thousand disciples from Underhand Sect who were talented in the alchemy and began to produce all kinds of pills in large quantities.

Countless ordinary herbs were planted in the spirit cave, which was enough to let these disciples hone their skills. And with all the innate divine trees in Yuan Ling Dark Realm, Patriarch Jiang Yun and other immortals with profound cultivation bases had enough ingredients to produce excellent quality Primordial pills.

Supremacy Three Flame, on the other hand, had inherited Wu Qi’s Book of Artifact. He was an expert of fire to begin with, and crafting all sorts of artifacts was as easy as breathing to him. Leading ten thousand disciples from Underhand Sect, and together with tens of thousands of craftsmen from Dong Hai, he worked tirelessly to forge various artifacts for Dong Hai’s immortals, demon cultivators, soldiers, and Oracles, using the techniques Wu Qi had researched in his previous life.

With Lord Yuan Ling’s attainment in artifact refinement, any simple tricks he invented could always increase the power of the artifacts by a great margin. Through Supremacy Three Flame’s arduous research and his spirit of constantly striving for perfection, the quality of Dong Hai’s artifacts was much better than the standard equipment used by Great Yu and Heaven.

In order to prepare for the imminent chaos, the people in various places across Dong Hai were all galvanized into action. Mineral veins were being secretly mined; countless ores, energy stones, and immortal stones were transported into the crafting rooms in the spirit cave. Inside the cave where time was accelerated by ten-thousandfold, tens of thousands of craftsmen worked round the clock to craft all kinds of weapons, then their number was increased to hundreds of thousands, and soon they reached millions…

Every once in a while, a batch of immortals and generals left the spirit cave and traveled to different places in Dong Hai to supervise the construction and expansion of cities and passes. Military towns of shocking sizes were built at all the important passes and linked together with teleportation formations. In order to overcome the situation when connections between these formations were cut off by someone using void-locking techniques, dozens of backup teleportation formations were placed outside of each town.

Batches of newly recruited soldiers were constantly sent into the spirit cave, and batches of soldiers, brainwashed and absolute loyalty to Wu Qi, were constantly emerged from the spirit cave. The weakest of these trained soldiers were as strong eighteenth-tier Heaven Immortals, and there were so many of them. Once fully assembled, it was a mighty army capable of shaking the universe.

But these soldiers were all secretly dispersed into different military camps, common cities, towns, and villages. No one knew how many soldiers Dong Hai had trained.

Billions of people had been migrated over to the lands of thirty provinces under Dong Hai now. If followed the ratios that a hundred civilians could provide for the needs of a soldier, Wu Qi could build an army of one billion soldiers in a very short amount of time. This was what made Heaven and Buddhism League feel helpless about Great Yu. Not a single power dared to fight an attrition war for a long time with Great Yu. Those who did, including the Ancient Gods, had all been swept into the rubbish dump of the history.

Had it not been for certain objective circumstances, with its rapid-result cultivation techniques and the sheer size of its population, Great Yu’s armies would have long swept like locusts through outer heavenly realms, and even stood at the gates of Heaven and Buddhism League now.

Bit by bit, Dong Hai was accumulating its overall strength. Various ordnance, such as flying ships, crossbows and bolts, bows and arrows, swords, spears, halberds, armors, and shields were piled up like hills in storehouses. On Wu Qi’s supreme order, Dong Hai was preparing ordnance on the scale of a war that last ten thousand years and a casualty of ten billion people. Liangzhu, on the other hand, was constantly providing armament to Dong Hai as well. So long as Wu Qi sent an official letter to them, everything he requested, including large-scale weapons, spirit talismans and bone talismans, would be promptly delivered.

Meanwhile, Dong Hai City, the heart of Dong Hai, was transformed into a deadly fortress by Mo Di. Measuring a thousand miles in both width and length, the city was surrounded by thirty-six layers of walls, its ground entirely forged of metal, and it could hover midair and fly like Mo City now. Countless traps and powerful formations were built throughout it, including the famous Celestial Formation, Fiend Slaying Sword Formation, and many others. Mo Di had applied all his fantastic ideas to the modification of the city. In order to help him, Wu Qi even enveloped the whole city with Dark Yin Celestial Tower at the cost of his own blood essence, accelerating the time in some parts of the city.

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After one thousand and three hundred years, when the modification and expansion of the city were finally completed, Wu Qi swept it with his divine sense, and all he said was, “Fuc*ing deadly!” He was too lazy to give any comment to this murderous city. Although many powerful armaments in the city were his work, he really did not have any comment for this freakish city.

No existences below the realm of Primordial could come close to it, and the power to instantly kill any immortals and buddhas within a thousand miles, who were below the peak-level of Gold Immortal realm. This was the new Dong Hai City!

Just as Dong Hai was training its army and preparing for the imminent chaos, some ill signs had finally begun to show.

It all began with the attack of refugees. A few ninth-grade provinces at the far east of Great Yu were attacked by refugees suddenly, and it did not take them too long to capture the few county cities in these provinces. The refugees who came out of nowhere were carrying banners that read ‘The tyrannical Human Emperor is torturing the common people! Replace him to save the human race!’.

When he received this official letter sent to him directly from Liangzhu, Wu Qi cursed in his mind. County cities were captured by refugees? Even though they were cities in ninth-grade provinces, they were garrisoned by at least thirty to fifty soldiers. And, even if these soldiers were only as strong as Nascent Soul cultivators, they were still too strong for common people to deal with. He did not believe they were refugees. On top of that, under the strict control of Great Yu, there were no longer refugees on Pangu Continent.

Where did those refugees come from? If there was a natural disaster, the local officials would have provided disaster relief as soon as it happened. They were very effective in this. They had strong soldiers to handle most of the natural disasters, abundant food to provide for any amount of victims, and powerful magic to guarantee the victims could have houses to live, clothes to wear, and lands to cultivate in a very short amount of time.

Great Yu was a dynasty that could never produce refugees. So, why would there be such a thing that county cities were captured by refugees?

Then more and more strange things happened.

In some province northeast of Great Yu, a phoenix landed on a hill, threw its head back and cried ‘We need a new emperor!’ forty-nine times, and died immediately after that.

In some province southwest of Great Yu, a nine-colored divine dragon came descending from the sky, carrying a stone tablet on its back which carved with the words ‘Great Yu shall perish!’.

A few days later, 3,988 major rivers to the west of Great Yu burst their banks at the same time. The flood destroyed numerous houses, causing countless people to lose their homes. Along the path of the floodwater, large turtles could be seen standing atop hills and mountains with stone tablets erected on their backs, on the faces of which carved with a row of large, glowing golden characters — ‘Sacred Emperor comes into the world, Human Emperor abdicates’.

About a month later, a barren land at the junction of three provinces suddenly collapsed and sank tens of thousands of miles deep. In this huge, dark sinkhole, countless ghosts and spirits were screaming ‘The tyrannical Great Yu is torturing its people! The Sacred Emperor will soon come into the world and save everyone!’. Day and night, their shrill voices drifted across the void in all directions, reaching as far as Zhong Province.

Before Great Yu’s officials could fill the sinkhole, tens of thousands of meteors suddenly came falling down from the sky. Each of them broke apart as soon as it smashed the ground, and from inside came jumping out a strange-looking ape, who had a black head, a white body, a red tail, and green claws. They jumped and ran like wind, roaming aimlessly across Pangu Continent. Whenever they saw the common people of Great Yu, they immediately cried out at the top of their lungs, “Do you know? Do you know? Emperor Haozun will die within three months! The Sacred Emperor is coming to the world to change everything! The Sacred Emperor is coming to the world to change everything!”

And when they bumped into Great Yu’s local officials, these apes, who ran so fast that no ordinary military officials of Great Yu could catch up with them, always shouted, “Don’t you want to save your own life? Run now! Run now! Great Yu is immoral, its imperial aura is dissipating! Great Yu shall be destroyed, and there will be a new Emperor!”

Emperor Haozun flew into a rage and dispatched groups of formidable Oracles to hunt down these apes. However, to their surprise, the apes were able to rip through the void and travel anywhere they like. As a result, although Great Yu’s Supreme Oracles all had mighty cultivation bases, none could capture even just an ape for Emperor Haozun.

Soon after various ill omens began to appear across Pangu Continent. There were rains of blood, lands sinking, corpses crawled out of tombs and hurt the living, and women gave birth to all kinds of strange babies. In one particular case, all the women in a town suddenly gave birth to babies on the same day, and the babies were all clad in armors and were holding weapons. As soon as they were born, the babies jumped out of the doors and said they were going to kill the immoral Emperor Haozun in Liangzhu.

For a moment fear spread through Great Yu, and the people were unsettled.

Amid this precarious situation, another urgent official letter was sent to Wu Qi.

In outer heavenly realms, some immortals had begun to stir up conflicts with Great Yu’s Protectors of the People in an organized manner. Thousands of Protectors were already killed in the conflicts, and their subordinates were either slain or captured. In just a few days, Great Yu had lost its control over a vast territory in outer heavenly realms.

And this kind of conflicts was getting out of hand.