My Wife Is The Leader Of A Demonic Cult-Chapter 348 - Great Changes in the World The
Chapter 348: Chapter 348: Great Changes in the World, The Gathering Storm
Chapter 348: Chapter 348: Great Changes in the World, The Gathering Storm
Jin Lv watched the scene before him and, putting aside the danger, began to command the Houjin army to counterattack.
After all, the mechanical puppet beasts were made of wood and some metal. As long as their mechanisms were destroyed, they would collapse without being attacked.
“Click-click-click-click!”
A flurry of arrows rained down on the mechanical puppet beasts, with most of the sturdy arrowheads striking their bodies and producing a grating sound of metal on metal.
“Kill–!”
After a volley of arrows, the Houjin soldiers charged one after another towards the mechanical puppet beasts.
The elite Black Armored Army of the Houjin forces and the Jianghu masters joined the fray, fighting even more fiercely. The Black Armored soldiers, once the elite of the elite and now filled with immense hatred, struck with ruthless and merciless blows.
The Jianghu masters, whose strength was far superior to the Houjin army, included quite a few experts of the Upper Three Grades, such as Dai Ling and several Elders from the Five Poison Sect.
After Dai Danshu died in Yuan City, Dai Ling did not hesitate to lead all her sect members down the mountain to block the Houjin army at You Mountain.
At this moment, she was leading the charge. Her strength, close to that of a Half-step Master, allowed her to slice through the enemy as if they weren’t there at all, specifically targeting the mid-ranking generals of the Houjin forces. Many of them felt a chill in their hearts when they saw the beautiful yet cold woman heading their way, instinctively retreating toward the back.
Her icy Inner Strength wrapped around her sword; with every swing, lives were claimed on You Mountain. How could this not dishearten the Houjin soldiers?
“Roar!”
Just then, an earth-shattering roar echoed.
“It’s a dragon!”
The Houjin soldiers looked up to see a massive Black Flood Dragon diving down at them, its fierce jaws open wide. With one breath, it turned countless Houjin soldiers into blood and flesh.
This brutal and terrifying scene struck fear into the hearts of even the most ferocious Houjin soldiers.
The entire You Mountain was ablaze and in chaos.
Demon Sect Grandmasters like Yi Daoyun, Duanmu Xinghua, and Li Fuzhou joined the battlefield, along with the onslaught of exotic beasts such as Honghu and the Black Flood Dragon. The Houjin forces suffered heavy losses, with the number of those trampled to death by their own continuing to rise.
Zhao Qingmei stood with her hands behind her back, watching the chaotic battle below.
Her figure, blending with the wind, seemed to merge with the world around her. Though young, she exuded the air of a Grandmaster, seeming perfectly in place.
Yu Qiurong bowed and said, “Sect Hierarch, Jin Lv has appeared.”
Zhao Qingmei replied indifferently, “No one else should touch this man. I will kill him myself.”
As she spoke, she stretched out her hand, and the Mandarin Duck Twin Blades appeared in her palm.
The light of the blades glinted, reflecting the world before them.
The chilling Sword Qi shot straight into the sky, as if freezing the clouds and mountains.
Jin Lv, standing in the midst of the crowd, keenly felt the murderous intent descending from the sky and showed a trace of shock in his eyes.
“The Demon Sect Sect Hierarch!?”
Everyone in the world knew that Zhao Qingmei, the Sect Hierarch of the Demon Sect, was a master of the Sword Dao, wielding the potent Mandarin Duck Twin Blades that had dominated throughout the ages. At the battle of Zhong Mountain, she had even overpowered the fearsome Sword Demon.
Boom!
In the next instant, a blade light surged down like a falling Milky Way, slashing straight at Jin Lv.
Where the blade passed, the Houjin soldiers turned into a mist of blood.
As the blade light dissipated, a bloody path was left on the ground.
In the past, Jun Qinglin was able to enter and exit the army of hundreds of thousands with his wounded body, killing two flag bearers of Houjin and choosing to die in the chaos rather than retreat.
Although Zhao Qingmei’s strength was still not up to Jun Qinglin’s, the current army was no match for the one back then. Moreover, she was now surrounded by a host of experts.
At the sight of this overwhelming blade strike, the Houjin army was thrown into complete chaos, their spirits utterly shattered.
The fire spat out by Honghu continued to burn; with the summer breeze spreading the flames, the Houjin army was utterly engulfed in fire.
Many mechanical puppet beasts were also caught in the blaze, succumbing to the flames, which only intensified the fire on You Mountain.
As the blaze continued, the scent of cooked flesh soon filled the air and drifted across the entire valley.
After Li Fuzhou killed a Houjin expert, he said in a low voice, “Today’s fire seems set to burn alive the Houjin army of three hundred thousand.”
At this point, the Houjin army was in complete disarray; even without the Demon Sect masters’ intervention, they were dying in the stampede and the flames.
You Mountain had become a human purgatory.
“If only the Holy Master had given me time to regroup and investigate, how could our Houjin army have fallen into such a predicament?” Jin Lv lamented as he let out a long howl to the sky.
Who could have imagined the Demon Sect would have so many mechanical puppet beasts to stall and disrupt the Houjin forces’ movement, while the Sect Hierarch took the opportunity to set fire with the exotic beast Honghu, burning both the mechanical puppet beasts and the Houjin army together.
A woman barely in her twenties, capable of such depth and vicious schemes?
At that moment, a flash of blade light appeared, and the experts guarding Jin Lv fell in rows.
“Protect the Great Commander!”
The Houjin soldiers, eyes red with bloodlust, shielded Jin Lv even on what they knew to be their last day.
The Demon Sect Grandmaster masters charged over, heading straight for Jin Lv.
Duanmu Xinghua, adept at killing, took down countless Houjin soldiers with each move, her face as calm as still water even as she faced the tidal wave of the enemy army.
Yi Daoyun, the leader of the White Tiger Sect, was an even more professional killer, for whom slaying seemed as routine as a meal.
The two charged into battle like sharp knives thrust into the belly of the Houjin army.
“Run!”
Seeing the two Grandmasters approaching from a distance, Jin Lv felt a chill in his heart and hurriedly fled.
Boom!
In an instant, a wild wind rose, and the surrounding flames leaped out like ferocious beasts, as a heaven-shaking sword light descended from the sky and heavily struck the ground.
The earth immediately trembled as if a dragon had turned over, and countless soldiers of the Houjin fell to the ground, submerged in the flames.
“Crack!” “Crack!”
The ground began to split, and fissures spread out towards the distance.
Even the warhorse under Jin Lv flinched, nearly falling into one of the cracks.
“Where do you think you’re going?” a chilling voice rang out.
Jin Lv raised his head to see a figure in a black robe standing in front.
That person’s eyes mirrored calm waters but were laced with an icy chill that seemed to pierce through all, their ten fingers delicate, skin as smooth as jade, holding a pair of Mandarin Duck Twin Blades that emitted an extreme cold glint.
“It seems you really want to kill me yourself.”
Jin Lv wasn’t a fool, he naturally knew the person in front of him was none other than the current Sect Hierarch of the Demon Sect, Zhao Qingmei.
Zhao Qingmei said indifferently, “This path leads to the Nine Netherworld, and today I will personally send you on your way.”
Jin Lv narrowed his eyes, “I find it hard to believe that you can kill me.”
Zhao Qingmei replied, “Your life and death are but a mere thought away for me.”
Jin Lv snorted with derision, “Do you know where Jun Qinglin is right now?”
“Killing three hundred thousand people might be difficult, but taking the head of an enemy general amidst tens of thousands, just killing you alone,”
Zhao Qingmei gestured with the Mandarin Duck Twin Blades in her hand, “is something I’m fairly confident about.”
Jin Lv felt a piercing coldness around him, and the warhorse beneath him unconsciously took several steps back as Zhao Qingmei’s calm exterior hid a deeply unfathomable and chilling momentum.
Jin Lv, a battle-hardened veteran who had commanded for decades in Houjin, undefeated in all his campaigns, was especially revered after capturing Dongluo Pass and Yuan City, hailed as a rare fierce general of his time. But now, facing a woman barely past twenty, he felt a trace of fear in his heart.
In the moment he finished speaking, Zhao Qingmei’s figure turned into a streak of light, rushing towards Jin Lv.
“Block her!” Jin Lv roared.
The Houjin soldiers, seeing Zhao Qingmei charging at them, all stood in front of Jin Lv to block her advance.
“Those who block me shall die.”
Zhao Qingmei swung the Mandarin Duck Twin Blades in her palm, and the blades burst forth with a series of icy sword glows, reducing countless Houjin soldiers to mists of blood.
And then she stepped on the earth, beneath her feet bloomed a black lotus.
“Great Commander!” Jin Lv’s deputy general exclaimed behind him.
Just as the words left his mouth, Zhao Qingmei had already appeared above Jin Lv’s warhorse.
“You!”
Jin Lv looked up at Zhao Qingmei towering above him, his pupils reflecting astonishment.
Zhao Qingmei declared, “Now, you can say goodbye to this world.”
With that, her Mandarin Duck Twin Blades slashed fiercely at Jin Lv.
“Spurt!”
The blades cut mercilessly onto Jin Lv’s armor, and although it was renowned armor, at this moment it was shattered by a single stroke, the resilient blades cleaving Jin Lv in two at the waist.
The lower half of his body remained on the horse, while the upper half crashed to the ground, his eyes wide open with a tinge of ferocity.
Jin Lv was dead!
The commanding general of Houjin, who had valiantly conquered many battles and was the most trusted by Zongzheng Huachun, had died.
Conquering Beihuang Dao, battling for Yuan City, Jin Lv’s military career this year had been one of commendable accomplishments and successes. He even became the beacon of hope for the people of Houjin, but now that hope had been utterly extinguished amidst the mountains of You Mountain.
The surrounding Houjin soldiers were stunned, looking at the remains of Jin Lv as if still not coming to terms with the reality.
It took some tens of breaths before the Houjin soldiers reacted.
“The Great Commander is dead!”
“The Great Commander is dead!”
…….
Shouts of anguish rose, echoing throughout the entirety of You Mountain. In no time, all Houjin soldiers knew of Jin Lv’s death. Many still chose to resist, charging towards the ranks of the Demon Sect’s Black Armored Army and the Great Yan Martial World’s experts, while many more Houjin soldiers chose to lay down their weapons and surrender.
Yu Qiurong came up to Zhao Qingmei and asked, “Sect Hierarch, what should we do with these remaining Houjin soldiers?”
Zhao Qingmei said indifferently, “Kill them all, not one must be spared.”
Even the hardened Jianghu veterans, despite being used to killing, felt a chill in their hearts upon hearing Zhao Qingmei’s words. After all, these were tens of thousands from the Houjin army; the Sect Hierarch of the Demon Sect had decided to kill them just like that—how terrifying was that?
From this point on, many were certain in their hearts that Zhao Qingmei was the great devil of the Demon Sect who rose to power after Jiang Shang.
But most of the Demon Sect’s experts were clenching their fists tightly, their eyes filled with a glint of excitement and fervor.
Dongluo Pass had been taken by Jin Lv, and all its people had been slaughtered for display. Moreover, Jun Qinglin’s corpse was still displayed in the Houjin Royal Court.
Dongluo Pass was the main branch of the Demon Sect, their spiritual home, a place of homesickness the Demon Sect’s experts never forgot.
The deep-seated hatred like a blood sea between the Houjin and the Demon Sect could not be resolved, no matter what.
So now, entombing an entire army of three hundred thousand Houjin and devastatingly crippling the Houjin was a cause for their excitement—how could they not be thrilled?
Li Fuzhou pondered for a while and then said, “Sect Hierarch, there are many soldiers from the Houjin army, and if they resist, we might suffer heavy casualties.”
Zhao Qingmei replied, “I don’t care how you do it, but not a single one of these three hundred thousand Houjin soldiers must be left alive. I am resolute.”
Li Fuzhou took a deep breath and responded, “I understand.”
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Great Yan, Yun Hua Dao.
On the official road, dozens of silhouettes approached from afar. Among them, a flag embroidered with a roaring tiger looking up to the sky in a crouching stance was clearly visible—it was the flag of the “Tiger Stationing Escort Agency”.
The Tiger Stationing Escort Agency was also one of the top three escort agencies within the Great Yan Martial World, boasting three head escorts, all of whom were formidable experts capable of holding their own. Two were at the peak of Second Grade, while one had reached the Earth Flower Realm of First Grade.
At this moment, one of the three head escorts, Zhang Xingyuan, was slowly making his approach from a distance. This time, he was escorting a very important cargo. The Sect Master of the Blue River Sect had offered a sky-high price for its delivery, necessitating the personal involvement of one of the three high-skilled head escorts from the Tiger Stationing Escort Agency.
After all, with the war looming, the entire Great Yan Martial World was unsettled, and bandits abounded.
However, as someone with Cultivation of the Second Grade Realm, Zhang Xingyuan didn’t take ordinary bandit threats seriously, given the enormous deterrent that the very name “Tiger Stationing Escort Agency” posed.
“Wait!”
Zhang Xingyuan suddenly sensed something and shouted lowly.
The escorts from Tiger Stationing Escort Agency felt a surge of tension upon hearing Zhang Xingyuan’s words.
“Whoosh! Whoosh!”
In the next moment, several streaks of cold light shot out from behind the leaves, hurtling from afar.
“Be careful! Hidden weapons!”
An alert escort roared out immediately.
“You rats who show your head and hide your tail!”
Zhang Xingyuan drew his long blade from his waist and directly knocked the incoming hidden weapons to the ground.
“Worthy of being Zhang Xingyuan, the Soul-breaking Blade.”
A loud shout echoed, followed by a rugged man emerging, with dozens of burly men following behind him.
The leader was none other than Wu Chen, the second-in-command of Qing Feng Mountain, the most ferocious bandit on Yun Hua Dao and even in the surrounding area. Rumor had it that Wu Chen’s strength surpassed even that of the chief bandit, marking him as a well-known figure among the outlaws of the Jianghu.
Zhang Xingyuan raised an eyebrow, “Wu Chen, you truly have some nerve, daring to tamper with a shipment from my Tiger Stationing Escort Agency.”
Wu Chen sneered, “Enough talk. Hand over the cargo, then scram.”
“Arrogant!”
Zhang Xingyuan barked, swinging his blade towards Wu Chen.
“It’s just Second Grade Cultivation after all.”
A hint of mockery flashed in Wu Chen’s eyes, and he struck forward with his palm immediately.
Boom!
His Inner Strength burst forth with powerful force, sweeping toward Zhang Xingyuan. It shattered the cold light of the blade and then slammed fiercely onto the blade itself.
Step, step, step……
Zhang Xingyuan felt an immense force transmitting from the hilt into his viscera, forcing his steps back repeatedly.
With just a probing move, he had already suffered a great loss.
“Could Wu Chen’s strength truly be so terrifying? Could he have reached the First Grade Realm?”
Zhang Xingyuan looked at his trembling arms, secretly alarmed.
The next moment, Wu Chen advanced with large strides and struck with another palm. It was the starting move of the Black Tiger Heart Stealing technique, and within the blink of an eye, he was beside Zhang Xingyuan.
“Pfft!”
Zhang Xingyuan couldn’t dodge in time. He felt a pain in his heart and then, glancing down instinctively, saw an arm piercing through his torso.
If “Cai Wuxin” could survive, a “heartless” man had only one path—death.
Zhang Xingyuan’s heart was directly ripped out; how could he have any path to survival?
Wu Chen kicked Zhang Xingyuan’s corpse away and then charged at the escorts of the Tiger Stationing Escort Agency. In the blink of an eye, he slaughtered them all.
The flag of the Tiger Stationing Escort Agency also fell to the ground with a thud.
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A bandit from Qing Feng Mountain approached Wu Chen, saying, “Second-in-command, the cargo is intact.”
Wu Chen’s eyes lit up, “I want to see what treasure is so incredible that Zhang Xingyuan personally took charge of its transportation.”
He had learned ten days ago that Zhang Xingyuan of the Tiger Stationing Escort Agency would be transporting a shipment worth two hundred thousand taels—a rarity in the entire history of escort mission.
Two hundred thousand taels!
The fee for the escort alone was two hundred thousand taels!
So what could the value of the goods inside be?
Wu Chen walked up to the cargo, and impatiently opened it to look. Upon seeing it, his brows furrowed deeply—it was a coffin.
Wu Chen asked, “Are you sure this is the cargo?”
The bandit from Qing Feng Mountain quickly nodded, “Yes, this is the cargo from the Tiger Stationing Escort Agency. Sect Master Wang Yue of the Blue River Sect personally visited the agency.”
“Let me see.”
Wu Chen placed his palm on the coffin’s lid and tried to open it with force. The lid didn’t budge an inch.
“Interesting.”
Wu Chen took a deep breath, using eighty percent of his strength, but the coffin showed no reaction.
“What on earth is this thing?”
Wu Chen refused to believe in defeat. Without hesitation, he used all his strength.
Before long, his face turned crimson red, yet the coffin lid remained immovable, like a rock.
“Huff….”
After a few breaths, Wu Chen gasped for air, his brows tightly furrowed as he looked at the coffin before him, “What on earth is this thing that it won’t budge even with my cultivation?”
The bandits of Qing Feng Mountain also looked at each other in dismay. The Second-in-Command at the First Grade realm couldn’t do anything about this shabby coffin?
‘Clang!’ ‘Clang!’
At that moment, the coffin shook violently before the lid ‘bang’ flew off.
As the experts of Qing Feng Mountain were still in shock, a figure flew out from the coffin.
Wu Chen retreated while shouting, “Who are you?”
Dust filled the air, adding to the chaos around. The figure was tall and wore a black robe with a vague imprint of a five-clawed Golden Dragon on it.
He seemed to have come from a very distant past.
The figure stood dazed, taking three or four breaths to come to his senses, then twisted his head to look at Wu Chen before extending his hand.
“Bang!”
The Second-in-Command of Qing Feng Mountain, at the First Grade realm, instantly died, dissolving into a mist of blood.
The bandits of Qing Feng Mountain were stunned; Second-in-Command Wu Chen was dead in the blink of an eye!?
Before the bandits of Qing Feng Mountain could react, the figure looked over, his cold eyes sweeping across them. One after another, they exploded into blood mist.
Merely by his gaze, he caused people’s orifices to burst, killing them on the spot.
The sunlight gently poured down, his features indiscernible. He emanated an overwhelmingly tyrannical Qi Mechanism, and his eyes seemed to bear a sense of seeing through the vicissitudes of the world.
“The water flows ever clearer, as the vicissitudes of the world grow ever fainter.”
…..
On East Lin Road, Wuxia Mountain.
Not a cloud in the sky, not a breeze in the air, the scorching sun sat directly overhead, all the trees looked lethargic and listlessly stood there.
The sound of cicadas was piercingly loud.
A few hunters were making their way down from the mountain, their expressions filled with panic.
“What on earth happened to Wang Mazi?”
“Why did he suddenly want to kill Ergouzi?”
“Did Wang Mazi stealthily steal his woman?”
“I think there’s more to it than that. It looked like Wang Mazi just had a killing fit.”
……
The hunters discussed, feeling a cold chill as they recalled what Wang Mazi had done.
Who would have thought that the usually mild-mannered Wang Mazi would suddenly raise his hunting knife against Ergouzi?
After hastily fleeing the land of bloodshed, they all took a deep breath of relief.
As hunters, they naturally knew some martial arts, but their cultivation was not high, mostly around the Eighth, Ninth, and very few at the Seventh Grade.
Some of them knew only simple breathing techniques and hadn’t learned any real Martial Arts Heart Method.
It was no exaggeration to say they were at the very bottom of the Great Yan Martial World.
“Wang Qiang, what’s gotten into you?”
As the group was uncertain and on edge, suddenly one of the hunters began convulsing and twitching, sending shivers down the spines of a few nearby hunters.
What followed was a horrifying sight: the hunter’s hands and feet started moving erratically and his head even twisted around a full circle.
After that, the hunter named Wang Qiang’s eyes turned a bloody red, and he charged at the others.
“Wang Qiang, what are you doing!?”
“Have you gone mad?”
…..
The hunter called Wang Qiang moved very quickly. His arms and legs twisted unnaturally, no longer resembling a human form, and he savagely bit others, killing all the remaining hunters.
Bodies lay haphazardly on the ground, blood staining the woods.
After killing the other hunters, Wang Qiang’s eyes turned towards a distant village.
At this moment, Wang Qiang was like a fierce beast eyeing its prey in the distance, an image that was utterly terrifying and bone-chilling.
A bloody slaughter was underway in this quiet and peaceful mountain village.
A quarter of an hour later, there were no living people left in this place except for Wang Qiang.
Wang Qiang looked at the blood on his hands as he continued walking into the distance.
In his mind, rational thought was gone, only ferocity, brutality, bloodshed, and resentment remained… all the most negative and extreme emotions.
And this scene on Wuxia Mountain was being mirrored this very moment in places all over Yan Country, Zhao Country, Houjin, Southern Barbarians, Pure Land, and elsewhere in the world.
Many people with Eighth and Ninth Grade Cultivation unwittingly absorbed the aura of Evil Spirits, undergoing severe transformations in their bodies and experiencing a qualitative change. Unable to control the Evil Spirits’ aura, they were assimilated by it, becoming Evil Spirits themselves.
Some of these abnormalities were quickly suppressed by higher-grade experts, who killed those turned into Evil Spirits to stop the chaos and carnage. However, remote villages and small towns suffered blood and carnage, with countless people perishing at the hands of Evil Spirits.
The entire world was undergoing an unprecedented upheaval.
The world was in complete chaos!
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