Chapter 676: The Town's Past
In the middle of the Eastern Continent, a lonely town, the air is filled with the smell of decay, the dry and dark earth, the disgusting stench, the depleted stream outside the town, the blood-red traces that can be seen everywhere, the ruins of the walls, and the dilapidated scene is full of scenes. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The town is called Tianhai Town, and although it is now in ruins, as you can see, there is hardly any creature to be seen, except for the occasional foraging vulture. But even so, there is one thing that cannot be denied: once here, it has also prospered.
Situated in the middle of the continent, it's a small town that's a bit different. In an ordinary town, being able to meet a cultivator from the Spirit Gathering Realm is already a very remarkable thing. But in the past of Tianhai Town, not to mention the cultivators of the Gathering Spirit Realm, the Transformation God Realm, and even the Void Refining Realm, they often haunted, which was a very special corner.
As a result, the residents of the town were able to all embark on the path of cultivation, although there was no earth-shattering existence like Venerable, but there were also many powerhouses in the realm of refining the void. I didn't choose to go out to practice far from my hometown after I got the achievement, I didn't need it at all.
It was like a transit station, ushering in waves of cultivators, and whatever they wanted, they could get it from them.
Whether it is an unfathomable spiritual formula, an earth-shaking martial art, or a panacea that advances by leaps and bounds, it is all in it.
There is even such a thing as an auction house in the town, and every time it opens, there are many people who cheer.
But this kind of past is destined to be only the past, and now there is nothing but decay: houses, land, air, plants. Not a single animal or anything, not a single poultry, not a human, nothing, all of them.
Such a view is not unfamiliar, on the contrary, for cultivators who like to travel to the West, such a view may have been rare in the past. But in the past three years, it has become the most common sight for travelers, shocking, but numb.
Yes, three years, three years have passed since those things appeared, and three years of countless human suffering and despair.
Today, three years later, things are slowly gaining hope and a faint hope. Through the efforts of some people, those things were forcibly transferred to the northern part of the Eastern Continent, and on the border between the northern and southern parts of the continent, seven unfailing fortress Great Walls were cast. Since then, the south has become a habitat for humans, while the north, temporarily, has been occupied by those things.
It's not that after the North and the South separated, there were no more things in the South. The transfer is only for those extremely powerful existences, and the remaining large number of things that lack peak combat power are still temporarily left in the south, and the remaining human beings need to be slowly and little by little wiped out. There is time, the Great Wall of the Seven Fortresses will not fall, and the north will not be able to march into the south.
But how long will it take? No one dares to guarantee it, and no one can guarantee it, not even those who forge it.
Therefore, it is necessary to clear up the internal chaos as soon as possible in a short period of time, and then point the finger at the enemy in the north.
It was also around this time that human beings unified the names of those things. It's not Warcraft, those things are more terrifying than Warcraft, even more terrifying, and even more impossible to live in peace with humans: this is what the bloody reality of the past three years has proven.
They are monsters, not even beasts, they can only be called things, as if they have no feelings, or in other words, when they treat humans, they do not have a trace of emotion, so they are called monsters. Powerful, cruel, and terrifying monsters at the same time.
In the early days of the forging of the Seven Immortal Fortresses, the monster strongmen who were forcibly transferred, also known as the kings of the division monsters, had attacked these seven fortresses countless times. But it's a pity, maybe it's a lack of strength, maybe it's not enough, even those monster kings who are enough to make His Holiness tremble, they can't shake these seven unfallen fortresses, both in terms of faith and strength.
Why? Because of these seven fortresses, the most precious building material is the blood sacrifice of a hundred Venerable Beings.
Cast with their bodies, hundreds of Venerable Beings went to death with their bodies, and only then did they achieve an infallible fortress. Although the seven fortresses are far away from each other, they are completely one. How could the fortress that had been forged by the lives of the seven hundred Venerables be destroyed?
What is the number of Venerable Beings in the Eastern Regions Continent? It's just a few thousand. Nearly half of them chose to stay closed. Most of these Venerables came from major sects and did not participate in this operation. Even in the three years that the monster was raging, it was just locked the mountain gate, and there was no intention of exterminating the monster at all. But in the end, there is some comfort, or not at all comforting: even if the seven fortresses are cast, these sects still do not change, and they plan to avoid this world by locking the mountain gate.
Of course, only those sects that were originally in the south were able to do this, although there were many sects in the north who were unwilling to participate at first, but when the remaining half were willing to stand up and solve the matter, the Venerable had to change their original plan: once the operation was successful, they would also be completely left in the north, the area ruled by monsters.
In this case, even if they are unwilling, they do not dare to have any objections. If the monster side is the object that can be surrendered, I believe that there will be many sects that directly choose to betray. But it's a pity that the monster didn't have that intention at all, and from the very beginning when it appeared in the human world, that is, on the Eastern Continent, it didn't plan to coexist peacefully with humans at all.
As for those who accept the surrender? I'm sorry, but the monster can directly transform the human being into the slave of the monster, and surrendering means that the original personality is completely destroyed. In this case, where would anyone surrender the monster? There is no interest at all.
It was precisely because of this that these sect cultivators were persuaded to participate in this operation. Perhaps some sects are still stubborn and directly choose to relocate to the southern region and continue to escape from the world, but there are also many people who choose to come forward.
In the end, another 2,000 Venerable teams were formed to carry out the action that changed the fate of the Eastern Continent.
Naturally, there was a price, in addition to the seven hundred Venerables who had fallen, the two thousand Venerables who were responsible for the forced teleportation were also in a state of serious injury. Without a few years of adjustment, I'm afraid I won't be able to ease it up at all, let alone face the powerful monsters.
In this case, the task of destroying the remaining monsters in the south can only be entrusted to the cultivators below the Venerable Cultivator.
Fortunately, the Venerables who had made such a plan had long expected the current situation, and had prepared a special team in advance: a total of 1,000 absolute elite cultivators, all at the peak of the Void Refining Realm, who had become the most active in the cleansing operation. In addition, the mercenary union has also synchronously implemented unlimited mercenary tasks, giving different rewards and points to different levels of monsters, and the number of them is ten times that of ordinary tasks, which greatly stimulates the enthusiasm of mercenaries. For a while, there should have been some thrilling clean-up operations, but they were in full swing, and mercenaries and cultivators who hunted monsters could be seen everywhere.
Despite this, despite the loss of the commanders of the kings, the remaining monsters, both in terms of quantity and quality, are absolutely not bad. Even with the existence of an elite team of 1,000 people, the clean-up campaign is still a long and dangerous process.
Not to mention, before the Venerable Operation began, the monster side almost had an absolute advantage, so how could it be so easy to be cleared? Although a large number of monsters are killed every day, on the whole, it will take at least a year to completely eliminate the monsters in the southern region of the Eastern Continent, and every day is accompanied by a large number of casualties.
In this case, this Tianhai Town, which is located in the middle of the city and is not under the protection of the fortress, is unfortunately unable to usher in the possibility of revival for the time being. However, what has changed slightly is that on this day, this town is no longer lifeless.
A person, silently here, yes, a simple human being, did not stay in the safer south, but walked here.
There is no doubt that it is a terrible act, even if it is a strong person of the Venerable level, he does not dare to come to the world of monsters alone, this is the northern region that has been completely desolate. Once they are discovered by monsters, the possibility left for them can only be a dead end.
The figure is very young, very vigorous, and can even be said to be light, walking on the rotten earth, it is obviously soft like stepping on it, and it can be directly submerged in the swamp, but it does not even leave shallow footprints, and it is definitely not walking in the sky.
It's very calm, calm like walking in the courtyard of your own home, and you don't realize how crazy your behavior is at the moment. At the same time, it is also very quiet, quiet and silent, obviously the presence of people is imprinted in the eyes, but I can't feel it.
It's very bold.,Talking to yourself without taboo.,Don't worry about whether a monster will suddenly break out and attack you.。
"It's really, it's miserable enough, it seems that those people are doing okay! I thought that the appearance inside was miserable enough, but I didn't expect the real situation, but it was like this! These brutes have really done amazing things in the past three years! Well, no one has been here for more than half a year, and it looks like the defense line of those brutes is not so close! ”
As if he was analyzing something, and as if he was insulting, his tone was a little frivolous, and a wicked smile rose at the corner of his mouth, and he said softly.
A jet-black robe, but with special sewing, has been carefully tailored to everything that affects and may affect dexterity, preserving its aesthetics while maximizing its performance. Usually, it seems to be an ordinary robe, at most it is still a strange style, close to the body and comfortable, but in fact it is a precious defensive weapon.
The Dark Night Coat, a defensive spirit weapon unique to a certain family, the pinnacle of the Brilliant Weapon, even if it is a cultivator of the Void Refining Realm, it can also play an excellent protective role. Not to mention that the most important use of this dark night suit comes from other uses.
It can effectively conceal itself, and at the same time improve the power of the family's unique martial arts and spiritual skills, and it is a treasure that only members of the family who are elite disciples and above have the opportunity to obtain. If you don't like the style, you can wear it inside.
Of course, this question did not seem to be a problem for the man in front of him, and although the sky was dark, there was no doubt that it was daytime. This product is dressed so swaggeringly, and I don't feel embarrassed and shy, which shows that he doesn't care.
On the waist is a seven-inch-long dagger, the whole body is pitch black, as if it is integrated with the whole body, and at the same time, it exudes a burst of ominous aura, even if the owner has covered it up a little, it is impossible to completely block the strangeness hidden in the body.
As if it can bring disaster to people, even if it is not injected with a trace of spiritual power, let alone the guidance of its master, it already exudes this ominous atmosphere. Thus, a part of its identity is revealed: calamity, or more precisely, the instrument of calamity.
This is a weapon on a more brilliant vessel, and it is also a very different existence. If the weapon of brilliance, for cultivators, is only a question of whether it has been cultivated and what it has not, then the instrument of calamity is not only a matter of cultivation, but also a question of whether it can be used.
The reason why it is called a calamity vessel is definitely not only because the calamity vessel itself emits an aura similar to calamity.
More importantly, this is a spiritual weapon that can bring calamity to the people around him, and even the master himself, terrifying but powerful.
Or to put it more plainly, although the brilliant weapon is strong, it is still just a weapon after all, even if it has the spirit of the instrument and has the charm, it is also a weapon. But when it comes to the Instrument of Calamity, the nature of the weapon itself has changed. It is not so much a weapon as a living weapon, or simply a real life, fully equipped with its own ideas and will.
In contrast, is it difficult to manipulate a lifeless weapon, or is it difficult to manipulate a life? Undoubtedly, the latter is a bit more difficult. Because after having their own lives, weapons also have their own ideas and are no longer restricted.
It's a bit different from a blood-forged weapon, because a blood-forged weapon is one with its owner from the beginning, and what is needed is to discover this and facilitate it. But ordinary weapons, but do not have this characteristic, after the advanced calamity, if you get along with the master, forget it, if you can't get along, then let alone fight, the weapon itself may even betray the master, against the master.
At the level of the Calamity Weapon, if you completely liberate your ability, an ordinary Void Refining Realm powerhouse may not even be its opponent. Waiting for the opportunity to sneak attack, unless you reach the Venerable realm, it is impossible to be 100% safe. There is a possibility that some cultivators who are too weak will be completely devoured, and because of this, the name of the calamity of the calamity vessel has been handed down.
And the other meaning is that when the master and the spirit weapon reach a consensus, the power brought will be as terrible as a disaster.