naruto-story Chapter 183 Ghost Immortal Summoning, Installment Plan
Chapter 183 Ghost Immortal Summoning, Installment Plan
Chapter 183 Ghost Immortal Summoning, Installment Plan
In the capital, three months have passed since the last Grandmaster Battle, and the damage caused by the battle has been largely restored.
However, the losses caused by the war are not so easy to make up for. For ordinary people, the losses are not only money, but also familiar neighbors and even family members.
For Emperor Qian, he not only had to spend a large amount of resources from the national treasury to treat the wounded masters, but also had to spend a lot of money to reorganize the Imperial Guard.
"Those damned traitors, they have absolutely no loyalty or righteousness to speak of."
Whenever he thought of this, Emperor Qian would be furious, but he had to maintain his image and could not vent his anger, so he could only keep it bottled up inside.
After another fit of rage, Emperor Qian gradually calmed down and muttered to himself:
"The army is about to be fully formed, and the soldiers are familiar with the new military formation. Once the Ascension Pill is developed, I will raise an army again and wipe out those traitors one by one."
The example of the Golden Scale Guard has proven that even a master like Wan Jinghan, who is considered the number one in his field, will be hampered once he is surrounded by an army formation.
Once the number of soldiers increases and their cultivation level rises, it is likely that as long as a sufficient price is paid, even Wan Jinghan will perish.
The pills developed by the Feast Sect are a shortcut to quickly train soldiers and improve their cultivation, even if it means sacrificing their lifespans.
Neither the Emperor Qian nor the Imperial Preceptor paid attention to this flaw.
Even if the soldiers take elixirs, they can still live for two or three years. As long as they fight fast enough and recruit enough soldiers, this deficiency is not a deficiency.
"Let me think about which sect I should target first... Hmm?"
Emperor Qian was suddenly stunned, wondering if he might be hallucinating.
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The text, in gold and red, catches the eye, accompanied by a brightly lit image of a middle-aged man wearing flashy armor and carrying an exaggerated broadsword.
The man forced a smile and pointed to himself with the thumb of his free hand.
"If you're a brother, come and chop me down in the Qiancang Realm!"
Ancestor...Great Ancestor?!
Upon seeing the man in the accompanying picture, Emperor Qian even forgot to maintain his composure, his face filled with shock.
Grandmasters have the ability to leave behind divine thoughts, so he had seen Emperor Qianlong in the Imperial Ancestral Temple and knew what he looked like.
Now, the image of Emperor Qianlong appeared before him in an absurd way, and in his shock, anger began to spread in his heart.
"Who is it? Who dares to mock me?!"
The aura of a grandmaster erupted, causing the guards and palace maids outside the palace to tremble in fear.
A moment later, a figure forcibly broke through the palace gates and rushed into the palace.
"Your Majesty, what has happened?"
Eunuch Liu's expression was solemn. He had just entered when Emperor Qian was restraining his aura.
"It's nothing, just... Shi Nu attacked."
Emperor Qian glanced at the old eunuch, confirming that he had not seen the light screen in front of him.
Just now, he roughly understood what this "war between ghosts and immortals" was all about.
He was skeptical of the information that had inexplicably appeared in his mind.
"If things are truly as this light screen panel says, perhaps we can allow those from the Food Cult and the Ministry of Works to try things they wouldn't have dared to try before." His gaze flickered as he looked at the countdown on the panel, and he instructed:
"Notify Duan Yong, Wang Zhi, Song Zhong, and Zeng Yao to be prepared, because something unimaginable may happen next."
"You mean, the troops sent to attack Panning City were attacked by strange blood shadows and almost completely wiped out?"
Jingzhou, within a camp belonging to the Wolf King's Court.
The creator of the Golden Wolf Court, Khan Erden, threw down the helmet he was holding, feeling very irritable.
He stared at the general delivering the intelligence with eyes as sharp as a hawk's, his tone unfriendly: "How many enemies are there?"
No, less than ten people.
The general swallowed hard; his bald head, beneath his helmet, was covered in sweat.
Erden then asked, "Who is the commander of our unit? How many men are there?"
"The commander is Altai, and there are 25,000 men in total."
"Twenty-five thousand men, plus a Divine罡 Realm general, were wiped out by less than ten Blood Shadows? Were they all a bunch of useless trash?!"
As Erden was speaking, he suddenly roared and grabbed a badly injured woman from the side.
"Guess whether it's a boy or a girl in your belly. If you guess right, you'll be exempt from punishment," he said expressionlessly, his inner rage almost overwhelming his last shred of reason.
"A man, a man," the general said in a trembling voice.
Splash!
Blood was flowing freely.
Erden glanced at it casually and then splashed the blood on his bald head.
The warm blood came into contact with his skin, causing bursts of hot blood mist to rise.
The tyranny receded, and reason regained its footing. He coldly glanced at the general and said:
"You guessed right, get out of here."
"Yes, yes."
After the general left, Erden casually tossed aside the two corpses and plopped down on a chair covered with tiger skin.
"The backlash from the 'Black Heaven Yin Body' is growing stronger, and I can hardly suppress it anymore. I must find a suitable woman, have her bear a child, and then refine the two of them together into a Mother-Child Unity Pill, which I will then consume together to suppress the backlash."
"But I've searched all over the three northern states and haven't found a suitable person. Where am I supposed to find a suitable woman?"
The more I think about it, the angrier I get, and the angrier I get, the more I think about it.
In his agitation, Erden's demeanor suddenly changed. He abruptly opened his eyes, like a ferocious beast in human skin awakening and surveying its territory.
"A war between ghosts and immortals?"
His dangerous aura gradually subsided, and he grinned. "Interesting. In that case, I can act freely and search all over the Qian Dynasty. By the way, I can also test the true strength of the Qian Dynasty."
Hidden Sword Peak, Sword Tomb, Wan Jinghan stared blankly at the suddenly appearing panel, his expression as calm as a still well.
Even though the screen displayed the message "The Frustrated Web Game is GG," he showed no emotion whatsoever, more like a sword without feelings than a human.
Deep in the mountains, an old man in a green robe stopped what he was doing. In his claw-like hands, he held a struggling golden centipede, and his cloudy eyes were filled with doubt.
"The Ghost Immortal War... What is that? How could it bypass the protection of the Mind-Stabilizing Gu and directly invade my mind?"
He was more curious than wary.
"Summoning a ghostly immortal...winning the war and gaining the opportunity to make a wish upon the Heavenly Book?"
The old man in the green robe put down the centipede and began to ponder deeply.
"The Heavenly Book! Was all of this the work of the Heavenly Book itself, or was it someone else?"
After thinking for a while, the old man in the green robe gradually relaxed his tightly furrowed brows.
He was about to call his men over, but after thinking about it, he changed his mind and went to the back of the mountain, entering a secluded cave.
This place houses the relics of successive leaders and elders of the Hundred Poisons Sect.
"Summoning a deceased grandmaster to become a ghost immortal—though I don't know if it's true or not, I can give it a try. However, summoning a ghost immortal requires a corresponding relic, so I need to think about who to summon first."
The Hundred Poisons Sect has been deeply rooted in the Ten Thousand Mountains for many years, and its influence is complex and intertwined, so much so that even the Qian Dynasty dares not easily venture into it.
Over generations, this accumulation has naturally resulted in many grandmasters and powerful figures.
They usually live in seclusion in the deep mountains, keeping company with insects, studying ancient rituals, and rarely stepping into the outside world.
Some masters never even stepped out of the Hundred Thousand Mountains from birth to death.
"Found it, this one will do."
The old man in the green robe found a snake molt and nodded in satisfaction.
With the relics chosen, the next step is to contact the sect's masters and wait for the Ghost Immortal War to begin.
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Su Youli awoke from the chaos, only to hear a cold, mechanical voice echoing in her ears.
"This is the virtual world, the Qiancang Realm." She jumped out of bed, looked around, and felt that it was indeed no different from the real world.
She stepped outside, took a breath of the fresh air, and exclaimed, "This simulated world is so realistic, it's unbelievable!"
Even in her native world, this kind of technology had not been developed.
[The talisman has been issued; Master may summon the Oni.]
The voice from the Heavenly Book AI brought Su Youli back to her senses. She looked at her left hand and found that there were indeed three red talismans.
The three-stroke incantation resembles waves; when gathered together, it forms a pattern symbolizing the ocean.
"You've even brought in the Command Seals setting, and you still say this isn't the Holy Grail War?"
Su Youli muttered something, then used her true essence as ink and the sword's edge as a brush to draw a magic array on the ground, following the memories instilled in her by the Heavenly Book.
The magic array is the program that connects the Heavenly Book's intelligent brain on the foundation of the Qiancang Realm.
Reciting incantations is equivalent to running a program.
Once the program responds, the Heavenly Book AI will construct a channel to send the ghost immortals down to the mortal realm.
As a Divine Qi Realm cultivator, Su Youli's hands were very steady, and she successfully drew the magic array on the first try.
Sensing a connection between herself and the magic circle, she calmly stood in a corner of the circle and began to chant the incantation with intonation:
"Hear my call, Lord of Winter, Dragon Slayer, Demon King, God of War and Slaughter destined for you, River Styx of Blood, I call upon you!"
This phrase was designed by Mordy and can be used to directly summon him even without any associated items.
After she finally finished reciting those shameful words, the entire magic circle burst into a blinding, ominous red light.
As the electric arcs danced, a Taoist priest clad in a red crane-feather cloak and wielding two swords appeared in the center of the magic array, smiling as he spoke:
"Ahem, should I say something like, Assassin, summoned here, tell me, are you my Master?"
"You're going all out with this act, aren't you? And why Assassin?" Su Youli complained.
"Because of this."
Behind Mordy, a blonde girl in a red gothic outfit stepped out. Her overall look was reminiscent of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and she was smiling playfully at her Master.
"We could totally play the role of Hassan with a hundred faces."
Another girl walked out from behind him, with her black hair loose and a ponytail tied on her head, wearing modern clothes that were out of step with the times.
The ground was stained with blood, and more and more Blood God Children emerged from the pools of blood, silently dispersing to various parts of the Great Marsh Mountain in the Qiancang Realm.
"Hassan the Hundred Faces, can he do that?"
Su Youli raised an eyebrow, watching the Blood God Children disappear into the mountains, and for a moment she wondered what they were going to do.
"Currently, apart from the Great Qian, Golden Wolf, Five Sects, and Hundred Poisons Sect, the other three Masters are shrouded in the fog of war. What we need to do is take advantage of this time to develop ourselves, expand our advantages, and make up for our weaknesses."
"It would be best to take over a state as a base before the large-scale arrival of the ghost immortals."
Modi released his spiritual sense, taking in everything within a ten-mile radius and projecting it out.
The projected 3D map extends outwards from Zeshan, covering multiple villages and roads. Su Youli noticed that in addition to the small green dots representing mountain dwellers and villagers, there were also some small yellow dots scattered throughout the map.
These yellow dots are densely packed together and are slowly moving towards Dazeshan.
"What are these yellow dots?"
"The refugees were mostly people who fled from the north."
Thanks to the previous act of Dazeshan accepting refugees, many refugees now know that there is a place here that will take them in.
Behind this, there were undoubtedly people sent by Fan Jin specifically to fuel the flames.
"These refugees all came to Dazeshan and are an important source of our population. Although it will take some food to help them restore their production capacity, it is a necessary sacrifice."
"Loyalty and stability are not a concern. With the committee's continuous propaganda and education, coupled with my contamination... I mean blessing, they will soon wholeheartedly believe in the Blood God, taking pride in labor and combat, and feeling ashamed of laziness and cowardice."
"They will transform into the bravest warriors, the most diligent farmers, and the most dedicated craftsmen. With our alchemical creations and basic techniques, we will possess productivity that surpasses that of this era."
At this moment, Mordy had transformed into a cold-blooded Paradox Interactive player, treating each civilian as a human resource, his words filled with calculations of gains and losses.
"I've already laid out the plan. The first phase involves the large-scale promotion of alchemical artifacts, ensuring everyone is proficient in using spell slots and alchemical tools, while simultaneously transforming Mount Daze and the surrounding area into a unified whole."
"In the second phase of the plan, we will expand our base and capture strategic locations such as Tianyong City and Qinghe County in the surrounding areas."
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"Third issue..."
"Finally, if all goes well, we will annex Chongzhou and even Jingzhou before the Ghost Immortal descends, establishing a power spanning both states."
Su Youli nodded, watching as the demiplane rift opened behind him, from which waves of demons poured out.
They moved the newly forged alchemy machines to the open ground; the grotesque, clumsy machines perfectly matched the style of these demons.
"When we defeated the Black Armor Army earlier, I found some interesting things in the memories of the Black Armor Army soldiers."
Modi pointed out, and thoughts carrying information flooded into her mind.
"This is... the 'Military Formation Rising Mist Formation', and the 'Military Elixir Tiger Demon Pill'?"
"That's right, that's why all the Black Armor Army soldiers have the cultivation of the Condensation Realm, and why they were able to trap the Cloth Bag Master of the Purple Cloud Sect."
Modi never minded copying other people's technology, after all, there is no intellectual property protection law here.
He's willing to spend time reverse engineering as long as it's valuable.
Military formations and military elixirs are two valuable technologies of the imperial court, but they still have flaws and need to be improved appropriately.
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