Ch 148: Descending Upon Bianliang! Connecting the Human World and the Netherworld! The Future Twin Capitals!

Several days later.

Bianliang.

This capital of the Northern Song Dynasty is now scarred and devastated, filled with soaring resentment.

The Northern Song Dynasty’s accumulated thousands of years of heritage and resources have all been cruelly, heartlessly, and frantically plundered by the Jin Dynasty’s demonic soldiers.

Countless demons returned fully loaded… Hundreds of thousands of demons have already taken human slaves, members of the royal family, and the two emperors, heading mightily towards their northern base camp.

However, some demonic soldiers remained stationed in Kyoto.

It is quite evident that even the Jin Dynasty themselves did not expect such a significant harvest this time… To the point that the Jin Dynasty’s high-ranking officials, upon learning the news, are already contemplating whether to move the capital to Kyoto, and then completely destroy the Great Song, becoming the masters of the human world.

They are excited, but also somewhat uneasy. After all, the human race has always been glorious throughout history. Although they have experienced several setbacks, they have never been ruled by foreign races from the Shang and Zhou dynasties until now…

This achievement is too great, even making them somewhat apprehensive, fearing that some accident might suddenly occur… Of course, this is because the news of Jin Wuzhu’s incident has not yet reached their ears. Otherwise, the Jin Dynasty’s high-ranking officials would definitely not have become so inflated as to consider taking over the Central Plains.

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Dozens of demonic soldiers stationed on the city walls occasionally looked back at Kyoto, whispering with regret, envy, and jealousy.

“They actually made us guard the city… I really don’t know what we’re guarding! It’s not like there are any human armies that dare to attack Bianliang, right?”

“Yeah, yeah, it would be better to let us continue searching inside the city! Maybe we can still find a few human slaves.”

“Sigh, those nobles all returned fully loaded… Only we…” What’s that?!”

The expressions of the dozens of demonic soldiers changed drastically as they looked at the monstrous ghostly aura in the distance.

“!! Could it be that our slaughter of the city caused the corpses to turn into ghosts?!” One demonic soldier’s scalp tingled.

“Impossible… Even if they turned into ghosts, theoretically, they should have erupted inside the city! How could they be outside the city?” Another demon opened his mouth with difficulty.

“Then what exactly are we…” The third demon only said half a sentence because he saw that most of his companions were fleeing towards the city in a sorry state. After a brief silence, he suddenly realized and also followed his companions in a sorry state…

Indeed, at a glance, one could tell that they were not the enemy’s match. What was the point of guarding the city?

Then.

When Chu Mo arrived, driving a vast army, he had already prepared himself to face Kyoto’s formation, but as a result, he entered so smoothly.

“Jin Dynasty, interesting.” Chu Mo’s expression was inscrutable.

Li Gang, Kang Lu, Zhao Gou, and many Great Song soldiers were initially filled with joy when they began to enter, feeling very relaxed, as there was no need to fight.

However, as time passed, as they looked at the city where they had lived for countless years, grief, anger, sadness, and despair gradually rose on their faces.

This city once housed their neighbors, relatives, and friends…

But just looking at this scene, one could know what kind of fate those familiar people had met!

Chu Mo expressionlessly swept his gaze around. Although he had long been mentally prepared, he still rarely felt anger rising as he looked at this scene. He once again recalled what he had seen when he awakened his memories in the late Ming Dynasty, the devastation of his hometown being washed in blood by demons!

These demons, whom the Qing Dynasty considered their ancestors, really had the same nature as the Great Qing…

“After all, they are barbarian demons! From the moment they committed such brutal acts, they no longer had the possibility of ascending to become immortals,” Fa Hai said expressionlessly. “This is also… part of the reason why I was so extreme before!”

Another part of the reason was naturally the bewitchment of demonic qi.

Chu Mo was silent. Indeed, there were really too few demons like White Maiden… Most of the demons in the world were still like this kind.

Therefore…

“Except for the common people who are still alive, all the demons, non-humans, traitors, and guides… I allow you all to kill them and devour their flesh!”

Chu Mo expressionlessly issued the order to the ghosts.

Then let these demons who have devoured humans be completely exterminated.

At this moment, Chu Mo was filled with killing intent! Preparing to thoroughly eliminate them in the Northeast in the future, even after pacifying the world!

Chu Mo’s only tenderness was to give those demons who did not eat humans a chance to integrate into the human race and completely become a part of it… This was because of White Maiden…

As for those who had stained their hands with human blood… all of them had to die!

The eyes of the ghosts lit up, filled with cruelty and violence.

Ghosts themselves were notorious for their brutality, but they had been forcibly suppressed by Chu Mo’s ban before.

And at this moment, with the ban lifted…

Amidst the roars, tens of thousands of ghosts roared excitedly and pounced into the city. The originally devastated city was now filled with soaring ghostly qi, completely transforming into a ghost city.

“This… what is this?!”

“Wait! What’s going on?”

“Ahhh… ghosts! All of them are ghosts! Is it because we killed too fiercely?!”

The remaining demonic army in the city, who still did not understand what was happening, were caught off guard by the tens of thousands of ghosts at this moment.

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Some demons even fled in a sorry state. Demons were also afraid of ghosts… Even if the officers from various places roared with all their might, it was useless… Without being able to form battle formations, this further worsened the situation, and the demonic army collapsed.

“…They’re actually, so weak?!” Zhao Gou’s gaze was blank. The biggest realization he had gained from following Chu Mo all the way was… that the Jin soldiers were weak!

This country, which his father and brothers feared like a tiger, was almost like a lump of mud in the Sage’s hands, to be played with as he pleased. This gave him a strong sense of daze and unreality.

Was it really that the Great Song was too weak, and his father and brothers were too useless?

“…It’s just that the Sage is too strong,” Li Gang said bitterly. He saw through Zhao Gou’s thoughts.

Was the Great Song weak? He, who had once been in a high position, could say very responsibly that it was already very strong! Perhaps it could not compare to the Han and Tang dynasties, but looking around, it was only weaker than the former Liao and the current Jin…

Chu Mo was able to do this so easily because he was a Sage who killed gods and demons as easily as dogs!

During this period, Li Gang also truly understood that Chu Mo’s strength had indeed been elevated to the point where he could easily suppress and kill gods and demons because he had read those books… However, this meant that Chu Mo had comprehended all of them in a short period of time and ascended to the peak of the world.

This was too terrifying and inconceivable… Li Gang had also had interactions with the two Sages before, but those two Sages were far from being as outrageous as this one.

“Yes… Ah?!” Kang Lu’s expression froze, and he stared blankly as the city in front of him constantly trembled. Finally, the ghostly qi exploded exponentially.

It was as if the rampaging ghosts had become a fuse, causing those who had died to also evolve into ghosts at this moment. They were roaring.

“…It really, really, really, really became a ghost city?!” Zhao Gou’s hair stood on end. He recalled the records in the books that if a city suffered too many casualties, there was a certain possibility that it would fall into the Netherworld!

However, this had not happened since the establishment of the Great Song, so he had never taken it to heart… But now…

“…Perhaps, we should go to other places and rebuild the Great Song?” Li Gang’s eyes twitched a few times before he looked at Chu Mo with difficulty. The city had already declined to this point, so naturally, there was no hope of it becoming the capital. “Perhaps, we can go to Nanjing?”

Nanjing did not refer to Jiangning, but to Shangqiu! Which was where Zhao Gou had ascended the throne before. This was also a place with a dense population in the north!

“I think this is a great thing,” Chu Mo exhaled a long breath, and a strange light flickered in his eyes.

He could feel that Kyoto was now connected to both the Netherworld and the mortal world at the same time.

What did this mean?!

This meant that in the future, after he had truly established the world, he could issue orders to both the Netherworld and the human world in the Kyoto area at the same time!

Others feared that the place where they were located would be connected to the Netherworld… But for Chu Mo, this could be considered an epic enhancement.

After all, fear was only because they were afraid of ghosts harming people, but for Chu Mo, who could absolutely control ghosts… Ghosts were instead a kind of free labor force and the best combat power!

“???”

“!!!”

“Ah?!”

“Wait… what are you doing?”

Everyone was stunned, but before they could say anything, their expressions became surprised and astonished.

Because at this moment, Chu Mo suddenly floated into the sky, and then his palms formed a seal.

The extremely brilliant light in front of his forehead flickered, with gold and purple erupting at the same time, constantly intertwined… The surging spiritual power almost enveloped the entire Bianliang, “In my name! Submit!”

“Two lights… wait! One is semi-golden yellow, and the other is purple!” Zhao Gou belatedly realized, losing his composure to the extreme, “Sage light? This is impossible… How could there be two lights! This, this, this… This, two Confucian-Taoist Sages?!”

At this moment, Zhao Gou suspected that he was in a dream. Did this mean that… the two Sages that Li Gang had been describing before were actually only one person!

That this existence named Xu Xian had simultaneously created two Sage paths that had never appeared before?!

Had such a case ever appeared from ancient times to the present?!

He knew that during the Warring States period, Lü Buwei, who wrote the Lüshi Chunqiu, had once attained the Sage position of several schools. However, since Emperor Wu of Han dismissed the Hundred Schools and exclusively honored Confucianism, Confucianism had become the strongest school.

In later generations, there had also been existences who simultaneously attained several Sage positions! But simultaneously attaining two Confucian Sage positions… had never happened in ancient or modern times!

Neither the founder Confucius, nor Dong Zhongshu, who proposed the Theory of Interaction Between Heaven and Mankind, had done it!

Li Gang was also taciturn. In fact, when he saw the purple light and the semi-golden divine light before, he had already realized this, but he had never been willing to admit it before, nor did he dare to ask. But now, this scene… completely shattered all his previous wishful thinking…

From beginning to end, the Great Song had only produced one Sage! An unprecedented Sage…

They never had any room for choice!

At the same time, the ghosts controlled by Chu Mo became violent at this moment, erupting with terrifying auras, forcibly suppressing these newly born ghosts in Kyoto.

Although their numbers were unimaginably large, they were indeed just weaklings when they were newly born…

“Suppress!” With Chu Mo’s order, spiritual power was released at this moment, transforming into one spiritual brand after another, forcibly entering the minds of countless ghosts.

Even if these ghosts were roaring, it was useless… They were gradually and completely refined, and the fear and confusion in their eyes gradually transformed into fanaticism… A fanatical worship of Chu Mo.

Finally, after Chu Mo dispersed his spiritual power, hundreds of thousands of ghosts still prostrated on the ground, kowtowing to Chu Mo.

“Continue to act,” Chu Mo issued the previous order he had given to the ghost army to all the ghosts.

The number of ghosts had expanded nearly tenfold, roaring out to attack, making the cleansing of the city beneath their feet even more thorough.

Soon, the thousands of demonic troops remaining in the city were all wiped out—

Tokyo, the symbol of the Great Song’s glory, returned to human hands.