Ch 70: Purple Qi Comes From the East

“Have you forgotten?” Sun Chengzong said with a wry smile, interrupting Sun Chuanting, “That Person has not appeared for eleven months. According to what he told us before, he may be comprehending a breakthrough to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm. If we disturb him now, what if…”

Sun Chuanting frowned, also feeling uneasy. Indeed, if he disturbed That Person’s breakthrough opportunity, he would be deserving of ten thousand deaths. But the situation now is like this…

Luo Yangxing, who had been listening quietly, suddenly spoke calmly, “With Imperial Ancestor’s terrifying strength, he couldn’t possibly be unaware of the outside world! If it really comes to a critical moment, Imperial Ancestor will definitely emerge from seclusion to turn the tide. So, we just need to do what we should do!”

Upon hearing this, the people on the scene changed their expressions slightly. After looking at each other, joy appeared on their faces.

“Indeed, with that Lord’s perception ability…”

“Eleven months ago, he clearly emerged from seclusion after only half a year, but he knew everything that happened in the Forbidden City, the topics we debated, as if he was watching from the side! There’s really no need to worry.”

“Alright, alright, then let’s speed up the previous plans! Summon the Heaven-Humans… urgently establish a Heaven-Human army. The only thing that makes me a little worried is… is this really just a demon army? Could it be a demon-monster alliance?”

As soon as these words came out, the scene fell silent, and everyone’s expressions were different, obviously, these words hit their common concerns.

“The demons and monsters seemed to have gathered together at the beginning… I said long ago, we should do something about the Demonic Empire… alas.” This person sighed faintly, daring not to continue speaking. After all, continuing to speak would involve That Person…

Although no matter how you look at it, That Person’s failure to support Western Europe was a blunder, That Person’s authority was too terrifying. Speaking ill of him here would quickly lead to impeachment by the censors.

“Start the plan.” Sun Chuanting gave the order.

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Two days later.

Signal fires rose everywhere.

Outside Yanjing City.

Tens of thousands of demon cavalrymen, wearing black iron armor, were taciturn, and demonic qi intertwined with a strange black energy permeated their exposed skin.

Hooge led his subordinates, his body tense, his expression calm, but he occasionally scanned his surroundings, as if he was not surrounded by a demon army, but in the enemy camp.

In fact, not only Hooge, but all of his subordinates were like this…

Suddenly, the sound of iron hooves rang out, Hooge’s expression changed slightly, he gripped the saber at his waist with one hand and looked up.

A messenger came to Hooge, expressionlessly throwing an imperial edict at Hooge, “The Regent has decreed that your unit will be the vanguard to capture the capital!”

Hooge’s expression changed drastically. Wasn’t this sending him to his death? But before he could say anything more, the messenger added, “The most elite Bordered White Banner demon soldiers will attack together!”

Hooge breathed a slight sigh of relief. After the messenger left, his expression changed uncertainly.

The Eight Banners assistant beside him looked at Hooge with some worry, “Your Highness, what do we do next… Could it be that we really have to?!”

“What else can we do? If I were willing to hand over the troops, I might still be able to go back and be a carefree prince! But, are you willing to become that kind of neither demon nor… monster?” Speaking the last sentence, Hooge subconsciously lowered his voice. He scanned the demon soldiers emitting black qi around him.

Hooge’s guards shuddered upon hearing this, looking at each other with wry smiles, daring not to say anything.

Watching his personal guards gather the army, Hooge’s eyes were gloomy, and his heart was heavy.

When did the problem appear? Hooge murmured in his heart, was it the night Imperial Father died, summoning Dorgon into the tent?

Since that day, the huge army has changed little by little… with Dorgon as the center! They became stronger than ever before, but all kinds of strange changes also occurred on their bodies.

The soldiers who were loyal to Dorgon no longer cared about their fathers, daughters, wives, and children, as if they had severed all emotions and desires, and would only coldly station themselves in the camp to train and obey Dorgon’s orders.

From morning to night, from autumn to spring, for decades, they only knew how to cultivate, frighteningly silent.

It didn’t seem like a camp where living people were stationed… more like a group of resurrected dead people without any thoughts…

“So, who can tell me what happened?!” With a bitter smile, Hooge watched the assembled army, mounted his warhorse, and charged towards the direction of the capital.

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At the same time.

Yellow

Tai Xue, inside the Confucian Hall.

Chu Mo, who was writing the last manuscript, paused slightly, as if sensing something, and glanced in the direction where the demon army was gathering.

“The Black Emperor’s aura is closer than ever before. As expected, even though I took his strength into consideration and never went to his old nest in Changbai Mountain, he is still preparing… Still hasn’t given up on the idea of entering the Central Plains, burning the cultivation methods, and thus degrading the world?”

Chu Mo was very clear in his heart that Dorgon’s current killing intent, or rather, the Black Emperor’s killing intent, was stronger than ever before. It was likely far beyond the Dorgon of the same period in history…

After all, because of his influence, the Martial Path was flourishing!

Wanting to conquer the current world, not only was the difficulty much higher than in the same period, but the number of strong people to be killed to cut off the Martial Path… would also inevitably exceed the original demon-Qing entry into the Pass.

“Forget it!” Chu Mo waved his sleeves, and all the manuscripts he had written before suddenly floated in mid-air.

While he splashed ink, engraving the Great Dao characters on the last volume, he calmly moved forward, walking towards the direction of the enemy he could sense.

“Even if I am writing scriptures with one hand, needing to create my Sage’s Path, I still…”

At the city wall of Yanjing City.

Sun Chuanting stared at the distance with a pale face, “This, how is this possible?!”

His Qin army had countless strong people within it. With the number of strong people in the world having increased so much, the overall quality of the army had naturally also ushered in a surge.

However, under the offensive of the Bordered White Banner iron cavalry, it could be described as a complete defeat.

In the next breath, one figure after another suddenly flee out from the demon army. Sun Chuanting, who had collected intelligence on the demon army, naturally recognized what those people were. They were clearly the many princes of the Later Jin, or rather, the Qing Dynasty, established north of Liaodong.

In the past, he ridiculed them for occupying such a small place, yet ennobling so many princes, inviting disaster… but now he couldn’t laugh. Because, he sensed the extremely terrifying auras erupting from those people one after another!

Celestial Phenomenon Realm, Celestial Phenomenon Realm… all of them were Celestial Phenomenon Realm——

A full eight of them.

No, another one came out, but that guy, Sun Chuanting’s eyes were about to split as he looked at the last person to walk out, Hong Chengchou… the one who betrayed the Ming Court!

But while he was angry, Sun Chuanting suspected that he was in a dream. He couldn’t understand why he couldn’t take that step even with the support of the entire world, and even Imperial Ancestor had great difficulty in taking that step. Yet these monsters…

“Commander Luo, go… go take Imperial Ancestor and run away. I will do my best to delay time for your retreat.” Sun Chuanting said hoarsely, waving his hand with difficulty.

The situation was over.

At this moment, Sun Chuanting was already desperate. Even if Imperial Ancestor broke through and took that step, how many of the same level could he deal with? Not to mention, that mysterious and unpredictable Regent seemed to have not yet appeared! He could only let Imperial Ancestor flee south, gather the strong people of the world in the south, establish a battle formation, and perhaps then there would be a chance to fight.

“Yes.” Luo Yangxing agreed expressionlessly, but as soon as he turned around, his body stiffened.

The desperate Ming generals and civil officials on the city wall… Hooge, who was trembling in the midst of a group of Celestial Phenomenon Realm experts, all changed their expressions.

Because at this moment, the sound of footsteps rang out clearly… all the sounds in the world seemed to have been withdrawn, and only those crisp footsteps could be heard, approaching little by little——

A slender figure, accompanied by the sound of footsteps, gradually came into their sight.

Around the slender figure, the Great Dao Heavenly Sound resounded, and strands of purple qi swirled above his head, coming from the east, stretching endlessly, covering the end of the line of sight.

Sun Chuanting, who was preparing to die, stiffened slightly. He wanted to walk towards the direction of the purple qi figure, but his legs were weak, and he fell to his knees with a thud. He didn’t care, and still stared blankly at that transcendent figure surrounded by purple qi, watching him walk to the front of the city wall.

Taking a few hurried breaths, Sun Chuanting woke up from his trance, and murmured almost like a sob, “Heaven and earth resonate, the Dao sound resounds, purple qi comes from the east for three thousand miles…”

“This, this is, a Sage, a Sage is born?!”