CRACK!!
The "Li Zhenyuan" lying on the ground suddenly had his seven facial orifices burst open, spewing large amounts of black blood. His expression was one of agony.
’These bastards... You probably don’t know this, but your recovery progress is completely under my control. As for the world’s momentum we’ve devoured, you only get to use it after I’ve had my fill! You want to turn against me? You won’t get the chance. Once I’ve fully recovered and re-established contact with the Mother Queen, I’m going to devour all of you as rations. Everything you have was given to you by me, so it’s only right that you give it back!!’
The Bloodline Species muttered to itself, its face dark and vicious.
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「Western Calendar 1667, December.」
Following the end of the Battle of Shangjing, the main forces of the Divine Land Army withdrew from Shangjing. The Neon Army, meanwhile, temporarily quartered in the Capital City to regroup, as four of their restriction-level masters had been severely wounded.
During this time, Seiichiro Shintani did not issue an explicit order to massacre the city’s population as originally planned. He was wary of provoking further resistance from the Divine Land, given the sharp decline in the Neon Army’s strength after their restriction-level masters were injured. Instead, he secretly relaxed military discipline for his subordinates, allowing his soldiers to run wild like untamed horses. They plundered and ravaged Shangjing, and countless refugees who had failed to escape in time were trapped in the city, suffering at the hands of the Neon soldiers.
In less than half a month, the thousand-year-old capital was stripped bare of all its cultural relics and wealth. Countless historical buildings were put to the torch, and a great fire in the Forbidden City blazed for a full week without stopping. The number of casualties among the people of Shangjing exceeded one hundred thousand.
That same month, on the Western Continent, the Four Fiends secretly exerted their spiritual influence on key figures in the major nations. Driven by this manipulation, the constantly quarreling countries erupted into all-out war over the excavation and distribution of Holy Seeds, their corresponding Exotic Beast resources, and the division of global interests.
Within two months, all five of the Great Powers found themselves unable to stay out of it and were swept into the tide of war.
The war, deliberately fueled by the masterminds behind the scenes, turned into a veritable meat grinder. Casualties on the Western Continent reached horrifying levels.
The war brought immense suffering to the common people of the Western Continent. Some began to reflect on the conflict, leading to the formation of numerous anti-war organizations and widespread protests.
But such resistance came too late and seemed utterly insignificant.
Amid the ceaseless slaughter, those slumbering wills found their opportunity.
The Four Fiends completed the revival of their wills, completely replacing their hosts.
The power of the Holy Seed System grew to an unprecedented degree. Through the connections within the bloodline, the Four Fiends began to secretly influence the consciousness of every warrior using bloodline power under the system. This made them unconditionally support the power-holders who possessed the Holy Seeds. Military governments rose to power in every nation, and authoritarian rule blanketed the Western Continent. The feeble resistance was negligible, allowing the war to continue.
On the Western Continent, under the direction of the Bloodline Species, the various nations began to promote the Secret Medicine on a large scale. They brought more and more of the populace into the Holy Seed System, thus accelerating the consumption of this world.
The sovereignty of the Six Nations had been almost completely eroded by the Holy Seed System.
「Within the Divine Land.」
After the Battle of Shangjing, before the Commanders-in-Chief of the Three Armies could rally their forces, Lin Quelan of the Phoenix Army stepped forward. She issued a public notice, on one hand mourning the death of Yuan Tianhao and "reviewing" the failure at Shangjing, while on the other, officially announcing her succession to the position of Grand Marshal of the Divine Land. She also sent out summons for the various military commanders to gather in Jinling and discuss the great cause of resisting Neon.
Upon receiving the news, Chi Zhenyun and the other Commanders-in-Chief of the Three Armies were furious and flatly refused to attend. In contrast, the Giant Spirit Army and the Brahma Palace Army both sent representatives to answer Lin Quelan’s call. The Warlord system was thus split into two factions, and they went their separate ways.
With the defeat at Shangjing, Yuan Tianhao’s death by Rainbow Transformation, and his chosen successor Zhao Xuanqi left severely wounded and unconscious, there was no one capable of stabilizing the situation. The leadership was in disarray, a flock of dragons without a head, making it impossible to muster a unified resistance.
The two factions fought their own wars. In the span of nearly a year and a half, the Neon Army conquered city after city, and more than half of the Divine Land’s territory fell into enemy hands.
And that was not the worst of it.
「Western Calendar 1669, July.」
Over the course of a year and a half, the Bloodline Species not only recovered from its previous injuries by devouring the world’s momentum, but it also finally and completely suppressed Li Zhenyuan’s will.
Although Li Zhenyuan’s consciousness still held fast to its last bastion, protecting the final secret memories related to Zhao Xuanqi, it could no longer influence the actions of the Bloodline Species as it had before.
After taking complete control of the body and recovering most of its power, the very first thing the Bloodline Species did was to immediately activate the "Holy Order." It influenced the consciousness of every being under the Holy Seed System and put an end to the war on the Western Continent.
It forcibly used the power of its source to redirect the flames of war from the Western Continent to the Divine Land.
Only by completely annihilating the Divine Land and ensuring Zhao Xuanqi’s death could it be at ease.
This time, it would turn the Divine Land completely upside down.
The armies of the Six Nations gathered in the Divine Land.
The history of a hundred years ago repeated itself upon this land.
Except this time, the threat facing the Divine Land was far beyond anything the Qian Dynasty had faced in the war a century ago.
It was not just a crisis of national extinction and genocide; this time, the world itself faced the danger of annihilation.
Less than three months after the Western Continent joined the war in the Divine Land, Shenxiao Army Commander Chi Zhenyun, from one of the two Warlord factions, was killed heroically in battle resisting the assault of the Six Nations’ armies. He had broken through to the restriction-level during the war.
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