My brother is so cunning

Chapter 1091 Rich family fortune
Suddenly, a golden auspicious cloud rose in the sky above the city, its golden light overshadowing the bright moonlight and illuminating the battlefield that had been ravaged by war.

Above the auspicious clouds, a figure slowly floated over.

The man was dressed in a purple robe embroidered with dense, mysterious runes that even the most knowledgeable Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect couldn't decipher.

Of course, if a modern person were here, they could probably tell at a glance that those runes were all kinds of formulas, including mathematics, physics, chemistry and many other things.

The newcomer had a handsome face, with three long wisps of beard that moved without wind. His appearance was that of a top-tier figure in the three realms, exuding the nobility and supreme dignity of an immortal.

Surrounded by a faint Daoist aura, yet without a trace of ferocity, he exuded a composed and dignified air. He was none other than Wen Rui, the Creator Heavenly Venerable, whom the four Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect had come to ambush and capture.

When he arrived at the center of the battlefield and faced the four immortals from afar, he stopped and glanced at the immortals covered in wounds. A faint smile appeared on his lips: "Guang Chengzi, Chi Jingzi, Huanglong, Yu Ding, I, your junior uncle, have met you. It has been hundreds of years since we last met. You are still as elegant as ever, just like you were in the Nine Turns Yellow River Formation back then."

When Wen Rui arrived, he only said one sentence, which made the four Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect turn ashen-faced with anger.

This is really like rubbing salt in the wound; it's like insulting a bald monk in front of a monk.

The most humiliating moment in the long immortal life of the Golden Immortal of the Chan Sect was in the Nine Turns Yellow River Formation. A group of people wanted to have a righteous brawl, but the Three Immortal Maidens of the Jie Sect cut off their three flowers on their heads and weapons in their chests, and reduced them to mortal bodies. If they hadn't called for their master and senior uncle to save them in time, and if the two saints hadn't arrived quickly enough, they would have been cut down by the Hunyuan Golden Cauldron and probably regressed to the single-celled organism stage.

Wen Rui's gaze swept over the four immortals' numerous wounds—Guang Chengzi's robe was torn and his hands were empty; Chi Jingzi was enduring excruciating pain, his face pale and his hands trembling; Yu Ding Zhenren was leaning on his sword, panting, and blood seeped from his back; even Huang Long Zhenren's golden dragon dharma form had lost its scales and his aura was weak. The smile on Wen Rui's lips gradually turned into a hint of mockery:
“My fellow senior masters, you are all Taiyi Golden Immortals who stand at the pinnacle of all beings, cultivating for tens of thousands of years and wielding innate magic treasures. In the end, you are fighting to a standstill with ordinary beings who ‘control mortal artifacts,’ and you have even ended up in such a sorry state…”

"What, you were crippled by my three great-aunts back then, and you still haven't recovered your cultivation level?"

"Why did you provoke my enlightened mortals? If I hadn't received the message and rushed over to stop them, you might have been killed. I wouldn't know how to explain it to my Grandmaster Yuanshi Tianzun."

With a venomous glint in her eyes, Wen Rui aimed at the lungs of several people and began to stab them repeatedly.

"You are presumptuous!"

Master Huanglong, unable to contain his anger any longer, roared with fury in his golden dragon eyes: "Evil magic! It's all evil magic! It's all just strange and ingenious tricks, blasphemous evil things that desecrate the Heavenly Dao! How can the creations of the world compare to the profound mysteries of immortal magic? If you hadn't used chaotic energy to distort the rules of the Heavenly Dao, would we have been restrained by these pieces of broken copper and scrap iron!"

Upon hearing this, Wen Rui chuckled, his tone becoming increasingly sarcastic: "Chaotic energy? Distorted Heavenly Dao? You still don't understand the situation, great gods, times have changed!"

After saying this, his face darkened, and he said with great emotion, "The era when gods and Buddhas could rise and fall of a dynasty simply by wielding a few magical treasures and flying swords in the heavens for hundreds of thousands of years is gone forever! From today onwards, all mortals, rise up!"

These four Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect had been under Wen Rui's surveillance ever since they took off from the Jade Void Palace on Kunlun Mountain. However, Wen Rui had not personally intervened, instead submitting the intelligence to the Demon Alliance Military Committee, leaving the Demon Alliance military to carry out strategic deployments independently. This was like giving the mortal beings who had received his years of new knowledge from the Jie Sect a graduation exam; Wen Rui wanted to see if his students could achieve a passing grade.

Looking back now, it's barely passing.

The battle was evenly matched. The four Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect were blocked here and caught in a fierce battle. They looked very disheveled and were injured to varying degrees. However, the Demon Alliance's high-tech weapons were ultimately unable to deliver a decisive blow.

The mere fatal injuries they suffered were nothing compared to what a peak Golden Immortal or half-step Primordial Realm cultivator could sustain. After a couple of days of recuperation and a few elixirs, they would be back to their lively selves.

On the other hand, the Demon Alliance had exhausted its weapons production capacity accumulated over a century, especially the losses of its suicide-type space battleships, which made even a wealthy man like Wen Rui, who could amassed troops without spending money, feel a bit of pain.

Of course, as long as we occupy more mineral-rich asteroid belts in the vast void star realm and build more automated warship manufacturing plants, making the production of space warships as efficient as sausages on an assembly line, these losses will no longer be a problem in the future.

Even if they couldn't kill the Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect, as long as they could hurt them and hinder them, in Wen Rui's view, the Demon Alliance would have already submitted a satisfactory answer.

Chi Jingzi trembled with rage, the excruciating pain from the poison in the stump being somewhat suppressed by his fury. He raised the Yin-Yang Mirror, its surface barely emitting a white light: "Wen Rui, you brat! Stop your empty words! Today, even if we have to risk our lives, we will destroy your heaven-defying city and let you know that the way of heaven cannot be defied!"

"I hate you bunch of Chan Sect old men the most. You keep talking about the Heavenly Dao... as if the Heavenly Dao is your private property. Do you even know what the Heavenly Dao is? Have you ever extracted a fragment of the Heavenly Dao, analyzed it carefully, or conducted experiments to verify it?"

Wen Rui raised an eyebrow and said, "Before you do anything, can you do some research and understand the situation? Don't always take your finger as guidance from above, and then act like you know everything and start doing things recklessly."

"The New Coastal City you are about to destroy is just a third-tier city among the many cities of the Demon Alliance. There are more than thirty cities with larger populations, more developed economies, and better construction than New Coastal City."

"The force fighting you is just a heavy combined arms brigade from the Eastern Military Region of the Demon Alliance, and the support you have come from just one of the four Starship Fleets' starship battle groups."

"The Demon Alliance has four major military regions, and each military region has sixteen heavily armed combined arms brigades, totaling seventy-two, the number of Earthly Fiends."

"The Demon Alliance Star Navy is divided into four sea fleets. Each sea fleet has eight starship battle groups with the same configuration, totaling thirty-six, the number of the Heavenly Gang."

"And that doesn't even include the Star Sea Marines, the Mech Police and Security Forces, the Ultra Weapon Ultron Legion, the Netherworld Legion..."

Wen Rui rattled off the wealth he had accumulated over the years in preparation for the new battle, leaving the several Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect stunned. Although Wen Rui used many new terms, they could roughly understand—the general meaning was that Wen Rui had many, many more armies composed of mortal beings, just like the ones that had utterly overwhelmed them today…

(End of this chapter)