Witch Wind

Chapter 129: Each of the Magical Powers (Part )
Double Feather Island.

Except for the two cities originally belonging to the Akabane family and the Lanyu family, which were guarded by thousands of Saint Ross serfs, and a few small boats left at Shuangyu Port for sending messages, the main force of the coalition forces had left and continued to advance eastward.

On the huge Futaba Island, all the cities and towns in the plains had been slaughtered under Renov's orders.

But Shuangyu Island is a big island after all. Apart from the 800-li plain in the center, there are some small and medium-sized alluvial plains in the surrounding area, as well as a circle of flat areas along the coastal areas. Other places are mostly mountains that have not been developed and utilized.

The top leaders of the Akabane and Lanyu families fled into the mountains with a group of defeated soldiers.

Faced with the Saint Ross people's massacre order, most of the Dongyun civilians on Futuro Island fled into the frozen and snowy mountains before the Saint Ross people's butcher knives fell.

Renov sent tens of thousands of serf soldiers into the mountains and forests to hunt down the Dongyun people.

The two sides, one chasing and the other fleeing, had entered the deep mountains in a short period of time, and no one knew what was going on inside. However, every now and then, Xing Tianli's Tongtian Yuling Banner would always absorb a group of ghosts floating in from the direction of the mountains and forests, and the number was quite considerable.

Eastern part of Futabashima Island, beach, woods.

The exquisite altar was gleaming with a faint glow, and the silver-green light was like the beating of a heart, spreading outward in waves. The Tongtian Yuling Banner was suspended above the altar, and wisps of cold wind rolled down, turning into a large cover with a diameter of 100 feet, sealing all the fluctuations leaking out of the altar within the 100-foot area.

Above the altar, a faint light floated, and a small space was faintly visible in the faint light.

In these days, the blood of the coalition army, the dead soldiers of Dongyun, the slaughtered civilians, and tens of millions of people gathered in the small space of this altar to form a small lake. Because of the magical power of the altar, these blood did not solidify, but instead continued to ripple.

Sophie and Marceau, who sneaked back from the coalition fleet, brought a hundred girls and knelt devoutly under the altar, chanting ancient and complicated spells in a language as beautiful as birds' singing.

A very familiar scene appeared again.

The inexplicable existence, spanning unfathomable dimensions and endless void, lazily and carelessly cast a faint gaze towards this world. The infinite dimensions, infinite void, and inexplicable interference weakened this ray of gaze to the point of being almost non-existent.

In the small space inside the altar, the small lake formed by the essence and blood evaporated out of thin air.

Along with a low roar, the surrounding void vibrated slightly, and circles of transparent space ripples spread out in all directions, frantically attacking the restrictions set up by Xing Tianli with the Tongtian Yuling Banner.

In the Dharma Ending Age, the power of these space ripples has been compressed to the extreme.

The gray barrier formed by the cold wind only shook a few times before returning to its normal state. Not long after, four green wood spirit beads and five branches of innate spirit trees slowly appeared on the altar.

Then, a strange light rippled out from the altar, 90% of which split into two mighty streams and injected into Sophie and Marceau's bodies. The remaining 10% of the light turned into a hundred or so arm-thick shadows and injected into the bodies of the girls kneeling beside the altar.

Sophie and Marceau made strange humming sounds, like dying fish, curled up on the ground, sweating profusely, their bodies twitching, their faces flushed with an unnatural blush, and their pupils dilated like those of a dead person.

There was a faint odor spreading from their bodies, and their aura was growing at a terrifying speed.

The corner of Xing Tianli's eye twitched slightly.

The aura of the two women actually surpassed the realm of scattered immortals and directly broke through to a level comparable to the peak of the realm of earthly immortals.

In fact, they are only a little bit away from breaking through to a level where their strength is comparable to that of celestial beings.

Fortunately, the strength of the two women is more reflected in their spiritual power, and it is just a simple increase in "quantity", and the essence of their souls has not undergone any transformation.

Of course, there was a slight change. Probably, their original souls were as thin as mist, but after receiving this gift, their souls condensed and became as thick as milk.

In the eyes of Xing Tianli, who possessed the soul of a celestial being and had transformed several times on the basis of the celestial yang spirit, with both the 'quality' and 'quantity' enhanced a hundredfold, the souls of Sophie and Marceau were probably transformed from a handful of burnt ash to a large bundle of dry grass - although they were much stronger, they were still fragile.

And the physical bodies of the two people.

Physical strength has increased by about three to five times?
The physical strength of the two women increased from one or two thousand pounds to seven or eight thousand pounds?
The Sophie and Marceau tribe does not rely on physical strength to dominate.

Therefore, the voodoo prepared by Xing Tianli still tightly controlled their life and death and was still firmly rooted deep in their bodies. Unless their bodies could be improved to a level comparable to that of physical cultivators, Xing Tianli could destroy their bodies in an instant and cut off their vitality with just a thought.

With a wave of his sleeves, he collected the four green wood spirit beads and five spirit wood branches. Xing Tianli muttered in a low voice, as if he had to find a way to mix a more powerful voodoo. Otherwise, if this big battle continued, who knows how many times Sophie and Marceau would sacrifice themselves, and who knows to what extent their strength would be improved.

It's always a good idea to plan ahead.

However, in this Dharma-Ending Age, it is very difficult, very difficult to gather all the materials to concoct powerful voodoo... Xing Tianli is very distressed. Could it be that he has to learn the techniques of cultivating medicinal herbs from the great witches of the Ancient Witch Temple as recorded in the "Primitive Witch Sutra", and then use the Primordial Qi to infuse a batch of powerful elixirs?
The war continues.

After Renov issued the massacre order and assured the coalition generals that he would take full responsibility for all crimes committed in this war, the multinational coalition forces turned into a group of human-shaped beasts. Their combat effectiveness, or lethality and destructive power, increased exponentially.

In all the islands and cities they captured, the Dongyun people who failed to escape were killed, and the women's fate was self-evident. There were mountains of corpses and seas of blood, rape and looting. The officers and soldiers of the Far West Hundred Countries, who claimed to be "civilized" and "progressive", had a drastic change of character and committed crimes that were punishable by their own laws by being shot a hundred times.

There were also the Dongyun nobles from the western islands, who were charmed by Sophie and Marceau, leading the way.

Under the spell of the rising power of Sophie and Marceau, the souls of these Dongyun nobles were completely lost. They completely forgot that their own territory was being invaded by those "poor country bumpkins" from the southern islands.

They happily brought their own troops and acted as guides for the coalition forces, leading the multinational coalition forces to attack the major islands in the Dongyun Inland Ocean.

They willingly acted as pioneers, conquering cities and strongholds with unstoppable force.

What's more, after conquering a city, when Renov's massacre order was issued, the Dongyun nobles of these western islands took the initiative to gather the young and strong Dongyun on these islands, issued a "massacre exemption order", recruited these young and strong Dongyun on the spot, trained them into an army, and continued the attack.

Renov was happy to see this happen and even took the initiative to provide them with enough cold weapons.

Anyway, these cannon fodders will die on the battlefield.

As a result, although the war was brutal and both sides suffered heavy casualties, the size of the coalition forces, mainly the size of the Dongyun army in the western islands, not only did not shrink, but expanded several times.

The Shinonome imperial family, the two ruling families of Kitakawa and Nanshan who controlled the real power in Shinonome, and even the aloof Penglai Shrine whose power surpassed the supreme imperial power, seemed to have no good solution to the war situation.

Every now and then, a group of elite troops would launch a suicidal charge on a certain battlefield.

From time to time, some priests and witches would set up altars near battlefields and cast some evil spells.

In addition, the elite armed forces controlled by the Dongyun royal family, Beihe and Nanshan families did not appear on the battlefield. In the eyes of the coalition forces, the resistance of the Dongyun people was so weak, they became more and more excited, marching forward triumphantly, completely ignoring all possible risks on the battlefield.

The war lasted for several months.

When spring comes and flowers bloom, the frost in the mountains and forests of the 72 islands in the Dongyun Inland Ocean begins to melt, the first wave of wild flowers can't wait to bloom their smiling faces in the mountains and forests, and the wild grass in the plains begins to sprout new buds. At this time, the Allied Fleet can already see the coastline of Yunxiang Island up close.

Of the seventy-two islands in the Tounome Inland Ocean, thirty-five have fallen under the control of the coalition forces.

Ahead is Yunxiang Island, where the Black Dragon City, the capital of Dongyun Empire, is located.

In the past few months, reinforcement forces from Farus, Idoli, the North Sea Seven Alliance, and dozens of their vassal states, as well as their colonies, have also arrived one after another.

There are more than one hundred countries, large and small, and more than nine hundred colonies, large and small. When these forces are gathered together, the size of the coalition has expanded to the point where even Renov is having a headache and has no idea how to control it.

There were more than 5,000 ironclad ships of various sizes.

There are more than 70,000 large and small transport ships.

The total number of colonial troops from various countries and the indigenous vassal troops gathered from the colonies exceeded 30 million.

The eating, drinking, defecating, and commanding of so many troops is enough to drive people crazy. Not to mention that many countries in the coalition are traditionally hostile camps, and many of the generals come from noble families that have thousands of years of grievances with a noble family in a neighboring country. When two hostile families have members serving as senior generals in the colonies of their respective countries...

Good guy.

This is called a bustle.

With Renov, a combat monster, suppressing them, the generals of various countries put on the "gentlemanly" faces of the hundreds of countries in the Far West, gathering in the war room all day long, gesturing at the map and sand table, and giving orders.

Under their instructions, officers and soldiers of various countries and their vassal armies would fight each other for a bowl of rice, a glass of wine, or a beautiful girl from Dongyun. Fights involving more than a hundred people could break out thousands of times every day!
It's a mess.

Renov was a brave general, but he was obviously not a qualified commander.

Faced with such a chaotic situation, he simply gave up and said, "Well, you guys can do whatever you want, right?"
Anyway, the armies of various countries were wreaking havoc, and the unlucky ones were the common people of Dongyun. Those who were killed were all Dongyun people. Alas, the dead Dongyun people were the best Dongyun people. The statue next to him expressed great satisfaction and joy about this.

Renouf let go.

Generals from various countries gave up.

The military discipline of the multinational coalition forces naturally plummeted.

Burning, killing, looting, and all the ugliness of bestiality were vividly demonstrated on the islands occupied by the coalition forces. There was no need for Renov's massacre order, as the vassal armies of various countries had automatically upgraded the "massacre order" to a "massacre order"!
To what extent was the killing by the coalition forces of various countries so cruel?

Just look at Xing Tianli’s Tongtian Yuling Banner, there are thirty-six ghost generals from the Earthly Immortal Realm, and one hundred and eight ghost generals from the Scattered Immortal Realm. You can tell how much evil these coalition forces have committed on the Dongyun people’s territory!
Accompanied by terrible killings, Yunxiang Island is just ahead.

The headquarters of Renov and others was moved to the "Seven Nations Island", which is closest to Yunxiang Island.

On the Seven Kingdoms Island, seven lords with the title of Duke have fled to Yunxiang Island with their families, leaving behind more than 300 million Dongyun people on the Seven Kingdoms Island to be tossed around by the multinational coalition forces.

Fire and black smoke rose in the cities and towns of the Seven Kingdoms Island, and blood dyed the rivers and lakes red. The Seven Kingdoms Island became a living hell, and countless Dongyun people wanted to escape to Yunxiang Island across the sea, but there was no way to escape.

The huge and bloated fleet of the multinational coalition sounded the whistle and ran rampant in the strait between Yunxiang Island and Qiguo Island, which was no more than 50 miles wide, chasing the Dongyun ships that were fleeing like little mice.

The Dongyun people on the Seven Kingdoms Island were blown to pieces by the Allied warships as soon as their wooden boats went out to sea.

The few main battleships of the Dongyun Navy were all lost in Pinghai City before. Now the ships left behind in the mainland can only be pieced together into three old battleships and some old ironclad ships.

The Dongyun Fleet, with a total number of no more than one hundred ships, was simply unable to compete with the more than five thousand Allied warships.

Fortunately, the ships of the Dongyun people were all customized from the Kingdom of Yingjishi. Based on the islanders' mentality of "spending little money to achieve great things", the ships purchased by the Dongyun people have reduced the hull armor as much as possible, and the boilers used as the main power are all of good quality.

Therefore, although the defense of these nearly 100 Dongyun warships is extremely poor, the speed of the ships and the caliber of their artillery are not bad at all.

They ran very fast and their artillery shells were powerful enough. Occasionally, they provoked the Allied Fleet, leading it to approach the coast of Yunxiang Island. The coastal defense artillery on the shore cooperated with their own ships to launch a barrage of attacks. In just a few days, they actually destroyed more than a dozen large ships of the Allied Forces.

An angry Renouf.

In other words, Renov, who acted deliberately, gave the order.

The multinational coalition forces, led by the Dongyun troops from the western islands and nearly 100,000 Dongyun wooden ships that were pieced together from all over the place, and nearly 10 million Dongyun miscellaneous troops shouted slogans and marched across the strait, which was only 50 miles wide at its widest point.

The strait is more than 2,000 miles long from north to south and only 50 miles wide. The coalition forces chose nearly a hundred reasonable and unreasonable landing points. The Dongyun army rushed forward, attracting the almost hysterical attack of the Dongyun defenders on the shore. The sky was full of shells and bullets, and wooden boats were sunk one after another. Countless Dongyun soldiers screamed and cried on the sea, and were dragged into the deep sea by sharks that came after smelling the blood.

More than 5,000 Allied warships were lined up in a row, almost filling the entire strait.

They bombarded the beach frantically, covering the Dongyun soldiers who rushed onto the beach one after another. Behind the Dongyun soldiers, the colonial vassal armies of various countries also followed closely with roars.

The brutal landing battle lasted only three days, and the blue sea surface was almost invisible in the strait between Qiguo Island and Yunxiang Island. Ship fragments, broken limbs, dead fish bodies killed by shells, and oil suspended in the sea surface were burning wildly, billowing smoke rushed into the sky, and blood dyed the surface water of the entire strait red and purple.

Neither side had any intention of withdrawing their troops or pausing.

Anyway, the casualties were all the Tounom miscellaneous soldiers and colonial vassal troops, and both sides didn't take these guys' lives seriously!

In the void, above the floating clouds, Xing Tianli was surrounded by five green wood spirit beads. Amidst the flashing light, he continued to absorb the majestic innate green wood energy that contained infinite vitality, rapidly increasing his own vitality.

The purple-ribbon Taoist robe, the Tongtian Magic Bamboo, and the Tongtian Imperial Spirit Banner were rapidly fusing with those innate branches.

As Xing Tianli continued to smelt pieces of warship wreckage, the majestic primordial Qi continued to be injected into the three treasures. The innate branches were quickly fused by the three treasures, and new runes continued to grow in the three treasures.

Especially the Tongtian Yuling Banner, the original internal array pattern collapsed and fell silent. With the help of Xing Tianli and the "generous sacrifice" of an innate branch, the Tongtian Yuling Banner not only completed itself, but also received a great improvement on its original basis.

Originally, this small banner was obtained by Hu Hai from some unknown source. It was a "heavenly weapon" that could control the Qin Dynasty's dead zombies, transform them into "powerful ghost kings", form an army formation, and then be used to attack and conquer for him!
Even if it is a heavenly weapon, it is still an "acquired thing".

But after obtaining the essence of this branch, the aura of this small banner changed greatly. A trace of extremely ancient, vast, and mysterious aura that was incompatible with the world of acquired creation jumped on the small banner. Its own power has returned to the level of a "celestial artifact". And its quality and potential have broken through the "acquired" and are faintly touching the edge of the innate!
Xing Tianli couldn't figure out what the benefits of the "innate weapon" were for the time being.

After all, he has never possessed a real innate instrument... The Qingmu Lingzhu and these branches are not real "instruments" but "materials", so Xing Tianli is also looking forward to seeing how powerful the real innate instrument is.

While practicing, Xing Tianli was always distracted, concerned about the direction of this battle.

He could see clearly that on Yunxiang Island, deep in the Black Dragon Terrace, the Dongyun people had built a huge altar with a terrifying aura. Every day, this altar was drawing the vast ocean of negative energy from the battlefield, constantly transforming it into monstrous evil power, and injecting it into the stunning woman sitting cross-legged on the altar.

The strange statue next to Renov had expanded to the same height as a real person.

This statue was like a black hole, madly devouring everything it could on the battlefield - it also swept up the overwhelming negative energy, transformed it into some kind of evil energy, and continuously injected it into the bodies of many Judgment Paladins under Renov's command.

In just a few months, the aura exuded by the thousands of Judgment Paladins under Renov's command made Xing Tianli feel a little frightened - the strength of these guys had actually caught up with the Xing Tian brothers whose bloodlines he had opened!

Time passes day by day.

On the coalition side, more than 70% of the miscellaneous soldiers of the Dongyun nobles gathered by Sophie and Marceau had been killed, and nearly 10 million miscellaneous soldiers were lost on the beachhead at a "high efficiency" of hundreds of thousands per day.

The colonial vassal armies of various countries also suffered losses of over one million.

Xing Tianli was watching the battle from high in the sky and really didn't know how to complain - it was already the era of hot weapons, and weapons such as machine guns, machine cannons, large-caliber naval guns, and super-large-caliber coastal defense guns dominated the battlefield. And the generals of the multinational coalition forces, including Renov, actually allowed the Dongyun miscellaneous soldiers and the vassal troops to land on the beach in neat square formations like a charge between cold weapon knights?
Even if Renov wanted to harvest leeks, the way he did it was too ugly.

As for the Dongyun nobles of the western islands, even though they were under the control of Sophie and Marceau's charm, and even though they had been completely absorbed in inhaling the "Dark Night Fragrance" all day long, they finally came to their senses after facing the tragic losses of their soldiers.

They gathered together and expressed their protest to the Allied generals.

There are even some arrogant noble sons who bring their own private armies and have a tendency to launch the traditional "rebellion of the lower class against the upper class".

Renov also knew that even if he wanted to cut the leeks, he couldn't do it too blatantly. So he called a meeting. Just as the generals of various countries gathered together to discuss whether to send their elite troops to the battlefield and break through the already tattered Dongyun people's defense line in one fell swoop, there was finally movement in the direction of Heilongtai.

The Holy Queen of the Dongyun people, with a rosy face and having absorbed enough evil energy, left the altar contentedly and handed a black human skull medicine dish to the high priest beside her.

That night, the sticky, black, and bubbling potion in the human skull medicine dish was divided into dozens of portions by the priests and maidens of Penglai Shrine, and thrown into the dozens of bays in the strait where the most corpses and debris were piled up.

The next day, the plague broke out.

(End of this chapter)