Witch Wind

Chapter 429 The Battle of the Saints (Part 2)

Dong Zhuo's smile was utterly despicable.

Dong Zhuo, one of the biggest culprits of the chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty, spread his arms and slammed his metal hands heavily against his metal chest, making a loud noise and sending up countless sparks.

He grinned maliciously at Liu Bei, "Yes, Dong is a menace. But Liu Bei, who loves his people like his own children, what can you do with Dong?"

"Ha, I'm here to wreak havoc on you all again."

"What can you do to me?"

Dong Zhuo shook his head, sighed, and muttered under his breath, "What a pity, what a pity. For so many years, I have been searching for that slut and that three-surname slave in the void... Heh, if I ever find them, whether it's that three-surname slave or that little slut... I will kill them both!"

On Dong Zhuo's body, two tightly fitted armor plates slid open to reveal his reproductive tools, which still maintained the characteristics of a carbon-based life form. He stood tall and roared through gritted teeth, "I deliberately preserved this one weakness so that I could kill them all!"

Overwhelming resentment, boundless malevolence, and the surging evil energy...

Everyone present, whether from Shu Han or Sun Wu, was a normal person, and their expressions changed drastically.

Sun Ce gritted his teeth and glared at his brother: "Look what you've done... Dong Zhuo is a man of immense stature, and you actually... cooperated with him?"

Sun Zhongmou remained silent.

Sun Ce said sternly, "How can you face your father?"

Dong Zhuo licked his lips and grinned at Sun Ce: "Oh, Sun Bofu, you little brat are here too... Back then, your father was a vanguard general against me... You must not fall into my hands, otherwise, you pretty boy do have some good looks!"

Sun Ce was bewildered.

Sun Zhongmou's pupils also became unfocused for a moment.

Dong Zhuo suddenly placed his large hand on Sun Quan's shoulder: "Nephew Quan, don't worry, hehe, now that you've abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, you're one of us now... Since we're family, I won't use some of my methods on you. Hehe!"

Dong Zhuo's voice was slippery and sticky, making people feel inexplicably nauseous.

His palms, though clearly made of hard, smooth metal, inexplicably made Sun Zhongmou feel that they were so damp and sticky, as if dozens of large tongues were licking his shoulders little by little, giving him goosebumps all over his body.

Xing Tianli was breathing heavily.

Having just shattered twelve powerful quasi-saint level silicon-based life forms with a single blow, the appearance of Pangu's avatar drained him of everything in a short time.

Essence, blood, magic power, and even the power of the soul.

Above the Spirit Platform Purple Mansion, Pangu's incarnation reformed into a dim, chaotic point of light. Xing Tianli's own immortal soul had become dull and lifeless, like a cheaply made piece of frosted glass, floating listlessly. The million Great Dao Lotuses behind the immortal soul had also turned grayish, as if they were about to wither at any moment.

The Nine Heavenly Cauldrons, with their towering dragon and phoenix patterns and golden light that stretched for thousands of miles, representing the power of Xing Tianli, have completely vanished without a trace.

In the trillions of cells throughout his body, the tiny, heaven-reaching furnaces were all dimming, and the magical power stored inside, the surging life energy in his cells, and the essence and blood he had accumulated were almost exhausted.

An unbearable stinging pain shot through my bone marrow.

The bone marrow was as dry as a desert, and it was difficult to produce even a trace of fresh essence and blood.

Xing Tianli was panting. In the nine enormous Tongtian Cauldrons, the chaotic stars collected from the chaos shattered one by one. The fundamental technique of "Heaven and Earth Furnace for a Stick of Incense" was activated at full power. The huge chaotic stars were refined in an instant, turning into streams of pure and enormous Primordial Qi, which surged out like a fountain.

The primordial energy was infused into the immortal soul, and the immortal soul gradually lit up.

The primordial Qi merged into the Tongtian Cauldron, and within the cauldron, strands of golden light rapidly arose.

The primordial energy surged into his entire body, and trillions of cells, like tiny black holes, frantically devoured the primordial energy, transforming it into powerful and pure witch power, which was then stored in towering furnaces.

The bones inside Xing Tianli's body hysterically devoured the primordial energy that surged in.

The stinging pain in his bone marrow gradually subsided, and tiny strands of essence blood slowly began to grow. Having experienced yet another excruciating pain of being completely drained, the powerful, inherently strong bloodline of the Great Witch, possessing limitless evolutionary potential, once again received a tremendous boost.

The newly generated essence blood, flowing out slowly, was of a murky color but of pure quality. A single drop, the size of a soybean, felt as heavy as a mountain in the outside world.

The newborn essence and blood flowed into Xing Tianli's dried blood vessels, replenishing his depleted body.

A terrifying power surged through his body, and Xing Tianli clearly felt that his strength had been enhanced once again. His Pangu essence blood had undergone another thorough refinement.

One's physical strength doubles.

He also sensed a trace of the magnificent and pure mystery of 'proving the Dao through force' from his refined blood essence and from the newly manifested Pangu incarnation.

He clearly sensed the presence of a certain portal.

He was already standing in front of that doorway, ready to step inside with a gentle push.

Xing Tianli was covered in sweat.

The sweat was scalding hot, each drop as hot as magma, as hot as molten iron, with faint traces of gray impurities within. His body, under the impact of the newly generated essence and blood, began another transformation.

He straightened up and looked at Dong Zhuo, whose entire body radiated a cold light.

This guy.

He then saw Sun Quan's stiff face—how did this guy even think of cooperating with Dong Zhuo?
Did Dong Zhuo find Sun Quan and then attract these silicon-based life forms?
Damn it, there's even a silicon-based saint whose strength is unfathomable.

Dong Zhuo was spouting nonsense.

Sun Ce is questioning his brother.

Sun Zhongmou remained silent, as if he hadn't heard Sun Ce's angry roar.

Xing Tianli stroked his chin vigorously and muttered, "Hey, that's right, how strange. The Sun Wu Kingdom has been turned into an internal conflict by those two brothers. Where is their biological father?"

Liu Bei, holding his two swords upside down, walked step by step to Xing Tianli's side.

He said in a deep voice, “Sun Wentai, what a pity… Sun Wu encountered many dangers on his journey. Before entering this world, they encountered a beast of destruction that roamed and hunted everywhere. For the sake of his descendants and subordinates, Sun Wentai personally led the beast away.”

"As far as we know, Sun Wentai may still be alive, but we have no idea where he is or what his situation is." Liu Bei sighed softly, "What a pity, Sun Wentai was a hero of his generation, and his two sons... heh heh!"

Liu Bei's words implied that he only regarded Sun Jian as a hero.

As for Sun Jian's two sons, in Liu Bei's view, they were nothing special.

The Shu Han group, with its many generals and civil officials, all had glittering lights on their waists or cuffs... News from the Dali Holy Dynasty had already spread through various channels.

The Dali Holy Dynasty was almost completely destroyed.

Only about a hundred habitable planets directly under the jurisdiction of Shu Han survived the sudden mechanical catastrophe.

Meanwhile, Wei Yan and Jiang Wei, who were sent to Lixing to capture the remaining high-ranking officials of the Dali Holy Dynasty, along with more than 100,000 surviving Shu Han officers, are facing an attack by trillions of mechanical creatures.

Among the Shu Han officials present, key ministers such as Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, and Fa Zheng received reports from Shu Han's spies planted within Cao Wei and the Sima Jin dynasty.

Cao Wei suffered considerable losses, but it could still withstand them.

The Sima Jin Dynasty, because they didn't treat those natives as human beings, allowed the natives to maintain their most primitive way of life. In this mechanical natural disaster, they suffered almost no losses!

Even a figure like Prime Minister Zhuge Liang was bewildered upon receiving the messages from both the mainland and the secret agents.

This, this, this...

The Shu Han state respected these indigenous peoples and, with a heart of 'benevolence and virtue,' supported their reproduction and development, enabling them to quickly enter the high-tech era and giving the entire Dali Holy Dynasty an extremely glorious civilization.

This, ironically, became the biggest root cause of the direct destruction of the Dali Holy Dynasty.
"The way of Heaven is unpredictable." For some reason, the gazes of Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Xu Shu, and other civil officials of Shu Han became slightly unfocused, and a mysterious aura slowly emanated from their bodies.

Because of the sudden collapse of the Dali Holy Dynasty, these ministers of Shu Han, these geniuses with almost superhuman intelligence and now highly skilled in cultivation, all entered a mysterious state of 'enlightenment' almost simultaneously, one or two breaths apart.

Xing Tianli suddenly realized.

Previously, Liu Bei was trapped by his own 'benevolent body'. He was able to break free of his shell and attain sainthood by relying on the classics passed down by the Sage of Heaven.

And Liu Bei's "benevolent way" has trapped more than just him.
'Benevolence' truly manifested as a golden shell, trapping Liu Bei... and that intangible 'benevolence' also trapped countless civil and military officials of Shu Han, including Prime Minister Zhuge Liang.

In the Dali Holy Dynasty, the life and death of all its people were woven into an invisible shell, an invisible burden, by Liu Bei's "benevolent way," trapping countless elites of Shu Han.

The Great Li Holy Dynasty has vanished, and this constraint has been broken.

Xing Tianli suddenly realized.

He witnessed the strange scene of the heroes of Shu Han suddenly having an epiphany from the sidelines, and he also inexplicably gained new insights.

The Great Way is formless, yet it is universal.

Faintly, on the Spirit Platform Purple Mansion, millions of Great Dao Lotuses frantically drew upon the Primordial Qi spewed from the nine Heavenly Cauldrons, emitting a faint, ethereal light of the Great Dao.

Xing Tianli's immortal soul quietly bathed in the light of the Great Dao, and like Prime Minister Zhuge and the others, he entered a strange state of enlightenment.

Indeed, Xing Tianli's foundation in the Great Dao is too profound.

The Heavenly Dao of over a hundred small and medium-sized worlds was melted, absorbed, and transformed into the shape of the Great Dao of the Nine Provinces... The unique Dao and Daoist charm of those hundred or so small and medium-sized worlds were all absorbed by Xing Tianli alone.

A million lotuses of the Great Dao... Throughout the ages, there may have been cultivators with such a foundation of the Great Dao, but among the cultivators of the Nine Provinces, there has never been such a freak... Once Xing Tianli fully digests such a foundation, he will definitely become a freak rarely seen throughout the ages.

Xiu San San snorted coldly.

He saw that Prime Minister Zhuge and others had simultaneously fallen into a kind of bewildering 'enlightenment' state. He even saw that Xing Tianli, who had directly killed his twelve personal guards, had also entered this hazy and indescribable wonderful realm under the influence of Prime Minister Zhuge and the others.

Xiu San San, who had already ascended to sainthood, was jealous.

'Sudden enlightenment'?
What amazing words!

Silicon-based life forms do not have the concept of 'sudden enlightenment'—the evolution of all silicon-based life forms is a step-by-step, firm and solid process, requiring them to use their 'computing power' to calculate every step of the process clearly.

In silicon-based life forms, there are no concepts like "enlightenment" or "power transfer."

To them, the state of 'sudden enlightenment' is an incomprehensible form of cheating, a 'system bug'-like existence—how could a cultivator inexplicably gain benefits far exceeding what they could obtain through thousands, tens of thousands, or even millions of years of arduous cultivation in a single 'sudden enlightenment'?
This is illogical!
However, 'sudden enlightenment' is a common occurrence among cultivators who are carbon-based life forms.

In the history of the destruction of silicon-based life forms, there are countless examples—many civilizations were already in dire straits, but because of a certain 'chosen one's' sudden enlightenment, their cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds, and their power soared, and they suddenly turned the tables, defeating the silicon-based life form's destructive army!
Such things happen so often that silicon-based life forms like Xiu San San feel both envious and jealous. At the same time, in their internal sequences, the concept of 'enlightenment' has reached the level of 'red alert'.

"You lowly, weak carbon-based life forms. Your fate is destruction." Xiu San San's 'rational logic' showed signs of collapsing for a moment, and he roared somewhat 'furious': "You don't need to struggle. You just need to kneel down obediently and become nourishment for my race's evolution!"

Xiu San San roared.

Xing Tianli, who had already entered a certain profound state, chuckled: "This guy, why does he seem to talk a lot of nonsense?"

Xiu San San glanced sideways at Xing Tian Li and said sarcastically, "Foolish inferior creature, you completely misunderstand the greatness of the 'Master of Life'... Rich emotions are the greatest characteristic of our lineage... Rich emotions and delicate feelings give us so much more..."

Xing Tianli retorted, "Rich emotions and delicate feelings—aren't these precisely the characteristics of us carbon-based intelligent beings?"

"You who pride yourselves on being a perfect and powerful race... why has your evolutionary path followed ours?"

Xiu Sansan was speechless.

In his enormous eyes, streaks of scarlet electronic light flashed wildly.

Then he raised the scepter.

The void around him trembled violently. Deep blue spatial rifts appeared out of thin air, cutting the void into square blocks of varying sizes, perfectly shaped like chip blocks.

Countless square blocks are stacked together, just like countless circuit chips are stacked together.

Within these large and small square blocks, countless tiny streams of data surged and flickered wildly. Xiu San San's aura expanded rapidly, and countless deep blue rays of light surged wildly in all directions. The mutated chip void spread rapidly in all directions.

What's astonishing is that the original void actually materialized under the influence of Xiu San San's Great Dao power.

The void, cleaved by the 'illusory' light, actually materialized, transforming into solid, pure silicon-based creations. These crisscrossed and coalesced into an indescribable, enormous 'cloud of electronic chips' in the void, surging and roaring in all directions.

Sun Ce's Wu fleet was the first to be hit. Strands of deep blue light pierced through his fleet, and any Wu soldiers who came into contact with these beams of light were instantly blown apart.

All the elements that make up their bodies transformed into the purest elemental silicon in the blink of an eye, and then quickly assembled into chips of various sizes, which were then integrated into the 'chip cloud' created by Xiu San San.

Only Sun Ce and a group of quasi-saint level generals, whose cultivation was powerful enough, leaped into the air as the deep blue light snaked towards them, transforming into streaks of light and disappearing into the Shu Han army formation.

Sun Ce, his face contorted in pain, roared at Sun Zhongmou, "They are also your brothers, your subordinates and their families!"

Sun Quan was also furious. He swung his fist hard at Dong Zhuo's body: "Dong Zhuo, this is not what we agreed on..."

Xiu San San's cold and ruthless voice resounded throughout this world.

“Foolish, lowly, weak carbon-based insects…especially, weakness is the original sin…and you? A covenant? In our civilization, the concept of ‘covenant’ does not ‘conform to the logic of manifestation’!”

"Only with equal power can there be an equal 'contract'."

"Without equal power, all 'agreements' are 'redundant data in the system' and should be eliminated immediately."

Xiu San San's gaze locked onto Liu Huangshu: "Liu Bei? Your body will become the foundation for Xiu Liya's path to enlightenment."

"Your kind are born insignificant and destined to be lowly."

"With Saint-level power in your hands, you are destined to be nothing more than a 'mayfly' struggling for survival!"

"And the same power, in the hands of our great and powerful race, becomes a 'young beast'... Xiuliya will become a ferocious young beast. She will grow and become stronger based on your power, rampaging and destroying one civilization after another!"

Liu Bei smiled and said, "You're getting impatient."

Xiu San San angrily retorted, "I'm not in a hurry!"

Liu Bei shook his head: "You're panicking!"

Xiu San San was furious: "How dare you, a mayfly that has gained a little bit of power, say such things to me? I will crush you."

Liu Bei glanced back at Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, and then at Xing Tianli standing beside him, whose aura was gradually becoming more profound and mysterious. He nodded slightly: "Based on your previous words, 'sudden enlightenment' is an unpredictable and uncontrollable change for you."

“Your people are very interesting.”

"I have never encountered your race before, but I can tell... you are powerful... but all you have is power."

"ephemera?"

"beast?"

"You know nothing about true power." Liu Huangshu chuckled, brandishing his twin swords. Instantly, wisps of Xuanhuang Qi transformed into sword beams that floated and rolled in the air, enveloping himself, Xiu San San, and the silicon-based life forms behind Xiu San San.

The Xuanhuang sword energy clashed violently with the rolling, rampant, and wildly spreading cloud of electronic chips.

Liu Huangshu groaned, and streams of yellow light shot out from his seven orifices.

Xiu San San also let out a sharp shriek, and clear cracks appeared on his smooth metal body. Many transparent chip fragments sprayed out of his body, swirled once, and were then absorbed back into his body.

Countless silicon-based life forms, spewing intense light, pounced on Liu Bei, who stood before them, wielding two swords.

(End of this chapter)