Origin Paradise!

In the trenches, Advisor Gu unconsciously cracked the binoculars in his hand; even just watching from the sidelines, he could feel an intense sense of crisis.

But the soldiers of the First Regiment and the Guard Regiment, like machines, continued their fierce attack on the first line of defense after a brief pause in the artillery bombardment, and almost completely occupied it.

And just then.

Someone on the battlefield raised a silver spear.

Currently, with the blessing of Dawn and Gun Master, the true damage of the Eternal Dragon Spear has reached 30%. With the stacking of more than a dozen special effects passives, combined with the Bloodthirsty Body and Overlord Armor, a single thrust of the spear is powerful enough to cripple ordinary silver-ranked beings.

Jiang He slightly adjusted his direction, avoiding the turret, and locked onto the enemy general who was controlling the aiming.

The moment he gripped the gun, an invisible gust of wind rose up, as if carrying the stench of countless killings.

"This shot will surely hit."

boom!

Jiang He threw the silver spear, unleashing tremendous force. Circular white ripples spread outwards, the spearhead tearing through the air, creating a visible airflow resembling the wings of an eagle.

After a deafening roar no less deafening than the bombardment of a giant cannon, an extremely sharp whistling sound rose up on the battlefield.

Both sides were forced to stop their actions and turned their gazes toward each other. Time seemed to stand still as a dazzling meteor rose into the sky, shooting toward Black and White Pass with unstoppable momentum.

It's just a blink of an eye.

Baron Ruth saw only a single point of light before losing all awareness of what was happening.

The turret driver's platform exploded with only a cloud of blood mist. Not only was the physical body completely destroyed, but even the soul was utterly annihilated under the terrifying attack, leaving not a trace.

This was a predetermined death, a fate sealed by the silver spear.

In the trenches, Advisor Gu tried his best to catch the indestructible trajectory. He believed he could barely react, but he could not avoid it. If even a silver-ranked person could do this, the death of that vampire commander was even more irreversible.

Just as the silver spear was about to fly over the city wall, the blood shadow of the Möbius Knight covering its surface disappeared.

A long, powerful hand gripped the spear again and then swept it horizontally. The astonishing weight of the weapon was converted into kinetic energy, causing a gust of wind to spread. The spear technique, Dragon Crossing, transformed from the original phantom of a dragon into a sharp blood moon that appeared on the plane.

In terms of spear skills alone, the person who has mastered the "Transformation of Force" has already surpassed the predecessor who created the Three Unique Skills.

The blood moon swept across, covering an area of ​​dozens of meters. Seven or eight high-level superhumans died on the spot, and most of the officers in the city's garrison who were qualified to gather around Baron Russ were wiped out.

Blood gushed like a spring, and the ground was littered with mutilated corpses.

A figure in black armor and wielding a silver spear stood amidst the corpses on the city wall, turning his head to gaze at the scene. Amidst such horrific casualties, his silver will infused the scroll through his eyes.

In an instant, the soldiers of the city wall guards knew the inevitable outcome: the enemy was invincible, and resistance was futile.

Despite this, only the majority turned and fled; Baron Russ's personal guards continued to roar and launch a suicidal charge like madmen.

According to the legends of the vampires, there are thirteen clans. Blood nobles can form their own small clans and transform other creatures into their servants through the Blood Servant Ritual. There are two types of rituals: one is the crude Embrace, and the other is the bestowal of true blood.

The former only creates cannon fodder, while the latter are family members and relatives truly chosen by the blood nobles themselves. A blood noble can only generate a few portions of true blood in their lifetime, and each time it is given to them, they will be forced to enter a long period of recuperation.

Therefore, when Baron Ruth died, his minor clan members immediately went mad.

"Don't lie face down after you wake up."

Jiang He lowered her eyes and stared at the little white snake peeking out from her neck. The snake's golden vertical eyes still held a hint of drowsiness, but after being nourished by the life force of the troll swarm, Zhuang Ya had already completed her evolution ahead of schedule.

"Give me a puff of poison mist."

"Ok."

The white snake opened its mouth, and billowing white mist surged out, instantly filling the entire city wall with smoke. Jiang He then injected perfect-level blood poison energy, and the poisonous mist quickly turned a dark red and eerie color.

Screams echoed through the fog as people fell from the 30-meter-high city wall, their bodies shattered to pieces.

Hundreds of iron-blooded thorns were unleashed in the chaos. The corpses of enemies killed by the poisonous fog were preserved most intact. Jiang He used his all-seeing eye to survey the city walls and absorbed the heart's blood of all those superhumans.

[Perfect-grade Blood Poison LV20→LV35 (Deals 45% additional Blood Poison damage)]

Chaos spread with the poisonous fog.

Without the command center atop the city walls, the vampire forces, despite their overwhelming numerical advantage, were doomed to defeat.

The First Regiment and the Guard Regiment launched a fierce attack on the three lines of defense. Jiang He stood on the city wall and continuously released fireballs at the reinforcements organized inside the city, causing serious casualties while rapidly improving his proficiency as a superior ability user.

A quarter of an hour later, the city's outer defenses, which had lost their will to fight, collapsed. This vampire force had already suffered several blows from someone, and their morale had plummeted. They had only managed to hold on until now because they had no way out.

A giant white serpent, hundreds of meters long, lashed its tail violently from the city wall, and after more than a dozen times, the heavy metal city gate was violently blasted open.

"Everyone, move into the city!" Ah Er commanded.

The battalion and regimental commanders at all levels also relayed the orders in turn.

Jiang He personally dealt with the stubbornly resisting vampire troops in the city. His proficiency as a high-level ability user was already at its peak. He walked on the battlefield like a mobile artillery platform, and the life force of the dead restored his declining energy value time and time again.

……

The battle ended that evening.

Jiang He moved into the command post at the city gate.

From a bird's-eye view, the entire Heibaiguan Pass looks like a nail embedded in the mountains, with a square layout. The northern part of the city is home to 100,000 people, mainly serving the garrison. At this moment, every household has its doors tightly closed, and the streets are completely silent.

Inside the command post atop the city wall, Ah Er came in with a simple statistical table to report.

"Boss, the First Regiment and the Guard Regiment total 3000 men. In this battle, more than 1300 were killed or wounded. However, with their alloy combat uniforms, the officer casualty rate was only 6%. Our side wiped out 6400 enemy soldiers and captured more than 8000. The rest fled and their whereabouts are unknown."

"After capturing Heibai Pass, we seized more than 40000 rifles, 200 artillery pieces of various types, and other military supplies such as alien blood crystals are still being tallied."

Behind the main table in the command post, Jiang He nodded slightly. A regular division is equipped with a hundred artillery pieces. Now his First Division's firepower is close to that of an army. The vampire troops do not have mechs or warhorses, but the main force is still humans.

"Take in the prisoners, break up the guard regiment and appoint them as junior officers, form a reserve division, and station them in place until our main force arrives. Send men to collect all the gold in the city, and execute all the vampires among the prisoners." Jiang He ordered. The guard regiment was made up of vicious soldiers, originally his reserve officer force.

"Understood." Ah Er saluted and accepted the order.

Jiang He watched the other party leave. The command post was now somewhat empty. Advisor Gu, who had not played a role on the battlefield, was leading people to execute the dark creatures. At the start of the battle, his role was to be in the reserve, to prevent surprise attacks from the flanks or rear.

Chapter 243 The Brute Force Route

In front of and behind the square table.

Lilith and Zhuang Ya sat facing each other.

“You are his pet, he is my pet, so you are my pet too. Why don’t you understand?”

Lilith observed the little girl with great interest. The girl had a slender waist and a thin figure. Her long, black hair fell past her shoulders, and her golden vertical eyes had a coldness that seemed unique to snakes. But upon closer inspection, she was actually quite innocent. Her face was delicate and beautiful, and even without any change in expression, her cherry-colored lips were pleasing to the eye.

“Snakes are not pets,” Zhuang Ya said.

Lilith was speechless, showing a high level of awareness.

"You actually don't deny that you're a pet."

“I always have been,” Zhuang Ya replied.

Lilith rolled her eyes; she was incredibly loyal.

Not far away, Jiang He, who was engrossed in processing various reports, looked up. The main force would arrive tomorrow, and he currently had nearly 20,000 elite troops under his command. There were actually quite a few miscellaneous matters that needed to be decided.

"Lilith, please check on her condition."

"Okay, I'm watching it now."

Lilith waved her hand. As a god on the verge of falling, she had lost her authority and power, but her knowledge, experience, and vision remained, which was an unimaginable treasure.

Shortly after, the medical examination results came out.

"She belongs to the dragon family, and her direct bloodline should be a silver-level dragon. Therefore, she has quite good talent among the demon race. She is 315 years old and was already at the peak of the Bronze Age before following you. Her strength is strength, and she is quite durable. However, she has almost zero combat experience. Now she is 100 meters long. There are two paths she can take next."

Lilith pondered for a moment and said, "One is quantitative change, and the other is qualitative change. Simply put, it means continuing to increase the size of the body, or trying to transform into a dragon. Given that the Dragon Star was destroyed a century ago, all dragons in the boundless void have to face the three tribulations of heaven, earth, and man to advance. So my recommendation is the former, at least there is no danger to their lives."

Jiang He pondered to himself that, according to the other party, Zhuang Ya should be the offspring of that silver blood dragon in the ancient martial arts world. On the other hand, his previous prediction that living beings need to endure three tribulations to advance to the silver level was wrong. This is a tribulation unique to the dragon race.

So far, Zhuang Ya has undergone two evolutions. The first was the baptism of the dragon blood in the Tomb Pool, and the second was the previous feast on wild beast meat. Given that she was already a top-grade demon at the peak of the Bronze level when the two met, the matter of advancing to the next level needs to be planned as soon as possible.

"Continue," Jiang He gestured with her hand.

Lilith was a little exasperated by the other party's disregard for divine authority, and continued, "Quantitative change is simple. Just keep eating and sleeping. When you reach 300 meters in length, find an ancient world and travel along a river to the sea. This is essential for the growth of dragons. But as long as she abandons qualitative change at the last moment and lets the closely related being, that is, you, take the burden, the problem will be solved. You now have the status of a favored one of the gods, so the difficulty of the three tribulations will be quite mild."

Jiang He interrupted, "Then you canceled the favor, and I was immediately put in danger."

Lilith shrugged, giving an expression that said whatever the other person thought, and then said, "Dragons traveling along rivers will cause floods. The areas around large rivers are often places where living beings gather, so the resistance comes from all sides. Moreover, the kind of desolate places that lack the symbolism of living beings that rivers provide is unlikely to work."

Jiang He pondered. He needed to focus on Zhuang Ya's development path, but he didn't need to worry about Wu He at all.

That guy always takes advantage of every world he enters. In the world of silkworms, he became a crow knight. In the world of ancient martial arts, he obtained top-tier lightness skills from the Great Famous Sect. Now, he's probably transformed into a speed-type ability user, making him unparalleled in terms of running away.

Jiang He didn't ask about any similar gains. Wu He was an independent individual, not a demon soldier or a Dawn person. Even without forming an alliance with him, Wu He could still grow as a privileged player.

Old Black is the epitome of all these qualities. In the last world, he lived and ate with the Icefield Wolf Pack, and in this world, he served as a sycophant in the Black Wolf Councilor's den, occasionally sending back messages through his animal companions. Now, he is a mid-level ability user in the physical type.

For the current animal groups, there is a significant overlap between the team leader's main quest and the companions' quests, which increases the difficulty somewhat. After all, under normal circumstances, a level 9 player would not make the Fortress Chairman their main objective.

"Are there any related legacies left behind by Zhulong Star?" Jiang He asked. Unlike Wuhe and Lao Hei, who explored the world alone, Zhuang Ya took on the role of a personal blue bar and poison mist generator. Given her immature mind, she needed some support.

"The Dragon Star wasn't simply destroyed; it was completely detonated. Forget about the complete inheritance; not even ashes remained. You can only hope that there are scattered remnants in other worlds, but that's beyond my knowledge," Lilith told the truth.

Not long after, Ah Er arrived with brand new statistical tables to report.

"Boss, we have 3,300 wild beasts and over 2,000 exotic blood crystals, which include eight complete routes from lower to higher levels, respectively related to wind, fire, speed, and strength."

Black and White Pass radiates across a vast wasteland, and is heavily garrisoned, with abundant reserves of wild beast materials.

"All of these supplies are mine," Jiang He said without hesitation. He had built his force to collect resources, and taking them all now would not be a burden for him.

"Understood." Ah Er turned and left.

Half an hour later, the skeletons of wild beasts and boxes containing strange blood crystals were carried in.

Jiang He gently tapped each item into the storage, patiently sorting them by type. Among the power-type wild beasts, the most numerous were the lower-ranking wild beasts, the Brute Bears.

Brute force—superhuman strength—sea power—the strength to uproot mountains.

Once you reach the superhuman strength stage on this path, you can throw the millstone far away.

Jiang He simply took out three different quality blood crystals and handed them to Zhuang Ya. Since he was good at strength, he might as well make full use of it. The number of brute bears in this area was drastically high, and he had a great chance of encountering the dominant ability user on this route. He could kill them when he found out, saving him the trouble of running around everywhere.

"Take the lower crystal first, and eat more Brute Bears to build up proficiency. We'll consider using the middle crystal after I check."

"Listen to the giant serpent."

Zhuang Ya stood up from her seat. Her black and white battle maid outfit was clean and tidy. Actually, she wasn't very tall when she stood up. At 1.45 meters, she looked petite and cute, a stark contrast to the 100-meter-long giant snake.

Click!

The moment she received the crystal, Zhuang Ya immediately put it in her mouth, chewed it, and tasted it. For a high-grade demon, this level of improvement was not significant, but she was not a player and did not have a universal body. Even if demons and wild beasts had a certain degree of similarity, the process would still take quite a while.

"Take a look at this; my partner is learning it."

Jiang He passed on the cultivation techniques for top-grade Qi cultivators to Lilith.

Lilith casually flipped through a few pages. On her journey from her homeland to her second homeland, she had traveled to many worlds and seen many similar things, so she wasn't particularly surprised.

Chapter 244 Silver Dao Soldier

"Children's books, but they are certainly very useful nowadays."

Lilith read it and gave her evaluation.

"By refining and condensing blood essence, and then shaping it into a combat-type puppet, the greatest advantage of this kind of Dao weapon is that it transforms the ordinary majority into a powerful minority. If I were to shape it, I should be able to make the original peak bronze Dao weapon break through its limits and be elevated to the ordinary level of the silver age."

Lilith glanced at the crystals in the pile of wooden crates and smiled gently: "So this is where you were waiting for me."

Jiang He's expression remained calm.

Blood Crystals are the solidified form of the power of a wild beast after its death.

Bloodlust refers to the bloodlust energy flowing between military formations.

The reason why Qi cultivators in the ancient martial arts world cannot become the mainstream is not only because they are extremely weak, but also because Dao soldiers need to be temporarily created, making it difficult to deal with emergencies.

Once the Blood Fiend Dao Soldier is stabilized and solidified like a crystal of strange blood, then one obtains a puppet that acts as a personal bodyguard.

As an alchemist, Jiang He had a relatively complete understanding of this matter, but the deduction of alchemical formulas was time-consuming and laborious. He was not a researcher and was unwilling to devote too much energy to this aspect.

But Lilith is different. As the progenitor of the vampires and the Crimson Goddess, she once held the power of the Blood Moon and possessed an attainment in the way of blood that most extraordinary beings could not reach.

“Your idea is indeed feasible.” Lilith picked up a crystal of alien blood. This level of interference with the outside world was already her limit at this moment.

"There are three things I need to make clear beforehand. First, the puppets solidified and shaped by the Blood Fiend Dao Soldiers do not have a silver body, silver will, or silver energy. They are nothing more than ordinary silver beings with blank slates. It would take at least three of them to surround and attack a normal silver being to maintain an equal footing. If taken out individually, they might even be killed by the bronze-level powers at a slight cost."

"Secondly, since I am the creator, the first priority for Silver Dao Soldiers to obey orders is with me, and you are the secondary commander. The good news is that I have no other chosen ones."