Reincarnation Girl Becomes Immortal

"Now is the perfect time to test your strength. Make sure you have sufficient supplies, stabilize your situation, and after lunch, head east."

"Yes!" The hall master immediately began making arrangements.

After returning indoors for lunch, Xi Heng took Hong Miao, who seemed to have become his attendant, and rode away from Jinshi.

Behind them, a large group of over a thousand people, all dressed in neatly patterned black clothes, but with a variety of weapons in their hands, most of them only holding a rough broadsword, which would be difficult for enemies wearing even a little wooden armor to cut.

And the shield was simply a large pot lid...

"I have a feeling that just ten Great Zhao cavalrymen would be enough to rout this bunch of ragtag troops..."

Xi Hengxing walked ahead, looking back, and a growing sense of doubt arose in his heart:

"How exactly did Fang Tiande train these ordinary militiamen into militiamen capable of attacking the cities of Great Zhao?"

It might take a year and a half of hard work to get her to come, and the training methods along the way will be quite harsh.

Xi Heng had no interest in doing such a thing.

To defeat the Crimson Goddess, she only needs to be there on her own.

The group of believers behind them were just extras.

Time passes slowly.

Xi Heng rode his horse ahead without feeling any exhaustion, and was still full of energy even into the night.

But the soldiers following behind were mostly exhausted and panting, unable to speak.

The girl shook her head and ordered everyone to set up camp and sit down on the spot.

The Dark Cult also had several oxcarts carrying various tents, provisions, and other supplies, following behind the main army.

The cooks lit the stoves, and tents of all sizes were pitched to form a campsite.

Under the clear autumn moon, fireflies still drifted slowly across the fields.

Senior sister brought Xi Heng a bowl of porridge and sat down with him, looking at the army in front of them.

"Is what Junior Sister is doing now preparing her for a future struggle for the throne?"

She leads troops, establishes her own power base, is still the princess of the Great Zhao Dynasty, and lives in this chaotic world...

No matter how you think about it, the result will always be the same.

“Only after becoming emperor can one seek immortality.” Xi Heng’s answer was unexpected.

"Huh?" Hongmiao thought that her junior sister wanted to become emperor to bring peace and stability to the world, rather than for her own selfish desires.

“If one becomes emperor solely to seek immortality, then it’s unlikely to be a good emperor, is it?” Hong Miao said.

"What difference does it make whether it's good or bad?" Xi Heng's gaze swept over his senior sister's face, and he said calmly:

"As long as we can obtain the method to immortality, it doesn't matter whether it's good or bad."

In her eyes, everything can start over.

As long as one can find the way to immortality, it doesn't matter if one is a tyrannical or incompetent ruler in this life. Any shortcomings can be made up for when one has the will to ascend the throne after achieving immortality.

The moral norms of the common people have gradually become transparent in her eyes, and it is difficult for them to cause much emotional fluctuation.

"...I think that if my junior sister can ascend the throne, she should become a good emperor who can care for the people."

But my senior sister is a person with a strong sense of morality.

"Okay, I'll try my best," Xi Heng replied simply.

The moonlight was obscured by a thin layer of clouds, gradually becoming hazy.

Two days later, the Dark Heaven Sect's ragtag troops she led had arrived in the eastern Junming region.

It is called Junming because there is a large city named Junming in the center of this area.

The city had not been captured by Tianliang before, and it still looks relatively intact.

At least, it's much better than the devastated City of Goldstone.

After the Dark Heaven Sect members arrived, they quickly began preaching in the surrounding villages and towns where there were few government troops patrolling and managing the area.

But in reality, what they were trying to do was not to proselytize, but to attract the so-called Jingming Sect.

The Jingming Sect members clearly hadn't expected this to be an ambush. Upon hearing of the Dark Heavenly Sect's whereabouts, they immediately led over a hundred men and charged over aggressively.

However, the Dark Heavenly Sect here had over a thousand soldiers who had trained for a month or two waiting for them.

The followers of the Jingming religion were also a bunch of ragtag soldiers, and the tenfold difference in strength caused them to collapse immediately and flee in disarray.

In this encounter where the advantage was obvious, Xi Heng did not make a move, but simply watched his subordinates perform.

The Dark Heaven Sect managed to form a battle formation, with shield bearers in front and spearmen behind, instead of charging forward head-on.

Even so, there were still quite a few casualties.

Although they directly captured a hundred people, they also lost more than twenty of their own.

Xi Heng rubbed his forehead.

Despite having a tenfold advantage, and being able to end the skirmish with a well-prepared formation, they still managed to achieve such a result.

The strongest among them was only at the Great Perfection of Ming Jin; ordinary people could simply set up a shield formation and surround them. Moreover, there was also a Great Perfection of Ming Jin martial artist within the Great Black Heaven Sect...

How did they manage to get killed so many times?

"How can we make any use of this broken fighting force?" Xi Heng shook his head.

After the war, through the threats and indoctrination of several junior priests accompanying the army, the captured enemies rebelled one by one, pointing out the way to the followers of the Dark Heaven and explaining where their headquarters were.

To Ling Xiheng's surprise, the Jingming religious altar was not located in Junming City, but rather in a village or town outside the city, where they secretly spread their faith without daring to openly enter the city.

After all, their Crimson Goddess was still rebelling, and had previously cooperated with Tianliang to some extent.

The Jingming Sect was also seen as an entity that needed to be eradicated by the officials and soldiers of the Great Zhao, making it difficult for them to enter the major cities to spread their teachings.

After listening to the words of several traitors from the Jingming Sect, Xi Heng sent troops forward without hesitation, intending to crush the religious community in this region in one fell swoop.

Having won a victory at the start, the Dark Heavenly Sect's army had grown stronger and was no longer as hesitant as before.

But in Xi Heng's eyes, these soldiers were no longer of any concern.

Sending them to fight the Jingming Cult's army would only be a pointless death for them.

"I'll deal with the several thousand troops under the Crimson Goddess by myself," Xi Heng silently made up his mind.

……

Chapter 85, Crimson Goddess

One day later, the Jingming Sect branch altar in the Junming area.

Xi Heng and his nearly 1,000 miscellaneous soldiers had already captured this area in a surprise attack.

This is, after all, just a branch altar, and the people who could fight here had already been defeated in a previous skirmish in the surrounding villages. Now, the altar is mostly filled with miscellaneous staff and newly recruited believers.

Although there were a few Ming Jin martial artists and a small team of men who could barely fight, they were no match for the Dark Heaven Sect's army.

As soon as they see an approaching army, they will flee in terror.

The remaining followers had no power to resist.

The total number of people in this branch of the Jingming Sect is only three or four hundred. Excluding those who fled, the remaining believers, priests, servants and attendants in the sect are no more than two hundred.

Faced with the swords and clubs of a thousand men, surrender was naturally the only option.

Currently, over two hundred people are kneeling neatly in the Jingming religious altar square, which has been occupied by the Daheitian Sect. They are all bowing their heads and not daring to say a word.

The Dark Heavenly Sect's army formed a battle formation and surrounded the area.

Two consecutive victories have made these ragtag soldiers lose their sense of their own abilities, each thinking they are elite soldiers and generals, and they have become high-spirited.

But it's good to have high morale—Xi Heng thought to himself as he sat on the eaves of the nearby house.

Hopefully, when they face the army of the Crimson Goddess in the future, they won't flee at the mere sight of the enemy like they did today.

She would be satisfied as long as these ragtag soldiers could hold out until the enemy charged before fleeing.

Xi Heng's expectations for his sect's henchmen are currently limited to this.

The girl's feet dangled slightly in mid-air as she casually listened to the missionaries below preaching and brainwashing the members of this Jingming Sect branch.

When the Dark Heaven Sect's army stormed in, the Jingming Sect followers immediately surrendered, and few of them died.

Those who surrender will naturally not be killed.

However, since they did not want to die, these heretics had to change their minds and submit to the Great Dark Mother.

So the missionaries accompanying the army began preaching the doctrines of the Dark God to the more than two hundred kneeling people, belittling their idol, the Pure Fire God, as a pile of flames blown away by the Great Dark Goddess when she saved the world.

"When heaven and earth were created, the four poles collapsed, the nine provinces shattered, the sky could not cover all, the earth could not support all, the fire was inextinguishable, the water was vast and the ocean was endless, and fierce birds and beasts ravaged the people... The Dark Heavenly Mother breathed on the eternally burning fire, pushing it to the far reaches of the ocean... From the fire, a white pure fire gathered, which is the Pure Fire Bright Venerable that you believe in."

"Because of being driven to hatred of the Heavenly Mother, Pure Fire deceives the world by saying that the Heavenly Mother is an evil god... The Great Darkness Heaven is truly the mother of all beings. You have been harmed by evil, and you must realize your mistake and turn back!"

After repeating the teachings several times, he would have those kneeling below recite the doctrines.

Although these believers, who couldn't even read a single word, recited the text incoherently, as long as they conveyed the main points, people could squat down to rest instead of kneeling.

After a while, the missionary priest began to preach other doctrines.

Since Xi Heng left Jinshi, within a few months, the Dark Heavenly Sect has clearly perfected its doctrines.

During their missionary work, they also encountered resistance from some of the more steadfast followers of the Pure Light Sect.

But once the rebels are dragged out and beheaded, the remaining prisoners become unusually compliant—their shouts while reciting the doctrines of the Dark Heaven grow louder.

Gradually, after the doctrine was finished being read, the leader of the temple who was leading the troops forced the Jingming religious followers to smash the statues and symbols of the gods.

A process is used to gradually push them beyond their own limits.

Moments later, all the symbols related to the Jingming Sect in this place were smashed and turned into stones of various sizes, each gathered together.

The believers who had once firmly believed in the Jingming Sect now saw only despair in their eyes.

Those new members who don't yet understand the church are filled with confusion, bewilderment, and fear, but they don't struggle much internally.

Whatever you ask them to do, they will do it directly.

Before long, all two hundred-plus people in the Jingming Sect branch had been educated.

Xi Heng rested here for a night, then led the Dark Heaven Sect on their journey to subdue the Crimson Goddess heading east to the coast.

Before leaving, she ordered someone to leave a doctrinal book here, instructing the former Jingming sect followers, who had just been forced to have their heads washed, to spread the doctrines of the Dark Heaven Sect here, turning it into a branch of the Dark Heaven Sect.

After demonstrating a few awe-inspiring sword techniques to establish her power, she said:

If, upon their return, this group of believers fails to preach to a thousand people in this place, or if they escape, the Great Dark Heaven will surely punish them.

As for whether the threat would be effective, she didn't really care; it was just a way to intimidate.

Xi Heng is not a real demon who would find and kill anyone who disobeys orders based on a single sentence.

She gave up and left with the army.

……

Walking along the flat official road, the Dark Heaven Sect's rabble soldiers had not encountered any government patrols since leaving Jinshi City.

This is probably because the number of government troops in this area has decreased significantly due to the previous invasion by the rebel army of Tianliang.

However, it doesn't matter if government troops come to patrol. As long as they directly state the name of the Dark Heaven Sect and explain that the group is going to the eastern coast to attack the rebel Crimson Goddess.

Whether the officers and soldiers believed it or not, the small patrol team of just over a dozen people at the post station was simply not capable of stopping the Dark Heaven sect members; at most, they could only report it to their superiors.

Given the relatively weak influence of the Zhao state in the southeast region, it was also unable to organize an army to oppose her.

Even if the government wanted to mobilize fifty local militiamen, it would require a series of approvals and take more than ten days to get a response.

Unless there is a military headquarters stationed nearby, thousands of soldiers will not be affected by the government.

Not to mention, the army and the imperial court were actually happy to see the cults fighting, as it would also relieve some of the pressure on the eastern coast.

As a result, the journey went exceptionally smoothly.

After half a month, Xi Heng led a team of a thousand people through three prefectures and leveled two branch altars of the Jingming Sect.

Finding the branch altars of the opposing sect is actually quite simple. Once you arrive at the location, just ask around about the Jingming Sect, and then follow the clues to find the believers and you can eventually find out its location.

The enemy was completely unprepared for these surprise attacks, and each time they easily captured the prisoners, made them kneel down to listen to lectures, gave them a lesson, destroyed the Jingming Sect, and then left to continue their journey.

Gradually, thousands of the ever-victorious troops of the Dark Heaven Sect arrived around the Great Chen Dynasty, which was controlled by the Crimson Goddess.