bookrandom Chapter 115 Mountain Fall
Chapter 115 Mountain Fall
Holy crap, a straight punch.
How should I answer this directly?
If you see a beautiful woman on the street, would you honestly say you don't like her? The thing is, it's just a glance and that's it; you're not going to cling to her and insist on marriage and children. Otherwise, you'd be surrounded by descendants after just one stroll down the street.
Xueyan's problem is... you want me, a young man in my prime, to wander around in a military camp full of grown men every day? Recently, I've been spending a lot of time in a mine, a place where even the cleaning ladies are considered the most beautiful women in the military. All I see is Xueyan wandering around, and there's no one else around.
"In my opinion, it is better to guide than to block; guiding desires is the best policy, reducing desires is a middle policy, and suppressing desires is the worst policy."
As the saying goes, when people are hungry, they only have hunger as their only worry. When people are well-fed and warm, they think of lustful desires. But there are some people who have a more noble and purer ambition. You can call it ambition or delusion, but their pursuit of those desires occupies their entire hearts.
For example, the pursuit of immortality, the pursuit of unification of the world, the pursuit of saving all living beings...
"The best strategy is to unite the army, establish common goals, and clarify the reward and punishment mechanism. The middle strategy is to promote love... the harm of lust to cultivation, and the damage to oneself and the army. The worst strategy is to use harsh laws and punishments. If you are not afraid of the army's morale changing, just carry out strict control."
Zhong Ming's "positive answer" was so "positive" it couldn't be more so. He answered the question from the perspective of a general, acting as a strategist. As for himself... I dare not say.
Xueyan didn't get the answer she wanted, but suddenly remembered that there was indeed something she hadn't taught the new recruits at all—a dereliction of duty!
After Zhong Ming finished speaking, he didn't dare to look at her, sweating profusely with nervousness. Xue Yan floated past him, her voice carrying a sentence to his ears.
"You think if we cut it off, everything will be fine?"
"This is the dignity I'd rather live as a hermit in the mountains than let anyone else live here." Zhong Ming raised his head, silently praying that the instructor was just joking. If he could just be a human sail for a few days, that wouldn't be so bad.
"Hurry up and get back to your fighting positions immediately. We're not allowed to rest from above."
Hearing this, Zhong Ming felt relieved, thinking he had finally gotten away with it, and quickly followed.
At the top of the mountain, everyone was stunned.
The Nascent Soul Giant Turtle had gotten close enough during the long battle that even those without a far-seeing talisman could see its enormous body.
The water level remained level with the summit of Jisui Mountain, and the huge black shadow in the turbid river weighed heavily on everyone's hearts.
It looks no different from a mountain, with a rock-like, ancient carapace, skin the color of river mud, and sharp, giant claws the size of a mountain peak. If it were to slap down on the mountain peak, wouldn't everyone be smashed into a meat pie?
The massive hull of the Demon Slayer on its back rocked incessantly on the water, countless shells, pebbles, and silt spilling out of the cracked windows, the mast swaying in the air as if death itself were beckoning.
The long chain bound it. At first, it tried to break it with its powerful physical strength. Each pull made the entire formation tremble and collapse. The restrictions on the chains shattered like bubbles. It seemed as if Jishui Mountain was about to be uprooted by it.
By the time the "miners" below had gathered their forces and returned to the mountaintop, Da'ao was already completely impatient.
"You bunch of ants, how dare you offend me today? You are defying Lord Water Dragon!"
The giant tortoise actually spoke in a furious voice, its words carrying an overwhelming sense of oppression. Each sentence it uttered sounded like a wall crashing into people.
Yuan Xuzi sneered inwardly. This idiot, Shuilong is from our Chen family dynasty. He has no reason to attack us. If this were in the north, every one of us would have to go into his belly to apologize. But this is the Chen family dynasty.
They always view things from the perspective of the entire dynasty. You, expending your internal strength, the strength of a Nascent Soul level cultivator, are simply courting death. You should know that even if you were used as materials, your entire body could be put to good use. Use your tortoise shell to make a ferry, use your beast blood flower talisman, and use your claws to forge weapons. You could make the most of everything, and you might even be more valuable than when you were alive.
They only coldly calculate gains and losses.
Getting back at you? Not only is it not a crime, it's a great achievement.
Yuan Xuzi arrogantly replied, "Water Dragon? Who do you think you are? If you have the guts, use your water magic and see if it turns around and swallows you whole to nourish its body."
The Demon-Slaying Ship sank more than 600 years ago. At that time, it must have been a Nascent Soul level demon beast, otherwise it would have been impossible to hide it under a comprehensive search. At that time, the Water Dragon was only in the mid-Nascent Soul stage and was training in the East Sea. It had nothing to do with you.
Are you trying to intimidate me by borrowing my power?
Da'ao knew very well that it dared not use water magic in the water, but it did know a little bit of other spells.
It stopped speaking, raised its head high, aimed at the chain, and slowly opened its terrifyingly large mouth.
A deathly stench filled the air. Countless white bones, both human and various aquatic monsters, were stuck in its teeth. Numerous ship fragments were scattered among them, some lodged in its teeth or embedded in its mouth. However, these were not the most conspicuous things.
Yuan Xuzi's eyes sharpened as he looked at one of its "fangs".
It was a complete shuttle-type assault ship with a perfectly streamlined hull. The light silver paint and the spear-point-like bow indicated that it was a very old and noble ship.
Da'ao actually mistook it for a denture?
Tiny specks of light gathered in its mouth; each tiny point of light was enough to blast a Golden Core cultivator apart, and now they all converged.
"This is...this can't be dragon's breath, can it?"
Yuan Xuzi had an outrageous idea: upon closer inspection, it was completely different from Baxia.
Baxia, one of the nine sons of the dragon, is the sixth son of the dragon. He is also called Bixi and is commonly seen in statues carrying steles.
By any measure, it should belong to the Xuanwu lineage.
He had no choice but to speed up his work, piling the restraints and other items onto the chain as if they were free. Since the quality wasn't good enough, they would compete on quantity.
The other Golden Core and Foundation Establishment stage talents also accelerated their actions, joining forces to unleash the formations they had practiced for a long time, concentrating their power to respond to any changes with unchanging principles.
In the blink of an eye, the world-destroying power continued to merge and rotate, eventually transforming into a giant sphere of light, which roared as it unleashed a devastating attack.
Yuan Xuzi hurriedly swung the chains, doing his best to prevent the terrifying ball of light from hitting the chains head-on.
However, the ball of light completely ignored the chains, soaring into the sky and hanging high in the air, like a bright full moon.
The next moment, it plummeted rapidly, so fast that no one in the formation could react in time, and it crashed directly next to the giant turtle.
In an instant, all the surrounding river water avoided it, and a spherical hole appeared in the surging river.
A terrifying burst of spiritual power erupted, all rushing towards the giant turtle's belly armor that was already suspended in the air, blasting it high into the air.
"Oh no, it's about to use the Dharma Body and Heaven!"
Everyone moved in unison, tilting their heads back and staring blankly at the giant tortoise in the sky, which resembled a mountain.
Faxiangtiandi!
Its entire body shone brightly, with countless shell plates floating around it. These plates then expanded and connected, forming a golden turtle-like image several times larger than itself in a very short time, which then enveloped its body.
It hovered directly above Mount Jisui, and everyone knew exactly what it was going to do; everyone could see it clearly.
The sky, the mountain falls.