You understood the key to this desperate gamble better than anyone on the battlefield.
At this moment, how would you act?
1. Answer the Tinder Emperor's call, join the main Suyang force, and take part in attacking the Xianzhou suicide squad.
2. Roam the edges of the battlefield, focus on devouring defeated or wounded Suyang, and maximize your own growth amid the chaos.
3. Use the information from Golden Threads to manipulate the course of the battle, attempting to mislead the Xianzhou people or the Suyang and create a more advantageous state of chaos for yourself.
Seeing the options, Jiang Mo weighed them quickly.
Option one, joining the Tinder Emperor's main force?
Facing the Xianzhou's elite troops head-on?
No. The risk was too high. At his current level, he would likely turn into cannon fodder the instant he was caught in a clash of that scale.
Option three, manipulating the battlefield?
It sounded tempting, but with his current strength, even with an informational advantage, he lacked the power to play political games between two giants like the Tinder Emperor and the Xianzhou Alliance and influence the entire war.
If he slipped up, his fate would probably be worse than becoming cannon fodder.
Hmm... it seemed only option two was the safest.
Profiting from the chaos, taking advantage of the crisis, and maximizing his gains while ensuring his own safety.
Devouring those scattered Suyang earlier had already let him taste the benefits of growing stronger.
Now, even more powerful "supplements" were about to appear on the battlefield...
How could he possibly miss a buffet like this?
"I choose 2!"
Jiang Mo made his decision.
You chose to continue devouring your own kind and profit from the chaos. Villain Points +100.
At the age of fifteen, you controlled A'yun's body, a shell that had long since been hollowed out, and drifted like a ghost through the brutal war zones across Xianzhou Zhuming.
Golden Threads were your best eyes and ears.
You precisely avoided the areas where the "Red Star" had gathered, and also skirted around the assault routes of the Xianzhou suicide squad.
Your targets were the massive Suyang fusion entities blasted to pieces on the front lines, as well as powerful individual Suyang that had suffered severe energy loss in battle and were fleeing in panic.
You reached out and absorbed the Suyang on the verge of collapse.
Vast, pure Suyang energy poured madly into this body, only to be completely devoured by your greedy Suyang core.
Every devouring made your flames stronger.
Your Flames of Suyang began to flicker with a faint jade-blue gleam. It was a sign that Suyang power had become highly condensed and was advancing toward a higher level.
A'yun's body had completely become a container beneath the impact of the increasingly powerful Suyang energy.
His flesh and bones wailed, and his life force could go out at any moment.
But you did not care in the slightest.
This mortal shell's mission was nearly complete.
All you needed was a temporary vessel that could safely carry you through your growth period.
At the age of sixteen, the final battle between the Xianzhou Alliance and the Suyang "Red Star" erupted with a deafening roar.
Through Golden Threads, you witnessed how the suicide squad led by that young Xianzhou commander fought through blood and fire, broke through layer upon layer of obstacles, and successfully charged into the Red Star's violent core.
What followed was an explosion beyond description.
The Red Star in the sky was like a punctured balloon, instantly collapsing inward before turning into a pitch-black void that devoured all light and matter.
The edges of the void warped unpredictably. It was the most terrifying celestial phenomenon in the universe—a black hole!
A devastating shockwave swept out in all directions from the black hole.
Everything in its path, whether Suyang energy constructs or Xianzhou buildings, was reduced to dust.
Thanks to Golden Threads' early warning and the explosive growth in power from devouring countless Suyang, you controlled A'yun's body and hid in an underground evacuation facility in the instant before the shockwave arrived.
Even so, the violent tremors still caused your Flames of Suyang to flicker unsteadily.
And A'yun's mortal shell could no longer endure before this disaster.
With a cracking sound, the body that had accompanied you for more than a decade completely turned to ash and scattered away.
For the first time, your Suyang energy body—that cluster of jade-blue flames—was fully exposed to the outside world.
But thanks to your earlier frenzy of devouring, your current strength far surpassed that of an ordinary Suyang. You would not dissipate merely because you had lost your host...
The Healer, Immortality
At the age of seventeen, the Red Star was destroyed, their main force annihilated. The Suyang side completely lost the means to contend with the Xianzhou Alliance and collapsed like a landslide, scattering in all directions.
Seizing the opportunity, the Xianzhou Alliance launched a comprehensive hunt for the remaining Suyang.
The craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry urgently developed a special artifact called the "Cage," capable of effectively sealing Suyang and extracting their energy for conversion into power.
For a time, a wave of Suyang hunts swept across every Xianzhou. These creatures that had once caused trouble everywhere had now become free power banks in the eyes of the Xianzhou people.
At the age of eighteen, the "Tinder Emperor," who had led the Suyang resistance, was finally defeated by that young Xianzhou commander after several great battles.
His violent core was captured and locked within the strongest Demon-Suppressing Cage forged by the Xianzhou Ministry of Industry. He was sentenced to burn himself for all eternity, providing core power for Xianzhou Zhuming.
Thus, the age of the Suyang came to an end.
At the age of nineteen, during a sweeping purge targeting hidden Suyang, you ultimately failed to escape.
Faced with a Xianzhou squad equipped with specialized Cages and detection artifacts, you were discovered despite your best efforts to hide.
After a brief chase, you were forced into a dead end.
However, at the instant of your capture, you deliberately retracted most of your power and disguised yourself as an ordinary young Suyang with weak energy.
The Xianzhou craftsmen and soldiers responsible for identifying you noticed that your jade-blue flames seemed somewhat stronger than those of ordinary Suyang. But under your deliberate pretense of weakness, they did not become overly suspicious. They merely assumed you were a surviving remnant with limited potential.
In the end, like tens of thousands of other ordinary Suyang, you were thrown into a Suyang prison somewhere deep within Xianzhou Zhuming.
This place was like a massive factory. Countless Suyang were confined within specialized compartments, their leaking energy collected and converted into the power that kept the Xianzhou running.
In the end, you, too, became part of Xianzhou Zhuming's energy system.
Day after day, year after year.
Time seemed to have lost its meaning for a life-form made of energy, yet your consciousness remained clear, like that of an eternal observer.
Golden Threads became your only amusement.
Countless invisible threads stretched out through the cracks of the prison, clinging to every corner of Xianzhou Zhuming and funneling every change in the outside world into your senses.
At the age of one hundred, you used Golden Threads to map out the Xianzhou's defenses and patrol routes perfectly, waiting only for an opportunity to escape.
Unfortunately, the Xianzhou people guarded you "batteries" tightly... Over the course of a century, there was almost no opening to exploit.
At the age of one hundred and twenty-two, in Star Calendar 2022, Golden Threads caught an interesting piece of information.
A ship from the distant sea of stars arrived at the Xianzhou, calling itself the Interstellar Peace Corporation. They brought novel technology and so-called "civilized rules," then formed an alliance with the Xianzhou.
A very, very long time passed...
At the age of nine hundred, in Star Calendar 2600, something huge happened to the Xianzhou! The Xianzhou people found the Healer!
Afterward, a divine tree called Jianmu suddenly sprouted from the middle of the Luofu Xianzhou, blotting out the sky.
The Xianzhou people discovered that anyone who ate its fruit could become immortal!
The Xianzhou people went mad at once, believing they had become immortals, celestial beings who would never have to die again.
You watched the people of the Xianzhou celebrate eternal life through Golden Threads, sneering inwardly.
Immortality?
These people were celebrating too soon. Who knew whether this thing was actually good? Sooner or later, it would cause a massive disaster.
At the age of thirteen hundred, sure enough, after several more centuries, the Xianzhou descended into complete chaos!
This was the famous "Era of Three Calamities" in Xianzhou history.
First came the "Calamity of Life." There were too many people, and the ships could barely hold them all.
Then came the Browncoat Rebellion. The rich and powerful old fogeys fought the poor common folk, and blood flowed like rivers.
Next came the Fratricidal War. The people of Xianzhou Yuque fought one another until the entire ship was destroyed, and more than a billion living beings aboard it were wiped out.
Finally came the Golden Man Rebellion. The war machines once used in battle suddenly came alive, hacking down anyone they saw and turning the Xianzhou upside down.
You saw every bit of this mess with perfect clarity.
You had truly seen through them. Those immortal old fogeys of the Xianzhou had not changed a single flaw in their bones. Instead, because they had lived too long, they became greedier, more selfish, and less human.
At the age of seventeen hundred, in Star Calendar 3400, before the Xianzhou had fully recovered from the wounds of the Three Calamities, the "Calamity of Fire" arrived like a tide that covered the heavens!
Many monstrous armies calling themselves the Denizens of Abundance drove massive beast-like warships toward the Xianzhou with murderous momentum.
The Xianzhou fleets fell into an unprecedentedly bitter war. Even the prison zone where you were held was violently affected.
You immediately realized it: the opportunity had come!
Golden Threads immediately began operating at high speed. Every piece of information from the battlefield, every secret order from the Xianzhou leadership, flooded into your mind.
Very quickly, you caught an extremely critical piece of information:
To deal with this catastrophe, the Xianzhou leadership had actually decided to gamble everything by taking the risk of activating the powers of the imprisoned Suyang!
Among them was even the Tinder Emperor, who had been suppressed by the Xianzhou Alliance for a thousand years and used as Xianzhou Zhuming's core power source!
And they intended to find a group of Xianzhou soldiers unafraid of death, fuse them with Suyang, and turn them into super soldiers to die in battle. Oh, no—send them in as a suicide squad.
"Heh, now this is getting interesting!" Your Flames of Suyang bubbled with delight.
Not long afterward, you saw a young Xianzhou commander in general's armor, his expression solemn, ignoring the advice of those around him as he resolutely walked toward the deepest part of Xianzhou Zhuming's prison, where the Tinder Emperor was held.
Clearly, he was going to negotiate with the most powerful Suyang.
At the same time, many Xianzhou officers hurried into the prison blocks holding ordinary Suyang.
They intended to pick out a few "lucky ones" from the Suyang they had once treated as disasters and use them as cannon fodder.
Then, several officers arrived near you...
What did you plan to do?
Farewell, All Xianzhou
What did you plan to do?
1. Keep your head down and wait for the Xianzhou people to randomly choose some unlucky victims, leaving your fate to chance.
2. Try to possess a low-ranking guard who entered the prison, trigger a small prison riot, create chaos, and see whether you could escape amid the confusion.
3. Deliberately release powerful energy unlike that of the other Suyang, approach a young officer whose resolve was clearly wavering, whose rank was low, and who would be easy to control, then send him the thought: Choose me. You can survive, and you can win glory and merit.
Jiang Mo did not hesitate for even a second.
Option one? What a joke. Leaving his fate to chance was not his style.
Option two was too risky. What if it went wrong?
Option three was better.
Golden Threads had already investigated every officer in this batch from top to bottom.
A young squad leader named A'yong was especially suited to being possessed.
His strength was ordinary, but he had a frail and sickly younger sister in the rear who desperately needed precious medicine bought with military merit.
A sister-obsessed guy like this would do anything for his sister. His will definitely would not be firm, making him easy to control... Perfect!
Jiang Mo immediately chose 3.
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