Arc 18The Great Wilderness Detour

Zhang Yang built up his forces and village, faced mechanical armies and threats from the Heavenly Court, then was diverted to the Great Wilderness while trying to reach the Investiture of the Gods List. He arrived in a world devastated by the death of its heavenly god and began cautiously cooperating with Spring Return City while investigating its past.

  • Zhang Yang crossed into a monster-filled world, strengthened his troops with dragonblood and crystals, and established defenses and farmland around his Imprisonment Array.
  • Zhang Yang fought a mechanical legion, captured its fortress, and recovered Mechanical Soul Gold before following his main body's message and awakening the flood dragon.
  • Zhang Yang absorbed the Breath of the True Realm, defeated several enemy forces, and used the Central Earth Meridian to reincarnate four sword cultivators and transform his cavalry into Destruction Knights.
  • Zhang Yang cultivated spirit wheat, shared it with his companions, and taught the Azure Dragon, who then called itself his disciple.
  • Zhang Yang killed the Nine-Armed Demonic God, absorbed Chentang Pass into his Village Building Order, and learned that its sleeping residents had been prepared as sacrifices bearing Heavenly God Marks.
  • Mu Shaoan warned Zhang Yang about the Heavenly God Mark and the threats to his own fate, then gave him an Immortal Holy Shield Shard and intelligence about the Investiture of the Gods List.
  • Zhang Yang's attempt to open a passage to the Investiture of the Gods List instead hurled him, his companions, the Azure Dragon, and Chentang Pass into the Great Wilderness Prison.
  • Zhang Yang awakened Immortal Heroic Spirits, fought the Blood Feather Patrol Guard, and reached Spring Return City, where he reunited with Yun Chuzi and learned from Qingfengzi about the Great Dao Sect's destruction.
Chapters 426–450 Vol. 5 Read

Ch. 426The Fallen Land

Zhang Yang and his forces fell out of the collapsing Firewall World into a hostile land overrun with poisonous sludge monsters. After a brief fight revealed the monsters’ strength and the value of the Black Crystals they dropped, Zhang Yang questioned whether he could farm and establish a village there.

  • Zhang Yang found a ruined dragon trapped in ice and decided to carve eighty-one ice spears from the valuable iceberg around it.
  • As the Firewall World twisted apart, Zhang Yang dragged the small mountain and iceberg through a gap and landed in a world filled with monsters.
  • Zhang Yang ordered Robert, Bob, and Alec to lead their troops against the monsters, but the overwhelming, poisonous horde forced them to retreat into the Imprisonment Array.
  • Black Crystals fell from the soldiers and cleared their poison, and Zhang Yang recognized them as energy crystals worth experience in the Pendor World.
  • After seeing how badly the monsters’ poison had corroded his troops’ equipment, Zhang Yang doubted he could farm or establish a village in the fallen land.

Ch. 427The Battle Required an Economic Accounting

Zhang Yang transformed his soldiers and mounts with wyvern Dragonblood, then used their new strength to wipe out a vast wave of swamp monsters. After the battle, he discovered that the monsters’ Black Crystals could be refined into Blue Crystals that restored enchanted weapons, giving him a more efficient source of resources.

  • Zhang Yang enchanted a great axe with ice and transformed a Dragonblood Warrior by feeding him wyvern blood crystals and using spiritual energy.
  • When powerful scorpion monsters attacked the Imprisonment Array, Zhang Yang led the twelve Dragonblood Warriors out and used fireballs and cavalry charges to defeat them.
  • Zhang Yang established a Dragon Soul Altar and upgraded the talismans of his Imperial Guards, Blade Cavalry, and Exploration Heroes, then transformed their warhorses with wyvern blood crystals.
  • Zhang Yang renamed the transformed troops and mounts, then led them in a renewed assault that killed nearly one hundred thousand swamp monsters while the soldiers killed another fifty thousand.
  • Zhang Yang refined one hundred Black Crystals and 0.01 units of spiritual energy into a Blue Crystal that restored an enchanted great axe at a fraction of its usual cost.

Ch. 428A Day in the Life of Farmer Zhang Yang

Zhang Yang strengthened his defenses and transformed Alec and the other ranged soldiers into Dragon Soul Archer Cavalry while preparing his group to survive in the monochrome world. After two peaceful days without monsters, he expanded the camp, planted crops, and continued stockpiling weapons, unsure whether the silence concealed a trap.

  • Zhang Yang built a second, stronger Imprisonment Array and used a Dragon Soul Altar to transform Alec and thirteen other ranged soldiers, then strengthened their horses and enchanted their Elf Longbows.
  • Zhang Yang converted Black Crystals into Blue Crystals and used them to build a stone wall around the Imprisonment Array.
  • When no monsters appeared for two days, Zhang Yang stayed within the defenses and ordered the five coachmen to clear land and plant wheat, which sprouted rapidly with spiritual energy.
  • Zhang Yang continued carving Imprisoning Ice Spears, stockpiling three hundred as a concealed weapon in case the abnormal silence was a trap.

Ch. 429The Great Waves Turned the Heavens Upside Down

Zhang Yang’s alternate account discovered that his main body had apparently died and inherited the Death Black Sail, a Fate Point, the Village Building Order, and the stored sword souls of the fallen Azure Nether Realm. He resolved to rebuild steadily and fight for a chance to bring his people back through reincarnation.

  • Zhang Yang’s main body endured battles in the River of Time as the Azure Nether Sword, hoping his alternate account could begin anew with the secrets he had left behind.
  • The alternate Zhang Yang awoke from a nightmare of the Azure Nether Sword shattering and suspected something had happened to the main body.
  • He found the Death Black Sail, a Fate Point, and the restored Village Building Order among his ice spears.
  • Zhang Yang discovered that the Village Building Order held only Sword Souls Undying and contained 238,972 sword souls from the Heavenly Sword Clan and Azure Nether Realm.
  • He mourned the dead disciples, resolved to seek their reincarnation and rebuild his foundation, and welcomed back the Brick Village Building Order.

Ch. 430War Fortress

Zhang Yang used the Brick Village Building Order to assess his soldiers and discovered that their strength and Law Concentration were lower than he had hoped. Before he could plan how to improve them, a steel War Fortress and fighter planes appeared, revealing that the enemy had switched to a mechanical assault.

  • Zhang Yang reviewed the strength classification table and learned that the Village Building Order could accurately evaluate people and troops.
  • Zhang Yang entered his soldiers into the Brick Village Building Order and found that his dragonblood units had lower grades and Law Concentration than expected.
  • Zhang Yang worried that his remaining 33.5 high-grade Spirit Stones were insufficient to strengthen his army and hoped to use war to replenish his resources.
  • A steel War Fortress emerged from the clouds, and Zhang Yang realized the enemy had changed tactics and deployed a mechanical legion.
  • More than a dozen propeller-driven fighter planes flew over, leaving Zhang Yang stunned by the scale of the attack.

Ch. 431Knowing Yourself and Your Enemy

Zhang Yang used Brick to assess the enemy forces and learned that their low Law Concentration made the fighter jets and tanks vulnerable to his troops. He led a charge that destroyed enemy aircraft and tanks while advancing toward the War Fortress.

  • Zhang Yang had Brick evaluate the Stuart Fighter Jets, Serpent Tanks, and Stuart War Fortress, revealing their weaknesses and low Law Concentration.
  • Zhang Yang ordered his troops to charge the enemy infantry and had the Rangers target the fighter jets while he carried Imprisoning Ice Spears toward the War Fortress.
  • Dragonblood cavalry withstood the fighter jets' autocannon fire, and Zhang Yang brought down three jets with Imprisoning Ice Spears.
  • The War Fortress fired its secondary cannons as it advanced, but the blast that struck a Dragonblood Heavy Cavalryman only wounded him and he remounted.
  • Zhang Yang's cavalry tore through the Serpent Tanks without casualties, and he fixed his sights on the approaching War Fortress.

Ch. 432Human Gene Bank

Zhang Yang disabled the War Fortress’s movement and destroyed half of its main cannons, then followed Ban Brick’s detection to a plundered Sky Dome Human Race Gene Bank. He chose the Gene Bank over the Mechanical Cube and found four powerful deceased figures whose genes could be harvested.

  • Zhang Yang crippled the War Fortress with Imprisoning Ice Spears, but its support pillars let it keep firing its main cannons.
  • Zhang Yang broke through the fortress’s defenses and destroyed six of its twelve main cannons by trapping shells inside their barrels.
  • Ban Brick detected a Sky Dome Human Race Gene Bank and a Mechanical Cube, and Zhang Yang chose to pursue the Gene Bank.
  • Zhang Yang fought through the human soldiers and reached a chamber filled with empty coffins and four occupied ones.
  • Ban Brick identified the deceased Witcher Erikson, Sorceress Alice, Eagle Eye Sniper Leo, and Stormwind City Captain Aston, and listed the genes they could provide.

Ch. 433Mechanical Soul Gold

Zhang Yang neutralized the War Fortress’s self-destruct threat by throwing the Death Black Sail into its reactor, creating fifteen tons of Mechanical Soul Gold. After his forces defeated the fortress, he left with the valuable spoils while the virus escaped.

  • Zhang Yang used the brick slab to decompose four corpses, then raced through the fortress and killed 29 cloned warriors to reach its reactor.
  • Zhang Yang bound the area around the reactor and learned that the Death Black Sail’s dark particles could produce Mechanical Soul Gold.
  • Zhang Yang threw the Death Black Sail into the reactor, stopping it and preventing the self-destruct from detonating.
  • Zhang Yang found a piece of Mechanical Soul Gold inside the emptied reactor and learned it was an intelligent mechanical body with high Law Concentration.
  • The Dragonblood forces destroyed the fortress’s tanks, fighter planes, and cloned soldiers, but the virus escaped in a fighter plane.
  • Zhang Yang’s forces recovered about thirty thousand Black Crystals, steel, and fifteen tons of Mechanical Soul Gold, which five Dragonblood Warriors hauled back.

Ch. 434Heavenly Court

Zhang Yang discovered his main body's final message and used the inheritance it left behind to strengthen his soul and body. After helping the flood dragon recover, he proposed that they become friends and unite against the Heavenly Court.

  • Zhang Yang found his main body's recorded message, which explained why he had used the Fate Point, warned him not to sacrifice Little Cousin, and revealed the hidden True Realm Fruit.
  • Zhang Yang unsealed Essence Soul Reversion and endured its painful inheritance, then used it to advance his Soul Nourishing Talisman and Dragon Soul Talisman.
  • Zhang Yang repeatedly inscribed talismans on the frozen flood dragon while training, and the dragon gradually recovered as the steel wreckage outside disappeared.
  • The flood dragon awakened and told Zhang Yang how the Heavenly Court had imprisoned and mutilated it for a future feast.
  • Zhang Yang said that he and the flood dragon were both prey beneath the Heavenly Court and asked it to become his friend.

Ch. 435Breath of the True Realm

Zhang Yang realized the Azure Dragon and the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice came from the True Realm, and the memories and fury of his main body were unsealed, renewing his resolve to fight the powers that treated living beings as food. He used Blood Sacrifice Cousin’s luck to build a village that absorbed the iceberg, then endured the Breath of the True Realm until it fused into his flesh.

  • Zhang Yang learned that the Azure Dragon was a carefully raised delicacy and that the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice was a True Realm artifact suppressing the surrounding world.
  • Zhang Yang’s main body’s sealed memories and emotions surfaced, and he chose to fight the True Realm diners rather than flee.
  • Old Alec warned Zhang Yang that pursuers were approaching, while Zhang Yang concluded the thinning clouds were caused by the iceberg’s influence.
  • Zhang Yang activated Blood Sacrifice Cousin, buried the Brick Village Building Order, and ordered it to build a village to absorb the profound ice.
  • The village-building system established earth meridians and dissolved the iceberg, revealing a powerful Breath of the True Realm that required a fleshly body to fuse.
  • Zhang Yang grabbed the golden Breath of the True Realm and repeatedly healed his eroding arm with Spirit Stones until the power fused into his regrown flesh.

Ch. 436Central Earth Meridian

Zhang Yang absorbed the remaining Breath of the True Realm, raising his Law Concentration to 1.7%, then faced a prepared enemy force outside the Imprisonment Array. He annihilated the Black-Robed Monsters and Hammer Lizard Cavalry with Imprisoning Fire Spears and sent his soldiers against the Giant Boar Riders, while the Central Earth Meridian began absorbing the spoils.

  • Zhang Yang absorbed the remaining Breath of the True Realm, and Brick warned that his projected body needed to reach 2.0% Law Concentration before his True Soul grew further.
  • Old Alec reported that Giant Boar Riders, Hammer Lizard Cavalry, and Black-Robed Monsters had gathered outside the Imprisonment Array.
  • Brick assessed the enemy forces, identifying the Black-Robed Monsters as Epic Realm S- rank spellcasters and the other cavalry as powerful war units.
  • Zhang Yang left the array and killed all thirty-four Black-Robed Monsters with Imprisoning Fire Spears.
  • Zhang Yang killed all three hundred Hammer Lizard Cavalry, then led his soldiers in a charge against the Giant Boar Riders.
  • Zhang Yang ordered the Central Earth Meridian to absorb the collected Sub-Law from the fallen enemies, increasing its Law Concentration.

Ch. 437Let Me Trust You? That's Hard

After repelling the Giant Boar Riders, Zhang Yang raised the Central Earth Meridian’s Law Concentration and began reviving sword souls and strengthening his troops with the Azure Dragon’s blood. The Dragonblood Cavalry transformed into Destruction Knights alongside their evolved dragon steeds, while the Brick warned that their strength depended on trust between humans and demons.

  • Zhang Yang ordered his soldiers to fall back after they drove off the Giant Boar Riders, then used the Central Earth Meridian to reincarnate Zhao Xiao'er, Tang Dashan, Li Shuangzi, and Liang Xiao.
  • Zhang Yang drew blood from the Azure Dragon to raise the Meridian’s Law Concentration, then used more dragon blood, talismans, and Spirit Stones to transform the thirty Dragonblood Cavalry and their mounts.
  • The thirty Golden-Armored Elven Steeds evolved into Yellow-Scaled Dragon Steeds, and the transformed cavalry successfully rode them.
  • The Brick assessed the combined unit as Destruction Knights, an S+ rank formation whose greater power relied on trust between humans and demons.
  • Zhang Yang promised the Azure Dragon that he would not bleed it again, swearing in the Fisherman’s name.

Ch. 438Spirit Plants

Zhang Yang turned farmland into Beginner Spirit Fields and cultivated fifteen hundred spirit wheat seeds with a one-hundred-percent evolution rate, exhausting much of the Central Earth Meridian’s resources. As he admired the harvest, the Azure Dragon offered dragon blood and Flood Dragon Essence Souls in exchange for a third of it.

  • Zhang Yang upgraded a thousand mu of farmland into Beginner Spirit Fields and used his Soul Force Field to sow and harvest wheat in successive batches.
  • Zhang Yang refined the wheat through repeated planting until the final hundred mu produced spirit-grade wheat with a ninety-eight-percent average evolution rate and fifteen hundred fully evolved seeds.
  • The thirty Destruction Knights repelled a large virus invasion while Zhang Yang focused on the wheat and replenished the Spirit Fields from the Central Earth Meridian.
  • Zhang Yang asked the Brick to evaluate the harvest and learned that the wheat was Spirit Plants with three ordinary white Spiritual Marks.
  • Zhang Yang decided not to plant more because the harvest had consumed nearly five thousand units of secondary laws and the fertility of five hundred mu of Spirit Fields.
  • The Azure Dragon offered Zhang Yang ten tons of dragon blood and ten Flood Dragon Essence Souls for one-third of the Spirit Plants.

Ch. 439True Spirits Never Die

Zhang Yang learned that spirit plants could grant true spirit and traded ten of them to Azure Dragon for dragon blood. He used more spirit plants to strengthen his companions, then prepared to help four reincarnated sword cultivators and improve his forces for the fight back to the Fourth Sequence.

  • Azure Dragon explained that spirit plants could grant true spirit, and Zhang Yang traded ten plants for ten tons of dragon blood.
  • Zhang Yang distributed spirit plants to thirty-nine companions, greatly increasing their soul strength and enabling them to use the Soul Force Field.
  • Zhang Yang assessed Zhao Xiao'er, Tang Dashan, Li Shuangzi, and Liang Xiao, then told the four reincarnated sword cultivators to focus on cultivation.
  • Zhang Yang drew dragon blood from Azure Dragon into five vats and reminded it that it still owed him five tons.

Ch. 440The Sword Soul Seal

Zhang Yang began preparing to establish his foundation and endured a trial from the Soul Sword Qi left by his main body, awakening a powerful Sword Soul Seal. He then witnessed the Azure Dragon cultivate the Great Dao Scripture’s body-refining principle.

  • Zhang Yang completed a city wall around the Central Earth Meridian and taught Alec, Robert, Norton, Ig, Kalli, and the others two soul talismans.
  • Zhang Yang entered seclusion and used the brick to face the Soul Sword Qi guarding the Demigod Blood, but the trial left him wounded and he fell asleep.
  • After three days, Zhang Yang woke with a Sword Soul Seal and discovered he could release two azure swords that could grievously wound enemies from five hundred meters away.
  • Zhang Yang noticed the Azure Dragon undergoing a spiritual-energy fluctuation and watched it shrink as mountain-and-river patterns appeared across its body.
  • The Azure Dragon thanked Zhang Yang for preaching the Dao and called itself his disciple.

Ch. 441The Nine-Armed Demonic God

Zhang Yang watched a Dark Gold Fighter Jet destroy a black dragon, then gave the Azure Dragon his Mechanical Soul Gold. When a World Fragment fell toward them, Zhang Yang captured it and fought off a green-skinned attacker, discovering that the attacker was the Nine-Armed Demonic God.

  • A Dark Gold Fighter Jet killed a black dragon, and the Azure Dragon admired its power.
  • Zhang Yang gave the Azure Dragon his Mechanical Soul Gold after learning of the Azure Dragon’s interest in mecha puppet techniques.
  • Zhang Yang bound a falling World Fragment with the Central Earth Meridian after sensing that someone was steering it.
  • A green-skinned burly man leaped from the fragment, broke through Zhang Yang’s defenses, and pursued him with powerful punches.
  • Zhang Yang used Blood Sacrifice Cousin to sharpen his danger sense and struck the attacker with Sword Soul Seals, exposing a three-headed, nine-legged monster.
  • Zhang Yang recognized the monster as the Nine-Armed Demonic God.

Ch. 442Chentang Pass

After recovering his main body's memories, Zhang Yang used the Sword Soul Seal to destroy the Nine-Armed Demonic God and free a stolen city. As Zhang Yang considered bringing the city into his village, Brick warned that it might be a sacrifice.

  • Zhang Yang recovered memories explaining how the Heavenly Sword Clan's three Sword Seals had been created to counter Demonic God armies.
  • Zhang Yang used the Sword Soul Seal to erase the Nine-Armed Demonic God, leaving the Azure Dragon astonished by his strength.
  • The World Fragment descended, revealing Chentang Pass and its sleeping residents inside.
  • Brick identified the city as Chentang Pass, and Zhang Yang considered inspecting it and incorporating it into his village.
  • Brick detected suspicious planar coordinates and warned Zhang Yang that the city and its residents might be a sacrifice.

Ch. 443A Heavenly Feast Descended

Zhang Yang discovered that Chentang Pass and its inhabitants had been marked as sacrifices for Fourth Sequence heavenly gods, but he absorbed the city’s spiritual resources into the Village Building Order and brought his followers inside to cultivate. He told the Azure Dragon that it had been raised as food for the gods, leaving it devastated by the revelation.

  • Zhang Yang learned from the Brick that the mark branded on him was a Heavenly God Mark used to designate victims for Fourth Sequence heavenly gods.
  • Zhang Yang entered Chentang Pass, recognized its inhabitants and spiritual resources as a prepared feast, and had the Brick absorb the city into the Village Building Order.
  • Zhang Yang sent his subordinates and the Azure Dragon into the city to cultivate, and the Azure Dragon recognized the mark as belonging to the Great Sun Golden Crow Buddha.
  • Zhang Yang told the Azure Dragon that the gods had raised it as food and that the marked people in Chentang Pass were sacrifices, shattering its belief that its past suffering was punishment for wrongdoing.

Ch. 444Late to Arrive

After the six thousand people in Chentang Pass decayed and vanished, Zhang Yang learned that they had been Ascension Bodies intended as sacrifices and that the Heaven Heavenly God Mark would bring evil ghosts after him and his companions. He unlocked the second seal of Brick Village Building Order, accepted a Law of War quest, and saw an army of Antivirus Hunters descend toward his village.

  • Zhang Yang discovered that all six thousand sleeping people had died and rapidly decayed into nothing.
  • Zhang Yang explained to Azure Dragon that the people had been sacrificial Ascension Bodies and that the Heaven Heavenly God Mark would draw evil ghosts to kill them.
  • Brick Village Building Order opened its second seal and revealed options connected to Nie Xiaoqian's Well and the Law of War.
  • Zhang Yang activated the Law of War quest, which required him to lead 50 to 100 soldiers through 100 victorious battles or kill 10,000 enemies of the same level.
  • Zhang Yang saw an army of Antivirus Hunters teleport through Firewall World's boundary toward his village.

Ch. 445The Scheming Cousin

Zhang Yang met Augustus and learned the Antivirus Hunters knew little about heavenly demons, then secretly reunited with Mu Shaoan and explained the dangers of the Remnant Soul of Destiny and Mechanical Soul Gold. Mu Shaoan remained committed to the Antivirus Hunters, leaving their future alliance uncertain.

  • Augustus approached Zhang Yang to recruit him and questioned how Chentang Pass had appeared, but Zhang Yang dismissed his inquiries and revealed that he had killed the giant who once carried the city.
  • Augustus returned with Turtle, Xiao Wuwang, and Mu Shaoan, and Zhang Yang used the Central Earth Meridian and binding spells to secure the meeting.
  • Brick assessed Mu Shaoan as a powerful, fate-controlled Law Breaker whose Mechanical Soul Gold fusion threatened to turn him into a puppet.
  • Mu Shaoan used his white shield to shield himself and Zhang Yang from outside observation, then told Zhang Yang that Mu Shaojun had died at the age of 120.
  • Zhang Yang explained the Six Great Sequences and warned Mu Shaoan that the Remnant Soul of Destiny and Mechanical Soul Gold threatened him, urging him to keep cultivating the Law of Immortality.
  • Mu Shaoan thanked Zhang Yang but said he could not abandon the Antivirus Hunters or their civilization.

Ch. 446A Journey Never to Return

Zhang Yang learned that the Investiture of the Gods List world had gone offline and received intelligence and an Immortal Holy Shield Shard from Mu Shaoan. After Mu Shaoan departed, Zhang Yang prepared to enter the world and investigated a way to force open the Territory Stone’s malfunctioning teleportation coordinate.

  • Mu Shaoan tested the Heavenly God Mark, found his Law of Immortality could withstand it at great cost, and decided not to enter Chentang Pass.
  • Mu Shaoan gave Zhang Yang an Immortal Holy Shield Shard, explained how it sustained the Law of Immortality and linked their locations, and passed him intelligence about the Investiture of the Gods List’s past outages.
  • Mu Shaoan left, and Zhang Yang reflected on how time had separated them from their families before reading the intelligence and preparing to depart for the Investiture of the Gods List.
  • Zhang Yang assigned Azure Dragon to guard the village and had Brick evaluate the Territory Stone, which could still lock onto the world’s temporal coordinates despite its failed teleportation function.
  • Brick reported that forcing open the Territory Stone’s teleportation gate required connecting to the Central Earth Meridian and consuming at least 500 units of secondary law.

Ch. 447The World of Braised Meat Dragons

Mu Shaoan kept his connection to Zhang Yang’s cousin secret as Zhang Yang forced a passage toward the Investiture of the Gods List world. The passage instead dragged Zhang Yang and Chentang Pass into the Great Wilderness, where Azure Dragon recognized the world as its birthplace and the Brick’s cards revealed they had been diverted to a place called Great Wilderness Prison.

  • Mu Shaoan told Great Emperor, Turtle, and Xiao Wuwang to keep his cousin’s existence secret, then transformed the Steel Fortress into a tank and drove off to meet Arthur and the others.
  • Zhang Yang used the Central Earth Meridian to tear open a passage toward the Investiture of the Gods List, but the force of the passage hurled him, his soldiers, the dragon, and Chentang Pass through it.
  • Zhang Yang woke in a mud pit beneath a red sky and found that the Brick would not answer him, while Azure Dragon recognized the world as the Great Wilderness.
  • Azure Dragon said it could not remember the name of the world’s most famous person, and Zhang Yang found cards in the Brick revealing that a hidden method in Azure Dragon had diverted their journey to Great Wilderness Prison.
  • The Brick’s final card told Zhang Yang to survive.

Ch. 448Ancient Battlefield (Revised)

Zhang Yang used the Immortal Holy Shield Shard to awaken Immortal Heroic Spirits and gather the Law of Immortality on the decayed battlefield, then faced an aerial attack by the Blood Feather Patrol Guard of the Heavenly Court. He killed twelve Blood-Feathered Birdmen, but their Golden Souls escaped, so he sent the Immortal Heroic Spirits after them.

  • Zhang Yang placed the Immortal Holy Shield Shard on the battlefield, and its light awakened skeletons as Immortal Heroic Spirits.
  • The shard collected the Law of Immortality and awakened twelve Immortal Heroic Spirits before Zhang Yang moved on to search more of the battlefield.
  • A squad of Blood-Feathered Birdmen attacked from the sky, and Zhang Yang and his companions formed a defensive network with their Soul Force Fields and Imprisonment Spears.
  • Zhang Yang used twelve Imprisoning Ice Spears to kill twelve Blood-Feathered Birdmen.
  • Azure Dragon warned Zhang Yang that the attackers were the Blood Feather Patrol Guard of the Heavenly Court and urged him to stop their Golden Souls.
  • Zhang Yang sent the twelve Immortal Heroic Spirits after the escaping Golden Souls.

Ch. 449The Mountain and River Sun and Moon Demon-Slaying Stele

Zhang Yang killed the hidden creature inside the Azure Dragon’s spine, then led his group out of the ancient battlefield to Spring Return County. The city’s lord invited the human travelers to join Spring Return City, leaving Zhang Yang to decide how to respond.

  • Zhang Yang let two Golden Souls escape while he destroyed the hidden eyeball in the Azure Dragon’s spine and killed the remaining Blood Feather Patrol Guards.
  • Zhang Yang led his group away before the Blood-Feathered Birdmen’s corpses burned and their Golden Souls restored them.
  • Zhang Yang reached Spring Return County, where the Azure Dragon recognized the Mountain and River Sun and Moon Demon-Slaying Steles and identified his old friend as their maker.
  • Zhang Yang told the Azure Dragon to conceal his identity and aura, renaming him Mu Yiji, then crossed the steles with his group without being harmed.
  • A knight from Spring Return City invited Zhang Yang and his companions to join the city as human reinforcements during the Era of Demise Calamity.

Ch. 450The Heavenly God's Legacy

Zhang Yang and his companions entered Spring Return City, where he recognized Yun Chuzi and Qingfengzi from the Great Dao Sect and learned that their world had suffered a devastating calamity. He withheld what he knew about the world’s reduction to the Fifth Sequence and planned cautious cooperation while investigating the Heavenly God Marks and the dead god’s legacy.

  • Zhang Yang entered Spring Return City and recognized its city lord, Yun Chuzi, as his former senior brother from the Great Dao Sect.
  • Yun Chuzi tested Zhang Yang’s group with Soul Nourishing Talismans, and Zhang Yang revealed that he had been an outer disciple of the sect.
  • Qingfengzi arrived, recognized Azure Dragon as his old friend Zhuye, and described the invasion that destroyed the Great Dao Sect and devastated their world.
  • Zhang Yang challenged Qingfengzi and Azure Dragon to prove their identities and refused to disclose what he knew about the world’s history.
  • Zhang Yang concluded that the world had fallen from the Fourth Sequence to the Fifth after its heavenly god died, and planned limited cooperation with Spring Return City while investigating the Heavenly God Marks and the god’s legacy.
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