In less than a day, one astonishing event had followed another: the strange spectacle of Qi and Blood Wolf Smoke, the emergence of the Wu Ming Ruins and the legends of Human Immortal Martial Dao within, the wonders encountered by onlookers who went there, and the arrival of elite Special Operations Forces sent by the authorities. Outsiders at the Manifesting Strength level had rushed to explore the ruins, the mysterious Pillaring Grandmaster Li Hansha had appeared, and the Blood-colored Wolf Smoke Pillar had vanished.
Every so often, someone at the scene filmed a video and uploaded it. The story practically monopolized the trending lists across the internet, drawing countless people into the spectacle. They didn't even want to go to work.
Ever since the Wu Ming Ruins opened, everything netizens thought they knew had been shattered.
The Blood Qi Puppets had existed for centuries and could still move and attack after death. And they had been made from the Great Yuan's Wolf Guard?!
Was this a joke? How had the ancients turned dead people into Blood Qi Puppets? How could they still attack centuries later? Wasn't this a movie?!
Explorers had also picked Rare Medicine and Precious Grass inside. The plants supposedly had miraculous effects: eating one could strengthen the body and speed up cultivation. Prices had already been driven above two hundred thousand per plant, and wealthy buyers were reportedly scrambling for them. The prices were still climbing!!
Those prices left netizens numb. Weight for weight, the plants were worth far more than gold or gemstones.
But the real shock came later. Deep inside the ruins, a group of Manifesting Strength explorers had found the cultivation methods left by Pei Canghai, the Human Immortal Martial Dao Ancestor. They had also discovered that a Stone Stele sealed away both hands and part of the torso of Great Yuan Imperial Advisor Basiba?!
Great Yuan Imperial Advisor Basiba's remains had been sealed inside the Wu Ming Ruins? How were the two connected?!
What netizens found even more absurd was that remains sealed for six or seven hundred years had come back to life. They had broken free from beneath the Stone Stele, grafted themselves onto a Blood Qi Puppet's body, then charged out of the ruins in pursuit of two Pillaring Grandmasters and four Transforming Strength Great Boxers.
Were Great Yuan Imperial Advisor Basiba's reanimated remains really that terrifying? No matter how fearsome they were, surely they couldn't stand against several hundred Official Elite Special Operations Forces armed to the teeth outside!
Then netizens saw the footage filmed by spectators at the scene and realized how badly they had underestimated him. Great Yuan Imperial Advisor Basiba's reanimated Demonized Remains were overpowering hundreds of elite Special Operations Forces armed to the teeth. He looked like a game character running an invincible rampage, one step away from shouting, "The enemy shames me—I'll strip off my clothes!"
For a moment, the onlookers online could hardly believe their eyes. Surely an ancient man from six or seven hundred years ago, however strong he had been, was no match for modern firearms. How had this turned out so differently from what they expected?!
They watched Great Yuan Imperial Advisor Basiba's reanimated Demonized Remains streak about in Dark Light. Gun barrels and bulletproof vests were as flimsy as paper beneath his fingernails. In the end, only grenades and grenade launchers managed to hold him back.
Netizens sucked in sharp breaths. The sight of Great Yuan Imperial Advisor Basiba's reanimated Demonized Remains rampaging through the battlefield left them stunned and nearly swearing out loud.
Holy shit! The Great Yuan Imperial Advisor was that powerful? Even guns couldn't stop him. He completely outclassed modern elite troops! How had the Great Ming ever overthrown the Great Yuan?!
Fortunately, the two Pillaring Grandmasters and four Transforming Strength Great Boxers who had cultivated some Human Immortal Martial Dao methods found his weakness. Grandmaster Li Hansha smashed his lower body with a palm strike, and in the end, he self-destructed.
The battle video lasted less than fifteen minutes, but netizens called it thrilling and terrifying. If they hadn't been told it was footage recorded at the scene, they would have thought it came from a movie set. What they saw shattered their expectations all over again.
Across Bihū, Tianya, Group Chat, and other online spaces, footage of the battle flooded every feed. Countless heated discussions filled the comments below.
: Great Yuan Imperial Advisor's reanimated remains were insane! That was way more exciting than I expected. It opened a whole new door for me! I never knew a person could be that powerful!!
: That was practically magic! Unless they used artillery to blanket the whole area, I bet even America's elite troops would have to drop to their knees and call those reanimated remains "Daddy"!!
: Damn, brothers, I'm seriously starting to question the accuracy of ancient history! Why was there no record of the Great Yuan Imperial Advisor being this formidable? And what about Human Immortal Martial Dao? Its practitioners took those reanimated remains down head-on!!
: Agreed with the comment above! The ancients were more mysterious than we ever imagined. I've decided to practice National Martial Arts diligently from today on. Once I meet the requirements, I'm going to learn Human Immortal Martial Dao!!
: This video will stay with me for a hundred years! I can feel a whole new storm coming. The authorities are definitely going to make a big move!!
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There had been too many outsiders at the Wu Ming Ruins. So many videos had been filmed and uploaded, and countless netizens had already seen them. Trying to control the story online now would accomplish nothing.
The authorities simply stopped trying. Instead, they turned their attention to the Blood Qi Puppets, Rare Medicine and Precious Grass, Human Immortal Martial Dao cultivation methods, and other things seen in the footage. Used properly, any one of them could be enormously valuable.
Most important of all, though, were Great Yuan Imperial Advisor Basiba's remains. Sealed away for six or seven hundred years, they had still revived and unleashed terrifying destructive power, practically crushing several hundred Official Elite Special Operations Forces. He was a superhuman biological weapon.
Countless people high up in the Central Province Official wanted to know how he had survived for six or seven hundred years. If their research produced results, might they have a chance to live that long too? The very thought set their hearts racing!!