A War Shrouded in Gunpowder!

"I remember you were part of it when I was first sealed away."

Upon hearing Li Yuan's words, Mo Jianci covered his forehead with his hand. "So the situation has reversed now, but... how are you going to take my crown?"

Once sealed, all the winged race members, including the apostles, were dragged into a massive whirlpool beneath the deep sea. No matter how much they struggled, they couldn't withstand the immense suction.

Even assuming Li Yuan was more skilled, can a war be considered a victory if one cannot seize the crown?

With Mo having numerous fourth-rank subordinates, it's unlikely that Li Yuan will be able to seize the crown from him now.

However, the initiative is now in Li Yuan's hands. As long as the fifth-tier cultivator cannot leave the field, he can reopen the seal at any time.

He has 700 years left. During these 700 years, the Feathered People and the Apostles will be unable to continue to grow, but conversely, Li Yuan's side will have unlimited room for growth.

So once Li Yuan's fourth-rank subordinates surpass the Apostles, the seal will be broken and the crown will be easily obtained.

Li Yuan is currently unable to eliminate Mo, and the most terrifying thing about the Feathered People is their ability to grow.

If their growth is not contained, the situation will never become favorable for Li Yuan.

We can't win if we fight now, but if we don't fight now, it will be even harder to win later.

Mo was ultimately Li Yuan's greatest concern at sea, and the same was true for Mo; Li Yuan was also his greatest concern.

However, the two did consider cooperation, but such cooperation is based on the premise that both parties are of equal strength.

The Mo clan has many members at the fourth rank and is expected to wipe out Li Yuan in one fell swoop. They want to cooperate, but Li Yuan will have to make concessions.

Now the situation has reversed, and the initiative is in Li Yuan's hands. If they want to cooperate now, Mo must make concessions.

However, now that the seal has been formed, is it still necessary for Li Yuan to cooperate when he has absolute initiative?

Unless Mo currently possesses a crown that would allow him to immediately establish a partnership with Li Yuan.

Otherwise, Li Yuan would never have believed him, since all verbal agreements are just empty words unless a real cooperation is achieved.

The other party can stab you in the back at any time when you are not paying attention.

Li Yuan was still wary of Leviathan and others, let alone angels. In the end, there was no one in this world he could absolutely trust.

Except for himself.

"002, your seal is good, but do you know that your seal has a fatal flaw?"

Mo suddenly said with a strange expression.

After saying that, he vanished from the spot in a flash.

Mo Jiujiu never appeared again after that, but the words he said before leaving remained on Li Yuan's mind.

A fatal flaw?

Whether Mo was stubbornly denying it or had actually discovered something, Li Yuan had lost control of the situation at this point.

He ordered his men to examine and further analyze the seal day and night, but they found nothing, and the sealed winged people remained completely still.

On the other side, there is a continent outside the Central Continent.

Unlike the two hundred years of mutual probing on the Central Continent, and the long period of peace that followed.

Because the Outer Sea Continent is relatively small and has many countries, wars have been breaking out continuously since the 80th year.

Over a period of 120 years, no fewer than 228 wars of varying scales broke out on the Outer Sea Continent.

The first war was started by 009.

009's men are just ordinary people. He didn't stay in the era of cold weapons for long, but instead moved directly into the era of firearms!

With the ability to split an object into its own form every year, 009 has created numerous artifacts within his organization.

Some of the more famous ones include the eternal flame, the Gate of Life that grants immortality, and a shotgun with unlimited ammo.

With the help of these strange things, 009's group achieved several technological explosions and numerous upheavals.

The initial turmoil was triggered by the divine artifact.

Some people believe that sacred artifacts are not to be understood or interpreted, otherwise it would be a desecration of the artifacts.

Another group of people believe that if they can analyze the structure of the artifacts and mass -God Creation, they can advance their civilization's development by a thousand or even ten thousand years!

Two factions with differing ideologies clashed over a protracted civil war over a divine artifact. In the end, the war was ended by a man who supported both factions.

He became the first, true king.

Yes, before that, the number of people in 009 was not large, and the concept of a nation had not yet been formed.

It wasn't until the two factions clashed and the civil war lasted for eight years that people happened to see other countries.

They suddenly realized that they were not even a country, but just two gangs with different theories.

From then on, people began to yearn from the bottom of their hearts for an end to the war and for someone to achieve unification and establish a true empire.

Then, that person appeared.

He advocated for the advancement of technology and the sacred to go hand in hand, end the civil war, achieve unification, and establish an empire. As he spoke, more and more people began to follow him.

He then launched a war to establish a unified nation.

The war lasted for four years until the previous crowned king surrendered the crown, thus ending the war.

In the 61st year of the World Calendar, the Empire was founded.

The king designated some artifacts as undecipherable divine objects and worshipped them, while using others for research and production.

For example, firearms.

By directly observing existing firearms, they began to reverse engineer them, trying to manufacture gunpowder and forge steel pipes.

Targeted reverse engineering is always much faster than aimless, random experimentation.

As a result, the empire experienced several technological explosions.

The leap in technology enabled 009 to launch the first war!

He ignited the war, which gradually spread to the entire Outer Sea Continent.

While people were still killing each other with cold weapons, the army of the Empire 009 took out muskets and changed the course of the war!

However, the earliest firearms did not have rifling, making it difficult to hit the enemy at long range, while reloading was quite troublesome at close range.

Therefore, the first appearance of the musket did not go smoothly.

009 conquered a small amount of land in the surrounding neighboring countries with his muskets, but was driven back by a coalition of several countries using cold weapons.

Although the debut of the musket was not smooth, it gave the nations of the Outer Sea Continent a glimpse into the future structure of warfare.

So after World War I, some people began to imitate 009 and tried to manufacture gunpowder and muskets.

This trend swept across the entire continent, to the point that the wars of the following century became dominated by firearms.

People began to value technology and tried to improve firearms and even manufacture explosives.

Until the year 140 of the Imperial Calendar, the Empire under 009 once again ushered in a technological explosion.

Rifling, a revolutionary invention.

The structure of rifling is not complicated; it simply involves adding spirals inside the barrel.

However, the process of producing rifling was a revolutionary breakthrough.

Without the aid of industrial lathes and precision instruments, mass-producing rifling is no less difficult than making modern bullets by hand.

The ability to manufacture rifling indicates that 009 has established a certain industrial foundation and achieved a leap forward in the times!

However, this was still thanks to the 'magic weapon'.

Their industrial development was rapid, originating from a Power Generation Artifact.

A giant boiler; anything that can be burned can be turned into electricity once it is thrown into the boiler.

Although it was just ordinary thermal power generation, it was still a groundbreaking product for the era of cold weapons.

Unlike the Central Continent, which is full of demons and monsters, the Outer Sea Continent is mainly inhabited by ordinary humans, and the power of technology is amplified infinitely at this moment.