Where Did the Troops Come From?
"Is this the Vermilion Bird City?"
Looking at the city bathed in the glow of the elements, Chen Qing felt a surge of emotions.
He was heartbroken when humanity went extinct, but he was also somewhat relieved to have become a data life form.
Humans have their advantages, but in the world of data, the wonders that data life forms can experience are things that ordinary humans could never have known.
Take, for example, this city of flames before our eyes.
Even with the best technology in the past, the only things that mattered were visuals and imagery. The first time an ordinary person saw something, they would be amazed, and the second time they would marvel at it, but they would never feel the same sense of awe as they do now.
The city emanated a powerful fire element, capable of igniting the entire world in an instant when unleashed. Yet, as a higher life form, one could clearly sense the awe-inspiring power of this energy. This feeling, this reverence, is something humans cannot experience in the virtual world, but data can fully perceive it. This is a creative wonder that ordinary life forms cannot comprehend.
Human imagination has been completely liberated in the data world, and data life itself has perfectly experienced the charm of this imaginative world.
As newly born life forms, regardless of the sinful reasons that led to their formation, they are now the most lifelike beings on this planet.
"Hmm, this is Vermilion Bird City. I've heard that back then, you—no, your main body—were a key figure in suppressing the Four Spirits?"
Chen Qing was taken aback for a moment upon hearing this, then gave a wry smile.
Many of his memories from back then are incomplete, but his memories of suppressing the Four Spirits are quite complete. The reason he suppressed the Four Spirits Four Spirits was because their power was too strong and they might rebel against the Heavenly Stems and be used by the nobles like Elder Long to launch a counterattack against the Outer Heaven Demon Statue. So he pretended to form an alliance with Elder Long and the others in order to make the two sides wear each other down.
But as a young man, he underestimated people's true nature.
The Four Spirits are also intelligent beings, and are naturally easily bewitched. Unexpectedly, they were directly won over by Elder Long and others, and Alliance with them.
Seeing that the Alliance was irreversible, Chen Qing had no choice but to take drastic measures and eliminate the Four Spirits first.
That was the most intense battle since I started working with Elder Liu, but it was also the battle that severely damaged my strength. Then Elder Liu betrayed me, and some designers were secretly misled, which ultimately led to the suppression of my entire group.
Elder Long and his group also took the opportunity to seize many things from the Land of the Four Spirits, such as the essence blood of the Four Spirits!
Otherwise, how could the Heavenly Court control the Four Spirits Star Officials?
"I suppose so," Chen Qing said, her eyes filled with complex emotions.
In fact, the Four Spirits had taken the initiative to communicate back then. They wanted to live and wanted to resist the outsiders. At that time, they had promised him that once they successfully resolved the external threat, they would help him deal with Elder Long and the others.
But Chen Qing was frightened at that time. He felt that something terrible might happen to these natives after they learned about the real world, so he decided to kill them.
Intelligent life forms are behaving too much like humans, while humans have yet to realize the terrifying nature of data life.
He had been mocking Elder Long, but in reality, he was the one who valued those who were not of his kind the most back then.
"Senior, you came alone. You don't think you can defeat the Divine Generals and the others on your own, do you?" The White Tiger frowned. "The Heavenly Court dared to make a move because they were certain you didn't have enough troops."
"Yes," Chen Qing said calmly, "It will arrive soon."
"Could it be the Ghost Army of the Great Jin Dynasty?" White Tiger laughed immediately, "Impossible! The Great Jin emperor is barely holding on. If the soldiers don't return soon, once Elder Liu consolidates Cloud Capital, he'll devour him completely!"
"No." Chen Qing shook his head. "The ghost soldiers of the Great Jin rely too much on the power of Yin ghosts, which is too restrictive in Vermilion Bird City. The Vermilion Bird Flame is extremely strong and Yang, and it is the nemesis of Heavenly Ghosts. Even if I were willing, the Princess would not be willing to fight here with such soldiers. Moreover, the Heavenly Court has the Heavenly Mirror. Whether it is in the north or the Central Plains passes, you will not miss any major commotion, including the activation of large-scale spatial arrays. Therefore, the troops on both sides cannot be moved."
"Where else do you have soldiers, senior?" White Tiger asked in confusion. Since Chen Qing was so calm, he must have some means, but military strength is something that can't be created out of thin air.
Soon, a spatial fluctuation came, and the White Tiger was startled, looking behind Chen Qing.
There were spatial runes behind Chen Qing, clearly indicating that he was connecting with a large spatial array.
"Is it another military force being transported here?" White Tiger frowned. "As you just said, the higher-ups won't miss such a large-scale spatial formation."
"The Heavenly Mirror was designed by Pu Yunchuan back then. It's one of the Thirty-Six Artifact Demon, and along with the Mirror Demon, it belongs to the superior category of Artifact Demon." Chen Qing looked at the sky and coldly laughed, "But it has a flaw!"
"Flaw?" White Tiger was taken aback. Yes, such a secret would definitely not be easily revealed to someone like her, but Chen Qing inherited Pu Yunchuan's memories, so she naturally knew the weakness.
"It can't observe three places at the same time; at most, it can only observe two. It has to keep an eye on the north, the key passes in the Central Plains, and also have the Thousand Eyes Divine General keeping an eye on Cloud Capital. It might even have other spies planted in the Northern Demon Domain. Therefore, the Heavenly Court's mirror cannot observe the entire land. As long as there are some places it hasn't thought of, it can find troops to follow."
"Where else are there soldiers?" White Tiger frowned. With three ancient forces, plus Chen Qing and the imperial court, what other force in this world could threaten them? Wait!
The White Tiger suddenly realized. "East Sea?"
"You're quite clever, no wonder the Heavenly Court can't tolerate you." Chen Qing laughed, "If you were just a naive and reckless man, perhaps you would have been more likely to be kept by the Heavenly Court."
The White Tiger suddenly looked towards the location of the spatial runes. A flash of purple light appeared, followed by a familiar figure.
She recognized that figure. It was Ziyue, appointed by the Great Emperor Ziwei, who was second only to Chen Qing in power and was once one of the most important creators of this world!
The reason she was familiar with this person was because Ziwei in the heavens also cared about her very much. Chen Qing's Divine Path Style and the positions of the gods in the Heavenly Court were almost equivalent. Once he controlled the world, all the gods and generals in the Heavenly Court would be replaced by people from Chen Qing's forces. And the position that Ziyue was going to replace was her, Star Lord Ziwei!
Ziwei's spatial manipulation skills surpass Shen Yuan's, and now that she possesses the power of the demon golem, if she were to attain a Dao Fruit, she might truly be able to rival Star Lord Ziwei.
Spatial runes descended, and besides Ziyue, there were swarms of armored figures behind her.
Each of them possessed immense power, clearly indicating they were extremely elite soldiers.
"The Four Saints Guard?" White Tiger's heart skipped a beat. Yes, since the King of Qin was willing to put on this show with Chen Qing, it meant that he had already cooperated with Chen Qing. It seemed normal that he would bring troops over.
But is Chen Qing really willing to let him lead troops here?
And the number of soldiers.
"Isn't that too little?" the White Tiger said.
Behind the King of Qin, the soldiers who were teleported in possessed extraordinary strength and were of Transcendent quality. In terms of quality, they could indeed rival the Heavenly Soldiers under the Three-Eyed Divine General, but their numbers were far inferior. At a glance, there were only about three thousand soldiers, while the Three-Eyed Divine General's army had at least thirty thousand!
One against ten, or Three-Eyed Divine General troops—no one in this world can do that!
"That's quite a lot," Chen Qing said with a smile, looking at Vermilion Bird City. "Back then, they didn't participate in the extermination of the Four Spirits, preserving their strength, which caused problems later. Now let them taste the consequences of what happened back then!"