"Obey the sect leader's orders!!!"
"Obey the sect leader's orders!!!"
"Obey the sect leader's orders!!!"
"Soldiers, listen to my command, let's go, let's go!"
In an instant, led by Ye Yu, Ye Qingyi, Nangong Nan, Nangong Xing, and You Meng, the five great legions marched towards the warships.
The other more than 200,000 cultivators, under the leadership of the high-ranking officials of the Ascending Immortal Sect, also boarded the warships one after another.
A week later, Wu Tao, who had arranged everything, sat in the council hall of Weicheng, looking at the thirty-two Nascent Soul stage subordinates sitting before him, and nodded with satisfaction.
...
After a slight cough, Wu Tao's expression instantly became serious.
Wu Tao glanced around and then gave Ye Yu a look, signaling him to stand up and say something.
Upon receiving Wu Tao's hint, Ye Yu immediately stood up.
Ye Yu cupped his fists towards everyone and then spoke. "Our plan has reached the stage of imminent commencement, so some things can now be told to everyone."
Next, Ye Yu began his eloquent speech.
"Everyone knows that the cultivation world of Zizhou, although it belongs to the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty, is in reality still ruled by the aristocratic families."
"And these aristocratic families control more than eighty percent of the resources in the Zizhou cultivation world, which has caused dissatisfaction among many rogue cultivators. Of course, these rogue cultivators alone cannot achieve anything."
"Therefore, I have devised a method to make them stir up trouble amongst themselves."
"Spirit stones are the basic currency for cultivators. With our current spirit stone reserves alone, it is not enough to turn the entire Zizhou cultivation world upside down."
"However, if we can collectively buy up one essential item that cultivators need in their cultivation process, our spirit stone reserves will be more than sufficient."
"For this purpose, after careful investigation, we have chosen the Foundation Establishment Pill, which is necessary for rogue cultivators to advance from the Qi Refining stage to the Foundation Establishment stage, as our target."
"As a Foundation Establishment Pill for rogue cultivators to advance from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment, it is naturally a must-have for cultivation, regardless of whether they are high-level or low-level cultivators."
"Even if high-level cultivators do not need Foundation Establishment Pills themselves, their descendants will, not to mention the low-level cultivators who are already in urgent need of them."
"The five main ingredients of the Foundation Establishment Pill are: Hundred-Year Silver Snake Grass, Hundred-Year Saffron Spirit Flower, Hundred-Year White Lotus Seed, Hundred-Year White Truffle Grass, and Hundred-Year Fo-ti Root!"
"Our plan is to monopolize two or three of these materials, continuously raising their prices, which will also cause other observing aristocratic families to buy in large quantities..."
"When the price reaches its peak, we will sell them off. However, when selling, I will inform the Ministry of Revenue of the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty."
"The Ministry of Revenue's spirit stone reserves are far greater than ours. When they start buying at a low price, those aristocratic families who bought at high prices will be in trouble, not a single one will be left, and a large number of rogue cultivators will also be affected."
"Heh heh, by then, a large number of cultivators who have lost all their fortune will surely have red eyes, and they will probably even have the urge to kill."
"At that time, if the Liu family royal clan of the Ministry of Revenue brings cartloads of spirit stones back to their old nest, it will be quite interesting."
Listening to Ye Yu describe his plan, Wu Tao smiled with satisfaction. In this regard, he was truly inferior to his eldest disciple!
Seeing Wu Tao looking very pleased, Ye Yu cleared his throat and continued, "At that time, the aristocratic families, blinded by their rage, will surely tear apart the Liu family royal clan who have gained immense benefits from this upheaval."
Saying this, Ye Yu's eyes gleamed with excitement, and his voice unconsciously rose, "That's when our opportunity will come. After so many years of waiting, it will finally come to an end."
Hearing Ye Yu's words, everyone understood the plan. This was indeed a grand undertaking.
The strong often enjoy playing chess with the world as their board, manipulating lives!
Hell Plane.
The first ray of dark red sunlight of the morning cast upon the earth.
A vast, immense, and densely packed complex of buildings, stretching across the sky, emerged from the boundless darkness.
This was a magnificent and spectacular giant city, standing like a pillar supporting the heavens!
The builders, with great divine power, broke open the mountain range, hollowed out the entire mountain body, and piled it up layer by layer, eventually forming this unprecedented giant city.
The mountain and the giant city were integrated, and the giant city merged with the clouds. Above and below, this city was the foremost in the world.
...
Numerous oddly shaped, colossal lower demons, thousands of meters tall, resembling floating mountains, densely surrounded this vast city stretching for thousands of miles.
Their duty was to guard this city, which held a very special status among the demon race, day and night.
Inside the giant city was the central hub of the demon race, the "Demon King's Palace."
...
In the Demon King's Palace, seventy-two Archdemons, including Baal, Agares, Vashak, Samigina, Malphas, Valefor, Amon, Barbatos, Bael, and Gusion, knelt devoutly before the humanoid figure on the throne in front.
In the center of the throne, there was a terrifying power comparable to the abyss, devouring everything.
Compared to the seventy-two Archdemons kneeling on the ground, the figure seated on the throne appeared very small.
However, not a single being dared to ignore it.
The closer one approached the throne, the more their perception was distorted, and eventually, they could not escape even time itself, only to be devoured and digested bit by bit by the unfathomably deep darkness.
The master of the throne was the supreme king of the demon race, Satan III.
He possessed a beauty that was both handsome and devilish, resembling the most handsome human celebrities.
His black hair cascaded down to his shoulders, and his bright eyes shone like stars. Two small horns protruded from his head.
Around his waist, he wore the "Hegni Sword," a symbol of the demon race's power. His pure demonic energy was like an abyss and a sea, terrifying beyond measure.
Only the hint of a frivolous smile on the corner of his lips slightly diminished his reputation as the demon among demons, the king of all demons.
The Hegni Sword, also known as the Sword of Destruction and Curse, was a demonic sword that, once drawn, would never be sheathed until it had taken a life.
It could grant endless power to its wielder, but the price was a lifetime of misfortune and curses that would forever haunt its owner.
Eternal loneliness and solitude would accompany its owner throughout his life until his death.
...
"My King."
Baal, one of the four supreme pillars among the seventy-two Archdemons, lowered his proud head, knelt before Satan III, and spoke in a deep, calm voice.
Crimson lightning flashed across his mountain-like, several-zhang-sized body.
Baal was the Grand Duke of the eastern region of the demon race, the most powerful among the seventy-two Archdemons.
...
Baal knelt on one knee, without looking up, and continued to speak steadily, "The message you asked me to deliver, I have delivered."
"However, supreme King, is the scheme you have set with yourself as bait not a bit too risky..."
Satan III, who was seated on the throne, heard this and slowly stood up, taking a gentle step forward.
With a "buzz," the entire vast city, stretching for thousands of miles, trembled at that moment, and the ground shook violently.
The pressure from the strongest being in hell, the Demon King, instantly spread throughout this city that spanned thousands of miles.
All the demons within a radius of ten thousand miles put away their unruly hearts, and under the absolute power that suppressed everything, they all bowed their heads in submission.
The power of the unfathomably deep darkness rapidly spread.
...
A black sun suddenly rose, and in a trance, a monstrous demonic aura surged forth, distorting space and altering the world!
Under this continuously spreading deep dark power, Satan III's entire body seemed to dissolve and instantly disappeared.
The next second, the seventy-two Archdemons kneeling in the hall seemed to see a colossal monster filled with darkness, obscuring the sky and sun.
Its terrifying head, as vast as a mountain range, lifted up, revealing a body as majestic as a mountain.
This was Satan III's true form, the true body of the Demon King.
This king from the source of darkness was as terrifying as a natural disaster with every movement.
And in his indifferent black pupils, there was a cold demonic nature that devoured all things.
Arcaesus, seeing this, was not to be outdone, and the undead fire in his head burned intensely.
His entire being transformed into a monster with twelve arms, a tail, and sharp claws, only slightly smaller than Liu Haotian.
Both monsters, originating from the source of darkness, their massive bodies stretching for tens of thousands of miles...
Any trivial movement they made was enough to create a disaster in hell that could engulf millions of lives, and every move was as terrifying as a natural disaster.
Not to mention the aftermath produced when they went all out and used various heaven-defying skills, the destruction they could cause.
The death rate in the battles between billions of demons and billions of undead was even lower than the number of beings killed by the aftershocks of the clash between these two monsters, Liu Haotian and Arcaesus.
In the eyes of billions of demons and billions of undead, these two monsters from the source of darkness were like the embodiment of death.
At this moment, as far as the eye could see, the entire world seemed to be covered by the colossal bodies of these two monsters, making even the sun appear dim and colorless.
Liu Haotian controlled his true Demon King form, with his Devouring Domain fully activated, wielding the Hegni Sword, which was thousands of miles long, and slashed towards Arcaesus.
Facing this sword that could destroy heaven and earth, Arcaesus, faster than Liu Haotian, also fully activated his Undead Domain and swung Frostmourne to meet it head-on.
With a "clang," Liu Haotian was forced back a step, and Arcaesus also retreated three steps!
The Hegni