"Alright! Don't worry, Overlord, leave this to me!" Xiang Sheng's fighting spirit was ignited after hearing Xiang Yu's words.
With Zoro's cards, he can defeat even the system. With ten thousand Divine Guards as his helpers, if such a powerful lineup can't pacify this plane, then what's the point of living?
"Thank you for saving my life, brave warrior!" The surrounding people gathered around and kowtowed in gratitude.
Xiang Sheng waved his hands repeatedly, "No need to thank me, everyone get up and go home to live your lives properly!"
"You are not from Zhao, are you? If we go home now, we will only die. If we want to live, we must become monks. His Majesty is a Buddhist and treats monks very well. They do not have to pay taxes or work. There is only one downside."
"Once you become a monk, you can no longer have children or live a normal life. If you are found to have broken your vows, you will die a much worse death and bring trouble to your family." A thin, middle-aged man said with a bitter smile.
Hao Jiu sneered. So this is what the Buddha in the Buddha Zhao plane means. No wonder the population of the Central Plains plummeted during this period in history. People became monks and nuns to avoid taxes and survive. Even fewer people were having children. In addition, so many people were killed. It would be strange if the population did not decline.
In reality, those who could actually become monks in that era were considered lucky. Many places prohibited people from the Central Plains from becoming monks. How many monks could the 480 temples of the Southern Dynasties accommodate? If everyone became monks, who would do the work? Who would be the one to exploit the government?
Xiang Sheng hadn't expected this outcome. It seemed that unless the Zhao state was destroyed and the country restored, the people would have no way to survive.
"Don't worry, everyone, your hard times are almost over. I'm going to kill Emperor Zhao Shi Hu and wipe out the Jie tribe!" After saying this, Xiang Sheng picked up his blood-stained twin swords and set off on his journey with great strides, his steps carrying a gust of wind.
Then.
"Brave warrior! You're going the wrong way! Shi Hu isn't over there..."
Xiang Sheng, "..."
Hao Jiu rubbed his forehead, realizing that using Xiang Sheng for this experiment was a bit of a miscalculation. He should probably ask Han Xin and the others to come and help him, otherwise when would he ever complete the mission?
"By the way, Xiang Sheng, if you encounter someone named Ran Min, Shi Min, or Li Min in the future, try not to kill them. It would be best if you could subdue them, but if you can't, just tie them up."
"Oh, I understand." Xiang Sheng thought to himself, "Why does this person have so many surnames? Is he addicted to changing his surnames?"
"Quickly find a big mountain, a secluded place, and then open a time portal. I will immediately notify Han Xin to bring the Divine Martial Guards to help you. I will tell them it's an extermination of the entire clan. Those with blood on their hands must be killed. As for the rest, you can handle them. Just make sure there are no more Jie people in the future." Hao Jiu added.
"Look!" Xiang Sheng was actually quite conflicted; he really couldn't bring himself to do it to some innocent people.
In fact, many ethnic groups have disappeared from history, especially the nomadic peoples of the grasslands. But they were certainly not all killed. Usually, only women and children were left behind, while the men were either killed or worked to death as slaves.
Historically, Ran Min issued the "Kill the Hu" order, vowing to exterminate the Shi clan of the Jie tribe. He killed hundreds of thousands of Jie people, but in the end, he didn't manage to wipe them all out.
Later, during the Liang Dynasty in the south, Hou Jing, a descendant of the Jie people, launched a rebellion. Eight thousand Jie people killed two hundred thousand people from the Central Plains in Jiankang (the ancient name for Nanjing).
However, Hou Jing ultimately failed, and the Jie tribe completely withdrew from the stage of history.
Leaving aside Xiang Sheng's search for a suitable place to open a time-space portal, Xiang Yu finally arrived at the legendary ancient battlefield.
It turns out that this area is not just Tianhun Valley, but many crisscrossing valleys. The real ancient battlefield and forbidden land is located in the center of these crisscrossing valleys.
One can imagine that the great battle in ancient times was an attack and a defense. The attacker's sword energy crisscrossed the sky and split the earth, while the defender relied on a hundred-mile-long array to resist the attack and wait for an opportunity to strike. But in the end, they were still breached. As for which side ultimately won, that remains unknown.
Outside the ancient battlefield, there are some disciples of the Heavenly Soul Valley patrolling and guarding the area. Occasionally, some ghosts will emerge from the battlefield. The disciples of the Heavenly Soul Valley are skilled in ghost cultivation techniques, which can be captured to be used as ghost pets or food for ghost pets.
Of course, these people couldn't stop Xiang Yu from entering at all; they couldn't even see him.
"Hahaha... This place is wonderful! Overlord, God of Wine, this old man humbly requests permission to go outside for a nourishing meal, I hope you will grant my request!" Shoujun licked his lips.
"Approved." Xiang Yu felt that Shou Jun's performance during this period had been acceptable, and he could be considered one of his own.
"Thank you, Overlord!" After saying this, Shoujun flew out through the air door, opened his mouth wide and pounced straight at a dead soul.
Then.
"Hiss... Help! Overlord! Save me!"
Chapter 450: One Pot
"Shoujun, you're a thousand-year-old ghost, it's too embarrassing for you to just run back like this," Hao Jiu teased.
Shou Jun's face darkened. "My injuries haven't healed yet! How can I possibly deal with so many evil spirits at once, especially evil spirits transformed from cultivators!"
Just as Shoujun had targeted a target and was about to devour it, dozens of evil spirits and ghosts suddenly gathered from the surrounding area, and Shoujun chickened out.
"Oh? Then I'll give it a try." Xiang Yu sent out a fragment of his soul, and the souls of the dead gathered together, and then...
Sizzle...
Lightning flashed, and the circle of dead souls all turned into blue smoke.
"The Overlord is mighty!" Shou Jun's lips twitched violently. Although he created the technique of drawing lightning into the soul, he never dared to draw it in strand by strand like Xiang Yu did. Instead, he refined it strand by strand. Therefore, Xiang Yu's split soul lightning was much more intense.
“No different from ordinary ghosts. There are no spatial rifts here, so you can train here for a while. I will come back to pick you up after I have finished exploring this battlefield.” After saying this, Xiang Yu threw the Emperor’s Sword into a rock, collected his divided soul, and continued to walk deeper into the ancient battlefield.
Xiang Yu and his companions could see colorless and transparent spatial rifts in the green alternate dimension. It was highly likely that they would be fine even if they passed through the rifts, but Xiang Yu still tried to avoid the spatial rifts during his exploration.
In fact, there aren't as many spatial rifts around the ancient battlefield as you might imagine; you have to be very far away to encounter one or even a whole area of them.
Therefore, cultivators from Tianhun Valley or other cultivators could easily find a way out. After all, the spatial rift moves very slowly, and there aren't many newly created spatial rifts. Moreover, the strength of the undead here isn't very strong; they shouldn't be a match for Core Formation cultivators.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The king bowed respectfully.
Because Xiang Yu helped clear a space, it was much easier for Shoujun to cultivate here. Moreover, countless evil spirits had just died here, and the ghost energy was extremely pure, which was very beneficial for Shoujun's recovery.
Furthermore, Xiang Yu also left behind the Emperor's Sword. If the ruler encounters a crisis that cannot be resolved, he can hide inside the Emperor's Sword.
Although the souls here are much more powerful than those on the outermost layer of the ancient battlefield, as long as you are careful and lure them one by one, it shouldn't be a problem.
Xiang Yu had no interest in ghosts, but he was somewhat interested in the Ghost King and Ghost Generals. However, he had no urge to take action against them, since his main purpose in coming here was to survey the area and find a suitable place to settle down.
As for the secondary objective, well, there are many magical treasures and elixirs in the ancient battlefield. Although most of them are broken, you can still find some intact treasures occasionally. I also picked up quite a few storage rings and storage bags.
He was about to establish his own sect in this world, so it was always better to have a solid foundation. Under Hao Jiu's persistent pleading, Xiang Yu, the Overlord, transformed into a scavenger, or rather, a looting maniac.
I wonder what kind of interesting expressions the immortal cultivation sects like Tianhun Valley will have when they spend a great deal of effort to explore the ancient battlefield and find nothing but broken magical artifacts.
Xiang Yu could clearly see what was good fifty meters below the ground in the alternate dimension, and he could dig it out directly with his domineering energy without even moving a finger.
The first group of people who followed Xiang Yu all received rewards from him, and their faces were full of happiness.
In fact, Hao Jiu was indifferent to magical treasures and the like. The key was that he had gained a lot of spirit stones and spiritual medicines. Which of these cultivators from the ancient war did not have some spirit stones and spiritual medicines on them? It was normal for people to die without using them all.
Of course, there were also thousands of years old spiritual herbs, but because the ghostly aura of this place was overwhelming, most of the plants that grew there also carried some ghostly aura, so their uses might not be very wide. Therefore, Hao Jiu only dug up a few of each kind and would study their effects later.
Even so, the collected spiritual herbs filled all the jade boxes. These were spiritual herbs nurtured in the ancient battlefield. Who knows what the scene will be like when they arrive at the herb garden.
However, there is one thing to note: the closer you get to the central area, the fewer good items such as magic weapons and storage rings become, and there are even no fragments left.
Hao Jiu speculated that there was a winner in that great battle back then, and it was not a case of mutual destruction.
The victors have already cleaned up the battlefield. The magical artifacts in the central area are even better, and even the damaged ones can be recycled and reused. The ones outside are all things that no one would bother with.
Hao Jiu even suspected that the reason this ancient battlefield hadn't been explored yet was because someone knew there wasn't much of value inside, and the adventure wasn't worth it.
The deeper you go into the ancient battlefield, the more spatial rifts there are, making it impossible to settle down in such a place. Meanwhile, people from other cultivation sects might come to explore the surrounding area.
In short, establishing a sect in this place is not a good idea.
After quickly surveying the ancient battlefield, Xiang Yu retrieved the Emperor's Sword and, with the fully recovered Shou Jun, left the area for their next destination, Storm Island.
Xiang Yu teleported all the way, and before he even reached the seaside, he saw the magnificent wind pillar that stretched straight to the sky. When he got closer, he saw the huge whirlpool in the sea. It can be said that this is a comprehensive and foolproof means of protection.
The storm on Storm Island was very strong, but it did not hinder Xiang Yu in the slightest. After passing the storm belt, there was a small island, which was about the same size as the eye of the storm.
Perhaps the island was originally larger, but after millions of years of strong winds blowing, it has become this size.
It's impossible that there's a fairy palace and several immortals on the island!
But there is indeed a small building, and several cultivators are guarding it. Perhaps they are the Nascent Soul experts who entered this place back then.
So the question is, who exactly lives in that small building?
To have a Nascent Soul Realm expert guarding them, and to restrict their personal freedom, means they must at least be a Divine Transformation Realm expert.
Therefore, the highest combat power in this world is not the peak of the Nascent Soul stage as Wu Ning investigated, but the Divine Transformation stage, or even higher.
"To go in or not to go in?" Hao Jiu was a little worried. What if the alien space couldn't protect someone who was at the Nascent Soul stage and had the word "god" on their name? Back then, Xiaoyaozi had sensed Xiang Yu's gaze in the dark.
Although this kind of perception is unrelated to cultivation level, those who can cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage are no ordinary people, and their divine sense must be extremely powerful.
"Go in." Xiang Yu stepped into the small building, but it was empty inside. He only found a teleportation array in a secret room.
"It was a false alarm. I had a feeling those people outside didn't know it was empty inside either." Hao Jiu rubbed his chin.
“So there used to be someone inside, but they secretly left. Let’s go too. This place is occupied, and it’s too small to be suitable.” Xiang Yu said, turning to leave.
"Wait a minute, we can't come all this way for nothing. There are several high-grade spirit stones embedded in the teleportation array, and I think the other end of the teleportation array might be even more dangerous. It might even become our enemy in the future." Hao Jiu raised his eyebrows.
"I understand, everyone please make way." After saying that, Xiang Yu walked to the side of the teleportation array, opened a circular door the same size as the teleportation array, and with a powerful surge of energy, swept up both the spirit stones and the teleportation array in one fell swoop!
Chapter 451 Shock
After leaving Storm Island, Xiang Yu went to the last remaining herb garden in the Wasteland, or perhaps it would be more appropriate to add the word "poison" before it.
From the moment you approach the Great Swamp, a poisonous haze permeates the air, and most of the creatures in the swamp are poisonous insects. Animals that accidentally wander in will soon be poisoned and die, their bones devoured.
Can a sect really be founded in such a place?
Everyone, including Xiang Yu, had a big question mark in their minds.
However, Hao Jiu was not worried at all, because the place they were going to was a medicinal garden. A place that could nurture a large number of spiritual herbs must have a spiritual energy concentration far higher than the surrounding area. Moreover, such a desolate place would probably only be visited by people when various sects came to collect herbs every ten years.
As for poisonous barriers and insects, they are no problem for Hao Jiu. There are many ways to isolate poisonous gas. He can simply create a clean area in the center of the herb garden. The herbs in the herb garden are also a considerable fortune.
Finally, a dense cloud of poison appeared ahead, revealing the medicinal garden, and the poisonous insects Wu Ning had mentioned also appeared.
They were all wasps, ants, scorpions, centipedes, and the like, but they were all quite large and came in large groups. Their colors were mostly black and purple, which made the women in the alternate dimension hug themselves tightly.
Hao Jiu and Xiang Yu's attention wasn't on the poisonous insects, but rather on the medicinal herbs and spiritual materials scattered all over the ground, which should be enough for at least the short term, except for the lack of alchemists.
“Let’s send someone to the Danling Sect to learn alchemy, and then they can come back and teach everyone. I think Wu Xingyun is a good candidate. Sects usually prefer to take children this age when recruiting disciples.”
"I'm not a child," Wu Xingyun protested softly. She didn't want to be sent to another sect.
Xiang Yu pondered for a moment, "If Wu Xingyun goes, then let him compete for the position of sect leader of Danling Sect."
Hao Jiu's eyes lit up. "Hey? That's great! From now on, we can have the entire Danling Sect refine pills for us. Perfect!"
"I'll go then! The position of sect leader of Danling Sect is definitely mine!" Wu Xingyun thought that being the sect leader of a cultivation sect should be very exciting. With his own abilities and the support of the God of Wine, there was absolutely no reason for him to fail.
Soon, we arrived at the core area of the medicinal herb garden, and then...
Everyone's mouths gradually opened to their widest extent, where there stood a very beautiful large purple flower. The flower was so beautiful that it made people want to use it as fertilizer!