Shennong Dao Master-Chapter 1387 - 22: Absolute Heaven and Earth · Battle of Mortals (Part 2)_3

"Xia Jing, tell us about Witch City and 'Heaven and Earth Guardianship'." Zhao Xing gathered his emotions, and after eating and drinking to his fill, he began to inquire about the situation.

"Witch City is divided from the ninth to the fifth grade. As you have seen, within the realms of Witch City, everyone's strength can be restored to the corresponding grade level." Xia Jing introduced.

"At the beginning, Witch City was almost impregnable. A group of mortals could never breach Witch City."

Zhao Xing nodded, taking the lowest level Ninth Grade Witch City for example, everyone inside is in the Nine-rank Gathered Essence Realm.

Moreover, they can build arrays, wield nine-grade divine weapons, making it hellishly difficult to attack such a city.

And that's not even mentioning higher levels, like the Fifth Grade Witch City, where even the city defense barrier alone is impregnable.

Of course, people inside Witch City can only defend the city; arrows shot from Witch City also turn into ordinary arrows unless the person has received [Heaven and Earth Guardianship].

"How long did it take for Great Zhou to capture the first city?" Zhao Xing asked.

"The first day." Xia Jing replied.

"Huh?" Zhao Xing was taken aback, "The first day?"

"Yes, on the first day, Great Zhou gained one Fifth Grade City, three Sixth Grade Cities, and four Seventh Grade Cities." Xia Jing explained. "These cities were, for the most part, contributed by sect members led by the Xuantian Divine Sect, like the Qingmu Sect and the Baihua Sect."

"The strongest among them, a Fifth Grade City called Mist City, was contributed by a submitter named Fog Walker."

"Of course, initially, I wasn't aware of this information. It wasn't until half a year later that I received accurate information that the masters of these cities had long submitted to my Great Zhou."

"Fog Walker?" Zhao Xing suddenly realized. "So it was him."

Unlike Purple Bone Heavenly Venerate, who was an undercover agent, Fog Walker led the Xuantian Divine Sect, and from the beginning to the Ping Man War, he did absolutely nothing.

Purple Bone left many secret passages, and did a lot of things in secret, but the sect led by Fog Walker stayed dutifully in the Southern Barbarians, without doing anything to harm them.

When Absolute Heaven and Earth was executed, Fog Walker, who had endured for many years, launched a ferocious strike, directly opening the city gates and surrendering, and swiftly annihilated nearby cities, paving a road to Great Zhou.

"Hahaha, Fog Walker achieved a great merit this time." Zhao Xing slapped his thigh.

"No." Xia Jing shook his head. "Not only was he not rewarded, but he was also imprisoned."

"Huh?" Zhao Xing was stunned again. "What happened."

"After hearing about your uncertain fate, Fog Walker was furious. He believed that Great Zhou didn't protect you, the Sect Master, well enough. Upon receiving this news during an audience with the Emperor, he immediately took off his official hat and cursed at His Majesty." Xia Jing said. "I won't detail what he cursed, but suffice it to say the language was very foul and couldn't be officially recorded."

Zhao Xing: "..."

Upon careful thought, it does seem like something Fog Walker would do.

In the eyes of sect members, the Emperor is nothing significant. They have no sense of reverence for imperial power.

But Zhao Xing, the Sect Master, is their belief! A saint-like figure!

Fog Walker pointing and cursing at Ji Che's face might be something Ji Che could endure, but the ministers couldn't, so they had to put him under house arrest to let him cool down.

"And the Dragon Clan?" Zhao Xing hastily asked. "The Dragon Clan wouldn't also..."

"The Dragon Clan has been quite steady." Xia Jing recalled: "Yin Xiu immediately calmed the strong ones of the Dragon Clan, saying that he could feel you weren't dead. Considering there might be some bloodline connection within the Dragon Clan, Yin Xiu's words also stabilized others."

Zhao Xing let out a sigh of relief, indeed Yin Xiu is a wise dragon!

"Fog Walker's rebellion gave Great Zhou a great start." Xia Jing said, "However, pushing forward remains full of difficulties."

"Aside from the cities contributed by the willing submitters."

"In the first half-year, Great Zhou didn't capture a single Ninth Grade Witch City."

"The area of Absolute Heaven and Earth was still too vast, and in most battle zones, we could only take the stupidest approach to fight." Xia Jing said in a deep voice. "Which is using people as bait to lure out the enemies to kill us."

Zhao Xing nodded, having Witch City is merely a supply station, to move freely in the wild and to advance, transferring the permissions of [Heaven and Earth Guardianship] is still necessary. It requires increasing the number of our cultivators in the forbidden zone.

Even though Fog Walker rebelled, his people were actually irrelevant to the overall situation, only boosting morale a little. Ninety-nine percent on the battlefield were still ordinary people.

Xia Jing lamented: "A Gathered Essence Realm, theoretically could be killed by ten well-trained soldiers, but in practice, to lure the enemy into a trap, we often had to pay a much higher price."

"Because Southern Barbarian soldiers with [Heaven and Earth Guardianship] won't immediately transfer to us when killed; instead, they will prioritize transferring to those who already have [Heaven and Earth Guardianship]."

"In a certain range, if there are no 'cultivators', it will transfer randomly."

"It could be someone from the Great Zhou camp or could emerge among enemy troops."

"Hiss~" Zhao Xing couldn't help sucking in a cold breath.

Imagine, Great Zhou's army put in great efforts to kill an enemy ninth grade, and this power didn't transfer to our side but fused with another ninth-grade enemy, turning the enemy into the eighth grade...

If it was a direct army confrontation, on the Southern Barbarians side, the more they were killed, the stronger they got! 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

How despairing is this?

The evolved Wu Yue God was simply too abnormal.

In the past life, there was no such integration! After killing the enemy and obtaining their token, then one could have their strength restored.