Chapter 192 World Eight [6]

After finding himself in a dilemma, Jing Ke decided to change his thinking.

It’s not possible to kill these monks, nor is it possible not to kill them, so let’s take action against things other than monks.

What is there besides the monks? Of course, it is the surrounding environment.

The maze is set up based on the forest. If you destroy all the forest, the power of the maze will be reduced by at least one third.

Jing Ke was certain that he was definitely not the only monk who had noticed the problem with the maze. They were just trapped like him. It would be enough to just create opportunities for them.

The facts were just as Jing Ke had guessed. As she avoided the monks' attacks and madly attacked the surrounding buildings and open spaces, the structure of the maze began to become unstable.

As the person who set up the formation, the demon disguised as a sect elder was the first to discover that something was wrong.

After discovering that the maze was about to collapse, the demons decided to kill them. They exposed their identities in advance and turned the maze into a killing array, destroying the formation and the monks who entered it.

Huo Yi had been paying attention to the movements of the demon elder since Jing Ke entered the maze. After catching the subtle changes in his expression, he drew his sword before the demon could make a move and pointed it straight at his heart.

The demon hadn't expected to be ambushed, and in his panic, he was struck by Huo Yi's sword. However, Huo Yi was no pushover, and immediately ordered the dozen or so demons who had sneaked in with him to start a random massacre, trying to cause as much panic as possible.

The reason is very simple. The purpose of the demons is not only to plant demons in the hearts of talented monks in the upper realm, but also to use them when those monks' status becomes higher one day.

The demons also want to muddy the waters of the upper realm, using this so-called enrollment trap to make most cultivators lose their trust in the forces in the lawless area, thereby further reducing the number of forces and cultivators in this realm. It would be best if all the cultivators in the upper realm could retreat to the ninety-nine cities that have a name and status.

The number of cities is limited, but there are countless forces and monks who want to stand out. If this group of people gather together, something extremely interesting will definitely happen in the eyes of many demons.

The more civil unrest there is in a city, the more opportunities it provides for the demons to grow stronger. Now that the demon clan's new Demon Lord is about to be elected, they must make other places more chaotic. That is their chance to make a name for themselves.

The leading demon was at the peak of the Upper Immortal realm, while several of his subordinates were at the early and late stages of the Upper Immortal realm. While such cultivation levels wouldn't rank highly in a large city, they were considered powerful even in a no-man's land.

The monks with slow reactions and low cultivation levels soon shed blood. In addition, the monks in the lawless area did not trust each other very much and had no intention of fighting together.

This resulted in the situation where, despite the huge disparity in numbers, the first ones to run away were the human cultivators, rather than the demons who were supposed to be besieged.

Huo Yi naturally had no good feelings towards those monks whose first reaction was to escape, but she would not allow the demons to go on a killing spree here.

After spending some time to seriously injure the demon leader, Huo Yi successfully killed more than ten other demons with his sword while Jing Ke successfully broke the formation.

"What are you doing? Killing people and stealing treasures?" The monk with a weak brain looked at Huo Yi with horror, as if she was the one who committed the heinous crime.

Huo Yi was strangely silent for a moment, then chose to ignore the other party's words and directly used a tough soul search to read the useful ideas in the demon leader's head.

However, when Huo Yi touched upon some confidential information, the demon suddenly convulsed and died. It was probably because he had been restricted in advance.

"Are you hurt?" After seeing Jing Ke walking towards him, Huo Yi gave up looking for value on the corpse and just skillfully took off the storage ring from the other person.

"No, I just used too much spiritual power." Jing Ke said, looking at the monks behind him who looked embarrassed.

Jing Ke's reaction was already very quick, but there were too many cultivators whose wills were not strong enough, so more than ten cultivators still died at the hands of other cultivators.

"It's an open conspiracy, similar to a suicide attack. They use this method to plant demonic seeds in the cultivators without being discovered. If they become powerful cultivators or hold high positions one day, they will become pawns of the demons."

Huo Yi summarized what he had learned. "If we are discovered, we will do this: kill any cultivators nearby and try to cause panic, making the already difficult-to-manage no-man's-land even more chaotic."

Huo Yi exhaled lightly, "For ordinary cultivators, if they cannot defeat their inner demons, then it is only a matter of time before they degenerate into a demon."

It is precisely because of this that the demons will never be annihilated. Even if they are wiped out countless times by the gods, they will always come back.

"Do your best and leave the rest to fate. We can't save all the monks, so this result is already very good." Jing Ke said, his eyes falling on the monk next to him.

The monks who were brought out of the maze by Jing Ke were okay. They more or less realized something.

But to other cultivators who were unaware of the situation, Huo Yi was the first to attack a certain "sect elder" and also killed the "elder's" disciples and some innocent cultivators.

Therefore, many cultivators around the two of them were wary of Jing Ke and Huo Yi, or even malicious, as if they were the bad guys.

"Let's go. Once the news spreads, people with brains will understand the situation." Jing Ke noticed the look in these people's eyes.

Jing Ke couldn't say that she was disappointed, but she just lamented that it was not very convenient to do things alone.

If the two of them had just casually raised the banner of a supreme god, most people would probably suppress their suspicion and malice and face them with a sufficiently correct attitude.

"Okay, let's go." Huo Yi also discovered that some cultivators were confused.

As the old saying goes, the two of them didn't come here to save all living things. Under normal circumstances, as long as the world was not heading towards destruction, they would not interfere too much in the operation of a small world.

The pursuit of the great way and cultivation is bound to be accompanied by opportunities and dangers. If everyone can go smoothly, then wouldn't everyone be able to become a god?

How could such a thing happen in the world!

-

After Jing Ke and Huo Yi killed the demons, they left on their own, not caring about what the monks who witnessed the scene thought of them.

However, Jing Ke and Huo Yi did not completely sit back and relax. They each wrote a letter to tell Dan Qing, who was affiliated with the God of Time, and the Thirteenth City Lord about their findings.

Danqing was a little surprised when he received the summons. Danqing, who did not pay special attention to the two of them, thought that they had chosen to live in anonymity.

Five years have passed, and the jade tokens he gave out have never been used. It is obvious that the two of them have completely given up relying on their master.

But after reading the contents of the letter, Danqing's expression changed slightly, and he quickly called his disciples to go to the no-man's-land to investigate.

Danqing certainly wouldn't trust a letter without any supporting evidence for such an important matter. He had to have his people investigate enough clues and evidence before reporting to his master.

If the demons have such sinister intentions, then the next war between gods and demons may begin soon.

The Thirteenth City Lord's first reaction after receiving the letter was similar to Danqing's, but the Thirteenth City Lord was more aware of the weight of Jing Ke and Huo Yi in front of the God.

Therefore, the Thirteenth City Lord chose to send people to check while taking the letter to personally ask for an audience with his own master, the Supreme God Guiyue.

When facing the demons, both God Guiyue and God Bixia took a very proactive approach, that is, they were the advocates of war.

After spending three months to confirm that the contents of the letter were true, he simply shook out all the gods he could name.

Finally, except for the extremely seriously injured Supreme God Wuya who was still recuperating in seclusion, the rest of the Supreme Gods had arrived.

"I have also checked this news, and it is true. Moreover, the monks from those places are already pouring into the city." The injuries of the Goddess of Time have almost healed. As the person with the strongest power at present, her words are undoubtedly the most important.

"The demons use this tactic that hurts the enemy by a thousand while hurting themselves by eight hundred. This means that the situation within the demons has become very unusual recently. They want to use this method to distract us."

"Compromise and concession are useless when dealing with the demons. My suggestion is simple: publicize the demons' mischief, then openly recruit people and give the demons who want to cause trouble a good kill."

The God of Time is very friendly to human cultivators, but he is as cold and ruthless as the wind to the evil demons.

"Isn't this inappropriate? Shichen, you have just recovered and your weakened body should be nourished. Not to mention Wuya, he is still recovering from his injuries." said a relatively conservative god.

"That's not right. Among the twelve of us, only Wuya cannot take action for the time being. Instead, when the time comes, let Wuya and the other three stay in the territory, and the remaining eight of us can lead the team to kill the demons." Another god retorted.

"The only one we can't fight is Wuya. The demons have lost a demon lord and three demon elders. We were able to win before, so why can't we win now?" Another god who was obviously in favor of war looked displeased.

The Bixia Goddess pondered for a moment, "It's been less than five hundred years since the last war. The demon formation probably can't be repaired to its previous strength. If I can break the formation this time, my speed will be much faster."

"If you continue to tolerate the demons' chaos, are you planning to give up those places? Do you want to hand over your territory to the demons?" Gui Yue said with a cold face.

After the eleven gods expressed their opinions one after another, only three gods felt that war should not be started hastily.

The first God’s reason was that Wuya’s body had not recovered yet, and he was also a great force in the fight against the demons, so it would be better to wait until he had rested for a while before making a decision.

The other two gods felt that going to war with the demons would inevitably cause many monks to lose their lives. Monks who would be easily deceived by the demons should obviously not be used on the battlefield.

The demons cannot be completely eradicated from the root. Why should they sacrifice the lives of those monks with high moral character and protect those monks who have no fighting spirit?

"This evaluation is too one-sided. Many cultivators do not lack the fighting spirit, but they just do not have a more suitable opportunity." Shi Chen said, his eyes sweeping over the ten colleagues around him one by one.

"When I say start a war, I don't mean to attack the demon clan tomorrow. Rather, I mean to first enter a state of war readiness, select a group of people with good talent and cultivation through some means, then allocate resources to train them, and finally go to the demon clan to fight together."

"The reason those cultivators fell into our trap is that they were deceived by the idea of ​​joining a famous and upright sect, right? Then we should give them the opportunity generously and see if they can seize it." Shi Chen said.

Bixia thought this method was very good, but the disadvantages were also very obvious.

That is, when there are already stable forces in the ninety-nine cities, how should we resettle this group of people after the battle is over?

After thinking about the disadvantages, Bixia asked openly.

"Under the name of the Upper Realm Army, we'll build some small cities in places where there are usually many monks," Shi Chen said. "Those people will serve as soldiers to maintain order. Each term will be twelve years, and each selection will begin two years in advance."

As the only one who has truly struggled from a mortal to a god, Shichen's thinking logic is obviously clearer and more definite than others.

In fact, I wanted to bring up this idea shortly after becoming a supreme god, but the timing was always wrong and it always ended in nothing.

-

Only the other ten gods who participated in the discussion knew whether the final moment would convince people by reason or by force.

As for the others, they only knew that their chance to soar to the sky had come.

The twelve gods discovered that the demons were causing chaos in the territory, so they decided to form an army to conquer the demons, planning to recruit 500,000 monks to fight in the demons' territory.

There are no restrictions on registration, as long as you are not a demon.

However, it is hard to say how the news will be announced and finally implemented. A cultivator with the cultivation level of a Golden Immortal is a well-deserved general, and if a cultivator with the cultivation level of a Heavenly Immortal signs up, he or she will be 100% able to pass the selection.

The real competition is for those who have reached the level of Supreme Immortal and Great Perfection of Earthly Immortal. They need to pass repeated tests before they can successfully become one of them.

Once the news was made public, those cultivators who were afraid of being attacked by demons in the no-man's land, who insisted on staying in the no-man's land to practice, and who were in the city but couldn't get out, suddenly had a way out.

This is an army formed by the twelve supreme gods. If I can join it, will I be considered one of the gods?

What if a god discovers something extraordinary about me? Could I soar to the sky and become a personal disciple of some god?

The cultivators who were deceived by the demons would naturally be tempted by this big, round pie and work hard to become soldiers of the upper realm.

Fifty thousand places may seem like a lot, but for the hundreds of millions of cultivators in the upper realm, five hundred thousand places are still too few. One needs to go through layer after layer of selection to become one in five hundred thousand.

When Jing Ke and Huo Yi heard the news, more than half a year had passed since they met the demons, and it was already the sixth year as agreed.

"It turns out that a standing signboard is very important. The same words spoken by different people have different meanings." Huo Yi sighed.

"Do you want to give it a try?" asked Jing Ke, who had already broken through to the immortal level.

In the early stages of becoming an immortal, cultivators of this level of cultivation are the most eager to sign up, as they all want to earn a bright future for themselves.

"Of course we can, but it's not necessary. We can just go through the back door." Huo Yi said, raising his hand to show the storage ring on it. "If we want to participate, we can just pick someone and say hello. We don't have to compete with those people for these places."

Jing Ke thought about it and realized why he should just give up the backdoor and not work hard. "Yeah, I heard that after being selected, there will be a three to five-year preparation period. Only after we get to know each other well, we can fight against the demons."

"This is probably the God's countermeasure against the demons. After hearing this news, the demons will definitely be unable to sleep or eat, and will always worry about the invasion of the army from the upper realm." Huo Yi said.

"So, our most important task right now is to continue exploring the secret realm and improve our cultivation as much as possible. If a war breaks out, it won't be over in a year or two."

Jing Ke nodded. The last war between gods and demons lasted for nearly fifty years, and the manpower and resources lost by both sides were extremely huge.

Huo Yi patted Jing Ke's shoulder and said, "Before that, you must successfully become a Celestial Immortal cultivator. Then, perform well in the Great War of Gods and Demons, and then naturally become a Golden Immortal cultivator."

"By the way, what's the situation with the rules?" Huo Yi quickly changed the subject.

Jing Ke, who had been secretly observing the rules, quickly gave the answer: "The rules are already trying to devour the dungeon world. I gave them a little sweetener, allowing them to absorb the power of a trainee administrator. They can already issue unimportant tasks to a certain extent."

Huo Yi: "Are the rules too restrictive?"

"There are signs, but it will take some time. If it just bites lightly, it will be easy to break free." Jing Ke said.

Huo Yi nodded. "What about Xiaolu? According to the speed of time on both sides, she should have rested at home for six days?"

Jing Ke: "That should be the case. Xiaolu is not in the dungeon world. She experienced such a strange world last time. I guess she won't enter the dungeon again without recuperating for a few months."

After hearing the affirmative answer, Huo Yi did not ask any more questions. He had already given all the wealth he had accumulated from fighting for more than forty dungeons to Xiaolu. As long as Xiaolu was not extremely unlucky, nothing would happen to her.

-

The selection of the upper-level army lasted for a year, followed by three years of training and running-in.

It is impossible to rapidly improve the cultivation of these people in three years, but there is no problem at all in learning some skills to fight against the demons, the coordination of battle formations, and the updating of weapons.

Perhaps because the cultivators' public enemy, the demons, were hanging over their heads, the number of times Jing Ke and Huo Yi stepped forward to help others when they saw injustice had sharply decreased in the past four years. They were more focused on rescuing cultivators from the demons' petty conspiracies.

Another thing is that we fought against a relatively melodramatic and rare forced marriage behavior.

The story took place the year after the selection was completed. The protagonists of the story were two cultivators of the highest level of immortality. The male cultivator had some family connections and held a moderately prestigious position as a guard in the City Lord's Mansion.

The female monk's father was a housekeeper in the male monk's family. The female monk was considered a half-servant before, but after her cultivation level improved, she became a guard hired by the family. It was a transaction that was consensual.

The male monk was originally interested in the female monk, but he had some ideas about family status in his mind. He felt that even though the other party had good talent, she was just a servant and was not qualified to be his Taoist partner.

What happened was that after the female monk passed the layers of selection and became a member of the upper realm army, the male monk's family immediately changed their attitude.

One is a soldier under the city lord, and the other is a subordinate in name only of the God. Anyone with a discerning eye knows who is more valuable.

So the male monk suddenly no longer cared about his previous family background and wanted to marry the female monk and make her his wife.

If both parties have a mutual understanding and like each other, then just propose marriage. It's a matter of one willing to do it and the other willing to do it.

But after Jing Ke and Huo Yi got involved, they discovered that the monk's claim that the female monk was trying to distance herself from him was nonsense. From the beginning, the monk had been a bit too credulous, believing that the other party's willingness to accept employment to protect him meant that she liked him.

The female monk tried to explain the situation, but the male monk refused to listen and even used the female monk's father to force her to compromise.

In the eyes of Jing Ke and Huo Yi, who are more experienced, this kind of person is a typical self-centered man and there is no need to waste time talking to him.

Jing Ke and Huo Yi did not choose to waste any more words. They directly took out the jade token given to them by Danqing and put it in front of the male monk elder.

"Having joined the Upper Realm Army, one should take it upon oneself to slay demons and defend the Way. Are you forcing a marriage at this time to help the demons weaken the Upper Realm Army?"

As soon as Jing Ke opened his mouth, he put a huge blame on the other party, which scared the elders with the cultivation level of celestial beings so much that their faces turned pale.

A cultivator who could cultivate to the level of a celestial being would have some vision. After confirming that there was the aura of a god, the male cultivator's family immediately fell to their knees, took the useless child back home, beat him up, and put him in solitary confinement for twenty years to show their attitude.

This result barely satisfied Jing Ke and Huo Yi. After receiving the gratitude of the female cultivator whose nickname was Xiuxiu, Jing Ke and Huo Yi continued to improve their cultivation.

It was not until the eve of their departure that the two of them approached Danqing and expressed their desire to join the team to fight against the demons as celestial cultivators.

Danqing was silent for a long time after seeing the two people whom he hadn't seen for ten years rush from the earthly immortal to the celestial immortal in one breath.

An extremely outrageous suspicion even flashed through his mind, that is, whether the two of them had their identities taken over by some particularly courageous demons, so they were able to do this.

However, this suspicion only suddenly emerged because Danqing had recently studied too much information related to the demon masters.

"Which team do you two want to join?" Danqing asked knowingly.

The army sent to conquer the demons had a total of one million men, of which 500,000 were selected through selection, and the other 500,000 were drawn from the disciples and subordinates of the twelve supreme gods, and their combat effectiveness was slightly stronger.

The 500,000 selected people were divided into teams according to their relative wishes and birthplaces.