Shennong Sequence

Chapter 369 Forbidden Techniques: Obscuring Heavenly Secrets and Destiny, Severing the Threads of Regional Fate; Time Passes Quietly Amidst the Flames of War

But now, with the option of obeying the orders of the Qilin Army to safely leave a small world of dragon beasts... Zhao Yun naturally couldn't bear to waste this unique life-saving talisman that could cross world boundaries.

As for the two teleportation talismans he had, although they could teleport within a large area of ​​the world... Zhao Yun had previously learned from Master Sun that the Dragon Beast Small World had long been completely occupied by the Qilin Army.

In other words, as long as you are still in this small world of dragon beasts, no matter where you go, you can be found by the Qilin Army.

So, if someone becomes a fugitive but is then caught, the situation they face will only be more serious...

Instead of recklessly courting death, it's much easier to stay calm and wait until everything settles down before safely leaving this small world of dragons and beasts.

Therefore, Zhao Yun and the hundred or so officials gathered together and gradually entered the vast void formation.

After entering
Zhao Yun then discovered that inside this void array, not only were there the same group of officials and dignitaries who had gathered in the military tent earlier, but also all the personnel from the entire Great Zhou Divine Dynasty who had entered the Dragon Beast Small World had been sent here.
Besides this, in a corner of this void array, there were also some barbarian people being held captive.
Furthermore, there are also many soldiers who wear the insignia of the Qilin Legion and who truly belong to the Qilin Legion and can unite the military spirit, and many of them are stationed here!

Therefore, to some extent, amidst the suppression by these Qilin armies, a chilling atmosphere quietly permeated this void formation.

Even more so, the spirits of many barbarians seemed to have been completely drained... Their previously arrogant demeanor, which could defy heaven and earth, had become quite dejected in just half a day, as if they had suffered some heavy blow.

"what?"

Zhao Yun then discovered another major problem:

The number of people from the Great Zhou Dynasty who entered the Dragon Beast Small World, and even the True Dragon World, was less than the number of people sent out by the barbarians.

Previously, when Zhao Yun returned to the ancient altar from the True Dragon World, he glanced around and saw that the number of returning barbarians was still greater than the number of people on the Great Zhou side.

However, in this void formation, the Great Zhou Dynasty still maintains a force of about 20,000, while the barbarian tribes have dwindled to only about 7,000 or 8,000.

In just one day, the barbarian tribe suffered an extraordinary loss of manpower!

And most importantly:
Of the more than 2 people who remained in the Great Zhou Dynasty, officials and nobles made up a large proportion, while many of those with lower cultivation levels were eliminated.

On the other hand, among the seven or eight thousand barbarians, the situation was completely opposite: six thousand of them were still slaves at the bottom, while only one or two thousand of the high-ranking nobles remained...

This abnormal state of existence, however, inexplicably gave rise to another conjecture in Zhao Yun's mind:
Could it be that these barbarian nobles were dragged out by the Qilin Army to be sacrificed as a flag offering?
Of course, since many barbarian nobles died, Zhao Yun would only be happy to see the miserable state of this enemy force!
There is no such thing as pity.

Who knew that the barbarian leader, the Barbarian King, had always wanted to kill Zhao Yun?

Your position determines your perspective.

Furthermore, the idea that barbarian nobles were sacrificed to the flag was merely a guess in Zhao Yun's mind.

Perhaps the barbarian king paid a ransom and redeemed his noble family; that's also possible...

However, the truth is:
Under the tight guard of the Qilin Army, these barbarian nobles were all subjected to having their tendons pulled out, bones removed, skin peeled off, and souls scraped away. Their entire sequence of cultivation paths and origins were then fused together, and even their spiritual memories were fused together to create a unique treasure: the human skin mask!

Once the user puts on this human skin mask, it can automatically load most of the memories from the original owner's life trajectory, as well as assist the user in imitating the external characteristics such as their voice, breath, and physical origin.

Even more so, the negative consequences that this unique treasure—the human skin mask—bring to the user have been avoided by design.

The downside of the human skin mask is that the wearer must constantly imitate the original owner's voice and eyes!

This is equivalent to completely transforming the drawbacks of this special treasure into beneficial effects in the scenarios that this human skin mask needs to face!
Sometimes, even those who were crafting artifacts, such as the Mohists, Gongshu School, Taoists, and Yin-Yang School, who were refining human skin masks, couldn't help but marvel at the ingenious crafting method of this unique treasure.

then,

Among the officials in charge of agriculture led by Zhao Yun, some did not belong to the northern border region. They had traveled through various routes within the inner continent of the Great Zhou Dynasty and left on their own.

The remaining 63 were all from the Ministry of Agriculture of Beiliang, and they remained under Zhao Yun's command.

After all, those below wanted to curry favor with the officials above, and Zhao Yun also wanted to get to know more people in charge of agriculture, extending his reach to the agricultural offices throughout the entire northern border region of Beiliang!
Therefore, Zhao Yun talked with the officials for a while before telling them not to make any excessive movements. They could either sit and rest in a corner of the void array, or recover the mana they had lost in the process of using the magic to create those exploding star bamboos, or take out some of their gains, whether in this dragon beast small world or the true dragon world, and digest and absorb them directly.

In addition, after Zhao Yun finished explaining these matters, he walked towards the location of Commander Tu. Around Commander Tu, many people from the original team had gathered, as well as many dignitaries and other important figures.

Therefore, Zhao Yun waited until Commander Tu finished communicating with these people before finally asking Commander Tu about the situation.

But the message we received was still to wait patiently.

Even Ji Daoyuan, for some inexplicable reason, when he saw Zhao Yun wanting to directly inquire about the situation he had learned from the Qilin Army, deliberately made a sarcastic remark:
"Why are you in such a hurry? Once their military affairs are completed, you can return to your post in the border region as usual. Why worry so much? I thought you were going to gather information to seduce the enemy..."

Zhao Yun ignored Ji Daoyuan's sarcastic remarks.

There's nothing you can do about it; they have a good father.

Furthermore, considering that Zhao Ruihui, the deputy general in the Qilin Army, seems to have some connection with Ji Daoyuan, or perhaps he's doing it out of respect for Ji Daoyuan's father… it's better to nip this potential for attack in the bud than to get into a fight with such a large and powerful army that Ji Daoyuan can rely on. Once they're outside this Dragon Beast Small World and truly safe, they can then try to trip him up – that's a perfectly feasible option!

However, Commander Tu glared at Ji Daoyuan and silenced him as Ji Daoyuan continued his incessant chatter.

Thus, Zhao Yun withdrew some of his evil intentions, left the crowd, and returned to his group of agricultural officials.

From then on, Zhao Yun immediately immersed himself in the refinement of the spirit, rapidly increasing the upper limit of the mana in his dantian;
In addition, the Purple Fortune Gourd located in the Divine Spiritual Realm has also refined another wisp of pure Yang Purple Qi in the past half day.

However, the various spiritual materials and rare treasures that Zhao Yun brought from the True Dragon World, as well as the many dragons, beasts, and insects that Xin Ruyin had temporarily knocked unconscious, have not yet manifested in the main world. Therefore, Zhao Yun is reluctant to waste these resources here.

After all, these spiritual materials, bought low and sold high, can only realize their greater value if they are sold at a high price.

Therefore,
After refining this pure yang purple energy, Zhao Yun did not refine it for the time being due to the lack of ordinary spiritual materials and stones.

Instead, Zhao Yun stored it in the Purple Fortune Gourd.

In addition, Zhao Yun moved some more purple energy into the Purple Fortune Gourd, allowing the gourd, which could spontaneously absorb spiritual energy, to purify the purple energy formed from the ascension of immortals into pure yang purple energy!
then,

Time slipped away quietly amidst the flames of war.
Beyond the small world of dragon beasts, the vast grasslands have also become a battlefield of carnage.

To coordinate with the plan to destroy the barbarian royal court in that small world, the elite army of the Great Zhou Dynasty surged forward like a tidal wave, carrying the imposing force of ten thousand troops, and pressed onto the front lines.
The barbarian coalition suffered a crushing defeat at the Golden Chapter Grassland, but with the protection of the Azure Plain Grassland, they built an impregnable defensive line.

Therefore, at this moment, the Barbarian King, looking at the enemy banners that blotted out the sky, could only send a strong army to escort these important personnel from the small world of the teleported dragon beasts to retreat to the royal court in the rear.

In addition, the Barbarian King also ordered the eight golden tents of the Canglan Grassland to summon the truly hidden elite military legions to come to the border for support at all times.

Furthermore, the Barbarian King had previously expended resources to form a coalition army that united the barbarian forces of the Canglan Grassland, Zhuori Desert, Hanlin Wilderness, and Mingfo Ice Sea.

However, the military spirit legions of various countries within this barbarian alliance are not the true elite military spirit legions of their respective countries!

Therefore, this cobbled-together army is worlds apart from a truly elite military force with a long history and profound heritage.

This is the reason why they are being driven back in defeat by the elite military forces of the Great Zhou.

However, these allied forces have already demonstrated considerable combat effectiveness on the battlefield. Previously, they had swept through the Golden Chapter Grassland, penetrated deep into the Great Frontier, and reclaimed many treasures and resources that originally belonged to the Canglan Grassland Barbarian King Clan.

However, this good fortune did not last long. The secret of the Dragon Beast Small World being moved was inadvertently revealed, which led the Great Zhou Dynasty to launch a full-scale counterattack.

Therefore, at this moment, the Great Zhou's iron cavalry not only drove the barbarian coalition out of the Golden Chapter Grassland, but also advanced deep into the Canglan Grassland—the true homeland of this barbarian king.

Therefore, the barbarian king knew that if he allowed the Great Zhou Dynasty's military spirit legion to run rampant on the grasslands, the entire grasslands would be plunged into utter ruin, and the nobles on the grasslands would question his rule.

Once people's hearts are scattered, the situation will completely spiral out of control.

Therefore, he had to launch a thunderous counterattack to completely drive the Great Zhou army out of the Canglan Grassland, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable...

While the battle on the front lines was at a stalemate, the team responsible for transporting the Dragon Beast Small World to the barbarian royal court deep in the Canglan Grassland was being monitored not only by the ambitious nobles in the royal court, but also by the Qilin Legion, which had already taken control of the Dragon Beast Small World.

In addition, the Qilin Legion also dispatched a portion of its forces to act ruthlessly within the Dragon Beast Small World, violently plundering every resource-rich area.

Meanwhile, many more legion soldiers condensed the Qilin Army Soul, which was far more powerful and terrifying than what Zhao Yun had seen before, and seemed to be the true divine beast Qilin descended to earth. They constantly suppressed the heavenly secrets within the small world of dragon beasts and were always on guard against any possible accidents.

Furthermore, at this same time, the array formations, flags, and other array bases that Sun Zhengxuan and his group had buried in the Dragon Beast Small World ten days ago were also activated one by one by the members of the Qilin Legion.

This caused countless array patterns to spread across the surface of the small world like living things, weaving together into a massive array network that spread throughout the world.

Furthermore, the Qilin Legion also placed all the Star-Exploding Bamboo they brought with them, as well as the Star-Exploding Bamboo they borrowed from officials and nobles, and various types of disposable explosive materials they seized from the captured barbarians, at key nodes in the Dragon Beast Small World, such as the support of heaven and earth, the operation of the power of heaven and earth, and the world-covering formations.

These deadly weapons, like sleeping beasts, are just waiting for the Dragon Beast Small World to be moved into the territory of the Barbarian Royal Court. Then, the array that covers the Dragon Beast Small World will instantly detonate all the Starburst Bamboo scattered throughout the world.

Once such a massive exploding star bamboo is detonated, and through the interconnected array, its explosive properties are activated, causing this small world of dragon beasts to collapse. This would shatter the void of the small world like a broken mirror, causing the order of heaven and earth to collapse and spacetime to surge wildly...

When all these chain reactions come together, the destructive power that rushes towards the barbarian royal court will be far more powerful than simply combining and exploding the Star-Exploding Bamboo.

After all, though the small world is small, it is still a complete world!

When it is destroyed, it will also trigger the supreme destructive power contained in the principles of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth!
The arrival of this destructive power is far beyond the power of an ordinary explosion.

The two are fundamentally different.

Therefore, at the beginning of this plan,
Meanwhile, the Northern Army of the Great Zhou Dynasty, in order to ensure the smooth implementation of this earth-shattering plan, had already begun another arrangement outside the battlefield, on the mysterious levels of celestial secrets, fortune, and destiny, and was engaged in a silent battle without gunpowder!
Furthermore, from the Northern War Zone of the Great Zhou Dynasty, numerous ancient treasures and forbidden techniques were requested from the Imperial Observatory within the dynasty: the Fate Reversal Technique, the Heavenly Secret Chaos Array, the Fate Trajectory Deflection Technique...

To obscure the secrets of heaven and destiny, to sever the spiritual warnings of many barbarians, to alter the fate of certain regions, and thus to prevent the barbarians from experiencing any major crisis!
(End of this chapter)