Hyperdimensional Player

Chapter 346 The Calamity Begins! The Fall of the Southern Han Dynasty (Part 8)
The situation on the entire battlefield is constantly changing.

To ordinary people, all they saw was a sudden change in the celestial phenomena, as if the sky had darkened instantly, and gusts of eerie wind sent chills down their spines.

But from Duncan's God's perspective, he saw figures descending from the sky and possessing the Southern Han army. They were all Taoist soldiers that Fan Huzi had arranged in advance, summoning the five battalions of soldiers that the Taoist sect had nurtured through incense offerings over the past thousand years.

"interesting."

Duncan's eyes gleamed with a bloodthirsty aura, like double pupils. He raised the Overlord Spear in his hand, and the Mountain Lord beneath him roared. In an instant, an astonishing spear light streaked across the sky, forcefully slaying the heavenly soldiers and generals who had not yet been possessed. The spear in his hand pierced through dozens of people in succession, and then condensed into a fierce blade more than ten feet long. When he swung it, it was like a chaotic dance of unparalleled power, with limbs and broken arms flying everywhere.

Kill all, men, gods, and ghosts!

If it weren't for the restrictions of the laws of this world, he might have faced 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals.

The celestial soldiers and generals who were killed vanished into thin air, turning into wisps of magical power that merged into his body, much like the divine beings from the Western world who died at his hands.

Throughout the entire history of the Central Plains, the number of people who have cultivated to become immortals is very small. If you ascend to become an immortal, you will not be a mere soldier in the Heavenly Court. At the very least, you will be a prominent figure within the Heavenly Court. Those who were deified after death may not be as good as the immortals in life.

The celestial soldiers and generals are somewhat similar in form to the heroic spirits and prayer companions. They are all carefully selected by the Taoist sects and then worshipped along with the gods.

The Yellow Turban Warriors appeared.

Unlike the celestial soldiers and generals summoned by Fan Huzi through divine intervention, the Yellow Turban Warriors summoned by Miss Sun through the Taiping Qingling were more like wild gods not subject to formal incense offerings. Perhaps because the Taiping Dao was prone to rebellion, it was suppressed by successive dynasties, and even the Yellow Turban Warriors could only be secretly worshipped by the sect, occasionally summoned to subdue demons and monsters.

"By imperial decree!"
The Grand Duke Jupiter is approaching!

Wearing a purple crown and clad in dragon scale armor!
Deity of the Year, reveal your true form at once!

"All beings in the three realms and ten directions, heed my command!"

—Summoning Tai Sui to ward off evil.

Seeing Duncan's unstoppable momentum, even the heavenly soldiers and generals possessing him couldn't stop him, Fan Hu Zi, wearing a wandering crown and a gorgeous purple robe, was shocked. Something appeared in her palm, and she threw it onto the altar. In an instant, a black shadow gathered, as if surging underground, and flew towards Duncan's position.

With heavenly soldiers and generals summoned, Duncan wouldn't be surprised if anything else appeared.

His figure soared into the air. Lu Shanjun roared and rode the wind. The spear in Duncan's hand pierced the earth directly, creating a huge crater more than ten feet long with a loud bang.

Turning Clouds Hand.

Lu Shanjun slammed his tiger-shaped palms down on the ground, forcefully lifting up the ground within a radius of tens of meters. The entire ground shook like a huge stone slab, as if steel could be formed from the earth. The black shadow that had been burrowing underground was also lifted up and sent flying. As the sky was filled with shattered rocks, the black shadow revealed its Tai Sui-like outline.

The Overlord's Counterattack!
Duncan and Lu Shanjun cooperated extremely well. He concentrated all his energy at the tip of his spear, and his true essence went berserk. This spear seemed to pierce through space, and it actually tore open a strange crack in the air. The true essence was so powerful that it caused space to collapse. Under the crushing force of the energy, everything collapsed inward.

"Break through the void, and see the indestructible god!"

Ling Su Daoist's expression changed drastically upon seeing this, and he murmured, "This world is almost too small to contain him."

boom!
The figure of Tai Sui exploded into ashes, and even the illusory figures of the nearby heavenly soldiers and generals were scattered.

Under the sword of the Great Free Heaven Demon Lord, all beings are equal.

Sonorous.

A sword light cleared the way ahead, and Fu Jianhan appeared a hundred feet to Duncan's right. He picked up the crimson gourd and took a big gulp of strong liquor. Then, he used his pure Yang true energy to ignite the liquor in his mouth, and a flame spewed out from his mouth, like dozens of sword energies shooting out. The flame sword energy grew as it went with the wind, covering the fan-shaped area in front of him. Whether the celestial soldier phantoms were possessed or not, they were all melted away as soon as they encountered it.

In the Western world, there are nine-ring spells that can summon otherworldly divine servants, but even legendary powerhouses can kill them by force.

Once you break through to the Dao realm, the world changes completely.

Fu Jianhan's condensed sword energy can slay ghosts, gods, demons, and even local city gods, mountain gods, and earth gods. If he wants to kill them, he can forcibly sever their Yin God status.

"Where did so many experts at the Dao Realm come from?" Ling Su Daoist was completely baffled.

A sound wave swept across the entire battlefield.

At some unknown time, the figure of the Jade-Faced Goddess appeared, and her demonic voice spread throughout the surrounding area. She played the song of "Song of Chu on All Sides, Ambush from Ten Sides," and the demonic voice poured into people's ears, directly shaking the minds of many mortals and causing them to lose all fighting spirit. Thousands of soldiers abandoned their armor and fled.

"not good!"

"My life is over!"

Gong Chengshu looked at Duncan, who was like a god of death breaking through thousands of troops, and the mountain tiger he rode. He was so frightened that his soul was about to leave his body. He didn't know when the rebel army had so many peerless masters who had entered the Dao realm. No wonder all the men he sent out had disappeared without a trace.

But it was already a bit too late. Duncan took the lead, cutting through the enemy ranks. Lu Shanjun let out a tiger's roar, which shocked the surrounding soldiers and generals so much that they dared not approach and regarded the enemy as nothing.

This was only because the two of them were unwilling to commit too many atrocities; otherwise, thousands of lives in the vicinity would have been taken.

The spear flashes like a dragon, its powerful energy transforming into a tiger.

A strange phenomenon involving a dragon and a tiger.

The color of heaven and earth changes.

Duncan gave the enemy no chance to react. Lu Shanjun used his teleportation technique to leap into the air and instantly covered a hundred feet away. The two were as fast as lightning. The next second, they saw Gong Chengshu's corpse being lifted high, a spear piercing his heart, and then casually flung over a hundred feet away.

Vulnerable.

When the Northern Song Dynasty attacked the Southern Han Dynasty, they couldn't even hold them off for three months. Today, Duncan has unleashed a massacre, and his 100,000-strong army has completely collapsed, with fleeing soldiers scattered all over the mountains and plains.

—Fan Hu Zi (Six-star Gold).

Facing this person again, Duncan was confident of victory. Fu Jianhan's Lu Zu sword flashed through the air, shattering her altar with pure Yang sword energy and blocking her retreat. Duncan ignored all the illusory images of beans turning into soldiers. Lu Shanjun charged straight ahead, crushing the layers of ghostly figures with his powerful energy. After being shattered, these figures actually turned into soybeans.

The magic of turning beans into soldiers was incredibly famous during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and Northern Song periods.

Historically, Fan Huzi attempted to trick Liu Chang by scattering beans to create soldiers, but the beans sprouted immediately after being transported there. Furthermore, during the Jingkang Incident, Emperor Huizong and Emperor Qinzong of the Northern Song Dynasty actually believed that Guo Jing possessed the skills of Qimen Dunjia (a form of divination and strategy), capable of creating soldiers from beans and defeating the Liao army.

As for Li Yu of the Southern Han Dynasty's belief in magic that allowed him to defeat the Northern Song army, there's no need to go into detail about that.

The phantom soldiers summoned by Fan Huzi were only capable of fighting, but not as strong as one might imagine.

The heavenly soldiers and generals could only fight against the lesser demons.

"Summoning spells of this level can't stop me."

Duncan's Overlord Spear burst forth from the sky, gathering powerful energy like a heaven-shaking spear. Fan Hu Zi, who was hiding behind the army, had nowhere to retreat. He seemed to teleport a Taoist priest to his front as if he had shifted his position.

dead!
Duncan didn't care which sect of Taoist masters these were. His figure shattered the void, and with a move of his clumsy hand, he transformed into a thirty-meter-long palm print and slammed it down, instantly turning all the Taoists around the altar into mincemeat.

The magic of summoning gods and generals has been broken.

The Southern Han army, which had been possessed by the heavenly soldiers, gradually returned to normal. When they looked around, all they saw was a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. They were instantly terrified and threw down their weapons, fleeing in all directions.

"I am the incarnation of the Jade Emperor!"

"How dare you harm me?"

Faced with the menacing Duncan and his group, Fan Hu Zi panicked instantly. She shouted loudly, and a divine thunderbolt descended from the sky, like a divine punishment, striking Duncan and Lu Shan Jun in front of her.

Thunder rolls from the sky.

Rumble!
Duncan met the lightning with his palm, and the crackling electric snakes were caught in his hand. He suppressed the Divine Firmament Thunder Technique with his True Essence and Blood Fiend, and the lightning snakes in his palm were actually crushed by him, just like a plasma bomb. The scattered plasma was like liquid, and it melted the soil the moment it hit the ground.

Is this child still a mortal?
Even Fan Hu Zi had never seen anyone else withstand the heavenly lightning with their bare body. Duncan's hair was standing on end, and beside him, Lu Shan Jun was like a tiger with its fur standing on end. The lightning bolts that had transformed into electric snakes circled around his body and were drawn into the ground by Lu Shan Jun's tiger-like power.

"Pooh!"

"That wicked woman's lightning magic is still so powerful!" Lu Shanjun cursed, transforming into a half-human, half-tiger form.

After Duncan started his rebellion, he re-engraved the military tally based on the original form of Lord Lushan.

Now, Lu Shanjun's piercing eyes and white forehead are gradually spreading, and his beard and hair are gradually resembling those of a white tiger.

Electric snakes swirled around Fan Hu Zi. Fear gripped her heart, and she wanted to escape, but Duncan wouldn't let her get away. Fu Jian Han blocked her retreat with Lu Zu's sword. From both sides, the figures of Jade-Faced Lady and Miss Sun also appeared, their pretty faces filled with murderous intent, seemingly intending to take her head.

"The Jade Emperor incarnation?"

Lu Shanjun roared, his palms turning into metal and stone. His clumsy hands condensed into solid palm prints, which were skeletons formed by true essence and evil energy. He angrily said, "It is the Jade Emperor Daojun here."

"I'll have to fight too!"

Lu Shanjun was a hot-tempered man. He had been struck several times by Fan Huzi's Divine Thunder Technique, and he was already furious.

Fan Huzi's escape route was cut off.

If she had left from the beginning, Duncan certainly wouldn't have been able to stop her, but her decision to perform a ritual gave Duncan the opportunity to keep her.

"A decree from the Jade Emperor!"

"The power of God is unpredictable!"

Faced with the Daoist masters surrounding her from all directions, Fan Huzi finally revealed a hint of fear. The electric snakes around her danced wildly, transforming into rolling thunderbolts, while her own figure went berserk with magical power, even distorting the surrounding space. Subsequently, on the dimensional level, the projection page from God's perspective also changed.

A phantom image of an emperor-like deity, wearing a crown and dragon robe and holding a jade tablet, appeared.

A terrifying pressure enveloped everyone.

Even the unruly Lord Lu Shan seemed unable to withstand this spiritual pressure. He knelt on one knee, letting out a defiant roar. His hair and beard stood on end, and his bones cracked as he slowly rose to his feet. "The Jade Emperor is here!"

"Who dares not kneel!"

Fan Huzi's figure has completely disappeared.

Instead, a phantom of the Heavenly Emperor appeared, wearing a crown and dragon robe, holding a jade tablet. As if his words were law, everyone else present, whether it was Fu Jianhan, the Jade-Faced Lady, or Miss Sun whose strength had increased by leaps and bounds after breaking through to the Dao Realm, all showed expressions of shock and their bodies showed signs of kneeling uncontrollably.

Of everyone present, only Duncan stood there expressionless, his eyes filled with murderous intent as he stared directly at the Jade Emperor's illusory figure before him and said coldly, "I didn't expect you to actually have a connection with the Jade Emperor!"

This move is called 'divine intervention' in the West.

But from Duncan's God's perspective, this illusory image of the Jade Emperor Daojun was shrouded in billowing black mist. It was unclear how she had summoned the god; it looked extremely sinister.

"Be bold!"

The illusory figure of the Jade Emperor, filled with majesty, looked down at the tiny Duncan before him and angrily rebuked, "Since you have seen the Heavenly Emperor, why do you not kneel?"

kneel?
Get down here, you son of a bitch!
If the Jade Emperor himself were here, Duncan would be a little more polite. But Fan Hu Zi thought that by transforming into the Jade Emperor's appearance, he could suppress him with his status. That's just wishful thinking.

Big clumsy hands!
Duncan unleashed a palm strike, and a large, blood-red handprint materialized in the trembling space.

"presumptuous!"

"How dare a mortal be so rude!"

"Do you intend to defy the will of Heaven?!"

The illusory image of the Jade Emperor Dao Lord stretched out a palm, which seemed to cover the sky and the sun, enveloping everyone in its palm. This power was extremely terrifying, and even Lu Shanjun felt a sense of powerlessness.

But Duncan saw through all the illusions. If they really had such supernatural powers, how could they have forced Fan Huzi to reveal his true form?
The six-star golden strength mark cannot be faked.

The illusory image of the Jade Emperor before my eyes is fake.

Break it for me!
The instant Duncan unleashed his clumsy strike, his spirit left his body, and a massive phantom appeared in the illusion. The raging flames gathered and condensed into a visible giant skeleton, like an invisible yet visible reflection of a giant.

Duncan's physical body stood on the reflection of this illusory giant, and then, in a fit of rage, he slammed his palm down on the head of the Jade Emperor, shattering the crown he wore into dust.

Not everyone can represent God!

boom!
Everything around collapsed with a roar. The illusory image of the Jade Emperor Daojun was shattered, like an empty shell of a god statue. Fan Huzi's figure reappeared, spitting out a sky full of blood.

The Heavenly Emperor's divine power was completely ineffective against this person!
"You actually still possess a trace of divine status!"

"who are you?"

Duncan unleashed a terrifying suction force from his palm, capturing Fan Huzi's figure directly in his hand. Fan Huzi's expression remained arrogant and somewhat manic as he looked disdainfully at the group before him, saying, "You have offended the heavens! You will be punished by the heavens sooner or later!"

She impersonated the Jade Emperor, and had already fooled herself to the point of becoming possessed.

Electric snakes dance wildly.

Divine Firmament Thunder Technique.

Fan Huzi actually wanted to perform a ritual.

Without the slightest hesitation, Duncan struck down with his palm, shattering Fan Huzi's skull. Fan Huzi, like an empty shell, turned into ashes and gradually dissipated, leaving no trace of his body.

In the darkness, it seemed as if a streak of light had flown by.

The others were completely unaware, but Duncan reacted instantly, snatching Fu Jianhan's Lu Zu sword and unleashing a sword beam more than ten feet long, as if he were about to cleave the heavens and earth in two.

boom!
That remnant soul was instantly shattered into pieces, then transformed into countless streams of light and disappeared into the horizon.

"Could she really be the Jade Emperor incarnate?" Fu Jianhan asked in astonishment.

Duncan remained silent for a long time before finally saying, "She doesn't seem to be an incarnation of the Jade Emperor, but rather a manifestation of his inner demons."

Fan Hu Zi embodies the resentment, hatred, and greed of ordinary people. Observing her behavior in the human world, she is somewhat like Duncan's own three corpses, a combination of many negative characteristics of ordinary people.

at this time.

As if sensing something, Duncan suddenly looked towards the direction north of the West River.

The Taoist Lingsu, who was spying from dozens of miles away using the Great Round Light Technique, was instantly startled. Without thinking, he fled immediately, exclaiming in horror, "Could it be that the Bright King is the Great Free Heaven Demon Lord?"

"We were tricked by Taoist Lu?"

"not good."

"This man was able to kill Fan Huzi so easily. Without asking a Taoist master to come out of seclusion, even the Song Dynasty might not be able to stop him."

The entire plan was completely shattered by brute force.

Today, the 100,000-strong army of the Southern Han has suffered a complete defeat. In less than half a month, the Southern Han will be destroyed. From the beginning of the uprising to now, less than three months have passed, and the Southern Han is about to become history.

At this rate, the Southern Tang probably won't be able to hold out for long.

Li Yu was a devout Buddhist.

Historically, the imperial treasury was used to support more than 10,000 monks and nuns.

If he continues north, he will inevitably clash with the Buddhist sect. At that time, it is possible for Buddhism and Taoism to unite and suppress the Great Freedom Demon Lord together.

The demise of the Southern Han Dynasty was already inevitable.

This place has been ravaged by Liu Chang and the Demonic Sect. With Fan Huzi dead, the others couldn't even last half a month.

The next to suffer will be Buddhism.

The persecution of Buddhism by the Three Wu and One Zong sects has only been a few years ago, and now the Buddhist community is like a frightened bird. If Duncan shows any hostility towards Buddhism, it is highly likely that the masters of Buddhism will unite to subdue the demons.

If he were to further incite unrest and invite Taoist practitioners to intervene, he might be able to curb the situation across the land.

"How long is Master going to go into seclusion?"

"This disciple is about to collapse."

Ling Su Dao Ren sighed inwardly, feeling utterly helpless. He was forced to confront the Great Freedom Heaven Demon Lord, yet he dared not make a move easily, nor even get too close. He was completely constrained and unable to accomplish anything.

But even if he were to actually confront him, he wouldn't dare. After all, the Great Free Heaven Demon Lord had a fearsome reputation. Just with that title, let alone Taoist masters who hadn't yet attained enlightenment, how many real immortals would dare to go up and fight him head-on?

Master, please emerge from seclusion soon!

If all else fails, hurry to the Western Paradise and invite the Buddha. Surely Buddhism has some trump card up its sleeve?

Fan Huzi is utterly incompetent and more likely to cause trouble than to accomplish anything.

She fought several battles with the Great Freedom Demon Lord, but she couldn't even force him to unleash his Undying Demon Body.

If we can force out his Undying Demon Body, we can at least learn how to kill his physical body.

"He probably already has half of Xing Tian's cultivation level."

A battle today.

The world will surely be shaken. Countless mortals have witnessed the power of gods, as if a myth has been reborn. The calamity of the gods has begun. If someone were to stir things up, the world might undergo a dramatic change.

The Taoist sects have joined forces to plan the ascension of the Jade Emperor Daojun to the Jade Emperor, which has already created a calamity.

At this moment, heaven, earth, and man all unleash their murderous intent.

Ling Su Daoist's cultivation was insufficient, and he was unable to perceive any changes at all.

time flies.

Five days after Fan Huzi's sudden death, the coastal areas of southern Xinjiang held large-scale sacrifices to the Dragon Girl, worshipping her as the Goddess of the Sea. She had transformed from a folk deity into an officially recognized deity.

Before long, many illegitimate shrines were completely destroyed throughout the territory of the Southern Han Dynasty, and even the local city gods and land gods were said to have been replaced.

Several days later, the Prince of Xing's mansion fell. Liu Chang, along with his beautiful wives and concubines and a large amount of gold and silver, attempted to escape by sea, but was caught red-handed.

On the twelfth day after Fan Huzi's sudden death, the Southern Han Dynasty was completely destroyed.

In one day, Duncan beheaded 123 eunuchs, dismantled the Dashuangti Palace, and Liu Chang was castrated, with the castration carried out by the experts of the Imperial Castration Office under the personal supervision of more than ten Jinshi (successful candidates in the highest imperial examinations) whom he had ordered to be castrated.

Liu Chang thus became the emperor who castrated the most people in history and was also the first emperor to be subjected to castration.

However, after the fall of the Southern Han Dynasty, more than 10,000 eunuchs remained.

People weren't castrated by Duncan, but he was useful to these people.

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(End of this chapter)