The Fourth Disaster: People become gods through high martial arts and gaming

Chapter 326 Raging waves swallow the sun and moon, mountains and rivers collapse and ghosts and gods tremble!
Apart from the members of the Red Moon Merchant Guild, everyone present looked at the information provided by Rhine Manster with expressions ranging from solemn to incredulous.

"Rhine, is your intelligence accurate?"

The Shadow of Twilight, Michael, stared at Rhine Manster with his six eyes, as if trying to see through whether Rhine Manster was lying, his gaze unusually sharp.

The other people present who had accepted the commission also looked over.

It wasn't that they didn't believe the information provided by Rhein Manster, but rather that the information was so astonishing that they dared not believe it.

According to Rhine Manster's investigation, there are currently tens of thousands of gray-robed disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy in the entire Dead Mountain Range who are at the Internal Organ Refining Realm, and more than five hundred who are at the Bone Forging Realm.

This number of Refining Organs Realm and Bone Forging Realm martial artists could be quickly assembled, let alone a top-tier power within the Four Domains, or even any city within the Mist Mountain region.

However, before accepting the commission, everyone present already knew that the gray-robed disciple of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy was extraordinary, possessing a transformation ability that ordinary humans did not have, which could increase his strength by almost one level.

Tens of thousands of martial artists, that is, tens of thousands of Bone Forging Realm experts. This number of Bone Forging Realm experts is enough for even the top-tier forces in the four regions to easily produce. But the more than five hundred Bone Forging Realm martial artists of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy is terrifying.

The Bone Forging Realm warriors of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy are roughly equivalent to Blood Condensation Realm warriors to outsiders. With more than 500 Bone Forging Realm warriors, that's equivalent to more than 500 Blood Condensation Realm experts.

A Blood Condensation Realm expert is no ordinary person. In the Four Domains, they would be the lord of a city. Even in the largest region of the Four Domains, the Heavenly River Region, the total number of cities is only a little over one hundred. The Heavenly River Region controls fifty-nine of these cities.

Five hundred Blood Condensation Realm experts—it's safe to say that apart from the Domain Cities within the Four Domains, no other force could produce that many. Even the top-tier forces within the Four Domains would be considered very powerful if they could produce three hundred. After all, the requirements for breaking through from the Bone Forging Realm to the Blood Condensation Realm are extremely high. Not only are there high age requirements, but also very high requirements for comprehension. Usually, only those super geniuses can be confirmed as Blood Condensation Realm experts; other geniuses are less than one in ten.

"Don't doubt it, everyone. I can guarantee that this intelligence is all true," Rhein Manster affirmed. "That's why we need you for this operation."

He himself didn't dare to believe the information his subordinates had gathered about the Obsidian Martial Arts School.

Not long ago, the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy sent 262 Bone Forging Realm warriors to the Dead Mountain Range, which was already unbelievable to him. But now, just a few days later, the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy has managed to send out more than 500 Bone Forging Realm experts. Their hidden strength is simply terrifying.

"More than five hundred Blood Condensation Realm warriors?" Rexxar looked at the data and couldn't help but understand why the Red Moon Merchant Guild had invited those three from the Forbidden Zone this time.

With over five hundred Blood Condensation Realm warriors, no one outside the Domain City could muster such a force. To wipe out this power, unless a Celestial Realm Grandmaster intervenes, all factions would have to mobilize their entire forces.

However, each faction has its own territory and affairs that require a Blood Condensation Realm expert to oversee, so it's impossible for them to mobilize all their forces, let alone fight against such a powerful force.

Even if the three parties unite and each sends some personnel, regardless of the outcome, the cost will be something none of them want to accept.

If you want to deal with such a force without paying a heavy price, the only way is to invite these half-step Celestial Realm experts, especially the three top-ranked half-step Celestial Realm experts from the forbidden zone. They can normally fight against Celestial Realm Grandmasters, and killing early and mid-stage Blood Condensation Realm warriors would be a piece of cake for them.

"This Obsidian Martial Arts School does have some skill; no wonder they dare to oppose you." Gaia, the Celestial Beast, finished reading the information, his eyes gleaming with excitement. He looked directly at Rhine Manster and said, "Tell me, what do you want us to do this time?"

“I can participate, but it will cost more.” Twilight Shadow Michael put away the documents and looked at Rhine Manster. “I want eighty of the forty energy blood essences that we agreed on verbally, or we can trade for a map of the restricted area that I don’t have.”

“Me too, double the price.” Storm Child Tania nodded. “If I don’t have enough energy blood essence, I’ll accept any map from the forbidden zone that I don’t have.”

It's impressive that the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy has over 500 disciples with the combat strength of the Blood Condensation Realm, but that's about it. At their level, they can easily deal with not only martial artists with the combat strength of the initial stage of the Blood Condensation Realm, but also those with the combat strength of the advanced stage of the Blood Condensation Realm.

As long as you don't deal with too many Blood Condensation Realm warriors at once, you can slowly wear down all the Blood Condensation Realm warriors of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy in the wild.

“Alright, the three of us can agree to this: everyone involved in the operation will receive double the reward upon completion of the mission.” Rhine Manster agreed without hesitation, seeing the two making such an outrageous demand.

For the Red Moon Chamber of Commerce, problems that can be solved with money are not problems.

For a moment, everyone present who had accepted the commission looked at each other, and then all looked at Rhine Manster. They were all clearly satisfied with the price offered by Rhine Manster, and no one chose to back out.

“Since you have all agreed, I will now assign tasks to each of you, as well as the strongholds that need to be dealt with.” Rhine Manster looked around and then formally explained, “We have currently identified four strongholds belonging to the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy. The number of people gathered at these strongholds varies, so I will assign personnel according to the number of people and their approximate combat strength at each stronghold. In addition to you, the three families have also sent a large number of personnel this time, who will join the battle with you. I hope you will not affect them. Considering the support that the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy will provide during the great battle, you can withdraw directly once you have dealt with the Bone Forging Realm disciples in the strongholds.”

As Rhein Manster spoke, he also displayed an electronic holographic map, on which four small circles were marked, and next to each circle was a record of how many martial artists were at the Refining Organs Realm and the Forging Bone Realm.

The four strongholds each have nearly a hundred to more than two hundred martial artists at the Bone Forging Realm.

In response, Rhine Manster divided the half-step Celestial Realm into four groups. The largest stronghold was dealt with by Gaia, the Beast of Heaven, and Tania, the Son of Storms. The second largest stronghold was dealt with by Michael, the Shadow of Twilight, and Rexxar. The third largest stronghold was dealt with by Merk, the Seeker of Light from Earth Pharmaceuticals, and Ulun, the Three-Headed Smiling Skull. The smallest stronghold was dealt with by Rhine Manster himself.

After more than half an hour of task arrangement, Rhine Manster also instructed the members of the Red Moon Merchant Guild to lead three other groups to the pre-arranged locations to wait for the collective action at the same time.

The Mountains of the Dead, atop a mountain peak.

The two half-step Celestials, Misharu and Rexxar, led by the Bloodstained Clan youth, quickly arrived at a hidden cave carved out on the mountaintop. From there, they could easily observe the situation within six or seven kilometers below, especially the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy stronghold six kilometers away, which was completely visible under their Blood Coagulation Realm vision.

“My lords, there are still nearly three hours before the operation. During this time, please do not leave the area within fifty meters of this cave. There is a shielding device here that our life detectors cannot detect. Once you leave the cave within fifty meters, the shielding device will no longer be able to block you.” The Blood-Patterned Clan youth said respectfully to the two men dressed in black cloaks.

"Don't worry, we understand." Twilight Shadow Michael nodded, then pointed to the black cloak she was wearing and asked softly, "But will you take this cloak back after we're done?"

"This material that shields against life force is very precious. It was discovered by our guild in a ruin within a restricted area. Please forgive us, but we cannot give it away or sell it," the Bloodstained Clan youth explained.

"Did you get it from the ruins of the forbidden zone?" Rexxar touched the black cloak he was wearing and said with great admiration, "It truly lives up to its reputation as a relic of the ruins. It can even completely shield one's life force. It's a pity you don't sell them, otherwise I would have bought a few myself."

From the moment they entered the Mountain of the Dead, they wore black cloaks. Because the black cloaks shielded them from any life force, they were not discovered by any monsters along the way, and traversing the Mountain of the Dead was like a leisurely outing in the wild.

If it weren't for Twilight Shadow Michaela bringing it up herself, he would have wanted to take it back after completing the mission and use it in the restricted area, which would definitely raise the security level significantly.

However, neither Twilight Shadow Michael nor Rexxar talked much about what happened in the black cloak. They simply looked down from the mountaintop at the large number of figures rushing towards them.

These people who came from the depths of the Mountain of the Dead were all fully armed. The weakest among them was at the mid-stage of the Bone Forging Realm, wearing second-tier armor and wielding second-tier weapons. Their numbers ranged from dozens to hundreds, and each team had at least one Blood Condensation Realm expert as their leader.

Initially, Misha and Rexxar, the Shadow of Twilight, didn't pay much attention to the members of the three major forces who had gathered. However, as more and more members of the three major forces gathered, the two became increasingly surprised.

"How many people from your three families have come to this stronghold?" Rexxar asked the Bloodstained Clan youth, watching the commotion below the mountain.

Facing the second largest stronghold of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, with over a hundred Bone Forging Realm warriors and nearly three thousand Visceral Refining Realm warriors, he originally thought it would be good if the three forces could send out equal combat power, after all, they also had two half-step Celestial Realm experts on their side.

But he was truly astonished to see more and more people gathering at the foot of the mountain.

Even a rough estimate shows that the three forces sent more than 150 experts at the Blood Condensation Realm and over 10,000 warriors at the Bone Forging Realm.

This doesn't seem like an attempt to annihilate a Black Obsidian Martial Arts Academy stronghold; it's more like an attack on a top-tier power within the Four Domains.

The Blood-Patterned Clan youth looked at the somewhat surprised Rexxar and said with a smile, "This time, our three families spent a lot of time gathering manpower to deal with the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy. In addition to our three families, we also hired a lot of martial artists in the Blood Condensation Realm and Bone Forging Realm. For this second stronghold alone, we sent about 180 Blood Condensation Realm experts and more than 13,000 Bone Forging Realm martial artists."

"One hundred and eighty Blood Condensation Realm experts, and more than thirteen thousand Bone Forging Realm warriors?" Rexar gasped upon hearing this. Although he had long known that Earth Star Pharmaceuticals and Red Moon Merchants would not let Obsidian Martial Arts School off easily, especially given their recent unusually low-key approach, they were likely to launch a major attack on Obsidian Martial Arts School.

But I didn't expect it to be this big.

It wasn't enough to just invite these half-step cultivators; in just a few days, so many Blood Condensation Realm and Bone Forging Realm experts were gathered. Just to deal with one stronghold, there were so many experts. If all four strongholds were combined, it's unimaginable how many experts the three families had sent.

In his memory, a battle of this scale was a rare sight, even in the entire Four Regions, and only once every few decades.

The last time was thirty years ago, when the Desolate Ridge City led various forces to face a monster rampage. More than a thousand people at the Blood Condensation Realm and more than 200,000 experts at the Bone Forging Realm were mobilized. That battle directly shocked the four regions and destroyed nearly one-third of the land in the Desolate Ridge area.

"You three families are really crazy. It's just dealing with a martial arts school that has only recently risen to prominence in the Mist Mountain area. Is it really necessary to go to such lengths?" Misha Lu of Twilight Shadow, who was standing to the side, couldn't help but gasp in astonishment.

Although the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy is quite strong, with more than 500 Bone Forging Realm warriors possessing Blood Condensation Realm combat power, they are still just a group of Bone Forging Realm warriors.

Since there was no irreconcilable hatred between the two sides, the Smiling Skeletons were one thing, since they were just a bunch of lunatics to begin with. But unexpectedly, Earth Star Pharmaceuticals and Red Moon Merchant Guild also went crazy together, completely determined to put Obsidian Martial Arts School to the brink of destruction, a fight to the death.

"If anyone's to blame, it's the Obsidian Martial Arts School. They were too arrogant and didn't take our three families seriously at all in the Mist Mountain area. They killed and robbed us whenever they wanted," the Blood Pattern Clan youth said with pride. "Today, we're just making the Obsidian Martial Arts School pay a little interest."

Before the appearance of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, the three families had never been afraid of anyone in the Four Domains except for the Domain City. However, in the Mist Mountain region, so many people were killed by the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy. Even though the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy is much stronger than before, the three families will tell all the forces in the Four Domains that if they want to destroy, they can still destroy.

“That Obsidian Martial Arts School was indeed arrogant. They can’t blame anyone else for their current predicament.” Rexxar nodded in agreement.

He, a Celestial Realm seed from Tianhe Domain City and the son of an elder, was already willing to pay for the metal plate containing the inheritance of that body-strengthening secret technique, but the Obsidian Martial Arts School still refused. They simply didn't take him seriously, which shows how arrogant they were. So he understood the actions of the three families at this time.

Let alone wiping out the disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy in the Dead Mountain Range, it wouldn't be surprising if they destroyed the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy's headquarters, Crimson Moon Town.

Michael, the Shadow of Twilight, remained completely silent and offered no opinion.

She didn't know if the Obsidian Martial Arts School was arrogant, but the domineering nature of the Smiling Skull, Earth Star Pharmaceuticals, and Red Moon Chamber of Commerce was known to all the major powers in the four regions.

"My lords, it's almost time. You should prepare yourselves. When the army marches out, you two will be the ones to deal with the Bone Forging Realm warriors from the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy," the Blood Pattern Clan youth said, glancing at the time. It was nearly midnight.

Both Twilight Shadow Michael and Rexxar nodded and began checking their weapons and equipment.

23点57分……23点58分……23点59分……

Until midnight, the Blood Condensation Realm and Bone Forging Realm warriors surrounding the second largest stronghold of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, with a shout, unleashed the full power of the blood and qi of hundreds of Blood Condensation Realm and tens of thousands of Bone Forging Realm warriors. Like a raging tsunami, it surged up and spread over a radius of more than ten kilometers, instantly pressing down on the stronghold players who had not yet reacted.

In an instant, just by looking at the drop in qi and blood, all the players in the stronghold, whether they were at the Refining Organs Realm or the Bone Forging Realm, were forced to the ground.

"Enemy attack! There is an enemy attack!"

"Holy crap! What's going on? How come so many NPCs are attacking?"

"Could this mean the new storyline has begun?"

The players inside the stronghold were stunned to see the NPCs, no longer hidden, now swarming in the woods in the thousands, their numbers overwhelming, and the oppressive aura emanating from them like a cataclysmic flood.

Many players have participated in battles involving tens of thousands of people, but no one has ever experienced a battle of this scale and level.

There are 180 Blood Coagulation Realm BOSSes that I've sensed, which is more than the number of Bone Forging Realm players in the stronghold. This game is incredibly difficult.

Before the players could even react, two figures, a man and a woman, suddenly appeared on the distant mountain peak. They landed directly above the stronghold like missiles, causing the air to explode and the terrifying shockwaves to blow away the surrounding trees.

The two stood proudly in mid-air. The six-eyed woman of the sub-demon race simply raised one hand to the sky, and a huge phantom nearly two hundred meters tall appeared. The huge phantom was an arm, a huge arm with countless eyes, which clenched its fist in the air as if it had grabbed something and pulled it down.

boom!
The sound of something shattering echoed for more than ten kilometers.

For a moment, everyone present, whether players or experts from the three factions, stared in disbelief at the sky.

An energy object with a radius of over one kilometer, resembling a meteorite, fell from the sky, piercing through layers of air and directly striking the center of the stronghold.

"What kind of BOSS is this?"

"Hand-rubbed meteorite?"

The players inside the stronghold were completely stunned by the sight of the falling meteorite, especially those who had only recently become martial artists.

Normally, players at the Bone Forging Realm can create phantoms hundreds of meters long, equivalent to a thirty-story building, and a single attack can affect several kilometers, which is already unbelievable. But now, with a meteorite with a radius of more than one kilometer, the phantoms hundreds of meters long are simply ants, not worth mentioning at all.

Just as the massive meteorite was about to fall, a figure flashed out from the Elemental Spirit Mystic Tower and stood directly at the top. From the sword box on his back, longswords flew out one after another, and the flying longswords split into even more longswords. Each blade was as thin as a cicada's wing, and in the blink of an eye, thousands of blades appeared in mid-air.

Many players looked on with admiration when they saw this figure.

Because that person was none other than Ye Qinglu, the top expert of the Sky Guardian Corps. At this moment, Ye Qinglu had reached the limit of the high-level Bone Forging Realm. His body was enveloped in dense energy, his clothes and long hair danced in mid-air, and the surrounding air began to blur, as if a sword immortal had descended to earth.

"The effects of cultivating the spirit within the Elementary Spiritual Tower are astonishing, but unfortunately, the time was too short to perform the sixth explosion." Ye Qinglu looked at the falling meteorites, a hint of anticipation in her eyes. "However, it's perfect to use you guys to test my newly perfected Thousand Swords Diagram!"

"go with!"

Ye Qinglu pointed a sword finger at the falling meteorite.

Suddenly, thousands of sword blades formed a dazzling sword lotus, and Ye Qinglu's enormous phantom punched the sword lotus.

boom!
In an instant, thousands of beams of light bloomed like lotus flowers, converging at a single point and directly striking the falling meteorite.

The meteorite suddenly shattered, turning into countless fragments and countless bolts of lightning that bombarded and cut into the ground, making the earth look as if it had been beaten by countless missiles and sword lights.

The earth cracked and mountains were leveled!

Whether it was players who couldn't dodge in time or members of the three major forces, anyone who was touched died on the spot, even martial artists at the Blood Condensation Realm were no exception.

When the smoke and dust cleared and everything returned to calm, the terrain within a radius of five or six kilometers had been completely transformed, turning from flat land into a rift valley, leaving everyone on both sides stunned.

(End of this chapter)