Shrouding the Heavens: Starting by joining the Holy Land of Yao Guang

Chapter 187 The Beginning of the End of the World (Bonus Chapter for 2000 Monthly Tickets in May)

If this gets out, it will definitely cause a stir in the Eastern Wilderness and make the various holy lands and aristocratic families take notice.

Looking at the ball of divine light in his hand, Fang Xiu knew that this time the human world might really be completely wiped out, because their greatest advantage was gone.

What deterrent effect do killers have if they are exposed in the open?
Fang Xiu left the main hall and began to secretly arrange manpower. At the same time, he sent a message to the Holy Mountain and mobilized a group of powerful people.

Besides the eighteen settlements that had already been cleared, there were thirty-five more settlements scattered throughout the Eastern Wilderness.

We definitely don't have enough manpower right now.

To prevent assassins from other outposts from receiving the news and withdrawing, the best approach is to simultaneously launch a barrage of fire on all thirty-five outposts.

In order not to attract too much attention, it is not possible to transfer a large number of strong people from other branches.

Therefore, this is the best opportunity for Mount Zhisheng to make a move.

The number of experts in this lineage is indeed exaggerated; in fact, none of the successive Holy Lords have been able to fully understand the strength of this lineage.

Of course, this included Li Yao, whose mind was not on the matter of the Holy Land at all, and whose understanding of the Yao Guang Holy Land was not as good as Li Daoqing's.

In his view, it would be better to spend time on spiritual practice rather than worrying about these things.

No one in the entire Eastern Wilderness knew about the actions of the Yao Guang Holy Land, because this time, no passerby came forward to say that they had just seen a large number of powerful figures from the Yao Guang Holy Land gathering. Everything was happening quietly and silently.

This time, in order to ensure that no one escaped, Fang Xiu invited a Dao-Slaying King and mobilized more than forty powerful figures and two hundred Supreme Elders to participate in the operation.

In addition, the number of Elders of the Dragon Transformation level and the Four Extremes Masters is even more exaggerated, totaling as many as five thousand.

Such a force could evaporate a river in front of it.

This is not even the full power of the Yao Guang Holy Land; it's just the tip of the iceberg.

On the surface, the Yao Guang Holy Land has 108 branch sects, and each branch sect has at least one Grand Elder in charge. Some important branch sects even have one or two powerful figures plus several Grand Elders.

Aside from the branch headquarters, Yao Guang's important industrial locations are also guarded by powerful figures from the Sendai Secret Realm, either great masters or supreme elders.

These are only the forces outside the Holy Land. The strongest headquarters, namely the Yao Guang Holy Land in the Southern Region, contains countless hidden experts.

This is the strength of a hegemon-level holy land!
……

The thousands of people were divided into thirty-five groups. In order to avoid attracting attention, they constantly used the Xuan Yu Platform to teleport to deserted places, approaching the human settlements like ghosts.

At midnight, the bright moon was obscured by dark clouds, plunging the world into darkness, and then, slaughter descended.

This night is destined to be anything but peaceful; the entire Eastern Wilderness will tremble at the break of dawn tomorrow.

……

Yaoguang Hall.

In the spacious hall, the divine power of the moon and the divine power of the sun collided, creating a chaotic mist that then cascaded down like a waterfall, pouring into Li Yao's body.

He had completely digested the insights from the Taiyin Taiyang True Scripture, but unexpectedly, he did not feel the overflowing sensation; he was still a little short.

The shortcoming wasn't in his cultivation level, but in his inherent strength.

The speed at which he comprehended the Great Dao was so fast that Li Yao's body was not prepared.

However, this is easily solved, or even a problem, as long as you absorb vital energy like crazy.

The most difficult thing in spiritual practice is to comprehend the Great Dao and increase one's spiritual attainment.

In fact, ordinary cultivators do not have this problem. By the time their cultivation reaches a breakthrough, their bodies are already in their most advanced state.

Of course, we have to mention that man again.

Emperor, in his second life, he must have experienced the same situation as Li Yao, where his cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds, at an exaggerated speed, but his body couldn't keep up.

"boom!"

Two fist-sized pieces of divine energy exploded, transforming into beams of divine light that entered Li Yao's body.

At the same time, the chaotic energy generated by the fusion of the Yin Holy Power and the Yang Holy Power was being absorbed by Li Yao at an alarming rate.

His body was rapidly improving, and soon Li Yao sensed an opportunity for a breakthrough.

However, Li Yao did not choose to break through directly this time, but was suppressed by him with the Four-Colored Immortal Furnace.

Now that the Holy Land of Yao Guang is waging war against the mortal world, this heavenly tribulation might be a good killing move.

When the time comes, they can drive the Heavenly Tribulation into a vital place in the human world and suppress everything without lifting a finger.

This move is very effective; the Dark Night King was tormented by it to the point of near death.

The Dark Night King's tribulation wasn't drawn down back then, but that was because his physique allowed him to conceal his aura very well.

Human assassins don't have such methods, and of course, even if they did, it wouldn't be of any use.

The Li Yao of today is completely different from the Li Yao of two months ago. With his current mastery of thunder magic, he can forcefully draw down the heavenly tribulation for others by using his divine sense to control it when it descends.

……

A burst of golden light suddenly appeared, the morning glow burst forth, shimmering and golden. Today was a beautiful day, but for many, it was nothing short of a bolt from the blue.

Yesterday's great battle did not remain a secret; the news spread throughout the Eastern Wilderness almost as soon as the sun shone on the earth.

"What?! How is this possible?! More than thirty more outposts in the world have been massacred?!"

"Isn't this just wishful thinking? How could they possibly have massacred over thirty more outposts just two days after only eighteen were wiped out?!"

"The human world is very secretive, and their locations are unknown to the world. How did the Yao Guang Holy Land find these strongholds so quickly?"

……

The news spread quickly throughout the Eastern Wilderness, and almost no one believed it, because it was simply too exaggerated and frightening.

Many holy lords, emperors, and even demon kings couldn't sit still and kept crossing the void to go to the location where the great battle broke out to verify the authenticity of the news.

"My God, all thirty-five strongholds, all the assassins, are pinned to the mountain walls or cliffs!"

"The human world has suffered a great loss this time. The previous eighteen strongholds, plus the current thirty-five, make a total of fifty-three strongholds!"

Everyone was stunned. The shattered land, the collapsed mountains, the devastation everywhere, and the corpses, their foreheads pierced by a blood-stained sword, were pinned to the cliffs.

The Holy Land of Yao Guang has taken strong action, continuously massacring human strongholds in the Eastern Wilderness, stirring up everyone's nerves.

Such a record shocked everyone, especially the noble families of the holy lands, who were speechless for a long time.

The Eastern Wilderness trembled, and gasps of shock filled the air. Everyone was restless and jumped out to express their opinions.

"Could it be that the Yao Guang Holy Land had already secretly found out all the strongholds in the human world? Otherwise, how could they have found so many strongholds in such a short time?" This was the thought of those who wondered how the Yao Guang Holy Land had found hiding places in the human world in such a short time.

More than fifty strongholds, each one incredibly well-hidden. Even with the immense strength of the Yao Guang Holy Land, it would be impossible to find so many in such a short time.

"Is it possible that the Yao Guang Holy Land has mastered some method to quickly find hiding places in the human world and then carry out precise strikes?" someone suggested.

"Impossible. If human beings were so easy to find, they would have been wiped out long ago and wouldn't still exist today."

Truth is often held by a minority. Even when the correct answer is found, people often rule it out first.

Because the fact that people's whereabouts are mysterious has long been common knowledge, and people rarely try to overturn common knowledge.

Even the people in the human world thought the same way. They were puzzled and didn't understand how those strongholds had been exposed, but they didn't doubt that their own whereabouts were in question.

At first, when only a few strongholds were destroyed, they wondered if they had been unintentionally followed.

But now it's not just a few, not even a dozen, but dozens!
The standoff between the mortal realm and the Yao Guang Holy Land lasted less than a month. How could so many strongholds have been exposed in such a short time?!
There's a problem, definitely a problem, but they don't know where the problem lies.

This is quite bad. The enemy seems to have obtained their deadly information without their knowledge, which is absolutely a fatal thing.

The killers of this world have no idea what kind of disaster awaits them next.

……

Inside the Yaoguang Hall, dozens of assassins' divine senses shattered, their eyes rolled back, and they collapsed to the ground.

They were not killed by the restriction, but rather their consciousness was forcibly entered to search for their memories, causing their divine consciousness to shatter and them to die.

Li Yao flipped through the memories of dozens of people. These were all giants of the Sendai Secret Realm who had barely made it into the upper echelons of the human world and had learned many secrets.

They knew most of the strongholds, but Li Yao also discovered something: people in the world are really cautious. The strongholds they knew were not all the same, and only a part of them overlapped.

If they hadn't mastered the method to break the restrictions, then who could find so many strongholds in the world? Even their own people couldn't find more than a portion of them.

Fang Xiu, along with another Dao-Slaying King, Yang Tai, and many other powerful figures, all looked expectantly at Li Yao.

After massacring strongholds in the world, there must be some gains.

The world is a business of collecting resources and killing people. Each stronghold contains a massive amount of resources, and some of these strongholds even contain divine resources.

This is an astonishing fortune. If accumulated slowly, even a behemoth like the Yao Guang Holy Land would need a very long time.

In fact, ever since Li Yao took over Yao Guang, this holy land has been on the verge of being led astray.

The massacre of the ancient tribes gave the Yao Guang Holy Land a taste of success, and from then on, they became obsessed with the feeling of "my neighbor hoards grain while I hoard guns."

One of the most important reasons why the Qin state was able to unify the six states was its military merit system. The people of Qin could gain everything in war, including status and power.

For the Yao Guang Holy Land, these forces that were their enemies were their military achievements.

Killing the opponent means taking everything they've accumulated, which greatly motivates everyone, as everyone benefits.

(End of this chapter)