Cursed Mountains and Seas

Chapter 374 When will this cycle of revenge end? Cut the weeds and eliminate the roots to avoid trouble.

The Franks had three strategic centers in Southeast Asia: Manila, the colonial capital; Malacca, a major transportation hub; and the "Gates of Hell," a fissure that produced red potion.

Due to the strategic expansion of the latter two, one to the east and one to the west, the East Bharata Diocese is finding it more difficult to deploy its high-ranking combat forces than before.

Recently, two more key figures of the high rank, Amakusa Shiro and Thomas, were killed in battles in Yingzhou and Malacca.

This forced Archbishop Francis Xavier, who should have been the pillar of stability in Goa, to also put out fires everywhere.

This "Radiant Priest" was one of the earliest missionaries to arrive in the Far East.

His footprints have covered Goa, Bharata, Malacca, Manila, Yingzhou, and even the capital of the Dazhaoyue Prefecture.

Even Amakusa Shiro was personally baptized and admitted to the Church of the Holy Cross by him, and he single-handedly opened up a great situation for the East Bharata Diocese.

He was praised by the Roman Apostolic Temple as "the greatest missionary in history," canonized as a saint, and given a holy name.

After his death, he was destined to become the "patron saint of missionaries".

Today, after receiving Manila's plea for help, Xavier disregarded the fact that the lack of a physical altar would greatly reduce his combat power and immediately sent his spirit to the battlefield.

He was confident in his second-rank strength, and even if a heroic spirit were to leave his body and face an ordinary, fully-formed third-rank living demon, he could easily defeat him.

Moreover, the distress message also stated that the enemy's only surviving ghost had been killed by "them".

The cardinal in red immediately fixed his sharp, cold gaze on Wang Fugui, the envoy of Xuanwei, wearing a qilin robe, on the flagship's five-peak banner, and coldly declared:
"Sinners! Your destiny is hell!"

With two enormous wings spread, the entire sky seemed taut like a bowstring, and he raised his golden spear, ready to charge.

But at that moment, he suddenly heard a gust of wind blowing behind his ears.

A slightly shrill, eerie laugh rang out:
"Hehe, where did this birdman come from? What a pair of huge chicken wings."

I love roasted chicken wings.

"Take this from my old Sun!"

Even before the battle began, they had anticipated the support of high-sequence Servants.

Wu Cheng'en used the strategy of "openly repairing the plank road while secretly crossing the Chencang pass" to hide in the clouds, ready to support local battlefields at any time.

Upon seeing Xavier appear, the Lingxiao Palace from the world of the book appeared behind him, along with countless immortals and saints. The iron rod in his hand instantly expanded a thousand times, and he struck the red-robed cardinal on the head.

clang!
Even though the latter's expression changed drastically, he reacted in time and immediately raised his gun to block.

He was struck down from the sky by the golden cudgel and crashed into Manila. The "Great Sage Equal to Heaven" followed closely behind and struck again.

Dust and smoke billowed up throughout the city, houses collapsed, and the Franks screamed in agony.

Wu Cheng'en swayed and unleashed his own Doubu divine power—[Dou Zhan Ling Xiao].

In addition to the four travelers and a horse, they also summoned all the gods and Buddhas who had protected them on their journey to the West to aid them in the battle:
The Five Directions Protectors, the Four Duty Officers, the Six Ding and Six Jia, the Eighteen Guardian Deities, the Twenty-Eight Constellations, the Thunder God and Lightning Goddess, the Wind Goddess and Rain Master, Nezha, Erlang Shen, and Li Jing, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King.
All the gods and Buddhas in the sky roared in anger:

"Death to the evildoer!"

In an instant, divine light flashed and thunder roared. Heavenly soldiers and generals rode the clouds and mist, together besieging the four-winged angel from the West.

The onlookers were filled with a sense of déjà vu, reminiscent of "The Trial of Galileo," which was simply indescribable.

Wu Cheng'en used the city's believers to make this second-rank hero hesitant to act rashly, thus restricting his progress even though he could not win for the time being.

Although Wang Cheng had not expected that the person who came to his aid would be a second-rank cardinal in red robes, he was not afraid at all.

He channeled the military spirit of the entire fleet of over 20,000 men into Wu Cheng'en and the heavenly soldiers and generals, making them as powerful as a million, and their strength skyrocketed!
Not only that.

After successfully carrying out the assassination, Cassandra and her daughter Shen Yueye returned to the ship's celestial abode, the Earth Official's Realm.

Together they assassinated Jiang Jichun, the deputy envoy of the Great Zhao Dynasty. This not only killed a living deity of the third rank, but also triggered a major shift in the historical process of the eighth voyage to the Western Ocean.

This "triggered" the first official conflict between the Eastern Zhao Dynasty and the Western Frankish Empire, thus setting the stage for the restructuring of the regional power structure.

Driven by this tremendous historical shift, both mother and daughter have been promoted simultaneously!
Shen Yueye was originally only a fifth-rank official, but after participating in the assassination of a living ghost god of the third rank, and with his experience as the captain of the treasure ship's fire department, he easily met the requirements for the ritual.

Instantly promoted to the fourth rank [Flying Celestial].

The Taoist energy rises from above, transforming into exquisite and dreamlike Buddhist murals—the portable mandala of the Dunhuang Grottoes.

The unique skill of "spiritual exorcism mask" has reached a new level.

With a gentle touch of her orchid-like hand on her increasingly beautiful face, she donned a Nuo mask from a sea god, and two blazing fire wheels appeared beneath her feet as she leaped out of the Earthly Official's Realm.

Having accumulated years of experience and killed countless people, Cassandra, the master's wife, was even more formidable.

Unlike the daughter of a Dazhao person who had already studied both earth and water arts, she already had a profound understanding of theological professions before marrying Shen Yuting.

Even after her ascension, she still leaned towards the heroic spirits of the Church of the Holy Cross, rather than demons and gods. As a radiant sense of "divinity" descended upon her heart, the entire grotto resounded with celebration of her divine name:

"【Scarlet Veil】Cassandra!"

"【Scarlet Veil】Cassandra!"

At this point, she was no different in essence from many of the patron saints in history.

Most of the main guardians, after their death, are only equivalent to second or third-rank living ghosts or gods, and the upper limit of many professions derived from them is only fourth or third rank.

Only because they have been assimilated into the One God and become part of the "Kingdom of Heaven" can they represent a side of God and bestow spiritual responses upon professionals.

To explain using the concepts of Eastern Shinto, the Dao Qi represented by the One God [Complete Holy Light Qi] is both complete and one, and its assimilative power is far greater than that of incense in the East.

Immediately afterwards, Cassandra's [Bodhisattva form] and [Demon form] transformed into a combined Eastern and Western Dharma form, also known as a mythological form.

One of the [Ghost] is a stunningly beautiful angel, pure white in color, wearing a golden mask, golden armor, with wings, holding a cross sword symbolizing punishment in one hand and a golden cross in the other.

On the other side, the "Divine Title" is a stunningly beautiful celestial maiden who is ten feet tall. She wears a high bun with a golden crown, her forehead is adorned with floral decorations, and she is dressed in a brightly colored silk gauze dance dress, revealing a slender waist and a diamond-shaped navel inlaid with red gemstones.

Adorned with gold bracelets on her arms and slender ankles, her six arms either form hand seals or hold musical instruments, stretching out in all directions like delicate, graceful flower branches.

Cassandra opened her eyes again and immediately saw Xavier fighting Wu Cheng'en.

On one side is the church, and on the other is her daughter and son-in-law; there's no need to choose who to help.

An invisible red veil was lifted from her body, and she disappeared completely.

When he reappeared, he was already behind the second-rank Radiant Priest, and his snake-like dagger suddenly stabbed towards the lower back of the priest, launching a backstab.

Despite being surrounded, Xavier's strong sense of crisis still made him turn slightly to the side.

Although he escaped the kidney strike, Cassandra took the opportunity to cut off half of his wing.

"what--!"

Silver blood splattered across the sky, a scream rang out, and then a sweeping attack came from behind.

But the newly appointed Lady Scarlet Veil had long since disappeared, leaving only a string of melodious, bell-like laughter in the air.

The difference in combat power is enormous whether or not one has the amplification from the physical body temple.

Cassandra's physical body and divine form merged, joining the Monkey King and the heavenly soldiers in their siege of the four-winged angels, and the scales of victory immediately began to tip.

"Oh no, even the Archbishop can't save us! Run! Get to the mountains!"

Two more high-ranking ghosts and deities suddenly appeared on the enemy's side, terrifying the Frankish people in the city.

At this point, the entire city, like the former settlement of Dazhao merchants and immigrants called "Jiannei," was about to be razed to the ground.

The survivors among the Frankish and Bangbangya people, just like the fleeing Chinese immigrants of Dazhao, rushed out of the city, hoping to seek refuge in the mountains.

To their horror, they discovered that an army musketeer unit equipped with flintlock muskets was already waiting for them outside the city.

Two people were standing at the very front of the line.

The Wealth-Bringing Boy holds a blood-red pagoda in his hands, and beside him is Shen Yueye, a female version of Nezha, equipped with the spirit-communicating Nuo mask [Three Altars Sea Gathering Great God].

The imposing presence of the two fourth-rank officials caused the fugitives to instinctively stop in their tracks.

Miguel had lost his last shred of courage and immediately knelt down, shouting:
"Surrender! We are willing to offer you the method of building a [Legendary Warship], just to spare our lives."

Wang Cheng, who was possessing the boy's body, was quite interested in this "lesson from elsewhere" and said:
"When will the injustice be repaid?"

Miguel's face lit up with joy, knowing that this was a Buddhist verse, meaning to let go of hatred.

But inside, he was roaring:

"So many of our people have died; they should have gotten their revenge by now."

"When I regroup and return with the imperial army, I will march all the way to your Great Zhao homeland and unleash the [Evil Spirit - Smallpox Plague] that wiped out the natives of the New World to slaughter you all!"

However, Shen Yueye, who was standing next to Wang Cheng, added the next sentence:
"Cut the weeds at the root and you'll have no worries!"

"Take this!"

He drew his first flintlock pistol again and, together with thousands of musketeers behind him, pulled the trigger.

boom! boom! boom!
Governor Miguel and his rather beautiful wife were caught off guard and died with bullet holes all over their faces.

On his deathbed, he only heard the last words:
"What a joke! Even if I kill you all, the stuff will still be mine."

(End of this chapter)