Wei School's Three Good Students

Chapter 249 The Collapse of the Moon
The army advanced towards the purple domain. Along the way, as Xuan Chong's discerning eye examined each one, the beauties turned into paper figures; as for the submission on the crown of power, it was nothing more than a false figure reported by treacherous officials.

As for vanity and flattery, Xuan Chong found it nauseating; because he didn't understand what he could offer those who flattered him, he was extremely resistant to it.

This is like when you were traveling in a previous life and came to a small shop in an unfamiliar place.

When shop owners are overly enthusiastic in their greetings, saying things like, "Handsome, take a look!" or "Boss, this thing is definitely to your liking!"

Xuan Chong: "Does anyone really like this kind of flattery? My achievements are all due to my hard work and the system's help. Unless... the system praises me a couple of times."

The history teacher remained silent.

Whenever Xuan Chong enters the lunar ring and pierces through a layer of illusion, a large number of enemies appear; these enemies are all victims who were originally intoxicated by the beauty of the illusion.

Of course, when the illusion shatters, the victims don't think they've been tricked; instead, they blame those who broke the illusion. These hedonistic believers, from who-knows-where, come to fight them with swords and staffs.

Just like when stocks plummet, most retail investors don't think they've been cheated by the stock manipulators; instead, they blame the person who investigated the industry behind the stock.

Gunfire continued to erupt in front of the Sixth Ring Palace.

Jia Ying watched as Xuan Chong repeatedly threw out flags to issue commands, and whenever he tried to ask something, the communications officer would come to him for instructions. He had absolutely no chance to intervene.

The massive army moved with perfect coordination; after the artillery barrage, the cavalry immediately charged; bullets, like a vast net, blocked the frenzied demons launching a frontal assault.

…analysis…

Before the final stage of the battle, the entire army took a temporary rest.

Some of the prisoners rescued from the Sixth Ring Palace are being interrogated. These prisoners are clearly not Great Yao people; they come from other planetary worlds. As for where these lost souls came from...
After the battle, Xuan Chong determined from the patterns remaining on the rust on their bodies that the civilization these lost souls belonged to was a maritime civilization, judging by the obvious anchor markings on their armor.

Inside a field tent, Xuan Chong was performing surgery; or rather, an autopsy. After cutting open the prisoner's body, he discovered it was filled with tentacles, leaving only the outer layer of human skin.

These prisoners claimed to have been legion commanders or princes and nobles before "attending the banquet"; their armor insignia were the most intricate, and the process of embedding them into their flesh was the most horrific. The damage was already irreversible.

Xuan Chong couldn't help but wonder: what would I be like when I fall into despair? When my faith is betrayed, and the justice I believe in is used as a banner to suppress me by those who harm my interests. Oh, I'd be pretty much like that.

Xuan Chong looked up and saw Jia Ying standing to the side, waiting.

…a state of depravity…

The army entered the last purple area, where they saw a pupa-like monster. The pupa burst open, and before their very eyes, a terrifying butterfly appeared.

Why is it terrifying? Because the butterfly's wings are very brightly colored, but its abdomen has the head of a woman, Li.

"What a wonderful day!" Li Shi looked at the massive army formation, waved her hand, and on the ground, numerous purple demons, whose numbers were no less than a legion of soldiers, frantically rose to their feet.

The human head on the butterfly's abdomen looks at Xiandao Ren, Xuan Chong, and Jia Ying with three different expressions: resentment, hatred, and love.

In a complex and joyful tone, Li chanted: "Those I love, those I hate, and those who love me, now come and witness the birth of a brand new me~"

However, just as he began to get the many demon legions to their feet, Xuan Chong suddenly raised his hand and fired an electromagnetic cannon, instantly shattering the head of the demon.

Jia Ying's face immediately contorted, and she let out a fiery roar: "No!"

However, what he received was Xuan Chong's cold threat: "Keep a close eye on him, or I will depose him." These words were not meant for Jia Ying, but for the palace guards who had rushed over to blindly follow the rightful emperor.

Xuan Chong forcibly gave these people the opportunity to choose "loyalty." But clearly, under Xuan Chong's extremely murderous threat, these guards who had accompanied Jia Ying to this place all stopped him. Obviously, it wasn't worth it for the Emperor Yao and the most authoritative lord to break ties over such a demonized empress dowager.

Xuan Chong raised the flag and shouted, "Kill!"

The legion opened fire without hesitation, the bullets mowing down the ornately dressed demons one by one, just as a tyrannical revolution swept away a royal banquet.

Xuan Chong raised a megaphone and shouted through the army: "There is nothing beautiful, nothing worthy of sympathy. Think of the farmers back home, think of the women reeling silk; the people's labor and wealth are piled up here, how can they not be hated!"

Then, Xuan Chong cocked the gun with a "snap," but the muzzle was intentionally or unintentionally aimed at Xian Daoren. Xian Daoren, who was trying to approach Jia Ying and retreat behind Yao Di, immediately stopped.

Ten minutes later, under the crushing force of the army, everything at the palace banquet was destroyed, as for Empress Dowager Li.

Xuan Chong didn't bother to even glance at the thing, just as he wouldn't stare at excrement, he would only press the button to start the flushing toilet.

…The system issues a task: Complete the dialogue to resolve the cause and effect…

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Jia Ying was stopped outside. Xuan Chong walked over and stood in front of the two-zhang-tall butterfly corpse, saying routinely, "Do you want to save face, or should I help you save face?"

A hateful female voice roared, "Why didn't you come and take me from me back then? Why?!?"

Xuan Chong looked up at the sky and said, "I'm really curious, why did you go into the palace to give birth?"

Xuan Chong saw a blue line exposed, glanced at Xian Daoren along the line, and understood.

Empress Dowager Li said to the Taoist priest, "I have completed all your tasks, why won't you take me out of the palace! You promised me we would be a perfect couple!"

Everyone around was stunned, including Jia Ying's palace guards; they all seemed to have heard something incredible. A collective silence fell over them: "What exactly is this relationship?"

Receiving no response, the butterfly began to laugh wildly, then turned to Jia Ying and said, "Child, actually you—"

With a spit, she spat on the broken butterfly. The blazing flames, like gasoline, ignited the entire butterfly, and in the fire, Li Dieyao was instantly reduced to ashes.

Xuan Chong walked up to Jia Ying, and under his hateful and complex gaze, he raised his hand and placed it on Jia Ying's forehead. At that moment, Xuan Chong activated his Absolute Vermilion Bird state, and a crimson light covered three zhang, burning away the blue lines that Xian Daoren had originally been drawing.

Then the purple thorns hidden on Jia Ying's body manifested, but as soon as they appeared, they turned to ashes and fell to the ground. Insect eggs tried to hatch from his body, but they were all burned away.

Jia Ying herself was unaware that she had been bewitched, and the palace guards around her showed no hostility towards Xuan Chong. They waited quietly to the side.

As the power of the Vermilion Bird continued to flow in, everything in his past began to reverse, all his memories regressed to his childhood. Just when he was born, Jia Ying thought it was over, but it wasn't. Scenes of her mother carrying him in the Zhou Prince's mansion appeared, followed by the story of her mother dealing with Jia Qiayang, while he remained an observer!

Jia Ying suddenly realized that she was not recalling her memories; this was the perspective of the Vermilion Bird's power.

He then finally realized that he was not Emperor Ling's son, but rather a fraudster.

He soon encountered the character Xiandaoren, who taught his mother, Dujuan, the art of changing nests. —So, where did he come from?

Ultimately, he saw the cause and effect in a dream, where he was lying in a giant footprint, and after Li fell, he entered it.

After Li's enormous footprint appeared, he looked up and saw that the giant who left the footprint resembled Wu Yuanchang—he was still very young then, with a face similar to his own, but his eyes shone with a far more arrogant and domineering air. Clearly, he had just stepped on "Broken Butterfly," who dared to provoke him.

The Vermilion Bird bloodline transmitted the entire story to Jia Ying. —In other words, when Li initially tried to harm Wu Fei when Wu Yuanchang went north, she was backfired by the divine power in her dream, resulting in his existence.

After Xuan Chong removed his hand from Jia Ying's head, Jia Ying was in a daze.

Xuan Chong, on the other hand, had an expression of satisfaction that the task was completed. The new task issued by the system, "Telling the story of cause and effect to remove the shackles of the Yao Emperor," had been completed, and he was rewarded with five credits.

…System: The task of protecting the third generation of the Great Yao has been completed. …

Xuan Chong: "How did I do in class?"

System: "Historical exploration progress is only 60%."

Xuan Chong: "What? Tell me what I'm missing."

System: "Okay, this will consume one credit."

Xuan Chong redeemed a credit without much thought.

The system remained silent for a moment (helpless at the brat's curiosity): "History progresses in a spiral. The sacrifices, divinations, and hexagrams in this lesson correspond to A.D2k to 2.5k, the First Red Dynasty, the Second Red Dynasty, and the Third Red Dynasty. You've reached the edge, but haven't answered."

The word count was then reduced, so it obviously failed the review.

…Before leaving, gather up the teaching materials. …

The purple palace collapsed with a crash, and after the collapse ended, the surrounding environment changed, and everyone entered a battlefield of crimson lava rivers.

On the battlefield, shouts of battle rose from afar, as hordes of frenzied demons surged towards a fortified army formation from all directions. Xuan Chong recognized the flag of that formation; he had faced such a flag back at Gushou Pass.

Xuan Chong looked at the army formation where Zhao Cheng was and said slowly, "Brother, ah, it's fate that we've met here."

Zhao Cheng also spotted Xuan Chong's army in the distance. He paused for a moment, then shouted from his ranks, "Hold on! Our allies are coming to our aid!"

"Friendly troops?" Zhao Cheng's troops were very surprised. "Where did these friendly troops come from?"

But they heard the rumble of war drums, followed by the distant, approaching sound of "Hey-ha, hey-ha." Upon hearing the sound, many of Zhao Cheng's generals wore complex expressions!
They knew that when the madness broke out in the Heluo region, Zhao Cheng sent a distress signal to the Zhen Kingdom.

However, they didn't take it seriously. Just a year ago, the two armies were still fighting for supremacy. When they were annihilating the mad soldiers and accidentally entered the Evil Moon, they had forgotten to call for help.

Unexpectedly, after accidentally entering this foreign land, Wu Fei actually arrived with an entire fully equipped army.

Although Zhao Jun's officers and soldiers had mixed feelings, a surge of hope welled up within them, and they shouted, "Hold on! Reinforcements are here!"

Zhao Jun, filled with great hope, began to maintain the front line, and the previously shaky shield formation began to stabilize.

After a stick of incense had burned, outside the army formation, the cavalry of the Chen army had already pushed forward like a wall; and the three ghost chariots had also arrived in the relevant airspace, found the right angle, and sprayed their breath from the side and the oblique angle to wipe out the piled-up berserker army.

The two armies quickly closed in, now only fifty meters apart. From within the Zhen army, Wu Leng's booming voice called out, "Is Lord Zhao here?"

Zhao Cheng: "Yes, is your lord here?"

Wu Leng: "My lord asked me to convey his regards to Lord Zhao. He will be here soon."

…last Stand…

When Xuan Chong ordered the army to move closer to Zhao Cheng, he stayed behind with Xian Daoren.

At this moment, Xuan Chong sensed that the area the lotus seed had projected onto him was nearby. Xuan Chong asked Xian Daoren, "Are you a water person?"

Xian Daoren knew that this was the final showdown, so he took a deep breath and asked, "When exactly did you begin to have doubts?"

Xuan Chong: "Yes, I had some doubts when I came to the secret realm, so I did some deductions about my uncle's previous interactions with you. The dividing line in my family's actions during the Great Yao was when we sent troops to Shui and Zhuzhou to quell the rebellion. And you played a key role in that."

Master Xian chuckled, "Since you've guessed this far, you must know why I became a monk." (At this point, Master Xian suspected that Xuan Chong was also a time traveler.)

Xuan Chong paused for a moment: "I'm not entirely sure."

After a moment of scoffing from Xian Daoren, Xuan Chong continued, "But since you're asking this, does it have anything to do with the Shui rebellion back then? A lot of unpleasant things happened there, but the one that's relevant to you is probably this one." (Although Xuan Chong didn't know Xian Daoren's exact background, the system had now marked him as such.)

The Daoist muttered, "You're not exactly clever, but you always seem to see things clearly." Then his voice grew louder: "So, are you going to judge me from the perspective of the world?!" (This was a question posed by one transmigrator to another.)
Xuan Chong nodded honestly and said, "Yes, I should comment on it. The world may make you do evil, but that doesn't mean that 'doing evil in the world' is right."

The Master Xiandao said: "If you have not experienced the suffering of others, do not advise them to do good."

Xuan Chong nodded: "Yes, I won't go all out to do good, because there are reasons for doing evil. For example, the things I do are not necessarily all good; I do some evil things too. But I admit that it is evil, and evil is evil. You can't think of 'evil' as good."

These words broke Xian Daoren's defenses. "You say you're also doing evil, but have you ever been punished?!"

Xuan Chong: "If you do evil, you should consider being punished. Evil has happened, so you should make amends. Trying to make amends is also a way of accepting punishment. (Xuan Chong established slavery, and the subsequent series of measures to abolish slavery and give slaves upward mobility are what Xuan Chong tacitly acknowledged as what he should do.) You can't think that you don't need to make amends and can escape punishment just because you won! Now I have to face you, and this may be the punishment I have to accept?"

At this point, Xian Daoren had already collapsed and began to turn into a demon.

Xuan Chong watched as Xian Daoren gradually broke through the limitations. Various kinds of energy surrounded him. Except for his eyes and nose, which were still there, his teeth were sharp and his face was distorted. He couldn't help but ask curiously, "System, is he a student who failed the exam?"

System: "He is not registered as a student at this school."

…to make friends through military force…

On the other side, although Xuan Chong broke away from the formation, the Zhen army still managed to rendezvous with the Zhao army at the designated location.

At the designated location, the Chen army took the main position without hesitation, setting up artillery on the high ground of a hill, while the musketeers seized positions on three higher hills, each fifty meters high, and the armored soldiers formed a triangular battle formation below the hills.

Zhao Cheng was summoned to the army formation by Wu Leng to receive advice on military command.

Zhao Cheng's officers advised him against going. After all, their commander-in-chief was trapped in the enemy camp, and his fate was uncertain at any moment.

Zhao Cheng, however, followed the Zhen army directly into the battle formation. He was also eager to witness the world's strongest army trained by Xuan Chong.

As he entered the high ground, numerous "Evil Moon Monsters" spawned around the entire military formation. Clearly, this red domain was targeting Zhao Cheng; the stronger the baleful aura of the military formation where Zhao Cheng was located, the more lavish the "hospitality" offered by the red evil moon.

Two thousand paces away, Xuan Chong, also piloting the Chi You soldiers, confronted Xian Daoren.

Meanwhile, Jia Ying was with his guards on the other side of the position; he had now come to his senses and was staring in Xuan Chong's direction.

Since his failure to save his mother, he was distraught, unsure of who to hate or what to stand for, after all, he was not a member of the royal family of any great power.

However, now that he saw Xuan Chong confronting the suddenly alienated Xian Daoren, his emotions involuntarily shifted to another target.

The demon "Xiandaoren" had been lurking among his men all along; seemingly guiding him, he had now revealed his true intentions in this perilous situation. And Xuan Chong, who had never given him a kind look since the beginning, had now eliminated all the bad guys around him.

In his confusion, Jia Ying thought of the relationship between Emperor Shu and Emperor Ling. He had been sensible since childhood and could see that Emperor Shu did not want to depose Emperor Ling at that time, but only wanted to eliminate those around Emperor Ling.

However, Emperor Ling did not understand at the time, and only after power was usurped by Suwang and others did he realize that Emperor Xu was not wrong.

At this moment, he felt that he and the ruler of the State of Zhen were just like the King of Zhou and Emperor Shu back then.

Zhao Cheng, standing to the side, immediately made a judgment based on the situation, while Wu Leng quickly issued military command orders.

Red, green, purple, and blue portals opened all around, and corrupted humans, monsters, giants, and giant birdmen appeared.

The artillerymen in the Zhao army began bombarding. The sea of ​​fire created by the divine fire crows horrified Zhao Cheng and the generals of the Zhao army.

The latest generation of armed forces in the Zhen Kingdom is so powerful? Has the Zhen army's weaponry developed to this level?
Rows of muskets opened fire, while bayonet ranks prepared to meet the charge.

…the time travelers…

In the distance, Xian Daoren, who was confronting Xuan Chong, had transformed into a 3.5-meter-tall, winged monster; however, he still retained his previous experience and was very familiar with the Wu family army's combat system. He saw that Xuan Chong's troops were beginning to gather and were preparing to charge.

He conjured a large blue fireball in his hand, attempting to compress the energy into a vortex projectile to unleash upon it.

However, while he was conjuring a fireball, Xuan Chong raised the electromagnetic cannon. (This had been anticipated, so he was pulled out of the battle formation to prevent Xuan Chong from detonating it in the center.)
With a flash of blue light, the electromagnetic cannon hurtled forward. Xian Daoren's fireball was forced to transform into a blue shield to block the attack.

The energy shield and the electromagnetic cannon collided, creating a brilliant burst of fire.

After repeating this three times, Xian Daoren loudly mocked, "Your Chi You soldier mech only has three energy charges, while mine—"

Before he could finish speaking, he saw Xuan Chong draw out countless optical particles forming wavebands from the spatial gate and inject them into the energy collection port on the back of the Chi You soldier (mecha), and his expression was one of astonishment.

Xuan Chong has already connected with "Lotus Seed", so the energy capsule has now completed the frequency band connection and is directly charging.

Xuan Chong was also surprised by this situation. After feeling the energy transmitted from the lotus seed fill the energy storage tank, the mechanical structure pushed an electromagnetic cannonball into the barrel and aimed it at Xian Daoren once again.

Xian Daoren immediately turned and ran away, but was controlled by Xuan Chong's Binding Immortal Lock spell, and a large number of spider silk directly clung to Xian Daoren.

With a "crackling" sound, the Xuanchong electromagnetic cannon crackled with electric light. Xian Daoren suddenly turned to the side, followed by a strange flash. But after he dodged, he found that the cannon barrel of Xuanchong did not fire a projectile during the flash; it was just a normal "magnetic flash".

Meanwhile, in Xuanchong's cannon barrel, the projectile was still inside. Because the electromagnetic railgun's muzzle velocity was too high to see, bystanders could only discern "how many shots" had been fired by the muzzle flash. This is similar to how, in the era of artillery, people judged the number of shots fired by listening to the number of cannon fire. Thus, Xuanchong could use the muzzle flash to deceive.

Xuan Chong's feint directly fooled Xian Daoren's true blink. Xian Daoren believed that Xuan Chong's electromagnetic cannon had intervals between firings, requiring energy accumulation; however, his rapid blink was the one that needed energy accumulation. So, as soon as he finished blinking, he became careless, and the second real shell came at him. Without blinking, it hit him directly.

The pace was so fast that most people didn't realize why; they just felt that Xian Daoren had deliberately dodged to a certain spot and taken a direct hit from a cannonball.

Immediately afterward, Xuan Chong also flashed up! He raised a particle vibration blade and slashed it down fiercely at Xian Daoren.

It is said that when encountering a fierce general like Wu Hengyu, Xuan Chong would have to move around; but for someone like Xian Daoren, who is not used to hand-to-hand combat, even though he has sharp teeth and claws, Xuan Chong would immediately rush forward!
With a "thud," Xian Daoren was knocked down from the air. As soon as he hit the ground, Xuan Chong's mech stepped on him a second later.

The now hideous and demonized Daoist said, "You have won this time, but I can wait for you on the Evil Moon forever!"

Xuan Chong: "Oh, really?"

In response, Xuan Chong pulled out the Restoration Gem, took a deep breath, and recited his lines. Even though Xian Daoren had already been corrupted by demons, when he heard Xuan Chong's incoherent lines, his inhuman face showed a look of astonishment, as if asking, "What the hell is this?"

"Heavenly spirits, earthly spirits, please restore the gem and show your power."

The restored gemstone shimmered with light and surged into Xiandaoren!

Xian Daoren: "With this, you think you can turn me back to normal? No way! Hmm—what the hell is this! What is this?!"

Xuan Chong looked around in surprise, only now realizing the true power of the restoration gem.

A golden vortex storm appeared in the sky. Then, the entire storm crashed into the surface of the evil moon like a meteorite, and the entire earth was instantly swept by wind. Wherever it went, everything was turned into the barren surface of the moon.

The tens of thousands of demons surrounding the army all stopped in their tracks in the sudden gust of wind.

Some of them turned into grass, some into turtles, and some into birds, while the giant beasts turned into lions, tigers, and eagles, rising into the sky with the whirlwind. The other end of the whirlwind is the Xiren Realm. These things that were restored by the whirlwind will eventually return to the Xiren Realm.

As for the legion brought by Xuan Chong, it was carried away by the whirlwind along with a mountain range and fell towards the Xiren Realm.

After taking to the air, all the soldiers, including Zhao Cheng, Jia Ying, and Wu Leng, looked at Xuan Chong, who was still on Xie Yue outside the evil aura shield, and shouted in unison.

At this moment, in their eyes, Xuan Chong was holding a sword and stabbing it into the chest of Xian Daoren, oh, the great demon; while Xian Daoren was holding the sword, not letting Xuan Chong leave.

As the mountain carrying everyone moved further and further away, Zhao Cheng and the others saw the entire landscape of the Evil Moon Land.

At this moment, a great wind arose on this planet; the gale, like a bottle of dish soap, washed away all the red, green, blue, and purple hues from the surface of the evil moon, revealing its stone-like color. Meanwhile, in the northern part of the planet, a brilliant light shone from the heavens, adorning its north pole, and a blazing shockwave radiated outwards like a lotus flower.

Whether it's the Restoration Gem, the Chaos Green Lotus, or even the Vermilion Bird energy drifting from the starry sky, all of these can destroy the current Evil Moon, which is being attacked by these forces in turn.

...The story ends...

At that very moment, the secrets of heaven that no cultivator in the world could see suddenly became clear.

In various parts of the world, some places that had not seen rain for a long time suddenly received a welcome rain, and some places that had been shrouded in thick fog for a long time suddenly saw sunlight shining down.

Peace has returned to the world; the great calamity is over.

(End of this chapter)