Douluo Continent: A Thousand Miles of Cultivation

Sensing the energy changes within the lamb's body, Qian Shui exclaimed, "Wow, this little guy has reached Foundation Establishment!"

Chapter 333 The Madness of Humanity

"Do not resign yourself to your fate and head towards a doomed defeat. When the sun sets, we will still be burning brightly, and we will still roar! We will rejoice at the coming of the eternal night!"

In the year 2645 of the Douluo Calendar, Dai Mubai, only eighteen years old, escaped from the Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

From that time on, he was on many people's kill list, which essentially meant the end of his life.

Including his good brother, who was three years younger than him, and his like-minded playmate, Ma Hongjun.

At that time, Ma Hongjun would always kindly remind Dai Mubai: "If we can't beat them, let's leave. The sky is high and the road is far. We can just find a village and disappear into it, and no one will find us."

But Dai Mubai always said the above words, and soon after, before anything happened, the eighteen-year-old Dai Mubai controlled a force that owned half of the entire Star Luo Empire.

However, this era seems to have completely abandoned Dai Mubai. Even though he tried his best and had almost absolute high-level combat power, his progress was still slow.

Predictions of defeat in the war are spreading throughout the Star Luo Empire in various ways.

Letters privately passed to the Heavenly Dou Empire, requesting secrecy from high-ranking officials, occasional complaints from rank-and-file soldiers, and reports of cities being breached one by one.

He eventually managed to capture Longxing City, which should have been a time of celebration, but upon entering the city, he discovered it was an empty city.

Compared to the enemy's incredibly precise attacks on our side, this great victory was almost insignificant.

This intensified the fear and anxiety within the team. As the attacks against Tiandou escalated, the Tiandou Empire was forced to retaliate. The enemy would inevitably use absolute moral high ground to accumulate unpredictable strength and launch a thunderous attack against it!

As the war dragged on, Dai Mubai grew increasingly thirsty for endless conflict, prioritizing the deaths of as many people as possible, regardless of whether they were on the enemy's or his own side, striving to make a certain evil spirit a god in a short time.

Dai Mubai's special problem only intensified his sense of urgency.

An army built on military might, a young leader who was impatient, furious, and panicked—it was almost unbelievable within the Star Luo Empire that he would return victorious, and that he would ultimately face the humiliation of losing his army and disgracing his country.

Now, in September of Douluo Calendar 2650, all wars have ended, even the high walls of Star Luo City have been removed, and the entire royal family has left.

Everyone then realized that the price that young Third Prince paid for his aggressive attack was the entire Star Luo Empire!

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In the year 2640 of the Douluo Calendar, after a difficult journey, Dai Mubai, only 12 years old, finally left the Star Luo Empire and arrived at a small border town of the Heaven Dou Empire, where he joined an academy that only accepted monsters.

Six years later, his world collapsed. Filled with extreme fear and hysteria, Dai Mubai, who had temporarily relaxed during his escape, reached out to a beautiful, heavily injured quasi-Soul Douluo.

That day he lost everything; physical pain and mental humiliation suddenly seeped into every pore and every bone of his body.

An 18-year-old boy with soul power reaching the high-level Soul Master level, with such talent, could be said to have a bright future, but suddenly encountered such a major change, and the world before his eyes was completely changed.

For a time, Dai Mubai felt that everything was boring and even the throne no longer held such appeal. He was immersed in the abyss of despair and kept thinking that he might as well end it all.

However, after returning to China, his illustrious resume made Dai Mubai appear to others as having such a promising and brilliant future.

At the same time, he is also a young hero who has returned from an enemy country with strong men, a glorious and powerful figure.

He attracted a large number of anti-princelings and neutrals in China, and after returning home, he was constantly bombarded with invitations to social events.

This, of course, included the absolute favor of his favorite girls, though he had never been there.

In a date driven by the pursuit of pleasure, the girls' advances towards him were less a sign of being captivated by his power and more a greater humiliation for Dai Mubai.

How to transform such energy into real strength was the first challenge Dai Mubai encountered.

Soon, he saw the heartless and ruthless monarch of the Star Luo Empire again, his father.

Dai Mubai was filled with disgust for the entire Star Luo royal family. If it weren't for the so-called rules of the royal family, he wouldn't have had to leave the Heaven Dou Empire back then, and none of this would have happened.

However, he still had things he needed to get back, and he had to endure many things even if he couldn't bear them.

So this time, he endured everything. He humbled himself and did not use violence, but only intimidation, which persuaded the supreme ruler of the Star Luo Empire to hand over military power to him.

Dai Mubai must strike first to start the war and increase the death toll. The Dai Mubai of today is no longer the hot-blooded youth he once was; he has learned to approach everything with absolute rationality.

Finally, at the end of March in Douluo Calendar 2645, Dai Mubai launched a surprise attack on the eastern border of the Heaven Dou Empire without declaring war. His army advanced swiftly, capturing several cities in succession and achieving victory after victory.

In an instant, the entire continent was in an uproar, and everyone wondered if the continent was going to be unified under the young hero Dai Mubai.

There is no better propaganda than the truth. Suddenly, the entire Star Luo Empire was immersed in such a beautiful dream, with everyone fantasizing about how much they could get in this war.

But Dai Mubai, who was actually on the front lines, knew that he had not encountered any decent resistance at all, and had easily broken through all obstacles on his swift march.

In one battle, he felt like a god of war, born for battle. But when every battle was like this, he couldn't help but suspect that he had fallen into a carefully prepared trap.

After all, his opponent was that peerless powerhouse who manipulated people's hearts, his former idol, the behind-the-scenes player who, through fifteen years of development, completely controlled the entire Heavenly Dou Empire, making such a crumbling empire exceptionally powerful.

Aside from his identity, he never hides any of his methods, making them crystal clear and out in the open, essentially telling you: Want it? Take it! As long as you can learn it!

He can miss it once, but he absolutely cannot miss it every time!

In fact, there were signs of this happening after the Elite Tournament ended. The Heaven Dou Empire had already entered a state of national war, and even the Heaven Dou Royal Academy was closed. This clearly indicated that they wanted to launch an unprecedented war.

Although it has only just begun, Dai Mubai has every reason to believe that he is completely trapped under his opponent's thumb and cannot cause any trouble.

But his goal is to kill more people so that some evil spirit can become a god as soon as possible. It's not about unifying the continent at all, is it?

Since both sides want war, and there is no absolute conflict, Dai Mubai has nothing to worry about.

But can he really win the final victory by using the Star Luo Empire's resources for such a high-stakes gamble?

After all, his opponent was far too powerful, so much so that he had to resort to such underhanded means to gain even the slightest hope of victory!

However, Dai Mubai had no choice. He didn't have time to think anymore; he had to be fast, even faster! That way, he could take back all the humiliation! Only then would he have a chance to defeat that terrifying opponent!

Otherwise, everything will pointlessly head towards ruin.

However, in the last four months of the same year, the battle situation suddenly changed dramatically. The Heavenly Dou Army descended like divine soldiers, and part of them were firmly tied down, leaving Dai Mubai facing endless attacks.

Then the main force perfectly bypassed them, splitting into two groups and rushing forward at breakneck speed, as if replicating his achievements, cutting through butter with a knife, completely dividing and surrounding Dai Mubai's rear.

However, their goals were completely different from Dai Mubai's. The farther a city was from him, the more the Heavenly Dou Army wanted to completely occupy it.

What's even more alarming is that this offensive wasn't limited to the Eastern Front; the Western Front almost completely replicated this tactic.

Subsequently, without Dai Mubai's support, logistics were completely cut off. It wasn't until several months later that he received news that Xingluo City had been completely besieged on the night of the Heaven Dou Empire's counterattack.

With four titled combatants simultaneously sealing off the city, from the sky to the earth, not even a fly could escape Xingluo City.

As a result, the entire Star Luo Empire fell into absolute chaos, since apart from Dai Mubai, all the high-ranking officials of the empire had been captured by the enemy.

But they didn't kill them; they surrounded them without attacking, leaving a sliver of hope for the Xingluo people.

Sometimes hope is the most potent poison. No matter how many times they rushed forward, that man simply waited for the enemy to tire themselves out, besieged the enemy's stronghold, and used the strength of a legion to contain the entire Star Luo Empire.

As a result, the rear troops proceeded at a leisurely pace, steadily and cautiously reaping the territory of the Star Luo Empire.

It was said to be steady, but it was by no means slow. After all, it was too chaotic and the fighting was too easy. By the time Dai Mubai captured Longxing City, most of the Star Luo Empire's territory had completely fallen.

For a moment, Dai Mubai was filled with despair; this was a fighting style he could never have imagined.

He even imagined that the enemy would single-handedly charge through the entire Star Luo Empire, because that man possessed such strength.

But he didn't.

Dai Mubai wanted to know what the other party was thinking, that they could continue to implement the policy of not killing if possible, and that their military discipline was so strict that the Xingluo people submitted with almost no decent resistance.

Just like the empty Longxing City, Dai Mubai's plan to kill many people was shelved until that great change came.

On that day, the news that Xue Qinghe and Ning Huahua were killed by Qian Renxue in front of Wuhun City spread throughout the entire Douluo Continent.

Unlike the anger and sorrow of the uninformed, and unlike the strange confidence of the avalanche, Dai Mubai received more accurate information.

The terrifying yet suffocating couple were taken away by the gods and could not return to the mainland for a while.

Overjoyed, Dai Mubai knew that he was overjoyed at this moment.

His biggest rival's goal was to leave the center of the world in a grand manner by killing himself after he had done everything, but an unexpected event occurred that was definitely good news for Dai Mubai.

So he disregarded everything and assembled a large army. Taking advantage of the enemy's grief, he bypassed all the heavily fortified cities and rushed towards Xingluo City.

Along the way, he gathered the remnants of the empire, and in a short time, his army reached a scale of 500,000.

As long as he can destroy the Heavenly Dou Empire's command center and save the capital from disaster, everything will naturally turn around.

After all, without that man, who could withstand this demon that had reached its limit?

But what he gained was a truly devastating defeat, and only then did he realize just how powerful the Heavenly Dou Empire's army had become.

To put it in analogy, it was like a Soul Saint's absolute massacre of ordinary people; an army of 500,000 was almost wiped out in an instant.

In that battle, his old classmate Ning Rongrong achieved a legendary status on the battlefield, establishing her dominant position and replacing Xue Qinghe as the de facto leader of the Tiandou Empire.

Because behind her stood the entire Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, as well as Qian Shui's other six teammates from back then.

The Wind Witch could completely suppress the evil spirit even at the level of a Super Douluo. With such power, the Douluo Continent was shaken once again.

Since then, that woman has been responsible for guarding Xingluo City, freeing up countless combat forces. Until the sudden attack of the sea spirit beast tide in the eastern sea, all the high-level combat forces on the continent were mobilized to resist, and they barely managed to hold on until now.

Therefore, Dai Mubai joined forces with the sea spirit beast, determined to achieve his goal at all costs!

To achieve his ultimate goal, to win! Dai Mubai completely abandoned his moral bottom line as a human being, even if it meant betraying the human camp and merging with the soul beasts, even if it meant turning the remaining 100,000 people into evil soul masters!

After all, that man left, and there is no longer any truly absolute combat power on the Douluo Continent.

Even so, the completely insane Dai Mubai and his companions continued to lose everything in the midst of battle.

It was as if the man had never left at all; instead, the enemy became even stronger due to the sea spirit beasts of the beast tide, and in just five years, several more titled Douluo were added to the continent.

They were all surprisingly young, not even forty years old. Tang Hao's record as a young Title Douluo had been completely forgotten in an unknown corner of people's minds.

Completely desperate, Dai Mubai desperately needed a victory, so he led his high-level forces away from the main army to cooperate with the variable from within Tiandou City.

Morality? Humanity? Dignity?

Dai Mubai was certain that when victory came, the cheers of praise would drown out all doubts!

Because the outcome of victory is sufficient to perfectly justify all means!

Because only the victor is remembered!

But he never asked this question at all—

Why were they defeated and turned into bandits? Why did they lose?

Why is victory paramount? Why do we win?

Just as Qian Shui never understood why these people would only shout such a cheap excuse for failure, as if a child were throwing a tantrum and denying the pranks they had done.

He had prepared for a war that he had no reason to lose, even after leaving the country.