Chapter 74: Calamity of Weapons

Chapter 74: Calamity of Weapons

For the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Central Plains, which had a history spanning several thousand years,

fifty years could not be considered very long.

For most ordinary people,

it was probably no different from the past.

However, the royal families of the thirty-six kingdoms

vaguely sensed subtle anomalies over the past fifty years.

Primarily, the remnants of the Reverse God Society were becoming increasingly active.

As an underground organization rejected and wanted by the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Central Plains,

the Reverse God Society had always been like a rat scurrying across the street.

Whenever they wanted to recruit members, they always resorted to sneaky methods.

Yet in recent years, these remnants of the Reverse God Society had grown increasingly arrogant, actually daring to 'recruit people right on the street'?

What surprised the royal families of the thirty-six kingdoms the most was that every time they launched an encirclement and suppression,

the remnants of the Reverse God Society seemed to receive news in advance and escaped with extreme coincidence.

This made the royal families of the thirty-six kingdoms realize that the Reverse God Society was prepared.

Consequently, the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Central Plains further increased their suppression efforts against the Reverse God Society.

Thirty-six years ago and nineteen years ago, the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Central Plains even dispatched Soldier Envoys,

attempting to borrow the power of the supreme divine weapons to heavily injure the Reverse God Society.

It was a pity that the Soldier Envoys on the side of the Reverse God Society stepped forward in time

to hold back the Soldier Envoys of the thirty-six kingdoms, allowing most of the elites of the Reverse God Society to leave in advance.

The Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Central Plains possessed State-Protecting Divine Weapons.

By borrowing the power of the State-Protecting Divine Weapons, they could Cultivate Soldier Envoys.

Although the Reverse God Society did not have complete divine weapons, they had many divine weapon fragments,

which were Evil Weapons.

Evil Weapons were essentially divine weapons as well.

As long as the completeness of an Evil Weapon reached a certain standard, it could likewise Cultivate a Soldier Envoy.

Of course, the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Central Plains called such Soldier Envoys 'Evil Weapon Envoy's.

In terms of frontal slaughter, Evil Weapon Envoys were naturally inferior to Divine Weapon Envoys.

But the former could slightly interfere with the opponent.

As long as the Divine Weapon Envoys did not urge the divine weapons to fully awaken, it was very difficult to capture the Evil Weapon Envoys.

Generally speaking, Divine Weapon Envoys would not let divine weapons fully awaken,

because doing so meant that their Lifespan would plummet by a huge margin.

The extraction of the Divine Weapon Envoy's Soul Origin by a fully awakened divine weapon would reach a terrifying degree.

Every time a divine weapon fully awakened, the Divine Weapon Envoy would live ten years less.

A secretive underground plaza.

A towering man sat cross-legged right in the center.

Scattered around the towering man were dozens of weapon fragments.

If an Evil Weapon Envoy of the Reverse God Society were present, he would be shocked to discover that these weapon fragments were precisely Evil Weapons.

Evil Weapons were divine weapon fragments.

Even though their power was far inferior to complete divine weapons, they still transcended the limits of the mortal world.

Yet at this moment, these supreme Evil Weapons were casually tossed on the ground like ordinary objects.

"Fifty years."

The towering man, who was none other than Lin Yuan, slowly opened his eyes.

For fifty years, the vast majority of his time was spent Cultivating and comprehending the rule essences within the divine weapon fragments.

As for the numerous state affairs of the Great Yan Dynasty, more than forty years ago, Lin Yuan had specially selected a group of capable and loyal ministers to establish a cabinet, replacing the emperor in handling the affairs of the nation.

Lin Yuan only needed to return and take a look every once in a while.

As an emperor, the greatest taboo was to handle everything personally; how many affairs did a nation have? If he were to inquire about every single matter, wouldn't he be worked to death?

Of course, ignoring things for a long time like Lin Yuan was also rare and belonged to a great imperial taboo, making it easy to be sidelined.

But with Lin Yuan's strength right there, gathering supreme might upon himself, who dared to sideline him?

"Fourth Tier."

Lin Yuan looked at the divine weapon fragments around him, his expression falling into brief contemplation.

With Lin Yuan's Cultivation speed, as early as twenty years ago, he had Cultivated to the Perfection of the Celestial Human Realm.

And the Perfection of the Celestial Human Realm, if placed in the Main World, would be quasi-fourth tier.

However, wanting to break through next and officially step into the fourth tier made Lin Yuan somewhat hesitant.

From the third tier to the fourth tier, even placed in the Main World, was a major Bottleneck and major shackles.

Which of the Evolvers capable of Cultivating to the extreme of the third tier was not a Genius selected from among millions, tens of millions, or hundreds of millions?

Even so, wanting to cross this major Bottleneck and major shackles would take at least several hundred years, and many more simply grew old and died at the extreme of the third tier.

This was still built upon the premise of having the guidance of a complete evolution path.

For someone like Lin Yuan who pioneered an evolution path, walking every step on a completely unknown road, breaking through to the fourth tier was thousands or tens of thousands of times harder.

Of course, the 'thousands or tens of thousands of times' here was based on the premise that Lin Yuan's current strength was merely at the extreme of the third tier.

If it were an Evolver of a higher level, such as the fifth or sixth tier, standing on high and overlooking downwards, pioneering an evolution path would naturally be much easier.

In fact, even with a thousand or ten thousand fold difficulty, given Lin Yuan's unreasonable Heaven-Defying Comprehension, he should have broken through to the fourth tier long ago.

But Lin Yuan had always been hesitating.

The fourth tier and the fourth tier were also different.

For instance, a Heavenly Master advanced through Taiyin Power

and a Heavenly Master advanced through Taiji were naturally two different concepts.

This time advancing to the fourth tier, Lin Yuan wanted to advance using the rule essences within the divine weapon fragments.

Advancing to the fourth tier in this manner would definitely be the one with the greatest potential.

Over the past fifty years, Lin Yuan had collected dozens of divine weapon fragments, incorporating the rule essences within them into his martial arts Cultivation system.

But these fragmented rule essences were still a bit too few for Lin Yuan,

unable to support Lin Yuan in advancing to the fourth tier.

"Evil Weapon Envoy."

Lin Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly.

Over the years, the divine weapon fragments that the Reverse God Society helped him collect were naturally those weaker ones.

There was no help for it; divine weapon fragments all possessed consciousness of their own.

Even if Sikong Lun led and coaxed them astray, he could only hoodwink those ordinary divine weapon fragments.

As for truly powerful divine weapon fragments, their whereabouts were simply not something the Reverse God Society could grasp. These divine weapon fragments generally had already cultivated Soldier Envoys long ago, usually slumbering within the bodies of the Soldier Envoys.

The Reverse God Society and these Evil Weapon Envoys tended to have a cooperative relationship, and the former could not command the latter.

Every time the Reverse God Society asked these Evil Weapon Envoys to make a move, they needed to pay a huge price.

Even so, facing the suppression of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Central Plains, the Reverse God Society and these Evil Weapon Envoys could be considered to be standing in the same camp.

Evil Weapon Envoys took orders from Evil Weapons, while Evil Weapons were the losers of that great battle of a hundred divine weapons eight thousand years ago,

whose main bodies were shattered by the thirty-six strongest divine weapons and scattered across the four directions of heaven and earth.

Therefore, Evil Weapons harbored a natural resentment towards the thirty-six divine weapons,

and their stances were innately opposed.

As for the Reverse God Society, it was a force composed of people who wanted to resist the rule of divine weapons,

which was likewise opposed to the thirty-six divine weapons.

An enemy of an enemy was a friend.

Therefore, a natural alliance relationship existed between the Reverse God Society and Evil Weapons.

Previously, that main stronghold of the Reverse God Society belonging to Sikong Lun had a sacred heart mirror fragment suppressing it,

except Lin Yuan dispatched more than twenty Martial Saints to trample and destroy that main stronghold far too quickly,

so fast that the sacred heart mirror fragment had not even reacted before the battle was already over.

Just as Lin Yuan was deep in thought,

waves of subtle footsteps approached from afar to near.

"Greetings, My Lord."

The person who came was none other than Sikong Lun.

Fifty years had passed, and Sikong Lun had also aged considerably, with a lot of white hair appearing on his head.

"Mn."

Lin Yuan glanced at Sikong Lun and nodded slightly.

Over the years, Sikong Lun had indeed done a good job, constantly running about across the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Central Plains.

Now, many main strongholds of the Reverse God Society all took orders from Lin Yuan, and Sikong Lun's contributions were indispensable.

After all, Lin Yuan was immersed in Cultivation, coupled with wanting to avoid attracting the attention of those true divine weapons as much as possible, he basically rarely showed his face.

"Speak if you have something to say."

Lin Yuan said directly.

Having spent fifty years together, he understood Sikong Lun somewhat and knew that if the other party didn't have any major matters, he certainly wouldn't come here to find him.

"My Lord."

"Those Evil Weapon Envoys wish to meet with you and discuss the matter of a decisive battle against the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Central Plains."

Sikong Lun hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice.

"A decisive battle?"

"Are they not afraid of another 'Calamity of Weapons'?"

Lin Yuan furrowed his brows slightly.

The so-called 'Calamity of Weapons' was the disaster caused between divine weapons.

Eight thousand years ago, the great battle of a hundred divine weapons concluded, and the situation was settled.

The thirty-six divine weapons each guarded a country, enjoying the blood and flesh offerings of all living beings.

But why did the Great Yan Dynasty have a history of only a little over three thousand six hundred years?

Not only was the Great Yan Dynasty like this, but the history of the other thirty-five kingdoms of the Central Plains was also three to four thousand years.

The reason was that three to four thousand years ago, a major decisive battle was proactively initiated by numerous Evil Weapons and the Reverse God Society.

That decisive battle directly enraged the thirty-six State-Protecting Divine Weapons.

The thirty-six divine weapons awakened simultaneously, beginning to suppress the Evil Weapons that had recovered quite a bit of Origin Qi at the time.

The battle between the two spread across the land of the Central Plains, leading to the collapse of dynasties and the wailing of all living beings.

While suppressing, the thirty-six divine weapons harvested the blood energy and Souls of the masses,

causing the Human Race to suffer heavy blows, only recovering several hundred to a thousand years later.

But the impact of the decisive battle continued to persist; the old dynasties perished, and the new thirty-six kingdoms were established.

This was the Origin of the Great Yan Dynasty and the other thirty-five kingdoms.

Later generations also referred to this period as——

Calamity of Weapons.