Free Web NovelChapter 585: Chapter 81: Lifelong Wish_3
Chasing deserters is certainly easier than struggling against mourning soldiers.
And the Demon Race amusement park was a new invention of the Demons during that period, first appearing in Jing Province and Hong Province. These two places had numerous strongholds, and although the Demon Race occupied the entire Jing Province and Hong Province, the human resistance army remained active in the occupied areas. These people knew that the Demon Race did not take prisoners, so they always fought to the death, causing significant losses to the Demon Race.
Then the Demon Race devised the amusement park, creating a huge venue and inviting all survivors to come. As long as they completed the game projects according to the amusement park’s rules, they could return to human territory through the blockade gaps in Jing Province and Hong Province.
This overt strategy attracted a considerable number of survivors to take on the challenge, and in the amusement park, about one-third of the people could successfully complete it and return to human territory.
This ratio, of course, was not high, but it was enough to lure more survivors with thoughts of dying to venture in trepidation.
As long as they could pass the games, they could return to Central Province, back into the embrace of human civilization. Naturally, they would receive the due rewards and care as warriors who fought to the death in enemy-occupied areas... Even without considering these, if they could return to the front line in Central Province and fight shoulder-to-shoulder with their comrades, bringing the spirit of never giving up in enemy territories, it would surely inspire more to fight bravely. In this way, it was certainly better than lingering in enemy-occupied areas.
This idea certainly wasn’t wrong, so the Demon Race easily eliminated two-thirds of the humans in the occupied areas.
And those humans who successfully returned to Central Province did not bring more resistance will to the Myriad Immortals Alliance as expected.
Almost every human cultivator who survived the amusement park brought a heavy and extreme despair. Though their bodies were alive, their spirits had long been tortured to death in the amusement park.
Nowadays, the despairing corpses in the ship labyrinth made Zhao Chenlu inevitably think of the amusement parks in Jing Province and Hong Province.
"I remember... Kaishan once vowed to destroy all the Demon Race amusement parks. Unfortunately, until the end of the war, we were unable to push the front back to Jing Province and Hong Province. Fortunately, when you dueled with the Demon Emperor, you shattered Jiuzhou, so the amusement parks naturally ceased to exist, which kind of helped him. However, I never expected that after thousands of years, the Demon Race amusement park seems to have reemerged."
Wang Jiu said nothing in response.
Indeed, the scene really looked like a Demon Race amusement park. In a limited space, the Demon Race would showcase the killing techniques gained from destroying the Myriad Realms, slaughtering two-thirds of participants in an unimaginable manner. Then they would leave their corpses—before this, the Demon Race never left human bodies when slaughtering.
However, none of this could possibly be related to the Demon Race. It was all the work of nature’s exquisite craftsmanship, nothing more.
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After traveling a long, long way, past countless bizarre scenes, the two finally arrived at the captain’s room, which was the quarters of the expedition leader, the then Sect Leader of the Saint Sect.
The room was simply and plainly furnished, clearly indicating that the Saint Sect’s budget had been tight for many years. In the room lied a beautiful woman with snow-white hair, lying in a recliner, covered with a thin blanket as if she was a young lady of a wealthy family taking a midday nap, but her completely still chest showed that she had long lost her life force.
Beside the woman, there laid a transparent jade, clearly her will.
Facing this scene, both Wang Jiu and Zhao Chenlu were greatly shocked.
Who is this!?
"If I remember correctly, the person who served as the leader of the expedition should be him, right?" Zhao Chenlu said while taking out a document from her pocket, which recorded the data of the year’s expedition team, with the leader’s data first. In the portrait section was an elder with gray beard exuding authority without anger.
"Indeed, there is no such person among the expedition members... Even considering the possibility of appearance changes due to time-space chaos, there is no one who corresponds."
"So... is she a child born of despair to some illicit couple?" Zhao Chenlu speculated, "Because they were certain the expedition team could not survive, they pinned their hopes on the next generation? Well, let’s first look at the will then, do you have a way to read the data?"
Although the jade looked crystal-clear, it had withstood the turbulence of time-space for a long time and was already internally decayed. Without sufficiently exquisite reading techniques, its contents could not be viewed.
Wang Jiu observed for a moment and contemplated, "I can give it a try."
The next moment, White Sword moved slowly forward, touching the jade.
With the Divine Techniques of the Sword World’s hidden realms, he transferred the jade into the Sword World, and then utilized the rules within the Sword World to stabilize the jade’s decay, allowing the will left by the woman to be read smoothly.
However, Wang Jiu discovered at the moment of touching the jade that it was of superior quality, showing no signs of decay, as if the turbulence of time-space had brushed past without affecting it.
Naturally, the contents of the will were read smoothly as well.
"If someone sees this letter, it means our last efforts were not in vain. Our preliminary results in analyzing this mysterious sea area were successful. We have obtained the technology to resist the turbulence of time-space. Otherwise, this jade could not have lasted until your arrival."
From the beginning, Wang Jiu could see the will author’s rationality and calmness. Even though surrounded by despair and chaos, she never gave up hope and truly achieved incredible results. With the Immortal Dao Techniques of Xiangzhou Continent 300 years ago, this jade actually survived to the current day; humans are indeed a race adept at turning impossibility into possibility.
However, as he continued reading, Wang Jiu became increasingly amazed.
"Next, if you see an elder beside this will, it means our achievements were limited to this, and you need not read the remaining contents of the will."
"If you see a woman, it means that our most incredible guess came true. Not only can we resist time-space, but we can also cleverly utilize time-space to fulfill my lifelong wish. Well, if you are reading this, it means you indeed see a woman, don’t you?"
"Perhaps you are curious about my identity. In the expedition team’s list, you cannot find my name or anyone related to me. If you’ve reached here and still haven’t guessed my identity, it shows that my experiment succeeded beyond my expectations, and I have truly become what I most desired to be."
"Yes, you should have finally guessed. I am the leader of the expedition, the Sect Leader of the Saint Sect."
