Free Web NovelChapter 336: Chapter 332: Giant Stone City-State, Flying Boat Surprise Attack
"Overgrown trees, a strange, dense fog, unknown and terrifying monsters..."
"And... no one ever returns?"
Su Ye murmured to himself, his eyes narrowing slightly.
He wasn’t surprised by the many wonders and peculiarities of the Land of the Fallen God.
After all,
Su Ye already knew.
The gods of the Far South Continent were of an incredibly high order, mostly fifth-rank, or even sixth-rank beings!
The lairs these beings spent eons building were divine kingdoms!
For one to fall into the mortal realm was like a secret legacy realm established by a Nascent Soul—or even a Divinity Transformation—cultivator. It was no wonder it held so many divine and eerie secrets!
’But...’
’What does that have to do with me? I’m not going!’
Su Ye scoffed inwardly.
He’d never been interested in exploring mysterious and secretive places...
Su Ye was unwilling to risk himself even for ordinary secret realms and immortal grottos... so why would he go to a place like the Land of the Fallen God, which practically screamed "evil"?
’It’s much better to pick an easy target.’
After a moment of reflection,
Su Ye focused his mind and gave an order.
"Bring me the map."
He was going to carefully select a suitable soft target and crush it mercilessly!
"Yes."
Phantom Zhenren responded.
With a flip of her hand, she produced a jade slip and presented it to him eagerly.
"Just channel your Magical Power into it,"
Phantom Zhenren explained.
"Mm."
Taking the jade slip, Su Ye released a wisp of Magical Power from his fingertip and channeled it into the slip.
HUM.
A pale blue light burst from the surface of the jade slip.
The light was solid and didn’t disperse, coalescing in mid-air to form an overhead map, much like the holographic projections Su Ye had seen in his past life!
Su Ye looked up.
Hope Port, Aino City, and various resource points were all clearly visible.
A glaring, bright red dot was marked several thousand miles to the southwest!
Beside it was a small inscription.
"Land of the Fallen God."
An area of over a thousand miles, with the red dot at its center, was covered in a pattern of faint red diagonal lines.
"This is the current area covered by the [Fog Forest]."
"After the god fell, the bizarre Fog Forest that formed began to expand, assimilating the normal forests around it."
"It wasn’t until two months ago that this assimilation and expansion finally stopped..."
Phantom Zhenren explained.
Su Ye nodded, showing he understood.
Then,
he looked back at the map. Near the Land of the Fallen God were several native city-states.
And among them, the one closest to Aino City’s territory was...
"Ukasandy..." Su Ye said to himself.
This was a term in the Divine Tongue, meaning "strong and everlasting rock."
In the interest of creating an elegant translation, the Nanyaoguang Corporation had rendered it as—Giant Stone City.
This city-state wasn’t one of the three great capitals.
But in the Northern Territory, it was still considered a major city-state.
In terms of strength and influence, it was comparable to the Aino City of the past... in fact, it might even have surpassed it!
’This is a decent target,’ Su Ye mused.
In native city-states like this, the royal family possessed a Spiritual Spring and held a monopoly on resources.
Backed by a god, their rule was stable, lasting for hundreds, even thousands of years... One could only imagine the wealth they had accumulated over such a long time!
Even Aino City, beset by years of war and troubles both internal and external, had yielded resources from its royal vault equivalent to six or seven million Spirit Stones!
’Giant Stone City’s resources must be even greater, right?’
’Besides...’
’Even if there’s nothing else, a third-rank Spiritual Spring alone would make the trip worthwhile!’
Su Ye lightly licked the corner of his mouth, a hint of reminiscence appearing in his eyes.
Absorbing the Spiritual Spring Origin... a single day of that was equivalent to months of arduous cultivation. He still vividly remembered the exhilarating feeling!
’With the help of a Spiritual Spring, my cultivation speed will increase dramatically!’
’I’ve decided. I’ll attack Giant Stone City!’
As for the fact that Giant Stone City’s god hadn’t fallen and could potentially perform a divine descent?
’Perfect!’
’I can kill a Divine Incarnation and get more Creation Points!’
Su Ye cracked his neck.
A vicious glint flashed in his eyes.
With a sharp blade in hand, the thought of killing comes easy.
Now that his power had surged, Su Ye had little fear of a Divine Incarnation!
In fact, he was eager to give it a try.
He wanted to try killing a Divine Incarnation, to hunt its divinity and replenish his Creation Points!
...
「Several days later.」
「Night.」
Black clouds shrouded the sky, and the moonlight was dim.
A colossal city stood built against a mountain, its walls dozens of meters high and gleaming with a crystalline yellow sheen.
Under the shroud of night, the great city seemed to merge with the mountain range, exuding a sense of unshakeable solidity!
This mountain city was none other than Giant Stone City!
At this moment,
「Inside Giant Stone City.」
「A remote, empty lot near the city wall.」
"COUGH COUGH COUGH."
"Hurry up! Douse them in oil and light it up. Burn all these corpses to ash!"
A burly, bear-like Warrior with a feather in his hair covered his nose and mouth, his expression one of disgust.
Not far in front of him,
dozens of corpses were piled up, their states of death horrific.
The corpses wore simple, crude clothing.
Thick calluses covered their finger joints.
Clearly, in life, they had performed manual labor and were either poor commoners or slaves of low social standing.
But beyond the marks of long-term poverty,
their bodies were uniformly covered in a twisted, grayish-green layer that looked like dead, decaying bark.
What was more terrifying was that the grayish-green skin was cracked and broken.
Mushrooms, moss, vines, flowers... Things that should never grow on a human body were sprouting from within them, defying all logic!
Bizarre, terrifying, and macabre!
"Hurry up and burn them!"
The Warrior urged again, ordering his subordinates to move.
SPLASH.
Thick, black oil was poured over the pile. With a TSS sound, a fire starter was lit and tossed onto the bodies.
CRACKLE!
Fueled by the oil, the flames roared to life, swiftly engulfing the corpses... Perhaps the bodies themselves were providing extra fuel?
Watching the corpses turn to ash, the Warrior’s frayed nerves began to settle.
"Damn this plague..."
The Warrior complained.
After the calamity of the god’s fall, some native settlements had been affected, forcing them to migrate... and their destination had been Giant Stone City.
Unfortunately for them, they had chosen the wrong place.
At that time, Giant Stone City was preparing a blood sacrifice...
There’s no need to elaborate on what happened next.
In short, the residents of Giant Stone City feasted well.
But ever since then,
a strange plague had begun to spread rapidly through Giant Stone City... and now, dozens of bodies had to be burned every day.
The Warrior sighed, shook his head, and prepared to return to his quarters for a peaceful night’s rest.
However, at this very moment,
SHREEE!
A piercing shriek tore across the sky!
The Warrior looked up, his expression puzzled.
"What was that sound...?"
And the next moment,
BOOM!
A violent, deafening explosion!
Before the Warrior’s very eyes, the towering wall of Giant Stone City suddenly fractured. A section dozens of meters wide collapsed like a domino, crashing to the ground!
WHOOSH!
Stone fragments flew and dust billowed into the air!
"This..."
The Warrior stood frozen, completely at a loss.
