The city of Hamju rests outside of a large forest, high stone walls protect the inhabitants of the city. Outside the walls, lay countless farmland, but the farmland around the city was nowhere near enough to feed its large number of citizens. These farms are just there so food supplies don't dingle too much in the city between trade caravans.
Large sounds and rhythmic booms could be heard across the city. The voice of people melts together into an abomination of sound and chaos. But the people on the streets were not having fun. As people feared for their lives. One of the walls, the one closer to the forest, was full of people and sound. Defeating explosions happening close to the working guards.
The farmland that this wall is guarding, is now painted red. Pieces of flesh and bodies now serve as nutrition for the broken and trample plants. Most of the farmers could not escape in time, their bodies now feeding the crops they were once growing. Their bodies trample on, by no other than the monsters running out of the forest.
This kind of situation has many causes, but the main cause is that the monsters of the forest felt treated, and their ecosystem was destroyed. As such, they run away in search of new territory and food sources. Most monsters usually don't attack cities, as they run away from the fight. But the rest of the monsters, seeing a large amount of food in cities, attack in the hope of filling their bellies and making the city their territory.
If these monsters are not killed, they will break the wall and overrun the city. The guards of the city are all mortal men and women. Some are armed with long spikes, as they poke and attack climbing monsters. Others were armed with bows and arrows, and the rain of arrows fall to the ground and on the monsters. Mortals stand no chance against monsters that are taken a step into cultivation.
But these monsters can still die and bleed, if you keep attacking them, they will die even if the attack is a mortal with a weak weapon. These monsters aren't at the stage where they become resistant to normal weapons. As such the attacks could claim the lives of the monsters. But the guards are armed with even stronger weapons. On the walls, lay black color cannons.
As the guards reload the cannons with fine steel cannon balls, inside of these cannon balls was a red crystal. A spirit crystal that has been infused with the element of fire. Soon another guard lights the fuse, as the cannons fire. The cannonball flies at high speed, soon landing in the middle of a monster group. Smashing them to pieces as their limbs go flying. But the attack was not over, as the ball exploded. The fire consumes the area and pieces of shrapnel go flying, killing countless other monsters.
But some of the more elite guards, those who experience and are trusted, are armed with guns. That fire is similar ammunition to the cannons. Small balls infused with a fire spirit crystal. These gunners shoot down strong monsters, hitting very specific and dangerous targets.
But these mortals alone are not enough for the immense number of monsters that were coming after them. But they are not alone, as a single man, their governor is a member of the Heimen clan. A man name Hu Heng is a commander stage cultivator. He was amid the monster horde. Follow by other clan members, while weaker than him, are still cultivators and as such, they are forced to fight by him.
It was a time like this that the mortals were happy to have such a caring governor, as what he is doing is not something any governor does. They will usually only appear once the wall has been broken and monsters were pouring into the city. Letting casualties reach preventable numbers.
Hu Heng is armed with a long spear, and he cuts the monster in half with its long-curved blade. His beautiful and well-crafted movements go to show how proficient he is with the spear. But even such a strong cultivator has his weakness, he only awakens the first dantian. As such his QI reserves aren't as big as those that have three or even two dantian.
He has been fighting for 3 hours already and his QI reserves were running low, he was very close to eating the QI elixir pills he brought with him. His fellow cultivators weren't doing so well either, their faces covered in sweat and their bodies becoming tired. Their movements are sloppy and weak. As such giving time and opportunity for monsters to land a few hits.
Heng sees this and could not help but click his tongue as he screams for his soldiers to hear.
"Run to the city I will hold them back! Recoopered and come back!"
The cultivators did not even try to argue back as they ran away with their lives on the line. Monsters seeing the exposed backs of these cultivators try to attack them but were meet by an attack by Heng as he tries to keep their attention. Heng hopes that the cultivators will return. He hopes that he teaches them correctly and doesn't abandon their duty to this city.
When a cultivator is given a city or land to rule over, they are given Core Disciple status. Given the privileges to take on students and teach them, of course, this number is only limited to 5. His five students are typical young ladies and lords of clans. As such they are pampered and don't care for mortal lives.
But even then, he tries to teach them good values, to make them honorable men and women. He already had the plan to test their characters after all his teachings. But sadly, it was cut short by this monster attack, but nothing can bring out someone's true self more that the real danger of life and death.
'Shit'
Heng cursed in his mind, as a monster attack landed inches away from his face. He was so distracted thinking that his moments became sloppy. As he was about to eat one of the QI elixir pills to recoopered a bit of his QI, a long sword strikes the monsters in front of him. As a flying middle age figure landed close to the sword. The figure grabs the sword, he knew who it was. After all who did not know the face of the personal bodyguard of the young lady of the Wu clan.
" Sir Lia Thank you for the assistance! But please protect the young lady! I would handle this"
"No need to lie, good sir, I will more than happily help out. Plus, it looks like you won't last much longer without the blessing of the Celestial Dragon."
"Ha…I hope the Celestial Dragon will bless me at this moment as well."
Fen smiles at the man as he started to cut down monsters with his sword, after leaving Huan in the city so she can heal some of the wounded. He jumps right into the fight, thankfully he landed close to the governor of this city. Heng eats his QI pill as he continues to fight alongside Fen.
This battle continues for another 1 hour. The battle already claims many lives of the guard, as some monsters manage to climb into the wall before being put down by Heng students and Huan. Making them very proud, but even the strong commander stage cultivators were getting tired. Heng already tired from before could barely stand as Fen covers up for him and pushes himself to the limit. Fighting so hard that a shock wave passes through his body.
Wait a shock wave? Fen looks around confused as another stronger shock wave passes through his body. An audible sound of something breaking entered his ears. Soon a third shock wave shakes the ground and breaks the sky. As small crystals started to fly across the sky, the battlefield was consumed by silence, before a deafening shock wave shook the ground. Almost like an earthquake as the ground breaks apart and consumes the lives of some of the monsters.
Fen has no idea what was going on, but this was becoming dangerous as he grabs the tired Heng and runs towards the city wall. Running up the wall as he lands on the walls where the guards are. But everyone around him was looking at the sky, as he follows their eyesight. Visibly broken chains linger in the sky, their mind not able to comprehend what was going and neither could the monsters on the ground.
Till one voice, utters words of blasphemy, a heretic in the very sense of the word.
"The [Chains of Fate]…."
Even Fen, the most religious out of this large crowd, could not help but think the same, everyone, through the same. But this was for a split second as the heretic was soon arrested by the guards. The guards shake as they try to ignore the reality of this situation.
"Shut up! How dare you say that [Chains of Fate] are broken!"
"You will be executed for your blasphemy against the Celestial Dragon. "
The guard's voices echo into the wall, as no one could hear a mechanic voice. I mean two people could, but they were not here, as they were the cause of this. Only Mors and Zhihui heard the words of the system.
[The Cleansing
Defeat the Old-World Corruption "Mind" and break the chains of fate to a greater extent.
Reward: 10,000 fate points. Awarded
Reward: A fragment of an achievement. Awarded
Failure: Death
Failure: The strength of fate will increase ]
[Unstoppable Will]
[Your mind is unstoppable once it focuses on a goal. Your single drive towards this goal is so strong that the laws of the world bend to your will. While chains might bind you, you are no slave to [Fate]. Hard as she might try to bind you to fate, with her rusty and cruel chains. Your will can't be bound to a set path, you are chaos in the very sense. Achievement of the lower realm.]
[You have been granted permission to !@##^#]
[Granted to Mors and Zhihui for their cleaning the [Old World Corruption] left behind by [Fate]]
[Name: Mors Mundin
Cultivation: Warrior Rank 3
Stats:
Mind: 100
Body: 100
Soul: 100
Weapon: 50
Blood Line: Imperial(Emperor)
Legacy: War's Everlasting Concert
Martials Art:
[War Everlasting Dance(Primordial) Rank 1]
[Tsubame Gaeshi(Heaven) Rank 6 ](Sword)
[Soragui(Heaven) Rank 5](Spears)
[The Man Hunter(Heaven) Rank 3]
[War's First Symphony(Primordial) Rank 1]
Talents:
[Soft Feet][Martial Aura][Blood Thirsty Eyes]
Fate Points:21,792 ]
[ Name: Wu Zhihui
Cultivation: Warrior Rank 3
Stats:
Mind: 100
Body: 100
Soul: 100
Earthy Law: 50
Blood Line: Scholar(Emperor)
Legacy: Ever knowing Wisdom Speaker
Martial Arts:
[Heavens Blue Fire(Devine) Rank 10]
[Wisdom Judgment(Primordial) Rank 1]
[Spirit Water(Heaven) Rank 4]
[Earth Shattering(Heaven) Rank 3]
[Cutting Winds(Heaven) Rank 6]
[Splitting Lighting(Heaven) Rank 2]
[Dead Blood(Heaven) Rank 1]
[Refine Metal(Heaven) Rank 2]
[Start Gravity(Heaven) Rank 1]
[Elemental Eater(Primordial) Rank 5]
Talents:
[Breaker of Fate] [Love by the Elements] [Elementals Veins] [Refine Mind][Wisdom Insight]
Fate Points: 22,362]