Chapter 34: Bad News, Founding a Nation, Grand Competition.
We lost!
At that moment, almost everyone who heard the news fell silent.
Countless people were shocked by the news, unsure of what to say.
Battle of Swords and Spears.
In this world, it holds a special significance.
It is the clash of true peak figures.
One sword, one spear; one is the best in the world, the other is the second best.
Ranked at the forefront of the Cloud Weapons Catalog.
In their battle, they are actually vying for the position of the best in the world.
But there is another, deeper reason... the sword belongs to the Guardian Alliance.
While the spear belongs to the Only Me Orthodox Sect!
For countless years, the sword has always suppressed the spear. This is also the confidence of all righteous martial artists on the entire continent.
But now, the sword has lost a move.
This news is simply earth-shattering!
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But now, the sword has lost a move.
This news is simply earth-shattering!
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Cloud Weapons Catalog, first move: Emotion-Severing Sword.
In dreams, within the red dust, the sword severs emotions and intentions, yet does not find freedom; in the wind, tears flow for whom in bitterness, atop the clouds, a heartless snow caresses the flute. ——Emotion-Severing Sword, Xue Fuxiao (Snow Supports the Flute).
Cloud Weapons Catalog, Dream-Shattering Bone Spear. Ranked second!
In a sea of blood, the lone boat of bones, the spear in the bleak wind and bitter rain breaks the last remnants of sunlight; piercing through the myriad dreams of the red dust, shattered into the spear tip, a petal of fragrance. ——Dream-Shattering Spear, Duan Xiyang.
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It is said that this time, Dream-Shattering Spear Duan Xiyang took the initiative to challenge Xue Fuxiao to a duel at the summit of Purple Moon.
Xue Fuxiao refused to accept the challenge.
So the Dream-Shattering Spear Duan Xiyang suddenly took action, and within three days, he slaughtered over two million people, conquering three cities on the border!
"Xue Fuxiao, as long as you do not fight, I will massacre one city a day!"
Xue Fuxiao angrily accepted the challenge and went to battle.
Both sides agreed to a covenant: if Duan Xiyang wins, the Only Me Orthodox Sect will found a nation, and the Guardians are not allowed to interfere.
If Xue Fuxiao wins, the Only Me Orthodox Sect will lie dormant for five hundred years.
During these five hundred years, they can only act in secret, without sacrificial ceremonies, without massacring civilians, and without engaging in terrorist activities on the continent.
This agreement leaves Xue Fuxiao with no way out!
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The Only Me Orthodox Sect has planned to found a nation countless times, continuously infiltrating various countries on the continent and early on establishing an army.
However, each time they were defeated by the Guardian Alliance.
Emotion-Severing Sword Xue Fuxiao stands tall at the top of the clouds, overlooking the world, suppressing all dissent!
Including the Dream-Shattering Spear Duan Xiyang!
Four hundred years ago, the Only Me Orthodox Sect planned to found a nation and overthrow the Great Yong Dynasty; however, the Guardian Alliance was well-prepared, gathering countless experts to foil the Only Me Orthodox Sect's nation-building plan.
And as a result, they established the Great Zhao Dynasty.
Continuing the national fortune that originally belonged to the Great Yong Dynasty to the Great Zhao Dynasty.
Of the three great empires and nine great dynasties on the continent, all belong to the Guardian Alliance.
Although the Only Me Orthodox Sect is powerful, it is not recognized as orthodox by the world.
Without the suppression of national fortune, it has always been scattered sand. ——Only another regime can contend for the dominion of power.
If you have no regime, no matter how strong you are, you are just a bandit!
That's the truth.
So what the Only Me Orthodox Sect lacks is this: legitimacy!
For so many years, they have been fighting a desperate battle for this.
Finally, in this instance, they found an opportunity.
Xue Fuxiao met Duan Xiyang at Purple Moon Mountain.
The two sides battled for a day and a night.
Xue Fuxiao was shocked to find that Duan Xiyang was now vastly different from before; this old opponent, who had been suppressed by him for so many years, now, his strength surpassed his own!
In fact, over the years, every time they fought, Xue Fuxiao felt that Duan Xiyang had caught up by a large margin.
Every time, he was progressing.
Until the last time, eighty years ago, when he had won by sheer luck.
This was also the reason he refused to fight: if he didn't fight, he would still be the best in the world. This way, the mountain in the hearts of billions of martial artists would not collapse!
Faith would not collapse!
But Duan Xiyang's massacre of one city a day left Xue Fuxiao with no way out. He could only fight!
And this battle, was no surprise.
At the end of the battle, even though Xue Fuxiao had used all his strength, he still lost a move!
The Dream-Shattering Bone Spear pierced through his shoulder.
Xue Fuxiao sighed sorrowfully, feeling the pain of the bone spear piercing his body, but it couldn't compare to the pain in his heart.
Because he knew, from today onwards, the sky had collapsed!
Duan Xiyang slowly withdrew his spear and said indifferently, "You've lost. This is the first time I've spared your life!"
Xue Fuxiao smiled bitterly.
"Previously, it wasn't that I spared you, but that I had concerns, so it wasn't a matter of showing mercy. You don't owe me anything."
"Debts are debts."
Duan Xiyang turned and left. "You will die by my spear sooner or later; because the methods we can use, you cannot. And never will!"
Xue Fuxiao replied, "If I were to act like you, wouldn't I become like you, and what would be the point of fighting?"
A faint laugh came from Duan Xiyang from afar. "You have a point."
...
Xue Fuxiao was defeated.
The world was shocked!
The Cloud Weapons Catalog's top position changed names.
From now on, the Cloud Weapons Catalog, Dream-Shattering Bone Spear, ranked first!
To dominate the world!
The fourth day.
Under the Only Me Orthodox Sect's command, thirty-six sects and countless organizations across the continent simultaneously offered sacrifices to the heavens and gods.
The Heavenly Centipede God!
This day.
The twenty-seventh of July.
Is known as the continent's Bloody Day.
Because, at the same time, nineteen large cities witnessed horrifying massacres, all with populations exceeding ten million!
Belonging to different countries, different dynasties.
One thousand elderly couples, one thousand middle-aged couples, one thousand young couples, and one thousand pairs of boys and girls.
Each city was the same.
Eight thousand people, kneeling before a statue of the Heavenly Centipede God in a secret location, had their throats cut.
Allowing the blood to flow.
A river of blood, spreading for tens of miles.
A horrifying sight, On this day, the heavens mourned and the earth lamented, with the howling of the raging wind!
Just in the super cities alone, a total of 152,000 people perished!
Countless other places had similar sacrifices, albeit on a much smaller scale, also occurring simultaneously.
On this day, the number of lives lost was in the hundreds of thousands.
This was the Only Me Orthodox Sect's sacrifice to the gods!
The entire continent was trembling.
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July 29th.
The Great Xuan Empire, originally belonging to the Guardian Alliance, suddenly erupted in turmoil, with bloodshed spreading for miles in a single day.
Under the king, all were beheaded.
Prime Minister Wang Zichen led over a thousand civil officials, kneeling outside the city gates, to welcome the new emperor's ascension.
Inside the city, over ten thousand civil and military officials, as well as scholars, committed suicide to serve their country.
White flags filled the city.
The sound of weeping shook the heavens.
At the borders, successive military commanders were assassinated, and the army's old marshal, Yang Tiefeng, fought to the death with his remaining forces, ultimately being besieged at the imperial tomb. He knelt before the tombs of the emperors of the Great Xuan Dynasty and with a horizontal sword, took his own life.
The Only Me Orthodox Sect's cavalry entered the capital, Xuanwu City, of the Great Xuan Empire.
The new emperor, Chu Wuji, ascended the throne and announced to the world that the country's name had been changed to Xinchu! He heavily relied on surrendered officials and granted amnesty to all!
From then on, they began to recuperate.
In Xinchu's border regions, there were frequent uprisings, but the experts of the Only Me Orthodox Sect moved on all sides and suppressed them in a very short time.
The smoke of war gradually subsided in various places, and Xinchu sent peace envoys to several neighboring countries, seeming to indicate a peaceful world.
However, the entire world knew.
The world has changed!
There is an undercurrent surging.
It is unknown when it will start, but once it does, a national war will erupt, and the flames of war will spread across the entire continent in a very short time.
No place will be spared!
No one will be spared!
Because the Only Me Orthodox Sect has been planning for tens of thousands of years, and now they have succeeded!
They have established their own country.
Although it was only the first country and the first dynasty, they now have national fortune!
That is... legitimacy!
All disciples of the Only Me Orthodox Sect are celebrating together.
However, for the countries belonging to the Guardian Alliance, everyone is shocked and horrified.
Before this, everyone knew that the Only Me Orthodox Sect wanted to found a nation, but everyone also thought that even if they did, it would probably just be a remote small country.
No one expected that the Great Xuan Empire, one of the three great empires, would change its ruler so easily!
Such an easy change of dynasty!
Now, Xinchu, one of its neighboring countries, is none other than Great Zhao!
The flames of war are about to ignite.
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Baiyun Island.
Baiyun Martial Academy.
August 2nd.
The New Student Grand Competition was held as scheduled.
Tens of thousands of teachers and students stood in neat rows on the school's grand field!
On the high platform.
The Headmaster, Gao Qingyu, stood tall, his voice thundering like a storm, rolling over the entire grand field.
He looked at the students below, all with serious expressions, his voice calm but clear, reaching every ear.
"...I believe everyone has heard the news. Lord Xue lost a move in his battle against Duan Xiyang. The Only Me Orthodox Sect, which has been hidden in the shadows for countless years, has officially established a dynasty and now possesses national fortune."
"I know you are feeling heavy-hearted!"
"And I understand the future crisis!"
The expressions on the faces of the students below became even more solemn.
Suddenly, Gao Qingyu raised his voice, booming like thunder.
"But those news have nothing to do with us! Nothing to do with you!"
"You might worry yourself to death, but the deed is done."
"Now, six million troops are stationed at the border, with the Guardians suppressing the world, the Preservers organizing the world, officials at all levels governing the people, and garrisons everywhere guarding the peace!"
"All of this has allowed you to stand here now!"
"Your current worries are useless! Only by deepening your cultivation and improving your martial strength can you be capable of facing all future situations!"
"Even your current distractions are disappointing the guardianship of our predecessors!"
"As the headmaster of this academy, I give you this sentence!"
Gao Qingyu's voice turned into a thunderclap in the clear sky, resonating with a profound and inspiring voice!
He put in all his efforts, all his strength, and all his spirit.
He was so eager to engrave this sentence in the hearts of the tens of thousands of children below.
"Do not let the blood of our predecessors flow in vain, do not let our youth turn into sighs! Do not let the mortal world turn into a demon realm!"
Below, all the students raised their arms and shouted in unison.
"Do not let the blood of our predecessors flow in vain, do not let our youth turn into sighs! Do not let the mortal world turn into a demon realm!"
Tens of thousands of people shouted together, their momentum immense, like thunder from the heavens, shaking the entire Baiyun Island!
The tiger roars in the valley, and all the beasts tremble!
The sound of the students' roar reached far and wide!
Moments later.
"The top 100 new students, the competition begins."
"Those whose names I call, come up to the front stage."
Gao Qingyu loudly proclaimed, "First place, with 299 points, Fang Che!"
Below.
In a corner where the second-year students were, a small group of people exclaimed.
There were both boys and girls.
They were Fang Qingyun's classmates and friends.
Never in their wildest dreams did they expect their cousin to be in first place!
Their eyes couldn't help but light up.
Fang Qingyun was dumbfounded.
Suddenly, he remembered his own ranking: out of a total of 7,500 people in his class, he was ranked 7,476th!
Suddenly, a wave of sadness washed over him.
A feeling of discomfort surged.
He suddenly felt an urge to beat up his cousin.
You're actually the first!
How am I supposed to live?
I'm just asking, How am I supposed to live? When I get home this time, if your eldest uncle doesn't beat me to death, that'll be considered fatherly love!
In front of everyone's eyes.
Fang Che, dressed in black, tall and elegant, with a golden crown and jade hairpin, his hair fluttering, handsome and heroic, walked up calmly.
Step by step.
It was as if he had come from the fairy palace in the Yaochi Immortal Palace, with radiance and gracefulness.
Step by step, he walked onto the stage, step by step into everyone's eyes, and step by step, into everyone's heart!
In his calm and graceful demeanor, his face was soft in contour yet sharply defined, with sharp eyebrows and eyes, and a hint of cold and aloof aura.
"Wow..."
Suddenly, a spontaneous exclamation came from below.
A slap sound.
A senior student, who wasn't particularly interested in the audience, slapped himself on the face and muttered, "I... I'm going back to find my parents!"
Laughter erupted from the side.
Facing the tens of thousands of eyes, Fang Che stood alone on the stage, appearing poised and composed, without the slightest constraint that young people might feel when suddenly facing a large audience.
His expression was calm, and his demeanor was relaxed.
Standing tall with his clothes fluttering in the wind, although he wasn't wearing the signature black cloak with dark gold and dark patterns, he exuded a unique and otherworldly charm.
Huang Yifan, the deputy mountain master on the rostrum, looked at Fang Che with a gaze filled with confusion, regret, and endless uncertainty.
Which side does this Fang Che really belong to?
...…..
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