Gods Vanish on a Cloudy Day
Chapter 20 One Against Five, No Problem (Second Update, 5800)
"Su Zhou, is this your bloodline intimidation?"
The arriving Dao Saint and the other members of the action team also saw this scene.
Among them, Zhang Fucheng was somewhat mentally prepared because he knew that all the dragonspawn in Hongcheng had undergone drastic changes due to Su Zhou's awakening and advancement.
But the other military transcendents and team members were all astonished. They couldn't imagine that this entire army of scalekin would be lying prone like obedient babies, not resisting Su Zhou at all, and just kneeling on the ground.
"Interesting."
The Dao Saint couldn't help but think, "We still don't know Su Zhou's true form, but at least, there's no doubt that his 'level' is very high."
Even Jiu Ming, who inherited the Heavenly Pool Dragon King's True Dragon Body cultivation method, was afraid of Su Zhou's bloodline. This kind of suppression was impossible to see among true dragons.
"Is it Ying Long, or Zhu Long? Or even something like Zu Long..." For a moment, the Dao Saint couldn't guess.
After all, there were only a few bloodlines that could truly be above ordinary Heavenly Dragons—but whether it was Ying Long or Zhu Long, they were subtly different from the bloodline power that Su Zhou displayed...
The Dao Saint's confusion was also the confusion of others. Only Jin Qiong had different ideas. She smacked her lips and thought, "What a pity, I didn't expect Professor Su to have such a strong deterrent force. If the two-world portal were opened in the scalekin territory, with his deterrent force, I could probably just carry him all the way, flying over with the pressure turned on—I'm afraid no beast would dare to stop us."
She had already automatically placed herself in the position of a means of transportation—showing how deep the oppression was, deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
At this time, the Europa action team did not waste time. Seeing that the Zheng Nation action team had already controlled the situation, Raphael summoned a smaller, more concealed spirit dove again, letting it grab a falling leaf transformed from a sealed card and fly forward—anyway, information was shared between the action teams, so if Zheng Nation asked, they would also know.
Rather than lamenting the difficulty of the road, it was better to set off immediately.
At the same time, Su Zhou didn't waste time. He directly asked, "Why are the scalekin here? What is your purpose?"
The giant crocodile respectfully replied in Chinese with a heavy accent, "Yes, it is the order of the Heavenly Dragon Lord. We are here to monitor the internal strife of the featherfolk. If there is any major change, we will immediately return and inform the Lord."
This was similar to what everyone had analyzed before. The scalekin and featherfolk spied on each other. When one side had internal strife, the other would start looking for opportunities. The scalekin should have sent more than one team of similar hidden troops.
Su Zhou nodded, seemingly satisfied, with the giant crocodile's quick reply. He continued, "Before encountering us, have you encountered other featherfolk?"
"No, Lord. But we caught a spirit ox before. It may be a sacrificial species raised by the featherfolk," the giant crocodile replied quickly as before.
The other scalekin members seemed to be even lower in status. Not only did they not dare to speak, but they didn't even dare to raise their heads in front of Su Zhou, as if they were not worthy to look upon the Lord's appearance and body.
Su Zhou was now communicating with the Dao Saint and others mentally, exchanging information and questions. After a while, he continued, indirectly inquiring about news of the Life Master Great Tree.
The giant crocodile did not suspect anything—or rather, it thought that Su Zhou was testing its faith in the Life Master Divine God, and immediately told Su Zhou and others everything in the most detailed and clear tone.
—In the center of the world, there is a giant tree supporting the heavens and the earth.
That is the creator of the world, the nurturer of all things. He is the heavenly father who gives power to the divine beasts, the origin of the supreme status of kingship. He is the Life Master who governs life, death, and reincarnation, the only and immortal Divine God.
The Life Master Divine God is the only and supreme faith in the Beast God Realm. He silently overlooks the entire world, watching the actions of every life, recording its blessings and calamities, and determining its reincarnation.
And divine beasts are the rulers of destiny.
All divine beasts are individuals with great blessings and great authority. They are the kings of destiny, the rulers of everything. And combat species are individuals who work and fight for the divine beasts, maintaining the glory of the divine beasts with their lives and accumulating blessings.
It is said that three hundred and twenty-seven years ago, a combat species with amazing combat power was bestowed with divine blood by a divine beast and became a brand new divine beast. This story is widely circulated among combat species and is worshiped and praised.
The production species are lives whose blessings and calamities in the previous life have been mutually offset to zero. They need to accumulate blessings through diligent creation and labor to please the divine beasts, in order to be reincarnated as combat species, or not to be reincarnated as servant species and sacrificial species.
And servant species are the final destination of beasts who were once insincere in their faith and questioned the divine beasts. They need to redeem their sins of disrespect with a lifetime of hard work in their next life—the reason why the giant crocodile had mutilated itself before was because they had not seen through Su Zhou's identity as the Lord in the first place, and had even taken up weapons, committing the greatest sin of disrespect.
In order not to be reincarnated as a servant species in the next life, it naturally had to express its sincerity in the fastest and most direct way.
As for... sacrificial species. That is because they were evil and resisted the divine beasts in their previous life, so they were reduced to sacrificial species, offering their flesh and blood lives at the cost of worshiping other lives, and they could only redeem their sins after a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation.
Under the giant crocodile's pious narration, Su Zhou and others frowned and managed to understand the true social structure of the current Beast God Realm.
—Any divine beast, in any region, even between different races, enjoys the highest privileges.
The two races fight, the clan fights internally, and the combat species and servant species are fighting to the death. It has nothing to do with the divine beasts. Even if the divine beasts are defeated, they will not die. At most, they will be taken away to breed new breeding machines with new abilities and divine powers, or they will become vassals.
Therefore, when the crocodile and other beasts saw Jin Qiong's Peng Golden-Winged Bird form, they would also respectfully worship, but they would not obey Jin Qiong's orders. Only the scalekin Lord could completely issue any orders.
"That's right, divine beasts generally don't fight to the death. After all, that's a divine beast bloodline, and it's not easy to breed and inherit... Even if they are captured, they will only be turned into breeding machines to try to combine divine powers and leave behind dharma descendants, or become derivative affiliated races."
"Wait, in that case, the peacock divine bird back then, who bewitched me to go to the Beast God Realm, its purpose..."
Thinking of this, Jin Qiong suddenly shuddered—the divine bird peacock had been tempting her to go to the Beast God Realm, and said that it would give her great glory and status, but now it seems that she, a lone divine bird, would be delivering food to the door if she really ran to the territory of other divine birds?
Jin Qiong, who was already very familiar with modern internet culture, couldn't help but have a large number of strange images such as the divine bird Muzan float in her mind.
"This is also normal."
Bai Canglang, who knew how difficult it was to maintain the inheritance of divine beasts and knew that many families who imitated the Dao in ancient times intermarried with each other, or even had incest within the clan, in order to maintain the vitality of their bloodlines, was very clear about the troubles in this regard. He couldn't help but sigh, "But the Beast God Realm's system is really backward and chaotic."
"To be fair, it is." This indeed aroused everyone's agreement.
The wounds on the giant crocodile's body had mostly healed, but even so, a lot of spirit blood was still flowing out, soaking the sand, but it still did not get up—because Su Zhou had not said so.
It just continued to respectfully say, "Lord, do you have any other instructions?"
This extremely flattering, but monotonous tone was like a robot that only executed orders and had nothing but loyalty.
At this time, Zhang Fucheng was sending the information he had obtained to the Europa action team, and the US Federation and Rose Nation action teams that had already begun to enter.
This immediately caused a discussion.
"According to what this local says, the Life Master Great Tree has not had any activity in these thousands of years. There is a high probability that it is either completely dead or has not yet fully recovered." This was the Zheng Nation's conclusion.
"Divine beasts are the only masters, the only rulers. What kind of dictatorship is this?" This was the evaluation of the American Federation.
"It seems that except for the divine beasts, all spirit beasts piously believe in the Life Master Great Tree. Will this power of faith play an unknown role?" This was the cautious idea of the Rose Nation.
"Divine beasts seem to nominally believe in the Life Master Great Tree. They don't really believe in it. It's probably just a guise to deceive the ignorant masses." This was the guess of the European Union.
Finally, the Zheng Nation came to a conclusion: "Don't forget that the severing of spirit energy is also effective for the Beast God Realm. For thousands of years, even the Beast God Realm did not have a transcendent tier. The difference between divine beasts and ordinary spirit beasts can definitely be suppressed by beast sea tactics."
"So, the divine beasts at that time probably had already thought about the subsequent way out and prepared to maintain the rule of their own bloodline descendants with this strange religious belief."
Now, the revival of spirit energy is undoubtedly a miracle. The talents of the divine beasts far exceed those of many spirit beasts. Their strength has skyrocketed, which proves the correctness of the miracle. Therefore, recently, the class below the divine beasts has become more and more fanatical about the belief in the Life Master—this is a dead knot, and for those ordinary spirit beasts, the logic is self-consistent and has no flaws.
The situation in the Beast God Realm is not to be discussed for the time being. At least now, everyone is a little more relaxed. This proves that even if the Life Master Great Tree is not dead, it does not have the ability to act. They have time to prepare and then completely destroy the other party.
After inquiring about the information, Su Zhou did not have the idea of killing these scalekin soldiers to silence them. The Zheng Nation also knew very well that instead of killing these scalekin and quickly letting the scalekin side know that something was wrong, it was better to let them live and mislead both the scalekin and featherfolk.
"Let's continue to move forward." So saying, Su Zhou, who only used his bloodline intimidation and did not really fight, turned around and prepared to return to Jin Qiong's back.
However, he did not expect that his straightforward departure would make the giant crocodile anxious.
"Why did this Lord leave?!"
It was extremely shocked: "Every time the Heavenly Dragon Lord goes to inspect the troops, he will eat a small beast to bestow blessings. This is a reward of good fortune! We want the Lord to eat more, but the Lord is unwilling, saying that it is the rule set by the ancestor, and the blessing cannot be given too much... But one is enough, maybe it's me?!"
"But this Lord won't eat, it's a pity..."
Thinking this way, risking being punished by the Lord, the giant crocodile also spoke in a low voice. It chased after Su Zhou, causing the youth to turn his head in confusion. This powerful spirit beast of the transcendent high rank almost pleaded, "Lord, you came this time, but you didn't eat one? All of our beasts are looking forward to it... Look, how about me? Although the skin is a bit tough, it is very chewy. If it doesn't work, you can take it off and use it as leather armor... Do you want to try it?"
It tried hard to promote itself, its eyes were extremely sincere, and following the giant crocodile's gaze were more than forty other scalekin soldiers, whose eyes were also extremely expectant and bright.
They all wanted to compete for the chance to be eaten, but since the giant crocodile had already spoken, as lower-level classes, they did not dare to speak.
"Eat... eat you?!"
When Su Zhou heard this, his mind had not turned around for a while, and he did not understand what the other party was saying. It was not until the giant crocodile raised its tail itself, as if it was going to continue to cut open its leather armor with a knife, that he woke up from his dream, and then suddenly felt a burst of chills: "You want me to eat you yourself, and say this is a blessing?!"
"Do you really know what you are asking for?!"
"Yes, of course I know—Lord, please, we were not prepared to welcome you this time, it is our mistake, please do not despise us, do not give us good fortune... I am willing to redeem my sins ten times over, ten times!"
The huge crocodile lay prostrate at Su Zhou's feet in a humble manner. It stretched out its tongue in a lowly manner, wanting to wipe clean the shoe surface for Su Zhou, and the youth's subconscious retraction of his feet made it even more anxious and shed tears, but the huge body still docilely lay on the ground.
——What is this messy and twisted world?
Raising his head, Su Zhou subconsciously turned his head and looked at the Zheng Nation action team, all of whom had shocked and inexplicable expressions. Even Jin Qiong, who had inherited the memory inheritance of the ancient Garuda, could not stand this three views and spirit, and showed a disgusted expression: "It is also a transcendent high-level individual... Even if I want to solve it, I need to put in some effort, and work harder. Even if it still doesn't enter the eyes of the divine beast, it can at least stand on the same stage."
"How can a spirit beast, a spirit beast with not weak strength, be so humble... Even if it's the law of the jungle, it's not a weakling anymore!"
Turning his head again, Su Zhou looked at those pairs of eyes that were full of expectation, eager to dedicate themselves, the eyes of the group of beasts.
——That was the most sincere, the most pious, and the most respectful, pure and clean eyes.
But at this moment, Su Zhou did not feel the comfortable feeling of being respected and thanked, like being thanked and awed by the Baijia Righteous Army of the God Wood World and the residents of Nesser City. Even if the former two were compared in terms of sincerity, they might not be as good as these scale beasts of the Beast God Realm.
At this time, he could only feel a burst of chills that made his hair stand on end, as well as an extremely strong stench and nausea.
"What should we do with these scalekin?"
"They have been brainwashed by the faith spread by those divine beasts in the Beast God Realm, that is indeed a bit difficult to handle."
"Forget it, ignore them. Our goal is the Life Master Great Tree. After confirming this, we will slowly consider the chaotic situation of the Beast God Realm."
The discussion of the Zheng Nation action team did not last long, after all, they were all humans and naturally took the safety of the human world as their primary goal.
Su Zhou only stopped the giant crocodile's self-harm and explicitly told it that he had forgiven their previous disrespect—when he got this sentence, all the scalekin breathed a sigh of relief, as if they had finally unloaded their shackles.
That expression and ecology were sad, but they were not aware of it.
Only Su Zhou was silently thinking: "This may be... also a kind of reincarnation... If there are spirit beasts that break this reincarnation..."
He did not think deeply, just sighed.
Everyone set off again.
But at this time, the Zheng Nation action team discovered another team of featherfolk avian squads flying slowly in the air, approaching this side.
They seemed to be escorting something, and this thing seemed very important.
This was the divine bird Gui Che, using the other disasters as a lure to attract the scalekin dark soldiers to deal with the Immortal Realm remnants, that is, the human side—but they got the news late, and their speed was not as fast as Jin Qiong, so even before their lure was sent, Su Zhou and others had already solved the scalekin dark soldiers.
The Zheng Nation action team naturally did not know this, but they could also see the unusualness of this featherfolk squad.
"Jin Qiong, this time it's up to you."
Having just suppressed a scalekin with his own bloodline, Su Zhou looked at Jin Qiong at this time, and the meaning of that look was self-evident.
The others in the action team were also watching her, signaling that this was the time for the divine bird to take action.
"Hey, alright, alright, anyway, looking at you before, it doesn't seem difficult..."
The blonde girl clicked her tongue, stomped her feet, and then transformed into the divine bird body again and flew over.
——The process does not need to be repeated. Anyway, under the divine bird pressure of the Peng Golden-Winged Bird, the performance of this team of spirit birds was not much better than when the scalekin faced Su Zhou. They unreservedly relayed Gui Che's orders to Jin Qiong, and also let everyone know that the divine beasts of the Beast God Realm had already known that they had entered.
"It seems that we have overestimated the strength of the Beast God Realm, but also underestimated the other party's caution... There is no need to advance so cautiously."
Noticing this, the Dao Saint couldn't help but sigh, "Since we have been discovered, it is better to go full speed ahead, directly join up with the Europa action team, and rush all the way to the location of the Life Master Great Tree."
"The secret method can be used at any time, but it takes about three hours to fully determine the vitality of the Life Master Great Tree." Lin Chengde said, the disciple of the Agricultural Saint calmly reminded: "Our previous plan, three hours is not long, but now, if the beasts of the Beast God Realm know that we are going to their Life Master Holy Land, the siege we are likely to encounter will last for three hours."
As soon as this sentence came out, except for Tang Yuan who was a little scared, whether it was the two transcendent beings in the military or Liu Wuxin, they all had indifferent expressions. Su Zhou, Zhang Fucheng who was familiar with Su Zhou's power, Dao Saint and Jin Qiong were even more indifferent, and almost 'Oh' came out.
"Unless they pull out a few human immortal leader-level people, it is too easy to defend for three hours—don't forget that later there will be action teams from the American Federation and the Rose Nation to share the pressure for us."
This was Bai Canglang's words. He smiled so hard that his tiger teeth were exposed, and he touched the gun in his hand very cheerfully: "I don't know how many kills I can add this time. Alas, it is really difficult to brush kills in peacetime."
"The Lord's lineage has a heritage."
But at this time, next to him, the spirit bird, a pure white goose, who was subdued by Jin Qiong's pressure, thought it was a question aimed at it, and replied honestly: "Last time, when the Lord Gui Che fought with the Lord Qing Niao to fight for the main city, they used their heritage to call out the divine feathers of the old lords thousands of years ago... That was enough to destroy half of the main city's power, maybe there really is the power of the immortal beast."
Bai Canglang, who was laughing heartily, suddenly froze.
——The divine beast lineage can actually pull out the combat power of the leader level?
But thinking about it carefully, it is not surprising. A fully armed transcendent peak Dao Saint can probably also exert the power of the leader level, and relying on the divine feathers left by powerful ancestors, just like the dragon race relying on the dragon balls of their ancestors, they can indeed temporarily break through the realm.
When everyone present knew this important news, they all looked at Su Zhou at the first time.
"How is it, can you deal with it?"
The Dao Saint asked seriously, "If it really doesn't work, we will go back temporarily—this news is very important, it is worth wasting a little time to prepare. If it really doesn't work, I will go back and get my full set of arms, and call a few old friends, a few Zhusheng join forces, let's force our way through."
This tone was慷慨激昂 (kāng kǎi jī áng, impassioned).
But Su Zhou just shook his head, he did not speak, just raised his hand, raised two fingers, presenting a v shape.
——What does this mean? Could it be that it represents his inevitable victory?
Just as everyone was puzzled, Su Zhou also realized that something seemed to be wrong, he hesitated and raised three fingers again, spread out his palm, presenting a 'five' shape.
——What does this mean again?
To this, the youth said modestly: "I originally wanted to say that I could solve one of these leaders in two seconds, but that would be too exaggerated, after all, I don't even know what kind of leader is coming, and it is very likely that I will be boasting."
"But one against five, this kind of small matter, is not a problem."
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