The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 1074: Chapter 1074: Divinity War Prelude (Part 2)

In Shen Mo’s plan, as long as Ear Wisdom God and a few other Righteous Gods were slain, their disciples would immediately lose all divine power, and then the army of Qing Country would collapse without a battle.

In this way, it would be possible to absorb a large number of disciples who had lost their divine power, causing the number of Long Eared God’s disciples and worshipers to surge like a rolling snowball. By that time, the Long Eared God could be elevated to the position of one of the Nine Great True Gods, spreading the Prayers Sutra legitimately within Qing Country!

With the plan set, Shen Mo donned the [Riding the Clouds and Mist] Destiny and flew towards the location of the Qing Country army.

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At this time, on the forest path leading to Swallow Village in the Outer Realm, tens of thousands of soldiers wielded knives and axes, continually cutting down roadside trees, while others worked to level and widen the small path.

The army of Qing Country was opening a path through the mountains, first to facilitate the passage of hundreds of thousands of troops, so they would not be stretched for dozens of miles along the narrow path; second, to clear out the wild beasts and poisons in the forest, and to guard against the harassment of Long Eared God’s disciples lurking in the dense forest!

Now, the army of Qing Country was within two hundred miles of Swallow Village, and the senior disciples of Ear Wisdom God, after enhancing their hearing with divine power, could even clearly hear sounds coming from Swallow Village; while among these tens of thousands of soldiers, the weakest were ordinary disciples of some fake god, possessing divine power, for them the distance of two hundred miles was already within reach, even while pioneering the road and marching, it would take only three days to reach the front of Swallow Village’s fortress.

However, the disciples of Long Eared God who had been disturbing the army these days suddenly vanished... This inevitably led the commander Li Huaihai and the senior generals to secretly harbor doubts.

Li Huaihai himself was an Elder under Ear Wisdom God, needing no one to investigate Swallow Village, he could ascertain through God Path methods that the number of people in Swallow Village had not decreased, otherwise he would have thought that the disciples and worshipers of Long Eared God were scared of the army’s sharp edge and had abandoned their base camp to hide elsewhere!

After listening to the movements of Swallow Village, he sent for all the mid and high-level generals in the army to gather in the central tent to discuss the next steps in the battle plan.

And shortly after the meeting began, a piercing horn abruptly sounded.

Li Huaihai’s brows furrowed slightly but soon his expression returned to one of calm composure as he led the generals under his command to step out of the tent to observe the situation.

”To report to the commander, a strong warrior under the Evil God has come intruding!”

”I see it.” Li Huaihai lifted his head, squinting his eyes to look up towards the high sky.

In the high sky, clouds roiled as a cloud rushed towards them at an unimaginable speed, vaguely revealing a dignified young man standing atop it.

Whoosh!

Whoosh whoosh!

A myriad of arrows shot from the army, forming a dense rain of arrows aimed at the sky.

However, the arrows shot by the ordinary disciples, even with the use of divine power, couldn’t reach such heights, and fell back down halfway in the sky.

Only the arrows shot by elite disciples and above, alongside the divine gift heavy crossbows engraved with divine rune in the army, could reach that imposing figure at the head of the cloud, yet all arrows within a yard of him were shattered like hitting an invisible iron wall.

”It’s the Grand Elder under the Long Eared Evil God!” a lieutenant recognized Shen Mo’s identity and shouted urgently.

”This person...”

Li Huaihai gazed at Shen Mo’s figure and felt an inexplicable familiarity.

Then, he recalled the paintings passed down from his ancestors, heart jolted with shock, ”Could he be the Outer Zone Evil Demon who killed Martial Might God three hundred years ago, causing my Li Family’s ancestors’ demise?”

Li Huaihai’s Li Family was a martial family of Qing Country, brimming with talents over generations like stars, countless ancestors have reached the position of commander in Qing Country army, yet such a prosperous family met a monumental disaster three hundred years ago, nearly facing extinction, surviving this calamity left them in decline for a long time until recent centuries when some returned to high ranks within Qing Country.

Back then, the ancestor of the Li Family, who like Li Huaihai held the position of army commander, was ordered to fight against leftover evil of Godslayer Palace and Outer Zone Evil Demon hiding in Thorn Mountain, little did he know that this battle would lead to his entire army’s demise, and he would be used by the Outer Zone Evil Demon to open the God Realm with the divine power in him, killing one of the Nine Great True Gods, Martial Might God.

This ancestor barely escaped back but succumbed to injuries half a month later.

Moreover, with the fall of Martial Might God, many soldiers in the army lost their divine power, becoming mere mortals, without the courage or power to trouble the Outer Zone Evil Demon, all their fury turned upon the Li Family, bringing them to the brink of extermination.

Before passing, the ancestor relied on memory to have a talented artist draw the appearance of the Outer Zone Evil Demon, urging descendants to flee upon encountering this monster... In his youth, Li Huaihai had seen this painting many times, thinking back now, it clearly resembled the evil god Grand Elder on the clouds!

This startling discovery made Li Huaihai tremble uncontrollably, even he couldn’t discern if he was shocked by the Outer Zone Evil Demon becoming an evil god Grand Elder, or feared encountering the demon strong enough to kill Martial Might God back then, or excited at having the opportunity to avenge his ancestor...

Li Huaihai wasn’t mistaken, the person in his ancestor’s painting indeed was Shen Mo.

In the last Catastrophe of Godfall, Shen Mo had used the divine power obtained through the sacrificial self-offering of the Qing army commander to open the God Realm and killed Martial Might God.

Later, he left the God Realm with Chen Mengze without finding that commander’s body, speculating he might have been saved or perhaps died in some nook during escape, having lost all divine power, Shen Mo didn’t dwell on it!

Shen Mo was oblivious at that moment that the commander of the Qing Country army besieging Swallow Village was a descendant of a ”familiar soul”, but even if he knew, he wouldn’t care.

Seeing bows and crossbows’ arrows unable to harm the evil god Grand Elder, Li Huaihai shouted an order, soon, over thirty God Path experts possessing flight capabilities, either growing wings, controlling air currents, or transforming into flame clouds, carrying divine gift weapons, leapt into the sky to strike!

”Overestimating oneself.”

Shen Mo murmured, infusing divine power to activate the divine runes on his sword, then swung out a direct slash.

The next instant, those thirty plus God Path experts, at least of elite disciple level, fell severed like cut by an invisible blade, scattered chunks and blood spraying as they plummeted downwards.

”Evil demon... bring me my bow!”

Li Huaihai was momentarily stunned, but soon gathered himself, harshly ordering his bodyguards.

In a moment, an Iron Embryo Bow was carried up by two bodyguards, its body adorned with intricate and magnificent patterns, engraved with a Layer IV Divine Rune and several Layer III Divine Runes.

Evidently, it was of the same grade as the Wind Listening Pearl passed down in the Long Eared God’s realm, and nowadays, a divine artifact engraved with Layer IV Divine Runes was no longer rare in Swallow Village, had it not been for its extraordinary significance, Shen Mo would’ve long given the pearl to Chen Mengze or Jiang Yingying.

Li Huaihai bent the bow and nodded the arrow, infusing threads of divine power, then sharply released the Ironwood Trigger Finger.