South VS East! (1)

"Come here." A gigantic beast, between four meters in height and seven meters length from its horn to tail, chased a group of escaping residents that running for their life.

"Run! Leave this place when you can!" a cultivator in his peak cultivation tried his best to delay this outcome. In his hand is a piece of Beautifully engraved Sapphire Plate that allows long-range communication.

"Saint Tian Yuan, please leave us and run!" one of the residents replied to the cultivator as he turned around with a weapon in hand.

"Yes! Please leave all of us! You're the hope of the Marquis Tian's successor!" more residents turned around to fight. In their hand, weapons comparable to Immortal Earth Grade and Immortal Heaven Grade is seen.

"Puny Ants! Devouring Domain!" an independent domain encompasses the entire area. Those residents with a small portion of fighting strength are all digested from cultivation strength, flesh, bones, spirits, and soul.

Nothing remained after refined by the Devourer Domain. The incident happened right before the Saint Tian Yuan as if the Millenial Beast is sparing him on purpose.

"Tao Demon! Even in my reincarnation, I will make sure to slaughter you and your offsprings! I made my promise to heaven!" Tian Yuan made his oath and attacked.

"Younger brother Yuan, don't be rash! Wait for us!" a voice came from the Sapphire Plate, but the owner completely lost his mind. With a mind clouded with anger, Saint Tian Yuan attacked the Tao Demon.

"Get lost! I have no time to be bothered with a crybaby." the Tao Demon send an attack to the saint and throw him away a thousand kilometers away.

"Devouring Domain!" another hundred kilometers wide domain activated and refined everything until nothing left except a barren ground. After the first wide area Devouring Domain ended, the Tao Demon started to cultivate.

"Qi Branching Tier..."

"Qi Refining Tier..."

"That's everything I get?" the Tao Demon wakes up after finish refining the energy he devoured. With its strength above the limit of Qi Branching Tier, the Tao Demon took a step to another location.

"An hour later, the helpers reach this location. Looking at the piece of land void of life, the group of a hundred Saints sighed.

"The Tao Demon refined the entire Hou Yuan Continent. We have to chase the Millenial Beast before he destroys the fifteen continents of Tian Sea." the leader of this group of hundred saints said.

"Uncle Peng..." a weakened Inner Qi Saint returned to the group with an injury all over his body.

"Tian Yuan, you're too rash earlier." the leader said.

"He's not." a voice came from afar and surprised everyone in that group of a hundred saints.

"Tao Demon is here! Tian Yuan, you're a traitor!" the leader shouts at the younger saint not far from him. But that shout obtained no reply in return. A black entity crawled out from Tian Yuan's body and revealed itself to be a smaller self of the Tao Demon.

"Hehehe... Foolish human." the smaller self melted into a puddle of black ink and spreads across the continent. In an instant, darkness covered the entire Hou Yuan Continent and plants of gluttony started to appear.

"Tao Demon is here!" the leader of the saints pointed their weapon at the direction darkness come. Unfortunately, they're swallowed by darkness before they made a move.

"Devouring Domain." the power of wickedness refined them until not a bone left. By ignoring the pledge and beg, the Tao Demon turns them into a part of his strength.

Even the Immortal Earth and Heaven rank weapon are no exception in front of the hunger. In the first day, Hou Yuan Continent was devoured. One hundred and eight Inner Qi Saints were refined. Only fourteen continents remained in the Tian Sea.

At the end of the first week, Cluster of continents inside Tian Sea no longer exist. Through an unknown ability, the Tao Demon traveled to Cai Sea, where twenty-two continents and six Dynasty resides.

On the second week, Cai Sea vanished from the map. Six dynasties and five hundred fifteen Inner Qi Saint faded like a forgotten memory. When the appearance of Tao Demon completes its first month, Six Sea is devoured, close to ten thousand of Inner Qi Saints becomes his fertilizer, dynasties crumbles, humanity slaughtered.

"Heaven, are you sure you're not coming to greet me?" Tao Demon pointed at the sky above it and bellowed.

"Bam! Bam!" lighting begin to strikes the location surrounding the Tao Demon and using the Heaven's Might to warn it.

"ROAR!" the Tao Demon went up to the skies where the Heaven's Might is giving out warning.

"Devouring Domain!" even cloud and lightning failed to escape their demise. With the Heaven's Might is refined, Tao Demon grows stronger.

Forced to act, the Heaven no longer contains their wrath. A realm is opened not far from the Tao Demon and soldiers in weapon and armor exceeds what one can found in this realm.

"Hahaha, Heaven Soldier is here! Devouring Domain!" Tao Demon was so happy with the food served to his mouth. It's domain spreads across a hundred kilometers wide, but it was for naught.

"Heaven's Arrow!" an arrow is nocked on the string where the soldier pulled and aim at the Tao Demon. When this arrow was fired, a spatial crack appeared, the sun burns, the moon purifies, and the Heaven acts!

One arrow is all the Heaven needs to slaughter this disastrous tumor that destroying the Lowest Realm and its life.

"YUAN! YUAN QI!" although the Tao Demon entered the Qi Refining Tier, it was nothing but literally peeking on the realm of Yuan Qi.

"Tao Demon. You should be proud of yourself. No living beings ever in this Lowest Realm worth receiving the second shot made by the Heaven Arrow." the soldier speaks.

In fact, he was nothing but a mere cultivator in his 1st Stage of Yuan Qi Fighter. But this mere fact alone made him the strongest cultivator this entire Lowest Realm ever seen.

"ZUP!" the Tao Demon is purified. With not even a single drop of its life essence left. Under the force of spatial, sun, moon, and heaven, Tao Demon fate is destroyed to not even a speck of memory left.

And with its death, the Lowest Realm is now safe from any continent disaster again.

"This soldier wished to report that the Tao Demon is purified." the soldier kneeled in the middle of the sky and reported to the portal to the other realm.

"En." the reply is simple.

Soldiers returned, the portal closed. The Lowest Realm once again returned to its dormant stage, where humanity survives in fear.

But on the first day of the New Year, miracles appeared.

Heaven has opened its eyes to bring fortune to humanity. The darkness in the skies brought prosperity to the Lowest Realm, supplying them with treasures, resources, and inheritance.

As for the Six Seas devoured by the Tao Demon, more fortune came to them. A total of eighteen seas formed from the six, with clusters of close to a thousand of variously sized continents floating in its respective area.

Here, humanity proper once more, within the lowest Realm.

But least that they know, a seed formed from the Tao Demon managed to survive the slaughter.

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"What is happening?" the people affected by the sudden Natural Energy Deficiency met with disturbance and stopped cultivating. Luckily, the incident only happened for three seconds before the suction force vanished.

"It's comfortable." Zhang Wu Ji smiled and opened his eyes. It was only a short moment of meditation, but the Warrior Qi within his body increases by thirty strands.

But outside of his Private Residence is a great disturbance. The land itself suffers from the lack of Natural Energy. Restaurants with foods rich in Inner Qi turned into a rotten waste in that three seconds.

Luckily, the Energy Gathering Plate assembled around the Second Heaven Mountain maintains their durability and continuously gathering Natural Energy to recovers the land once more.

Although it was a sudden situation, it lasts only for three short seconds. Without any further damages, the worries on this matter are put aside for other important affairs.

Like this, the life of everyone continues until Zhang Wu Ji received a summon to the Second Heaven. As it was important, Zhang Wu Ji went to the Second Heaven's building immediately.

"Disciple Zhang Wu Ji report to the summon from Second Heaven." Zhang Wu Ji bowed before the Second Mountain Elder and the others.

"Zhang Wu Ji, as the head disciple of the Second Heaven Mountain, are you willing to take part in the Southern Imperial Kingdom's war?" the Second Mountain Elder asked.

Although to register and be a part of the Imperial Military Troops is an honor, the risk of a cultivator to die in the battlefield increased to at least a hundred times more dangerous.

And in the War between Imperial Kingdoms, The Natural Law does not apply too strictly in the battlefield. As long the strength of the soldier is between 10th Stage Half-Step Inner Qi Warrior to 50th Stage Half-Step Inner Qi Elder, they're all recruitable into the Imperial Military Troops.

And within this battlefield of 10th stage to 50th stage, Slaughter is allowed! As long there's no Inner Qi Elder is within the battlefield, they're allowed to slaughter all participants on the battlefield!

"Serving the Imperial Kingdom is an honor. Zhang Wu Ji willing to be a member of the Imperial Military Troops!" Zhang Wu Ji replied with excitement can be seen on his face.

"Good. The carriage of Southern Imperial Military Troops will come to take the participants two hours later. You can go back and prepare for the incoming battle."

"Although it wasn't auspicious to say this, you should leave a will or word to people you care about before participating in the Imperial War. The surviving chances are marked at the nine death one return ratio, and of course, we hope that you'll become the one that returns."

"Go and make everyone proud. Your Zhang Family, The Seven Heaven Sect, and the Southern Imperial Kingdom." the Second Mountain Elder added before he waved his hand to indicates that Zhang Wu Ji may leave.

Without an additional thing to talk about, Zhang Wu Ji left.

He returned to the Private Residence immediately to hand his attendants some pills, making a simple copy of Vein Listener Art to Liu Xin Xin and leave a letter to Master Jiang Lei if anything ill happened to him.

And after waiting for three hours, a gigantic ship about twenty to thirty times bigger than their Silver Wolf Tender appeared. On the bottom of the Ark, a logo is drawn there with two words.

[Southern Yang]

"I am recruited into the army of General Yang!" Zhang Wu Ji smiled. What is prouder to be a soldier of the Southern Imperial Kingdom?

TO BE THE SOLDIER OF SOUTHERN GENERAL, OF COURSE!

"Everyone!" a shout came from a soldier on top of the ship.

"Today! We go to war!"

"Today! You're recruited into the Yang's Army!"

"Today! We fight for the Southern Imperial Kingdom!"

"But, Today!"

"All of you will be the proud soldiers of the YANG FAMILY!"

"ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!"

Shouts came from below as all the recruited disciples from first to the seventh mountain flew upwards to board the ship. The moment everyone boarded the ship, it flew toward the east.

"We're going to the east! We're going to the east!"

"I'm sure our opponent in this war is going to be people from the Eastern Imperial Kingdom!"

"Eastern Imperial Kingdom! The strongest Military Force in the whole Ping An Continent!"

"If General Yang is participating in the Eastern War, I'm sure we're going to meet with another General of the East!

"Who is that?"

"Do all of you need to ask?"

"Hahaha! Everyone!"

"Mighty Beast of the East!"

"Zhang Tian Lei!"

"Zhang Tian Lei? Who is that?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned himself, unknown that this person is his long uncontacted uncle from the same Zhang Lineage.

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[Author's Note]

Oops. I think my story become unexpected. If his uncle knows that his little nephew is inside this fight against their ancestor side, will he get a big slap?