Lord of the Earth

Similar scenes are playing out repeatedly throughout the dry summer region!

The territory of Qianxia is too vast, and not every area is covered by the "Great Wall of Humanity". In particular, some areas that originally belonged to "vassal states" are outside the "Great Wall"!
To avoid conflict.

Previously, the Central Army Corps had not directly entered these towns.

However, in this all-out war, these nations, relying solely on their own strength, would find it difficult to withstand the full-scale invasion of the Sakura Kingdom... Naturally, Qianxia's rescue forces no longer adhered to the previous regulations, but instead used the "Skynet, Humanity's Salvation Ship" to precisely locate these areas for "rescue"!
Although doing so inevitably has the suspicion of "profiting from someone's misfortune"!

"It's Qianxia! It's Qianxia's people! Thank God, the leaders of Qianxia have come to our rescue!"

However, for these villagers, this was undoubtedly a savior who had fallen from the sky.

In particular, the Qianxia were too well prepared. Once the Qianxia war machine was set in motion, its response would be comprehensive and multi-layered!
"Quickly, help! Medics! There's a wounded person here, they've lost too much blood!"

"This land has been tainted by blood and curses! Quickly! Summon the soldiers of the Yin-Yang School to purify it!"

"Members of the Mohist school, reinforce the houses that haven't collapsed yet, and settle the elderly and children inside first..."

After dealing with this wave of "Asura Army," Da Niu turned his gaze to the wounded but still fighting villagers, his voice urgent...

The medical masters and ordinary apprentices belonging to the "Heavenly Physician Hall" ventured deep into the war zone under the protection of elite squads to save lives and heal the wounded; Taoist Yin-Yang sorcerers used purification techniques to dispel filth and soothe the earth's veins; Mohist craftsmen operated various engineering mechanical beasts, working day and night to repair fortifications and build temporary dwellings.

Legalist officers and clerks quickly moved into these villages and towns, posting notices to reassure the people, explaining the laws and principles of the Qianxia era, identifying potential spies, and rapidly bringing order back from chaos...

It was obvious that Qian Xia had already practiced this kind of battle.

So much so that countermeasures were taken the moment the battle broke out!

Of course, the Sakura Kingdom, as a "pseudo-true god" that has spent thousands of years building its power, naturally has its own hidden methods and resources!

In fact, after the war had fully begun.

Among the Sakura Kingdom's allied forces, besides the fierce but essentially human samurai, ninjas, and ronin, there also appeared some strange, grotesque, eerie, or bizarre non-human figures!

On the front lines of the battlefield, amidst the billowing smoke, scraps of paper suddenly fluttered in the air.

Countless pale white or scarlet paper cutouts emerged menacingly from the void. They were as thin as cicada wings, yet their edges were as sharp as knives. They swept past in groups, easily cutting through iron like mud.

Even more looming were enormous shadows, colossal monsters stitched together from the limbs of countless wild beasts and vengeful spirits, their bodies shrouded in ominous black mist, their roars piercing the very soul and shaking the hearts of ordinary warriors.

This is the weapon of war—the "Shikigami"—that the Onmyoji of the Sakura Kingdom have painstakingly crafted.

They are not living beings of flesh and blood, but twisted beings formed by the fusion of beliefs, souls and strange magic. Ordinary attacks can only temporarily slow them down, and they can re-condense in the blink of an eye as black mist rises!

"These shikigami are essentially collections of beliefs similar to 'pseudo-gods,' unpredictable in their true nature, with resentment at their core, making them difficult to completely destroy by conventional means... Our traditional war machine beasts are quite inefficient at dealing with them, often leaving us on the defensive."

The "mechanical engineer" observing from the front lines reported solemnly through a communication device.

Above the heavens, Qianxia's bronze giant eagle and black iron war mastiff once attempted to charge into the fray.

The giant eagle swooped down, its sharp talons tearing apart a canine-like god, but the dissipating black smoke instantly coiled around it, corroding the mechanical runes; the war mastiff roared, smashing a giant clay golem to pieces, but the fragments transformed into countless worm-like incantations, attempting to burrow into the joint gaps.

The shikigami's various bizarre characteristics—split, possession, curses, intangibility—even Qianxia, ​​known as a "mechanical beast," encountered them.

“It’s alright, I, Qianxia, ​​have plenty of methods… It’s time to test the newly developed war weapons from the ‘Mechanical Hall’.”

In the spiritual realm, Huang Yueying's voice was steady, carrying a hint of anticipation.

When Qianxia's "Mechanical Hall" developed a new "angel"-shaped war weapon by dismantling the body of the "ten-winged angel" obtained from the "Holy Light Sect"...

These are "shikigami".

They were immediately met with a devastating blow!

Because the foundation forged by the latter through various mottled forms of "faith power" became a sitting duck in the face of this special weapon of war capable of generating "purifying light"...

The shift in the balance of power also manifests in the higher-level dimension of divine warfare.

The "reverse takeover" in the summer has taken effect...

The "Black Gold Mask" seemed to be infused with life, emitting a series of mournful yet liberating whimpers. It was a torrent of power forcibly extracted through the "Emperor's Silk" mother thread, mixed with the mottled wishes of billions of people in the Sakura Kingdom, their squeezed pain and resentment, and their distorted faith in the "Emperor".

It devours, tears apart, purifies, and transforms frantically!
Immediately following, a pure and vast golden torrent, imbued with both faith and incomplete information about laws, began to traverse the endless void along some mysterious trajectory of cause and effect and fortune, continuously flowing into Xia Tian's body.

"The power of the true self!"

The Emperor roared angrily.

"Damn it, all the gods of the Highland Heaven must obey my command and manifest their avatars to meet the enemy!"

Sensing the battle situation, the Emperor once again wielded the Yata no Kagami, one of the three sacred treasures, illuminating the portal projection of the "Highland Sky"!

Above many battlefields, accompanied by a strange sacrificial incantation, phantom images of "Takamagahara" gates, constructed of bones and resentment, appeared!
These portals are not physical entities, but rather more like projection channels that cross dimensions.

Immediately, powerful figures emerged from these illusory portals, some ethereal, some radiating demonic energy, and some with dim divine light yet still exuding an imposing aura, descending upon the mortal battlefield. Each descendant emanated at least the divine level, with the most powerful even comparable to supreme deities!
"It's a god, he has descended!"

A priest from the Cherry Blossom Kingdom shouted excitedly.

"My Lord God! Slaughter all those Qianxia people! Open the gates of victory for us!"

These are the remnants of the "eight million" gods of the Sakura Kingdom that have survived to this day or can be summoned and projected.

Although these "eight million" gods are just a kind of "praise", most of them are probably just "spirits", "demons" or "earth deities" with some special abilities and whose essence may only be at the level of the extraordinary or saint!
However, it cannot be denied that there are also powerful, god-like beings who have left a strong mark on historical legends!

Now, they have been forcibly "manifested" or "summoned" by the "Emperor" at the cost of national fortune and faith, and added to the front lines of the battlefield through evil rituals.

The addition of these inhuman forces greatly enhanced the diversity and lethality of the Sakura Kingdom's allied forces at the high-end combat level, and to some extent offset their disadvantage compared to Qianxia in terms of "top-tier experts" due to the dispersion of their national strength...

"Gods? Even if gods were to participate in the war, it would make no difference!"

Faced with such a complex and massive war situation, the Qianxia Military Affairs Bureau did not panic, but remained calm and composed!

On the "Commanding Platform," the three-dimensional strategic map in front of Bai Qi, composed of countless points of light, lines, and blocks of color, was flowing and changing at an unprecedented speed, as if it had condensed the atmosphere of war of the entire Eternal Land into this map.

Every flicker of light, every expansion and contraction of a color block, represents the movement of a legion on the entire battlefield, the gain or loss of a pass, and a swift confrontation!

His voice rang out calmly and steadily through the "Skynet" to every soldier, yet it carried a weight that could determine the fate of hundreds of millions of lives!
"Issue the order: Zhao Yun, leading the main force of the Azure Dragon Legion, will abandon the engagement at node 'Jia San' and instead use the 'Dragon Soaring' formation to penetrate towards node 'Wu Qi'. That area belongs to the enemy forces of 'Imagawa' and 'Hojo,' and its defenses are relatively weak... I want to break through it within seven days!"

"Order Zhou Yu to lead the Vermilion Bird Legion's navy and the 'Li Huo' army to launch the 'Heavenly Fire Burns the Sea' attack on the 'Xin Twelve' node and the 'Gui Nu Chuan' estuary. After destroying its anchored ships and supply depots, do not linger in battle. Immediately turn around and cooperate with the Azure Dragon Legion to provide fire cover for the 'Wu Seven' node's flank!"

"Order Lu Zhishen to lead the 'Vajra' chariot battalion and the 'Subduing Demons' monk army affiliated with Wutai Mountain to advance to the 'Gengwu' area and establish an advance fortress. Your objective is to hold the fort there, attract and withstand the fierce attacks of the 'Honganji' Ikko-shu monks and the 'Saiga' arquebusiers, and assist the White Tiger Legion in its annihilation operation in the 'Sword Bone Wasteland'."

Each order, transmitted precisely through the "Sky Net" that permeates the entire Qianxia Qiyun and even its affiliated forces, reaches the core command headquarters of every legion commander, and is then transformed into specific tactical actions that unfold on the vast battlefield.

On the "Vermilion Bird Sea" in the south, the vast blue waves have been transformed into a death cage intertwined with raging flames and thunderstorms.

Zhou Yu, who had already ascended to the level of "Supreme Deity", sat leisurely on the bridge of the flagship "Vermilion Bird" in a colorful robe.

The ancient zither "Jiaowei" in front of him was not activated by anyone. His fingertips did not touch the strings, but as long as his divine thought reached, the clear and exciting zither music would rise out of thin air and resonate with the spiritual energy core of all the warships and flying boats of the Vermilion Bird Legion within a thousand miles!

Boo!
The music of the zither drew upon the essence of the Nine Heavens' Fire, transforming it into countless illusory phantoms of flames and Vermilion Birds.

The shrieking Atake fleet, along with the sea monsters that controlled the wind and waves, and the shikigami projections known as "Tsukumogami," rushed towards the land of cherry blossoms.

The flames ignite upon contact with the object and remain unextinguished by water, instantly turning a large area of ​​the sea into a boiling inferno.

The enemy ships' sails and oars were burned, and their screams of agony shook the heavens!
Meanwhile, on the northern Frosty Plains, the two largest land forces of the two civilizations were directly clashing.

On the front lines, Qianxia repeatedly clashed and fought against the diverse military flags and armor of the Sakura Kingdom with his steel square formations composed of mechanical beasts. "Lin Chong" led 800,000 heavily armored cavalry of the "Leopard Army," charging forward like a storm cloud suppressing thunder!

The formidable reputation of "Instructor of 800,000 Imperial Guards" has now transformed into the purest destructive force.

Lin Chong took the lead, his eighteen-foot-long spear transforming into a streak of black lightning.

Wherever it passed, the hastily organized gun formations of the Sakura Kingdom were torn apart like rotten wood, and men and horses were all killed... In one charge, a full 100,000 Sakura Kingdom soldiers were slaughtered by the Serpent Spear!

Meanwhile, in the skies above the battlefield, the "Yulin" troops under Hanae, who had shot down the famous archer "Nasu Yoichi" in the history of the Sakura Kingdom with a single arrow, were patrolling!
Howling!
One after another, the "Descendants of the Heavenly Horses," exuding an aura of holiness, supported the "Imperial Guards," whose eyes were sharp as lightning and whose divine senses swept across the battlefield like invisible radar.

Every slight lift of the hand, every almost imperceptible tremor of the bowstring, signified the release of a deadly arrow. The messengers waving command flags, the samurai leaders leading the charge, the onmyoji chanting spells in the enemy army... all fell as if they had been called by name in the "Book of Life and Death"!

The majestic mountains of the western frontier, the humid and dense forests of the southern border, the bitterly cold icy plains of the north, Longyuan City, the Mechanical City...

In the vast territory of Qianxia and its surrounding areas, which stretches for tens of millions of miles, war is raging everywhere, and lives are being lost every moment!
At this moment, the ten main legions of Qianxia, ​​along with the local garrison troops belonging to various prefectures and counties, the reinforcements from various cultivation sects that responded to the call, and the spontaneously organized civilian militia, were all present.

The number of human soldiers directly mobilized and deployed to the battlefield alone has exceeded "trillions"!
This is by no means a simple mass of people; rather, it is a highly organized and deeply cultivated super war behemoth roaring and operating at full power.

From the most basic level, composed of some militia members at the Transcendent level, who can draw upon the spirit of the army and fight against extraordinary enemies, to regular troops with extraordinary strongmen as the backbone and demigod-level experts as the blades!

Then there are the "elite armies" commanded by supreme deities like Bai Qi, Zhou Yu, and Xin Qiji, capable of directly inducing and controlling the entire legion's power to clash at the level of laws...

It is clearly structured, yet seamlessly integrated through the "Skynet" network and a rigorous command system.

They began to ruthlessly crush the "Eight-Nation Alliance" of the Sakura Kingdom, which appeared fierce but was actually loosely organized and heavily reliant on the personal bravery of its generals and the assistance of demons and ghosts!
Under the efficient command of the entire "Military Affairs Bureau" of Qianxia, ​​coupled with the auxiliary coordination of the "Skynet" intelligence system covering the entire region and the "Spirit Realm" simulation and deduction system, Qianxia's terrifying war potential, which had not yet been demonstrated in its "civil war" with the human race, was revealed. Like a primordial giant god fully awakening from an ancient slumber, it slowly opened its eyes that had previously looked down upon all living beings!

Every moment, countless humans, even human gods, perished... The blood of war soaked the soil within a radius of billions of square kilometers, and even converged into long rivers of blood-red fortune faintly visible in the void, representing the intensity of this battle, which even surpassed every external expansion of the Qianxia Dynasty in the past...

The "Tianyuan" national fortune of the Qianxia dynasty did not weaken during the near-brutal war; instead, it became more solid and vibrant!
Conversely, the diverse flags of the various dynasties in the Sakura Kingdom, representing different eras and families, were constantly crumbling and torn apart under the relentless crushing force of Qianxia, ​​a behemoth that embodied the will of the entire Qianxia people, the essence of Chinese civilization, and the ruthless art of war.

At the same time, the fate of the Qianxia dynasty began to change at a visible speed.

Not only has the quantity increased dramatically, but a mysterious leap and transformation has also taken place in terms of quality!

The sea of ​​clouds was expanding rapidly, and within it, faint phantom images of "dragons and phoenixes singing in harmony, and celestial palaces and pavilions" were emerging, seemingly about to break through some invisible boundary.

The signs of ascending to the supreme "Celestial Dynasty" are becoming increasingly clear, like the unstoppable dawn breaking in the darkest hour before sunrise! (End of Chapter)