I am your natural enemy.

Chapter 560: Red Book and Iron Certificate, Two-sided Explosion (5k)

Wen Yan felt that he was somewhat of a marginal obsessive. As he was soaking under the sea like a corpse, being carried forward by the gray cloth, he was thinking that he could more or less understand why the things from the wilderness wanted to escape to the human world.

But why do these guys in this world do this?
If you are an ambitious person, there is really no realistic chance of doing these things in China. It would be better for you to go somewhere else. For example, a certain Robin may not even qualify to be on the news even if dozens of people die.

If you feel that it's too chaotic over there, too much of a social jungle, and the competition among professionals and outsiders is a bit fierce, then it's not impossible to go to a more backward place.

Like before, the people from the Nanyang Alliance only operated well and took root there, and only when they really needed to expand did they quietly send people to Shenzhou to test the waters.

Unfortunately, the result of testing the waters was being suppressed to death.

So, why did these people dare to reach out to Suicune? What was the reason that made them do this?
Otherwise, Wen Yan really couldn't understand why disturbing Shui Jun would be basically equivalent to cutting off one's own retreat.

Even if Suicune goes berserk and starts fighting with the Fiery Sun Tribe, it can be guaranteed that the person that both sides want to kill first is the one who caused the trouble.

Wen Yan could imagine how high the authority of the Lieyang Tribe was in this matter.

Even if aliens attacked a county town, it probably wouldn't have such a high priority.

If ghosts want to illegally build a city or establish their own regime, it is not the turn of the military to pull out the well-maintained cannons.

Wen Yan couldn’t figure it out, and in fact, many people couldn’t figure it out either.

In a meeting room of the Lieyang Tribe of Nanwu County, Cai Heizi sat alone, looking at the large screen in front of him. The screens on both sides were constantly refreshing with new information.

The Lieyang Tribe has already maximized its own advantages. The integration and coverage of information can provide perfect support within Shenzhou.

Personnel scheduling and arranging suitable candidates can all be prioritized immediately based on previous data, ensuring that there is sufficient capacity to respond while also ensuring redundancy so that manpower will not be wasted.

There are new cases in China every day, and there are especially many today. To deal with such a large number of incidents, the most troublesome thing is personnel dispatch and communication.

With such a large scope, plus so many events and people, being able to achieve an eight-point effect with ten points of strength is already an extremely amazing thing.

Many times, when dealing with some events, we actually always respond in a saturation manner. If we can achieve 50% of the effect out of 100% of our strength, it can be considered a great success.

However, when there is less manpower and fewer people, we must demand to improve efficiency as much as possible, so that everyone can give full play to their abilities and cooperate well with each other.

As the number of people increases, the difficulty will also begin to increase exponentially.

Just like on a highway, there may be just a melon rind in the front, which causes the driver who was squeezed in to lightly step on the brakes, which may cause a big traffic jam at the back of the road.

If the efficiency of one node in this system becomes low, it will begin to lower the efficiency of everyone downstream.

It is too unrealistic to expect that everyone can be a paladin. It is already a blessing that there is not such a makeshift team.

This time, it was also the first time that the director gave the black box enough computing power and allowed the black box to participate in the processing of information from multiple aspects in such a large task.

At this moment, Cai Heizi was sitting behind the table, with his arms resting on the table and his hands crossed in front of his mouth. He did not move, watching a large amount of information flash by quietly.

On a real-time map, all parts of Shenzhou are lit up, and some places around Shenzhou and even on the island country are also lit up.

Cai Heizi watched coldly and gave orders in a deep voice. Most of the light spots on the map suddenly disappeared. These were confirmed to be isolated incidents.

As for the others, even if they are isolated incidents, as long as the troublemakers started doing so because of some rumors or information, they will be counted as the remaining events.

The timeline of each case is listed one by one in chronological order.

Cai Heizi looked at the data quietly. After a while, he saw a light spot flashing at the lower part of the map.

That was the director-general who specifically instructed Black Box to tell Cai Qidong where Wen Yan was currently.

When Cai Heizi saw that Wen Yan had reached the estuary, he picked up the phone beside him and made a call.

"The cultivators have reached the estuary."

After the call was made, the director of headquarters also received a prompt on the other side, but there was no text or sound. It was the signal he had agreed with the black box in advance.

After seeing this, the director general let everything continue. He turned and left the command hall and went back to the office.

After he entered, he closed the door casually, and the door stopped just enough to leave a gap.

He picked up the landline on the table and made a call.

"Hey, let Tuoba Wushen go to Decheng. If necessary, bring him with a safety rope and ask him to go to the next intersection."

After saying this, the director hung up the phone, reopened the door and left the office.

There are still people rushing around in the corridor. Some things, whether handled by phone or documents, are not as efficient as face-to-face communication.

The director returned to the command hall and continued to stand there, occasionally giving instructions. Most of the time, he followed the established plan.

A few minutes later, the director saw the prompt from the black box again. He silently calculated the time: three minutes.

At the same time, a fishing boat in the East China Sea began to collect its nets. They pulled up a large net bag full of various seafood. When the crew on the deck began to sort them, the ship turned around and headed towards its designated target.

Three hours later, the fishing boat's trawl seemed to have caught something. When it was pulled up, it turned out to be a stone coffin only one meter high.

Far from being surprised, the crew on the ship seemed relieved.

Their boat had towed here several times and finally caught the target.

They lowered the sarcophagus from the fishing net and placed it on the deck. Someone took a water pipe and rinsed the sarcophagus clean. Four people immediately came up, stood in four directions, cut their hands, and pressed them on the four sides of the sarcophagus.

A man with a weather-beaten face walked out of the cabin with a box in his hand. He came to the sarcophagus, opened the box, and took out a thick iron sheet covered with rust.

He placed the red-lettered iron certificate on the sarcophagus, cut his palm, pressed it on the lid of the sarcophagus, and let the blood seep into the sarcophagus.

“Now that the Emperor Ming is not here, this is the only way for you to break the seal. I have put a lot of thought into bringing you here from the South China Sea.

This is the red-lettered iron certificate issued by the Emperor Minghuang in those days. It can pardon anyone except for the crime of treason.

In the past, this item was a death warrant, but now, it is the embodiment of Emperor Ming’s oath.

It is clearly written on this item that it can pardon its owner and his children once.

You just need to acknowledge the identity of the owner of this item as his own biological child, and you will be pardoned if you hold this item.

All the people in the past have been lost in the years, so you don’t have to worry about a father popping up.”

As the man spoke, the blood oozing from the bodies of several people began to flow along the path on the sarcophagus. The few words that could still be vaguely seen on the rusty red-lettered iron certificate also began to disappear bit by bit.

Hundreds of years ago, the red book and iron certificate were indeed useless. The final right of interpretation lay in the hands of the emperor, and when it was time to kill your entire family, they would still be killed.

But when the dynasty was gone, the oath on the red book and iron certificate was completely fixed and became the top priority. Unless the issuer himself was present, there was no higher authority.

The things that were sealed in the sarcophagus at that time later went into the sea with the treasure ship. On a dark night without stars or moon, they capsized along with a small boat in the deep sea where no one could accurately locate them at that time.

But no one expected that many years later, with the rapid development of science and technology, the sarcophagus was finally found on the bottom of the South China Sea after being searched for for a long time.

To salvage this not-so-big sarcophagus, as long as its location is determined, the rest is actually not a very difficult task.

After being salvaged, the sarcophagus never left the sea. It was dragged to the East China Sea and thrown at a designated location. It was not opened until today.

When all the faintly visible words on the red-lettered iron certificate disappeared, a crack finally appeared on the tightly sealed sarcophagus.

The lid of the sarcophagus was bounced up, and the moment it flew up, it seemed to have experienced long-term weathering. It shrank rapidly and turned into dust, which was blown away by the wind into the sea.

From the sarcophagus, a snake-shaped skeleton moved and floated out.

There was a three-inch long crack on the skull of the skeleton, as if it had been pierced directly by some sharp weapon.

After the snake-shaped skeleton flew out, blood gathered in the sarcophagus. The four people who were holding their hands against the sarcophagus all changed their expressions. They opened their mouths wide, wanting to say something, but they were no longer able to speak. Soon, the four people turned into mummies, and the moment they fell to the ground, they broke into pieces.

The snake-shaped skeleton was thrown back into the sarcophagus. As the blood in the sarcophagus boiled, a dark red snake slowly flew out from the blood. Two small wings on its body slowly spread out, and it floated in the air with the red snake.

The red snakes coiled into a formation, floating in the air, overlooking the weather-beaten face of the man, speaking in human language.

"Emperor Ming is dead? How long has it been? How long did his family rule last?"

"Almost seven hundred years have passed, and Wu Ming lasted for two hundred and seventy-six years."

Hearing this, the red snake laughed.

“The Emperor Ming would not hesitate to cut off his own dragon vein in order to suppress me, destroy the spiritual power of the world, and truly usher in the end of the law.

In the end, he was able to hold on for nearly three hundred years. I’m afraid his descendants will not have a good ending.”

"It's hard to explain in a few words, but... there are so many talented people here." The man with a weather-beaten face recalled the past but was too embarrassed to say it too bluntly.

"Tell me, rescue me, what do you want me to do? According to the agreement, I can fulfill one of your wishes, as long as I can do it."

"Open the door."

"Ok?"

"The door leading to the immortal tree in the wilderness."

"Hey..." Hearing this, Red Snake laughed out loud: "I said, it has to be something I can do. I really can't do this."

"Then the nearest location must be the easiest way to reach the Immortal Tree."

"Think carefully. You only have one chance, and this door can't last long."

"I've thought about it. This is it." The man said without any hesitation.

"Okay, from now on, we won't owe each other anything." The red snake responded and flew into the air. Half of the flesh and blood of its newly condensed body instantly exploded into bloody mist, revealing the white bones underneath.

The blood mist gathered and fell into the sea.

A whirlpool began to form above the sea surface, and many fish in the sea were sucked into the whirlpool. The whirlpool seemed to be carrying steel sand, and after it passed by, only the skeletons of the fish were left, and they fell to the bottom of the sea, with all their flesh and blood being sucked into the whirlpool.

The sea water began to turn blood red, and the blood-red whirlpool grew larger and larger. After a few minutes, it expanded to more than 100 meters in size. A low roar was heard from the whirlpool, and pieces of leaves more than ten meters in size flew out of the whirlpool first.

Then, an extremely dense yin energy gushed out from inside.

At this moment, someone in the cabin raised a net-shooting gun and pulled the trigger without hesitation. A specially made large net unfolded in the air and covered the red snake floating in the air.

The big net passed through the body of the red snake. The red snake looked at the people on the boat and sneered.

"Now that we're even, do you really think I'm not on guard? Can I be taken advantage of again? Do you think I'm that idiot Shanjun?"

The figure of the red snake was like a phantom, gradually disappearing in the air.

The man standing on the boat had no change in expression and didn't seem surprised. He turned his head to look at the whirlpool in the distance, looking at the huge blade floating out of the whirlpool.

Densely packed monsters flew out of the vortex and landed on the huge leaves.

In the whirlpool, there was a giant beast over 100 meters long, shaped like a giant whale, but with an exoskeleton on its body. It was wriggling and struggling to get out.

After the monster appeared, its exoskeleton seemed to be stuck in the center of the vortex and remained there.

The monster fell into the sea, with only a part of its back remaining above the sea surface. Its huge body could no longer survive outside the water. Without the buoyancy of water, its own weight alone was enough to crush it to death.

On the back of the giant beast, a monster with a green face and fangs stood there. The monster looked at the man on the boat from afar, speaking the Shenzhou language with difficulty with a strange accent.

"The promise will be fulfilled. You can get there if you go there."

The man nodded, and there was no joy on his face. He just threw out a scroll and ordered his men to sail away.

At the same time, Wen Yan had already gone upstream along the Xijiang River, remaining invisible and concealing his figure, and quietly returned to Decheng.

When he was about to reach Decheng, the black box sent him a message that there were instruments in the East China Sea that detected an extremely strong energy reaction, but it was not yet clear what it was.

There is no submarine fleet over there, and a large area there is all in the international waters. There is currently no satellite that can capture the situation there clearly, so it may take some time before we can get preliminary image information.

Less than a minute after the black box gave the message, another message came that a large number of monsters began to appear in the underworld.

The Taoist Bu Shi from Qingcheng has entered Lao Zhao's house.

At the same time, the movement on the other side of the cloud sea rift became even louder. Also, a big event broke out on the island country side, and another Hundred Demons Night Parade occurred.

Wen Yan understood as soon as he heard it. This was because several places were taking action at the same time, dispersing Shenzhou's strength, so there would always be a chance for one side to succeed.

Wen Yan quickened his pace, preparing to go down to the underworld first and give those things a surprise.

At the same time, the black box updated the surveillance video of the intersection for him. A blindfolded Taoist with eight arms and eight golden swords in his hands stood on the edge of the underworld. He was like a single man blocking the way for ten thousand. All the monsters that came out of the golden light were hacked to death on the spot.

About ten minutes later, the black box updated the message again, saying that a plane flew over and took photos.

On the sea, there were leaves as big as more than ten meters floating there. On each leaf, there were a lot of monsters standing. And on the sea, there was a huge whirlpool with a huge skeleton stuck in the center. In the center of the whirlpool, a large number of monsters kept emerging.

After those monsters appeared, they all stood on the giant leaves and spread out in all directions.

The thick yin energy caused a large number of dead marine creatures to appear on the sea surface.

Wen Yan, wearing a fisherman's hat, went ashore and walked along the sidewalk to the intersection. His figure would not appear in the cameras here, and all traces were erased by the black box.

When he appeared silently at the door of Lao Zhao's house, he thought for a moment and cast a violent sun on himself.

Then, his own Yang energy suddenly burst out. Under the scorching sun, the blazing Yang energy was like a Yang energy storm that suddenly exploded in the city, instantly sweeping in all directions.

This was the first time that Wen Yan, after becoming a cultivator, had used his full strength to unleash this power, transforming it into yang energy and momentum, which spread indiscriminately in all directions.

When he saw the information from the black box, he knew that the person who had been leading the discussion before, saying that he was Tuoba Wushen, some people believed it, but some people obviously didn't believe it at all.

So when everyone's attention and energy were attracted to the big intersection, there was also a big movement thousands of miles away. No one knew what method the other party used to open a temporary intersection.

Now Wen Yan is telling them that they guessed wrong. Wen Yan is not Tuoba Wushen. Tuoba Wushen has also been attracted to the intersection and is about to enter the underworld.

After entering Old Zhao's house, the yang energy that was deliberately stimulated and bloomed in Wen Yan's body began to shrink rapidly under his control. He came to Old Zhao's basement, sat on the stairs, and waited quietly.

As the huge yang energy bloomed in Decheng, the news spread quickly.

In the huge whirlpool of the East China Sea, countless monsters such as ghosts gushed out and scrambled to crawl out one after another.

At the same time, when it was confirmed that Wen Yan was preparing to sneak back to Decheng and the intersection was basically safe for the time being, Zhang Xuewen was picked up. At this moment, he was sitting in a helicopter, flying over the East China Sea.

He made a video call to Wen Yan, his face full of worry.

"Brother Wen, I'll do whatever you say. If there's anything I have to do, I'll call you.

Now we have no choice, there are still forty hours left before the deadline.

And even if that day comes, it will take at least half a day to wait."

"Don't worry, Tuoba Wushen has already arrived in Decheng, just wait there, there are others."

"..."

(End of this chapter)