Two Realms: Don't call me evil!

With the complete annihilation of Zuo Min's army, Dali City could no longer mobilize any effective military forces to deal with the invasion of Guiling Palace.

The failure of Zuo Min, a loyal minister, also plunged the Dali royal family into greater despair.

Inside the imperial palace of Dali City, all the royal family members including Wei Sheng felt as if the sky had fallen. The army that they had assembled with so much difficulty was destroyed in the blink of an eye.

The Dali Dynasty, lacking effective force, could only watch the Guiling Palace capture cities and territories. They could only pin their hopes on various parts of the dynasty. The Guiling Palace's overbearing behavior would provoke fierce resistance from local families and sects.

This was also Zuo Min's plan. He hoped to gather forces from all over the world to overthrow Guiling Palace, his mortal enemy.

Little did they know that the attack of Guiling Palace was not limited to Jingzhou.

Just as Jingzhou was being captured, a part of the Guiling Palace army also arrived in the western part of the Dali Dynasty.

Leading the way were four flying magic boats, and on the ground was a huge army of monks, who rushed all the way to Lanzhou in the west.

Among the four western states, Qizhou, Xunzhou, Lanzhou and Fanzhou, Lanzhou is the strongest.

The strength does not lie in the power of the Dali Dynasty here, but in the presence of the Song family in Lanzhou. The Song family of Lanzhou is one of the three clans and five surnames, and the power of the aristocratic family is extremely prevalent here.

Therefore, facing the advance of the Guiling Palace monks, the Dali Dynasty army here was no different from that of Jingzhou, and it almost collapsed at the first touch.

Instead, the Song family of Lanzhou colluded with a large number of aristocratic families and formed an aristocratic family army to resist the invasion of Guiling Palace.

If it was any other force invading, the Song family of Lanzhou would not react so violently. The change of dynasties is just a change of people on the throne, and their family has experienced this more than once.

But the person who came this time was from Guiling Palace. Everyone knew that Su Jie from Guiling Palace was a bad person and collected all the taxes from their family a thousand years later.

Not only do they want their money, but they also want their people. Look at Qingzhou in the south, how many noble families have become vassals of the tyrannical Guiling Palace, being taken advantage of by the Guiling Palace and living in humiliation. If they evade taxes, the Guiling Palace will exterminate their entire family and confiscate their property. There is simply no way for them to survive.

As for paying taxes, their family didn’t know how long it had been since they last heard the word.

Now suddenly someone says that they have to pay taxes, all kinds of messed up spectacle taxes, value-added tax, surcharges, corporate income tax, personal income tax, and they are slaughtering this wealthy family like pigs.

Therefore, despite the great reputation of Guiling Palace, the aristocratic families were still reluctant to pay taxes. Under the organization of the Song family of Lanzhou, the aristocratic families in the four western states gathered together, selected elite monks and children, joined the resistance team, and set off a huge wave of opposition to the rule of Guiling Palace.

"You asked us to promise not to collect taxes before allowing us, the Guiling Palace, to rule the West. Who do you think you are?"

In the Chiyao Immortal Palace, Taoist Qiu is the commander-in-chief of the western army of Guiling Palace.

Hearing the negotiation request from the noble family envoy standing in front of him, he couldn't help but sneer, as if he had heard a big joke, and said bluntly: "What qualifications do you have to negotiate with us, Guiling Palace? In front of our army, you either pay taxes or be confiscated by us, Guiling Palace. There is no other way."

Upon hearing this, the envoy of the noble family turned pale with anger and shouted, "I advise you to reconsider. Our noble family is not as powerful as the Dali Dynasty. We can pay taxes, but only a little bit. Those messy taxes are simply nonsense. We will never approve of them."

"Go away and go back and wash your neck."

Taoist Qiu was too lazy to waste time talking to the other party. He knew very well the personalities of these noble families.

For these noble families, they will not choose to pay taxes unless the knife is really put to their necks and a river of blood is flown.

Words are the most useless weapons. It just so happens that Guiling Palace has the sharp knife of absolute force, and the knife for slaughtering these fat pigs from the aristocratic families is very sharp.

The envoy from the noble family wanted to say something but was forcibly dragged out by the monks.

"You, Guiling Palace, have ignored our family. You will regret it."

The voices of the aristocratic family envoys came intermittently, but Taoist Qiu no longer cared.

"Forget it, don't let him go back. Since he is not afraid of death, just kill him and let him see the methods of our Guiling Palace."

Taoist Qiu gave an order to the cultivators outside, ignored the frightened shouts of the aristocratic family envoy, and turned to a hall in the Chiyao Immortal Palace.

Here, the centipede is sleeping soundly with the annual ringworm.

Taoist Qiu was naturally familiar with the Thousand-Handed Centipede. He had also witnessed how the Thousand-Handed Centipede grew from a low-grade poisonous insect to the current top-grade Nine-Refined Poisonous Insect step by step. This was also the biggest trump card of his army against the aristocratic families.

When Taoist Qiu told the story of what had just happened, the Thousand-Armed Centipede immediately raised its head.

Zizi!

A moment later, above the Chiyao Immortal Palace, the Thousand-Armed Centipede flew towards the Song family's territory in Lanzhou with its huge body like a winding mountain range.

In the north of Lanzhou, between mountains and clear waters, there is a luxurious building complex, almost like a small city.

This is the Song clan's land, where a large number of Song clan members live, but now it has been occupied by a large number of cultivators from aristocratic families.

Tens of thousands of cultivators from aristocratic families from the four western states gathered here, including a large number of cultivators above the sixth level of the Soul Condensation Realm, as well as a considerable number of cultivators in the Secret Treasury Realm and the Daotai Realm. In addition, there was an old ancestor of the Song family's Purple Mansion who practiced the secret art of the living tomb and was awakened from his slumber.

Just when these monks from aristocratic families were full of confidence and hoped to use their powerful strength to force Guiling Palace to compromise with them, a natural disaster struck.

The raging flames from the nine heavens poured down like a tide, setting large areas of buildings on fire. No matter whether the cultivators from aristocratic families were in spirit formation, secret storage, or Taoist platforms, all those caught in the flames would be burned to ashes.

The monks from the aristocratic families who had managed to survive and were not affected by the flames were still in shock when they saw a giant centipede as big as a mountain and with thousands of pale hands falling from the sky.

"Who is this evildoer who dares to cause trouble in the Song family?"

The Song family's Purple Mansion ancestor went forward to fight back and attacked the Thousand-Armed Centipede.

Yea!

On top of the Thousand-Armed Centipede's head, the annual ringworm squirmed its fleshy body and blew gently at the Song family's Purple Mansion ancestor.

The Song family's Zifu ancestor who practiced the secret art of the living tomb had a short lifespan, otherwise he would not have buried himself underground.

At this time, the annual ringworms used time to reverse, and a horrible scene occurred.

This ancestor of the Song family's Purple Mansion was like a burnt candle. His body had become like a mummy, with the aura of decay all over his body. His life force was almost completely gone, and his strength level continued to decline.

"How can it be."

The Song family's Purple Mansion Patriarch had a look of shock and anger. The annual ringworms were too restrained for an old and immortal being like him. Just a breath of air from him was almost like taking his life. Zizi!

The Thousand-Armed Centipede couldn't speak, so naturally it didn't have the time to answer. After the Annual Ringworm made its move, it simply and roughly rushed forward, opened its bloody mouth, and bit the Song family's Purple Mansion ancestor hard.

Along with the sound of bones and flesh breaking, the Song family's Purple Mansion ancestor was bitten to pieces and had no power to fight back.

If there were no annual ringworms, the Song family's Purple Mansion ancestor could still barely fight the Thousand-Armed Centipede.

Unfortunately, the combination of the Thousand-Armed Centipede and the Annual Ringworm, the combined power of these two top-grade Nine-Refined Gu insects, is far greater than one, and he is simply unable to resist it.

When the ancestor of the Song family died, the remaining cultivators from the aristocratic families were no longer able to stop the Thousand-Armed Centipede from wreaking havoc.

One by one, the monks from the aristocratic families died tragically, and the aristocratic families’ largest resistance force was completely destroyed.

This is the horror of high-end combat power. Just the Thousand-Armed Centipede was enough to completely destroy the so-called army of the aristocratic family. The battle was completely unbalanced and one-sided.

What happened next was a natural outcome. Losing the monk's family was like a tiger losing its claws.

Wherever the Guiling Palace army passed, they confiscated the properties and exterminated the clans of those noble families who dared to resist. Mountains of spiritual stones, various spiritual materials and sacred mines, spiritual fields and veins, and deeds to shops all fell into the hands of the Guiling Palace, which amassed a huge amount of wealth and accumulated the resources to build the wonders of the Heavenly Dao.

In less than ten days, the entire four western states were under the rule of Guiling Palace. No force dared to disobey the orders of Guiling Palace anymore, and those aristocratic families who were exterminated were bound to suffer the consequences.

The Guiling Palace army advanced in three directions. In addition to the Jingzhou part that was heading north for the expedition, the part in the west where the Thousand-Handed Centipede was located, there was another part responsible for conquering the eastern region.

The eastern region of the Dali Dynasty was divided into four states, namely Jiazhou, Qianzhou, Fengzhou and Anzhou.

The Guiling Palace army that entered here also encountered resistance.

Different from the resistance of the aristocratic families in the Western Region, here in the Eastern Region, in addition to the major aristocratic families, there are also forces mainly connected by sects that oppose Guiling Palace.

For example, in Fengzhou, this is the headquarters of Ziyun Pavilion, one of the three sects of the Dali Dynasty.

Ziyun Pavilion is also the leader of these sects. Under the leadership of Ziyun Pavilion, each sect obstructs and resists the monk army of Guiling Palace in various ways.

The reason why they did this was very simple. On the surface, it seemed that they did not want to be associated with the Guiling Palace, but in fact, under the call of the Ziyun Pavilion, these sects basically chose to side with the Jiuxiao Holy Land.

Compared with Guiling Palace, Jiuxiao Holy Land is obviously more worthy of their favor. It is a behemoth that dominates the Tianyuan world. Instead of being a dog for Guiling Palace, it is better to be a dog for Jiuxiao Holy Land.

However, Ziyun Pavilion did not know that their sect leader who was going to Dali City had already died at the hands of Su Jie.

Even the Holy Son of Jiuxiao Holy Land had been killed and mutilated, but Ziyun Pavilion was still immersed in the dream of Jiuxiao Holy Land's fame and prestige, which doomed them to a tragic ending.

Just as the Song family in Lanzhou of the Western Regions was being massacred by the Thousand-Handed Centipede, the same scene also occurred in Ziyun Pavilion of Fengzhou.

Late at night that day, all the disciples of Ziyun Pavilion saw a blood moon hanging high in the sky and the boundless and vast Ten Thousand Souls Banner formation descending, covering the entire mountain gate.

When the disciples and elders of Ziyun Pavilion were awakened, the mountain protection formation was covered by the formation transformed by the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, and there were many ghost shadows all around.

Above their heads, a mountain of knives fell from the sky. Beheading swords dropped straight down, emitting shrill devilish sounds like the wails of ghosts and gods, piercing through and cutting off the bodies of the sect's disciples one by one.

There was a sea of ​​fire gushing out from the ground beneath his feet. Flames and magma kept erupting, as if a hundred thousand volcanoes were raging at the same time. The earth seemed to be about to flip over. Countless disciples of the sect were swallowed up by the sea of ​​fire and burned to death.

When the disciples of Ziyun Pavilion tried to escape in fear, a Yellow Spring River appeared across the sky and earth. Corpses floated in the river, and eighteen bone mountains surrounded the mountain gate, completely blocking any possibility of escape for the disciples.

No matter they fly in the sky or hide in the ground, these sect disciples can only face death in despair.

"The Wedding Dress Ghost is the female ghost in the Wedding Dress of the Blood Demon Ancestor of Ghost Ridge Palace."

By the time someone discovered Han Ruyan holding the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, it was already too late.

Han Ruyan's methods were even more brutal than the Thousand-Handed Centipede's. There might be a few survivors of the Song clan who could have escaped from the Thousand-Handed Centipede, but the Thousand-Handed Centipede was too lazy to chase them.

But Han Ruyan immediately used the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to surround the gate of Ziyun Pavilion, eliminating any possibility of escape.

What followed was the death massacre from Han Ruyan. The ghosts on the Ten Thousand Souls Banner rushed in like a tide, devouring and tearing apart the sect's disciples one by one.

All the sect disciples who saw Han Ruyan in person, as long as their cultivation level was below the Daotai realm, would immediately be infected by the curse and die instantly on the spot in a variety of ways.

Some had their skin covered with paper money and turned into pale paper figures, some were sucked alive by the clothes that turned into wedding dresses, and some had their bodies cut into millions of pieces by invisible sharp blades.

Only those at the Daotai realm can struggle against a curse of this degree, but they cannot escape death in the end. They cannot even resist. The moment they see Han Ruyan's true form, death will follow them like a shadow until they die.

It’s not that Ziyun Pavilion is without Purple Mansion cultivators. The two Purple Mansions are the confidence of Ziyun Pavilion.

One Purple Mansion belongs to the ancestor of Ziyun Pavilion who practiced the secret art of the living tomb, and the other Purple Mansion comes from another sect.

However, in front of Han Ruyan, they were no different from other cultivators.

Han Ruyan's strength has been continuously improving over the years as she absorbed the aura of fear on Blue Star. In addition, as the queen of ghosts, Han Ruyan's combat power is far beyond that of ghosts of the same level. She also has the Ten Thousand Souls Banner in her hand. Even if she occupies two purple palaces alone, these two purple palaces are no match for her.

The battle only lasted for a short time before the two Purple Mansion monks fell one after another, cursed to death. Their souls were sucked into the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, further increasing its strength and bringing them one step closer to the Billion Souls Banner.

Just twenty minutes later, when Han Ruyan left, the entire Ziyun Pavilion mountain gate had become silent, and there was no one alive in the sect.

Things like this kept happening. In just one night, Han Ruyan massacred five sects and nine famous local families in Fengzhou.

Without exception, these sects and families were completely wiped out and massacred.

The forces that dared to resist Guiling Palace were wiped out, and the entire Fengzhou was cleared out. Han Ruyan did not stop. She appeared in Anzhou the next day and started the massacre again. On the third day, it was Jiazhou's turn, and on the fourth day, it was Qianzhou's turn.

Han Ruyan wiped out one state a day, and the four states in the Eastern Region were flooded with blood. His name became synonymous with death.

The remaining major sects and families in the Eastern Region that were watching were all trembling with fear. They immediately sent a large number of spirit stones and treasures to the Guiling Palace, and submitted to it, fawning and trying to please it. As a result, the entire Eastern Region was brought under the control of the Guiling Palace.

At this point, the southern, western and eastern parts of the Dali Dynasty had all fallen.

The Guiling Palace army marched in three directions, encircling Dali City from three sides. The empire created by Emperor Tianwu, once the overlord of the ancient continent, has become precarious. (End of this chapter)