Martial arts ascend to the gods

Chapter 673 Support
With the massive resources Zhou Leng provided, Xu Qingjin had long since reached the prime of her life.

He was also studying the Ancient River Sect's techniques at the Ancient River Research Institute, and was just one step away from mastering them.

After cultivating under the mother tree for three days, he advanced to the Innate Realm.

There's absolutely no need to take any tonics; the mother tree contains powerful spiritual energy, enough to replenish the body's energy reserves.

Xu Qingjin was patient by nature, and seeing that Zhou Leng didn't come out, she wasn't in a hurry. She just sat under the tree and cultivated diligently.

This is an opportunity that even a martial saint would crave.

Occasionally, a drop of life essence would drip from mid-air and merge into Xu Qingjin's body while she was cultivating.

Xu Qingjin took it as normal treatment for the mother tree and continued her cultivation.

On the tenth day after Zhou Leng entered the tree hole, Xu Qingjin, as usual, walked out of the tree house and took a slow walk.

Since settling down on the mother tree, I have no more hunger or thirst. I don't eat or drink, yet my body has become healthier and more agile.

After wandering around for a while, I turned on the Magic Watch.

Unfortunately, there's no internet connection here, and nothing at all.

Looking up and around, I was on a branch in the middle layer of the tree. Thick branches surrounded me from all sides, crisscrossing each other. I couldn't see the sky or the ground, only the leaves that emitted a faint light.

Suddenly, a huge roar came from afar.

Xu Qingjin frowned slightly, a strange sense of crisis rising in her heart.

This is the Mother Tree, the core of the Tree People's world, and this level of roaring...

Suddenly, a tremendous roar began to continue.

Xu Qingjin turned her head to look at where Zhou Leng was, then quickly ran to the tree trunk and slid down the huge vines, soon reaching the lower trunk.

As you continue sliding down, the branches disappear, and the view suddenly opens up.

Ahead, on the horizon, endless dark clouds are advancing toward the mother tree.

The sky was filled with flashes of divine light and deafening roars.

Powerful black shadows danced in the sky.

Because it was too far and too fast, Xu Qingjin couldn't see who was fighting, but those who could fight in the air must be demigods.

She looked again at the dark clouds at the edge of the world.

"An army of monsters..."

As the dark clouds moved closer, enormous queen insects, resembling small mountains, slowly emerged.

Finally, a massive, hundreds-of-meters-high mountain of flesh appeared on the horizon.

“The Mother of Giant Insects…” Xu Qingjin murmured to herself.

As a martial artist, she has always been paying close attention to important information from the Ten Realms.

The Mother Tree is the last bastion of the Tree People world.

The arrival of the demon army here means that the demons have already reached the outskirts of Xiongjing City.

The entire Tree People race faces the crisis of extinction.

Xu Qingjin thought for a long time but still didn't know what to do, so she returned to the treehouse and slowly walked towards where Zhou Leng was.

Near the tree hollow, of the three demigods guarding it, only one remained.

"Greetings, esteemed demigod elder." Xu Qingjin bowed politely.

"Hello, Zhou Leng's wife," the demigod tree-person said in a human language that wasn't quite standard.

"The demon army is at the city gates. It's extremely dangerous here. Do you think we should warn Zhou Leng?"

"It's alright. With the Mother Tree here, the monsters are insignificant. If... I mean if, you and Zhou Leng are in danger, we will teleport you to the Tree People Base immediately and ensure your safe return to the human world."

"How is Zhou Leng doing?"

“Very good. His body is undergoing an improvement far beyond our understanding. We should not disturb him.”

"Okay, then I'll continue to wait for him."

"If you're scared, I can take you away first."

"If he doesn't leave, I won't leave." Xu Qingjin nodded to the demigod tree spirit and turned to leave.

She sat in the treehouse, lost in thought for a long time, then sighed softly and began to meditate.

The decisive battle between the Heavenly Calamity Army and the Tree People quietly unfolded.

All the tree people and giant insects in the tree world converged on the location of the mother tree and the mother insect.

The two kings, like two adjacent mountain peaks, gazed at each other from afar for the first time.

Shuizhou base.

Chen Shouhu and the others looked at the huge map of the Tree People world.

Two enormous circles, one red and one black, meet at the center of the Tree People's world.

On the light screen to the side, battle scenes transmitted back using magic were playing.

In the sky, a battle between demigods.

On the ground, monsters as numerous as the sea surged towards the treant.

Trees sprouted continuously from the ground and, under the control of the tree people, launched a defense.

Occasionally, a giant insect breaks through the defenses and ventures deep into the canopy of the mother tree. Often, after only a few steps, thick tree roots will emerge from the ground, entangle, pierce, and drag it into the earth, where it disappears without a trace.

The audience was silent.

Chen Shouhu said, "Arrange for men to locate the Heavenly Calamity Army's supply lines and harass them. At the same time, sweep through the giant insects' resource areas and plunder as many resources as possible. Also, prepare to support the Mother Tree..."

"Yes!"

Rucheng, Wuwei Academy.

"Dean, recently some anti-fraud groups have suddenly appeared online. Their names sound like anti-fraud groups, and their communication sounds like anti-fraud groups, but... their tone is very strange." A guard reported this while passing the message to Wang Boxiong.

Wang Boxiong scrolled through the chat history sent by his subordinates without any expression.

The members in these chat logs have all sorts of names.

Such as Anti-Fraud Slim Cat, Burmese Killer, Anti-Fraud Worker, Suppressed Anti-Fraud Person, Android Anti-Fraud Advocate, Promoter of Multiple Marriage and Childbearing Program, Positive Energy Necromancer, etc.

Na Wuwei said, "Look, the phrase 'Only officials are allowed to commit fraud, but ordinary people are not allowed to fight back' has appeared repeatedly in the group chat. It's a bit too blatant. It seems to go a step further than those who were severely punished back then for lying down to comment, picking up scraps of vegetables, and advocating for abstinence from marriage and sterilization."

"What do you think?" Wang Boxiong asked. The guard pondered Wang Boxiong's words carefully and slowly said, "I think it's not advisable to alert them. Let's observe the situation first."

The guard beside him looked at the captain with suspicion. The captain hadn't said that when they arrived.

“Okay, then let’s wait a little longer,” Wang Boxiong said.

"By the way, Dean, the final battle has broken out in the Tree People World. As expected, people from the area near Rucheng will be sent there. According to custom, you will also participate in the battle, right?"

“Yes, it’s very likely,” Wang Boxiong said.

"Then please assign tasks as soon as possible, I'm worried that things might go wrong."

"Ah."

The captain of the guards left Wang Boxiong's office with his subordinates, growing increasingly silent as they walked away.

The subordinate whispered, "Captain, you didn't say that before you came. You said that the anti-fraud group that suddenly appeared recently is obviously a big fish, and seems to be related to the Demon Worship Cult's operation, but it's not clear whether it's the Demon Worship Cult or the Huang Meng faction."

"Do you think Brother Xiong's sources are any worse than ours?"

"will not."

"Do you think that when I said 'officials are allowed to commit fraud, but ordinary people are not allowed to fight back,' Brother Xiong, with your brain, couldn't understand what I was trying to say?"

"Of course."

"But Brother Xiong countered with 'What do you think?' Do you think my brain wouldn't pick up on what he was trying to say?"

"what?"

"Since Brother Xiong isn't interested, whatever the reason, let's leave it at that for now and wait and see. That way, we can attack or defend as needed."

"What if...it gets out of hand?"

"Don't worry, with our control over the network, you can say what you're allowed to say, and you can see what you're allowed to see. If we don't let you say it or see it, you won't be able to see it on the local area network."

"That's true. The frequent occurrence of large-scale censorship incidents proves it. If the higher-ups want to stop it, they can definitely shut it down."

"So, don't worry."

"From another perspective, those things that can be said and done are all strongly supported by those above?"

"You wouldn't happen to be a member of an anti-fraud group too, would you?"

"No, no, no... I'm a good laborer from Myanmar."

"Stinky boy!"

The captain of the guards stopped talking, his head down, lost in thought.

Relevant intelligence was reported from various places, but in some places it was temporarily suppressed.

Upon arriving in Xiongcheng, only scattered reports remained.

Some people don't pay attention to these reports.

But some people look at it carefully again and again, then silently put it down, as if they don't care.

Suburbs of Xiongcheng.

Zhang Xinglie glanced at the messages in the anti-fraud group, walked out of his house, stood in the night, and looked at the distant main city of Xiongcheng.

Recently, several friends have been asking him to chat.

He already knows some of his friends and what they're planning to do.

Even if they didn't say it explicitly.

Suddenly, a friend sent me a voice call.

Zhang Xinglie glanced at the name: Yang Mingyuan, Yunhua's senior, who had joined the Armed Police Force early on and whose family had a strong Armed Police background.

Although this person comes from a wealthy family, he is not a spoiled brat. He is focused on cultivation and was among the first members to join the Ancient River Sect.

"I'm almost at your house, let's meet up."

Zhang Xinglie immediately guessed what he was going to say and replied, "I'll be waiting for you at my doorstep."

Shortly after, Yang Mingyuan appeared. The two went to a secluded spot, turned off the demonized wristwatch, and Yang Mingyuan took out the demonized shield.

"I found your aunt's final whereabouts in some file."

"explain."

"I can't say who provided it specifically, but I can say that after your aunt was captured by the demons, her body was sent to the Great Battlefield and refined into White Lake Lotus Fruit."

Zhang Xinglie gritted his teeth and clenched his right fist.

He lost both his parents at a young age, and his aunt raised him with great difficulty. In his eyes, his aunt was no different from his mother.

His injuries might be beyond repair, and he had almost given up hope.

But the revenge for my aunt must be taken.

Yang Mingyuan said, "However... your aunt was very lucky. She was discovered by our people, found in advance, and cremated. Unlike the other lotus people from Baihu, she wasn't disemboweled and had her lotus fruit removed."

"Who can't say?"

"I can't say." Yang Mingyuan's expression was complicated.

"Who exactly kidnapped my aunt?"

Yang Mingyuan sighed and said, "I don't really want to say, but you can probably find out by investigating. At the time, Zhao He was in charge of this operation."

"That Zhao He?"

"That Zhao He. He made a deal with the demon, wanting the White Lake Mother Fruit, in order to better advance to the Grandmaster level."

Zhang Xinglie remained silent. Others might not believe it, but he had personally witnessed Zhao He with Tian Huoshi.

Yang Mingyuan sighed and said, "Since you're going to talk about it, just say it all at once. At first, Zhao Tong was arresting children; later, Zhao He was arresting women; now, they're arresting men. In recent months, a large number of men around the world have disappeared."

"The Throne of Corpses?"

"It seems you know something about it too. Yes, it's all about forging the Corpse Throne."

“The Corpse King Throne is a power used by Grandmasters. Zhao Cong is a Grandmaster King, which is perfect for preparing for the Ascension to Sainthood. He is also the person in charge of the Dragon Kingdom region, right?” Zhang Xinglie asked.

“You know very well,” Yang Mingyuan said.

Zhang Xinglie asked, "Do you think they'll capture me and take me to the Corpse King's Throne?"

"Of course not. You are a Primordial King. They will only capture those below the Primordial level and a small number of Primordial Kings who are seriously injured."

(End of this chapter)