I fabricated myths to guide the revival of spiritual energy.

[Xiangxi, the main peak of the Xuefeng Mountains, an uninhabited summit]

The cold wind howled, whipping up the hem of Gu Qing's tattered Taoist robe.

He stood atop a protruding boulder, his face even paler than when he had stood before Zhao Feng. The "magical" talisman and the gourd of spiritual liquid he had just used, while highly effective, had placed an immense strain on his already exhausted body.

"Cough cough... cough cough cough!"

Gu Qing covered her mouth and coughed violently. When she opened her palm, there was a glaring scarlet color on her palm.

"Time is running out."

He casually wiped the bloodstains off the rock, his eyes showing no fear, only an almost obsessive fanaticism.

"System, open the [Mythology Construction] interface."

[Host: Gu Qing]

[Current Faith Value: 148,500 points (The Taoist priest's rescue just now triggered a small-scale frenzy of worship, and the value is surging)]

Gu Qing looked at the huge sum of money and took a deep breath.

"Zhao Feng has wavered, and the authorities are confused. But that's not enough."

"To completely shatter their materialistic defenses, a few insects and a Taoist priest are not enough. The insects can be explained as biological mutations, and the Taoist priest can be explained as a folk qigong master."

"I need a 'miracle' on a grand narrative level that cannot be explained by any scientific logic."

Gu Qing's fingers traced over the expensive S-level special effects packages in the system store.

From the arrival of heavenly soldiers to the parade of a hundred ghosts, from the radiance of Buddha's light to the opening of the demon realm.

Finally, his finger rested on a name that was inextricably linked to the land of western Hunan and symbolized absolute violence and war.

[Script Component: Ancient Warlord Chi You (Projection Version)]

[Special Effects Rating: S-level (Extraordinary Celestial Phenomenon)]

[Exchange Price: 100,000 Credits]

Duration: 3 minutes

[Additional effects: Suppression of all electronic devices in the area, materialization of killing intent, and bloodline resonance (targeting the Chinese race).]

One hundred thousand points.

This is simply burning money.

Gu Qing's fingers trembled slightly, but he remembered the murderous aura emanating from Zhao Feng's broken sword, and the countless unsolved mysteries buried beneath this land.

"This is Miao territory, the land of the descendants of the Jiuli tribe."

"It would be most appropriate to have this ancestor come out to keep order."

"exchange."

[Ding! 100,000 Faith Points deducted.]

[Large-scale holographic scene rendering initiated...]

[Acoustic resonance module activated...]

[Weather intervention module activated...]

"Come on." Gu Qing opened his arms, facing the vast night and the human army still cleaning up the mess at his feet.

"Lights, sound, in position."

"Action".

……

[At the foot of the mountain, the temporary command post for the G56 expressway]

Zhao Feng had just finished bandaging his wounds and was sitting on a stretcher, tightly gripping the broken sword in his hand.

"Captain, that Taoist priest... is he really gone?" Li Sen walked over and handed Zhao Feng a bottle of water, his expression complicated. "The satellites didn't capture any trace of him; it's like he vanished into thin air."

"How can we possibly fathom the actions of a master?" Zhao Feng took a sip of water, feeling the warm current the Taoist priest had instilled in him still surging within him. "But I have a feeling... tonight's events are not over yet."

"It's not over yet? Wasn't the queen insect dead?"

Zhao Feng shook his head and looked up at the dark night sky: "Before he left, the Taoist priest said, 'When that flag is raised.' I don't think he was joking."

The voice just fell.

"Thump."

A dull, loud bang exploded in everyone's hearts without warning.

It wasn't an explosion, nor was it thunder.

The sound was like some kind of huge, leather-covered war drum being struck by a heavy hammer thousands of meters in the air.

"Thump!"

Second tone.

The gravel on the ground began to bounce. The armored vehicle parked by the roadside emitted a slight tremor.

"An earthquake?!" Li Sen exclaimed in shock and immediately looked at the monitoring device.

However, the waveform on the geological monitoring instrument is a straight line.

"It wasn't an earthquake..." Zhao Feng suddenly stood up, his face deathly pale. "This sound... it wasn't coming from underground, it was coming from the sky! It was coming from our blood!"

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

The drumbeats grew denser and more urgent.

The drumbeats possessed an ancient, desolate, yet exhilarating magic. In their rhythm, every soldier present felt a strange tremor in their hearts, as if some memory of an ancient battlefield had been awakened deep within their DNA.

kill!kill!kill!

It was as if countless ancestors were roaring and howling.

"Sizzle sizzle—"

Just then, all the electronic screens in the command center suddenly went completely static. The lights began to flicker wildly, and finally, with a "pop," they all shattered.

The entire camp was plunged into darkness.

"Electromagnetic pulse?!" the technician shouted in terror. "All equipment is disabled! Communications are down!"

"No, it's not EMP."

Zhao Feng drew his broken sword. At this moment, the broken sword, named "Tiger's Might," was trembling violently, emitting an unprecedented buzzing sound, and the red light on its blade was dazzlingly bright.

"It's afraid...no, it's surrendering."

Zhao Feng raised his head and looked at the sky due north.

The once pitch-black night sky has changed.

Sometime later, the countless stars disappeared. In their place, a thick layer of red clouds, so heavy it seemed to weigh down the mountains, appeared.

The red clouds rolled and churned, like boiling blood.

Within those blood-red clouds, something was brewing, taking shape.

"call--"

A sudden gust of wind arose.

But the wind wasn't cold; instead, it carried a hot, rusty smell.

"Look over there! Up on the mountain!" A soldier pointed to the highest peak of Xuefeng Mountain in the distance, his voice trembling.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, two red lights lit up at the top of the mountain.

No.

That's not a lamp.

Those are two eyes.

Two eyes, each the size of a basketball court, hovering in mid-air, burning with blood-red flames.

Immediately afterwards, a huge, illusory shadow slowly emerged from the blood cloud.

It was a giant phantom that was a thousand meters tall.

Although the face was obscured, the massive, mountain-like body, the enormous, bull-horn-like horns on its head, and the giant axe it carried, dripping with magma-like liquid...

All of this clearly demonstrates his identity.

[System effects fully activated: Warlord - Chi You's Dharma Image]

boom!

An indescribable, terrifying pressure instantly swept across an area of ​​hundreds of miles.

This pressure is not the physical force of gravity, but rather the spiritual force of "divine might".

"thump!"

Under this oppressive force, soldiers with weaker willpower immediately knelt down, trembling all over, unable to even hold their guns.

Even Zhao Feng felt his legs go weak; it was the instinctive fear humans have when facing an apex predator.

"What...what kind of monster is this..." Li Sen slumped to the ground, his teeth chattering.

Zhao Feng used his broken sword to support his body, refusing to kneel. He looked up at the terrifying demon god that almost occupied half the sky, and a myth suddenly flashed through his mind.

Miao territory, a vast mountain range, with bull-headed, human-bodied creatures, bronze heads and iron foreheads...

"Lord of War..."

Zhao Feng forced out those two words through clenched teeth, his voice trembling, "This is... Chi You?!"

……

[Beijing, Headquarters of Bureau 749]

Although the live feed from the front lines was cut off, the satellite cloud imagery continued to function.

"Chief! Abnormal weather has appeared over western Hunan!"

The meteorologist pointed to the strange red spot on the screen, "Just in the last minute, the cloud cover in that area increased tenfold! And... spectral analysis shows that the clouds contain a high concentration of metal ions!"

"What does this mean?" Li Guozhong asked.

"It means... the sky there is full of weapons!"

Just then, the ancient culture research consultant, an elderly professor with white hair who had been silent all along, suddenly pointed to the shape of the red spot on the screen and spoke in a trembling voice.

"That shape...look at the shape of that cloud!"

The red cloud stretched out a long tail on the satellite image, resembling a comet or a distorted flag.

"The Records of the Grand Historian, Treatise on Celestial Offices, states..."

The old professor's voice carried a sense of dazed wonder, as if he had witnessed a miracle.

"Chi You's banner resembles a comet, with a curved shape at the back. Its appearance signifies that a king will conquer all directions."

"That's the Chi You Banner!"

"Legend has it that after the death of Chi You, the God of War, his essence remained, transforming into a crimson aura known as the Chi You Banner. Whenever this thing appears, it signifies... a great calamity of war is about to befall the world!"

Li Guozhong looked at the red vortex and felt his heart being clenched tightly.

If the insects before were still within the realm of biology, then this one...

It has already fallen into the realm of mythology.

"That old Taoist priest..." Li Guozhong muttered to himself, "What exactly is he facing?"

……

[Summit of Xuefeng Mountain]

Gu Qing stood at the feet of that enormous Dharma image, feeling as insignificant as a speck of dust.

But he was the one who controlled this demon god.

"The effect is good."

Gu Qing felt the almost solidified fear and awe in the air, and the faith value on the system panel was flowing back at a rate of several thousand points per second.

The 100,000 points I just spent are being recouped quickly.

"Now that everyone is here and the atmosphere is just right..."

Gu Qing raised his hand and made a downward gesture towards the huge phantom in the sky.

"Then let's give it to this world..."

"Let's leave an indelible mark."

"System, loading the final chapter of the script."

"Let that flag...fall down."