Deep Sea Hunter, but Deep Sea Titan

It is true that Ji gave up on continuing to assist Wang, but this does not change the fact that he values ​​the boundaries between himself and the world more than his sister.

In his view, his sister was too concerned about others and took on too many responsibilities that were not hers, which is why she had to suffer for thousands of years on this land.

He held a contaminated ear of wheat in his hand and, under the intensely tense gazes of Nian and Xi, threw it into the enormous device before him. And so, a heart began to beat.

This contaminated ear of wheat is the catalyst, an indicator, a beacon, weaving the twisted, unspeakable enemy into a tangible monster.

The pale, strange beast emitted a sharp cry similar to that of a feathered beast, and stared with an unfathomable gaze at a family preparing to evacuate.

A sudden gust of wind arose, tearing the monster's body into tiny threads, but it instantly returned to its original shape and continued crawling forward.

More monsters sprouted from the soil, and wherever they went, crops withered and the land dried up.

The demonic riot was temporarily quelled by the combined efforts of Shu and Luo Ting. The momentary calm after the riot exposed the source of the pollution to Ji's detection range.

The power of the demons has been exhausted, and the source of pollution that has been deep underground in the Great Wilderness City for thousands of years has been reactivated due to Ji's manipulation. However, this time the activation is to lure the snake out of its hole in order to completely exhaust the remaining power of the demons, turn the source of pollution into a physical threat, and then completely eliminate it.

Rong Wanqing, the former head of the village of Dahuang City and a former constable of the Sisuitai, naturally knew that this was a monster woven by Ji's abilities.

This is the shadow of evil, and fear also fuels their power.

To defeat these monsters means that the courage of the human heart must once again fight against the biological instinct of fear.

When people looked up, they saw that the once reassuring golden sun had turned into a chilling blood red.

Everyone then felt a sense of fear.

That was a fear that had existed in the hearts of the Terrans since time immemorial. Natural disasters, wild animals, plagues, famines.

Before them stretched a vast field, where countless terrifying monsters continued to spring forth from the earth.

Led by the village chief, the villagers of Dahuang City formed a long procession and slowly marched toward the central urban area. The elderly, the weak, the sick, and the disabled were in the very center of the procession, while the Taoist masters and their apprentices, who had some ability to protect themselves, gathered on the periphery.

Although both civil engineering masters and agricultural masters are only professions that serve ordinary production and life, and the technologies they master are mostly civilian technologies, they can still block or even kill these alien beasts by making reasonable use of Originium Arts.

Cries could be heard continuously from within the group. So the civil engineering master, who was proficient in Originium Arts, managed to build a defensive line, standing between the crowd and the monsters.

As the ground beneath their feet trembled, several cries rang out from the crowd.

"There's nothing to be afraid of!"

A giant shimmering with golden light appeared before the group, accompanied by their familiar teacher, Shu.

The rainbow light reflected by the drizzle dispelled the blood-red hue that shrouded the horizon, softening Lotin's aura slightly. The presence of the Knight of Light was enough to reassure mortals even in the face of the activated demons.

Furthermore, since Shu and Luoting appeared together, the villagers didn't really doubt who this giant, who looked quite different from Gonggong, was. They simply followed their simple impulses and assumed that Luoting was the Vajra Arhat appearing in the village opera.

The extermination of the demons in the Great Wilderness City has reached its final stage. By inspiring these unsuspecting citizens of the Great Wilderness City, Luo Ting can eliminate these materialized demons while simultaneously forging an effective cognitive defense with reckless courage.

“Look at those savage and ugly beasts. They ravage your fields and destroy your crops. With just a few roars, they think they can make you give up the land that your ancestors have taken from the source stones and salt flats for generations.”

"I just want to ask you all, on what basis?"

Eradicating the breeding ground for evil from a cognitive perspective is an extremely effective way to deal with evil. At this moment, the appearance of Luo Ting and Shu is nothing short of reassuring to the villagers of the Great Wilderness City.

"*Yan Kingdom profanity*, yeah! Why should we run?"

"These beasts are trying to destroy our land and eat our crops, so we'll fight them to the end!"

"Everyone, let's charge together and fight these beasts!"

Some angry and resentful farmers were the first to respond to Loting's question. They picked up the farm tools scattered in the fields and threw them at the pale, eerie weaving beasts.

At this moment, Luo Ting held the warhammer [Shipbreaker] in his hand, raised his arm and shouted, encouraging the villagers to fight back with all their might—the passive [Boarding Team] of [Shipbreaker] was enough to temporarily turn even untrained Yan country farmers into resilient warriors.

The Imperial Command allows Lotin to enhance the damage output of these non-combat-oriented celestial masters by using marking.

The hoe struck the monster hard on the head, causing it to stagger.

A bottle of pesticide used to kill pests was casually thrown and hit the monster. The bottle shattered, and the monster let out a mournful cry.

"You...you killed him...?"

When the monster fell, a glimmer of hope appeared, but reality told the villagers that the hope they saw was not an illusion or a fleeting thing.

Thus, confidence surged forth like a tidal wave when the enemy crumbled.

The monstrous, demonic creatures were struck down and crushed into dust, and they realized that these nightmarish beings could be defeated!

Soon after, more and more people picked up the tools at their disposal and joined the defense.

Some even put in so much effort to perform opera:

"The vast plains are leveled, their spirit soaring to the heavens; with lofty ambitions, they face the rivers and mountains head-on..."

"Come, drive these abominable creatures from your land!"

With the blessing of the Imperial Order, the Iron Sun Crate, and the Shipbreaker, these high-spirited Yan Kingdom farmers seemed to have grasped some strange martial arts, defeating the pale weaving beasts in a series of retreats.

"This... is possible?"

Even Shu himself never expected that the villagers who had always lived under his protection could unleash such powerful strength in a moment of crisis. This simple and direct courage was enough to establish a solid defensive line that could trap and kill the evil spirits whose remaining power had been forcibly materialized after being exhausted.

This way of ending things was something even Shu himself had never imagined.

She consistently advocated for mortals to be self-reliant, yet she also used power beyond the reach of ordinary people to suppress the problems that the villagers could not solve—namely, the demonic pollution of the Great Wilderness City. This had always been a deep-seated contradiction within her.

The power of millet is cause and effect, so she has always known that the outbreak of evil was the destined calamity of the Great Wilderness City.

If one relies solely on the power of others to resolve the tribulations destined in one's life, problems are bound to arise.

But the evil spirits were eventually driven out by the villagers themselves, thus completing the cycle of cause and effect.

Chapter 215: Breaking the Evil Spirit

With the triple buff, the celestial masters who originally worked in agriculture and engineering now displayed combat capabilities that were quite close to those of ordinary mercenary sorcerers. Meanwhile, the farmers of the Great Wilderness City, witnessing their fields being ravaged, also drove away the materialized demons with an unstoppable rage.

By transforming the unknown enemy into a known scourge, the demonic pollution beneath the Great Wilderness City can be truly eradicated.

“See? I could easily have driven away all the demons in front of me with a flick of my finger, but I still chose to let the villagers kill these materialized beasts with their own hands.”

"If using human resources can solve the problem better, then why not do it?"

Luo Ting never worried about forcing things to grow too fast. Offering a tithe would grant him power of equal value; it was that simple. He had no intention of getting too involved in the debate between the Yan Kingdom and the Can Sui regarding the value of "human power versus divine power."

For him, only useful and efficient means are correct means.

He chose to let the villagers of Great Wilderness City finish things up simply because this would more effectively form a cognitive defense against evil spirits.

"However, there are some things that cannot be done by manpower alone."

Luo Ting changed the subject; he wouldn't deliberately avoid the topic just because it would embarrass Shu.

"A civilization that sprouts anew from the corpse of a giant would have perished long ago if it had not received any protection, not even by chance."

"This land has always been a forbidden zone for civilization. If you hadn't been suppressing the evil spirits here with powers beyond human capabilities, this extremely cold land could never have been conquered."

"If we're talking about going against the will of Heaven, Miss Shu's behavior is also to blame."

Shu knew that this was Gonggong's response to her previous concerns, and also a questioning of her.

She managed to make the people here dependent on her in agricultural production without relying on her own superhuman strength, but in the face of the corruption of evil, she tried to take on everything alone, forcibly making the land that the Yan people could not cultivate on their own be cultivated.

"What are you trying to prove by telling me all this?"

Shu didn't see the arrogant and conceited charity that Sui Shou had in the other party. She felt that Luo Ting wasn't deliberately belittling anything, but rather stating an objective situation.

"This proves that neither you nor I currently have the capacity to think about how to avoid the so-called 'forcing seedlings to grow' approach."

"The catastrophe facing this world is so powerful that it needs to squeeze out every last bit of strength."

Luo Ting simply wanted to use this opportunity to stop Shu from "trapping herself in a cocoon." She should indeed let go where she should, and similarly, she should be bolder and go for it where she originally wanted to use her abilities but was hesitant.

At the same time, this was also part of his trade, freeing her sister from responsibilities that were not hers.

Shu's desire to protect the local people stemmed from her longing and yearning for "human life." She believed that she could learn a great deal from the Yan people that would allow her to find meaning in her own existence.

Unlike the disabled, Lotin does not need to rely on external things to determine his self-awareness, thus ensuring that his independent existence does not disappear.

He is not so pathetic as to rely on external things to sustain his existence.

However, this difference is not enough to become a barrier to cooperation between the two sides. Loting just hopes that Shu can be less hesitant and therefore have more means to deal with the threat of evil.

"There is no logical connection between ability and responsibility, millet."

"Which responsibilities belong to you, and which do not? If there are no boundaries to all of this, it will only become a burden that torments and crushes you, ultimately causing everything you originally wanted to protect to vanish into thin air."

These two sentences were no longer advice given by Luo Ting based on self-interest. Luo Ting just felt that Shu's life was too worthless and too stifling, so he couldn't help but make a slight, indirect suggestion.

He abhorred the Laterans' shameful act of abandoning Iberia out of faith, but he also disapproved of Shu's behavior of taking on responsibilities that were not his own.

"Miss Shu, this is a rare opportunity. Please take a short rest after this hard-won victory."

"This opportunity to recharge and recharge may not come again in the future."

Luo Ting did not stubbornly try to shift Yu's position onto Shu. After all, being bound to this land and having his consciousness eroded by evil spirits for a thousand years, it was inevitable that he would develop a stubborn side.

"Your Excellency Gonggong, you are right, I should take a rest."

Shu had already seen the disastrous consequences of her attempt to bear everything alone. Suppressing and dispelling the demonic riots almost caused her to lose all her divine consciousness. If it weren't for the Holy Shield protecting her and the nourishing potion, perhaps only a miraculous miracle could save her.

"In any case, thank you for your generous assistance, Lord Gonggong."

The seeds that Shennong brought back nourished the people who cultivated this land, but they also brought with them the pollution of evil spirits.

Shu had made a promise with Shennong, who had taken her in, to protect this land and ensure that more people could have enough to eat. Therefore, she gritted her teeth and fought against the evil spirits here for thousands of years.

However, since the demons of the Great Wilderness City have been purified, she should also regain her freedom from a promise that has already been fulfilled.

She finally agreed to enter the Mountain and Sea Painting Scroll to recuperate.

These few disabled individuals have entered the Mountain and Sea Scroll to recuperate; perhaps when facing Hai Si, they can be persuaded to lend a hand by paying off his rent.

At this moment, the Heavenly Master of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, who had finally managed to free himself, arrived, travel-worn and weary.

"Gonggong, you old man, if Sui Laoqi wants to cause trouble, are you just going to let him have his way?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a monstrous current swept up, and the Celestial Master's golden figure rose up with light and heat, distorting a space. Blazing white flames outlined a chasm on the plain.

She snapped her fingers lightly.

Having witnessed the ways of the world for a long time, and having subdued millions of demons, the few remaining fugitives outside the city were burned to ashes. Although it was only a matter of time before these few escaped, not a single beast escaped from Loting's detection range.

Luo Ting knew who this was: the old celestial master in the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion who feigned madness to maintain his sanity from the encirclement of evil spirits.

However, Luo Ting did not believe that this swaggering behavior was simply due to "feigning madness".

Then, the giant beast, now back to its bronze color, snapped its fingers lightly. In an instant, sand and gravel flew across the vast wasteland, and the white flames were extinguished in the blink of an eye.

"Nonsense? Didn't the Ministry of Works tell you that the heart of the behemoth in the Twelve Towers and Five Cities has any effect on agents?"

"Turning an invisible enemy into a tangible one is a support that the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, which is struggling to fight, cannot achieve but desperately needs."

If the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion could easily deal with the Northern Demons on its own, then Yan's first request to Luo Ting would not have been to repair the Twelve Towers and Five Cities. The fact that the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion's main forces were too busy to deal with the demonic pollution of the Great Wilderness City also proved that they were unable to support the city alone.

"With the energy supplied by the giant beast's heart, the seventh son of the Sui family has succeeded. Great Wilderness City will no longer be troubled by the pollution of evil spirits."

"How can all of this be considered nonsense?"

This old Taoist priest wanted to test Luo Ting's abilities by feigning madness, but he wouldn't tolerate it.

"Do not worry."

“I’ll deal with that lousy chess player. I’ve already smashed his chessboard to pieces.”

"I hope you haven't forgotten what you really need to do."

Even though the old master had a thousand words in his heart, he could only swallow them down.

Gonggong is not like those young brats; she is not someone she can defeat by force.

"You did business with Old Seven?"

"So what? Or should we just let him continue his antics with his second brother?"

The bronze giant tilted his head in confusion.

"The imperial court is too lazy to interfere with my decision to teach that lousy chess player a lesson."

The old master was rendered speechless by the choking.

"The parts of the Twelve Towers and Five Cities that required my assistance to build are almost complete, and that lousy chess player's chessboard has been smashed to pieces, so he's unlikely to amount to anything."

"I think the assistance we've gained from the tithes is about to come to an end."

"I hope our next collaboration will be even more pleasant."