Chapter 457 – Banditry and Poisoning the Fields
Translated by: Berrrybunz
Edited by: TN and DeAndreR
Cetus Constellation.
Inside the palace, it was a show of happiness and prosperity, there were many distinguished guests inside, with beautiful women filling the place.
But the most discussed topic inside the banquet was the war on Ursa Major Constellation. It was the first war instigated By Cetus Constellation after so many years. In the first few days, everyone was still harboring nervousness. But very quickly, the expansion of the war immediately caused everyone’s thoughts to become excited.
Other than The Blue Whale Army being stopped, their speed becoming slower, the White Whale Army and Black Whale Army were irresistible forces continuously taking over many planets.
In the blink of an eye, close to half of the planets in the entire Ursa Major Constellation were being occupied. In Cetus Constellation, such victories caused them to be roused with excitement.
Inside the area where all the young aristocratic family disciples were in, it was rare for them to not be focusing on the beautiful women, but all passionately discussing if they should be bringing along their bodyguards to earn some military achievements at Ursa Major Constellation.
With military achievements it meant a good future, why would they be afraid of not having beautiful women with them when they made it big?
All the aristocratic disciples were all discussing amongst themselves, giving each other insider information on what they knew.
“Congratulations, your majesty!” A white robed old man smiled while giving his regards towards Gong Qing.
Gong QIng laughed reservedly. Although he was over 60 years of age, but he looked to be only around 40, looking young with vigor, his bearing was scholarly as he half rose out of his seat to return the greeting: “I have to thank Elder Zhang, without your reports, who would know, Ursa Major Constellation was all a bravado and was actually very weak.”
Elder Zhang laughed: “Tang Tian this person, although he is very rampant, he truly has some abilities, but when things reach to an extreme, they can only move in the opposite direction, he is currently flushed with success, and is not as cautious as he is used to be, and has thus become our perfect chance.”
Gong Qing sipped a bit of red wine: “Does Elder Zhang have any thoughts on Three Spirits City? If we do not take action now, won’t it be taking it easy on them?”
Elder Zhang replied: “Three Spirits City is currently like a delicious cake, if there are people wanting to eat it, there are also people wanting to destroy it.”
Gong QIng was slightly surprised, he slowly tried to unriddle the words, and exposed a smile afterwards: “Seems like i was overthinking it.”
“Ursa Major Constellation, half of it is already in Your Majesty’s hands, with the merger of the two constellations, Cetus Constellation would become an ecliptic palace grade constellation.” Elder Zhang congratulated.
Gong qing was happy, but his face maintained a calm look: “It is still too early to say that. Right, what’s the situation at Orion Constellation? Are there any recent movements from Leo Constellation?”
Elder Zhang’s face congealed slightly, and said: “It truly is taking the mountain with an inch of blood. Tang Tian was so lucky, Yan Yong Lie had thrown his men to Orion Constellation, so he completely did not have to spend any effort. Us on the other hand, are not having it that well at Orion Constellation. But the situation is fine, just that our loss is slightly large. But, we have new support!”
Gong Qing was taken aback: “I wonder who that is?”
Elder Zhang shook his head: “I apologize your Majesty, but i cannot reveal who it is yet.”
Gong Qing did not care, and only smiled while raising his wine cup: “Our allies are getting more and more, shows how popular Honorable Martial Group is! Elder, do not worry, after taking over Ursa Major Constellation, we will then pour our support to support the Martial Group to fight Orion Constellation.”
Both of them laughed, toasting to each other.
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Three Spirits City.
Bing amiably stood on the stage of the blood meridians workshop, displaying his passionate speech.
“……so, the crucial point of this battle, i will have to request to all of you! Only if all of you produce sufficient effective poisons, can we preserve our position in the battlefield….”
The old timers of the blood meridians workshop of Three Spirits City were all boiling with excitement, as though they were on drugs. All of the blood meridians specialists all had only one feeling, to blow off the steam!
Every single blood meridians specialist only had a beastial thought: It is finally our turn!
The chance has finally reached us!
The neighbours next door are just a group of animals, selling their trash for 500 billion star coins, in a moment crushing our achievements to practically zero…..
To be in the shadows of the ironware pussies, the humiliation and grief we have suffered!
To obtain the chance to perform with so much difficulty, how could everyone not give it their all?
A pile of different kinds of poisonous substances piled up like a mountain in the blink of eye.
Tang Chou stood by Bing’s side, coldly glancing at them: “As a military general, to use such a despicable and vulgar strategy, it really is disdainful!”
“Little Chou Chou, don’t be like that.” Bing laughed as he flicked the cigarette ash: “Do you know what is the most favourite thing i like about this generation? It is that everyone here does not know that i am a famous general! Ha ha finally, i can do whatever i want!”
Tang Chou replied coldly: “Shouldn’t a famous general be reserved and not be arrogant and be sincere in times of war? Master, please conduct yourself with dignity!”
Bing laughed out loud, placing a hand on Tang Chou’s shoulder, another waving his cigarette in the air: “Don’t be a spoilsport, be human, the most important thing is to be flexible. Only by being flexible, can you truly be on the road to be victory…..”
Tang Chou interrupted Bing’s words: “Be human? Master, please remember that you are a spirit general.”
Bing turned sluggish, but then laughed out again: “Ah haha, Little Chou Chou you are becoming more and more humorous, and that is a good thing! Relax relax, we will win very soon.”
“Although my superiors are already rotting and degrading, but my pursuit towards the road of a famous general, will never change!” Tang Chou said out unhappily, and walked away.
“Rotting and degrading….” Bing’s eyes widened, he could not believe his ears and remained stunned for a while before shouting towards Tang Chou’s back view: “Hey, come back here! You better explain to me whats rotting and degrading!”
Seeing Tang Chou disappearing, Bing laughed silently, taking a deep breath of the cigarette, and then muttering: “that brat has a bit of skill and wants to rebel, sigh, it sure isn’t easy to be a parent. These kind of brats, can only be taught by Crazy Tang! Sigh, this is such a good method, i truly am too wretched…..no, too much of a genius!”
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How many was 1 million people?
No one knew about it better than Fu Yan, his face was so gloomy that it looked like it could squeeze out 2 kg of water. The idea to refuse Tang Tian entry to Cetus Constellation was from him. When Tang Tian seized Ursa Major Constellation, one could imagine his mood. Thus, he was the most proactive in the campaign.
But….
When he saw the figures disappearing into the forest ahead, and the strange green color emerging from the water source ahead, rage gushed out, burning to the point his liver was in pain!
They could not turn back, he also knew that the soldiers behind him would definitely not be as miserable as the green water ahead of them.
How many days has it been?
Ever since they started fighting five days ago, they have started to meet with various sorts of harassments, attacks, and even poison!
The other party came and went like the wind, the 300 to 500 men, Fu Yan almost thought that he had entered a bandit’s den, no, that was wrong, the place had completely turned into a holy land for bandits!
The number of bandits were numerous to the extent that it could cause hairs to stand,and the bandits’ despicable tricks, were even more sly!
All the water sources were all poisoned. For the stronger martial artists, they could use their True Power to protect their meridians, but the ordinary martial artists were unable to do so. The army was allocated with expert blood meridians specialists who were good with poison, but, there were too many different type of poisons, and even the blood meridian experts were poisoned, so they had no choice but to call for a halt.
From the start, Fu Yan originally wanted to clean up all the bandits. But, he quickly realised that as long as he sent out a few people to handle it, they would all be killed. If he sent more, they would run. Fu Yan had no choice but to send his experts in, wanting to wipe them all out. At the start, it looked as though the experts were like eagles catching chicks, sweeping everything that were in their paths, causing Fu Yan to be excited. But after that, the experts that flew into the sky, bursting through the clouds, would all fall head down first into the sand, smashed into pulps.
After that, the experts of the army did not dare to take action.
They took one step at a time, becoming extremely careful. Anything could suddenly appear out from the ground, so from what it was worth, they were depending on luck. The army already had over 20 people with broken legs, some affected by poisons, some broken by mechanisms, some exploded from the destructive beasts….
Although the death and injury count was not much, but the impact on their morale was immense.
The green murky swamps in front of them caused everyone to stop. At the start, whenever they met with such swamps, they would fly over them, as it was very easy flying over using light body techniques. But there was once, when a small group flew above the swamp, but suddenly they would fall like dumplings dropping into soup, and in a few minutes, bones would surface.
After that, no one dared to treat the swamps lightly.
The swamp seems slightly huge….
Fu Yan turned to look at everyone. All of them revealing green and fatigued faces. The assholes did not allow any of them to sleep. Whenever they set camp, there would be a large arrow rain with considerable strength and extremely accurate. After being harassed for a few nights, everyone was finally used to it, using their shields above them to sleep. Alright, just treat it as rain.
In the end, in one of the arrow rains, there were poison sacks mixed within, although the martial artists on guard were able to block majority of them, but there were two sacks that dropped into the camp, killing 30 odd people.
No one dared to sleep after that.
They were all elites, all of them at the eighth level of strength. Not sleeping for a few days was negligible, and they could endure! But after five days, Fu Yan finally knew the meaning that people were iron, sleep was steel….
(TN: meaning that sleep > humans)
More importantly, under the circumstance of being fatigued and taut, they still had to endure the assholes who were constantly hurling verbal abuse and ridicule day and night – ridicule from a group of sixth level farts!
There were already four cases where the martial artists lost their minds and injured six other teammates.
Fu Yan was on the verge of crying, he had never met such a situation, such despicable, such vulgar and such shameless opponents.
He looked far out, and suddenly thought that the distance to Bear Egg, was so far!
“Stop! We will camp here, stay clear of the water! We will split into two groups, one to rest, the other to guard. Under no circumstances should you all engage in battle!” Fu Yan still had strength, but he knew, if the soldiers under him did not rest, a mutiny would most probably occur. Their current situation was ideal, with a distance of at least 10 li away from the forest, a radius of 6 li around them as plain ground, everything was visible and there were no way to hide anybody.
All the soldiers all heaved a sigh of relief, finally, they were able to sleep in peace.
Fu Yan felt that the only way to continue was to ask for help from the Master, and to ask for help from Honorable Martial Group.
They will have a way right…..
Fu Yan was not sure.