Chapter 1379 - 658: A New Cycle (2)

Chapter 1379: Chapter 658: A New Cycle (2)

The army outside is slightly better than those inside the city. After all, lives can still be used to fill the moat, so there’s not much to eat, just some tender meat taken to add dishes and drinks for the General. The regular soldiers’ staple food remains the demons and beasts hunted outside the city. But the demon meat is old and tough, and smells like wild boar, truly not as delicious as lamb soup.

Tie Dan also took a spin around, following the usual practice to whisk away those who haven’t reached the height of a wheel, leaving the rest to go unchecked.

What can be done about them? Kill them all? Or forbid people from eating the dead? Let them starve?

Besides, it’s not manageable anyway. Besides the soldiers besieging and defending the city, there are also demons all over the mountains and fields.

Yes, this is likely the reason why the army has not managed to conquer the city for such a long time. A massive group of demons looms over the ruins of the nearby Old Royal City to the east, where no living soul is seen. The former marketplace and palace have been seized as Demon Nest and Demon Cave, resembling dungeons of Demon Kings, with demon qi soaring to the sky and dark winds howling. Who knows how many gods and demons have gathered there.

Tie Dan wasn’t surprised, glanced around, did some calculations, and figured it out. Weren’t these indeed the Heavenly King Army? See, they even carried the flag of the Heavenly King.

Sure, Boss Shi may have stopped playing, even his exclusive service has gone offline, but the game package he purchased seems to still be in effect.

Now the company’s base continues fulfilling orders, ceaselessly producing demon armies for the boss, not just demons but even equipment spawning together. So each Demon Emperor and Demon King commands tens of thousands of demon soldiers and thousands of Demon Generals, each claiming mountains as kings and ruling over chaos, making the situation even messier.

Before, such situations were at least tidied up by the Immortal Palace Domain Army. The company would fix its own bugs, and the Mystic Sect would lend a hand. But now both Immortal Palace Xuan Sect and the company have been tidied up themselves and naturally unable to intervene. Thus, the narrative of the Central Plains has completely collapsed; wild animals rampage forth, attacking and hunting zoo colleagues, has spiraled into chaos.

So, with the company’s rampaging technology producing wildly, demon eggs hatch frenziedly, demon tides sweep all over Central Plains Hebei. The territories once belonging to the Heavenly King Rebel Army are now completely overrun by demons. The mountain gate once occupied by the Mystic Sect has become the caves dominated by gods and demons.

Before him, a vast group of demons blocks the old site of the Royal Capital, besides being tempted by the fine lamb in the west unwilling to leave, mainly because of the old Royal City northern side, in the Mang Mountain Imperial Mausoleum, a group of ghosts, zombies, and skeleton soldiers obstructs their progress and prevents the demon swarm from crossing over.

Yes, to the north, Mang Mountain Imperial Tomb, the dried graves and wild ghosts buried here naturally belonged to the ancestors of the Ancient Immortal Palace.

Of course, besides proper dead people, there are quite a few living dead too. Like those cloned biochemical humans used for cameo guest roles or utilized and then scripted for various reasons due to system bugs and version incompatibility, project dissolution, ugliness, etc., were updated out, sent to guard the tomb as old version biochemical combat eunuchs.

All in all, these Immortal Palace’s deceased souls originally lay quietly in coffins pretending to be dead. But possibly because of the demon invasion leading to company disconnection, it triggered these old ghost soldiers to some underlying mechanism safeguarding the Capital, defense of Royal Capital bug codes or something.

Thus, the company base under Mang Mountain was activated, churned into action, mass-producing batches of Corpse Generals, Ghost Kings, Skull Kings, watching the invading demons to retaliate, company against company, and those undead ain’t afraid of dying, the demons actually have brains and retreated. A semblance of heroic spirits under Immortal Venerable defending humanity.

Yet, these ghosts seem confined by some mysterious underlying code, unable to leave the Mang Mountain boundaries. Ultimately, it has resulted in the old Royal Domain area, this strategic buffer zone of three-way standoff, forcing the demon horde not to advance westward for five hundred years.

Therefore, naturally, the preserved lands of the west’s Divine Sect can have peace of mind, develop securely, nestled in Heavenly Mountain to build Divine Peak, research Mechanical Titan Super Divine Soldier. And the remnants of Dui Country and Kun Country’s human forces, shut the door, continue internal fighting, local warlords fight day and night, continue to vie for this barren ruins of the Royal Capital. They probably think whoever regains the Capital, perhaps inherits the Immortal Venerable’s heavenly destiny.

Mm, this world is beyond saving...

But also, life and death are destined, survival of the fittest, natural selection, survival of the adapted, isn’t this all what the people chose themselves?

Before it was conceivable to blame Immortal Palace, blame Mystic Sect, blame the company. But they were driven away five hundred years ago; can we still blame Divine Sect now?

Uh, but as you say, actually today evolving into this scenario, Divine Sect indeed bears responsibility.

Moreover, the primary responsibility.

After all, even the heavens are consuming lives.

And today’s Taiji Heaven is already the heaven of Divine Sect, already the heaven of Blood God Dao.

Having seen the multitude of beings on the ground, Tie Dan looked back once more, gazing towards the skies.

Divine Sect, Divine Sect, the sky is filled with Divine Sect.

Tens of thousands of Blood God’s Sons ride the rolling red wind, emerge from the crimson clouds, dance in the blood clouds, scream and sing in the sky, awaken and inspire, praise Divine Lord, praise Supreme, praise Sect Hierarch for granting them the holy blood meal.