Chapter 347 - 344: Fourth Turn Annihilation! Several Great Eras

Chapter 347: Chapter 344: Fourth Turn Annihilation! Several Great Eras

’He’s gone?’

Watching Fang Can vanish without a trace, all the Martial Artists fell silent for a moment.

Then, an intense feeling of relief burst forth from the depths of their hearts.

Fourth Turn Martial Artists were all beings with strong personalities, a kind of powerful single-mindedness.

Even Yang Xiao felt the pressure of having an Immortal looming over her.

While this didn’t affect her loyalty, with Fang Can’s departure, she couldn’t help but feel a sliver of comfort.

But then a new question arose: had Fang Can truly left?

Before that thought could spread, a series of light chuckles escaped from a woman’s lips.

"Hahahaha, that Immortal Master is finally gone," a woman in medieval armor chuckled.

Her name was Dalis. She was not a Fourth Turn from the Central Plains, but one of the Fourth Turn Martial Artists that Yang Xiao and the others later discovered in the civilizations of other continents.

With her were seven or eight other Fourth Turns from around the world, each of them laughing with expressions of relief.

"Dalis, Anniefa, what’s so funny?" Yang Xiao said coldly.

"Nothing, really. I just think it’s time we had a proper discussion about how the mortal realm should be divided," Anniefa sneered.

"We clearly possess such great power. We can’t just submit to another in everything, can we?"

Dalis clenched her fist lightly. "The strong deserve to have everything. Those people just need to submit to us."

Her words were met with silence from those around her.

The thousand-plus Heaven-Ascending Road Martial Artists present all agreed with her words in their hearts, but they also felt she was being a bit too hasty.

But in the next moment, everyone present frowned slightly.

They saw countless rocks and what looked like gunpowder flying toward them through space.

"See? Those so-called pacifists have already declared war on us," Dalis sneered. "They’re taking advantage of us gathering here while waiting for Fang Can to leave, making a final, desperate struggle by launching a rebellion against us."

"Those Martial Artists must have come up using the space elevators we built everywhere. It proves that we must keep these kinds of ascension channels firmly in our grasp."

Dalis and the other Martial Artists couldn’t help but sneer as they watched the rocks flying toward them from a distance.

It seemed they had been too gentle for too long, allowing these mortals to harbor the delusion that they could compete with them.

Such a mundane attack could be annihilated with a mere flick of a finger.

But then Dalis’s expression shifted as she noticed a piece of paper embedded in one of the rocks—a "Letter of Surrender."

With a hint of hesitation, she actively pulled that rock toward her.

But in the next moment, the faces of everyone present changed in horror.

They could feel the power within their bodies receding at a frantic pace.

Even though they were in space, it was as if they had returned to the ground.

Some First and Second Turn Martial Artists, exposed to outer space, began to suffocate in agony as the pressure imbalance caused their blood to boil.

’What’s going on?’ Panicked, Dalis subconsciously tried to speak with her Heart Image.

To her horror, she discovered her Heart Image couldn’t be transmitted. At the same time, she lost her ability to fly, and with no medium in outer space, her voice couldn’t travel either.

In an instant, the group of Martial Artists became lambs to the slaughter, helpless in the void of space.

The answer was—the Sixth Turn prohibition!

After arriving in this world, Fang Can had been very curious: how exactly did this Sixth Turn prohibition work?

Martial Artists were suppressed upon entering within 10,000 meters of the planet.

If the planet were split in half, would the prohibition still take effect?

Where was this Sixth Turn prohibition inscribed? Was it on the concept of the entire planet, or on some specific substance?

Out of curiosity, Fang Can decided to investigate the prohibition with a scientific mindset.

Thus, one day, Fang Can attacked an uninhabited part of the planet from outer space, digging continuously deep into the crust.

Finally, after penetrating several thousand meters beneath the surface, he discovered a kind of shimmering green, never-before-seen stone.

The entire mantle was practically filled with this stone, hard as diamond and found everywhere.

Simply by carrying this stone, or even just inhaling its dust, a Martial Artist would still be suppressed even in outer space, suffering a severe rejection-like reaction.

Because of its special effect on Martial Artists, and since he was its discoverer, Fang Can named it "Kryptonite."

Of course, you could also insist on calling it "Sea Stone."

The larger the piece of Kryptonite, the larger its area of effect and radiation.

Because the mantle was filled with this stone, the entire area within 10,000 meters of the surface was affected by the Kryptonite’s range.

Evidently, the Sixth Turn prohibition had been placed on this stone.

Fang Can guessed that this stone was originally a single, massive piece. After the Sixth Turn prohibition was placed on it, it was shattered by Ying Han and stuffed into the planet’s mantle.

And now, those other Martial Artists had used tools like ropes to remotely tether the Kryptonite as it entered the atmosphere. Then, swinging the ropes at more than ten times the speed of sound, they flung the Kryptonite, along with various fragments and dust, at the Fourth Turns.

Caught in a "first-encounter kill," the unprepared Fourth Turns lost their world-bending powers one by one, their strength plummeting to rock bottom once more.

"You are not great. Humanity is great!"

In the distance, the woman appointed by Fang Can as the Empress of the Empire spoke coldly via her Heart Image, her expression impassive.

As she spoke, the surrounding Martial Artists proceeded to saturate the area where the Fourth Turn Martial Artists were located with Kryptonite dust.

Reality isn’t like the movie version of *Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice*. A recovering Superman won’t give Batman the chance to fire a second Kryptonite bullet.

This was all built on a "first-encounter kill" made possible by an information advantage.

Had the Fourth Turns been more careful and destroyed the Kryptonite projectiles from a hundred meters away, instead of getting close to read the letter of surrender, the Empress’s forces would have found themselves in a perilous situation.

Had any of the Fourth Turns escaped, their side would have faced frenzied retaliation.

At that point, their only option would have been to fill the planet’s entire near-earth orbit with Kryptonite dust like space debris, a mutually destructive tactic to try and force the Fourth Turns off the planet.

’But at least I didn’t fail the Immortal Master’s expectations,’ the Empress thought, watching the Martial Artists in the distance being engulfed by Kryptonite dust.

From then on, this scene was recorded in the annals of history.

Fang Can’s disappearance served as the dividing line, completely splitting the era of the Service Empire.

The period from Celestial Emperor Fang’s establishment of the Service Empire to his departure was later known as the Golden Era.

This was the first and most wonderful era for the common people of the Empire.

Humanity lived in harmony, united as one, with interconnected minds. Life was prosperous, and they coexisted peacefully with their god.

The Empire’s foundational technology was developed during these 30 days.

The period from Fang Can’s disappearance to the death of the last Wallfacer was called the Silver Era.

During this period, the people lost their ability to connect their minds, and suspicion and internal conflict once again filled their interactions.

However, because the female officials appointed by Fang Can as Wallfacers were diligent and conscientious, free from corruption, the gap in the standard of living among the people was kept small. At the same time, they vigorously developed technology, successfully achieving interstellar travel within several hundred years.

With the death of the last Wallfacer, the Silver Era officially came to an end, replaced by the Bronze Era.

In this era, the once-suppressed Fourth Turns regained power.

Humanity became warlike and cruel, and the wealth gap between people expanded drastically.

Although they had entered an interstellar age, it was still possible for those at the bottom to struggle for basic sustenance. Ultimately, after 3,000 years, the Empire fractured into several different federations.

Thus began the Era of Heroines, a time of feuding federations.

In this generation, a multitude of heroines emerged.

A Martial Artist named Kong Qiu called for everyone to restore the ancient system, to imitate the Golden Era by establishing mental links in an age where rites had collapsed and morality had decayed.

To this end, Kong Qiu traveled between the major federations on a starship, but he was driven out from every one.

In this era, perhaps the only remnant of the Golden Era that could still be found were the statues of Fang Can.