Chapter 823: Searching
"What difference is there between beyond the pass and inside the pass?" After muttering to himself, Bai Mo's figure transformed into a few wisps of green smoke, like a ghost, silently vanishing from before the tomb.
"Godfather (Tianxie), we'll come back to see you again." Seeing that they couldn't get any useful information from Bai Mo, the three women each cast an Earth Wall spell, working together to rebury Mo Tianxie's co-burial coffin.
They clasped their hands together, bowing lightly three times, then immediately soared on their swords towards Xuanwu Pass.
...
Under the call of the "Enter the Pass" banner, millions of cultivators began to flock to Xuanwu Pass from all directions.
Indeed, there were countless rare treasures and spirit springs here, but all of them already had masters.
Large and small battles, all revolving around resource contention, quickly ignited across Xuanwu Pass.
Humans ate demons.
Demons ate humans.
Demons ate demons.
Alliances, betrayals, life and death, seizing and being seized, eating and being eaten—these dramas played out every single day.
Xuanwu Pass once again transformed into the ultimate Gu cultivation ground, relentlessly burning the lives of the weak to fuel the strong.
...
"Is this... a human-demon battlefield of the natives?"
"Looks like we're a bit unlucky."
"The highest combat power in this world is Soul Transformation, roughly equivalent to the Empire's five-tier superhumans. As long as we don't encounter them head-on, we should be relatively safe..."
"...Wuwuwu..."
"Du Nai, say less. Who in the team doesn't know your mouth is the most venomous? Whatever you say comes true."
Four young people, clad in combat suits of vastly different styles, suddenly appeared in a mountain cave in this world after a flash of light.
"Captain, do you know what exactly this Historical Text we're looking for is?"
"The Historical Text... rumor has it, it's a treasure that those big shots up there are all searching for. It holds the secrets of True Immortals..." The captain, who had fully switched into combat mode, explained to the new team members behind him while scanning for potential dangers around them.
"It holds the secrets of True Immortals? How could they let us go after it then? Captain, are you joking?"
They knew well that their team was just one of hundreds of thousands of unremarkable special operations teams within the Divine Terra Empire, with average member combat power at the third-tier. With various equipment buffs, they could collectively contend with a fourth-tier individual for a short period.
"I heard it's because this place is a cursed land..."
"I also heard it from my father. Two hundred years ago, he was a colonel in the Imperial Expeditionary Force. The military had originally arranged for his team to be the first vanguard to enter this cluster of worlds to conduct pioneering wars.
But due to a sudden and devastating disaster that erupted in this cluster of worlds, the Empire halted all exploration activities. It wasn't until thirty years ago that a small group of people secretly restarted the previous plan."
"So, it's because the big shots up there are afraid of the curses left by the disaster that they're sending us to be cannon fodder to scout the way?"
"Congratulations, you've most likely guessed correctly."
"Captain, since you know all this, why did you still come?"
"Do you think we'd have any opportunities left if we stayed in the Empire?" Captain Yu Xinyue suddenly sighed.
"The Empire's fourth-generation mass-produced main combat mechanical soldiers have already stepped into the third-tier threshold of combat power. And purely as soldiers, in the eyes of the upper echelons, we're probably inferior to them."
"We're afraid of death, they're not."
"We still possess the redundant morality of being human."
"But they don't."
Speaking of which, Captain Solun couldn't help but recall everything that happened ten years ago when he, alongside the mechanical soldiers, suppressed a riot on a certain flagship.
Mechanical soldiers descended from the sky, mercilessly slaughtering every life form not marked as an ally.
Whether they were the old and weak, or women and children.
In the end, only scorched earth remained in the target area; not a single piece of armor was left.
The riot was suppressed perfectly.
Through indiscriminate slaughter, the machines even directly uprooted the resistance army's guerrilla forces.
The brutality of their methods was such that he, as a normal soldier with a shred of conscience, not a killing machine, knew he could never accomplish it.
...
"So, how should we go about finding the Historical Text?"
"What exactly is the Historical Text?"
In an effort to pull their captain out of his deep contemplation, the others tried hard to change the subject.
"I haven't seen it either."
"..."
"But we have a detection Purple Windbell. Once activated, it will automatically chime when it gets close to people or objects related to the Historical Text."
"Ding-a-ling-ling~"
"Ding-a-ling-ling~"
"..."
"Captain, is this Purple Windbell... a bit problematic?"
"Watch your words. This is an item bestowed by an Immortal."
"..."
"Who's there!" a strange female voice shouted.
"We are humans." The captain, having already learned the strangers' characteristics from his bio-radar, took the initiative to emerge from the darkness and replied.
Originally, he didn't want to have too much interaction with unrelated natives, but precisely when these three women arrived, the Purple Windbell chimed.
"Human cultivators?"
The four individuals' strange attire clearly raised the vigilance of Mo Fengwu and the others.
After parting ways with Bai Mo, they had flown all the way to Xuanwu Pass on their swords.
Filled with aspirations of treasures aplenty after entering the pass, they dove headfirst into this place.
After half a year of relentless slaughter, the few of them finally understood Bai Mo's words from back then.
"There's no difference at all between inside the pass and beyond the pass."
Everywhere, endless struggles for resources were ongoing.
To advance further, one had to contend, to seize, to strike down competitors.
"We are merely human cultivators passing through."
Accompanied by the ding-a-ling sounds, two more people emerged from the darkness.
They were so calm because, using their bio-radar, they had discovered that the three women before them were only at the Foundation Establishment cultivation stage, equivalent to second-tier.
"These women, there's a high probability they've come into contact with something related to the Historical Text. I need to find a way to extract some information." The captain quietly turned off the Purple Windbell's switch, and the cave immediately fell silent.
"Then please make way, we still have business to attend to."
"Is your business referring to this?" The last person from the four-member team walked over from the direction Mo Fengwu and the other two had come from, carrying a lion's head.
"A serpent-tailed lion beast, equivalent to a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, actually died so silently? It must have been a Golden Core cultivator who made a move."
Just because they snatched a spirit herb it was guarding, this lion had chased the three of them for half a day...
"Yes, thank you, Senior." Mo Fengwu, whose attitude quickly shifted, gracefully curtsied towards Captain Yu Xinyue, who was leading the group.
"I have a few questions for you."
"Please speak, Senior."
"Ding-a-ling~"
"Ding-a-ling~"
The Purple Windbell in Yu Xinyue's hand chimed again, and the eyes of Mo Fengwu and the other two women became hazy.
"Captain? You..." The only female member of the team stared at Yu Xinyue with a suspicious gaze.
"Qingtian, don't think too much into it. I merely used the power of the Purple Windbell to temporarily hypnotize them."
Suspicious gazes x3.
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