108: Chapter 108 Fear grips the land, order is a thing of the past
"Truly a wonderful movement..."
As the chaos in the square intensified, Wu Xun looked intoxicated. He slightly squinted his vertical pupils, listening to the screams and chewing sounds coming from all around, as if enjoying a grand symphony.
He spread his arms wide, letting the thick stench of blood wash over him.
Just then.
Buzz!!!
A piercing sound of something slicing through the air suddenly resonated across the sky.
Immediately following that.
Three streaks of light fell like meteors, crashing violently onto the edge of the square.
Powerful Rule Power fluctuations instantly spread out, forcefully suppressing and dispersing the continuously spreading yellow poisonous mist.
When all the dust settled.
Three figures with sharp Auras were revealed.
The leader was a tall woman.
She wore the specially-made black clothes of the Yanlong Empire, her long hair dancing wildly in the night wind.
The woman's name was Su Weixue, a Squadron Leader of the Yanlong Empire's Bureau 749, an S-Rank Fifth-Tier Taboo Master, code-named [Winter].
Behind her were two others, both S-Rank First Order Taboo Masters.
"It's you again!!"
Seeing Wu Xun's figure atop the high building, Su Weixue's eyes, which looked as if carved from ice, revealed undisguised killing intent.
"Creating chaos, massacring civilians... you rats in the gutter all deserve to die!"
Before her voice had even faded.
Su Weixue fiercely swung the long blade in her hand.
Crack!!
An ice-blue blade light, a hundred meters long, instantly sliced through the Void Realm, carrying a terrifyingly low temperature that could freeze the Soul, slashing directly at the rooftop where Wu Xun was.
Wherever the blade light passed, even the air was frozen into white ice crystals.
This blade was a Taboo Item she had achieved Fusion with, containing extremely powerful Rule Power!
However, facing this terrifying strike, Wu Xun only gave a contemptuous smile.
"Hehe, beautiful lady... don't be so angry."
Just as the blade light was about to hit him.
Wu Xun's figure suddenly became blurred, like a reflection on the water's surface broken by a pebble.
Swish!
The blade light passed through his body, cleanly slicing off the top floor of the high building.
But Wu Xun's figure had already vanished from the spot.
"An afterimage?!"
Su Weixue's pupils constricted. While she was dazed, a Perception-type Taboo Master behind her suddenly shouted in terror.
"In the east! He's gone to the east!"
Hearing this, Su Weixue turned her head sharply.
Several kilometers away, in another bustling district of Xuan City, an identical yellow poisonous mist was actually rising at this moment!
Even more piercing screams were coming from that direction.
"Bastard!!"
Su Weixue gritted her teeth, the fury in her eyes almost enough to melt ice.
She finally understood.
The opponent had no intention of facing them head-on.
"Pursue! We must not let him escape!!"
Su Weixue's figure flashed, turning into an ice-blue streak of light as she took the lead in frantically chasing in that direction.
However.
This night was destined to be a nightmare for Xuan City.
Wu Xun was like a ghost, constantly jumping and weaving between various parts of the city.
Every where he went, he left behind a trail of corpses and endless fear.
His goal was clear... to make the behemoth that was the Yanlong Empire bleed, weaken, and even collapse amidst internal strife and external threats!!
...Land of Rebirth on the Other Shore, Rebirth Temple.
Inside the main hall, the incense was burning brightly.
Lin Chuan's evil buddha golden body sat upon the Lotus Pedestal, his half-closed buddha eyes deep as an abyss, as if containing all the darkness and evil in the world.
"I report to My Buddha."
Below the pedestal, Zhao Linfeng knelt respectfully on the ground, his forehead pressed against the cold floor.
"On the Yanlong Empire's side, great changes are constant. Mysterious Taboo Masters are continuously creating chaos within the Yanlong Empire!"
"Currently, the main forces of the Yanlong Empire's Bureau 749 have been completely pinned down, exhausted from running around."
Zhao Linfeng's voice was filled with respect and piety as he reported various pieces of information to Lin Chuan.
"Mm..."
Hearing this, Lin Chuan responded indifferently to Zhao Linfeng, then asked:
"Those thirty-six nations in the south... how are they now?"
Hearing the question, Zhao Linfeng's spirits lifted, and he quickly replied:
"Reporting to My Buddha, everything has settled."
"The resistance forces of those thirty-six nations have all been... purified."
"Now, all thirty-six nations have been incorporated into our Land of Rebirth's territory."
"All citizens have converted."
"According to statistics... the total population of the Land of Rebirth on the Other Shore is now four hundred million!"
After Zhao Linfeng finished speaking, Lin Chuan fell into thought.
Four hundred million Believers could provide him with about four billion points of Power Of Will every three months!
Four billion Power Of Will.
Converted into taboo value, that would be 4 points!
This number sounds like a lot.
But... it's still not enough!
"You may leave."
After calming his mind, Lin Chuan spoke, instructing Zhao Linfeng once more:
"Continue to monitor the movements of the Yanlong Empire... if there are any changes, report immediately."
"Yes!"
Zhao Linfeng bowed respectfully and then slowly backed out of the main hall.
Once the hall returned to silence.
Lin Chuan opened the [wish power mall] on his panel.
Looking at the balance of hundreds of millions of Power Of Will, he did not hesitate at all.
"Exchange... [Blood Crow Servant (Upgraded Version)] X100!"
Whoosh!!
As a massive amount of Power Of Will was consumed.
In the Void Realm above the main hall, pitch-black vortices suddenly emerged.
Following that.
Strange birds, their bodies burning with dark red flames, flew out from the vortices.
They had no physical form, being composed entirely of pure rules and curses.
Each one possessed strength comparable to an A-rank Abnormality!
"Go..."
Lin Chuan whispered, issuing commands to all the Blood Crow Servants.
In the next moment, over a thousand mutated blood crows let out a synchronized screech, then turned into streaks of black light, rushing out of the hall and flying to all corners of the world.
As they spread out.
Clear, realistic, yet incredibly cruel images began to piece together in Lin Chuan's mind.
First was the Dongsheng Continent beneath his feet.
Aside from the Neon Country shrouded in pink mist and the Yanlong Empire being eroded by the flames of war and abnormalities.
In most other regions, although there were scattered abnormal events, the overall situation was still under control.
His vision extended southward.
Crossing the vast desert was the overlord of the Southern Continent—the Peacock Holy Nation.
The scene there, even for Lin Chuan as a taboo, caused waves to rise in his heart.
Chaos!
Indescribable chaos!
The entire continent seemed to have turned into a giant Gu pot.
In the center of that land stood a Spirit Mountain, ten thousand fathoms high and shrouded in buddha light.
But that buddha light was not holy; instead, it faintly exuded an eerie crimson.
Countless Believers in rags and skin and bones were bowing at every step, worshipping that Spirit Mountain like the walking dead.
And in the Heng River, the mother river of the 'Peacock Holy Nation' that traversed the entire continent...
A twisted shadow, so massive it was immeasurable and covered in rotting, oozing sores, was slowly writhing with the river water.
Every time it turned over, it would trigger a catastrophic blood-colored flood, swallowing countless lives along the banks.
Further away.
There were also creatures as huge as mountains, with four long tusks, resembling War Elephants, trampling wantonly across the land.
On their backs, they carried palaces built of white bones, from which came bursts of hair-raising laughter.
Using the vision of the Blood Crow Servants, Lin Chuan looked toward the west—the West Continent.
However, when the blood crows tried to approach that continent.
They were blocked.
The entire West Continent was shrouded in a layer of grey mist so thick it wouldn't dissipate.
That mist seemed to contain some kind of supreme Rule Power; even the mutated blood crows would instantly disintegrate upon contact.
"Cannot see through..."
"Cannot enter..."
Lin Chuan's heart skipped a beat.
The feeling these grey mists gave him was actually several degrees more dangerous than the painting of the Kunlun Ruins.
Besides that, across the sea from the 'Yanlong Empire' was the Red Continent.
The former world hegemon—the Star-Striped Nation—now no longer existed.
In its place were over a hundred large and small independent kingdoms, attacking each other with constant warfare.
And in the sky above the chaotic Red Continent.
A giant eye, devoid of any emotion, hung quietly in the firmament, replacing the sun's position.
That was... the [Emperor Eye]!
Under its gaze.
All sorts of terrifying taboo shadows that only existed in nightmares were walking brazenly among the ruins of the cities.