493: Bloody Hell on Earth, the Emperor of Chu ordered

This bloody scene was not only happening in Yue Province.

Across the various commanderies of Yue Province, anyone connected to the Miaojiang Three Regions faced reckoning. Local prominent families involved in selling Longevity Rice were all purged, with over a dozen major families massacred.

Even in the neighboring Xiang Province, the same events were unfolding.

The numerous great clans and prominent families in the two provinces were utterly astonished.

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In the autumn of the 5125th year of the Great Chu calendar, on the last day of the seventh month,

Lord Shao Si Chu Jiang, Deputy Commander of the Demon Suppression Division, personally oversaw Xiang and Yue Provinces, eradicating the Miaojiang Disaster Rice, executing dozens of traitorous factions, and slaughtering aristocratic families, causing widespread shock throughout the region.

On the first day of the eighth month, Yue Province suddenly dispatched 70,000 elite armored troops, secretly accompanied by 6,000 Demon Suppression Guards; Xiang Province sent all 80,000 of its Heavenly Xiang Army, supplemented by 5,000 Demon Suppression Guards. The two provinces together amassed 160,000 battle-hardened soldiers and deployed them to the Miaojiang Three Regions.

On that day, the two provinces presented over a dozen pieces of irrefutable evidence of Miaojiang's rebellion, and then, citing rebellion, they sealed the borders with their troops. Strict orders prohibited passage through the three regions; violators would be executed immediately. Beacon fires blazed, obscuring the sun, and the world was in a state of panic.

The Miaojiang Three Regions trembled upon hearing the news. The three great Tusi sent urgent messages, crying blood as they pleaded: the people of Miaojiang have been submissive for generations, and they are willing to offer the chief culprit of the Longevity Rice as atonement. However, the two provinces still refused to withdraw their troops, and the stance of armed confrontation had already formed.

When the news reached the Imperial Capital, the court was in an uproar. The Yan King's faction seized the opportunity to impeach Chu Jiang, fiercely denouncing him for unauthorized deployment of border troops and disregard for imperial laws, and further slandering the loyal Miaojiang for betraying the empire and causing internal strife, begging for severe punishment. The Minister of War, leading the pro-war faction, strongly opposed all dissenting opinions, advocating for increased troops to guard the border and suggesting the construction of a double-layered defense around Miaojiang in case of unforeseen events.

That night, the Yan King entered the palace, weeping as he petitioned, earnestly requesting the strength of the Imperial Clan to capture Chu Jiang to eliminate future troubles and prevent undermining imperial authority. The Emperor's decree forbade it, and the King harbored resentment, actually defying the imperial edict and fleeing under the cover of night, his whereabouts unknown.

The next day, the Emperor issued a decree: the three commanderies of Miaojiang are frequently plagued by unrest. Chu Jiang is specially ordered to hold the imperial insignia in Dian, Xi, and Lei Prefectures, to oversee military and political affairs, take over the Tusi yamen, and all officials, great and small, must act according to his orders.

As soon as the imperial edict was issued, the four seas were in turmoil.

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“Records of Chu Jiang's Border Supervision” from the Great Chu Historical Records

Great Chu Historian, Erha Ji

...

Chu Jiang's major actions in the Southern Nine Provinces could be said to have stirred the hearts of countless major powers. Everyone knew the terror of the Miaojiang Three Regions; this place was different from the Border Three Prefectures in the east.

Even if Wu Ling King had a Breakthrough, he was only at the Rongtian Triple Layer.

But in the Miaojiang Three Regions, there were still two old monsters slumbering in the ancestral land: the Miaojiang Great Shaman Grand Priest Yin Jiuli, and the King of a Hundred Gu, Chi You.

If not handled properly, it was entirely possible for things to go awry, or even for him to die in Miaojiang.

Ordinary people didn't know, but some top forces, such as the Eight Great Families, the Ten Righteous Sects, the Ten Demonic Sects, and other powers, naturally knew some inside information. The Bing Shen Plan of Miaojiang was not a secret among the top echelons.

In fact,

the God-Making Plan was not unique to Miaojiang; it was just that others might not be as rampant, requiring the killing of people and seizing of souls to refine living beings.

Each War God had different abilities, and the Materials and conditions required also varied. Such exaggerated actions as Miaojiang's naturally attracted the attention of Great Chu.

However, as the first War God likely to appear in the world, many important figures paid close attention.

...

Lei Prefecture.

The Demon Suppression Guard led by Chu Jiang galloped all the way. Along both sides of the road were rotting, foul-smelling skeletons, some already becoming food for wild dogs and vultures.

There were even local Miaojiang people walking towards Leizhou City, their bodies stiff, expressions numb, and eyes vacant.

Clearly, their two souls had already been extracted.

“Have the people of the Elder Council gone mad?”

Yue Xuanji watched intently. Along the way, she had seen more than one group. They not only extracted the souls of the indigenous people but also didn't spare their own people.

Some commoners, upon seeing people in Demon Suppression Guard uniforms, showed even more terror, directly kneeling on the ground, not daring to speak, as if they had encountered demons.

Fu Yunxuan's face was frosty. After the Lord ordered the border sealed, the people of Miaojiang could not go to other prefectures to collect living people and souls.

These beasts simply preyed on the people within their own jurisdiction. Although this had happened before, it was only on a small scale. Now, they were even more brazen.

In a dilapidated village, at the entrance, a six or seven-year-old girl was shivering in the cold wind, her feet already purple, covered in frostbitten cracks. Beside her lay two stiff corpses.

Seeing Chu Jiang and the others pass by, her eyes showed fear.

The little girl tremblingly said, “Sir, can you not kill me? The adult just now said... he already let me go!”

Seeing Chu Jiang and the others remain silent,

the little girl's tears were almost falling: “Sir, I'll bury my parents first, and then... I'll go with you right away!”

But these stiff corpses, no matter how hard the little girl tried, she couldn't move them an inch. She could only hear her weak, low sobs.

“Mommy, Erniu has no strength...”

No matter how the world situation changed, ordinary people always lived in misery. They had no human rights, and no one cared. Anyone could defecate and urinate on them.

“You are very good!”

Chu Jiang smiled grimly, his gaze turning north.

“Kill!”

The next second,

dozens of Demon Suppression Guards soared into the air towards the north.

“Don't worry, we are not bad people!”

Yue Xuanji picked up the little girl, feeling her still trembling heartbeat. What must have happened to make a little girl who should have been carefree turn into this?

“Find a pit and bury these two, please!”

Fu Yunxuan's eyes darkened. Along the way, they had seen too much tragedy. This Miaojiang had become a living hell, and the high-ranking officials had fallen into madness.

“Yes!”

In a few breaths, the little girl's parents were already buried.

“Thank you, big sister, you are good people, unlike them...”

The little girl murmured.

The two women naturally understood who the “them” in the little girl's words referred to: the Demon Suppression Guards of the Miaojiang Three Regions, who had now completely become the thugs of the three great Tusi, no longer fighting demons and evil.

Instead, they cooperated with them in wantonly seizing people, killing them, and extracting their souls.

The Demon Suppression Guards here had completely fallen.

That's why the people here were so terrified when they saw the Demon Suppression Guard uniforms.

In another village,

crackling sounds and various wanton laughter came from the village.

“Sir, spare my son's life. He's only nineteen, he can't go!”

A thirty-year-old woman, her face full of wrinkles, now looked as if she were fifty, her face ashen.

“Get lost! The Lianyun Eighteen Forts is inviting him to enjoy a good life, not to die! Stop dawdling, or don't blame me for being impolite; I'll arrest you too!”

The woman was kicked away, a mouthful of blood spewed out, and despair immediately filled her heart. The Lianyun Eighteen Forts had already come three times in ten days.

Each time was worse than the last.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Groups of Demon Suppression Guards broke through the air and entered.