flstandardbreds Chapter 352 Past Dreams 23
Chapter 352 Past Dreams 23
Under the focused gaze of the six people, the images on the light screen continued to flow.
The sudden surge of resentment, like a tsunami, along with the evil spirits and monsters stirring up trouble in the chaos, caused the order of the entire demonic world to collapse in people's hearts after only half a year.
Although the atmosphere of the entire cultivation world had become much clearer after the joint efforts of Lan Xichen and Nie Huaisang to clean up and reform before the Great Calamity of Resentment, and Wei Wuxian's creativity exploded with a series of new products based on the Chinese technology he learned from Wei Chaoyan's memories, which propelled the world to develop explosively in a short period of time, and its prosperity once rivaled that of China in the early days of modern reform and opening up.
However, the development period was indeed too short. This wave of rapid development and innovation only developed the surface of the immortal sects and the common people. It did not touch their deep-rooted outdated ideas, nor did it bring about a complete transformation in everyone's mindset. There are still a considerable number of people with bad character who are very good at hiding their true nature and who hold considerable power.
In times of peace, with the Lan Nie family and others suppressing them, they would lie low with malicious intent. But when the great calamity of resentment arrives and the world is in chaos, they cannot contain their restlessness and emerge to stir up trouble.
Most importantly, they took advantage of the fact that their superiors, Nie Huaisang and Lan Xichen, were too busy to attend to other matters, and came out to incite people and stir up trouble.
At that time, the man-eating fortress on Niejiaxing Road Ridge also began to have problems under the onslaught of the overwhelming tide of resentment!
Although Nie Huaisang had asked Wei Wuxian for help regarding the sword spirit within the fortress after the Guanyin Temple incident, the problem of the cannibalistic fortress was ancient and extremely difficult to resolve. The sword spirit, rich in resentment, and the corpses used to suppress it had, over the long years, become inseparable, posing a significant challenge to Wei Wuxian. Furthermore, Mo Xuanyu's spiritual power was weak at the time and could not support Wei Wuxian's soul operating at high intensity for an extended period. Therefore, they could only temporarily set up an array to purify and suppress it, leaving it for when his spiritual power was stronger to deal with.
Therefore, we must not allow its outer formation to break and become ineffective, which would only worsen the already dire situation.
Therefore, Nie Huaisang rushed to the scene immediately to take charge and direct his subordinates to make amends, intending to delay the speed at which the formation broke and failed, until Wei Wuxian arrived to deal with it!
Meanwhile, Lan Xichen, far away in Gusu, led a dozen or so highly skilled elders and hundreds of disciples down the mountain immediately after the resentment erupted, rushing to the former site of the Yunmeng Jiang Clan's Lotus Pier and the Lanling Jin Clan's Golden Lintai, doing his utmost to control the situation in both places.
Meanwhile, they continuously dispatched fierce corpses Wen Ning and Nie Mingjue, who moved freely in the resentment, as well as ghost generals under Wei Wuxian's command, to rush thousands of miles to other cultivation sects and families, mobilizing spare manpower to support areas such as Muxi Mountain where resentment was erupting.
Lan Qiren remained at Cloud Recesses, efficiently handling the logistical work for Lan Xichen and the others.
As for Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, Zezang, and others, they chose the Yiling Burial Mound, which was the most serious and dangerous place, and tried to repair the outer wall, which was mostly broken and ineffective, in order to minimize the speed and scale of the outflow of resentment and fierce corpses and ghosts.
At the same time, Wei Wuxian also bears the heavy responsibility of figuring out how to resolve this calamity.
As a result, all the high-level people who could make decisions and easily control the overall situation were entangled, and a certain degree of vacuum appeared in the control of the internal situation.
Doesn't that give these scoundrels an opportunity to take advantage of the situation?
Instead of believing that we should unite and work together to overcome the disaster, they saw it as a golden opportunity to reclaim our former glory and take control of our lives!
They didn't think their actions would bring about their own destruction, because they knew that even if Wei Wuxian, Lan Xichen, and the others whom they hated fought to the death, they would not let the end of the world truly come to earth!
With Wei Wuxian and the others blocking the danger in front of them, they are safe, and it is also conducive to their operation!
Unfortunately, these petty people underestimated the destructive power and severity of this great calamity of resentment, as well as the fact that the common people, whose minds were not yet awakened in the face of life and death, and that most of the cultivators were afraid of death and more likely to cause trouble than to accomplish anything.
Even though Lan Xichen, Nie Huaisang, and others racked their brains to plan, even though Wei Wuxian and others exhausted their efforts and did their best, even though the Baoshan Sanren lineage and other hermit masters who had always lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests and were detached from worldly affairs all came out of the mountains to help.
Even that couldn't stop the increasingly dire and deteriorating situation!
In the end, less than half a year later, just as the flowers of late spring had faded, the seriously injured Nie Huaisang led less than half of the Nie clan disciples, along with a few hundred remaining members of the aristocratic families in Qinghe-Qishan territory, and with the assistance of the ghost generals sent by Nie Mingjue and Wei Wuxian, they fought and retreated with great difficulty to Gusu territory!
The entire area north of Qinghe and Qishan, and extending 500 li towards Suzhou, has fallen!
Almost simultaneously, the area southwest of the original Yunmeng Lotus Pier site to the Lanling Jinlintai site also fell, becoming a paradise for resentment, evil spirits, and monsters, with no living people left behind!
Thus, of the entire world of demonic cultivation, only less than a quarter of its area, centered around Gusu, remains!