spiritual scholar

Fengmu incident

Sun Sheng's feats stirred Su Xiao's emotions.

"A true man should be like this!"

Sun Sheng's "Sheng" wasn't a title but his name. His surname was Sun, and his given name was Sheng.

Previously, some had questioned the audacity of Sun Sheng's name for not avoiding the words "saint" and "sage." But now, with such achievements, who could question it? Who would dare?

Su Xiao admired, "People often say that sage-level strength requires a first-tier life curse to achieve. I wonder if Sun Sheng completed the ascension of his life curse or relied on a combination of numerous second-tier life curses to slay the Marquis."

The former was certainly respectable, but the latter was even more awe-inspiring.

Victory through weakness!

Hearing Su Xiao's praise for Sun Sheng, Rosalía smiled happily, as if she were the one being complimented.

"We won, the pressure is reduced, and Sun Sheng let me and some soldiers retire, saying that the 'Big Six' will specially recruit me so I can benefit from the secrets within."

Su Xiao frowned and said, "After winning, shouldn't the soldiers of the Xiping Secret Realm battlefield support other battlefields?"

There were still many battlefields in China!

"The situations in other battlefields are different." Rosalía shook her head. "The military doesn't want the war to escalate and has no solution."

"In general, human forces are far weaker than those of the evil creatures. Do you remember the Fengmu Incident?"

Su Xiao fell silent.

The Fengmu Incident!

At that time, armies from all over the world gathered, people were passionate, international attitudes were unified, sage-level forces assembled, and many top-tier cultivators of the ninth rank aimed to kill the marquises and bring peace by clearing the internal secret realms.

One of the targets of China's army was the "Fengyan Secret Realm."

Unexpectedly, when the Fengyan Secret Realm faced a desperate situation, the marquis-level evil creatures awakened the great evil creature they had worshipped and sacrificed to for a long time, the sea beast "Fengmu"!

At that time, humanity believed that great evil creatures and Leviathan-level evil creatures were in hibernation, only having defensive instincts, and wouldn't really take action.

But Fengmu awoke!

The awakened great evil creature Fengmu had no rationality at all. It was an indiscriminate plunderer and destroyer, a lunatic. It awoke from the depths of the southeastern Pacific Ocean, near Easter Island, and created the largest tornado storm in a century, moving towards China's interior!

At the same time, many secret realms within China simultaneously attacked, holding back China's military.

China's army had to defend the secret realm exits, engage in emergency rescue, and cooperate with top-tier cultivators to slay the marquises and fight the great evil creature.

That battle was a national tragedy.

Over 190 million civilians were directly affected, more than a billion were indirectly affected, and the prosperous coastal areas were hit by massive tsunamis. China's most precious sage-level forces charged into the storm to fight Fengmu!

Three of China's main naval fleets, six aircraft carrier battle groups, and four were hit so hard they lost their structure!

The East Sea Fleet practically ceased to exist.

Even the naval forces from allied countries were heavily affected, with significant losses. The U.S. Hawaii Islands were in Fengmu's path and suffered, with much of the land submerged.

China's Lunar Fleet and the Human Deep Space Joint Fleet launched bombardments from space, but Fengmu retaliated from 700 kilometers up in the atmosphere!

The wreckage of satellites, space warships, and deep-space warships fell into the global storm, the farthest piece reaching the outskirts of Moscow.

Since then, the Human Deep Space Joint Fleet declared its disbandment, and the Earth Defense Council never regained its previous cohesion.

Brutal!

Tragic!

Midway through the battle, China's Taoist leader personally sought North Russia to buy their stored super nukes.

China's nuclear arsenal was nearly exhausted!

Finally, as Fengmu advanced to the western Pacific, approaching the Asian island arcs, the Chinese went mad.

The world's soldiers also went mad.

If China were breached, the next targets would be Europe and the Americas. No one could escape the catastrophe.

They proposed a strategy: since non-spiritual weapons had little effect on Fengmu, and spiritually enhanced ranged weapons greatly diminished in the storm, and technology couldn't yet let spiritual energy attach to weapons for long-range flight, why not put people on the missiles?

Put people on the missiles!

Put people on the descending weapons!

The insane Fengmu was finally stopped by even crazier humans. Severely injured, Fengmu was targeted by humanity's airspace fleet, which quickly modified weapons to place airborne troops on them.

They bombarded fiercely!

Eventually, Fengmu was killed by humanity.

That legendary Joint Space Force had only one survivor. He happened to land inside Fengmu's "brain" and, as Fengmu died, absorbed much of its star matter, reborn from death and catastrophe.

That person is now at the pinnacle of China's sage-level strength, "Dragon Slayer" Zhang Fan.

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According to current spiritual energy theories, the terrifying evil creature Fengmu that ravaged the world was merely a lower-tier great evil creature.

An incomplete, forcibly awakened, irrational lower-tier great evil creature!

How many great evil creatures are still on Earth?

How many great evil creatures are there in the solar system?

How powerful are the Leviathan-level evil creatures above the great evil creatures?

One doesn't dare to think; it's terrifying.

Defeatism and escapism were rampant during that period, and many evil cults spread widely.

But there were also those who believed that if humanity could kill one great evil creature, they could kill a second and a third. If they could kill great evil creatures, they could kill Leviathans.

But not now.

Su Xiao said softly, "So, Sun Sheng doesn't want the war to escalate? Maintaining it at a low intensity and guarding the secret realm entrances to prevent the evil creatures from directly entering Earth."

"Sun Sheng doesn't think so, but most of the military does." Rosalía shook her head. "It's hard to say who's right. During the later stages of the Fengmu Incident, some evil creatures in the secret realms were even frightened by Fengmu and didn't dare to attack humans, hoping humanity would stop Fengmu."

"He believes in offensive tactics to test the limits of the evil creatures, seizing secret realms and star matter to cultivate more cultivators. But some leaders think it's gambling with humanity's fate."

"It's not clear who's right or wrong; it's just a matter of perspective."

"Some believe in humanity's potential, thinking that as the evil creatures gradually recover, humanity will also grow stronger. When great evil creatures walk the earth, there will be ways to counter them, so the struggle with the evil creatures should be prolonged, keeping a low profile and waiting for our strength to grow."

"Others believe that as long as the evil creatures keep attacking and creating emergencies that harm civilians, there's no reason to retreat but to fight them. After the Fengmu Incident, humanity's development didn't slow but significantly accelerated, with many new technologies born from Fengmu's corpse."

Su Xiao looked at Rosalía and asked with a smile, "What's your view?"

Rosalía smiled and said, "I support Sun Sheng's view. There should be a great war. Even if we fear great evil creatures and Leviathans, if we don't destroy all the secret realms, we must fight until the evil creatures no longer dare to harass the people."

"If worse comes to worst, we can abandon the Earth's surface, hiding in the secret realms, underground cities, or space. Let the craziest great evil creatures emerge and see if they won't attack the evil creatures too!"

Her words were filled with killing intent.