Chapter 64: Chapter 64 Valley Master of Stargazing Valley
“Human-caused?”
“Yes!”
As Xu Qu’s certainty became apparent, Wang Sheng quickly recovered.
With the Mechanical Giant Beast having appeared, something human-caused wasn’t really out of the question; the problem didn’t lie there.
“How did you figure out it was human-caused?”
Xu Qu then said, “You should be aware that I can treat the Martial Artist Plague, right? This snow is related to the Martial Artist Plague. Of course, I can’t prove it, but I can only tell you that much.”
…
He had already cured everyone in Qingshan Village. Other than causing farming to halt, the snow wouldn’t impact Qingshan Village, which he found hard to prove.
Wang Sheng fell silent for a while and then said, “You say this snow will have much impact… Never mind, it doesn’t concern us anymore!”
He had foreseen this situation.
If they were powerless before the snowfall, they were even more so after it.
Xu Qu also fell silent for a while before saying, “It will have some impact, but for most ordinary people, it won’t be significant. The ones truly affected will be the Martial Artists, especially the lower-level ones.”
With the outbreak of the Martial Artist Plague, those below the Third Grade essentially stood little chance of survival.
The two fell silent again, and eventually, Wang Sheng spoke up, “Go back to cultivation.”
The outbreak of the Martial Artist Plague was quickly ensuing, meaning the decisive battle between King Jianhe and King Yong Nian had begun, or even ended.
…
Indeed, that was the case. After staying quiet for over a month, King Jianhe initiated the attack.
King Yong Nian also emerged at a crucial moment to meet the challenge.
It was unknown what King Jianhe used, but even without the Mechanical Giant Beast, he was somehow able to momentarily withstand King Yong Nian, a Great Grandmaster, by utilizing his Martial Artists to form one of the highest-end military formations, the Golden Dragon Locking Sky Formation.
This formation consisted of five Grandmasters, forty-nine Ninth Grade Martial Artists, eighty-one Martial Artists between Ninth Grade and Third Grade, and nine hundred ninety-nine Martial Artists of Third Grade or below.
With over a thousand Martial Artists, especially with so many high-level ones, King Jianhe had played his hand. Of course, the power of the Golden Dragon Locking Sky Formation was strong enough to match a Great Grandmaster for a short period.
King Yong Nian couldn’t counter it and was on the brink of a downturn. Once the Golden Dragon Locking Sky Formation dealt with the other Martial Artists under King Yong Nian, it could assist King Jianhe in combat against King Yong Nian, and victory wasn’t impossible for King Jianhe.
But just at that moment, a heavy snowfall occurred.
The Martial Artists forming the Golden Dragon Locking Sky Formation took a devastating blow instantly; nine hundred ninety-nine Martial Artists below Third Grade perished on the spot, and the others also suffered varying impacts.
The Golden Dragon Locking Sky Formation collapsed, and soon after, it seemed like King Jianhe’s ultimate card had run out of time.
King Jianhe faced a great defeat!
For King Yong Nian, Shuzhou was now easy to seize.
Wang Sheng heard this news a week after the snowfall, brought by a Martial Artist who had been out handling affairs.
The news had spread throughout Shuzhou.
Before his defeat, King Jianhe had cried out, “Not my fault in battle,” while also sharply criticizing King Yong Nian for his ruthless and merciless nature, uncaring for the lives of the people of Shuzhou.
Moreover, Wang Sheng received another piece of news.
The Sun Family from Lijiang Town, since the war broke out, had mostly stayed at home and hardly ever come out.
But this time, the Martial Artists of the Sun Family nearly faced annihilation.
They were never a particularly powerful family; the Martial Artists of the family were only somewhat better off with an old ancestor around.
“Yun Sheng, would you consider this a kind of revenge?”
Li Yongfeng had a peculiar expression when he came to discuss this matter.
The Sun Family were, in a strict sense, enemies of Wang Sheng, who had been contemplating how to teach the Sun Family a lesson thereafter.
Now, it did not matter anymore—the Sun Family had nearly been wiped out.
“I had completely forgotten about that!”
Wang Sheng himself had forgotten that the Martial Artist Plague could also affect the Sun Family.
“Fate really is a fascinating thing.”
The disease that originally threatened him had unexpectedly taken “revenge” for him.
His complexion was not much better than that of Li Yongfeng.
“The Green Flood Dragon Gang also suffered heavy losses, it is said that they immediately contracted their power, but now many people must hate King Yong Nian to death, it’s really too cruel!”
Li Yongfeng himself also felt some fear afterward.
He had heard that many ordinary people had also died in the heavy snowfall.
If it weren’t for Xu Qu and Wang Sheng, their village would not know what might have happened.
It was also because King Yong Nian had attacked that they had to leave their original village, and Li Yongfeng unconsciously developed a dislike for King Yong Nian, a sentiment shared by most people in Shuzhou.
“Brother Feng, keep a close watch on the vicinity of Qingshan Village recently.”
King Yong Nian had won, Shuzhou would experience great chaos!
“Understood, we have people patrolling those critical roads around the clock.”
After chatting for a while, Li Yongfeng left.
Wang Sheng continued to work on his skills.
While doing so, he also thought about the matter between King Yong Nian and King River.
Wasn’t King River being too deliberate!
Was King River really the kind of person who, upon losing, would maliciously lash out at his opponent?
If that were true, King River would have let the Mechanical Giant Beast explode, causing greater destruction, and be even more ruthless.
To condemn King Yong Nian for doing such a thing, could it be that King River was a hypocrite?
But given King River’s previous demeanor, he wasn’t that kind of person, which made Wang Sheng think King River was being deliberate, likely aiming to publicize the incident.
“Deliberate publicity? Or hypocrisy? What purpose does it serve for King River to do this after his defeat?”
In the law of the jungle, even if the cruelty of King Yong Nian was publicized, once everything settled, things would still proceed as they would, and the presence of individual powers diminished the voice of the commoners and martial artists tremendously.
“I hope it doesn’t affect me!” Wang Sheng couldn’t understand and could only pray it wouldn’t impact him.
When immortals fight, mortals suffer!
His concern over the course of the war between King River and King Yong Nian stemmed from his fear of their actions bringing earth-shattering consequences upon him.
Especially after the appearance of both the “Human Emperor’s Decree” and the Mechanical Giant Beast, this concern grew even more.
Even as a bystander, he was not guaranteed safety.
He would not get involved, but he aimed to stay informed about the situation and avoid some risks as much as possible.
“Cultivate. If I could reach the power of a Great Grandmaster, I wouldn’t have so many concerns!”
…
Wang Sheng returned to his peaceful cultivation, but Dazhou was plunged into turbulence due to this battle.
Many major powers used various means to learn about the situation in advance.
Most people thought King Yong Nian was ruthless, fitting for someone undertaking great endeavors.
However—
Stargazing Valley, one of the great transcendent powers of Dazhou.
The Valley Master of Stargazing Valley, one of the nine Grandmasters of Dazhou.
He often resided at the Stargazing Platform and, while everyone thought King Yong Nian, Zhou Wutong, had taken the lead, he said to his child, “King Yong Nian, Zhou Wutong, unless unforeseen, will lose the chance to compete for that position!”
The child looked puzzled, lacking the strong astrological abilities of the Valley Master.
“Master, why?”
“Must not speak of it, must not speak of it. If the word gets out, it’s our fault!”
“Yes, Valley Master!”
The child instantly understood the Valley Master’s implication.
The Valley Master once again looked up at the night sky and sighed, “The winds of change are sudden, and I do not know if I will be able to protect the millennium foundation of Stargazing Valley…”