Mu Xiaohuang did not go straight to Heaven Shaking City. Otherwise, with the speed of the Heavenly Dragon Horse, she would have arrived in two days at most.
No one knew what she was thinking. After sending her disciples to the Battlegod Tomb, she returned to the Hidden Immortal Island and took a hot bath. He went to bed.
She slept for seven days and eight nights.
When there were only two days left before the stipulated time limit, she woke up refreshed, washed up, ate, and tidied up her equipment. Then, she mounted her Heavenly Dragon Horse and flew towards Heaven Shaker City at a leisurely pace.
Two days before Mu Xiaohuang officially set off, Ye Fei and Huanhuan had already arrived at Heaven Shaking City…
Heaven Shaking City was a huge city that stood on a plain. The city was rectangular, with the north and south city walls more than thirty miles long and the east and west city walls nearly forty miles long. The walls were more than fifteen feet high, and the gatehouses were up to thirty feet high. The top of the wall was wide enough for two two-wheeled carriages to walk side by side.
Heaven Shaking City only had four outer walls and no inner walls. Because the city wall was not very meaningful to martial artists, there were many ways for martial artists to climb over the 150-foot-tall city wall. Martial artists of Rank-3 and above could even skip over directly.
The purpose of the city wall was mainly to prevent wild beasts and demon beasts from attacking. Hundreds of miles southeast of Heaven Shaking City, there was a crack in the ground, known as the " Abyss Entrance." It was said to lead to a bottomless, dark underground abyss. Mu Xiaohuang's parents had been seriously injured while exploring the " Abyss " and had passed away shortly after they returned.
Every few decades, there would be a beast tide. A large number of wild beasts and demon beasts surged out from the entrance of the abyss, choosing people to eat. Their destructive power was extremely shocking. Every time before the Beast Tide appeared, a large number of refugees would flood into the main city to seek refuge. Even during normal times, there would be scattered wild beasts and demon beasts coming out from the entrance of the abyss and causing destruction everywhere.
If not for this reason, there would be no need for the outer wall to exist.
There was a hill on the west and north side of Han Tian City. Three medium-sized rivers meandered out of the hill. One of them passed through the city, while the other two went around the city wall, forming a natural moat.
The river that flowed through the city divided the huge city into the north and south. Large ships could be used in the city. In order to provide navigation for large ships, the bridges connecting the north and south cities on the river were all open bridges. There were also many types of bridges, such as revolving, split, retracting, lifting, and so on.
The Long Family's City Lord Manor was located in the North City, while the Qi and Mu Families were located in the South City. The Qi Family lived in the southwest of the South City, while the Mu Family lived in the southeast of the South City. Many small families also lived in Han Tian City.
The city had a permanent population of more than 100,000. Compared to such a huge city, this population was really small. In fact, the Great Heaven Region was close to the Primal Mountain Range and was already at the edge of the human world. It could be considered a remote place. Within the territory of Heaven Shaking City, there were a total of 1.2 million people. It was already a prosperous territory. In the Great Heaven Continent, there were even remote places with a population of less than 50,000 in the main city and less than 300,000 in the entire territory. It was said that only the center of the Xuanhuang World had a prosperous city with a permanent population of over a million.
Heaven Shaking City was originally a city with few people and was very cold. These days, it was deathly silent.
A few days ago, the Qi Family, one of the three big families in Heaven Shaking City, suddenly went crazy and captured all the direct descendants and branch families of the Long and Mu Families. The Long Family had eight Martial Saints. Although Long Aotian was not around, there were still seven Martial Saints. However, they were defeated and captured by Qi Tianteng, the leader of the Qi Family and the Heavenly Lord of Zi Luo.
The Mu family was even more unlucky. They were swept away by the Qi family's "Nine-Headed Dragon" Qi Yunlong, who was said to have no martial arts skills at all. More than 30 Mu Clan's direct descendants were killed, and even the current Mu Clan's Clan Leader was killed by Qi Yunlong. The rest of the people were caught in a net, and none of them escaped.
Other than the Mu family, no one else knew what Qi Yunlong had done to the Mu family.
After pacifying the Long and Mu Families, the Qi Clan immediately ordered the Heaven Shaking City to be sealed. Within ten days, no one was allowed to leave. Those who disobeyed the order would be killed without mercy. He also ordered the city to be under martial law. The market was closed, and the shops were closed. Anyone must stay at home for ten days and not go out. Those who violated the law would be killed without mercy.
Since the Qi Clan dared to touch the Long Clan, some of the smaller clans in Heaven Shaking City had no choice but to obey the Qi Clan's orders, even though they secretly thought that the Qi Clan had caused a huge trouble and was about to be exterminated. He closed his door every day and did not even dare to let a dog out. Even in his own home, he lived quietly and tried not to make a lot of noise. As for the commoners in the city, they only obeyed the order and did not even dare to have the thought of criticizing him.
Only a small number of foreigners from other big cities or other states, either relying on their own strength or their own backers, did not take the Qi family's ban seriously and continued to do as they pleased. Of course, such a person would soon disappear from the face of the earth.
Today, only a small number of Qi Clan disciples were patrolling the streets and alleys.
This city was very big. In Heaven Shaking City, there were only about 300 disciples of the Qi Clan who were above Level Six. This was almost one-tenth of the entire Heaven Shaking City and its surrounding territories.
In fact, within the territory of Heaven Shaking City, there were only about 3,000 martial artists above Rank-6.
Among these three thousand people, there were only a little over three hundred martial artists whose martial arts were above Rank-3. And most of them were concentrated in the Dragon, Mu, and Qi clans. Most of the small aristocratic families 'strongest were only Rank-3. To be able to produce a second-grade quasi-saint was already a blessing from their ancestors.
There were 1.2 million people in Heaven Shaking City. With the physical fitness of the humans of the Xuanhuang World, if they were to follow the standards of the most elite professional soldiers on Earth in ancient times, they would be able to raise an army of more than 120,000 soldiers. And these 120,000 troops, even if they didn't replenish their forces, could flatten the entire world during the Warring States Period.
However, the Xuanhuang World did not have an army, and the civilians did not have to take on any combat missions.
Fighting and killing had always been the responsibility of the various families and sects. If it was a war between two cities, the sects and families would usually send out their own people to form a team of hundreds of people and then fight with the other side's hundreds of experts. The scale of the war seemed small, but the destruction caused was astonishing. Sometimes, it was common for them to clash and raze a town to the ground.
Therefore, more than 3,000 experts above Level Six were enough to maintain the order and safety of 1.2 million people in Heaven Shaking City and all the surrounding territories. If they did not have to deal with the abyssal beast tide and scattered demon beasts, so many martial artists would still have a lot of spare power to expand outward.
It was possible for the 300 Qi Clan disciples to control Heaven Shaking City, but it was impossible for them to forbid any experts from entering or leaving. In such a large city, with such long walls on both sides and a river that passed through the city for diving, how could it be possible to completely control every move of every expert with only 300 people?
However, after the Qi Clan had killed or captured all the experts of the Long and Mu Clans in Heaven Shaking City, as well as some restless outsiders, the three hundred Qi Clan disciples were enough to control the entire Heaven Shaking City. Even the Long and Mu Clans had fallen, so what could the others do? It was not impossible to sneak out of the city, but was it necessary? Was there a need to go against the Qi family for the sake of the Long and Mu families and bring about the destruction of their family?
The Qi Clan had Qi Tianteng, who could defeat seven Martial Saints alone, and Qi Yunlong, who had used some unknown means to wipe out the Mu Clan. The strength of these two brothers was unbelievably strong. In the vicinity of Shaken City, it was impossible to find enough experts to deal with these two in a short period of time.
Therefore, under Qi Tianteng and Qi Yunlong's intimidation, the few Rank-2 and Rank-3 martial artists from the small aristocratic families did not dare to make any moves. No one sneaked out of the city to help the Long and Mu families get reinforcements.
Ye Fei and Huanhuan crossed the city wall and flew into Heaven Shaking City under such an atmosphere. They found a secluded garden and hid there.
By the way, this garden belonged to the Long family. There were pavilions, ponds, gardens, and bamboo forests in the garden. The scenery was very beautiful. It was originally a place for the Long family to relax and cool off. Now that the Long family had been captured, the garden that occupied hundreds of acres of land was left untended and temporarily abandoned.
Ye Fei and Huanhuan had no lack of food and drink on them. In this deserted garden, they found an exquisite bamboo house hidden in the bamboo forest to stay.
After settling down, Chenchen asked,""Little fatty, what should we do next? It seemed that Master Mu had not arrived yet. Otherwise, the city would not still be under martial law.”
" I don't know what Master is doing…" Ye Fei was also confused."She's riding a Heavenly Dragon Horse. She shouldn't be so slow, right?”
"Then should we make the first move and help Master Mu defeat the enemy?" Huanhuan asked excitedly. Of course, we might not be able to defeat the enemy, but it's good to test them! Since you can fly, we can escape if we can't defeat you.”
"If I were to be ruthless and fight one-on-one, there's no problem of not being able to win.”Ye Fei rubbed his chin and muttered," But there are too many enemies. I'm afraid there are no less than a few hundred experts. And my actual combat experience…is almost zero. I'm most afraid of being surrounded and attacked…It's very comfortable to fight with more people, but it's very tragic to be attacked with more people." So…we should scout first and wait for Master to come before making a decision.”
Actually, he also wanted to settle the matter before Mu Xiaohuang arrived so that his master would not be held hostage by the Qi family. However, he did not know the number of enemies and did not know the strength of the enemies. If he rushed forward rashly, even if he transformed into the body of a god, he might not be able to gain an advantage.
After all, his Heavenly God Physique only possessed the Heavenly God's physical body. He couldn't possess the Heavenly God's divine power as well. The Heavenly God's power contained two parts. One part was the power of the divine body, and the other part was the power of divine power. Although the divine body was extremely powerful, what was truly powerful was still divine power.
Divine power was a power that belonged to the gods after the gods analyzed the information contained in the divinity, namely the rules of the Great Dao and the truths of the universe. Then, they developed the power that belonged to them based on the " source power " contained in the divinity. This power could create domains, alter rules, control life and death, and reverse Yin and Yang. Every god's divine power was different, and they all had their own unique aspects.
Divinity was the seed of becoming a god and the foundation of a god. Without divinity, the power of a god would slowly drain away, and the divine body would turn into a mortal. After the divine power was consumed, it could not be replenished, and in the end, it would fall to the mortal world.
The divine body and divine power were where the power of the gods lay. It was also the armor and spear that protected divinity. A god with a weak divine body and weak divine power could easily have its divinity taken away by another god. Legend had it that the war between the gods in the Mythological Era was very likely a war initiated by a certain god or a few gods in order to obtain the divinity of another god and fuse it with their own body to reach the height of the God of Creation.
Of course, there were no victors in that war. All the gods of the Mythological Era had fallen.
Ye Fei wasn't a God Realm expert yet. The Heavenly God Body that he had transformed into was only driven by origin power. Although the divine body was perfect and powerful, he still could not analyze the divinity. He could not understand the mysterious information contained in the divinity. Before he developed his own divine power, he could only be considered a false god. If it was a one-on-one fight, he dared to say that he wasn't afraid of a Heaven Rank 1st Stage powerhouse. However, being surrounded by multiple experts was not something he could handle.
Thus, the two of them decided to rest during the day and go out to scout at night. Of course, these two kids were still a little immature. In three nights, they did not find any valuable information. The only result was that the people from the Long and Mu families had been brought to the Qi family's manor in the southwest of South City.
As for the exact strength of the Qi family, Ye Fei and Huanhuan had no idea.
Just like that, it was soon the evening of the tenth day.
On the tenth day, when the sun was setting in the west, Mu Xiaohuang rode the Heavenly Dragon Horse, carrying the Seven Dragon Sword, and with a body covered in multicolored light and her back reflecting the setting sun…She rode west!
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[I still haven't recovered from my cold. He was really not in good spirits. He had to rest early today, so he could only update this chapter. [Sorry!]
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