Chapter 541 - 26: Choose to Believe in Hope

Some time before Su Zhou unleashed the full might of the Commander Tier and slew four Venerable Lords from the Beast God Realm on the spot.

At the entrance to the Beast God Realm, the multinational joint forces had, in just three short hours, used various kinds of magic and quick-setting cement to erect an incredibly sturdy, permanent fortress amidst the pristine mountain range—one that was armed to the teeth.

Extraordinary Power itself represents the ultimate in productivity. If a Spirit Awakening Cultivator is equivalent to a normal human whose all-around physical qualities are comparable to an athlete’s, then a Cultivator at the Awakening Tier is worth the strength of dozens, or even hundreds, of people.

This was no exaggeration. Thanks to magic and Spiritual Power, an Awakening Tier Cultivator could move over a hundred tons of heavy objects and excavate dozens of cubic meters of earth in a single day. For a Caster, that number would climb even higher, depending on the sophistication of the magic they had mastered.

Of course, an ordinary person driving an excavator and a transport truck could accomplish the same thing. But when a Transcendent also used magical equipment, their efficiency increased even more dramatically.

What’s more, the construction workers this time were dozens of masters at Awakening Peak, with some even at the Extraordinary Tier.

Under the shocked gaze of the Feather Race scouts, all the forest land within a several-kilometer radius of the Two Realms Teleportation Gate was flattened by a relentless gale in under half an hour. The Earth Element Mage unit from the European Federation summoned over four hundred giant Earth Element Puppets and had them use their own bodies to form the foundation for a massive, sturdy wall.

Afterward, the Druids scattered Spores, accelerating their growth with high-density fertilizer and Spiritual Liquid. Instantly, atop this foundation, giant mushrooms as large as buildings and as hard as steel shot up from the ground, forming a solid wall.

Immediately after, the Casters from the Zhengguo Daoist Discipline Bureau moved in. They brought with them a total of three hundred and sixty-five pre-prepared Array Base Discs, a number corresponding to the Circulation of the Celestial Stars, and embedded them around the perimeter of the wall.

Almost in an instant, as the Array Discs activated, majestic Spiritual Power pulsed out, blanketing the entire area for dozens of kilometers under the protection of the Great Array.

From then on, no matter what method those outside used, they could no longer get a clear view of anything around the Teleportation Gate. Whether by direct line of sight or Spiritual Light detection, all they could perceive was a hazy starlight. The few Slave Soldiers sent by the Combat Species on a suicide scouting mission vanished without a trace the moment they entered the Array’s domain, with no way of knowing if they were dead or simply lost within.

All of this happened within just three short hours. Before any of the Divine Beasts in the Beast God Realm could even react, this impossibly hard nail had been driven into the heartland of the Feather Race.

Of course, the Feather Race commanders and the private soldiers of some Divine Beasts were not completely idle. During those three hours, they attempted to attack the fortifications several times.

However, the nations of Earth simply dispatched a few Extraordinary High-tier Mimic Dao Cultivators to release their auras. Immediately, nearly all the Slave Soldiers and Production Species fell to the ground, too scared to move, while even the Combat Species grew extremely hesitant, unwilling to advance.

No matter how the Divine Beasts behind them urged them on, the heavily brainwashed, low-ranking soldiers of the Beast God Realm did not dare to strike at another Venerable Lord. Their intelligence was simply incapable of understanding the logic that "a Venerable Lord from another world is not our Venerable Lord." ’What a joke. Isn’t a lord a lord? Does a lord from the north somehow stop being a lord?’

Some Beast God Realm Soldiers even committed suicide rather than charge the positions of the Earth nations. This method was even seen by other soldiers as a good solution to their dilemma. ’Attacking a Venerable Lord reduces one’s karmic blessings, but disobeying our own Venerable Lord’s command also reduces our karmic blessings. It’s better to just die!’

At first, the Mimic Dao Cultivators from Earth, who had expected a fierce battle, just pointed and laughed, watching the Beast God Realm make a fool of itself. Even when the enemy soldiers committed suicide, they would just shake their heads and sigh a few times.

But later, as more and more Spirit Beast Soldiers killed themselves, their bodies piling up into small hills, to the point that the Divine Beasts commanding from the rear had no choice but to temporarily withdraw, no one could bring themselves to laugh anymore.

Something comical is fine to see once or twice, but when it goes too far, it can only make a person of sound mind feel a chill that reaches deep into their bones.

’This is a bit much...’

Watching the scene, Li Hanshan shook his head, unable to bear it.

At his side, all the other team members wore similar expressions, except for Shao Qiming, who only frowned slightly.

Li Hanshan was a member of a Zhengguo combat team, responsible for coordinating with the nation’s Mimic Dao Cultivators to scout the surrounding area. A young Cultivator with the Chongming Bird bloodline, he had originally thought this mission to repel the Beast God Realm’s Beast Soldiers would be a thrilling adventure—great material for a novel.

But now it seemed that if he were to describe such a scene in detail, it would be censored without a doubt.

Moreover, this bizarre behavior—committing suicide without a moment’s hesitation simply because they were facing a higher ’class’—was enough to prove to these ordinary human Cultivators, who had only just arrived in the Beast God Realm, just how twisted the civilization of the Otherworld’s Divine Beasts truly was.