Chapter 487: An Unusual Strike Force!

【“Sinners! The moment of atonement has arrived! As long as you sincerely repent and atone for the mistakes you have made, the great Winged Ancestor will forgive you!”】

【Spirit Many City, one of the famous major cities on Fortune Star.】

【Now, Sotuofeiren was the new City Lord here.】

【Yes, this fellow had become a city mayor again.】

【However, Sotuofeiren’s more widely known and honored title was now, the Winged Ancestor’s Emissary.】

【You came up with the concept of the Winged Ancestor, but this was not some eunuchs’ conference making things up, it was completely baseless nonsense.】

【The humanoid races of the Real Realm were now scattered throughout the various stellar systems, appearing endless in number.】

【But if one truly traced their origins, their ancestors had actually all ascended from the Void Realm through various means.】

【Races such as the Dragon-Scale Horses, Star Apes, and Thunder Beasts were the true native races of the Real Realm.】

【Of course, the native races of the Real Realm were not limited to those three ancient divine beast races.】

【You had Sotuofeiren and the Four Talented Brothers publicly reveal their identities as ascenders from the Void Realm, bringing them into the public eye so they could recruit the scattered members of the Winged God Church.】

【Imagine it, these members of the Winged God Church had been beaten into utter ruin by you and the Rebel Army. In an instant, they had fallen from the luxurious lives of the nobility to becoming rats scurrying across the streets.】

【The physical discomfort was secondary. The psychological fall was what truly tormented them.】

【At that very moment, a ray of light shone into their world.】

【The Winged Ancestor!】

【The Winged Ancestor of the Void Realm had sent people to save them!】

【But the Winged Ancestor told them that everything they were suffering today was of their own making, and that they deserved it.】

【Because they had bullied the human race and persecuted far too many people.】

【However, as long as they sincerely repented and were willing to atone for their sins, the Winged Ancestor could forgive their transgressions and allow them to live with dignity and decency once more.】

【In the Winged Feather stellar system, where religious fervor was widespread, this approach was effective.】

【But the Winged Clan was not so easy to fool.】

【Therefore, they needed someone with an illustrious reputation to vouch for the Winged Ancestor.】

【“Ah!! Great Winged Ancestor!

We were deceived by the false god and mistakenly placed our faith in it, which led us to commit such grave crimes! Please, you must forgive us!

It was not the human race that reduced us to this state. They resisted bullying and oppression and pursued everything they were entitled to. There was nothing wrong with that!

The one at fault was the false god that deceived us!!”】

【The person kneeling devoutly before Sotuofeiren, prostrated at the front of the assembled Winged Clan members while wearing a black robe, was none other than the former Archpriest of the Winged God Church on Fortune Star.】

【You had locked him in prison for several years, and at last, you had given him a chance to earn merit.】

【For the sake of his freedom, this fellow followed every command without question. Faith, doctrine, loyalty, or disloyalty, none of it mattered anymore.】

【Nowadays, he had to bask in the sunlight outdoors every day, claiming that he only felt better that way. He had probably developed prison-related trauma from being confined in an underground dungeon for so long.】

【What was interesting was this.】

【By eavesdropping on heartstrings, you discovered that this Archpriest was genuinely rather awed by the few members of the Winged Clan from the Winged Realm, including Sotuofeiren.】

【As the Archpriest of Fortune Star, he knew which Winged Clan members had cultivated to the late-stage Qi Transformation realm and were only one step away from Core Formation.】

【Even if he did not know, the Red Cardinals overseeing several major regions should have known.】

【Yet when the few of them compared their records in the prison, they discovered that these five Winged Clan members had indeed never been seen before.】

【It was impossible for them to have come from outside, either. The identities of everyone entering and leaving Star Harbor were recorded every day.】

【Those records did not reveal anything about them, either.】

【Therefore, there was a very high chance that they had truly ascended from the Void Realm!】

【Ascenders, huh...】

【Anyone capable of ascending from the Void Realm was certainly no ordinary person. Even though Sotuofeiren and the others were currently at lower cultivation levels than this Archpriest, the Archpriest felt that sooner or later, these people would become far stronger than him.】

【If only he could pledge allegiance early and secure their protection...】

【All that could be said was that this fellow’s way of thinking was cut from the same cloth as Sotuofeiren’s.】

【To make Sotuofeiren and the others’ identities as the Winged Ancestor’s Emissaries even more convincing, the Archpriest and the Red Cardinals improvised a book called The Winged Scripture. It recorded one thousand and one detailed legends concerning the Winged Ancestor.】

【Whenever they had nothing else to do, they recited it during gatherings, making it look remarkably convincing. After all, this was their area of expertise.】

【At this moment, standing atop the enormous altar, Sotuofeiren radiated an overwhelming fortune-teller-like religious aura.】

【“Sinners, the Winged Ancestor is watching over us from the Void Realm! Do you wish to atone for your sins? If you do, then follow me and overthrow that false god!!”】

【The entire scene erupted like thunder.】

【“Down with the false god’s rule! The world belongs to the Winged Ancestor!”】

【The Four Talented Brothers had now become Sotuofeiren’s guards, calling themselves the Four Knights of the Winged Ancestor.】

【Watching Sotuofeiren babble on with his divine nonsense, the Four Talented Brothers rolled their eyes repeatedly. All of them were thinking the same thing: Thank goodness we do not have to play this role.】

【Spirit Many City had now become a settlement for the Alien Races. It was not just the Winged Clan. Every Alien Race that had been driven away and survived the battlefield was gathering here.】

【The reason was that the Winged Ancestor would give them food and lead them in atoning for their sins, helping them reclaim everything they had lost.】

【Naturally, an army composed of Alien Races had been born just like that, with the goal of attacking the false god’s headquarters, meaning Lingwei Star, where the Winged God Church’s main headquarters was located.】

【Setting aside their equipment and ideological weapons, the combat strength of this motley army was far greater than that of the current Rebel Army.】

【That was because it contained a large number of cultivators, with even many cultivators from the Qi Transformation realm.】

【You would not provide them with the Rebel Army’s equipment, but you allowed them to use their own weapons.】

【Xiang Xing had been busy charging into battle on the front lines, so he had genuinely failed to notice that you had created such a special force in the rear.】

【“So, this army is the Winged Army.”】

【“Correct.”】

【“We are the Rebel Army.”】

【“Mm.”】

【“Then, whether it is the Winged Army or the Rebel Army, both belong to the Yi Army.”】

【“Yes. ‘Yi’ is our true designation, our largest designation.”】

【Xiang Xing did not know the true meaning behind this “Yi.” He merely assumed that you meant you wanted to engage in a game of strategy with the Alien Races.】

【Xiang Xing let out a bitter laugh.】

【“If I tried explaining these designations to someone unfamiliar with them, they would probably think I was reciting a tongue twister.”】

【“Future generations will understand.”】

【“Will this Winged Army help us?”】

【“I do not need them to help us directly. As long as they also attack the Winged God Church, that is equivalent to helping us.”】

【“What about afterward? If the Winged God Church disappears, what will happen to these Alien Races?”】

【“Life will find its own way.”】

【Year fourteen, age forty.】

【Extracting trait tag...】

【Extraction successful!】

【「AOE」, gold legendary:

Young man, are you still troubled by your poor accuracy?

From now on, you can spread out all your attack methods and turn them into AOE attacks, including trait tag effects.

The larger the area over which your attacks spread, the weaker their effects will become to a certain extent. However, they will never fall below fifty percent of their original effects.

Can’t hit your target? That does not exist! You and your shelter will both go flying!】

【Adjust trait tag?】

【Yes/No】