Chapter 398: Familiarity, Fighting into the Treasure Hunt
"That late-stage fifth-level expert who has a set of life-definition divine artifacts and gems to protect his body is obviously the bandit chief Geng Jingzhong mentioned in the intelligence."
Li Dingguo had just led a military killing formation composed of 40,000 soldiers to annihilate all the enemies gathered at the big wharf. Then he controlled the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell, which was greatly amplified by the killing formation's magical power, and flew towards the buildings here. As a result, he saw Wan'er's attack was ineffective.
Being able to block Wan'er's attack using her innate magical power, the Fantian Seal, which was activated with the help of the military killing formation, it was obvious that the enemy's set of twelve azure gems was of extraordinary power.
This was the first time that Li Dingguo had seen such a large number of innate divine artifacts. He could even sense the innate aura emanating from the set of gems.
This must be a set of extremely powerful innate divine artifact beads.
"Humph!"
"Want to escape?"
As Li Dingguo's mighty divine consciousness was rapidly approaching the battlefield, he immediately discovered Geng Jingzhong's intention to escape. He snorted coldly, and mobilized all his energy and divine consciousness to control the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell, which was about five hundred feet in size. The speed of the shooting increased again, and in a flash, he arrived in the sky above the battlefield.
"Dong dong..."
His eyes turned cold, and then the thrilling bell rang!
"You still want to put up a fight in front of me? With a mere peak level 5 cultivation, you think you can do whatever you want just because you have a set of innate divine artifacts and gems?"
"Haha! Don't even think about it!"
"Xuanhuang Chaos Bell, suppress time and space!"
At the moment the bell rang loudly, Li Dingguo simultaneously activated the passive magical power of this most powerful innate artifact. A special sound wave was emitted from the bell, sweeping towards Geng Jingzhong, Geng Zhongming, and Kong Youde who were repelled by Wan'er's another attack using the Fantian Seal!
"Human Emperor Cauldron, go!"
Li Dingguo had extremely rich experience in treasure hunting for this kind of situation. He shook the Human Emperor Cauldron in his right hand and threw it towards the twelve precious beads.
As the saying goes, one trick is enough to conquer the world, and Li Dingguo has now perfectly demonstrated this point.
With his current sixth-level cultivation, under the extreme amplification of the military killing formation, the attack launched by his innate artifact, the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell, naturally had a great impact on Geng Jingzhong. It was impossible for him to completely rely on his innate artifact, the orb, to become immune to the magical attacks of the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell.
The sound of the bell that penetrated directly into his soul swept through, and Geng Jingzhong's mind and the internal energy were affected for a moment by the magical power of the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell.
The twelve Dinghai Divine Pearls floating above his head lost control of their master the moment Muran did.
The Human Emperor Cauldron that followed had been enlarged to its current maximum size of forty-eight feet. The mouth of the cauldron turned just right towards the set of gems and immediately swallowed them up inside the cauldron!
"The innate formation, start!"
Li Dingguo arrived shortly afterwards and raised his hand to shoot out a golden and red innate spiritual fire into the cauldron, immediately activating the Human Emperor Cauldron's built-in innate formation. The innate spiritual fire, which had been amplified countless times by the innate formation, burned and purified the twelve gems that were firmly bound by the formation.
"what!"
"No! Where is my life-definition artifact orb? Give it back to me now!"
Geng Jingzhong, who had regained his ability to move, saw that his natal artifact, the gem, was taken away by the enemy using a large dark yellow cauldron. He suddenly became anxious and almost went crazy, and yelled hysterically at Li Dingguo.
"You want to take back the treasure you have obtained?"
"Geng Jingzhong, are you still asleep? You are dreaming too much!"
"The baby is mine once it's in my hands. Do you still have any objections?"
Li Dingguo was in a good mood after getting a set of very good innate divine artifacts. He sarcastically said something to the other party, and then shouted to Wan'er who was nearby, "Wan'er, these guys are an eyesore. You should get rid of them as soon as possible."
He knew that Wan'er wanted to kill these traitors with her own hands, so he stopped taking action and left them to Wan'er to deal with.
"Brother, leave these three traitors to me!"
Wan'er saw that the enemy no longer had the protection of her life-defining divine weapon, and she shouted in great joy, "Fantian Yin, smash them to death!"
"Buzz..."
In order to end the battle as quickly as possible, Wan'er immediately used her most powerful killer move. With a thought, the hundred-foot-sized seal of her natal divine weapon directly locked onto the opponent and smashed down from the sky with a bang!
This time, Geng Jingzhong, Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde, who no longer had their own life-saving artifacts to protect them, were firmly locked by the Fantian Seal activated by the killing array. They couldn't even dodge and could only watch in horror as the huge seal came down and hit the three of them solidly!
"Oh!"
Amid the rising smoke and dust, only a huge pit with a radius of more than a hundred feet was left where Geng Jingzhong, Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde were. As expected, they were smashed into meat paste by the Fantian Seal!
"Boom!"
The Xuanhuang Chaos Bell operated by Li Dingguo rang in time, and a ray of his innate spiritual fire emanated from the bell, quickly sweeping through the pit, burning all the flesh and blood mist left behind by the three traitors into nothingness.
Now, with Li Dingguo's cultivation greatly increased, the innate spiritual fire activated by his innate artifact, the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell, can burn away the souls left behind by the dead enemies, leaving those enemies who have committed heinous crimes without even the chance of reincarnation, and never being able to be reborn.
As one of the most powerful top-level innate artifacts in the universe, it is not surprising that the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell has such power. It’s just that in the past, due to Li Dingguo’s insufficient cultivation, it could not be brought into play.
If the seal of the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell continues to be unlocked and Li Dingguo's cultivation continues to improve, he can even use the sound wave attacks to directly kill the enemy, without the need for the cumbersome operations like now.
"Humph!"
"Finally, we have killed these three traitors. We can have some peace from now on. We don't have to let them stay in this world and become an eyesore!"
Wan'er killed Geng Jingzhong, Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde with one strike. She curled her lips and snorted coldly, then shouted to Li Dingguo, "Brother, there are still tens of thousands of enemy warriors on this island. Let's split up, you go left and I go right, and try to clear them all out as soon as possible!"
"These pirates have committed so many evil things that they deserve to die!"
After saying that, she took the lead in manipulating the military killing formation that had not yet been disbanded. After releasing the killing formation's magical power, she led the soldiers to fly towards the messy enemy base in the distance, and soon set off a bloody storm again!
With two top-level spirit birds constantly swooping down from the sky to hunt and intercept the enemies, and with a large fleet of the Renaissance Army patrolling and intercepting around the island, under the rapid sweep of the soldiers led by Li Dingguo and Wan'er, none of the tens of thousands of pirate warriors left on the Tianheng Island could escape.
In less than half an hour, they were completely wiped out.
The remaining 400,000 ordinary people on the island were trembling in fear, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the attacking enemy did not continue to kill. However, under Wan'er's command, the 100,000 Fuxing Army soldiers conducted a thorough screening of them, found thousands of evildoers, and mercilessly killed them. Only then was the battle of Tianheng Island a complete success.
"Brother, there are three islands of similar size near Tianheng Island, each with a radius of hundreds of miles. It would be very good to use them as a large naval base for our Renaissance Army in the future."
After ordering the soldiers to carry out various follow-up work, Wan'er jumped back to Li Dingguo.
Although this battle was not very exciting, Wan'er was unusually happy because she had killed several traitors who were a threat to her. She smiled and gave her suggestions.
"Well, such a good natural harbor should be used well."
"How about this? There are 400,000 people here, so we don't even need to recruit immigrants. Let's just station our 100,000-strong navy here from now on."
Li Dingguo knew better than anyone that we had entered the Age of Discovery, and the development of the navy was even more important than the army, so he certainly would not give up on it.
Most of the truly prosperous places in the Ming Dynasty were located along the coast and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. As long as our navy was strong enough, our efficiency in conquering cities and territories from the north to the south would be greatly improved in the future.
Whether it is a blitzkrieg on Liaodong in the future, or a large fleet rushing to northern Zhili by sea, the navy is an important component, and the most correct approach is to continue to expand one's naval advantage.
Of course, the favorable terrain here on Tianheng Island should be utilized as much as possible.
Although the Restoration Army had hundreds of thousands of miles of coastline and a large number of harbors after occupying the two states of Deng and Lai, there were not many harbors that could compare with or even surpass Tianheng Island.
It controls Laozhou Bay and Jiaozhou Bay, and is a must-pass place for most offshore treasure ships traveling north and south. Its strategic position is very important.
The fact that Geng Jingzhong was able to rob so many treasure ships in just three years was closely related to the fact that this was a golden waterway.
"Wan'er, the set of precious orb artifacts that I just took from Geng Jingzhong are obviously very good innate artifacts. I have used the innate formation of the Human Emperor Cauldron to burn and purify them. Do you want to keep them and replace one of your own artifacts, or..."
Li Dingguo then asked Wan'er.
"Brother, my innate divine weapon for attacking is Fantianyin, which is enough."
"I will definitely keep the upgradeable Hundred Herbs Map."
Wan'er said without hesitation, "As for the Jade Purifying Bottle artifact, I have figured out a way to unlock its seal. Recently, after unlocking its third seal, I got a surprise, but I haven't had time to explain it to you yet."
"This Jade Purifying Bottle artifact is a very good top-grade innate artifact. It can absorb the three lights of the sun, moon and stars and produce a drop of top-grade innate spiritual liquid, the Three Lights Divine Water, every nine years."
"This Three Lights Divine Water is the same as in the ancient myths and legends. It is one of the three great innate divine waters in the world. It can not only heal any injuries of practitioners, but also has incredible magical effects on all innate and acquired spiritual roots."
"I now have a Hundred Herbs Map artifact that can be infinitely upgraded. It can completely cultivate any innate or acquired spiritual roots planted in it, especially your life-long spiritual root, the Five-Colored Divine Tree, and my life-long spiritual root, the Bodhi Tree."
"These two extremely high-grade innate spiritual roots are now in their juvenile stage. Once they can be watered with a drop of Three Lights Divine Water, their growth rate will be greatly accelerated."
"According to conservative estimates, even a single drop of Three Lights Divine Water can shorten their growth cycle by a hundred years and enhance their vitality."
"I have to say that this Jade Purifying Bottle and the Hundred Herbs Picture complement each other and are the best combination of divine tools, bar none."
Wan'er excitedly expressed her thoughts to Li Dingguo, "This combination of artifacts is undoubtedly the most suitable for me. I don't plan to replace any of the three natal artifacts I have now."
"Hum..."
She hummed complacently, "In the future, I will collect a large number of innate and acquired spiritual roots, and use the Three Lights Divine Water to cultivate and strengthen them. In the future, I will definitely have endless innate and acquired spiritual fruits to eat. How wonderful it will be!"
For this little foodie, she was unwilling to use the combination of the Jade Purifying Bottle and the Hundred Herbs Map, even if she had to replace it with an innate top-level artifact of the same level as the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell.
What's more, the Jade Purifying Bottle is an innate top-grade artifact, and its grade is not bad. The Hundred Herbs Map is even more amazing. It can be upgraded by collecting various spiritual roots. Wan'er treasures it very much.
In terms of attack, the Fantian Seal is also a very powerful innate artifact. Its attack power is unmatched by most of the innate artifacts. It is most suitable for the violent girl Wan'er.
"Let's give this set of innate gem artifacts that we just obtained to Sister Hongmei to refine into her own innate artifacts."
Wan'er then gave her own suggestion, "Sister Hongmei now only has the top artifact, the Earth Emperor Stone, and she is still short of two natal artifacts!"
"Besides, Sister Hongmei's progress in practicing formations is much faster than mine. It is most appropriate for her to use this set of innate gem artifacts that can form formations to kill enemies."
"As for Brother Xiangzi, it won't be too late to refine it for him once I get a powerful innate divine weapon in the future."
"Didn't you say that Huang Taiji also has an innate top-grade artifact, the Xuanyuan Water Control Flag?"
Wan'er thought of something again, her eyes lit up, and she continued, "After a year or two, even if Huang Taiji doesn't come looking for us, we will have enough strength to take the initiative to fight to Liaodong, kill him, and then take the Xuanyuan Water Control Flag and refine it into Brother Xiangzi's life artifact."
"If the other core generals of the Later Jin clan also have one or two innate divine artifacts, it would be even better if Sister Hongmei and Brother Xiangzi were equipped with three innate divine artifacts!"
This girl was always greedy. The more she thought about it, the more beautiful it seemed, and her eyes became brighter and brighter.
But she is not talking nonsense, it is very likely.
The luck of the Later Jin clan is very strong. Logically speaking, Huang Taiji is not the only one who has his own natal artifact. It is impossible that the rest of the core generals combined have no other natal artifacts.
In other words, Wan'er and Li Dingguo were not aware that the brothers Dorgon and Doduo had both obtained an innate divine weapon, otherwise they would not have been so calm and would have been eager to try and prepare in advance for a major counterattack against the Later Jin Tartars.
However, even if the Fuxing Army does not plan to take the initiative to counterattack Liaodong in the next two years, Huang Taiji, who suffered a great loss this time, will quickly launch a retaliatory action.
There will undoubtedly be something interesting to watch at that time, and it is not impossible to achieve Wan'er's idea.
"Well, that's okay too."
"After giving this set of innate gem artifacts to Hongmei to refine, we will be able to figure out its origins and know its name and power."
After discussing how to distribute the set of innate artifact beads they had just obtained, the two of them immediately dispersed and personally directed the soldiers to speed up the various post-war follow-up work, and they were busy and happy.
(End of this chapter)
