【Year Eleven, Age Thirty-Seven.】
【The rebel armies on Fubao Star began their full-scale offensive.】
【Over the past several years, because you were the one who started it all—and because you directly decapitated the core leadership of the Winged God Cult on Fubao Star—the cult had fallen into chaos in some regions and scattered in others.】
【This created fertile ground for rebellions to spring up across the planet.】
【You were the Grand Marshal of the rebel army, but you were not the only rebel leader.】
【Rebel armies had emerged everywhere on Fubao Star.】
【There were many people with the makings of leaders. They had simply never been given the chance to show it.】
【Now that opportunity had arrived, rebel forces sprouted up everywhere like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.】
【Without exception, however, they all wanted to join your banner and accept your leadership.】
【But you could not do that.】
【It was impossible for you to command an army of over a million people all at once.】
【Even if you did, all you could guarantee for most of the soldiers would be food and shelter.】
【Improving their combat power, providing ideological education, and fully equipping every soldier were all beyond what could be achieved at this stage.】
【So your instructions to the rebel armies in various regions were to let them develop independently.】
【Any soldiers with spiritual roots could be sent to headquarters in White Porridge City for training. If they were unwilling to come, or if the local forces wished to train them on their own, they could keep them. You would not force the issue.】
【If they sent even one soldier with spiritual roots, you would allocate a supply of grain and weapons to the local rebel army.】
【Naturally, anyone with spiritual roots would come seeking refuge with you. Those rebel leaders had no resources to cultivate immortals, and keeping such soldiers served no purpose.】
【They might as well exchange them for supplies.】
【As time passed, the tens of thousands of rebels at your headquarters were practically all people with spiritual roots who could cultivate.】
【That was merely the development of the past several years.】
【Once the full-scale war began, your rebel army marched into every region, fighting battles while constantly absorbing scattered rebel forces and civilians. Its numbers began to swell rapidly.】
【In the rear, the equipment production lines worked day and night until they were practically smoking, ensuring that every rebel soldier could receive a full set of gear.】
【Your rebel forces split into four armies, heading east, south, west, and north. They joined forces with the local rebels, wiping out Winged God Cult branch churches and eliminating the alien powers that oppressed humanity.】
【Before every large-scale battle, you would strike first, killing all active cultivators in the Core Formation realm and above in the area. Although a few would still slip through the net, as long as their numbers remained manageable, it was not a major problem.】
【As for cultivators in the Qi Transformation realm, there were quite a few of them—but the rebel army needed these experience points.】
【If you simply swept across the land without meeting any resistance, the rebel army would gain no experience.】
【Resistance brought sacrifices.】
【But you believed that was necessary.】
【Without being tempered by blood and tears, a warrior’s character could not be forged.】
【Ideological education was only theory. Theory had to be put into practice before it could sink into one’s very bones.】
【The magical artifacts and spirit treasures painstakingly designed by Granny Duobao played a major role in Fubao Star’s revolutionary war.】
【The rebel crossbows in the soldiers’ hands alone had killed countless Qi Transformation cultivators.】
【The enormously powerful spirit-treasure-grade weapons known as the Ten-Man Rebel Crossbows had achieved the terrifying feat of killing Core Formation cultivators.】
【The rebel armor also protected the soldiers extremely well, greatly reducing casualties.】
【Smoke filled the air, and the flames of war stretched across the land.】
【The rebel headquarters and the local rebel armies captured city after city amid the blare of war horns, eliminating reactionary alien forces and liberating the human population of each region.】
【As the worldwide war raged on, more and more humans enlisted, contributing their strength—and their lives—to Fubao Star’s great human uprising.】
【The elderly, the weak, women, and children maintained the logistics in the rear. They planted crops, raised silkworms, and wove cloth. Everyone did whatever they could.】
【You were quite busy as well.】
【You spent your time searching for powerful alien cultivators throughout the various regions, then killing them with a single slap.】
【Year Twelve, Age Thirty-Eight.】
【As the rebel armies won victory after victory, the resources available to them grew increasingly abundant, and many of them acquired territories of their own.】
【Some rebel leaders sent petitions to White Porridge City, urging you to become emperor and rule all the humans on Fubao Star.】
【You rejected the proposal and replied to the various rebel leaders, telling them that although you would not become emperor, they were free to become kings.】
【The war on Fubao Star would end sooner or later.】
【The planet would inevitably enter a period of governance.】
【Winning a kingdom was easy. Governing one was difficult.】
【You felt it was time to let them compete among themselves.】
【You would allow the rebel armies to proclaim themselves kings and see how well they governed their respective territories.】
【In the end, you would choose a common sovereign for them—or let them restrain the intensity of the conflict and fight among themselves until one emerged.】
【But those were matters for the future.】
【Compared with the grand plan of your current simulation, the internal problems of Fubao Star were not your primary concern.】
【Year Thirteen, Age Thirty-Nine.】
【The rebel armies on Fubao Star produced eighteen Heavenly Kings and sixty-four Earthly Kings.】
【That was how the common people referred to them. The kings themselves did not distinguish between Heavenly Kings and Earthly Kings. They called themselves things like the King of Pacifying the River, the King Who Crossed the Mountains, the King of Wu, or the King of Yue.】
【The people had merely ranked them according to their strength and the size of their territories.】
【The Winged God Cult and the aliens, meanwhile, referred to them as rebel kings.】
【The main armies of these rebel kings were composed primarily of ordinary mortals. There were very few cultivators among them, and their combat strength was quite limited.】
【But the one hundred thousand directly subordinate rebels you now commanded were extraordinarily powerful.】
【Not only were they cultivators, they were also fully equipped and possessed the richest combat experience.】
【You divided these one hundred thousand soldiers among the various regions to assist the rebel kings in battle, preventing them from being wiped out by the alien cultivators in a single sweep.】
【Even so, news would occasionally arrive that some rebel king had been completely annihilated.】
【Fubao Star was not small, and it was impossible for you to protect every place and every person.】
【The wheel of history moved ever forward. There would always be those who accidentally fell into the water.】
【The repair of the spaceport had begun the very year the full-scale war started.】
【Now it had been completely rebuilt, reopening the cosmic route between Fubao Star and the greater universe.】
【Xiang Xing stood beside you in a suit of silver heavy armor, gazing at the seven-colored pillar of light that pierced the heavens and the earth. His eyes were filled with fighting spirit.】
【“Marshal, the war on Fubao Star is nearly over. Are we going to attack Lingwei Star next?”】
【“That’s right. Judging by the timing, the Winged God Cult’s central church should already know that something happened on Fubao Star, so the enemy will be prepared. What awaits us will be a hard-fought battle.”】
【“But didn’t the Marshal say that we have a surprise force to deal with them?”】
【You smiled mysteriously.】
【“Yes… By the way, last time I asked you to become one of the rebel kings. Why didn’t you go?”】
【The rebel kings on Fubao Star kept appearing because some of them had originally been your subordinates.】
【After observing and judging their abilities, you had appointed those who possessed both spiritual aptitude and leadership talent, sending them out to develop on their own.】
“Xiang Xing only wants to follow the Marshal’s side. He has no interest in becoming any kind of king!”
“All right, then. Come on—I’ll take you to see our surprise troops.”
uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
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