【Year Sixteen, age forty-two.】
【In response to the chaos caused by Lingwei Star’s continued attempts to flee, the Wing God Cult promulgated a new set of regulations.】
【“The doctrine of flight is a violation of our teachings. No matter who the enemy is, we will defend our homeland and fight to the death! Effective immediately, dismantle all starports!”】
【Dalabeng might have disappeared.】
【But the Wing God Cult was still operating.】
【This enormous ruling class would not collapse simply because one person had vanished. The various levels of society were still doing their best to maintain organizational order and local control amid the chaos.】
【To further prevent residents and cultivators from fleeing the planet, and to curb the turmoil caused during such escapes, the Wing God Cult decided to dismantle the planet’s three starports.】
【While they were busy taking apart the starports, you were searching everywhere for the remaining high-ranking cultivators.】
【By the time you received the news, they had already dismantled two of them. Only the last one remained.】
【You rushed over and stopped the Wing God Cult from dismantling the final starport.】
【“You want to destroy the starport so my rebel army can’t land, don’t you?”】
【Faced with your interrogation, the commander of the Wing God Cult’s Third Army, who was in charge of the demolition, replied helplessly.】
【“We absolutely have no such intention. The new doctrine prohibits fleeing, so we chose to dismantle the starports in order to suppress the tide of escapes.”】
【“Fine. The starport belongs to me now. I guarantee that no one will be able to launch from here!”】
【The Third Army commander had no way to argue with you and could only go along with whatever you said.】
【“Very well. We will withdraw our troops. I hope you won’t intervene.”】
【You stood high in the sky and said calmly,】
【“I told you already. It will be the human rebel army that wages war against you, not me.”】
【Just as the Wing God Cult’s Third Army was preparing to withdraw, ripples appeared in the seven-colored radiance above the starport. It was a sign that starships were about to descend.】
【Everyone looked up and saw several large transport starships descending from the sky.】
【The Third Army commander immediately realized that the rebel army from Fubao Star had probably arrived, and promptly gave the order.】
【“Enemy attack! Fire on the starships! Shoot them down!”】
【One siege cannon after another was wheeled out. Their barrels tilted upward, taking aim at the starships still suspended in midair.】
【“Prepare—”】
【Before the Third Army commander could shout the order to fire, he saw you step between the artillery formation and the starships.】
【“Marshal Chen Dong, didn’t you say you wouldn’t interfere? Are you saying you won’t allow us to strike first?”】
【You smiled and pointed at the starships behind you.】
【“I just want you to get a better look. Don’t fire on the wrong targets.”】
【The Third Army commander suspiciously took out a long, tube-shaped magical artifact and held it up to his eyes. It was probably something similar to a telescope.】
【Now he could see clearly.】
【Not a single human was aboard those starships. More than half of the passengers were members of the Wing Tribe, while the rest were all kinds of nonhuman races!】
【“Are they our people?”】
【The sudden arrival of so many people clearly meant they were not passing merchants or travelers. Their formation made it obvious that they had come to fight.】
【But they belonged to the same race.】
【If they weren’t enemies, then they could only be allies, right?】
【“Don’t fire! They’re our reinforcements!”】
【Someone expressed doubt.】
【“Commander, do we actually have reinforcements?”】
【“It must be that the branch churches on Lukao Star and Shoubao Star received word and sent people to support us.”】
【Lukao Star and Shoubao Star were the other two third-grade stars in the Yuhua Star System, both likewise under the rule of the Wing God Cult.】
【These people were about to be disappointed.】
【Because the newcomers were not their allies. They were the Wing Army, led by Sotuofeiren, Agent of the Wing Ancestor, and devoted to the Wing Ancestor.】
【“Sinners! How dare you point your cannons at the Agent of the Wing Ancestor? I hereby pronounce judgment! Your sins are grave. Only death or surrender can redeem you! Choose!”】
【After the starships landed, Sotuofeiren stood at the bow of the largest one and proclaimed his “doctrine” to the Wing Tribe members inside the starport, his fanaticism unmistakable.】
【The Wing God Army was completely bewildered.】
【“Where did this Wing Ancestor Cult come from?”】
【“What in the world is the Wing Ancestor?”】
【“I get it now. They must be damned heretics!”】
【What a coincidence. Sotuofeiren and his followers thought exactly the same thing.】
【“Descendants of the Wing Ancestor! Look! Those are our brothers and sisters who have been deceived by a false god! We must save them! If they refuse our salvation, then we can only deliver them to the afterlife!”】
【And so, one side shouting “Death to the heretics!” and the other shouting “Hounds of the false god!”, the two sides began fighting.】
【You didn’t leave. You stayed behind to tilt the scales.】
【Whenever the Wing God Army brought out a weapon of mass destruction, you smashed it with one slap.】
【Whenever an expert from the Wing God Army charged into the Wing Army, attempting to seize its banner and kill its commander, you slapped him to death.】
【Whenever the Wing God Army formed a great battle array, you shattered it with one slap.】
【You weren’t helping the Wing Army. You were merely making things difficult for the Wing God Army.】
【The Third Army commander watched your actions, his rage rising by the second.】
【“Chen Dong! How can you say one thing and do another? How are we supposed to win with you helping them?”】
【You replied with complete sincerity,】
【“Exactly. So surrender. The people on the other side are your kin, after all, and they even represent your ancestor.”】
【The Third Army commander thought it over and decided that you had a point.】
【He therefore ordered the entire army to surrender and stop fighting the Wing Army.】
【They were nothing if not willing to take advice.】
【With everyone surrounding him, Sotuofeiren began walking toward the Third Army commander at an excruciatingly slow pace, his head held high. One step, then another, then another, then another.】
【According to procedure, he was now supposed to accept their surrender.】
【But he was walking so slowly that even you couldn’t stand it anymore.】
【“Move it!”】
【Sotuofeiren immediately broke into a hurried little trot.】
【Surrendering was not something that could be settled with mere words.】
【The Wing God Cult’s rule had become deeply entrenched, so Sotuofeiren had to use some methods of his own.】
【“What is this?”】
【The Third Army commander looked at the wing-shaped mark in his palm and asked in confusion.】
【Sotuofeiren had stamped it onto his hand with an artifact resembling a seal.】
【At this point, every member of the surrendering Wing God Cult Third Army had received the same mark. It looked rather like the inspection stamp placed on pork before it left the slaughterhouse.】
【Sotuofeiren explained it to them.】
【“This is called the Mother-and-Child Soul-Locking Seal. It is the masterpiece of Granny Duobao. It was originally prepared for the Grand Bishop of Fubao Star to control human slaves, but now it’s being used on you.”】
【Granny Duobao originally had no reason to complete the Grand Bishop of Fubao Star’s order anymore.】
【But after hearing about it, you felt it would be a waste not to finish the job.】
【So you urged Granny Duobao to research and develop it.】
【Once someone was stamped with the seal, Sotuofeiren could use the mother seal in his hand to torment the souls of anyone bearing a child seal at any time. It was essentially a restrictive spell like the Golden Headband Curse. It could not kill them, but it was extremely unpleasant.】
[Once the Third Army Commander figured it out, his face began twitching.]
[“Wait, what, bro?”]
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