Sunrise and Firelight, the Dragon People Are Unbeaten

[You humbly said.]

[“Although that is indeed what I think, before everything is accomplished, I believe the Blazelight Star Tinder Society should cut ties with the organization to avoid implicating our brothers on other planets. Once everything is done, we can reestablish contact with the organization.”]

[Everyone in the advisory council nodded in agreement.]

[You continued.]

[“If we’re going to sever ties, I suggest we do it completely. Why not change the organization’s name?”]

[You Keqing asked,]

[“Brother Chen Dong, do you have any suggestions?”]

[You pondered briefly, then came up with an idea.]

[“What we’re about to do is reclaim humanity’s sovereignty and status from the alien races. So we need to become a blazing inferno—a fire that will burn the aliens to ashes! The Otherfire Society!”]

[Everyone praised the idea.]

[“Good! During the secret uprising to come, no one, from top to bottom, is to mention the words ‘Tinder Society’ again. Both internally and externally, we will call ourselves the ‘Otherfire Society’!”]

[The uprising in the Ascension Galaxy was carried out openly.]

[That was because the region was remote, and there was only one Winged God Cult to deal with.]

[Against a tyrannical and enslaving regime as extreme as the Winged God Cult, uprisings were perfectly normal and happened frequently. An open rebellion would not draw the interference of powerful forces.]

[The Blazelight Star was different. There, the uprising had to be carried out in secret.]

[On the surface, it was a war of conquest launched by the Heavenly Fiend Sect to unify the entire planet. In reality, however, it was an uprising engineered by the Tinder Society and humanity’s various factions, designed to hollow out the enemy from within.]

[Not long afterward.]

[You returned to the Heavenly Fiend Sect in your identity as Si Duo Duo and summoned the sect’s inner disciples, outer disciples, and affiliated forces before holding a grand assembly.]

[Under the pretext of avenging the Bloodflower Corps, you issued a declaration of war. You announced that you would personally lead the entire Heavenly Fiend Sect in attacking the cultivation factions across the planet and unifying the entire Blazelight Star!]

[The first target was the destruction of the Qingqiu Sect!]

[“The Feiyu Sect is the enemy that killed the Bloodflower Corps. Why are we targeting the Qingqiu Sect for revenge instead?”]

[“If we attack the Feiyu Sect, the Qingqiu Sect will launch a sneak attack against us—and they will definitely succeed!

Because the Qingqiu Sect is currently stronger than we are!

So we must destroy the Qingqiu Sect first to eliminate any future trouble. After that, we can wipe out the Feiyu Sect and avenge our fellow disciples!”]

[Your logic was simply invincible.]

[You had the dragonfolk’s CPUs smoking.]

[But you couldn’t care less.]

[Whoever they attacked, it was the dragonfolk of the Heavenly Fiend Sect who would be charging into battle.]

[Whether they won or lost, there was no downside for you.]

[“Enough! Fellow disciples! Don’t get hung up on such minor details!

Once the war begins, our target will be more than just the Qingqiu Sect. It will be the entire Blazelight Star!

Imagine it: in the Blazelight Star of the future, there will be no Three Great Sects or Ten Major Schools. There will be only one supreme power—the Heavenly Fiend Sect—and our dragonfolk will rule supreme!

We will become the true masters of the Blazelight Star and rise to the level of a planetary power!

After that, we will advance into the starry sky, conquer the sea of stars, and become a stellar power!

Every one of us will have access to the resources needed to become a high-level cultivator. Every one of us will have the possibility of advancing to the Immortal Lord realm!

Ah! What a glorious age that will be!!”]

[The “Chinese Succubus” was giving it everything he had.]

[The Heavenly Fiend Sect, from top to bottom and inside and out, covered dozens of mountain peaks and was packed with people. This included not only dragonfolk, but also affiliated forces and outer disciples of other races—though there wasn’t a single human among them.]

[Every one of them was completely won over by your speech.]

[Their adrenaline surged, and their eyes had already turned bloodshot before the war had even begun.]

[Tens of thousands of elite cultivators shouted in unison, their voices like a mountain roaring.]

[“The sun rises over Blazelight! The dragonfolk never fall! May we rule the world for countless generations!”]

[The slogan echoed through heaven and earth, shaking the surrounding land.]

[The only problem was that the slogan made your lower body go cold.]

[“Thank goodness my surname isn’t ‘Dongfang’...”]

[There were no countries on the Blazelight Star. The various cultivation sects were the de facto rulers of each region.]

[The Heavenly Fiend Sect officially launched its global war of conquest.]

[Its first target was the Qingqiu Sect!]

[The entire sect, including its affiliated forces, was formally reorganized. They were transformed from a collection of cultivators into a military structure known as the Heavenly Fiend Army!]

[Everyone was required to obey orders without question. Otherwise, they would be dealt with according to military law!]

[Under your command, the Heavenly Fiend Army captured cities and strongholds, annihilated countless enemies, and rapidly expanded the Heavenly Fiend Sect’s territory.]

[Greater territory meant access to more resources.]

[You desperately studied the Pot-Heaven Divine Ability, constantly expanding the space within it. During the war, you frantically plundered resources and made an absolute fortune.]

[To outsiders, there was nothing unusual about it.]

[That was simply how the dragonfolk operated: using war to sustain war and greedily coveting the spoils.]

[Whenever the Heavenly Fiend Army captured a city or region, it would first plunder its resources, then dispatch elite soldiers to occupy important resource sites such as Origin Stone mines and spirit-herb fields.]

[But the Heavenly Fiend Army had limited manpower, and they were in the middle of a war.]

[Their ability to govern the local regions was therefore extremely limited. Someone had to take over the administration.]

[The sect’s elders proposed handing the governance of those regions to the Heavenly Fiend Sect’s affiliated forces.]

[You told them that this was a critical time for recruiting capable people, and that such talent could not be wasted on clerical work.]

[“Let the humans serve as the local officials.”]

[“Humans?”]

[“That’s right. They’re so weak that all they can do is clerical work! If we let another race take over local administration, they might grow too powerful to control. We’d have to fight another war to take the region back! Humans are different. If they refuse to obey, we can wipe them out in an instant!”]

[The elders nodded as soon as they heard this. It made perfect sense!]

[The Heavenly Fiend Sect’s goal was to unify the entire planet. That meant offending every faction and every race.]

[There was only one race they wouldn’t offend.]

[Humanity!]

[Why?]

[Because humanity’s share of the pie on the Blazelight Star was practically nonexistent. As long as the Heavenly Fiend Sect refrained from indiscriminately slaughtering humans during its wars of conquest, it was impossible to offend them even if they wanted to!]

[Thus, the basic structure was established.]

[On the front lines, the Heavenly Fiend Army would charge into battle.]

[Behind the lines, the Otherfire Society—reorganized from the Tinder Society—would take over the administration of each conquered region.]

[In a world of cultivators, merely assigning civilian officials was not enough to maintain social order. Powerful armed forces were also necessary.]

[And so, the many human factions that had remained hidden quietly emerged into the open, becoming a powerful force supporting the Otherfire Society’s administration of the various regions.]

[They also served as a force for eliminating hidden threats in the rear. They took part in quite a few battles during the war, and many of their members made the ultimate sacrifice.]

[Year twenty-seven. Age fifty-three.]

[When the Feiyu Sect saw the Heavenly Fiend Sect and the Qingqiu Sect go to war, the corners of their mouths practically split from smiling.]

[They devoted all their efforts to defense, avoiding being dragged into the conflict. Then they sat back and watched the tigers fight, waiting for both sides to bleed each other dry before emerging to reap the rewards.]

[The Qingqiu Sect was baffled by the Heavenly Fiend Sect’s suicidal, all-out offensive.]

[The Three Great Sects often had their friction, but your current war was being fought as though it would end only when one side was dead. What in the world were you trying to accomplish?]

[The Qingqiu Sect sent people to negotiate peace several times.]

[In the end, every envoy they sent was cut down by you before they even had a chance to open their mouths.]

[The Sect Master of the Qingqiu Sect was so furious that he hurled curses at you from afar.]

“Si Duo Duo!! You brainless brute, you donkey-kicked moron!! Fuck your ancestors!!!”