Flying Blue Joins Forces, a Massive Army Presses On

[The war between the two great sects had set half of Blazing Light Star ablaze.]

[The two sides should have been evenly matched. In fact, after the Bloodflower Corps had been wiped out, the Heavenly Fiend Sect should have been weaker than the Azure Fox Sect.]

[Yet the results of battle after battle showed the Heavenly Fiend Sect winning far more often than it lost.]

[The reason, of course, was you. As the Heavenly Fiend Sect's leader, Si Duo Duo, you were simply too ferocious!]

[You would often chase after and slaughter hundreds of high-level cultivators all by yourself!]

[And then there were the Female Heavenly Emperor's several relics.]

[On offense, the Profound Flame Divine Mirror's pillars of fire swept across the land. Ten-thousand-mile defensive lines were vaporized in an instant!]

[On defense, the Cloudglow Feather Robe was indestructible and reflected every attack, while the Violet-Gold Cloud-Stepping Boots let you soar through the heavens and burrow into the earth without restraint!]

[Not only were you blessed with absurd luck and always charging forward, you were also proficient in alchemy, artifact forging, and formations.]

[These illiterate dragonkin had known nothing but brute force in the past.]

[At most, they would use the resources plundered from various places to exchange for a few immortal treasures.]

[Now that a cultured man like you had arrived and taught them that fighting was not all about raw strength, everything changed.]

[Take a few pills to temporarily boost your cultivation. Losing a century or two of your lifespan afterward was no big deal.]

[If you lacked numbers, make more magical artifacts. Have one person control ten artifacts—if you had no army of people, use an ocean of artifacts instead.]

[If low-level cultivators could not defeat high-level cultivators, form a battle formation. Used properly, formations could let the weak overcome the strong. It was no dream!]

[The Azure Fox Sect was utterly overwhelmed by this combination of tactics. There was simply no way for them to fight.]

[They abandoned their armor and weapons as they fled, giving up territory and repeatedly pulling back their defensive lines.]

[The members of the Heavenly Fiend Sect were intoxicated by one victory after another. Their worship of their leader grew increasingly fervent, and every one of them yearned for the Heavenly Fiend Sect to unify the entire planet and become the sole authority on Blazing Light Star.]

[They now believed that their leader had not been feeding them empty promises. They had truly gotten to eat the pie!]

["That bastard Si Duo Duo! Has he broken through to the Immortal Lord realm?!"]

[At the Azure Fox Sect's forward camp, Yang Ju Ren, the sect master of the Three-Eyed Clan, smashed another battlefield simulation table.]

[A senior sect member reported,]

["We've used every method at our disposal to investigate. Si Duo Duo's cultivation is still at the late stage of the Heaven-Connecting realm."]

["Then how is he so powerful? The last time I fought him, I barely escaped with my life!"]

[Yang Ju Ren froze for a moment, as if he had thought of something.]

["This Si Duo Duo... is he really Si Duo Duo?"]

[Yang Ju Ren had noticed the most crucial point.]

[Unfortunately, you still possessed the “Who Am I?” trait.]

[Not only had “Guangzhi, Save Me” transformed you into Si Duo Duo, you had also used “Who Am I?” to completely rewrite your identity and background as Si Duo Duo.]

[Thus, no matter whether it was the people of the Heavenly Fiend Sect or the Azure Fox Sect, no matter how thoroughly they investigated, they would arrive at only one conclusion.]

[You were Si Duo Duo!]

[This identity was effective only while you were transformed into Si Duo Duo.]

[If you returned to your original appearance, the identity editing of “Who Am I?” would become invalid, because the story would no longer hold together.]

[The twenty-eighth year. Fifty-four years old.]

[As the Heavenly Fiend Sect continued its string of victories, the Azure Fox Sect's defensive line retreated again and again.]

[At last, they had been driven back to the area around their home—Azure Fox Mountain.]

[During this time, the Azure Fox Sect had also employed several unexpected tricks and trump cards.]

[But what you did not know, the Hearthfire Society knew.]

[The Hearthfire Society had existed on Blazing Light Star for even longer than the three great sects.]

[They possessed intelligence on nearly every faction on the planet, including how each one had grown from obscurity into power.]

[Mr. Xun, You Keqing, and the others promptly informed you of your enemies' methods. Sometimes, they would even personally intervene to resolve certain problems for you.]

[Poor Azure Fox Sect. They had to fight the Heavenly Fiend Army in the open while secretly contending with the Hearthfire Society as well. It would have been strange if they had not lost.]

[Now, they had lost all their territory. Their affiliated sects had either defected to your Heavenly Fiend Sect or been completely annihilated, leaving them utterly isolated.]

[At present, the Heavenly Fiend Sect's army stood at their gates.]

[You used Si Duo Duo's divine art to conjure a sky full of black clouds, surrounding Azure Fox Mountain on every side. It resembled Gatanothor's black mist, and the oppressive atmosphere was overwhelming.]

[Just as you were about to attack the Azure Fox Sect's mountain-gate headquarters, the Azure Fox Sect received reinforcements.]

[The Featherwing Sect!]

[The Featherwing Sect could no longer sit back and do nothing.]

[Seeing that the Azure Fox Sect needed help most desperately, the Featherwing Sect made exorbitant demands and put forward a long list of conditions for its assistance.]

[With annihilation looming over them, the Azure Fox Sect could only agree to everything. Staying alive was the most important thing.]

[And so, you saw a hundred-meter-tall winged monstrosity. Ten wings spread from its back, its entire body was rigid as iron, and it was covered in corpse blotches that constantly spewed out deathly energy.]

["What the hell is that?"]

[The enormous corpse blocked the army's path.]

[After taking one look at it, the Heavenly Fiend Sect's First Elder said to you,]

["That thing should be the Featherwing Sect's founding patriarch. After his death, he was refined into a war corpse."]

["The Featherwing Sect actually has a method like this?"]

[The Hearthfire Society had provided no intelligence about it, which meant the Featherwing Sect had truly brought out the trump card it had kept hidden until the last moment.]

[Still, the Hearthfire Society could hardly be blamed for having incomplete intelligence. After all, what sect did not have a few little-known trump cards?]

[You used “Signal Light” to sense it, but found that you could not see through the creature's cultivation or strength.]

[It was probably because the thing was not alive.]

["Send two battalions to test its strength."]

[You treated the Heavenly Fiend Army and the human resistance army in completely different ways.]

[When leading the resistance army, you charged to the front whenever you encountered a difficult obstacle.]

[But when leading the Heavenly Fiend Army, whenever you encountered a battle formation you had never seen before, you sent the aliens to the front to test the waters.]

[Two thousand alien soldiers shouted battle cries as they formed an offensive formation. Wielding various magical artifacts, they surged forward as one.]

[The Flying Feather Patriarch merely glanced lightly at the ground. Suddenly, black death rays shot from his hollow eyes!]

["Zzzzz—"]

[The death rays shattered all two thousand soldiers on the spot, reducing them to dust!]

[Your heart remained completely unmoved.]

["Oh, it's got something. Send another two thousand."]

[The First Elder hurriedly stopped you.]

["Sect Master! Sect Master! Legend has it that the Featherwing Sect's patriarch had already broken through to the Immortal Lord realm when he died. Even if he was refined into a war corpse, he may retain an incomplete version of that cultivation. I'm afraid he isn't someone an ordinary Heaven-Connecting cultivator can defeat. No matter how many soldiers we send, they won't be of any use!"]

["Then what are we supposed to do? We've already fought our way here. We're just one step away from victory. Are you telling me we should give up?"]

["This..."]

["Does our Heavenly Fiend Sect have an old ancestor like that? Stop hiding things and dig him up. We can put him to use!"]

["Our dragonkin don't have any powerful corpses..."]

[Unless both their souls and bodies died at the same time, members of the dragonkin could rely on their racial talent to possess any fellow dragonkin and continue living.]

[So long as the body was still usable, they would have no reason to possess a fellow member of their race.]

[In the Void Realm, this was an ability possessed by every member of the dragonkin. In the Real Realm, however, it required a certain level of cultivation. Thus, powerful corpses simply did not exist—or rather, it was extremely difficult to preserve a powerful body that could still be used.]