The battlefield! An ironclad, black tide surged forth! Even with the cover of mages and siege repeating crossbows, not all the retreating warriors could escape, the rear guard instantly shredded into pieces by the frenzied Dragon Warriors!
From the command platform atop the city walls, a brilliant beam of strange, dazzling purple light suddenly shot out, slicing through the sky like lightning, illuminating the smoke-filled, dust-choked earth in a startling glare! Accompanying it were waves of dense, suffocating, trembling energy fluctuations!
It was as if the end of the world had arrived!
"Ah! What is that!" Every face paled, staring in horror at the streak of light flashing by like lightning!
"It's a person!" The sharp-eyed ones instantly discerned a blurred human silhouette in the passing flash!
"Fengtian Demon Armor." Those with profound cultivation cried out immediately, for the silhouette enveloped by the light was the very armor that all martial artists on the continent dreamed of!
"It's the Fengtian War Gods." Those who reacted shouted in shock: "And there are two of them." Within the light were indeed two figures of Fengtian War Gods flying rapidly, side by side!
But before they could process it, the overwhelming torrent of Dragon Warriors crashed upon them! Amidst the muffled rush of air, countless maces and heavy, back-slashing sabers rained down like a tempest!
"Ah! Retreat quickly!" Only then did the warriors snap back to reality, realizing this was no time for shock, but they were now too late to evade.
Yet, at that very moment, the passing purple streak of light executed a graceful, C-shaped arc in mid-air!
Whoosh! A sharp whistle of displaced air instantly followed, the purple afterimage materializing before the crowd like an apparition!
The warriors hadn't even registered what had happened!
The Dragon Warriors, surging in like a tide, exploded out of thin air without warning, immediately followed by a spray of crimson blood mist and severed limbs scattering like shrapnel! They rained down like a shower of petals onto the ground!
Through the hazy blood mist, the purple light did not pause in the slightest!
Whoosh! It skimmed the ground, slamming into the surging tide of the Dragon Army!
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Even having witnessed it firsthand, the crowd could not believe their eyes. In the blink of an eye, over five hundred Dragon Warriors were torn to shreds by the two purple afterimages flying wingtip to wingtip! They hadn't even seen how the attacks were delivered!
The purple streak of light skimmed along the ground, flashing toward the countless Orcs rushing head-on!
"Such speed."
"Impossible to even track."
"Are they truly human?"
The instantaneous annihilation of over five hundred Dragon Warriors was simply staggering. Even a Fengtian War God shouldn't possess such terrifying power. But what shocked them even more was that the two figures had already plunged deep into the dense ranks of the Dragon Army!
"Are they insane?"
"Do they intend to fight the Dragon Army with just two people?"
Everyone froze, only able to gaze blankly at the purple streaks of light darting across the field like lightning.
Swish, swish, swish! Sharp, rapid whistles pierced the air, sounding like the soul-reaping horns from the Nine Hells! The swiftly moving purple lightning carved out bizarre, brilliant arcs amidst the black Dragon Army!
With every flash, a wave of blurred, distorted rings of light rippled outwards!
And only by looking closer could one discern that those wave-like emanations were the shattered remains of countless Dragon Warriors!
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"......" Many others couldn't even draw a full breath!
"This isn't slaughter; it's annihilation."
All that could be seen was the purple stream of light, like a distorted electric arc, moving with terrifying speed, crazily weaving, charging, and piercing through the masses! The constantly exploding bodies, the ever-splattering remains, the dispersing blood mist—all composed a scene of numbing destruction.
There were no set moves, no superfluous actions, only ceaseless, brutally violent charges and penetrations!
The Dragon Legion, which had forced the tens of thousands of Tianhong soldiers into desperate combat, could not cause the purple streak of light to pause for even a single second! The dense Dragon Corps was torn apart in mere moments by that purple lightning!
"My god, this! What is this thing?" Hu Xiaoshanlin stared dumbfounded!
"Ancient heroes, is this the power of the Ancient Heroes?" Ying Zhenfeiyan seemed lost in a dream!
"Riding through armies, advancing alone." Jian Qi murmured to himself: "Worthy of the Jiuyao Divine Truth, worthy of being an Ancient Hero."
"It seems our Tianhong Legion won't even have a chance to act," Hu Xiaoshanlin remarked with self-mockery.
"Indeed. This level of combat power is beyond what humans or Orcs can resist," Jian Qi said with a complex expression: "I truly wonder if this is a blessing or a curse."
"Regardless, this is an absolute victory," Jian Qi declared: "Send the Star-Moon Mirror recording the battle back to the Intelligence Division of the Pigeon Group in the Imperial Capital."
00 Stars enter Wolong Villa! Discover the truth! 00 572 Mafa Era
I simply cannot believe what I am witnessing. Is this the true face of the Mafa world? Does this world exist only because of the existence of that world!
Mafa stated calmly!
In the year 5600, humanity nearly brought about its own extinction due to horrific nuclear explosions triggered by the Third World War! Although the war finally ceased, the continent, contaminated by nuclear radiation, became unsuitable for human habitation!
Humanity was forced to begin a high-risk extraterrestrial colonization plan!
However, humanity was unwilling to simply abandon Earth. Thus, they converted the Tianhe Generation—one of the four most advanced computers at the time—into a control computer for the regeneration of civilization, naming it Mafa!
Mafa is the Earth Mother from myth and legend. The departing people hoped Mafa’s existence would bring new life to this abandoned continent!
Human civilization perished due to nuclear contamination, yet the cause of the war was the difference in social systems, or rather, the inherent flaws within the very structure of human civilization, which ultimately led to self-destruction!
In the ten thousand years of recorded human history, numerous social systems emerged sequentially!
Primitive society, Slavery, Feudalism, Capitalism, and Socialism (Republicanism) coexisting until the outbreak of the Third World War!
None of these systems managed to completely eradicate the root causes that sparked conflict, such as racial discrimination, religious beliefs, or political antagonism!
Evolution taught humanity one thing: whether biological or human, continuous development and evolution are necessary to become stronger and better adapted to the environment!
Correspondingly, social systems also progress with the unfolding of history!
Starting from the lawless primitive society, humanity embarked on the exploration of its own development and the development of biological civilization!
First Stop: Slavery Second Stop: Feudalism Third Stop: The coexistence of Capitalism and Socialism (Republicanism)! Yet, this supposedly perfect social structure failed to completely solve the inherent problems within humanity itself!
Could this be the endpoint of human civilization’s evolution!
No one was willing to accept this outcome, yet Earth was indeed destroyed by the nuclear weapons created by humanity—a tragic fact!
A long evolution of civilization, yet no social system could prevent the occurrence of war! Was humanity truly an inherently self-destructive, incurable intelligent species destined for oblivion!
No one was willing to accept this!
The surviving humans began a profound reflection!
What kind of social system could minimize humanity’s self-destruction stemming from the swelling of their ego?
At this juncture, some proposed the Civilization Experiment Plan! Others called it the Perfect Civilization Regeneration Plan. Test Text Watermark 9. Test Text Watermark 2. Or the Exploration of Civilization’s End!
The executors of the plan selected Mafa! This supercomputer!
Where there is an experiment, there must be test subjects. Those chosen as subjects were the batch of frozen fertilized eggs!
Since it was an experiment, there could only be two outcomes: success or failure!
If successful, all would be well; if it failed, everything would be lost!
However, humanity, already startled by past events, absolutely refused to let their cradle, Earth, become the sacrificial lamb for a failed experiment! Thus, they devised a plan to limit technological development concurrently with civilizational growth!
High technology meant high destruction! If the appearance of devastating weapons like nuclear arms could be prevented, then even if the civilization development experiment failed, the cradle of humanity, Earth, would be preserved!
After all, humanity pursued self-restraint on a moral level!
This was akin to placing a group of children in a cradle. If the children found a way to restrain their ego, they would naturally find a way to coexist peacefully. But if the children failed to reach a consensus and find a way to coexist, war was inevitable!
However, when the children’s military strength was not yet great, even if they fought each other to mutual destruction or even died together, their destructive power would be insufficient to destroy the cradle! This maximized the preservation of the cradle (Earth)!
At worst, a new batch of children could be brought in to continue the exploration experiment! (Activating another batch of fertilized eggs!)
Inhibiting the growth of the children’s power to preserve the cradle from destruction became the primary objective of the Civilization Regeneration Plan, forcing the children to find a method of coexistence—these were the two core principles of the Civilization Regeneration Plan!
Because of this, the Civilization Regeneration Plan was ultimately defined as the Cradle Plan!
Mafa, along with twenty-eight biological robots, was responsible for watching over the cradle!
Mafa was responsible for recording precisely how the children within the cradle grew! And directing the robots to assist the children in becoming self-reliant and strong!
The biological robots, on the other hand, were tasked with teaching the children how to mature as quickly as possible—they were the nannies of civilizational development!
At the very least, they had to ensure the children survived their infancy! Otherwise, even with excellent plasticity, they would starve to death!
Of course, besides caring for the children, the nannies bore another duty: inhibiting the growth of the children’s power. If they detected that the children possessed the ability to destroy the cradle (which could be understood as the appearance of thermal weapons), the nannies were obligated to eliminate these children. Test Text Watermark 5. Test Text Watermark 2. Preventing potential future disasters!
After all, preserving the cradle meant preserving the experimental base; they could always cycle in another batch of children!
Fearing that this regenerated batch of humans would follow the path of the previous civilization, Mafa was loaded with a massive amount of information, the purpose of which was to guide these humans toward the correct direction of civilizational development!
The framework for civilization was handed over to the most famous network game company of that time, Shenlong Network! And they were given only one instruction: under no circumstances must thermal weapons appear! Because overly powerful weapons would inevitably bring terrible disaster upon humanity itself!
As for the background setting and direction of the next civilization, since it was a civilization development experiment, a starting point was necessary. The choice of this starting point caused intense debate among the high-level staff within Shenlong Network!
And the time for emigration was pressing. In desperation, Shenlong Network executives resorted to random selection!
The random selection program was executed by Mafa! Perhaps by coincidence, Mafa selected the ancient game Legend of Mir, which had been globally popular four thousand years prior!
The simple, almost primitive fantasy social structure perfectly met the minimum starting standard!
Thus, the background and civilizational settings of Legend of Mir were loaded into Mafa’s main control system, and all data pertaining to modern civilization was forcibly locked away!
Should the civilization reconstruction plan based on the Mafa civilization fail, Mafa would initiate the second civilization reconstruction plan! (Incubating a second batch of fertilized eggs!)
Humanity finally left Earth!
Leaving behind Mafa, and the hope humanity had placed on Earth! The highest quality human genes, screened and selected, and twenty-eight auxiliary biological robots!
Thirty thousand years later, the contamination from the nuclear explosions was completely eliminated! The ecology of Earth recovered!
According to the program settings, Mafa initiated itself autonomously, awakening the twenty-eight biological robots! Simultaneously, it incubated the sealed fertilized eggs—this was the first batch of humans to appear on Earth thirty thousand years later!
With the assistance of the twenty-eight biological robots, Mafa began the monumental task of rebuilding civilization!
The first batch of humans, from infancy, were cared for by the twenty-eight biological robots! From childhood, they were indoctrinated with the civilizational data stored within Mafa. This world was called the Mafa World, and Mafa was the mother of all, the Earth Mother!
With the help of the twenty-eight biological robots, these humans emerged from the ocean depths and stepped onto the surface, beginning the reconstruction of humanity’s home! And thus, the Mafa Continent finally turned the first page of its own history!
Humanity finally possessed the ability to survive (the infants successfully passed their nursing period)!
The nannies who watched over them (the twenty-eight biological robots) departed so as not to interfere with their free development!
However, the children were still too fragile when facing powerful external enemies! After the nuclear radiation, a small number of organisms survived on the surface, but after nearly thirty thousand years of natural evolution, they had transformed into entirely new species, some even exhibiting genetic mutations and possessing formidable power!
Those among them possessing intelligence were collectively named—Orcs—in later generations!
Facing the newly arrived children, the Orcs were far superior opponents. Life was extremely difficult, and they nearly perished! If this continued, the situation would become dire!
Fortunately, Mafa had prepared in advance and dispatched biological robots to send bodyguards to drive away the Orcs—the Integration Intelligent Biological Robots, who would later be known as Heroes—which was actually an auxiliary system added based on the Legend of Mir game, implemented as a contingency, which unexpectedly proved useful!
After leaving the bodyguards for the children, the nannies departed!
This was the historically fleeting Wolong Villa! And the bodyguards they sent were the ones later called Heroes!
The matter reached a temporary conclusion! This period of history was dubbed the Ancient Mythological Era by the ancestors of Mafa humanity!
Along with civilizational development, humanity finally ushered in the most glorious Mafa Empire!
This phase indicated that the children had finally grown up. At the very least, they understood the hardships of survival; to survive, they either had to help each other through difficulties or destroy each other to carve out space for their own existence!
It could be said that in the initial stages of the Mafa Empire, the children were still friendly, helping and supporting one another. This period was considered the Golden Age of Mafa civilization!
Regrettably, the children ultimately failed to conquer their ego! They learned to plunder, learned conspiracy and trickery, and learned to slaughter each other! Thus, the War of the Gods erupted!
The bodyguards originally meant to protect them against the Orcs (Wolong Heroes) were turned into tools for mutual slaughter!
And these bodyguards, ultimately having comparable strength, fought each other until they were severely wounded and all perished together!
Even so, the bodyguards performed their protective duties with loyalty until the very end!
As the last bodyguard fell, he told the children!
"I can't hold on any longer. When I die, no one will be here to protect you! You have seen it yourselves; mutual slaughter leads nowhere. You must strive and unite! Only then will you have a future! Even without our presence, you can definitely survive!"
Although the children recognized their mistake, it was too late. This internal conflict resulted in the loss of their protectors and severely weakened the children themselves! Under such circumstances, how could they possibly stand against those ferocious beasts!
The fallen bodyguards, however, had shown righteousness. If necessary, they could find another batch of bodyguards! But this time, they must not use them for infighting!
However, this time the children had learned their lesson; internal strife was their own business, and they shouldn't involve the bodyguards meant to protect everyone! This time, they decided to rely on their own strength to survive the crisis!
Surprisingly, the children’s combined efforts unleashed astonishing power, and they successfully navigated the greatest crisis in human history! This was historically known as the Third Human-Orc War!
As the saying goes, learn from one’s mistakes!
After the previous trials and tribulations, the children finally acknowledged their errors and began to unite once more to create a future! This was the second golden age in human history—the Divine Dragon Empire!
The Divine Dragon Empire lasted for over five thousand years! Unfortunately, wounds healed and the pain was forgotten; these flaws seemed inherent to human nature!
Greed, selfishness, plunder, destruction—all sorts of ego broke free from the shackles of morality and became uncontrolled demons! War broke out again!
This was the historically infamous Battle of Fengtian! Even the Heroes, who had previously been used sparingly, were mobilized!
The unfortunate bodyguards once again became sacrifices in the children’s struggle!
Finally, the last bodyguard also failed! He only managed to tell the children that there was another batch of bodyguards, but he ran out of time before he could reveal where they were!
Thus, humanity completely lost its reliance on the Wolong Heroes—at least, that was the perception in that era!
And after that great war, the children were severely weakened, leaving only three relatively strong individuals! They inherited the Fengtian Demon Armor from their fathers!
They were the last three Fengtian War Gods!
Regrettably, their fathers also passed away before they could teach them how to control the Heroes! Consequently, the location of the other Heroic Grounds and the method for controlling the Heroes became complete secrets!
The Battle of Fengtian severely depleted the Divine Dragon Empire’s strength, and it was no longer as magnificent as it once was!
The Orc side was also stirring restlessly!
And at that time, there were two utterly reckless individuals!
These were the last two surviving brothers of the Dragon race!
These two acted lawlessly, believing they were supreme now that the Heroes were gone!
It seemed they had long forgotten the bloody lessons learned by their ancestors in the Mafa Empire era!
The two brothers proclaimed themselves Sect Masters!
As a result, in later times, people habitually referred to all Dragon figures that appeared in history as Dragon Sect Masters!
The elder brother, having darker skin, was named the Dark Dragon Sect Master!
The younger brother was named the Dragon Sect Master!
The rash elder brother struck first!
And it must be said, that attack nearly destroyed the Divine Dragon Empire!
Fortunately, good news arrived from the Snow Domain Continent, where exploration was underway! The hidden Heroic Grounds had been found!
But alas, even with the Heroes, the method to control them was already lost!
At the critical moment, the three Fengtian warriors, relying on vague fragments of childhood memories, uttered a set of forgotten incantations and adventurously activated a Wolong Hero! By a stroke of luck, they managed to severely wound the Dark Dragon! He was then imprisoned and became a guinea pig for the priests of the Divine Dragon Empire!
However, that summoning of a Hero caused a massive blunder; it nearly led the Hero to destroy them instead! Of course, it was only narrowly avoided! Regardless, the crisis was overcome!
But the trouble wasn't over!
Upon discovering that his brother had not returned, the younger brother, the Dragon Sect Master, became anxious!
Having finally mastered the divine arts, he immediately pursued the Dragon Empire, intent on reclaiming his brother, only to be utterly blindsided by the newly appointed Guardian Beast (the Dragon Empire's priests had finally managed to conjure something substantial after all their efforts) and three Phoenix Heaven War Gods! He barely escaped with his life!
The Demon Dragon Cult Leader was beyond furious after suffering such a massive setback; his hatred for the despicable, shameless Dragon Empire burned deep into his very bones!
Since a frontal assault was out of the question, he decided to turn to terrorism! This fellow could fly, and not just fly—he could really fly, thanks to his enormous bulk and colossal wings! He was an aerial juggernaut, unrivaled in sky combat due to his altitude and speed!
He could go wherever he pleased and do whatever he desired!
For a time, the Dragon Continent became the Demon Dragon Cult Leader’s personal venting ground for murder and arson, plunging everyone into a state of constant terror and suspicion!
This state of affairs drove the Dragon Empire to utter distraction!
Out of options, the Dragon Empire ultimately resolved to resort to their old methods of dealing with him, setting forth a meticulous plan of attack!
And so, Zhan Lang, who had finally been coaxed into slumber, was rudely awakened once more! His mood was exceptionally foul!
The Demon Dragon Cult Leader, stumbling blindly into the line of fire, was truly unlucky this time; he was beaten so severely he was nearly finished, yet he still couldn't escape justice, ending up a prisoner of the Dragon Empire, serving as their experimental guinea pig!
As for Brother Zhan Lang, the Dragon Empire spared no expense in effort to lull him back to sleep! But this time, the price paid was devastatingly high!
The Empire lost another Phoenix Heaven Warrior! Of the three Pillars of Heaven, the youngest member could barely don the Phoenix Demon Armor, and his power paled in comparison to his father’s!
The Dragon Empire would never again dare to lightly provoke those cantankerous bodyguards! A strict rule was established: they were never to be disturbed unless the Empire was pushed to the absolute brink!
The beleaguered Dragon Empire, reeling and stumbling, managed to cling on for a while longer!
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The three Phoenix Heaven War Gods were deliberately manipulated into slaughtering each other, dying before they could even utter a final word!
With their deaths, naturally, no one knew the method of controlling Zhan Lang, especially since their so-called method was never foolproof to begin with.
The priests who had the fortune of participating in waking Brother Zhan Lang to fight the Demon Dragon Cult Leader either perished or fled! What followed was the invasion of the Orcish race, who seized the glorious lands of humanity!
Under their oppressive rule, all records and legends concerning the heroes became an irrecoverable historical gap, buried until this very day!