Chapter 290: Playing Dirty, Using Your Own Power to Hurt Others
The Spirit Master Ghost Crystal left behind is the only thing that can make the young lady feel at ease.
Ghost Crystal occupies at least 60% to 70% of the value of a complete ghost corpse, at least it has left most of the benefits of this Spirit Master. But Gu Ke already knew the general situation of the battle at this moment, and he didn't care too much about the spoils.
Compared with the corpse of the Spirit Master, he would rather the young lady go all out and leave no trouble.
There are more than a hundred Spirit Masters, and if it doesn't work, the more than a hundred demon gods can also be counted, more than three hundred.
A little more or less, in fact, it doesn't matter.
The young lady has only this one, and unlike Bai Suqing, she is not socially anxious and can be stationed outside for a long time.
The young lady's guilty conscience is purely self-inflicted trouble, and perhaps there are some thoughts of heartache-after all, it is her own harvest, and less profit is a loss.
The battle in Beimo City was earth-shattering, but the most eye-catching thing was Su Yulou's knife.
The name of the North King of Martial Saint also spread with this battle.
As for the battle between the eldest lady and the spirit master, because it happened underground, she asked Su Yulou to issue a gag order.
The Martial Master of Beimo City could still sense some of the movements of the underground battle, but the Martial Master only knew that something was going on, but he didn't know what it was. Therefore, most people didn't know that a spirit master actually attacked Su Yulou, the Martial Saint, and almost skewered him into a human stick. They didn't know that this spirit master failed to succeed in his mission and was turned into a box in the ground, leaving only a strange crystal waiting to be sent to the fairy mountain to play its residual heat. This also kept the morale of the people of Dawu pretty good, and they were not scared.
In the remaining few days, casualties are inevitable, but the probability of the city being broken will not be too high.
Finally, the Lord of the State, who was hotly discussed by the people of Beimo, privately covered his Ren Zhong several times with his hands, and was very scared. No one paid attention to this.
Who said that the Martial Saint can't scratch an itch.
In the demon world, the news of the fall of the spirit master could not be hidden at all.
The way the spirit master controls his subordinates is similar to a contract to some extent.
However, it is both the master and the supervisor in the contract.
If it is still alive, there will be a trace of its divine thoughts in the core consciousness of its subordinates, and life and death are only between its thoughts. But it died, and even the ghost crystal was taken away and sealed by the eldest lady.
Then the divine thoughts it left behind became water without a source and a tree without roots. It began to decline rapidly that day, and it was almost disintegrated a few days later.
This made its subordinates' virtual ghosts understand that even if their spirit master was not dead, he would soon be dead.
The spirit master was about to die, so they naturally would not attack Dawu with all their strength, and this situation was quickly passed on to other spirit masters.
It's not that they want to pass it on, but if they don't pass it on, it will be very troublesome if one or two spirit masters die afterwards.
Of course, what's more troublesome is that other spirit masters didn't die, but just returned injured.
Having suffered a great loss, they must definitely capture the virtual ghosts who knew about it but didn't report it, and spend hundreds or thousands of years slowly crushing their consciousness to vent their anger.
This is much more brutal than lingchi, no one can bear it.
Knowing that the spirit master had fallen, the demons' high spirits stagnated.
But on the second day, the spirit master and the demon gods increased their strength and frantically urged their subordinates to attack.
Yes, they urged their subordinates, but they themselves had made up their minds not to go.
No matter how tempted the "sky" of the demon world was, these spirit masters and demon gods did not want to become the second victim.
The dead spirit master may have wanted to try something new and get the first credit, so he would easily take action.
Now the facts have proved that there are the strongest people in Dawu who can kill the spirit master.
And it is not impossible for such a strong person to look at the extreme north in the morning and stay in the south sea in the evening. Who knows if the next one will be himself. Besides, it is not only the spirit master who fell in Beimo, but also all the virtual spirits.
The only ones who managed to escape were some bloody and black ghosts on the periphery, who also could not sense what was happening underground.
For the demon world, no one knew how the spirit master died, but there was no earth-shattering battle as imagined. At least the battle between the eldest lady and the two demon gods sank Blue Bay Island and turned it into Blue Bay Lake.
This is the performance of equal strength.
The silent fall can only prove that the gap in strength between the two sides is too big, which is why it happened.
In the demon world, the spirit master and the demon god are almost the supreme existences that dominate a large area of territory.
Like the two demon gods who died and injured on Blue Bay Island, they were of the same clan who grew up together since childhood, and later became spouses and lived together for thousands of years. It is difficult to find a second pair among the spirit masters and demon gods.
It is difficult for them to trust each other absolutely.
If there is no absolute trust, then who is not afraid of being thrown to the enemy as cannon fodder by their companions when the war starts?
With such doubts, it is pure nonsense for the two to join forces.
The only way is to gather more spirit masters or demon gods, starting with three or five, and ten or eight is not too many.
With strength far exceeding that of the young lady alone, there is naturally no need for internal friction
But the spirit masters and demon gods are not interested in doing so.
Just think about it from another perspective. If the enemy really gathers such a large force, will they stand up and die? Of course not. When humans reach the level of Wuhun Realm, their lifespan is also a thousand years or more. Who would fight to the death over a disagreement?
When an individual reaches this level of strength, it is impossible to protect the entire race, but it is not difficult to protect a small number of tens of millions of people of the same race.
Even if the entire race is left with only their own people, they can still live well, and the number of races is limited at most. That is why, no matter how many benefits the "sky" of the demon world promises, the spirit masters and demon gods are unwilling to stand out.
Their lives are their own, and even if God wants them to die, that is not okay.
In the past, people usually worshipped the land god and the Dragon King. When the weather was good, they would burn incense and pray for blessings. When there was a drought and the land was barren, or when someone was about to die, they would immediately take them out of the temple and beat them violently.
Survival is the most instinctive nature of living things.
No matter whether it is a demon, ghost, or god, no one can help.
Well, unless they cannot defeat it,
At present, the spirit master and the demon gods have a tacit understanding, just send out their troops to attack Dawu.
Anyway, the "heaven" of the demon world only requires them to destroy the human beings of Dawu as soon as possible.
But this "destruction" does not mean leaving no one alive, because it is impossible to do it in a short time.
Because this is a world with extraordinary power.
Every race has a way to protect itself, otherwise the demons and ghosts have been fighting for so long, and there should be only a few races left. Like now, there are more than ten thousand common races among the demons and ghosts.
Among them, demons are the main ones, and they are always breaking through races and creating various hybrid new races.
There are also some extremely powerful ones who have ascended to the position of demon gods.
Similarly, although the human race of Dawu is weak, there are many strong ones.
If you want to destroy Dawu, you must greatly reduce the number of people, reduce the possibility of the birth of subsequent strong people, and continue to kill and injure the existing strong people.
With one increase and one decrease, it will take tens or hundreds of years to achieve the goal of wiping out the Dawu human race.
And they don't think that Dawu can produce many powerful people in the martial soul (god) realm in tens or hundreds of years.
If it were that easy, the demon world would not have hundreds of spirit masters and demon gods, but thousands or tens of thousands.
Therefore, let the subordinates consume the people of Dawu first to fundamentally reduce the possibility of the birth of the strongest.
During this period, it is used to find out the strength level of the strongest in Dawu.
In the end, whether to join forces, how many spirit masters and demon gods to unite, and when to start can be considered slowly.
Anyway, their lifespans are very long, and they can spend hundreds of years to discuss and plan.
The spirit masters and demon gods who have made up their minds also adjusted the deployment of troops.
Originally, all the people who took the lead were their direct subordinates, and the advantage was that they could be mobilized quickly and had the strongest obedience.
Now the thinking has changed, and more operations have been opened.
A large number of demons living in the areas they rule were gathered and then thrown into Dawu.
They are the "common people" or "civilians" among the monsters, or "reserve food".
Their strength is relatively low, and they are not as professional as the direct subordinates of the spirit master in fighting. The advantage is that there are enough of them, and their strength is higher than that of humans. Most monsters live for one or two hundred years, and it is easy to get to the level of black monsters and monster generals.
If humans do not practice martial arts, they will not even live to be a hundred years old, and second-round masters may not live more than 200 years old, and they will be at a disadvantage when fighting against black monsters and monster generals.
The subordinates of the spirit master drove the stronger among these monster civilians to launch an "ant attack" against most of the cities of Dawu.
Anyway, they don't care much about these monster civilians, they are just their own reserve food.
When there are too many, the monsters and monsters will take the initiative to start a war to clear out some less "economical" races-the "breeds" that eat a lot and grow slowly are not welcome anywhere.
Originally, monsters don't have human nature. Even if there is a "monster (weird) nature", it is for direct relatives.
For example, dragon-shaped demon gods are more considerate of the demons of the dragon clan.
Within the dragon clan, only individuals will fight for status in the clan, but there is no practice of "exterminating the clan" or cannibalizing each other.
When dragon-type demons see pig demons, fish demons, etc., they will never regard the other party as the same clan, and they don't mind killing the other party's entire clan and eating them.
In fact, if the people of Dawu were not targeted by the "sky" of the demon world, the strength of the eldest lady would be enough to protect the territory of Dawu and most humans.
Most of the spirit masters and demon gods in the demon world can just regard it as another race that has had good luck and a spirit master has risen. This kind of thing is like a country in the past life electing a president every four years. It has a big impact, but it happens every once in a while. There is no special throwing of demon "civilians" over, so it is naturally not a big deal.
However, although the demons have special physiques and can travel long distances, they do not ignore distance.
Even if the spirit masters and demon gods drive away the demon civilians closest to Dawu, it will take some time.
Two days after the death of the Spirit Master, and the fifth day after the Jade Dragon Cave Mansion was upgraded, the nearest group of demons arrived.
Without rest or nonsense, the demons immediately drove them to attack the city.
If the city is breached, there will be people to eat, and of course, temporary companions can also be eaten if they die.
For a time, the outer blessed land city was surrounded by demons like ants.
The only exception was Beimo City. Without the Spirit Master, Su Yulou would only abuse them if he went there alone.
The Martial Saint hardly consumed blood and energy in a large-scale abuse of weaklings.
Naturally, once the Martial Saint's divine thoughts were opened, the small demons would become trembling quails, waiting to die.
Although there are many civilians in the demon world, they are not wasted like this.
Therefore, Beimo City was calm, with only sparse blood demons lurking underground as spies, who would never show up.
Su Yulou did not mind, and decisively divided his troops to look at the two cities of Wangbei and Zhenbei.
Anyway, they can't help if the spirit master comes, and they have nothing to do if the spirit master doesn't come, so it's better to send him to the other two cities.
The other two cities were attacked, but because they were less than a thousand miles away from Beimo City, the intensity was not great, and it was more like a test.
But as the demons and civilians continued to arrive, they soon passed the three cities and began to attack all small and medium-sized cities in the rear.
Su Yulou couldn't let them succeed easily.
He had been stationed and fighting in Beimo for many years, and had a very clear view of large-scale wars.
The top-level military deterrence provided by the fairy mountain made the demon spirit master and demon god dare not act recklessly.
The war became an attack by the forces below the top.
The reason why he and his men could stand firm in the North Desert was because of the abundant logistics.
Without the attraction of precious medicine, food, weapons, martial arts and other resources, do you really think that everyone wants to come to the North Desert to endure the cold for decades?
Not to mention the North Desert, even the fairy mountain relied on top-level military force and abundant resources to gain a high reputation in Dawu.
Gu Ke thought so too.
In the previous life, China also relied on peaceful weapons to support the front and vigorously develop the economy. In just a few decades, it went from a small supporting role ranked in the dozens to the second leading role.
The decline of powerful countries in history was almost all due to problems with the country's "logistics", and slowly it changed from the protagonist to the supporting role, or even from the father to the son.
As long as the bottom foundation of Dawu is destroyed, even if there are the strongest, it will fall into weakness and continue to decline.
Besides, the strongest of human beings cannot compare with the gifted monsters in lifespan. There are only ten thousand-year-old spirit masters and monster gods in the world, but no ten thousand-year-old human beings.
On this point, the top leaders of the three parties of monsters and ghosts "reached a consensus".
The monsters wanted to kill the people of Dawu, so Su Yulou had to save as many people as possible.
But the monster world is too big, and when they act rogue, the scale is not something Dawu can bear.
On the seventh day of the upgrade of Yulong Cave Mansion, the entire Zhongting, the East China Sea coast, and part of Nanye were all caught in this unprecedented war. Unfortunately, they are not Beimo. Although the defenders and civilians in the city tried their best to resist, they were constantly overwhelmed by the sea of monsters.
Half of Dawu has become a huge meat grinder, with corpses of monsters and people everywhere.
People have no time to pick up the blood cores of the ghost crystals, let alone the corpses of monsters. Even if they pick them up, they can't trade with the upgraded Xianshan. The monsters no longer complain about having no food. There are temporary companions and human corpses everywhere around them, and they can't eat them all.
From the overall situation, the monsters who focus on hurting people have an absolute advantage.
The number of casualties among the people of Dawu is difficult to count, but it definitely exceeds the total casualties of the past few decades.
In the area caught in the war, most small cities were not spared, and few people were able to escape.
Medium-sized cities were also destroyed on a large scale, with as few as 30% and as many as more than half, and large morgues of the corpses of the three tribes were everywhere.
Large cities suffered the least losses, with less than 10% of the total destruction.
Of course, the middle and high-level officials of various countries were not fully aware of these situations. In the information that Gu Ke used his divine thoughts to convey to them, he directly ignored the tragic situation of small and medium-sized cities and only said that large cities were basically intact.
At this time, Dawu was fighting for its last breath.
If it couldn't hold on, the casualties of this war could double again.
At such a sensitive moment, Gu Ke would certainly not be stupid enough to take the initiative to give his sincere people a knife to vent his anger.