hsntnovel Chapter 1826 Self-inflicted Soul Search
Chapter 1826 Self-inflicted Soul Search
Chapter 1826 Self-inflicted Soul Search
To Qu Jianlei and others, the war that was about to take place in the small world was ridiculously weak.
In the entire world, there are only about 20 to 30 foundation-building people and a population of about 100,000.
Any Yuanying in the team can defeat the whole world.
However, they really couldn't interfere and could only watch from the sidelines.
It's not a feeling of being superior, but it doesn't matter if the descendants of immortal cultivators fight and kill each other, and they would be crossing the line if they interfere.
In theory, mobilization between wars requires a certain amount of time.
But this is a world where immortal cultivators exist. It is very convenient to mobilize combat forces and it is not difficult to transport war supplies.
After Qu Jianlei and others discovered the signs, a small-scale battle broke out between the villages on the third day.
As for the degree of tragedy... I can only say it is extremely tragic.
The battle was quite methodical, with tactics such as luring the enemy, outflanking, dividing, and encircling and annihilating, and a very rich variety of tactics.
It is worth mentioning that those who lured the enemy were mainly women, the old and the young, dressed up as young and middle-aged men.
They actually mobilized the elderly, the weak, women and children to fight. Just from this point, we can guess that both sides were fighting to the death.
This is indeed the case. The vast majority of people on both sides of the war fought despite being injured until their last breath.
The battle was extremely brutal, and from the shouting we could tell that the two sides were sworn enemies!
Qu Jianlei was speechless after listening to this. How could such a tiny place accumulate such tremendous hatred?
Thinking about the vast empire outside the Girl's Star Region, it was hard not to feel some emotion.
This is what is meant by “the smaller the temple, the more evil spirits there are; the shallower the pond, the more turtles there are”, right?
At the same time, they also observed that most of the wounded soldiers on both sides of the battle did not continue to kill each other.
Only those with minor injuries insisted on fighting, while those who were seriously injured lay on the ground and struggled to survive.
From this point of view, although the local natives are brave and fierce, their methods of dealing with the enemies are not cruel.
However, at the same time, those seriously injured prisoners will not receive any care.
Both sides have medicines to treat their own wounded, but the opponent's wounded can only fend for themselves.
Even the medicines carried by injured prisoners would be searched away by the enemy. The main message is that "life and death are determined by fate."
However, even with such treatment, the paranoid person still believed that the fighting in this world was still relatively restrained.
They did not kill the seriously injured prisoners, nor did they eat them. Their level of civilization was quite high.
Because the productivity of this world is just like that, and cultivators who possess spiritual energy are actually very "replenishing".
As you can see, both sides of the battle will drag back the dead.
They would solemnly place their own dead, but if they were from the opposing camp, they would just pile them there hastily.
By listening to the other party's conversation, we can learn that the bodies of these captives will be used to exchange for their own dead.
If there is nothing to exchange for, these corpses will become fertilizer for growing spiritual plants.
More than one local native said that spiritual energy is becoming increasingly scarce, and useful things should not be wasted.
As for those seriously injured soldiers who managed to survive, most of them were used to exchange for prisoners, so they were not killed.
However, even if there are no exchange indicators, these people will basically not be executed, but will be treated as free laborers.
Simply put, the level of civilization here is indeed acceptable, and those brutal measures are mainly due to the influence of the environment.
However, this was only the beginning of the battle.
As time went on, more and more people were drawn into the war, and the number of participants reached more than 40,000.
Almost everyone in the two camps has become a soldier, and the other three small towns have also been involved to varying degrees.
But generally speaking, these three towns were just taking advantage of the situation.
On the sixth day after the battle began, foundation-building cultivators began to die.
The foundation-building cultivators here are all called ancestors, and the ancestors who did not die on the spot would generally choose to commit suicide!
The sense of honor of being the top fighter makes them unable to accept living in humiliation.
It was clearly a battle involving only tens of thousands of people, but they ended up fighting in a tragic way where both sides were destroyed.
By the eleventh day of the war, the death toll had exceeded 10,000, with even more injured.
Jing Yuexin couldn't help but say, "How big is the hatred between these immortal cultivators?"
For her, who had experienced fighting against alien races, this kind of war situation was a little hard to understand.
As descendants of immortal cultivators, how could the hatred be so great?
However, as the battle became more and more brutal, more and more fish slipped through the net.
The paranoid man couldn't help but suggest, "Boss, let's find two seriously injured guys and search their souls... Is that okay?"
You know what, Qu Jianlei was actually a little moved.
You don't even know how to cherish this precious life, so why can't you give it to us?
At first, he was a little hesitant about this suggestion.
However, as the battle becomes more intense, many wounded soldiers will return to the battlefield after simple treatment.
Seeing this, Qu Jianlei finally convinced himself - if you yourselves don't care, then you can't blame others for recycling!
Next, they quietly sneaked into the periphery of the battlefield, selected four seriously injured soldiers one after another, and quietly abducted them.
It is said that cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage would know more, but everyone still chose cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage.
The cause and effect of the foundation-building period may be significant. The key is that every foundation-building period is an important existence in both camps.
It is really like "if you want to see the person alive, you must see the body if he is dead". Even if it is a self-inflicted rage, an explanation must be given.
Qu Jianlei and the others didn't want to attract any attention, so the Qi Refining stage was just right.
However, in order to find out more information, they deliberately chose those who seemed to have extraordinary status.
However, this choice led to some minor troubles - the more noble one's status, the more fearless they were.
Qu Jianlei and others were originally thinking about pretending to be passers-by, giving the other person some medical treatment, and then finding out the news.
After all, there is no hatred or grudge between us, so why should we start searching his soul right away?
Unfortunately, the local natives are extremely tough.
Among these four people, two of them were only breathing their last breath and could not hold on for much longer.
But even so, they were still highly wary of the rescuers, and when they felt a little better, they even launched a surprise attack.
No matter how much Qu Jianlei and the others explained, the other party ignored them.
One of them even said, "Unless you help us win the battle, you definitely have ulterior motives!"
Strictly speaking, this request is not outrageous - you have to prove that you have no hostility towards us!
However, how could Qu Jianlei and the others agree to this?
This is obviously a plan by a powerful person. If they take a closer look at the situation, they will know that the problem will not be serious and its nature will not be that serious.
But if you insist on joining the powerful's plan and rashly choose a camp, what's the difference between that and courting death?
Since you are determined to die, don't blame us... Qu Jianlei had to give up his plan to work.
The results of the soul search showed that these natives were indeed the descendants of immortal cultivators!
In their memory, their ancestors had great powers such as calling the wind and rain, and flying into the sky and hiding in the ground.
But due to some unspeakable reasons, they were left in this small world.
That’s right, these people also know that they are in a small world, and they don’t know when they can go to the big world.
At the same time, they also understand that the spiritual energy of the small world is becoming increasingly exhausted and is gradually heading towards the "End of Dharma Era"!
When they first entered the small world, there were no more than three thousand people in total.
These people are divided into more than fifty small families, and there are hundreds of wandering ghosts.
Thousands of years passed, and these small families gradually multiplied, developed and grew stronger, during which time they also experienced various integrations and mergers.
Under such circumstances, it is rare that the population has grown to the current level of about 100,000.
However, as the population expanded, conflicts of interest became increasingly serious and war broke out.
Although with such a population size, it is a bit inappropriate to describe it as a "war".
But when you think about the fighting between the villages in Jiaobenji, it's not too strange that they can all be described as the "Warring States Period".
Here, there is also a bigger background. As the spiritual energy fades day by day, wars are becoming more and more frequent.
In the impression of these cultivators, there have been many talented people in this small world.
Some of them were young and energetic, or had little time left, and they had tried to break through the boundary membrane and find a new world.
But unfortunately, all of them failed without exception.
Outside the small world, there is the fierce "Nine Heavens Gale". If one's cultivation is slightly weaker, he or she will not be able to withstand it at all.
Among them, there were some individuals who explored outside and returned safely to the small world, which shows how harsh the outside environment is.
Therefore, people in the small world are increasingly aware that they were abandoned in this world by their ancestors.
Since outward exploration is blocked, it is a normal reaction to turn attention back inward.
Of course, not everyone is only keen on competing for internal resources.
For thousands of years, more than one force has claimed that after unifying the small world, they will gather all their strength to explore outward.
There is certainly nothing wrong with this reason. Only by gathering all the strength can the human race better explore the outside world.
The question is: who should take the lead in this matter!
Anyway, the fighting in the small world has now reached this level, which has seriously restricted their development of the outer parts of the small world.
According to these people's memories, the small world had a maximum population of about 130,000 to 140,000 people.
There are only about 100,000 people now, which is enough to illustrate the impact of years of war on human society.
After searching the souls of the four people, everyone was speechless: So this place is also a place abandoned by immortal cultivators?
However, Taoist Jiao did not think so. He believed that "it was impossible for a powerful person to set up such a large formation just to protect them!"
"Instead of thinking of protecting them, it would be easier to just pack them up and take them back to the Immortal Cultivation World."
"With only a few thousand people, they can't even fill up their portable caves. Why bother setting up a large formation?"
The one who set up this formation must be a powerful being at least at the out-of-body level. He shouldn't be so boring, right?
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