The Heavens: A Qing, the Yue Girl at the beginning

Zhao Qing had already tested the performance of long-range magic weapons in combat. What he needed to do next was to conduct an on-site inspection to see how well they, as the interim results of his research on refining weapons, could perform without anyone controlling them.

The little golden people move very fast but make almost no sound. Their liquid-flexible hands and feet and the adsorbability of their ultra-fine velvet structure allow them to adapt to all kinds of complex terrains, even vertical walls and ceilings, and pass through them quickly as if they were walking on flat ground.

Moreover, due to their small size, they can easily pass through door and window cracks and sneak into every corner of the mansion. In addition, there is a special coating on the surface that can block the detection of spiritual thoughts. Therefore, these little golden men were not noticed by anyone when they broke in.

Once inside the room, these seemingly harmless little gadgets immediately begin to transform, either turning into hummingbirds flying and circling in the air, or becoming sea urchins covered with spikes, hiding in the dark, waiting to give the enemy a fatal blow.

Many Jin people insidiously attached themselves to various metal objects, such as cups and bowls for drinking tea and wine, hanging swords and weapons, and even decorative gold, silver, copper and iron ornaments, which became their hidden disguises, constantly cutting off positions in between, looking for targets to attack.

High up in a gorgeous attic, two middle-aged practitioners were discussing how to deal with the important matter of investigating the fire in Yingdu. They waved their hands and asked the maid beside them to bring a new pot of tea. After a while, the tea tray was placed between the table and the teapot naturally exuded bursts of fragrance.

This should have brought people a refreshing and relaxing atmosphere, but when one of them leaned over to pick up the gilded silver sand teapot and was about to pour two cups of tea, he inexplicably felt that something was wrong - why was today's teapot more than half a pound heavier than before?

The next moment, his pupils suddenly contracted, and he saw that the spout of the teapot began to twist on its own, as if it were a living thing, and it sprayed fiercely at him, shooting a wisp of extremely fine black poisonous smoke straight into the man's eye sockets!
"Ah! My eyes!"

The unfortunate middle-aged practitioner screamed miserably and immediately lost his vision. He covered his face with his hands and then fell on his back. His whole body twitched and his skin turned as black as ink at a speed visible to the naked eye. It was obviously a sign of severe poisoning.

Something unexpected happened. The other person sitting next to him was shocked and angry. When he was about to take action, he suddenly found that his hands, feet and even neck were touched coldly and hard.

When he looked down, he found that his whole body had been tightly bound by circles of spiked chains extending from the rosewood and gold-painted armchair without him noticing!

"Enemy--" He was about to raise a voice to warn, but he felt his throat suddenly tighten, and was strangled by another newly generated chain, and he could no longer make any sound.

"Pfft!"

With a muffled sound, the practitioner's head tilted weakly to one side, and a thin line of blood quickly appeared on his neck, and continued to expand, eventually turning into a horrific cut wound. Blood spurted out, dyeing the entire attic floor red.

In just a few breaths, two powerful and influential sons died one after another, and their deaths were so strange and sudden that they did not even have the slightest chance to resist.

At the same time, a middle-aged civil servant who was handling official business in the study also noticed something unusual.

He keenly caught a ray of golden light coming through the crack in the door, immediately put down the brush in his hand, and his figure flashed like a ghost. He came behind the door and opened it silently.

However, the courtyard outside the door was empty, with only a few fallen leaves blown up by the wind and spinning in the air.

The middle-aged civil servant frowned slightly and was about to turn around and go back to the house, but suddenly he felt a weak fluctuation of vital energy coming from under his feet. He looked down and saw a golden light coming out from the gap between the floor tiles. It instantly turned into a small sword and stabbed towards his ankle!

He was startled but not panicked. He flashed again and appeared several feet away, avoiding the sudden attack. At the same time, he slapped out with his backhand. The powerful true energy condensed into a light green palm of several feet in radius, covering the range where the opponent might dodge, and wanted to smash the floor tile together.

But just as his palm power was about to touch the ground, the small sword suddenly turned back, and the sword body changed into an elongated spiral nail. It bypassed his palm wind at an incredible angle and stabbed straight into his back!

The speed and changes of this sword were too tricky. The middle-aged civil servant had no way to avoid it, so he suddenly paused. The true energy in his body surged out, forming a layer of protective energy several inches thick on his body surface. At the same time, he turned around and waved his sleeves, rolling towards the small sword, intending to wrap it in his sleeves.

At this moment, another change occurred!
Just when the small sword was about to touch the middle-aged civil servant's protective qi, it suddenly turned into liquid beads with a silver luster in gold, and actually melted through small holes in his protective qi, and drilled in through the gap between his sleeves, tearing a hole in the skin of his arm.

Knowing that the situation was serious and critical at the moment, a fierce look flashed in the eyes of the middle-aged civil servant. He was planning to cut off his arm to survive and use his internal energy to shatter his left forearm that had been infected by foreign objects. However, he was horrified to find that these special liquids could actually devour and eliminate his true essence.

After the true energy came into contact with these liquid beads, it melted quickly like snow in a furnace. It was impossible to condense enough true energy to detonate the arm and stop the enemy's destruction. He could only watch it rampage in the body and drill channels between the meridians and internal organs.

Although his cultivation was not weak and had reached the upper level of the fourth realm of Rongyuan, he was helpless in the face of this strange attack method. He could not help but sigh secretly, knowing that he, who had been lurking in Chu for more than a decade and had made many contributions to the Qin Dynasty, was afraid that he would not be able to escape today.

The severe pain made the middle-aged civil servant's face turn as pale as snow, but he didn't even groan. His numb right arm pointed diagonally towards the desk not far away where a large number of documents were piled. The overflowing energy attracted a green-gold killing ball stored in the secret cabinet, trying to trigger the runes inside.

This was naturally to destroy as many traces of his being a Qin spy as possible. It would not only reduce the possibility of his colleagues being exposed, but also fake the scene of an accidental casualty. Without solid evidence, perhaps his wife and children who were unaware of this would not be implicated.

Why hasn't it exploded yet? After counting three or five times in his mind, the middle-aged Qin spy, who knew what this meant, felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar. He turned his head with great difficulty and saw that the secret cabinet had opened by itself. Two golden men jumped out carrying green and gold killing balls that were much larger than them.

This was the last scene he saw in his life. At this moment, the liquid beads that were wreaking havoc in his body had merged into a whole ball, suddenly flew upwards, and drilled straight into his skull. Then, it deformed and expanded rapidly, and in the blink of an eye it turned into a hollow golden ball the size of a fist.

"Bang——" After a dull explosion, the man's entire head exploded from the inside in an instant, red and white objects splattered everywhere, and the headless corpse fell down decadently, no longer alive.

In a quiet courtyard over a hundred feet away, a sixth-level priest who was practicing in seclusion gradually noticed the unusual fluctuations in the external energy. He immediately interrupted his practice, opened his eyes, and the two jade rings on the thumb and index finger of his right hand lit up circles of purple light.

Then, the ring body cracked, and a majestic innate aura spread along the newly created gap to the surrounding world, silently shattering the iron-reinforced walls of the retreat room. The protective talisman array from the outside world was violently torn apart, and the vital energy of the world within a radius of hundreds of feet poured in, forming a huge vortex.

When the most powerful priest who was in charge of this place, a cultivator who had reached the upper level of the sixth realm, made a full-force attack, the circles of purple light emanating from the two rings on his right hand suddenly condensed and compressed, turning into an exquisite pagoda with thousands of rays of light, which flew and covered his head.

The tower has a total of seven floors, each of which is engraved with mysterious runes, emitting different brilliance and aura, as if it could suppress all evil spirits. As this person's mind turned, this exquisite pagoda swelled in the wind and turned into a giant of more than ten feet, with nine thick purple light beams hanging down.

At the same time, the man's left hand also pointed like a knife, and with a slash in the air, he drew part of the true energy in the nine light beams, which intertwined in the air like real silk threads, and quickly outlined a mysterious symbol. With a sudden push forward, it exploded and turned into a dazzling sea of ​​purple thunder.

"Ziz, ziz, ziz..." Dense thunders wandered in the sea of ​​thunder, bombarding the attics and courtyards that smelled of blood and seemed to have no living people left. In the blink of an eye, a small area in front was razed to the ground, and the smoke and gravel were splashed, but thousands of hummingbirds quickly rushed out.

With a buzzing sound of flapping wings, the hummingbirds transformed from the golden men flew in groups at an astonishing speed towards the direction of the Six Realms Worshippers. From the mouth of each of them, golden flying needles as thin as cow hair were spit out. They were so dense and overwhelming that people had nowhere to hide.

Lead-mercury breaking needles? There are so many of them?
The priest's face changed slightly, and he almost wanted to flee immediately, but he saw several fifth-level priests in the nearby courtyard jumped onto the high wall, and struggled to raise their flying swords, continuously killing the flying needles and hummingbirds in the sky, and their speed was getting faster and faster, and a series of sonic booms were heard.

Clusters of shock waves, like giant dandelions, were spreading yet overlapping and burst out in the air, sucking in countless flying needles and crushing them to pieces. The hummingbirds that were affected were also seriously injured, many of them had broken wings, and their charging speed dropped significantly, and they even staggered and fell to the ground.

The material of the gold people is, after all, just a combination of many common metals, endowed with the property of "regeneration", and is a cheap mass-produced artifact. The set Zhao Qing made this time has as many as 129,600 pieces. Although their toughness and hardness are several times stronger than the common hundred-refined steel weapons, they are still far behind those excellent sword embryos, and naturally cannot withstand the sharp flying sword slash of the Divine Mind Realm Controller.

In addition, there were more than a dozen attendants from the four realms wearing heavy armor standing beside these priests, holding a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, protecting the flying sword masters' safety at close range, allowing them to concentrate on controlling the flying swords without worrying about any fish slipping through the net and attacking, gradually forming a solid line of defense.

Having noticed the enemy's terrifying infiltration capabilities, several bronze lion and tiger sculptures and large copper vats in the area were all blown away in advance by the sword energy and palm power of the crowd, and the bricks and stones on the ground were also carefully plowed several times.

"Where do the enemies come from?" Three young people dressed in aristocratic clothes with frightened faces, one man and two women, ran out of a side hall under the cover of several guards from the fourth and fifth realms, and watched from afar the battle between the priests and the hummingbirds in the sky.

"I'm not sure, but the other party is clearly well prepared with troops and is quite powerful. I'm afraid it has something to do with today's fire. Perhaps they followed the clues and tracked us down?" The handsome young man in brocade robe in the middle said in a deep voice.

They were the owner of this mansion, as well as his brothers and sisters-in-law, all of whom were well-known and powerful children in Yingdu. Because their parents died early, they inherited the top titles of "Tong Hou" and "Zhi Gui" when they grew up. They lived a life of luxury on weekdays. How could they have ever seen such a bloody scene?

The incident happened suddenly and the three men were totally unprepared. They didn't even think of wearing several layers of heavy armor, or taking up the swords that were usually used for decoration but could save lives at this moment.

"Brother, what should we do now?" the girl in green on the left asked in a panic.

"Don't worry. With the presence of the family's worshippers and guards, we should be able to stop these strange birds. If something happens to the Marquis's mansion, the Yingdu garrison will not sit idly by." The young man in brocade robe comforted, but his brows revealed a trace of worry that was hard to conceal.

As soon as this person finished speaking, a deafening roar was heard. It turned out that the Sixth Realm Priest had accumulated enough vitality from heaven and earth, and with the blessing of two "Purple Lingzhou" talismans purchased at a high price and refined by a saint, he once again attacked with all his strength.

I saw the exquisite pagoda above his head bursting with thousands of purple lights, with its base facing forward. The tower body quickly rotated, and the purple light column swung quickly like a long whip, turning into a huge purple whirlwind.

"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh--" Wherever the whirlwind passed, the air around hundreds of hummingbirds and even the vitality of heaven and earth were constantly being sucked away. They flew into it involuntarily and were crushed to pieces in the blink of an eye, turning into golden powder, sparkling brightly in the sun.

"Great!" Seeing this scene, the young man in brocade robe and others couldn't help but cheer. However, before their smiles fully bloomed, they froze on their faces again, as if they had seen something incredible, and fell into deep shock and fear.

Because the five or six flying swords that were circling and chasing at high speed in the sky suddenly changed direction at this moment, leading the remaining thousands of hummingbirds to attack everyone else except the six realm priests at the same time!

The flying sword that was fighting with the golden people before was controlled by the other side without knowing it! To be more precise, the runes on the surface of the sword were gradually dissolved by the mercury mist and replaced with new runes.

The short distance of twenty or thirty feet was too short for them to make any effective response. These guards, servants, and nobles had already been penetrated by thousands of golden and silver lights, and many balls of blood mist emerged from their bodies.

In less than a breath, there was no human form anymore, only broken flesh and blood splattered everywhere.

The few remaining bones were pressed by the dense sword energy and embedded into the bricks and stones below, which happened to carve a line of bloody characters on the red ground, which frightened the surviving six-level priests: "Those who cause trouble to the workshop will be killed, and those who betray Chu and surrender to Qin will be executed!"

"Anyone who betrays Chu and joins Qin will be executed!" This line of bloody words was like an invisible sword, piercing straight into the soul of the Sixth Realm Priest, causing him to shiver.

Although he was a Chu person, he secretly defected to the Qin Dynasty and became a chess piece planted by the Qin Dynasty in Yingdu. This was originally his biggest secret and his greatest reliance, but he did not expect that it would be made public in this way today. How could he not feel frightened?

Moreover, the opponent's methods were too weird. Not only could he secretly seize the flying sword offered by the Five Realms, but he could also kill all his companions with just those gadgets made of ordinary metals. It was obvious that his cultivation was far above his own, and he was simply impossible to match!
What kind of power is this? Is it a secret purge by the Chu court? Could it be that they have already found out that I deliberately contacted and lured the young marquis, and developed him into a member of the cheating system for the craftsman assessment, and then used this as a breakthrough to corrupt more children of the powerful and wealthy?

Countless thoughts flashed through the mind of the Sixth Realm Priest, but he could not come up with an accurate answer. He only knew that if he continued to stay, he would probably not escape death!
The next moment, this person turned around without hesitation, transformed into a ray of purple light and fled out of the mansion. He did not even bother to retract the exquisite pagoda above his head that was condensed by the vast true energy, and let it turn into a rain of light and dissipate in the sky.

Thousands of hummingbirds looked at the other side's figure getting farther and farther away, but did not make any move to pursue. They simply flapped their wings, flapping up and down their light golden wings that had already extended to several feet and were thin and transparent. Combined with the sword energy that was equally as thin as a cicada's wing, they formed many refracting and reflecting mirrors.

Then, a great sword intent appeared above the sky and a scorching sun rose slowly. The area within a few miles was illuminated by the bright and blazing light, making it snow-white. It was so white that people could not see any light or shadow with their eyes. It was hazy and like a dream.

This is one of the secret swords of Bashan Sword Field, "Sunburn".

At this moment, it was actually successfully performed in the hands of some golden men who did not have much wisdom. The terrifying heat contained in the beam of light pointed by the sword arrived in an instant and swept across the black spot that was getting smaller and smaller in the far distance.

The blazing white light easily wiped out the traces of the black spots, and a wisp of green smoke appeared on the horizon, drifting away with the wind.

Such battles were taking place simultaneously in many mansions of the wealthy and powerful in Yingdu.

Whether it was the spies hiding in the dark and responsible for surveillance and transmission of intelligence, or the Qin people who had legitimate identities on the surface but were secretly engaged in various activities, or the Chu nobles involved in workshop corruption cases, they all suffered efficient and fatal blows.

According to the list provided by Zhao Qing, under the joint cleanup of tens of thousands of little golden men, these people melted one after another like snowmen exposed to the sun, and disappeared from this world, along with their ambitions, greed and fear.

"'Dependent origination has no self-nature, and all dharmas have no self'. It seems that these golden man formations constructed with a 'decentralized' network do have the hope of being developed into 'automatic law enforcement units' that are spread all over the world and monitor all directions."

After sensing the casualties suffered by both sides in this operation, Zhao Qing, who had already returned to the Linxing Tower, was thoughtful.

Different from the traditional bionic meridian-style giant talismans of the Chu Dynasty, she referred to the construction model of the "blockchain" here, and combined it with the energy field and energy nodes of the force system to create a "selfless and formless", subversive new refining technology.

By endowing the Jin people with extremely high autonomy and collaborative combat capabilities and excellent distributed architecture, Zhao Qing successfully built them into an advanced combat network that can operate independently without central control and where partial losses will not interfere with the overall situation.

Because of their huge numbers and the fact that each Jin man possesses a certain level of intelligent judgment and adaptability, they can quickly adjust their tactics when faced with various complex battle scenarios, releasing combination skills like "Sunburn".

In the military, the previous combat mode that relied on a small number of masters and large talismans will gradually change. The large-scale Jin troops can carry out tasks in a wider area and have more diverse response methods, no longer limited to traditional troop deployment and tactical arrangements.

"By the time the second wave of souls are 'stored', the number of golden elixirs will be almost doubled." While using his own vital energy imprint to draw starlight to recover tens of thousands of golden elixirs, Zhao Qing secretly thought: Next, I should discuss some things with Emperor Chu.

...(End of chapter)