1272 The Frightened King Yama (2/2)
”The Great Tang Empire.” There was a bit of reluctance and unwillingness in King Yama's tone, but he still answered slowly.
The Great Tang Empire?
The 18 people exchanged dismayed glances, incredulity filling their faces. From the name, they inferred a very fearsome conclusion. Did these cultivators want to found a country of cultivators? If this country was truly built, wouldn't they be able to easily rule the entire Earth with its likely well-trained and powerful armies?
”How big their courage is, to think that they dare to build a country?” Black Fox murmured.
King Yama pointed to the holographic screen and said in a deep tone, ”The number of 150,000 children soldiers itself is already a terrifying number. Who can guarantee there will be no other cultivator armies in the Great Tang Empire? Even with their current armies, once you give them a few more years, decades, or centuries, to what extent their power will be by then? The most important thing is the extermination of the top three major forces and House Dolan itself. They clearly used this campaign as a drill. They want to make these children soldiers experience the flames of war and transform them into true soldiers.”
Ding, ding, ding…
The loud bell rang the moment King Yama finished speaking, and the expressions of 18 people, except for King Yama, greatly changed in an instant.
It was the sound of the Underworld Bell.
King Yama had laid out a heaven-defying array, the Underworld Great Array, and the Underworld Bell was the early-warning demonic artifact placed on the outermost layer. Over the centuries, it only sounded four times. Each time was the coming of their archenemy which eventually caused their Darkwind organization to face a crazy battle that led to heavy losses.
King Yama slowly closed his eyes and muttered, ”It seems that we're their last target! Since we can no longer avoid them, we'll open the Underworld Passage. We'll keep staying in the human world if we win, but we'll go back if we're defeated!”
Suddenly, Black Fox's expression sharply changed and she shouted while pointing to the holographic screen. ”King Yama, take a look at this quickly!”
King Yama instantly opened his eyes. As his eyes shifted to the direction pointed by Black Fox, his body suddenly shuddered because he saw tens of thousand children soldiers and cultivators on the holographic screen, riding on Aerogliders in the air. He even found thousands of people laying out an overwhelmingly powerful array around the 1st concealed island with his spiritual sense, while 8 strangely-shaped tanks appeared behind that array.
The instant after, King Yama realized with his keen observation that this army of tens of thousands of cultivators was not the 150,000 cultivators that had previously massacred the top three forces and House Dolan.
”How many armies… do they have, exactly? How many cultivator soldiers do they have in their ranks?” Despite being well-informed, King Yama was still shocked by the number.
Coming from the Nine Nether Underworld, he was one of the most powerful men there. He knew that the number of ghost cultivators in the entire Nine Nether Underworld definitely did not exceed 200,000. Additionally, the Nine Nether Underworld was thousands of times larger than Earth, and the number of ghosts inhabiting the plane was thousands of times larger than that of humanity on Earth.
It was so much so that he was sure that the Great Tang Empire's military strength would have enough power to invade the Nine Nether Underworld in just a few decades or centuries.
”Activate the arrays!
”We are to evacuate at once if the Great Tang Empire has Array Masters. But if they don't have any, we can turn the tide by relying on the arrays!”
Feeling tense and restless, King Yama immediately began issuing orders.
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The moon sprinkled down its hazy moonlight. The vast universe was shrouded in the darkness above the 1st concealed island in the vast sea. At this moment, the entire 50,000 soldiers of the Martial Army had surrounded the small island group.
A tank-like chariot quickly flew over the sea surface and soon appeared in front of the Martial Army. As the door opened, Tang Ahlang, who gave off a scholarly aura and holding a jade flute, appeared in front of everyone present with a smile on his face.
”Commander!”
Five figures flickered and quickly came to salute Tang Ahlang.
”What's the situation here?” Tang Ahlang slightly smiled in response and asked, ”Has anyone from the Darkwind appeared yet?”
The black-uniformed Tang Jin, who was now 13-plus-years-old, shook his head and said, ”We've spotted a total of 162 people on the island through the recon drones, and all of them are gathering in the center of the island. Our thermal imaging equipment found a total of 142 cultivators among these people, the strongest of whom should be comparable to Golden Core Stage experts. However, no one has come out after we surrounded this place. Not to mention that this island is covered and protected by some arrays, so we haven't mounted any attacks for the time being.”
”Arrays, huh?”
Tang Ahlang smiled in response. He had been studying arrays and learned quite a lot about this aspect recently. Thus, he wanted to test his accomplishments in arrays now.