661 Months Later (1/2)

”These Gantian Mountain people should all just die!”

A furious shout sounded out from within a Cloud Crossing Carriage. This carriage looked really ordinary but it was luxuriously decorated inside. A 30-year-old middle-aged man was furiously looking out.

At this moment, on the wide earthen path, there were numerous carriages that were swiftly traveling.

It was the dead of night and the middle-aged man was looking at those carriages in front of him.

...Dozens of days ago, these Cloud Crossing Carriages were his property.

However, today they were occupied by some commoners who ate, drink and excused themselves on it.

This wasn't much. However, when he thought back to how he had to bury and throw huge amounts of riches and jewels due to a lack of carriages, the middle-aged man felt extreme heartache.

He was a merchant from Yangye City who was really rich. Although Huizhou was really chaotic, relying on his 1,000 family generals, they were able to live a good life.

However, all this was totally shattered half a month ago.

First, was the news that the Night Demons were invading, which terrified them. It was said that this Alien Race loved to eat people.

However, before the Night Demons even arrived, there were hundreds of thousands of troops from Gantian Mountain who swept over from the east.

They attacked cities all over, chasing all people regardless of wealth and health toward the west.

The Yangye City Lord was naturally unwilling. However, this army just took a day to siege the city and kill the City Lord.

In the end, they entered his home and occupied all his horses and carriages.

The strong teens walked themselves whilst the elderly sat on carriages.

A flame jumped into his field of sight and got closer to the carriage. The huge fire was more and more blinding. It was really strong; from half a mile out, one could feel the waves of heat. However, it didn't give one a feeling of warmth at all.

One didn't even need to look and knew that it was a mountain-like pile of grain that was being burned.

Actually, most people weren't willing to leave their homes, even if they were being forced by those evil people.

The Gantian Mountain people weren't rough, snatching the grain and burning it. They only left them half a month of rations. If they didn't leave, then it was up to them to see how they could survive the hunger.

He was the same. Thinking back to how his family's seven million stone capacity granaries were turned to dust, he felt despair.

At this moment, he could hear many people crying out and scolding.

However, the soldiers by the fires weren't fazed. They stood there coldly with sharp weapons in their hands to stop these people from getting close.

These scenes were really familiar. Dozens of days ago that was what happened to him.

”Tsk! Why didn't they fight to the death with them?”

He spat on the ground, the hatred in his heart grew stronger.

However, he only dared to say those words. Although he had 1,000 family soldiers, he still didn't dare to fight back.

The Gantian Mountain soldiers were all vicious people. As long as one fought back, they would definitely retaliate in an even sharper manner.

He saw several examples on the way, all of whom had their families wiped out, making him feel fortunate.

At this moment, he was shocked. Several cold gazes looked over toward him.

Frowning, without even thinking, he knew what was happening.

It was those people back from Lianyun Island...

When the Yangye City Lord said he wanted to send elites to the east to do hard labor, where they would be paid high salaries...

As a merchant, he naturally knew what was going on. Out of the thousands of servants in his family, he was asked to send hundreds. At the start, he acted like he didn't know anything, sending the servants who were arrogant and untamed.

He didn't expect that those people could return.

They wanted to kill him?

The middle-aged man laughed coldly and shrunk his head back into the carriage.

Following this, a voice trembled and spoke, ”The Gantian treat people so cruelly, going against the path! Why isn't such a violent ruler punished? Great Shang Emperor, please send troops to conquer this place and stop the chaos! We are immoral which gave rise to such a violent ruler, are the heavens punishing us...”

Looking out toward the voice, it was an old Confucian who was nagging.

The middle-aged man laughed coldly. He knew that this person was a Central Continent Confucian, it was said that he was also a scholar. He was invited by Yangye City Lord to spread the morals and values of Confucian teachings to come to Huizhou.

During these few years he accepted many studies but there was no change in Yangye City. Instead, he became richer and richer. Today it was all gone, in a similar situation as him.

Naturally, the Gantian Mountian Monster King was a violent ruler. However, it was just wishful thinking if one wanted the Great Shang Emperor to send troops.

Shaking his head, the middle-aged man's brow furrowed as he sighed.

It was now time to see whether those cities in the west could survive.

When Gantian Mountain's army of 300,000 came from the east over a month ago, no one cared. No one thought that such a situation would occur.

From east to west, there were dozens of battles and each battle they won. Like falling leaves in autumn, they occupied two provinces. They also had close to a million surrendered troops.

The Huizhou City Lords didn't care at first, in the end, they panicked and started working together.

However, they were still unable to block off and were forced to retreat.

Yangye City was broken up due to the alliance army failing.

There were also many who were looking forward to the three sects coming out. What was shocking was that, to date, there were no signs of those sect disciples. Even those from their families were nowhere to be seen.