Chapter 61: Ice Tide (1/2)

Chapter 61: Ice Tide

Translator: NinetalesEditor: Fish Creek

”What you said is right but also wrong.”

General Qin smiled, ”There's no way to research the origins of Great Ruins. However, when we founded Eternal Peace Empire back then, we received an oracle. In the oracle, it stated that Great Ruins was a land abandoned by gods and wanted the people abandoned by gods to remain in Great Ruins and never come out. If any abandoned people came out, they were to be killed no matter what. From what I heard, other than Eternal Peace Empire, many other countries had also received similar oracles. However, there are not only aboriginals of Great Ruins living here, there are also vicious people who had no place left to go hiding inside Great Ruins. From what I see, these people are even more dangerous than the abandoned people!”

Seventh young master asked curiously, ”I saw merchants entering Great Ruins at the border station, why does Eternal Peace Empire have to do business with the abandoned people of Great Ruins?”

”Young Master may not know this, but even though Great Ruins might be barren, their natural resources are plentiful. There are countless rare materials, precious treasure and valuable beast skins that can be exchanged with worthless items like seasonings. Why would we be against it?”

General Qin continued, ”With the mutual exchange of assistance with Great Ruins at the border station, I don't even know how much we earned over these years. Using this money to supplement military use, it allows our Eternal Peace Empire to have a well-trained and powerful army that far surpasses other countries.”

Seventh young master asked again, ”What if there are abandoned people who try to sneak through the border, wouldn't that be bad?”

”Along with the oracle back then, there were also a few treasures. They were called Inspection Mirrors and were hanged on top of the mountain passes leading to Eternal Peace Empire. As long as they are abandoned people of the Great Ruins, they would be shone upon by the Inspection Mirrors. Imperial Preceptor guessed that the abandoned people might have a different lineage from us but he couldn't find anything different even after checking through their bodies.”

General Qin smiled, ”Every year the few mountain passes would capture many of the devil people who are trying to escape to our Eternal Peace Empire. Some of them were executed on the spot while others were brought to mine ores. It would be considered lucky for them to survive one to two years.”

The ship gradually sailed away. On the cliff, Qin Mu exclaimed in admiration, ”That person was very powerful. His eyesight was extremely strong, it's no wonder he could become a general at such a young age! He's trying to draft the topographic map of Surging River, could it be that the Eternal Peace Empire is moving their army into the Great Ruins?”

He was slightly puzzled. The Great Ruins was clearly a barren land filled with danger everywhere. Even after the sun sets, there would be the invasion of the darkness. He didn't think that it was a good idea for Eternal Peace Empire to move their army into the Great Ruins.

If the army of the Eternal Peace Empire that comes was too small, it wouldn't be enough to stuff the gap between the strange beasts' teeth. If it was too big, where would they hide when night falls?

It was because there was simply too much danger in the Great Ruins, which was why no one was able to rule the Great Ruins.

Not even Eternal Peace Empire.

If Eternal Peace Empire was to invade, they would take a hard fall!

Suddenly, Qin Mu remembered something and immediately requested, ”Big fella, go back to Doom Suppression Palace immediately and destroy the map of the Great Ruins!”

Devil ape rose and grabbed onto dragon elephant. With a roar, it jumped onto dragon elephant and sprinted away.

”Since the Eternal Peace Empire is starting to draw the topographic map of Surging River, it would help them even more if they were to find the map in the Doom Suppression Palace.” Qin Mu had an unsettled expression as he thought to himself.

It may be a pity to destroy the map but he had already memorized the Great Ruins' map deep in his mind and would never forget it.

Not long later, the river water suddenly became faintly red. Qin Mu was stumped as he looked upstream only to see the water becoming even redder!

”Young master, there are corpses in the river!” Hu Ling'er cried out in astonishment.

Qin Mu also saw the bodies but he didn't say anything. Looking upstream, more and more bodies floated down. There were huge fish and river beasts under the water as they churned up the water while taking the chance to eat these corpses, creating quite a commotion in the process.

Opening his Heaven's Eyes, Qin Mu saw the faces that were floating up and down in the water which made his body tremble. These corpses were the very same visitors that had hurried past Jade Cloud Valley just now!

With the churning river, the blood red became even more intense. Even the floating ice was dyed red.

This wasn't what a hundred corpses could do!

Surging River was very wide, with a width of three miles. With the rapid currents, the blood of a hundred people wouldn't be able to dye the river red.

Qin Mu's expression froze as he saw the tide of corpses that flowed down from upstream!

It's not just a tide of corpses, it was thousands of corpses being mixed with pieces of floating ice which formed an ice tide of corpses!

These people were the strong practitioners who were waiting to ambush the general. There was a huge amount of them, separated into batches, heading upstream and setting up a formation to ambush him. Yet they were all killed by the general!

To form an ice tide of corpses meant that these people had all died at the same time!

They had all died at the same time under the hands of the general or the strong practitioners on the ship!

Qin Mu composed himself. It was still the first time he had seen such a gruesome sight. It was even much gruesome than the massacre of the village he had seen when he followed Granny Si to deliver a baby when he was young!

Back then, his soul was frightened out of his body and was caught back by Granny Si. Now, despite being a martial arts practitioner, his soul still wavered upon seeing such a sight.