Chapter 135: Chapter 135: Extinction! Mass Extinction

Zhu Ge emptied the contents of the grass bowl.

He had to admit, the space inside the grass bowl was truly vast, large enough to hold the contents of three or four shipping containers.

And now, seeing the huge pile of gleaming gold and shimmering silver coins taken out was quite a visual spectacle.

"Wow, money!" Liu Jianjian exclaimed joyfully. "Master made so much money on this trip to the city!"

"That’s so much!" Sword Hero said in amazement. "Hundreds of gold coins... I’ve never seen so much back in the Human Race’s cities!"

"What’s money for?" Only Zhu Sisi didn’t know the use of money.

Zhu Ge laughed. "Money is very useful. You’ll find out later!"

Zhu Sisi nodded and continued to nibble on her mulberry leaf.

Zhu Ge had left in the morning and returned at night, so nothing much had happened in the valley.

Liu Jianjian, however, was very gossipy about his trip to the city and pestered Zhu Ge with questions.

Zhu Ge could only pick and choose what to answer.

"No! They weren’t selling any toys!"

"Alright, alright, next time I’ll buy you some snacks. Sugar figurines."

"Pearl Jade Mountain Bamboo Shoot Medley? That’s just mung beans and mountain bamboo shoots stewed with cured meat!"

Zhu Ge was in a great mood, chatting with Liu Jianjian and the others.

Hua Liusha, on the other hand, went back to the small wooden cabin to continue practicing how to make Soul Clothing.

On this trip to the city, Hua Liusha and Zhu Ge had witnessed firsthand just how profitable having a skill could be.

So, as soon as she returned, Hua Liusha immediately began studying the *Gusu Silk Annals*, researching and practicing at the same time.

As he chatted, Zhu Ge also felt a sense of peace and tranquility.

Cultivate, make money, grow stronger.

’This is great!’

However, just as evening passed and before midnight settled in, Zhu Ge, who was cultivating the Great Sun Glaze Body in his wooden cabin, opened his eyes.

He felt a strange tremor in his heart, a premonition that something was about to happen.

"Husband, do you feel it too?"

Hua Liusha stood up, setting aside the Soul Clothing she was working on. She stared out of the cabin with a grave expression.

Zhu Ge walked straight outside and saw a bewildered Liu Jianjian.

"Something big is about to happen," Zhu Ge said softly.

Seeing that he wasn’t the only one with this premonition—that everyone seemed to feel something—Zhu Ge’s sense of foreboding grew.

’There’s definitely a problem!’

Just as he thought this, Zhu Ge suddenly looked toward the horizon, his expression one of horror.

RUMBLE...

A boundlessly powerful aura swept across thousands of miles of dark clouds. The moon hung in the sky, looking immense.

Nearly all living beings looked up at the sky, their gazes upturned.

A figure—the upper body of a figure—appeared in the night sky, so colossal it seemed to touch the heavens and stand upon the earth. The bright moon was but a pattern on the corner of his robes.

It was a young man!

The young man looked to be only twenty-five or twenty-six, with a handsome, scholarly face.

His gaze was directed south. He held a sword in one hand, his eyes indifferent.

A strange aura swept across the world. Every living being in Yunjiang could see him and feel his presence.

Ancient, boundless, infinite, profound, murderous...

Boundlessly terrifying, supremely tyrannical!

"True Monarch Minmian?!"

Upon seeing this figure, Zhu Ge cried out involuntarily.

This phantom that towered between heaven and earth was none other than True Monarch Minmian, Gu Qingtian!

"So scary..."

Liu Jianjian and Sword Hero reverted to their true forms, trembling at the sight of the terrifying, boundless figure.

"Husband, I can’t withstand this pressure..." Hua Liusha also collapsed into a red mist and surged back into Zhu Ge’s body.

Zhu Ge felt a tremor in his soul, his heart filled with shock.

’He’s too strong!’

Just this method of manifesting himself was something Zhu Ge had never seen before!

At that moment, the figure high in the sky had only just appeared when an earth-shattering roar echoed:

"Minmian, this place is—"

The voice was deep and resonant. At the same time, another phantom began to faintly form on the horizon.

But just then, True Monarch Minmian moved.

He raised the sword in his hand and swung it forward.

In an instant, an overwhelmingly powerful shockwave emanated from it, surging torrentially toward the south.

True Monarch Minmian uttered four words:

"Annihilation..."

"Total Annihilation..."

His voice was utterly indifferent, like that of a great roc in the heavens looking down upon ants—powerful and proud.

RUMBLE...

A terrifying shockwave rolled in from the south. A sense of universal slaughter and annihilation filled the hearts of all living things.

Only then did the Majestic figure of True Monarch Minmian in the sky slowly begin to fade.

"No...!"

A roar of fury echoed from an immense distance, a mix of anger, sorrow, and powerlessness... all the emotions jumbled together into a feeling of utter despair.

Zhu Ge didn’t know what had happened far away, but he had a faint feeling...

Perhaps True Monarch Minmian had really gone to Nanyue Mianhuang to carry out an act of extermination.

Cold Snow Official, True Monarch Minmian... wielder of extermination!

One sword strike, a great extermination of all living things!

A fire ignited in Zhu Ge’s heart, a fire of yearning for great power.

’A true man should be just like that!’

If the Fungus God and the Raincoat Fisherman were external circumstances and pressures pushing Zhu Ge forward...

...then now, besides needing to grow stronger to survive, Zhu Ge had another reason.

Love!

He loved the unrestrained freedom of True Monarch Minmian, who would draw his sword at the slightest provocation and cut down Nanyue without a second thought!

He also loved how cool it was!

"So cool..."

Zhu Ge slowly let out a breath, then looked at the three little ones still trembling nearby and shook his head with a smile.

"Get up. It seems my second brother went off to kill someone."

As Zhu Ge said this, he felt incredibly strange.

On paper, True Monarch Minmian really was his second brother.

The problem was that he, the "big brother," was too weak. His second brother could probably kill him with a fart.

However, Zhu Ge then thought of "big brothers" like Liu Bei, and his heart calmed a little.

’Who says the big brother has to be the strongest...’ Zhu Ge comforted himself.

The next moment, another thought suddenly struck him.

’Wait, Nanyue Mianhuang was exterminated... but what kind of extermination?’

’Doesn’t that mean all the barbarians there are gone, but their treasures are left behind?’

Zhu Ge’s eyes widened, and his breathing grew heavy.

Treasure!

’Treasure everywhere!’

Nanyue Mianhuang had its own cities and armies.

If True Monarch Minmian had really exterminated all the people there, wouldn’t that mean all their belongings were just left behind for the taking?

’Wait, calm down...’

Zhu Ge took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down.

He was tens of thousands of miles away from Nanyue Mianhuang. After all, this world was many times larger than he had imagined.

If he tried to run there on foot, it would probably take him ten or twenty days, and that’s without eating or drinking.

Besides, how many powerful beings were there in all of Yunjiang?

Was he the only one who could think of this? Couldn’t others?

Moreover, Zhu Ge also felt that True Monarch Minmian wasn’t the type to be bloodthirsty.

Even a so-called extermination was probably carried out according to class or rank.

For example, exterminating all the Great Cultivators, or all the Third and Second Realm Cultivators.

’Greed... leads to destruction...’

Zhu Ge sighed.

"I’d better not get involved in this mess."

’Wait, even if I don’t go, other people definitely will!’

’Doesn’t that mean that a huge number of beings will be passing through Red River Prefecture?’

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