[Less than a hundred miles from the Dragon-Man Sixth Expeditionary Army’s stronghold in the Great Wastes lies the newly established capital of the Spirit Artifact Nation—Ten Thousand Immortal City.]
[To be honest, this capital city basically has nothing.]
[Aside from sticking up a few flags to mark that this area is occupied by the Spirit Artifact Nation, there’s nothing else.]
[After all, spirit artifacts don’t need to eat, drink, or relieve themselves, so they don’t require any buildings.]
[In the last simulation, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner was the king of the human world’s spirit artifacts.]
[This time, among the Ten Thousand Souls Banner’s subjects, Dragon-Man tribe spirit artifacts far outnumber human world spirit artifacts.]
[So, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner adapted to local customs.]
[Dragon-Man spirit artifacts hate Dragon-Men.]
[So the Ten Thousand Souls Banner deliberately chose the capital’s location right across from the Dragon-Man military camp. Whenever it had free time, it would lead a bunch of spirit artifacts to provoke them face-to-face, hurling all kinds of insults.]
[If the Ten Thousand Souls Banner was busy with something, it would have the eunuch chief steward, the Demon Refining Pot, handle the task.]
[Now that the Demon Tribe were allies, the Demon Refining Pot had far fewer chances to earn merits.]
[Although it was displeased at being named eunuch chief steward, it was still very happy to lead the spirit artifacts in cursing out the Dragon-Man army.]
[This guy had real skill at cursing people. He went from morning to night without ever repeating a single phrase.]
[On top of that, his voice had rhythm and flair, like he was performing an opera.]
[Quite a few Dragon-Men were so pissed off their mouths twisted and eyes went crooked.]
[The Three Grand Venerables claimed that such a low-level provocation tactic would never fool their battle-hardened selves.]
[So they strictly ordered everyone in the stronghold to play deaf and dumb, ignoring the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and its crew.]
[As for the interdimensional war beasts the Dragon-Man tribe had brought along, a large portion had now defected to the Spirit Artifact Nation.]
[The war beasts had low intelligence, but they knew who their enemies were.]
[Seeing how brave their brothers in the Spirit Artifact Nation were, they immediately worshipped and surrendered, going through the whole process in one smooth chain.]
[You captured a few isolated Dragon-Men nearby, and after some Reformation, you discovered that even they didn’t know what the Three Grand Venerables were planning.]
[But the Dragon-Man soldiers all knew that the Three Grand Venerables were brewing a counterattack force.]
[You realized that only the Three Grand Venerables, or high-ranking members of this Dragon-Man army, knew the details.]
[“Old Wan, go back to your Spirit Artifact Nation.”]
[The Ten Thousand Souls Banner was stunned.]
[“I’m free?”]
[“When were you ever not free?”]
[“Right, right, right. Whatever you say is right.”]
[“I plan to infiltrate the Dragon-Man stronghold and find out what they’re holed up here doing. You bring some spirit artifacts over to cause trouble whenever you’re free, and let me rack up some military merits.”]
[“Hahaha! Infiltrating the Dragon-Men, using their own spirit artifacts to earn merit against them? Bro, when it comes to being shady, you’re always number one!”]
[The banner surface of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner raised a thumbs-up.]
[When it comes to disguise and infiltration, you’ve already become very skilled.]
[You crouched near the Dragon-Man stronghold and carefully selected a lucky Dragon-Man patrolling the perimeter, then killed him.]
[Then.]
[「Calamity of Ten Thousand Races」 Dragon-Man talent + 「Asian Evil Art」, altering your appearance to closely resemble his, making it hard to tell the fake from the real.]
[「Playing the Pig to Eat the Tiger」 adjusted your own realm aura to match this common soldier’s.]
[You called the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, who was ruling a kingdom a hundred miles away, over and had it reform this little Dragon-Man, extracting all his memories and details about infiltrating the group.]
[And just like that, you replaced a Dragon-Man named “Aibo Bo” and became a soldier in the Fourth Patrol Battalion of the Dragon-Man Sixth Expeditionary Army.]
[During your undercover mission, you received three pieces of bad news.]
[Shangguan Yingtai, Dongfang Shuo, and Xiao Yunlei—the three Martial Saints closest to the Martial God realm in the current human world—]
[While attempting to break through to the Martial God realm, because they were too impatient, they met with misfortune one after another.]
[Shangguan Yingtai was in too much of a hurry to break through. Rushing led to a heart fire surge, and she tragically perished during her secluded cultivation. It wasn’t until several months later that she was discovered.]
[Xiao Yunlei also pushed too hard for a breakthrough, causing a mistake in his cultivation technique. He suffered a Qi deviation on the spot, lost all sense of friend and foe, went completely berserk, and started killing anyone he saw.]
Although he had gone mad from Qi deviation, the infuriating part was that during his out-of-control state, he truly gained Martial God-level power.
[The leaders of the Three Great Holy Lands all perished within a single year.]
[The Three Great Holy Lands were each forced to organize new Chief Commissioner appointment ceremonies.]
[At the Free and Unfettered Holy Land, the one who took over as the new Chief Commissioner was Long Yang, while Wu Yue was promoted to one of the Commissioners.]
[Long Yang kept emphasizing that the most suitable candidate for Chief Commissioner was you, but since no one knew what you were doing, Long Yang could only temporarily handle Free and Unfettered Holy Land affairs on your behalf.]
[“Something’s not right...”]
[You sensed the scent of a conspiracy.]
[It was true that the three Chief Commissioners were in a rush to break through—they all knew the importance of the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array, and they all knew that given their remaining lifespans, they couldn’t afford to wait any longer.]
[Although they weren’t at the point of running out of time yet, once their bodies entered a period of decline, it would be impossible to break through.]
[Indeed, being too impatient in cultivation can cause problems.]
[But for two of them to have issues, and the third to take out the other in mutual destruction—]
[Wasn’t that all a bit too coincidental?]
[“Is it that invisible hand again...”]
[The mysterious Blood Moon organization...]
[The mysterious figure who helped the Dragon-Man army open a breach...]
[The unknown entity that covertly persecuted the Great Dao Immortal Artifacts in previous simulations...]
[And this time, the three Chief Commissioners meeting misfortune one after another...]
[You felt that behind all these mysteries, the same black hand seemed to be pulling the strings.]
[What did it want?]
[To use the Dragon-Men to destroy the human world?]
[What was the purpose?]
[What benefit would the human world’s destruction bring to it?]
[In the eightieth year, at age ninety-nine.]
[You replaced 「The Aura of Ten Thousand Races」 with 「Luckier with Age」.]
[You began your path of promotion within the Dragon-Man army.]
[You had to get promoted. As a low-level undercover agent, there was no way to learn what the Dragon-Man Expeditionary Army was planning.]
[With the Ten Thousand Souls Banner outside sending you military merits, your promotions came lightning fast.]
[From patrol soldier to senior soldier.]
[From senior soldier to squad leader, commander, battalion chief, and colonel.]
[You had enough military merits to keep rising, but you were stuck at the realm requirement since the disguise only showed you at the Fourth Realm.]
[A female general named “Zuozuo Lu” noticed your heroic performance over the past two years and greatly admired you, so she often kept you by her side.]
[By now, everyone in the Dragon-Man army knew you were General Zuozuo Lu’s lackey. The lower ranks all treated you with utmost respect.]
[Occasionally, you even got the chance to enter the Command Camp and sit in on the generals’ discussions with the Earth Venerables and Heaven Venerables.]
[The Dragon-Men were raising something.]
[This was the conclusion you drew from listening to their discussions.]
[In your daily duties, you indeed saw the Heaven Venerables issuing hunting orders, demanding soldiers capture live prey—whether ordinary animals or scattered Demon Tribe from the Great Wastes.]
[You had thought they were catching them to supplement their food supplies.]
[Now it seemed, they were actually all being used to feed something.]
