The old man stared at Fabian Mills, his mouth agape, unable to utter a single word. He was beyond furious. In less than an hour, this guy not only killed thousands of Northfortians, but also slaughtered two to three thousand Oriana soldiers, leaving tens of thousands of warriors without an arm and their fighting power drained! And now, he wanted Oriana to consider how to compensate him.
Couldn’t he stop bullying people like this?!
“Goodbye!” Fabian Mills waved his hand at the old man and turned to leave. His next target was Veridiania.
“Lord Kim, are you alright?” Four armless soldiers approached Kim after Fabian Mills left, tending to their wounds.
“Arrange for a plane immediately. I want to return to the capital!” the old man bellowed in anger.
“Please wait, Lord Kim. The people at the military camp have all lost an arm and cannot fly. We will contact the second camp to come and pick you up,” a man replied, struggling to speak.
“Hurry, hurry!” the old man roared.
Similar incidents like this were happening simultaneously at the Glavale border. Any country that tried to take advantage of Glavale’s current state faced the same fate. Veridiania and Nanrania suffered the heaviest losses, with over fifty thousand casualties in each of their military camps, as instructed by Billy.
At half past eleven in the morning, Billy and his group arrived at the summit of the Kun Lun Mountains. They encountered several ambushes along the way, both from martial artists and foreign rogues. However, with Ernest Shepherd by their side, they managed to avoid any surprises.
Among the attackers, the most powerful was a third-rank Sovereign expert from Northfortia, but even his full strength couldn’t withstand a single move from Ernest Shepherd.
“Commander Gardner, we pay our respects!”
As soon as Billy appeared on the mountaintop, a deafening voice resounded from all around. Members of SHADOW, Special Patrol Squadron, Imperial Guard Bureau, Central Sky Office, and Capital Defense Bureau, a total of fifty thousand brothers, knelt down with one knee and shouted in unison.
“No need for excessive courtesy, take your positions!” Billy raised his hand.
“Yes, Commander!” The crowd shouted once again before standing up.
They quickly spread out, forming layers of defense around the mountaintop. At the same time, Billy and his group finally had a clear view of the summit.
The first thing that caught their eyes was a vast artificial open space, estimated to be the size of twenty football fields. In the center of the open space stood a double-layered platform resembling an altar. The upper layer was about seven to eight meters high from the ground, with a diameter of about five hundred meters, fully covered by a yin-yang Tai Chi diagram.
The lower layer, about two to three meters high, had a diameter of about a kilometer. It was surrounded by eight stone staircases, each representing one of the Eight Trigrams-Qian (represents heaven, strength, and creativity), Dui (represents the lake, joy, and harmony.), Li (represents fire, brightness, and illumination), Zhen (represents thunder, movement, and awakening), Xun(represents the wind, flexibility, and receptivity), Kan (represents water, danger, and the abyss), Gen (represents the mountain, stillness, and immobility), and Kun (represents the earth, receptivity, and nurturing). The eight stone staircases circled the Tai Chi diagram. From a bird’s-eye view, the entire platform formed a Five Elements and Eight Trigrams diagram.
According to the correspondence between the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, Qian and Dui belonged to metal, Kun and Gen belonged to earth, Zhen and Xun belonged to wood, Kan represented water, and Li represented fire. Therefore, although there were only five gates representing the Five Elements, eight people were needed to ascend the altar simultaneously. In addition, near each of the eight stone staircases on the upper platform, there stood a two-meter-wide stone pillar. Surrounding the open space were a hundred stone pillars, each towering dozens of meters high.
“Boss!”
“Commander Gardner!”
While Billy and his group were observing their surroundings, Bob, Ian, and Harlan walked over.
Billy smiled and said, “You guys are here pretty quickly!”
“Not fast enough!” Bob clicked his tongue.
“If it weren’t for dealing with some foreign rogues along the way and killing over a hundred martial artists, many of them above the late Emperor Realm, we would have arrived even earlier.”
After speaking, Bob greeted Ernest Shepherd.
“Billy!” Ivy’s voice came through.
“Ivy, you guys made it too?” Billy turned around and smiled.
“Yeah!” Ivy walked up and looked Billy up and down before asking, “Billy, I heard you had some trouble with a bunch of small fries on the way. Are you okay?”
“I’m fine!” Billy shook his head, still smiling. Then he continued, “Has Minister Woolery arrived?”
“Commander Gardner, it must have been smooth sailing all the way, right?” Urban Woolery looked at Billy and smiled.
“It’s all thanks to Elder Shepherd!” Billy nodded with a smile.
“Haha, Commander Gardner, you’re too modest. Even without Elder Shepherd, they wouldn’t be able to do anything to you.” Urban Woolery had great confidence in Billy.
“You flatter me.” Billy smiled again.
“Commander Gardner, I’ve heard about the situation at the border. I’m concerned.” Donald spoke up.
As the Second Elder of the War Department, the safety of the border was his biggest concern. Although Billy had assured him that he had arranged for manpower, he still had some worries. After all, the commanders of the four major war departments were all absent, and if something were to happen, it would be a big deal. So, from the moment he woke up in the morning, he had been holding onto his satellite phone, worrying about the situation at the four major borders.
An hour ago, the four major borders had called him one by one to report the situation, finally putting his mind at ease.
“Elder Donald, it’s my duty. Nothing to worry about!” Billy replied with a smile before looking at Urban Woolery again. “Minister Woolery, there should still be many martial artists around the mountaintop, right?”
Billy had already used his spiritual power to investigate the surroundings, and he sensed several groups of people lurking in the nearby forest. Their cultivation levels were not weak, and there were even some Supreme Realm experts among them. However, these people didn’t emit a strong killing intent, so they shouldn’t be foreign warriors.
“Just a bunch of pests in our country. Pay them no mind!” Urban dismissed them with a wave of his hand.
“Minister Woolery, is that the altar over there?” Azure Dragon pointed in the direction of the platform and asked.
“That’s right!” Urban nodded, his face showing a solemn expression.
“The Kun Lun Mountains are the source of the world’s dragon veins, and the summit of Kun Lun is the center of all dragon veins in the world.”
“For thousands of years, Glavale has received the blessings from the heavens at this sacred place, welcoming the arrival of our national fortune!”
Everyone nodded solemnly.
“Who are you people?” Just then, a voice from one of the mountain paths came from a SHADOW brother.
“This is a sacred place of the altar. Leave immediately, or face certain death!”