No hope for eternal life

Chapter 365 Disturbed

Seeing this, the Marshal of the Southern Liang Kingdom, who was in the rear, ordered a subordinate beside him: "This boy is only in the Golden Core Realm, but he can kill a mid-Yuanying Realm. If he doesn't die, he will become a big trouble in the future. We must not let him live. Liang Song, go and kill him."

"Yes." The black-robed monk named Liang Song took the order and left to join the battlefield.

At the same time, the Marshal of the Northern Yuan Kingdom also issued an order to protect Mu Changsheng.

Therefore, under the orders of the marshals of both sides, the small-scale fighting that was originally a routine event every two months began to develop into a large-scale fighting and became more intense.

When Mu Changsheng saw this scene, he thought it was not good. He did not expect that just killing two Nascent Soul cultivators would cause such a huge chain reaction.

"It seems that I still underestimated the importance of cross-border killings in this world." Mu Changsheng had some enlightenment in his mind. In reality, unless it was someone in the eighth realm killing someone in the ninth realm like Yang Wuji and You Wushuang, other cross-border killings would not be too surprising, because there are so many means in the world, and it is possible to commit cross-border killings with the help of any means.

But in this illusion, the highest cultivator has not reached the Tribulation Realm. The secret techniques and various means here are at most at the Tribulation Realm level, so it is more difficult to cross the border and fight in this illusion.

This was also a warning to Mu Changsheng. It was not too outrageous for his Golden Core to kill the Nascent Soul now, but if the Nascent Soul killed the Divine Transformation and the Divine Transformation killed the Tribulation in the future, it would very likely arouse suspicion from those with ulterior motives, such as forcing him to hand over his secret techniques and so on. However, the secret techniques that Mu Changsheng practiced were all preceded by the oath he made to his inner demon, so naturally he could not hand them over.

"It's better not to show these cross-border means as much as possible in the future." Mu Changsheng said to himself.

At the same time, a black-robed monk was sneaking towards Mu Changsheng at a very fast speed. No one noticed him along the way. He was the monk Liang Song sent by the Marshal of the Southern Liang Kingdom.

By the time Mu Changsheng discovered Liang Song, Liang Song was less than ten feet away from him. This distance was fatal enough for any cultivator.

When Liang Kuan saw that he was discovered, he decisively controlled a small flying sword to launch an attack.

At a distance of ten feet, the flying sword flashed past, and Mu Changsheng only had time to activate the protective talisman on his body and narrowly blocked Liang Kuan's flying sword.

"Fortunately, I bought a protective talisman." Mu Changsheng couldn't help but feel thankful in his heart. In addition to the clear tasks in this illusion test, he also had to ensure his own survival, otherwise everything would be in vain.

Immediately afterwards, Mu Changsheng launched a counterattack, still using the fourth-grade intermediate level God-Slaying Formation to trap Liang Song.

However, Liang Song was no ordinary person. He quickly broke out of the formation, which meant that his cultivation or strength was at least at the late Nascent Soul level.

Before Mu Changsheng came to the Longhe battlefield, he had anticipated the possibility of encountering a cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage, so he specially prepared a fifth-grade primary level virtual god talisman. With this talisman, Mu Changsheng could burst out with power close to the level of transformation into a god.

Mu Changsheng had no intention of trapping Liang Song to death with the God-Slaying Formation. He just needed some time to activate the Void God Talisman.

So, after Liang Song broke through the God-Slaying Formation, what greeted him was the arrival of Mu Changsheng's Thunder God.

The majestic Thunder God waved his thunder whip and was about to kill Liang Song with one whip, but a ball of black light emerged from Liang Song's body and blocked the Thunder God's attack.

"A protective formation." Mu Changsheng frowned, realizing that Liang Song also had some protective means.

Mu Changsheng originally wanted to kill the other party and add to his military merits, but now it seems a little unrealistic.

At the same time, the enemy and our side both sounded the retreat in tacit agreement. The military order on the battlefield was as firm as a mountain, so Mu Changsheng had no choice but to lead his troops to retreat. Liang Song on the opposite side also stopped pestering and retreated.

The good news is that Mu Changsheng's team of 100 people was almost intact, with only one person lost.

But the bad news is that the total military merit of the hundred-man team only adds up to 242 points, and Mu Changsheng gets an extra 10% of military merit, which is only 24 points.

In addition, Mu Changsheng obtained a total of 1,290 points of military merit by killing two Nascent Soul cultivators and half a team of 100 people.

After the battle, Mu Changsheng only gained 1,530 points of military merit, which is still far from 10,000 points.

"We can only wait for the big fight in two months and see what we gain then." Mu Changsheng could only pin his hopes on the big fight in two months.

In the following two months, Mu Changsheng earned spirit stones by refining talismans, and used the earned spirit stones to buy things needed for strength and body refining, hoping that his body and strength refining levels could break through to the Nascent Soul stage first.

However, after two months, Mu Changsheng's body and strength training were still a little short of a breakthrough, and the semi-annual battle began as scheduled.

Perhaps because of Mu Changsheng’s performance last time, Mu Changsheng and his team of 100 people were arranged to play in the first echelon this time.

After arriving at the battlefield, Mu Changsheng was about to look for his target when he found Liang Song attacking him again.

"As long as I'm alive, you can forget about gaining military merit." Liang Songyin said with a smile. He came here not to kill Mu Changsheng, but to restrain Mu Changsheng so that he could not attack others and gain military merit.

This move was like cutting off the fuel supply for Mu Changsheng.

Mu Changsheng frowned slightly. The opponent's move was indeed unexpected for him.

Then, Mu Changsheng immediately ordered a soldier to return to the rear to report the situation, hoping to seek help from his own side and repel Liang Song.

After a cup of tea, the soldier sent by Mu Changsheng returned and brought an order from the rear: "We are short of manpower and unable to provide support. Use the enemy's tactics to delay the enemy's Nascent Soul cultivator. You will be rewarded with 500 points of military merit afterwards."

Mu Changsheng frowned again. There was nothing wrong with this order itself. Using himself, a Jindan realm cultivator, to hold back a late Yuanying stage cultivator was a good deal no matter how you looked at it. But in this way, he could only gain 500 points of military merit after a battle, which could not satisfy Mu Changsheng's requirement of 10,000 military merits at all.

Mu Changsheng could even foresee that Liang Song would come to entangle him every time a war broke out in the future.

However, no matter how reluctant Mu Changsheng was, he had to obey orders. Military orders on the battlefield were as heavy as mountains and no one could disobey them.

In this way, Mu Changsheng became a spectator in the war that was originally held every six months. Until the end of the war, Mu Changsheng was unable to kill a single enemy cultivator.

Including the additional military merit rewards for the soldiers under his command, Mu Changsheng only received a total of 532 military merit points.

"There is no other choice but to go to Long River to hunt monks." Mu Changsheng said in his heart. Because hunting in Long River might encounter a Divine Transformation monk, Mu Changsheng originally did not want to take the risk, but now he has to take the risk.

Otherwise, Mu Changsheng would not be able to accumulate 10,000 military merits within the time limit of one year. Moreover, the breakthrough process would take at least half a year. The time left for Mu Changsheng to gain military merits was only half a year, and half of this half year had already passed.

Before going to Longhe to hunt, Mu Changsheng made various preparations. First, he pushed his strength and body refining realms to the Nascent Soul Realm. Then he bought a fifth-grade top-level divine speed talisman. This talisman could greatly increase Mu Changsheng's speed, so that if he encountered a cultivator in the God Transformation Realm, he could escape quickly.

Finally, Mu Changsheng also bought a mask that could conceal his appearance and breath. He suspected that he was already very famous among the enemy, so it would be better to hide his identity when going to Longhe to hunt.

After everything was ready, Mu Changsheng quietly left the military camp and stepped into the Long River.