Invincible Over the World
Chapter 698 - 698 695 Making a Big Deal Out of a Small Issue

698: Chapter 695: Making a Big Deal Out of a Small Issue 698: Chapter 695: Making a Big Deal Out of a Small Issue As Huang Xiaolong and the others were rushing towards the Broken Blade Empire Imperial City, the Imperial City was bustling with activity.

Inside, astonishingly, thousands of colossal furnaces had been constructed!

Countless middle-aged burly men, elderly men, and youths dressed in prisoner robes were lined up, steadily throwing massive chunks of iron ore into these immense furnaces.

These middle-aged men, elders, and youths garbed in prisoner attire were all, surprisingly, Innate Experts!

Around the massive furnaces sat four middle-aged individuals draped in purple robes, each wearing a purple brocade robe embroidered with the character for “Ying” on their chests.

All four were Holy Domain Experts!

As the prisoners continuously tossed iron ore into the vast furnaces, they kept summoning inner flames to refine the ores into a liquid form.

The ore liquid streamed out from the discharge outlet of the colossal furnaces.

Nearby, soldiers in purple robes collected the molten metal, pouring it into various weapon molds already stamped with specific markings.

If some prisoners were slow in their actions, they were brutally whipped by the soldiers in purple robes, their bodies covered in lash marks and oozing blood, yet they dared not speak out.

One prisoner, unable to contain his anger, turned around and glared at the soldiers.

“Oh, you dare glare at me?” one of the soldiers laughed.

“Brothers, let’s make this kid feel comfortable!”

Instantly, the surrounding soldiers in purple robes surged forward, lashing him furiously with their long whips.

This prisoner would have shocked the Huang Family greatly if they were there, for he was none other than Duan Wuheng!

Duan Wuheng, who should have taken over and become the new Great Emperor of the Broken Blade Empire, had instead become a prisoner!

No one knew exactly what material the whips were made of, but each strike caused excruciating pain that convulsed the body, as if thousands of snakes were biting simultaneously, pushing the depths of agony to its limits.

Duan Wuheng’s strength in the Holy Domain rendered him utterly powerless to resist.

The surrounding prisoners looked at Duan Wuheng as he was whipped to the ground and screamed in agony.

Some reveled in his misfortune, others couldn’t bear to watch, some were angry, some sympathetic, and some indifferent.

These prisoners were all innate experts from various major families of the Broken Blade Empire, captured to toil as forced labor.

They all recognized Duan Wuheng, the empire’s Great Emperor who had reigned for just a few short years.

Above the Imperial City, Ying Changtian, dressed in a dragon robe, watched Duan Wuheng being whipped below and said to a Ying Family guard beside him, “Go down and tell them not to beat Duan Wuheng to death.

Keep him alive; he still has some use.”

After all, Duan Wuheng was still nominally the “Great Emperor” of the Broken Blade Empire.

“Yes, Supreme Elder!” the Ying Family guard respectfully responded, then withdrew.

“Supreme Elder, who would have thought that a small Martial Soul World would have such rich mineral resources?

At this rate, we should soon complete the task given to us by the Li Family,” another Ying Family guard said, fawningly smiling.

Ying Changtian also smiled, “Even I didn’t expect the Martial Soul World’s mineral veins to be so rich, not only the mineral veins but also the spiritual medicine materials are plentiful.

The Fire Sun White Spirit Pill I’m making still needs a few types of Spiritual Medicines, and I found them all here.”

“However, Supreme Elder, if mining continues at this rate, in a hundred years, the Martial Soul World might turn into a Death World and be completely depleted,” said the Ying Family guard hesitantly.

When a world’s spiritual energy becomes so scant that it reaches a certain level, the humans living in that world can no longer cultivate by absorbing the spiritual energy from nature because there is no spiritual energy left to absorb.

Then, it will become extremely difficult for the people of that world to even survive, with no mineral veins, no Spiritual Medicines, no spiritual beasts—nothing at all.

In the Star River, such a realm is called the Death World.

“If it becomes a Death World, then let it be so,” Ying Changtian said nonchalantly, “The fate of the people in this realm, alive or dead, is not our concern.

We just need to complete our assignment.

After one hundred years, once we’ve mined all the ores and harvested all the Spiritual Medicine, we’ll leave and let these lowly prisoners fend for themselves.”

“However, what’s infuriating is that the Zhao Family has managed to ally with a direct disciple of the Li Family, seizing control over the Chaotic Land and Shifang Continent.

The mineral resources there surpass those of the Snow Continent and Star Cloud Continent,” the Ying Family guard said indignantly.

This time, the Ying Family and Zhao Family collaborated to jointly control the Martial Soul World and divide its resources.

However, the Zhao Family gained more than the Ying Family.

This displeased many within the Ying Family.

Still, Ying Changtian waved his hand and said, “In the future, both our Ying Family and the Zhao Family will serve the Li Family; we are allies, not divided.

Let the Zhao Family have a bit more, we shouldn’t fret over such matters.”

The Ying Family guard complied.

“However, so many years have passed, and Huang Xiaolong still hasn’t returned to the Martial Soul World?” the guard continued, “Supreme Elder, should we send someone to search for Huang Xiaolong’s whereabouts?”

Ying Changtian shook his head.

“The Star River is vast, how can we search?

Rest assured, I have a feeling that Huang Xiaolong will return sooner or later.”

He had another mission this time, which was to capture Huang Xiaolong!

This was an order from the Ying Family Master and their Ancestors: they had to see Huang Xiaolong alive or confirm his death!

Last time, the Ying Family’s Twin Stars were commanded to capture Huang Xiaolong but ended up being killed by his friends!

This completely infuriated the Ying Family.

However, by the time the Ying Family sent him to the Martial Soul World, Huang Xiaolong and the others of the Huang Family had already left the Martial Soul World, their whereabouts unknown.

Ying Changtian could only wait in the Martial Soul World.

Wait for Huang Xiaolong to appear!

“Supreme Elder, I feel that, just to capture one Huang Xiaolong, having you and the other fifteen Supreme Elders come here is making a mountain out of a molehill,” the Ying Family guard cautiously said, “Moreover, the Zhao Family has also sent sixteen Supreme Elders!”

Ying Changtian nodded, he too felt that both the Ying Family and the Zhao Family were exaggerating the situation.

A mere individual from the Martial Soul World didn’t warrant such a massive mobilization.

He had been in the Martial Soul World for quite some time now.

The Martial Soul World scarcely had any High-level Holy Domain, let alone a Holy Domain Tenth Rank Late Stage Peak.

Huang Xiaolong was also from the Martial Soul World, how strong could he possibly be?

Even if the Ying Family’s Twin Stars were killed by Huang Xiaolong’s friends, those friends were at most Divine Domain Seventh Stage.

All sixteen of them were Supreme Elders, each a Divine Domain Eighth Stage powerhouse!

And he himself was at the Divine Domain Eighth Stage Middle Stage!

Just then, suddenly, a loud boom resonated from afar, shaking the heaven and earth.

Ying Changtian’s expression changed as he shouted, “What’s going on?!”

(To be continued.

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