Chapter 75: Blood Moon Appears, Demons Appear (First Order)

"Boom!"

The heaven and earth seemed to sense something. Between the dark clouds that obscured the moon, blinding lightning flashed. A terrifying, blazing white energy tore through the sky, followed by a roar like thunder...

Everyone raised their heads and looked in that direction. It seemed as if even the heaven and earth had become extremely violent and angry, which was horrifying!
"God, if you have eyes, strike those thieves to death with thunder!"

Lu Zhishen raised the water-ground Zen staff that was leaning against the side, pointed it toward the sky, his face full of angry eyes.

scare!
Cao Jie did not have time to check the appearance of the newly acquired soul. He held down the Zen stick with one hand and said anxiously, "My brother Zhishen, good people do not live long, and evil will last for thousands of years. As for those corrupt officials, let us brothers chop off their heads with our own hands. Put down this Zen stick quickly..."

"Brother is right, heaven and earth are not kind!"

I'm afraid that you will direct the thunder from the sky towards me!
If one bomb goes down, we will all be wiped out.

Placing the Zen stick horizontally on the ground, Cao Jie wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

Just as he obtained the new soul form, the thunder sounded. Cao Jie couldn't help but be suspicious, after all, this was a world of demons.

But even in this materialistic world, we still have to be careful about being struck by lightning!

At this time, Ruan Xiaoqi felt the moisture in the air and shook his head, "It turned out to be a dry thunder. The rain won't fall tonight. The weather is really weird."

Sure enough, in the blink of an eye, the dark clouds dispersed and the moon was bright and the stars were sparse again.

However, the bright moon that emerged from the dark clouds was completely different from the crescent moon hanging high in the sky just now.

The waning moon hung high in the sky, but its color was extremely strange and creepy.

As if it was stained red with blood!
"The moon is so strange tonight..."

"Even the moonlight is red, as if it is bleeding..."

People were not afraid, but just felt curious, because the red moon was a rare sight in a century.

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"When the blood moon appears, the demons will appear!"

Qingxi County, Muzhou, Jiangnan, is a hilly and mountainous area in the southwest of Lin'an.

A strong young man stood in the valley, gazing at the blood moon hanging on the top of the mountain, and muttered six words.

Behind him was a burning bonfire.

Around the campfire, there was a group of down-and-out hired workers.

The valleys here are deep, the terrain is dangerous, and the products are rich. There are abundant resources such as lacquer trees, paper mulberry trees, and fir trees. Many wealthy businessmen come here to do business.

These hired workers were the proletariat in the lacquer garden. They worked hard day and night and could barely make ends meet.

These workers, who had nothing and were oppressed by the manor owner, looked at the blood moon with fear on their faces. They all spread their hands with trembling fingers and raised them to their chests, making a gesture of flames, chanting a passage of scripture: "Burn my broken body... blazing holy fire. What joy is there in life, and what pain is there in death..."

Aren’t they just a group of vegetable-eating demons?
The so-called "eating vegetables and serving the devil" was the name given to Manichaeism by the imperial court. They preached secretly in the Central Plains, advocated vegetarianism, worshipped Mani as the god of light, and instigated rebellion.

The young man muttered a few words, placed his hands on his chest like flaming flames, and said loudly: "The blood moon appears, the country will decline, the energy is exhausted, the Song Dynasty will not have much luck! Hahahaha..."

"Today is a good day. We, the Thirteenth Party, will teach you a set of Qinggong. When the building collapses, will the kings, princes, generals and ministers be able to survive?"

"The Song Dynasty will not last long, but the Dharma King will protect the religion for thousands of years!" Everyone bowed and shouted in unison.

Suddenly, Fang Shisan's body moved, and with the light of the bonfire, twisted light and shadows were created, as if in a dream.

The cold and fierce light and shadow are erratic, like the wind and ghosts, strange and unpredictable. This is a strange martial art originated from Persia, which is very different from the common sense of the Central Plains. Once a move is made, it is a sinister and vicious strange move.

A group of vegetable-eating demons danced together under the blood moon. The valley was filled with evil winds and devilish aura, which was even more weird than the blood moon.

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At the same time, at the eastern foot of Taiyue Mountain in Shanxi.

Although the mountain is not towering into the clouds, it is extremely majestic and steep. At night, in the misty mountain fog, you can faintly hear the sounds of fighting and the strange roars of beasts.

The sudden appearance of black clouds obscured the crescent moon. The dark wind blew heavily in the night, but it could not blow away the thick and irreversible smell of blood in the valley.

When I got closer, I realized that there were nearly a hundred dead bodies in the valley, both human and horse.

At the place of slaughter, a huge tiger head with the word "king" in its shape suddenly appeared in the darkness.

At this time, the dark clouds cooperated and parted, and the crescent moon cast down bright moonlight. Only then could one clearly see that what appeared in the blood was a monster with a tiger's head and a human body.

He was covered in blood, his chest was exposed, he had broad shoulders and a big waist, and his muscles were knotted.

The machete in his hand was extremely sharp, and a pair of bloodshot tiger eyes looked at the waning moon. It was unknown since when, the silver-white moon was stained with a hint of blood.

"Brother, these officers, who brought some soldiers into the mountains to encircle and suppress us? They are simply courting death..." The man who spoke had a leopard head, and his sharp teeth were exposed while he was laughing, with a murderous look on his face. At this time, another man with a big cat head spoke up: "I heard that there is a man named Cao in Shandong who has made a great name in the world. We brothers are not inferior to others, why don't we also recruit soldiers and gather a group of brothers to have fun?"

The most ferocious tiger demon glared with huge bloodshot eyes, turned his gaze away from the blood moon, and then his face was filled with excitement:

"Second brother, third brother, God help us! This bloody crescent moon makes me feel even more powerful."

"It's the same for me. My strength has increased by at least three levels."

"With such strength, there is no place in the world that we cannot go. Just follow my second brother, and my three brothers will recruit soldiers and horses, gather a group of brothers and live happily together."

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In Kaifeng Prefecture, when the moon was above the willow branches, the entire Tokyo Bianliang City did not dim. On the contrary, it truly came alive.

Looking into the distance, you can see countless colorful lanterns shining on both sides of the Bian River. Standing on a high place, you can see the lights of the world and the Milky Way in the sky complementing each other.

Qin Changjiao, who had just participated in the Spring Examination, was standing by the Bian River and looking at the brothels and pleasure boats in the distance.

That was a place where people spent huge sums of money, but he, a man with long legs who had to run errands for his classmates in the Imperial College to earn a living, had no money to visit prostitutes.

The blood moon was hanging high in the sky. He muttered something, untied his belt and urinated into the Bian River.

Shattered the blood moon in the river.

Behind him, the most gorgeous carved carriages were parked beside the street, and nimble and valuable BMWs were running freely on the Imperial Street, with gold and emerald inlays dazzling the eyes, and silk sleeves and gorgeous clothes wafting with fragrance.

The sounds of stringed instruments here shake the sky, and the air is filled with the aroma of wine and meat.

While the rich wine and meat smell, the road with frozen bone.

When the whole country supports one city, it will naturally be prosperous.

At this time, a strong deputy platoon soldier hummed dirty songs and patrolled behind Qin Changjiao. He took a glance and saw that he was wearing a long gown, so he ignored him and led a group of soldiers away.

"Brother Qing, we have found out clearly that the young lady we saw during the day..."

A confidant walked up to the deputy platoon commander with a sinister look and whispered in his ear.

He took a fancy to a young lady, and after some inquiries, he found out that she was the daughter of Tong Guan's brother Tong Ren, and Yang Jian's grandson. Tong Guan raised her as his own daughter and betrothed her to Cai You's son, but she was actually the daughter-in-law of Cai Jing's grandson. Her nickname was Jiao Xiu, and she was only 28 years old.

The deputy platoon leader knew that he could not afford to offend that woman, but he could not suppress the anger burning in his heart.

The fire of desire was attracted by the blood moon and became even hotter.

The blood moon appears and demons appear, which is a bad omen!
Who cares in Tokyo?

Probably only those true practitioners of Taoism in the mountains would care!

They said: The red moon represents the most yin and coldest phase, which indicates that the righteousness in the world is weak, the evil is strong, the resentment is rampant, and the violence is strong; the winds and clouds change drastically, and the mountains and rivers wail; the world is in turmoil, and fires are everywhere!
Hence it is called: Blood Moon!
It is also recorded in ancient books that when the blood moon appears, the country will decline, the energy will be exhausted, and it will be like falling into hell! It is accompanied by disasters, such as famine, war, injustice, evil, etc.
But now the Song Dynasty is flourishing and prosperous, who would dare to say in front of the emperor that chaos is about to break out?

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Between the White Mountains and Black Waters, tens of thousands of Jurchen warriors began to gather instinctively under the guidance of the blood moon.

The Jurchen leader came down from an unknown mountain, carrying an extremely thick mace in his right hand and a bloody head of a Khitan noble in his left hand.

The bloody moonlight fell on him, and his burly chest was covered with densely packed old and new scars. He roared at the bloody moon, and then began to transform into a beast. His fangs protruded from his lips, and his hair hardened into a mane, making him look even more terrifying.

Behind this leader were groups of men as rough as violent bears. They had shaved the front of their heads and had long braids behind their heads. All of them had ferocious faces, and some were shirtless or covered in animal skins. They ran like ferocious tigers descending the mountains, unstoppable.

History tells us that when half-human, half-beast barbarians, carrying hammers and knives and howling, gather in one place from the desolate snow and ice, it indicates that a storm that will sweep the world has begun.

A group of desperate criminals with nothing but their lives, once they have tasted the fruit of their first victory, the only goal of the rest of their lives will be to pursue this sweet fruit.

War is the best place to cultivate people's spirituality. As long as such wars continue, the barbaric orcs will grow at the fastest speed.

Those who are born with the ability to refine their spirits are the best warriors. As long as they learn how to fight, they will be invincible.

The only drawback is that their population is too small.

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In Yuncheng, Shandong, Ya Si Song had fallen asleep early after a tiring day. He turned over in his sleep and saw a pale crescent moon hanging on the bare treetops outside the window, casting cold moonlight.

In Qingfeng Village, Cao Jie and others looked around carefully with their eyes wide open, but did not find anything unusual.

Cao Jie finally couldn't suppress his curiosity and began to check the talent of his new soul. The stars in the sky appeared densely in his eyes, connecting into rays of light and forming clear words.

What was strange was that a star suddenly shone in the night sky, as if responding to the soul talent that Cao Jie had activated...

(End of this chapter)