Martial World's
Ch 2038 - Our Last Pride
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Starting from when the first batch of people settled on the New Ming Planet, it had only experienced a history of several hundred years. In the eternal river of history where mankind has evolved, this small spark of time is not worth mentioning at all.
In the past few hundred years, the population of New Ming Planet has grown from billions to tens of billions of people. However, across the vast and vast New Ming Planet, there was a large amount of wild land yet to be developed. Humanity is only able to occupy the smallest corner of the planet, and about 100,000 cities have been established, both large and small.
The name New Ming Planet came from Xiao Moxian's yearning for Lin Ming.
Everyone on New Ming Planet knew about the fascinating and loving story of Lin Ming and Xiao Moxian. The showdown at the longevity banquet of Monster Beasts was the part they liked to talk about.
For the humans suffering in the present, the story of Lin Ming suppressing the Son of Fortune Saint, saving Xiao Moxian and freeing her from the shackles of the demons and the monster race and then starting their romance, no matter how many times these people listen to this story they never get bored of it.
For people on New Ming Planet who are going through so much hardship, this is the fairy tale they love the most.
For most of the new settlers who first came to New Ming Planet, the, the reason they chose to leave their homeland and follow Xiao Moxian there to develop this wild land was all because of their respect and love towards her as well as their worship and admiration of Lin Ming.
And after the New Ming Planet was established, Xiao Moxian also joined her people. When cities were built around him, he ate and lived with them, living in perfect harmony.
In the largest city on New Ming Planet, there was a sacred mountain. On top of this sacred mountain loomed a memorial palace dedicated to Lin Ming. This memorial palace had statues of Lin Ming, Xiao Moxian, and several others.
Every year, a large number of believers will come and worship in this memorial palace.
A few months ago the saints had discovered the New Ming Planet. With no effort at all, they had taken the planet into their pockets. The tens of billions of people who live there simply cannot pose a threat to the sacred forces.
After the saints captured the New Ming Planet, the first action they took was to change the name of the planet by force.
The planet was renamed Saint Advent Planet.
But, this name is opposed by every citizen of New Ming Planet. Then the Good Fortune Saint Son gave the order.
It is this commandment that creates a living hell for the inhabitants of New Ming Planet.
In the past, when the saints annexed a planet, they would recklessly plunder it while killing all human masters. Ordinary people would be left as ordinary laborers.
The holy pioneers mostly came to these planets to capture the little remaining wealth they could.
But this time, after the Good Fortune Saint Son seized the New Ming Planet, he did not do this at all. Instead, it should be said that he was undercutting to do so.
The order he had lowered was – to seize all the granaries of New Ming Planet and then completely block 100,000 cities, not allowing anyone to take even a single step.
The inhabitants of New Ming Planet were mostly ordinary people in the Xiantian realm or below. It was impossible for them to ward off all hunger; they needed to eat.
After the barns were looted, people could only get food from the farmlands outside the city or from the wild beasts in the wild.
But since the Good Fortune Saint Son had sealed off all the cities, no one could leave.
Everyone on the New Ming Planet could only rely on the few grains left in their homes to get through the days.
And the Good Fortune Saint Son did not plan to release the blockade on all cities. His intention was clear: he wanted to starve everyone on the New Ming Planet to death.
Imagine if a group of red-eyed, starving people were locked up in a small town, what would happen?
Hunger, death, despair, all these things will trigger the savage nature and bestiality of man. In a situation where food was deprived, many people would move to ferocious beasts, fighting and killing for the rest of the food. Eventually, even cannibalism will occur.
To the Good Fortune Saint Son, this was a very interesting experiment.
This was the punishment the Good Fortune Saint Son had inflicted on these lowly commoners. Since they had the will to fight, he wanted to see how long their will would last while they suffered under the torment of hunger.
And, there's something more important. The Good Fortune Saint Son had used this method to repel Xiao Moxian.
He was well aware that Xiao Moxian had long since left the New Ming Planet, but in doing so he would also leave behind an informant. All new developments taking place on the New Ming Planet would be reported back to Xiao Moxian.
If so, he wanted to see whether or not Xiao Moxian would return it to her people.
In the eyes of the Good Fortune Saint Son, if Xiao Moxian ran back here because only a few dozen billion commoners were on the verge of death, then it would be extremely stupid.
But he also realized that in this world there are certain people who are this stupid.
Even if Xiao Moxian was more ruthless than he had expected, watching these commoners starve to death was no big deal to him. To the Good Fortune Saint Son, this was in no way a loss, no different from the deaths of several dozen billion ants.
The Good Fortune Saint Son had reduced the encirclement to several large nebulae. If Xiao Moxian could not remain calm and wanted to break through the blockade to save the New Ming Planet, then she would be the first to know about it.
On the New Ming Planet, famine continued for a long time. The one responsible for managing the New Ming Planet was a direct subordinate of the Good Fortune Saint Son – Empyrean Evernight.
Evernight was famous as a ruthless and merciless individual who loved blood and slaughter. Torturing people like this was a job that was perfect for him.
And in fact, when he received this order he was very excited to follow them.
In his eyes, New Ming Planet had no history or background at all, nor did it have any sense of unity. It had only been a few hundred years since humans had come to develop this world, so how much unity could they have?
But the reality was that the way of developing the problem did not go according to the wishes of Empyrean Evernight.
As the famine continued, what made Empyrean Evernight unhappy was that the murder and robbery that was originally expected to happen, did not happen.
These ordinary people, even if they were hungry to their limits, even if they were sealed in cities, even if there were people who starved to death or died of illness, still continued to quietly endure it.
They endured hunger, endured shortages of supplies and plagues that destroyed cities. They live their days like corpses.
To maintain strength, many of these people sat in meditation all day.
As for the Houtian realm martial artists, they even grasped the current to cultivate. They wanted to risk everything with great difficulty in these difficult times and break down the Xiantian realm. As long as they entered the Xiantian realm, they would be able to rely on the breath of heaven and earth origin energy to equip themselves, requiring only the smallest amount of food …
Occasionally, holy warrior patrols would wander around and when they saw the human martial artists they disliked, they casually dragged them away and beat them up for no reason. But the people of New Ming Planet continued to survive.
No one robbed anyone else, no one cannibalized anyone else, and there wasn't even much suicide.
There seemed to be some sort of invisible order that endured the suffering of the people, giving them a strange persistence that pushed them forward to live stubbornly …
They looked like they were living a numb life, living with a heart filled with despair.
But, Empyrean Evernight knew that it was impossible for those who were completely numb and filled with despair to endure all of this.
He discovered that while many people were starving, they were actually still climbing the sacred mountain to pay homage to the statues of Xiao Moxian and Lin Ming in the memorial palace.
This triggered Empyrean Evernight's fury.
He could easily destroy the New Ming Planet. But what he wanted was not to kill these people, but to destroy them and conquer them!
The saints want to rule the 33 Heavens. This did not completely annihilate all the other races, but enslaved them and conquered them!
Beams of light shot down. The memorial palace was destroyed.
All that remained were the statues of Lin Ming and Xiao Moxian in front of the memorial palace. They stood there cold and alone. This was a deliberate act done by Empyrean Evernight.
Empyrean Evernight issued a new order. He told the saints to open their vast storehouses of food on the holy mountain.
Large pieces of cooked meat and giant steamed rice pots.
As long as these afflicted humans were willing to walk into this ruined memorial palace and spit on the statues of Lin Ming and Xiao Moxian, then they would receive a plate of cooked meat and 10 jins of fragrant rice.
Many people rushed to the square on top of the sacred mountain. The aroma of rice and meat caused them to waver where they stood. These are physiological desires, which they cannot resist.
However, when they learn what they have to do to get these foods, their hearts get cold.
Many children drool but are pulled back by adults. Although these children were only skin and bones, even though the adults trembled from hunger, nothing moved forward.
This square that could accommodate 100,000 people was completely silent. No one walks in front of the statue and no one goes to get a life-saving meal.
There were elders with faces carved by wind and snow, women dressed in tatters, skinny children …
With numb faces, they stood there like stone statues, forming an immortal image. It was as if they would stand there forever, until the end of their lives came.
If one could see through their eyes, they would find that even under heavy oppression, even in this dark and gloomy world, he said, there was always a faint ray of light shining in front of them, lighting the way forward.
They insist that their leader will return, that their army will return!
These people were from the New Ming Planet. They are the subjects of the most legendary heroes in human history! They have self-respect. They can be killed, crushed under the heels of others under the yoke of absolute power. But they will not humble themselves, they will not be defeated, they will not be conquered!
They will not eat this dirty food in front of them. This is the final pride of a race on the brink of extinction!
Empyrean Evernight was finally furious. The order he received was to torture these people so that Xiao Moxian would reveal her whereabouts in her panic.
Now, he has lost his temper.
Since he could not subdue these people, he would only remove them from existence.
He issued a new order. Every day 10 million people would be slaughtered, continuing until every single person on New Ming Planet was killed!
And after issuing this command, the response he saw was the same indifference and numbness. He did not even see much fear in the eyes of these damned commoners.
“You all really have a strong will power. Since you want to die then I'll start with you. Is informant Ji Xianer close? Look carefully at what is going on! ”
Empyrean Evernight waved his hand, ordering his subordinates to start a massacre. He was disgusted to kill this commoner himself. What kind of noble status does he have? Killing these people personally would be a reward to them.
However, as he waved his hand, he felt a strange aura arrive. An inexplicable feeling instantly covered his entire body. Without time to discern what this feeling was, he suddenly felt a chill on his back. Helplessly, he looked down to see a blood-stained spear coming out from his chest.
The blood on it was so red that it blinded the eyes …