“LMAO, Verdandi and the others have been looking for her for ten years. I didn’t expect them to start looking again as soon as the channel opened.”
“She chases, she flees, she can’t escape even with wings~”
“Come to think of it, this is a Chinese Instance, right? I see many gods Su Fu previously summoned are here too?”
“Of course they are. But no one knows what she’s doing. Could she be charging up a big move?”
“I heard Verdandi and the others have already become State Preceptors for King Zhou? They directly control the providence of Chao Ge. That’s a huge advantage!”
“Not as good as me! I’ve already developed three thousand believers in Chao Ge. Lady Daji said… wait, she just ate my believer’s heart?”
“LATEST NEWS! The Shang vanguard has approached Xiqi! The roster for the first battle is as follows: Zhang Guifang and the four Mo brothers!”
“It’s said they’ve already reached the city gates, claiming they’ll break the city within five days!”
“Which brother is at the Xiqi battlefield? Send a live stream!”
“I’m here. The live situation is that Ji Fa is leading the army, standing ready.”
“Haha, bring it on! We’ve been waiting! This time, they won’t be coming back!”
[…]
Su Fu enjoyed the gossip immensely.
If anyone knew how to look for death, it was these test takers.
Every one of them thought they could run rampant in the Investiture of the Gods, unaware of the horror of this Great Desolation tribulation.
Did they really think they were the children of destiny?
“Let’s go,” she looked at Chesia and said, “Since the war has started, we should head out too.”
However, before leaving, she had to speak with the phoenix elders.
Unsurprisingly, the three elders were very unwilling and unsupportive.
“Venerable One! The mass calamity has arrived, and the heavenly secrets are in chaos. It’s too dangerous to go out now!”
“The entire Great Desolation will be caught in the killing calamity. Staying in our ancestral land is the safest choice.”
Su Fu looked serious and replied, “This is an agreement between me and Lady Nuwa. Now that I’ve returned from Nirvana, I must lend her a hand.”
“But under the mass calamity, even Great Golden Immortals find it hard to escape their fate. If anything happens to you…”
Su Fu blinked and asked, “How about… I ask Lady Nuwa to come and tell you personally?”
Three elders: “…”
“No, no, no! We are just worried about your safety, Excellency…”
“Fine. Since the Venerable One has decided, we can only wish you a victorious return.”
“However, once you’re involved, even the strongest of our clan would find it difficult to withdraw unscathed.”
“Nevertheless, while our clan is unwilling to get involved in the calamity, we will never sit idly by and watch you in danger.”
“If you encounter a life-or-death crisis, please return to the Nanming Volcano. The Phoenix Clan is willing to use the strength of the entire clan to protect you!”
Su Fu waved her hand and said, “Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing.”
With that, she quickly left with Chesia, heading straight for the Xiqi battlefield.
The three elders watched her receding back with melancholy expressions.
“If it weren’t for the need to suppress the Undying Volcano, how could we let the Venerable One face danger alone…”
“There’s no need to worry too much. Lady Nuwa is standing behind her.”
“That’s true.”
“Wait! Isn’t that kid Kong Xuan still serving as a General for the Shang Dynasty?”
Kong Xuan, the first peacock in the world and the son of the phoenix.
The three elders looked at each other and suddenly realized a problem.
“He and the Venerable One… it seems they don’t know of each other’s existence yet, right?”
After leaving the Nanming Volcano, Su Fu went straight to Xiqi.
As for which side to choose?
She would obviously choose Xiqi and her identity?
She had already arranged it.
Su Fu landed her cloud, followed by Chesia, a puppet carrying a large basket of spirit medicines.
When the camp guards saw the figure in green clothes from afar, their spirits immediately lifted.
“Doctor Su is back!”
“Open the gates quickly! Doctor Su is back from gathering herbs!”
The soldiers made way and bowed, proactively greeting her, “Was Doctor Su’s herb-gathering trip successful this time?”
Su Fu smiled and replied, “It went quite well. By the way, these are Spirit-Refreshing Pills. They can nourish your qi and blood. Be careful not to get too exhausted during night patrols.”
Everyone accepted them with pleasant surprise, full of gratitude.
“Thank you, Doctor Su!”
This was the result of more than ten years of management by Su Fu—or rather, Chesia.
Since she took over Hundred Grasses Hall, a series of medical clinics by the same name had quickly opened in every key plot location in the Great Desolation.
From the high officials in Chao Ge to the soldiers and civilians in Xiqi, from the fishermen of Chentang Pass to the rogue cultivators of Mount Mei… who didn’t know of the miraculous medicines of Doctor Su that saved lives?
If it came to fighting and killing, no one knew who Su Qing was.
But when it came to healing and alchemy, her name was legendary.
The common people spontaneously called her “Doctor Su the Life-Saver.”
This was reputation.
Su Fu thought to herself that it really paid to have a differentiated strategy.
While Jiang Ziya was still fishing at the Weishui River, Su Fu had already used the kindness she accumulated from healing Ji Chang to smoothly become the chief pharmacist for the Xiqi military.
When Su Fu entered the camp, everyone proactively greeted her.
After all, on the battlefield, aside from the great generals who could lead them to victory, the ones the soldiers loved most were the doctors who could snatch them back from the gates of death.
Chesia sighed at the scene and said, “It really has to be you.”
This disguise was perfect—safe, loved by everyone, and most importantly, she didn’t have to go to the front lines as cannon fodder.
Su Fu smiled but said nothing, her gaze sweeping toward the central command tent, where a large flag with the character “Zhou” was fluttering.
The Investiture of the Gods had begun.
The tent for Hundred Grasses Hall was on the west side of the camp.
The air inside was thick with the scent of medicine, with various herbs neatly arranged on shelves and several young assistants busy grinding and decocting medicine.
Seeing Su Fu enter, they immediately stopped their work.
“Doctor Su, you’re back.”
Su Fu nodded.
Just then, a soldier ran in, panting, “Doctor Su! Prime Minister Jiang has issued orders. Zhang Guifang’s army is only 30 miles away. The entire army is preparing for battle. Please get ready!”
“Alright, don’t worry.”
After receiving her answer, the soldier hurried out.
Su Fu thought to herself that this battle was a classic engagement of the early Fengshen era.
Zhang Guifang’s Soul-Calling Name Technique could make anyone fall from their horse just by calling their name.
The four Mo brothers who followed were also valiant warriors.
Later, they would be canonized as the Four Heavenly Kings protecting the four gates of the Heavenly Court.
Holding the Blue Cloud Sword, the Umbrella of Chaos, the Jade Pipa, and the Spotted Mink, the four of them once forced Jiang Ziya to hang a “refusal to battle” sign.
They were later defeated by Yang Jian’s schemes.
In particular, the Umbrella of Chaos held by Mo Lihong was a rare treasure.
Just then, a commotion suddenly came from outside.
“The Shang army is challenging us!”
“Zhang Guifang is personally leading his army to the border!”
The Xiqi camp suddenly boiled with activity.
Su Fu also picked up her medical bag and set out with the army.
The Zhou army lined up, banners fluttering and spears like a forest.
On the opposite side, the Shang army was a dark mass.
Leading them was a general riding a Silver-Coated Horse, holding a Pestle Spear.
He galloped back and forth in front of the formation, his voice booming like a bell.
“Rats of Xiqi! Who dares come out and fight!”
It was Zhang Guifang!
In the Xiqi army, Jiang Ziya’s white beard fluttered, his expression solemn.
The battlefield was grim, and the war drums rolled like thunder.
The Xiqi soldiers stood in tight formation, while the Shang troops were brimming with murderous intent.
However, this had nothing to do with Su Fu.
As a military medic, she naturally stood in the rear, perfectly safe.
She manipulated her sparrows, quickly dispersing them across the battlefield to transmit the visual feed back to her in real time.
As expected, it wasn’t just Zhang Guifang; the Four Generals of the Mo Family had also arrived.
Mo Liqing held the Cloud-Seizing Sword, Mo Lihong unfurled the Hunyuan Umbrella, Mo Lihai cradled the Jadeite Pipa, and Mo Lishou had the Flower Fox Marten perched on his shoulder.
‘My goodness, they’re ramping up the intensity right from the start?’
Unfazed, Su Fu opened the Great Desolation Channel.
As expected, it was already in a state of chaos.
[They’re just a mortal army. Just wait until I use Mjolnir to smash the Xiqi city gates to pieces!]
[Hmph, stop talking big, you trash on the other side! I’ll show you the power of a true War God in a moment.]
[What’s a War God? The Sun Scepter in my hand can burn mountains and boil seas with no problem! I’ll turn Xiqi into scorched earth right now!]
[Brothers, charge! It’s time to farm some contribution points!]
Su Fu shook her head at the screen and thought, ‘They actually dare to show off on the Investiture battlefield? Once the Four Generals of the Mo Family open their divine artifacts, I’m afraid they’ll be crying for their mothers.’
At that moment, a Xiqi general stepped forward to challenge Zhang Guifang.
Zhang Guifang sneered and pointed his long spear.
“ZHOU JI! DISMOUNT!”
The Xiqi vanguard officer, Zhou Ji, had just charged out on his horse when his entire body suddenly stiffened.
He tumbled straight off his mount and fell unconscious.
Another general stepped forward, only to be shouted down in the same manner.
“NAN GONGSHI! FALL FROM YOUR HORSE!”
“WU JI! FALL FROM YOUR HORSE!”
Several generals in a row met the same fate.
With a single shout from Zhang Guifang, they collapsed, falling unconscious beneath their horses with absolutely no power to fight back.
A commotion broke out among the Xiqi troops, and the channel quickly began to refresh: [God, what kind of sorcery is this?! They fall just by having their names called?]
[It must be a mental attack! Our Heroic Spirits have high resistance, let me go!]
[A mere sonic attack? I am a War God, immune to a hundred poisons! I’m going in!]
[I have the blessing of Ra. Let me try!]
Several test takers were growing impatient and volunteered for battle.
Seeing this, Jiang Ziya pondered for a moment before nodding his permission.
As it turned out, some test takers on the opposing side knew these individuals and quickly told Zhang Guifang their names.
Zhang Guifang gave a cold snort and shouted three times in succession.
“Thump! Thump! Thump!”
All three of them stiffened mid-air and plummeted to the ground, falling into a deep unconsciousness.
The test takers who witnessed this scene fell silent.
[My God? All three were taken out just like that!]
[Those guys didn’t even have time to activate their skills before they were shouted to death?]
[Wait, how are we supposed to fight this? If your name is called, it’s game over?]
Su Fu couldn’t stop laughing.
Zhang Guifang’s Dismounting Technique specifically attacked the soul.
As long as the target was human, a single shout would cause their soul to leave their body and scatter, resulting in a loss of bodily control and a fall from their horse.
These test takers were naturally no exception.
The only way to counter it was to send someone without a soul into battle; without a soul, they couldn’t be controlled.
Just as the Xiqi army’s morale was wavering, a streak of fire descended from the sky.
“Zhang Guifang, take this!”
Nezha, standing on his Wind Fire Wheels and wielding his Fire-tipped Spear, lunged straight at Zhang Guifang.
Zhang Guifang hurriedly shouted, “NEZHA! DISMOUNT!”
But Nezha didn’t react at all.
“Dismount your head!”
Nezha struck him across the mouth with the butt of his spear.
“This young master is a lotus construct; I have no souls or spirits! You can shout until your throat is raw and it won’t matter!”
“Smack! Smack! Smack!”
Three strikes from the spear sent Zhang Guifang fleeing and coughing up blood.
The test takers in the Xiqi camp immediately cheered.
[Nezha is invincible! Xiqi wins!]
[Is this all the Shang army has? You guys suck!]
But before they could finish celebrating, Mo Lihong rode out from the Shang ranks.
He glared at Nezha and unfurled a massive umbrella that blotted out the sky, aiming to trap Nezha within it.
Seeing this, Nezha quickly channeled his Universe Ring to block it.
Mo Lihong gave a cold sneer, “RECOVER!”
With a “whoosh”, Nezha’s Universe Ring was sucked away.
The entire group of test takers stared in shock.
[What the hell? That umbrella can actually take divine artifacts?]
[Nezha’s artifact must just be weak! Look at my Trident!]
A test taker holding a Trident charged toward Mo Lihong.
“TAKE THIS!”
Mo Lihong sneered and raised the Hunyuan Umbrella again.
The Trident was instantly sucked inside, vanishing without a trace.
Another test taker charged forward with a new Mjolnir and shouted, “FEEL THE WRATH OF THUNDER!”
“RECOVER.”
“Let our Saint Seiya handle this! PEGASUS METEOR—”
“RECOVER.”
“…”
“RECOVER.”
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