Hyper-Dimensional Player

"Hmm."

Duncan channeled a strand of True Qi from the Everlasting Youth Technique into her body and left some provisions and a water flask, saying, "It's best to find someone to accompany you. Stay here for now, and I'll see if there's anyone who can travel with you."

While speaking.

Duncan got up, wandered around the nearby village, killed some people, and saved others.

Afterward, at nightfall, he reached the military camp in Yongle State, entered it alone, and decapitated hundreds of heads, leaving no survivors. Finally, he rescued a few filthy and foul-smelling 'military maids' from a tent.

The so-called military maids were women directly seized by soldiers and violated in the camp, with little chance of coming out alive.

If their families were wealthy, they might be ransomed, but even then, they would be unrecognizable as humans.

Sometimes, in the chaos, even the women of official families would be seized and violated.

After dealing with all this, Duncan set off again on the third day and entered the later Guangdong territory.

However, he disguised himself as a wandering Daoist, turning into a refugee beggar in the chaotic world.

Duncan's appearance changed drastically, his body filthy, clothes tattered, losing the demeanor of the King of Kings and the Great Freedom Celestial Demon Lord, becoming a destitute, emaciated refugee. He used the "Steal the Heavens and Change the Sun Technique," burning his own lifespan to cultivate the Blood God Technique, and even his appearance became much older.

Since Lu Zu advised him to let go of his status and travel the human world, Duncan let go of everything, even restraining his martial arts.

Along this journey, the bottleneck of his Dao Entrance Realm seemed to loosen a bit.

However, the murderous intent in his heart grew increasingly terrifying.

Fan Yu.

The Xingwang Mansion.

This was the capital of the Southern Han. Duncan traveled here, witnessing widespread desolation and decay, skeletal remains covering the land, occasionally seeing eerie will-o'-the-wisps, plague ships, and ghostly infants' cries. He casually killed some ghosts, all of which were insignificant evil spirits.

These were caused by plagues and natural disasters in the past few years.

Because the human world resembled Purgatory, infants were exchanged and eaten, or, unable to be nurtured, abandoned and suffocated by their biological parents. Duncan took in some of the vicious ghost infants, planning to find a chance for them to reincarnate in the future.

He sealed these ghost infants with Ghost Dao curse magic, intending to visit the Underworld someday and explain things properly.

However, along the way, both Buddhist and Daoist sects appeared to be flourishing. If he slaughtered them all, he might be able to obtain a lot of money and food to aid the starving populace.

Liu Chang's palace here was extremely lavish, adorned with numerous pearls and coral, the interior fitted with luminous pearls, all tributes from Meichuan. Duncan also finally saw the infamous meat screen, a heap of flesh and powder, cavorting in the palace for the amusement of Liu Chang and his ilk.

From a divine perspective.

Liu Chang, accompanied by Meichuan, played along the way, occasionally stopping to enjoy, reward, or punish, surrounded by the ten seductive women, all laughing endlessly.

All matters of the Southern Han court had to be approved by Fan Huzi, and officials tried every means to flatter and bribe this person.

Eunuchs thronged inside and outside the capital, becoming extremely vicious once sent out.

Looking at everything before him, Duncan felt no ripples in his heart. He merely glanced at Liu Chang's head from a distance and noted it for the time being.

Fan Huzi was also here.

He was not confident in killing everyone alone; after all, he had not truly broken through the Dao Entrance Realm.

The young man continued northwards, observing what kind of world this was.

The land of Wu and Yue was filled with boneyards and tombs, where along the way, mass graves were teeming with wandering souls and wild ghosts. "Great famine, people eating people," was not just a few strokes in history books, but part of his worldly trials and what he saw in the human world.

Words could hardly describe it; if depicted more carefully, it might not pass the censors.

When he reached the Southern Tang, things appeared slightly better.

During Li Bian's reign, the policy of 'resting troops and pacifying the people' encouraged land reclamation and textile development, substituting textiles for money to reduce taxes, turning the southern regions into fields full of mulberry and hemp, and barren lands were fully reclaimed.

But under Li Jing and Li Yu, the situation rapidly deteriorated.

Between the tenth and twelfth years of Baoda, consecutive severe droughts compounded by locust plagues struck Jiangnan, displaying the tragic scene of 'famine, epidemic spread, and half the population perished.'

"Floods and droughts arise successively, starving people selling children for pennies.

Skulls and bones in deep grass, new ghosts wailing while old ones weep."

By the time Duncan arrived at the Southern Tang territory, he was already disheveled, barely clad, gaunt and emaciated, having discarded the peachwood sword, with only a pair of dark eyes surveying the world's realm. Within the profound darkness of his eyes occasionally gleamed an eerie, blood-like light.

This was the murderous intent of the Military School martial arts, a substantial killing intent, seemingly intent on slaughtering everything.

Formerly, as a Barbarian, he could never harness the power of fury, but now, by striking the Dao Entrance Realm with the Military School martial arts, his heart ignited with overwhelming murderous intent and boundless wrath.

Li Yu was probably still happily with the former Empress of Zhou, and after she died, it would be the turn of the young Empress of Zhou to ascend.

The Buddhist sect in the Southern Tang was quite prosperous, with temples busy with incense, and many wealthy monks, their shiny bald heads glistening with oil, having more fat under the skin than the oil in the pots of the starving.

Li Yu considered himself an extremely devout Buddhist.

Calling himself "Resident of Lotus Peak," he claimed, "I love indulging in Buddhist teachings, worldly flavors are bland," donning monk robes with the Empress to chant sutras and bow to the point of developing bumps on their foreheads, establishing more than ten temples in the palace.

After he ascended the throne for several years, the Southern Tang began to systemically expand Buddhism, widely ordaining monks in various prefectures, financially rewarding those who took monastic vows, resulting in over ten thousand monks and nuns in the capital, causing Daoists to eagerly shave their heads to join as well.