Chapter 350: The Temptation of Becoming the Dark Emperor

Yan Xu was in a complicated mood, because the conditions for his cultivation of magic were too good at the moment. So good that if he wanted, he could even run to the weird world and become a dark version of the emperor. At that time, he could trample on war, plunder wealth, despise freedom, and toy with love, letting the lighthouse version of the four vendors know what it meant to be beaten and loved by the emperor.

Even if he is willing to give up his bottom line, morals, and human identity and throw himself completely into darkness, with the help of the endless darkness and pollution in the strange world, he can absorb enough dark essence to forge the body of the Dark Emperor. In theory, as long as the dark side still exists in the strange world, he will not die completely.

This is not an exaggeration, but the result calculated based on the system and conditions Yan Xu currently has. He can really do it.

As long as you are not a human being, you can get everything you dream of. The temptation is huge.

But Yan Xu just patted his head. After many times of tempering his mind and soul, he quickly got rid of the temptation to become possessed and regained consciousness.

The reason why he got rid of temptation so quickly was simple: he still had a chance, there were still infinite possibilities, and he had not been forced into a desperate situation.

If he is really forced into a desperate situation, nothing he says will work, because he has no choice at all. Let alone butterfly stroke in the strange pollution, he will have to endure deep dive even if he is asked to open his mouth. This is the only thing Yan Xu can be thankful for, because it is difficult for him to be forced into a desperate situation and fall into a real desperate situation.

Although he gave up on becoming a demon, it doesn't mean he won't use it. The four words "refining the demon and protecting the way" are still quite useful, or they can be said to be a good excuse, at least it's okay to fool himself.

While Yan Xu was busy with these things, the main island became even more chaotic.

Previously, due to the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, although the parties had ceased fighting, they did not stop preparing for war. Instead, they accumulated more strength and launched a larger war that became more and more professional.

Cheap farmers and foot soldiers were no longer sent to the battlefield. They worked more in the fields and worked hard to pay more taxes. At the same time, they had to perform various labors for samurai, daimyo, and war. In short, they had no time to spare.

The farmer's foot soldiers were replaced by more professional iron cannon foot soldiers and super-long spear foot soldiers. They were well-equipped and received more rigorous training. They gradually took on the main position on the battlefield. Even the samurai could not kill as indiscriminately as before when facing groups of elite foot soldiers.

The reason is simple. Even a swordsman cannot break through the foot soldiers' phalanx that is like a forest of guns, let alone withstand the dense cannon fire.

Obviously, the war changed from triangular thrusts led by a few elites to flatter square collisions, which led to the samurai, who were originally the main force of the war, being gradually replaced by more numerous professional foot soldiers.

For this reason, the samurai also changed their fighting methods, and bows and arrows, cannons, mounted archery, and other long-range attack methods began to become mainstream.

The change in the way of warfare caused a sharp increase in the demand for equipment among daimyos from all over the country.

The sharpened bamboo spears completely withdrew from the stage of history, because the rigorously trained soldiers could no longer be sacrificed as cheap cannon fodder. They needed to be equipped with better weapons and protective gear. Only in this way could they play their full value before they died in battle.

However, given Japan's poor productivity, it would take almost two or three generations of accumulation to equip a large number of professional soldiers, especially armor, which is time-consuming, labor-intensive and resource-consuming.

In order to speed up the progress of the war, the Moroboshi family worked tirelessly and overtime to produce thousands of cheap swords and standard cannons, which they sold to various forces in increased quantities and at higher prices, greatly adding fuel to the fire of the Warring States period.

This is called making friends with those far away and attacking those near.

Although the Mori family gave the large area of ​​territory near the direction of Amano Castle as a dowry to the Moroboshi family through marriage, they could not give away all the territory after all, so the Moroboshi family still did not directly border the main island, so the war was between the Mori family and their old enemy, the Amago family. Although they lost nearly half of their territory and the number of troops was only one-third of the original, the strength of the Mori family did not decrease much, because the reorganized troops were all elite, and they were also equipped with a large number of weapons from the Moroboshi family, especially iron cannons and large cannons, which made the proportion of firearms in the Mori family's army very high. As soon as the war started, the Amago family was defeated and could only rely on strong cities and strongholds for defense.

Just when they were about to defeat the Niwa family, they unexpectedly encountered a series of accidents.

First, the Amago family quickly united with several small daimyo behind them to form an alliance, catching the Mori family off guard.

You have to know that the two sides were sworn enemies before. If it weren't for the Mori family's constant restraint, the Amago family would have annexed these families long ago.

But now the situation is reversed. Several families are afraid that the Niwa family will fall. How can they alone stop the powerful Mori family at that time?

So even though they were old enemies, the two sides united and sent troops at an extremely fast speed.

If it weren't for the fact that the Mori family's navy was still powerful and had tied up part of the Amago family's coalition forces, they might have been counterattacked.

Obviously, it would be difficult for the Mori family to defeat the coalition forces of the Amago family unless the Moroboshi family took action, but it would not be so easy for the Moroboshi family to take action.

Yan Xu considered sending troops, and at that time forming an alliance with the Mori family would be enough to wipe out half of the main island. The problem is that the impact is too great. If things go wrong, all the daimyos on the main island might be stimulated to form a large-scale coalition to fight him like Dong Zhuo. Even Kyoto would give him the name of righteousness and give him the title of the great devil. By then, even if he is not the adopted son who specifically targets his adoptive father, he will not have an easy time.

Yan Xu still remembers that when he was on Fu Island, someone had labeled him the enemy of Buddha, not to mention that he was planning to invite two emperors to serve as gods in Japan. It can be said that he has offended everyone he could.

By then, Kyoto, the daimyo, Buddhism, the shrines, and many other forces will unite as one to defeat this great devil. The scene will be so grand that even the Sixth Heaven Devil will have to learn and watch from the side.

Yan Xu is not afraid of head-on confrontation, but once a war breaks out with the entire main island, it will undoubtedly occupy all his energy for a long time, and he will have to mobilize a large amount of resources from various worlds to fill this bottomless pit, because war is all about consumption, whether it is weapons, food, or human lives.

If it were just these, Yan Xu might not be able to grit his teeth and take a gamble on whether he could win the battle quickly, but the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons was getting bigger and bigger, and it even began to affect the territory of the Moroboshi family. This was something he could not ignore. Otherwise, if he was fighting vigorously in front and ended up with a fire in the backyard, wouldn't he be finished?

Yan Xu was not worrying too much, but he discovered that the Moroboshi family was becoming more and more attractive to ghosts, because except for a few places on the entire main island, there was no place more prosperous and densely populated than the Moroboshi family's territory, and this was exactly what the One Hundred Demons Night Parade needed.

To put it simply, the purpose of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons is to gather the awe generated by human beings, so the larger the population, the better, and the more prosperous the place, the better, because only in this way can enough awe be gained.

Because Yan Xu cheated, other daimyos were fighting among themselves, but the Zhuxing family developed very smoothly.

With the construction of a large number of roads and water conservancy projects, various inexpensive and high-quality agricultural tools, and reasonable development plans, the Moroboshi family took the opportunity to accept many refugees and settle them in various places, increasing the intensity and depth of territory development. While the Moroboshi family became increasingly prosperous, its population density ranked among the top few on the main island, which was undoubtedly full of temptation to the Hundred Ghosts.

What’s even more terrifying is that the intensity of the war in various parts of the main island is still increasing.

(End of this chapter)