The sky was turning light as the vehicles arrived at the military base.
The long night was finally over.
Chapter 488 - Worldwide Shock
“Hello? 110? I have an emergency!”
“I saw a werewolf! Wow, it’s so big! What? It’s fake? That can’t be! I saw it with my own eyes. What? They’re only shooting a movie? That can’t be, right? It’s too much of a coincidence. Wow, it looks too real!”
“Hello, 110? Quickly send someone over! I saw someone flying in the air! Quick, shoot him down!”
“Hello, 110? The aliens are here! They’re invading Earth! What? I’m imagining things? Are you saying that I’ve lost my mind? F*ck you, you’re the one who’s lost your mind.”
The phones in the police call center rang nonstop all night.
The operators did not know how to react to all those calls of supernatural occurrences.
“You must have been mistaken, Sir! We shouldn’t believe in superstitions!”
“Your eyes must be playing tricks on you, Sir. Should I help you schedule an appointment with the ophthalmologist?”
Captain Zhang and the other police officers repeated the same thing countless times.
When it was all done, they dragged their tired bodies and sat in their cars.
“Phew, that was too crazy!” Captain Zhang said.
It had been a crazy night indeed.
Gunfire and screams were heard at all corners of the city.
There were also rumors of werewolves and flying people.
“Sigh, that guy is just too amazing!”
Captain Zhang lit a cigarette and gave it a long drag.
He knew that all that was because of the young man named Tang Hao.
What kind of influence did he have to mobilize such a large-scale operation?
He was only nineteen years old, but he had so much power.
He heard that he was still a student, too!
‘Why am I so different from him?’ Captain Zhang lamented as he blew a cloud of smoke.
Even so, he was quite relieved.
“Those Westerners usually think that they’re lords of this city. Now, we’ll expose them as the true cowards they are!” Captain Zhang grinned and mumbled to himself.
He was still angry about the incident the day before. He finally felt vindicated.
Meanwhile, in the back seat, Zhao Qingxue furrowed her brows. She seemed worried.
‘I wonder how is he now?
‘Is everything OK?’
The question plagued her mind. She lifted her hand with her phone and put it down again. She repeated the motions tens of times before sighing and putting her phone away.
‘He should still be in the operation. I shouldn’t disturb him!’
“Let’s go! We have another call!” Captain Zhang yelled. He stubbed out his cigarette, started the police car, and drove off.
…
Back at the base, after a short rest, Tang Hao received a report.
All one thousand, two hundred, and fifty-six targets were dealt with. One thousand one hundred and thirty-two of the targets were killed on the spot. Most of them were werewolves, vampires, or other monsters. One hundred and twenty-four targets were arrested and brought into custody.
They would be interrogated by the special forces. If they were found to be guilty of a crime, they would be punished under the law. Those who were innocent would be deported from the country.
Meanwhile, thirty-two of their people were injured, though they suffered no deaths.
It could be considered a wildly successful operation.
Even so, Tang Hao and the Taoist masters were worried. The operation the night before had involved many renowned families.
Their branch families in Huaxia were wiped out, such as the Sullivan family.
“We’ll have to prepare for war!” Taoist Master Qian Ji said with furrowed brows.
“Bring it on. What are we scared of?” The Taoist masters said indignantly.
“There’s no other way. The families will be out for blood!” General Bai said.
Before the operation, he had expected a large-scale conflict between the Huaxia and Western cultivation worlds.
“We’ll save Operation Witch Hunter on the other cities for later. Instead, we should prepare to fight the families head-on. If we win, then we can clean up the other cities easily.
“If we can’t stop their invasion, then all will be for naught!” General Bai said grimly.
The Taoist masters nodded in agreement.
The sky became brighter.
The happenings in Province Z that night spread quickly around the world. It shocked many ancient forces.
“What? Has Huaxia gone crazy?”
After the shock was mockery and laughter.
Huaxia had lost its former glory. In their eyes, the current Huaxia was powerless.
How would a powerless nation do something so shocking?
It was a wipeout!
How shocking was that?
Even more shocking was, in the operation, many people from the renowned families were involved.
Baird, Sullivan…
Those names inspired fear in the Western cultivation world. No one would dare cross them in the West, but Huaxia had offended all of them at once.
That was all but crazy!
They could anticipate the magnitude of revenge that would be carried out on Huaxia soon!
When the news arrived at the Baird family, the ancient castle descended into chaos.
“They are digging their own graves!”
“Revenge, revenge! We will have to exact revenge for our fallen brethren!”
Angry howls echoed throughout the ancient castle.
In many different ornately carved extravagant-looking coffins, vampires opened their blood-red eyes.
“Sound the horns! Gather the clans!”
In a pool of blood in the deepest reaches of the ancient castle, a figure rose from the bottom and howled with anger.
A forlorn-sounding horn resounded in one corner of the ancient castle.
The sound of the horn reached every corner of Europe.
In ancient castles and dens all over Europe, coffins opened one by one, and figures stepped out of them.
“Gather… this is the signal to gather!”
Meanwhile, the same situation happened in Castle Sullivan.
“This is a declaration of war! If they want to fight, then we shall bring the fight to them!”
“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth! We cannot let the blood of the Sullivan family flow in vain! We will let the arrogant Huaxianese pay the heavy price!”
Angry roars and wolf howls echoed in the night sky.
“The vampires have already called to gather. We should do the same too. Sound the horn!”
An old werewolf in an ancient castle gave the command.
The werewolf horn was sounded.
“Awooo!”
In every corner of Europe, the werewolves awoke one by one. They lifted their heads toward the full moon and howled forlornly.
The evil forces of Europe were set into motion!
Chapter 489 - They Are Coming
Everyone was working busily in the command center.
“There’s some unnatural movement in the south of Latinia. The Cain family is gathering.”
“Oh my god, that’s the thirteenth family!”
One had to know that there were about fifty vampire and werewolf families in the entire Europe.
Thirteen families were about a quarter of them.
They could not estimate the magnitude of the enemy forces.
“The Cain family? Those wolf cubs! Whatever. There are already so many of them anyway. Another one of them won’t make a difference.
“What? Dragon Tiger Mountain isn’t joining? They’ve all fallen sick? F*ck their mothers! Tell them if they don’t send anyone here, I’ll order a missile strike and level their mountain!
“Damm
it, those cowards! They’re all afraid of death!”
General Bai kept on yelling.
Meanwhile, Tang Hao crafted jade talismans nonstop in his house.
He sat cross-legged with a piece of raw jade in his left hand. He lifted a finger on his right hand and drew some strokes in the air. The jade piece was bathed in a milky white light before several runes appeared on it. A jade talisman was complete.
He put the jade talisman away and started working on another one.
He needed more jade talismans for the upcoming battle. With that, the chances of victory would be higher.
Not only they had to win the battle, but they had to win it convincingly so that other evil forces would think twice before invading Huaxia. Otherwise, the operation would not be considered a success.
He continued crafting talismans without resting or sleeping. Soon, the pile of talismans next to him was like a small hill.
Ding dong!
Some time later, his doorbell rang.
Tang Hao stood up and opened the door. Two people came in carrying an iron crate.
“We’ve found the items that you’re looking for, Colonel Tang! But there aren’t many!”
The two people left after placing the crate on the floor.
Tang Hao crouched down and opened the crate. In the crate were many peculiar-looking medicinal herbs.
Those herbs were very rare in modern times, and he had no way of obtaining them without the help of the military.
He wanted to use those herbs to make a medicinal pill. If the pill was a success, his cultivation base would strengthen tremendously, and victory would be certain.
He sorted the medicinal herbs and found that he only had enough for four attempts. His pill-making skills might have improved by a lot, but the pill that he was making was different from all the pills he had made before. It would still be quite difficult to successfully make that pill.
“I’ll have to do it anyway!”
He gritted his teeth and took out his alchemical furnace. He took out one portion of the herbs and started the pill-making process in the living room.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
Countless cars drove out of estates and manors of all corners across Europe. Tall, well-built Westerners in black suits sat in each of them.
Some of them had rugged and masculine faces. Many of them were dark-skinned.
Meanwhile, another half of them were white with unnaturally pale faces. They wore wide-brimmed old-fashioned hats, sunglasses, and carried black umbrellas.
The cars drove toward the airports of their respective countries. They got onto planes and flew toward Nanyang.
The airplanes landed in an airport somewhere in Nanyang.
The Westerners got out of the planes and gathered at the airport. There was a clear division of two different forces.
Vampires and werewolves were ancient enemies. However, they had begrudgingly joined forces for this conquest of Huaxia.
They gathered in two separate groups, led by their respective leaders, and left the airport.
Everyone at the airport turned around and looked at them. It was a spectacular scene.
After they got out of the airport, they got into cars and drove toward the port, where they got onto a big cruise ship.
The cruise ship would bring them to the location of the decisive battle.
Two old men stood at the bow of the ship and looked northward.
“Ha, those Huaxia cowards! They must be wetting their pants by now!” He smiled mockingly.
The old man looked to be in his sixties. He was tall and gaunt, and his gaze was as sharp and penetrating as an eagle.
He was dressed in a black suit and held a walking stick with a carven wolf’s head in one hand. On the middle of his left hand, he wore a gold ring with the figure of a wolf head.
He was the clan leader of the Sullivan family, and people call him Old Sullivan.
Next to him was an old man who looked to be in his sixties. He also carried a walking stick with a wolf’s head in his hand, which signified his status as a clan leader.
He was Old Cain, the leader of the Cain family.
They looked like old men in their sixties, but they had lived for far longer than that.
Old Cain scoffed. “These Huaxianese are nothing but idiots! How dare they challenge our supremacy?
“The Perfected Persons of Huaxia had kept them safe, but now they’ve either died or gone into seclusion.
“I’ll massacre them for killing our children. We shall kill all the Taoist masters, level their mountains, and wipe their names from the face of the earth.”
He narrowed his eyes, which flashed dangerously.
…
Meanwhile, in Huaxia, everyone was busy at the command center.
They knew about the situation at Nanyang.
“The first group is here! They’re from the Sullivan, Cain, and three other major families. There are even more airplanes carrying more people coming our way. Early estimates put their forces at about thirteen thousand people.”
“Oh my god, that is a shocking number!”
“They’re all from the major families in Europe. They’re no pushovers, that’s for sure!”
General Bai stood at the back of the command room with a grim expression on his face.
Thirteen thousand was a lot of people. They could only manage to mobilize about a few hundred of their own. The difference in numbers was too big.
More news came from the front lines.
The families landed at Nanyang and rode on the cruise ship.
The cruise ship started its voyage northward toward Huaxia.
Meanwhile, the Agency had gathered its forces.
The Taoist masters were prepared to move out.
Airplanes shrieked across the sky outside of the command center.
More and more airplanes landed at the airfield of the military base. Many figures got out of the planes. They were the cultivators under the Agency.
A long time later, several luxury cars arrived at the military base. They were from Dragon Tiger Mountain.
Only about a dozen people got out of the three cars. The Mao Mountain Taoist masters rolled their eyes.
“Dammit, those cowards!”
“I’m happy that any of them came. I was afraid that none of those wimps would come!”
The Taoist masters spoke mockingly.
The heavenly masters from Dragon Tiger Mountain had thick skins. They did not react to those jeers and stood in formation.
Chapter 490 - Utter Bliss
The airfield was packed with people.
The Taoist masters of Mao Mountain were the majority.
They were dressed in Taoist robes, carried bulging yellow cloth sacks filled with yellow paper talismans of various types, and slung a silver sword on their backs.
Some of them wore crucifixes and strings of garlic in front of them.
Of course, they carried machine guns with them too.
Next to them were the heavenly masters from Dragon Tiger Mountain. They wore expensive, bespoke Western suits and all sorts of expensive accessories. They each carried a black briefcase.
They looked like they were dressed for a photo op rather than a war.
Next to them were about thirty people from the Agency. They were dressed in different clothes and had varied appearances.
The person in the lead was a beautiful young woman in a military uniform. She was none other than Mu Xintong.
They looked like a ragtag band of mercenaries when they stood together.
The heavenly masters from Dragon Tiger Mountain were stewing in their cold sweat as they stood there.
‘Dammit, how are we supposed to win?
‘I heard that there are more than ten thousand of those Westerners from thirteen elite families. We only have a few hundred people. Hell will freeze over if we win!’
“How about… we call it off? We can’t win like this!” One of the Dragon Tig
er Mountain heavenly masters said.
He wiped the cold sweat off his forehead.
He would rather live for a few more years than die today. He would rather enjoy his time on Earth.
“Call it off? It’s too late! Where do you want to run away to?” An elderly Taoist master said angrily.
“I’ll drag any deserters to court-martial! After the battle, I’ll lead a squad to level Dragon Tiger Mountain!” General Bai shouted coldly.
The heavenly masters shut their mouths.
Time continued to pass, and the sky grew darker.
The people stretched their necks and looked toward the entrance. They seemed anxious.
“Why isn’t Fellow Cultivator Tang here yet? If he doesn’t come soon, things will be bad!” The Taoist masters were anxious.
“Hmph, that filthy kid? Don’t tell me he’s hiding somewhere! He betrayed all you idiots!” An elderly heavenly master mocked.
“Another word from you, Zhang guy, and I’ll pummel you!” The elderly Taoist masters yelled.
The elderly heavenly master was cowed and did not say another word.
Mu Xintong stood there silently, looking at the entrance.
Her brows were slightly fraught with worry.
She thought that the upcoming battle was difficult indeed. There were too many enemies. Even if they would win, it would have been a bloody victory.
Tang Hao was the one who suggested the operation. Perhaps he had been too rash.
Even though she was thinking about that, she did not show it on her face.
At about seven o’clock, they saw an Audi A8 drive in as fast as lightning from one end of the military base. It braked abruptly in front of them, and someone got out. He was none other than Tang Hao.
“You’re finally here, Fellow Cultivator Tang!” The Taoist masters rushed ahead to greet him.
Tang Hao smiled apologetically. “Sorry, I was delayed by a few things. Here, fellow Taoist masters, help yourself with the talismans. Grab a handful each. There’s all kinds!”
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