Ten thousand followers in blue and red robes.
Only Luna in black, and Rose in a different style red robe, followed Little Mortal to battle.
On the other side, millions of army soldiers followed the Emperor.
Little Mortal, in 'great warrior' mode, on his horse with all kinds of colorful light dancing around, looked at the Emperor in his imperial silver armor with gold patterns, who looked at him, and the two nodded at each other.
It was as if this was the sign to begin the operation, world cleansing!
The scene changed.
This time it was a map.
On the map, the location of the 12 sects was marked.
There was a group of black dots at one side,
And another group of silver dots, which were a lot more in number, on the other side.
The audience could tell they were the followers and the army of a million soldiers.
The two groups started splitting into different numbers and directions.
In no time, the ten-thousand-followers group split into three groups.
Two thousand stayed with the Emperor, who was shown with a big silver dot on the map,
Four thousand went with another dot that was white in color, and people could guess it was the great warrior.
Another group of four thousand left together, with two large black dots at the front, who were Rose and Luna.
The two groups' destination was in the direction shown by a line on the map.
Each line was connected to 6 numbers on the map.
The line with the great warrior group covered numbers 1 to 6, and the other line covered numbers 7 to 12.
The army soldiers split into 13 groups; one group stayed with the Emperor, which, not long after, started moving to the center of the 12 sects.
And the other 12 groups moved in 12 different directions,
Each towards one of the 12 sects.
Not long after, the 12 groups surrounded the 12 sects.
The two four-thousand groups of followers, who were stopped at the number 1 and number 7 targets on the map, marched forward.
At the same time, part of the army, which was responsible for surrounding the sects, separated from their group and joined them too.
The Emperor's group stopped at the center to provide backup to any of the two groups if there was a problem.
Everyone understood the plan easily.
The scene changed.
The great warrior with the group of followers appeared on the scene with thousands of army soldiers who were added to the group.
In front of them was a massive gate.
Above in the sky, a man was standing in the air, looking down at them coldly.
Behind him were a group of old men and women.
And behind those old-timers were many young people with mostly the same robes.
Everyone recognized the man in front!
He was one of the sect masters who got beaten up not long ago!
'So he was able to flee?'
Behind him were the sect elders and disciples of the sect.
Little Mortal, while stroking his mustache with one hand and holding a paper in his other hand, said,
"This is the right place.
It matches the address."
On the paper, there was indeed an address.
[Sect number 1, 100 km to the right of the capital's northern gate, after the big mountain that resembles a sleeping pregnant mother, the first sect to the left.]
The crowd, who wondered what kind of address this was, suddenly saw a mountain in the background that was indeed like the figure of a woman lying on her back on the ground with a bulging belly!
Now that they saw it, they couldn't unsee it!
The sect master in the sky shouted,
"Fellow Daoist, we were just in the capital to pay a visit.
Is there a need to be so serious about it?"
Little Mortal snorted,
"First of all, I am here today on behalf of the people who sued you for your criminal acts.
You need to come with me to be judged in court."
Then he furrowed his brow,
"And second, I don't like people looking at me from above."
And threw one of his shoes at him!
The crowd, who thought, 'with your height, basically everyone can only look at you from above',
saw the shoe speeding towards the man in the sky.
The sect master snorted, as if he was making fun of him for being so childish and throwing his shoe!
The lonely shoe, on its way, suddenly hit something, like an invisible barrier, but broke through it, and that something turned into shards of glass that started falling from the sky over the entire sect area!
After that, the shoe continued on its way towards the sect master, who was in panic now!
The audience thought that what it broke was probably the sect's protection array around it!
That shoe just broke the barrier without a problem?
The sect master, who tried to dodge the shoe, faced a 'tracking shoe' that changed direction at the same time as him, and slapped his face!
Under the shocked gaze of the elders and disciples of the sect,
The sect master fell from the sky, and before he fainted, the audience could only hear a mumbling from him, saying,
"So strong..."
The shoe changed direction and came back to Little Mortal, going back to his feet.
"Go, catch them all!"
The group of followers and soldiers all attacked together after receiving the order!
Soon, a one-sided battle broke out!
Not because the sect members were weak,
But because this group of followers and soldiers was so in sync that you might think, first, they are all connected through telepathy,
And second, they all have an 'eagle's eye' view of the whole battlefield!
If there were cultivators with a fire root, a group of water root followers and soldiers would show up.
They were wood roots?
Then the fire root would show up!
It didn't matter where; everyone on the great warrior's side was fighting with an advantage when it came to their spirit root!
And not only that,
Also, all of them were at maximum mastery of each technique they used, like they had trained it for decades!
In no time, the battle was over.
No one died; no one could flee either, because the whole sect was already surrounded.
Little Mortal nodded and sent the order,
"To the sect number 2!"
And while looking at his new address,
[Sect number 2, 200 km to the right of the capital's northern gate, after the large mountain that resembles a sleeping pregnant woman, the second sect to the left.]
He led his followers to the next target!
The army soldiers who participated in the battle joined the soldiers who were responsible for surrounding the sect and led the prisoners in the direction of the capital.
The audience was amazed.
Such a beautiful display of power, coordination, and teamwork!
The scene changed again.
A lady in red, with another lady in black, appeared in the scene.
Rose looked at the address in her hand and nodded,
"This is the address."
And looked at a certain mountain.
[Sect number 7, 100 km to the left of the capital's northern gate, after the big mountain that looks like a rabbit, first sect to the right.]
The audience saw the mountain too; it was indeed like a rabbit, and now that they saw it, they couldn't unsee it...
In front of them was a gate.
Everything was the same, except for the different characters and background sects.
A lady was in the sky looking down arrogantly; behind her, a bunch of old people, and behind them, a bunch of disciples.
The sect master of target number 7, whom everyone recognized again as one of the people who got beaten up before, snorted,
"Humph, so they only send you two juniors to deal with me?"
Rose responded,
"You have been sued, and you need to follow me to the court.
If you resist, it will be used against you in court."
The lady laughed,
"You can try and arrest me."
But her arrogant smile suddenly froze, and so did the smiles of the people behind her.
They all looked at their shadows on the ground with difficulty and saw that they were connected, with the other end of each shadow linked to the shadow of the lady in the black robe beside Rose.
Expert Luna had made her move!
But when the 'camera' zoomed in on her, Rose wasn't beside her anymore!
The 'camera angle' changed hastily, as if it was trying to keep up with the changes, and zoomed back at the sect master and her group in the sky!
There, another invisible barrier broke above the sect, and Rose, who shattered it in her light form, was now taking form from the light specks above everyone's heads!
The frozen enemies could only watch helplessly as a golden palm emerged from nowhere, covering everyone, and smashed them all to the ground!
No one could move because of Luna using her shadow technique that fixed them in place!
The audience, who never thought of light and darkness as teammates, felt this scene was an eye-opener!
After that was the same one-sided, zero-death battle.
However, Rose's group was a little slower in their clean-up.
When her group was at sect number 8, Little Mortal was already done with sect number 3.
When they reached target number 11, Little Mortal's group had completed the cleanup of the 6th target on their side.
For those who had never seen any big battle in their life,
It was a beautiful experience of seeing the 12 sects, their unique techniques, and the magnificent sight of the inner part of each sect, which was always an impossible task for them.
But for those with some information about the little boy and how these scenes were recorded, it wasn't that simple.
They knew he didn't even leave the capital's 'front door' to record the scenes with the actors!
It was all recorded at the front gate!
Even some of the citizens were peeking at them secretly while they were recording.
His Crystal made the sect environments.
The enemy actors were in his Cage.
And more importantly, he was the one controlling everyone's body in all of these scenes with his unique 'coach assistant' technique,
which everyone thought it was another version of that evil 'harmony' technique!
And it wasn't just a simple control; he had already mastered every technique unique to each sect, and he was controlling them in the battle to face their opponents with those unique techniques!
The Emperor, who saw all of this in person, knew another unbelievable fact.
Every person who this little boy used to perform a technique would master it on the spot!
It happened to the Empress before when she 'knocked out' Scarlet in their first meeting because he used her body to make a move.
And it happened to all of his army soldiers and the followers who were just strong without knowing a single fighting skill until these battles.
They all mastered some skills related to their spirit roots easily...
They were sure that even those sect disciples, who were acting as the enemy,
had mastered their sect techniques too...
It was indeed unfair to him, given his exceptional learning ability, not to have any means of utilizing it for himself, because he had no spirit root.
In every scene, he could only beat up the sect masters personally, without any fancy moves.
They were mostly leg strikes, and he never let go of his mustache while performing them, so he could at least look cool that way.
And all of his techniques needed him to bring the opponent to the ground first, because he always avoided jumping too high for a reason that they didn't know!
In the end, he would yell the technique's name, and the fight would be over!
'Switch kick'
'540-degree hook kick'
'Tornado kick'
And so on...
His fighting style was indeed custom-made for him to cover the weakness of his short stature and avoid jumping.
Those who saw him descend to the silver platform in the sect competition could guess the reason for his avoiding jumping was that he was too heavy for some unknown reason!
Specifically, the old manager who felt the whole planet tremble under his feet, the only time he jumped a little too high!
The old manager was sure the headband and the two wristbands he always put on were a treasure for him to control something, probably related to his weight.
Back to the guardian journey.
The scene changed again.
This time, both the Emperor and Little Mortal appeared on two sides of the screen.
One at the center of the map, and the other at the 6th and last target.
At this moment, both of them received an emergency letter.
From whom?
Agent Morty Meven!
[ The shadow killers' main force has been spotted.
They'll reach our force at Target number 12 after their clean-up is finished.
Provide support immediately.
I will follow them to intercept them if needed.]
The faces of both 'brothers' on the scene turned serious!
The Emperor shouted,
"Everyone, meet me at target number 12."
The ground under his feet sank as he disappeared from the spot!
The followers and soldiers, who were dumbfounded for a moment, shouted together!
"To target number 12!"
And they all followed the silver aura on the horizon that was getting farther away at high speed!
Little Mortal jumped on the back of his horse and shouted,
"Everyone, meet me at target number 12."
And he rode his horse while the buildings and trees from Sect Number 6 opened a path for him.
The followers all shouted,
"To target number 12!"
And followed the colorful light that was getting farther away from them!
The scene changed again.
A back view of a woman in a black robe appeared.
When the 'camera angle' changed to her face,
Everyone gasped twice!
Once for the familiar face that they saw;
She was exactly like the woman who was knocked out by the Empress, the shadow Scarlet, just a little more mature.
And once for the group of people behind her.
There were hundreds of thousands of them,
All in black cloaks!
It wasn't a simple force at all!
They were all experts with strong auras, standing there in silence.
The woman in front spoke at this moment,
"It cost me a lot to hire you three for this job.
Don't disappoint me."
There was no one around her, so it wasn't clear who she was talking to.
Then three voices, that were familiar to some people, sounded one after another,
"You can read about it in tomorrow's news."
"Yes, boss!"
"You'd better take care of your side; he didn't come here alone."
The 'camera' moved down at this moment to find the source of the three voices that had spoken just now.
Three little guys were standing beside the woman with red eyes.
All in black cloaks, without their faces showing, only their eyes were shining under the cloak.
The one with the voice of a little girl was obviously the Outer Sect City News reporter, whom many recognized as Cherry!
The one who said, 'Yes, boss,' was clearly Snow White's son, Little Peanut, whom not many people recognized.
And the last one with silver eyes, who warned her that he might not be alone, was Fred, the Emperor's son!
All those who didn't know who these three were reached the same conclusion, and the question, 'Why was Little Mortal still so short?' was answered to them!
So this lady, who looked exactly like Shadow Scarlet, couldn't deal with Guardian Mortal anymore, and hired three people from the same place that he came from to deal with him!
And all three were shorties; it means the whole race was short.
They thought to themselves,
'Maybe that was the price of power?
You gain something and in return you lose something?'
The woman with red eyes snorted at his warning,
"You just do your job; don't worry about my side."
The three turned around, and while leaving, the little girl said,
"Soon, there will be another breaking news,
I hope you won't be too surprised by it."
And left while laughing.
The lady furrowed her brow.
She didn't know what she meant by another news.
She muttered to herself while smiling,
"Mortal, you dealt with my daughter; I'll deal with your assistant, and your own race will deal with you.
Let's see how you can become the guardian after that."
Then she ordered the people behind her,
"Shadow Army of guardian killers, follow me."
The next moment,
The whole army turned to shadows, united as one single shadow that covered the entire scene, and disappeared into the horizon.
The audience, who were deep into the Non-Existent Illusion at this point,
found out about the identity of this woman and the sea of people behind her!
She was Shadow Scarlet's mother, and the army was the Shadow Army, whose members were the guardian killers!
There was a whole organization behind all of this!
They could feel the pressure that was on the way of Guardian Mortal and especially the Rose's group!
'Can they even face this army?
Will the Emperor be there in time?
What are those three going to do with the little sect master?'
At this moment, before the scene changes, a figure suddenly appeared out of thin air at the place where the Shadow Army had previously been!
The audience could only see his back view.
The 'camera' moved slowly from his feet to his head.
Black leather shoes, black suit, black leather gloves, bald head.
At the back of his bald head, near his neck, were some numbers and letters.
-22/2/1364 - A-MM-
The audience thought he couldn't be anyone except Agent Morty Meven!
The A-MM was his code name, and the number was probably the date of his birthday!
'So he was there all this time, watching them without them noticing!?'
Even the three shorties didn't detect his presence!
As expected of the secret agent working with the sect master!
At this moment, a paper with a message from Guardian Mortal fell from his hand and turned to ashes.
Before it completely burned, everyone saw a simple sentence written on it!
[Kill the primary targets.]
Agent Morty Meven stepped forward while mumbling to himself,
"I find it's best to wait... for the perfect kill."
And as he went farther away, a wind blew past him, and with his tie dancing in the wind, his figure disappeared into thin air.
As if he was never there!
His destination?
Target number 12!
A chill ran down everyone's spine, as if this man was after them, and not Scarlet's mother!
They could feel it; there was only one fate that awaited those who became this man's target!
Death!
The scene changed.
The three little ones were hiding at the top of a big tree.
The little girl said,
"Is the gate ready?"
The other one answered,
"Yes, boss!"
She nodded and asked,
"Did you send the coordinates?"
The one with silver eyes responded,
"They will be here soon."
The little girl nodded,
"We act when he receives the 'warning' from the 'manager'!
That's the only time he will be distracted for a moment, and our only chance to take action!"
The scene changed again.
Expert Luna was looking in a certain direction with a solemn look.
Behind her, the battle was already over, and the soldiers were taking the 'prisoners' away.
Rose walked to her,
"What is it?"
She responded,
"I feel a group of experts, mostly with shadow roots, getting closer to us."
Rose furrowed her brow,
"How many?"
"Hundreds of thousands..."
Rose's eyes widened in shock!
She sent an order immediately, and all of the followers alongside the soldiers and even the soldiers who were responsible for surrendering the sect gathered not long after!
They all stood in formation, ready to face the unknown force!
The scene changed again.
Two people were arguing with each other, as if they might get into a fight at any moment.
The audience was confused.
'What's this?
Get back to the battlefield!'
But a familiar voice sounded, which made them frown.
"Fellow Daoist, let's sit down and talk about it."
The two cultivators, arguing, turned around to see who was the one putting his nose in their business.
They saw an old man standing there.
Just one look, and the two turned around and left in opposite directions from each other!
The audience became speechless when they saw who he was!
This old man was the famous busybody-cough mediator, or Old Seven, as the other members of the special force called him, who was supposed to be stuck in the restricted area of the Forbidden Jungle with the rest.
The crowd wondered why he was out.
Old Seven, who saw the two leave because of his presence, shook his head and muttered to himself,
"The spiritual energy became so scarce that the restriction around us disappeared...
Where did the rest of the fellow Daoists go after leaving?
The audience understood why he was out!
So, the restricted area was now empty, and all the experts were out?
Would they show up to help Rose and Luna?
But at this moment, Old Seven suddenly looked up at the sky!
He seemed confused at first, but the confusion turned to a look of horror!
He received a message from heaven!
[World invasion.
Forbidden Jungle.
Immortals, stop the invasion.]
The scene suddenly split into many more scenes, with different people receiving the same message from 'heaven'!
Scholar, Mr. Blacksmith, Fourth Brother, Fire Goddess, Charm Goddess, Guardian Mortal, the Emperor and the Empress in the capital, and retired Lady Butterfly!
They all suddenly looked at the sky, and their faces changed to ones of fear!
Only Guardian Mortal had a hint of excitement in his eyes instead.
The opportunity he was looking for was here!
All of the people who received the news didn't hesitate and rushed towards the Forbidden Jungle from different places!
The Emperor muttered,
"What bad timing...
Or it's not a coincidence, and there is a bigger conspiracy involved?"
But he didn't need to change his direction,
"Let's deal with the problem at hand first.
Luckily, The Forbidden Jungle is in the same direction.
I'll join the others soon."
The scene changed.
Scarlet's mother, the red-eye lady, was frowning,
"Those three sold the coordinates of this world to outsiders...?
So that's what she meant by another breaking news?"
Then she snorted and shook her head,
"That's not my problem."
And looked forward.
They were already close to Rose and the rest, and they seemed to have already been exposed.
Without saying a word, the battle began between the two sides.
And it didn't take long for the followers and soldiers to see how powerful their enemy was!
Even Rose and Luna were struggling to deal with this overpowered enemy!
The higher number of the Shadow Army was another problem.
The followers and army soldiers couldn't stop them easily!
Especially 10 shadow soldiers from the opposite side that weren't much weaker than Rose and Luna, and wreaked havoc everywhere!
This wasn't a battle without death anymore!
The scene changed again.
Little Mortal, who just received the news about the world invasion, suddenly furrowed his brow!
His horse disappeared, and he landed on the ground.
The next moment, he stretched his hands to both sides and blocked two leg strikes with his palms from left and right.
Another attack came from behind simultaneously, but he didn't defend this time.
Instead, he squatted down, dodged the attack, and sweep-kicked the three attackers!
But to everyone's surprise, all three jumped up and dodged!
It was the first time someone avoided any of his attacks!
Little Mortal jumped too and joined the attackers in the air!
After a 180-degree spin, he was now facing the one who attacked from behind; he struck with his palm and split his legs to both sides to kick the two on his left and right!
Again, to everyone's surprise, the three blocked his attacks!
All three spat out a mouthful of 'blood', but survived the attack!
The audience was dumbfounded!
There is finally someone who didn't get knocked out after receiving one hit from this little guy?
But the next moment, everyone's eyes suddenly widened in horror!
They all shouted in their mind,
'Behind you!'
At this moment, as if he sensed something,
Little Mortal turned around and, to his shock, saw a familiar big gate behind him!
Before he could react, chains on fire came out of the gate, wrapped around him, and dragged him inside!
In just a moment, he disappeared inside the gate!
He only left a sentence.
"I don't know who you three are!
But I will find you and I will-"
Before the sentence ended, the gate was closed!
The audience all recognized the gate!
It was the hell gate that Judge Bredd summoned before!
He was sent to hell?
The little girl stood up with difficulty,
"That was harder than expected."
The other little one said,
"Yes, boss!"
And the one with the silver eyes looked down and said,
"We needed our blood to summon the hell gate anyway..."
Under their feet were all kinds of complicated patterns and symbols on the ground that weren't there before.
With the gate, which sank slowly into the ground at the center of these patterns, the patterns began to fade away.
Their blood was the key to activating it and summoning the gate.
The little girl then looked in another direction,
"Alright, we are done here.
To get paid from two sides for one mission?
That was worth it."
The three then laughed and walked away.
The audience, who were wondering who else paid them,
Saw the answer in the next scene, which was another familiar event to them.
Part of it was shown before, but it paused; now they could see what happened next there!
The scene was somewhere in the Forbidden Jungle.
As far as you could see, there were only big trees and a big mountain at the center.
At this moment, a circle suddenly appeared in the sky above the mountain.
As though a passage was opened from an unknown world to this place!
The moment it appeared, the big mountain moved.
Part of it started opening up, and two big eyes opened on the mountain.
In those eyes, you could only see fear.
While the pair of eyes seemed to be frozen in fear, two creatures emerged from the dark circle.
They weren't exactly like humans; rough purple skin, a special kind of armor, a helmet with some spikes on it,
And a big sword on their back, like army soldiers.
The two seemed to be communicating with each other, then they brought out a device and activated it.
The last time the audience saw this scene was up to this point.
The two creatures started speaking to each other in a language that, except for the followers, no one else could recognize.
But magically, everyone could understand what the two were saying to each other.
Creature number 1,
"Did you detect him?"
Creature number 2,
"Yes, but his signal disappeared just now, as they promised.
We can begin the raid."
Now, everyone knew the second group who paid the three little 'mercenaries' were these invaders!
These creatures invaded the world, heaven sent a warning, which caused Little Mortal to be distracted for only a moment, and the three made their move to get rid of him!
Everything was planned by the three!
Probably after they received the mission from Scarlet's mother, they knew they couldn't deal with Little Mortal in normal ways.
That's why they mixed another group of invaders into their plan, to help them with their mission and get another deal with them at the same time!
The audience was at a loss for words!
'So mischievous!
Who was the main character here?'
These three appeared in 2 scenes, and they already ruined the ending of the world-cleansing plan.
Sent the main character to hell, and left while opening 'the door' for invaders with their pockets full of money!
The audience felt the heavy pressure was back again!
What will happen now without the sect master around?
Can he come back from hell?
Will he even survive there?
What about Rose and Luna?
That red-eye lady was clearly stronger than them...
Is the Emperor fast enough to get there in time?
Once again, the Non-Existent Illusion was at full effect!