CH 249

But things haven't gotten to the worst.

The good news is that some key spells can still be used, such as: [Ask the Way to Heaven], [Guidance from Immortals], [Transforming Earth into Stone], and so on.

The Black Light Curse only sealed his offensive spells, which caused him a lot of trouble, but it wasn't fatal.

Afterward, Lin Wen used [Ask the Way to Heaven] to obtain detailed information about this curse.

Apart from some details about its power and effects, the most crucial information for Lin Wen was that it belonged to a high-dimensional energy form in this realm, with no source to support its existence, and it was constantly collapsing and falling to a lower dimension.

The curse would weaken after the first 81 days, and completely expire after the second 81 days.

Thank goodness.

Lin Wen breathed a sigh of relief.

It's just that the Dragon Group will be dormant for a few months.

For these few months, he'll have to rely on the KGB and Fang Dashan's army.

Lin Wen had even thought of an excuse to deal with Qin Luoshuang: they (the Dragon Group agents) had been arranged by the great Lin Wen to recuperate in the Black Sea due to their outstanding achievements.

No big deal.

In the following months, he just needed to act a little more restrained.

Sinking naval fleets alone, breaking into enemy bases, and wiping out large numbers of enemies would have to wait until after the curse ended.

Lin Wen wasn't too worried, although he had lost powerful attack spells, he still had his self-defense abilities.

Various escape and self-preservation spells were not sealed.

[No Colorful Phoenix in Body] was still effective, and combined with [Spirit Cat's Agility], which wasn't considered an offensive spell, it should be enough to deal with daily threats.

Hmph!

Old Silver Coin, didn't expect that your attack, crossing the river of time and the boundary between reality and illusion, would have no effect on me at all.

Instead, it exposed your own existence.

Good!

Since you dared to make a move against the great Lord of the Heavenly Dao, then.

You're already dead.

By then, you'll be the first immortal I've killed.

Let's use you to kick off my slaughter of countless immortals!

Lin Wen laughed heartily, dispelling all the gloom in his heart.

He immediately lay down to sleep.

Quickly restore his primordial spirit.

Tomorrow, he still had to gather more good karma.

Only with more good karma could he become stronger, and more quickly slay Old Silver Coin under his feet.

He must quickly obtain ten thousand good karma.

Lin Wen thought to himself.

This is the highest return on investment.

Of course, the more good karma, the better. Ten thousand good karma is just the minimum standard for his reincarnation, the ideal standard is one million.

Even if there's diminishing returns, every bit of luck and opportunity counts, after all, he already knew, the Great Dao is fifty, the Heavenly Manifestation is forty-nine, leaving a glimmer of hope, and forty-nine points of luck is the limit. The highest can only be forty-eight points.

Then, he had to quickly find a way to eliminate the bad karma.

After eliminating the bad karma, he could prepare for his reincarnation.

Hmph.

You can't stop me!

I will become the King of the Great Dao!

With boundless hope and motivation, Lin Wen fell into a deep slumber.

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Central State.

The Papal States' cavalry was defeated like a mountain, with no supplies, no fuel, and the specially made multi-functional all-terrain combat motorcycles became scrap metal, all the tactical weaknesses were seized by the Central State government army.

The cavalry, which had lost all its advantages, collapsed instantly, and Wang Bo'an took three strongholds in a row, reclaiming thirty thousand square kilometers of lost territory in a single day.

The next day, the front page headline of the Imperial Daily.

Main headline: Central State Governor Wang Bo'an crushes the Papal States' cavalry.

Subheadline: Three routes advance together, annihilating over a hundred thousand enemy troops!

Another day passed.

Front page headline of the Imperial Daily.

Main headline: Imperial victory is imminent!

Subheadline: Governor of Luo State supports Central State from a thousand miles away, fighting bravely, annihilating over a hundred million enemies!

As soon as this newspaper was released, it was shut down, and the reporting journalist was fired.

At noon, the Imperial Daily released a second edition, with the main headline changed to: The Empire will last forever! Glory is eternal!

The subheadline was directly canceled, and the editor-in-chief of the newspaper only issued a short apology, saying that the newspaper was delayed due to the mistake of a temporary worker, who was subsequently fired, and that was the end of the matter.

After that, in most of the Empire's media, Wang Bo'an's name was not mentioned, or only briefly mentioned in one or two sentences.

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The main content of the articles boasted about how the governors of Luo State, Ming State, or Xubu State supported from a thousand miles away, fought bravely, and annihilated the enemy, as if the entire Central State battle was all their credit, with no relation to Wang Bo'an at all.

The media was making a big fuss, but Wang Bo'an knew that there was still a long way to go before the enemy was completely annihilated.

After suffering such heavy losses, the enemy no longer attacked, but instead withdrew their forces, hiding in important towns and refusing to come out.

It would not be a simple matter to pull out these nails, and yet the highest military command of the Empire continued to send telegrams ordering him to quickly annihilate the remnants of the enemy, stabilize the rear of the Empire, and gradually recover the lost territory of Ze State, in order to indirectly deter the main force of the Papal States.

This was inconsistent with Wang Bo'an's strategy of besieging the strongholds and starving them to death.He had repeatedly petitioned, attempting to clarify the situation to the supreme military command, stating the difficulties of a forceful attack, but was met only with harsh reprimands.

He sought help from the Council of Elders, but the council was slow to respond.

They were preoccupied with more pressing issues and had no time to attend to him.

Currently, the Empire's main legions were engaged in fierce battles with the forces of The Papal States in the regions of Zhezhou's Xindeng Fortress and the Jinsuo River.

The scale of the battle on both sides had reached an unprecedented level, yet this was merely one of the three wars the Empire was waging.

On the banks of the Blackwater River, the war for the Kierkuk oil fields was underway, with the frontier official Shan Xinwu gaining a slight advantage. The Kingdom of Sob was internally unstable, the frontline soldiers' morale was faltering, and they were gradually falling into decline, but victory was still a long way off.

In the far northern regions, the protracted war of vengeance for the Bayi Grand Canal continued, with the Empire's Marshal of the Land Forces, Shang Lianshan, personally overseeing the front lines. With both sides entrenched behind high walls, the war was set to continue for a long time.

The war in Zhongzhou was merely a microcosm of these three wars.

A medium-scale battle.

In their eyes, it was insignificant; even if they were defeated, the Empire's heartland lay just behind, surrounded by the Empire's strongholds in all directions. With only 500,000 light-armored troops, no reinforcements, and no support, how far could they really go?

The death toll of the local military forces was inconsequential; in some ways, it could even alleviate the Empire's burden.

As long as victory was achieved in the Zhezhou campaign, the enemy forces in the rear would be like fish trapped in a jar.

However, despite the abundance of printed money, the Empire began to face a shortage of supplies. Although the Imperial State Office and the Imperial Commerce Department were exerting full control, prices continued to rise uncontrollably.

The Imperial Chancellor, concurrently served by Elder Xu Chenguo, was well aware that once prices rose to a certain level, hoarding and speculation would inevitably occur.

Hoarding and speculation, in turn, would greatly drive up prices, creating a vicious cycle until the market collapsed.

Exorbitant prices would greatly affect the stability of the Empire, shaking the very foundation of its rule.

This was like a malignant tumor in the human body; the weaker it became, the more likely it was to appear, and the more it appeared, the weaker the person became.

Thus, the Empire's most pressing issue at the moment was the production and distribution of supplies.