Chapter 28 – While Great Xia’s Mountains and Rivers Stand, How Could We Lack Those Willing to Die?

Chapter 28 – While Great Xia’s Mountains and Rivers Stand, How Could We Lack Those Willing to Die?

He was meeting with the high command of the Great Xia Military!

Su Xing was somewhat excited. In a previous simulation, he had tried to report to the high command that giant beasts would attack Great Xia, but the matter had been suppressed.

That was only because, despite being worth hundreds of billions at the time, he was ultimately still an ordinary person—his strength was too low.

But in this simulation, the Fasting Pills Su Xing refined held great significance for Great Xia, which finally earned him this rare opportunity.

Su Xing took a deep breath and continued the simulation.

【The military chief who met with you was an elderly man. You were surprised to discover you had seen him on the news before. His name was Lu Yuanwu, a powerhouse at the Martial Emperor level!】

【The chief warmly received you and asked how many Fasting Pills you could refine in a single day.】

【Over the years, your alchemy skills had grown increasingly refined. For a lowest-grade pill like the Fasting Pill, you were confident you could produce fifty in a single day.】

【Upon hearing this number, the chief frowned slightly. He said the quantity was still too few. He wanted to ask you for the pill formula and offered to fulfill any request you had, as long as you were willing to share the recipe.】

【You didn’t hesitate and handed over the Fasting Pill formula directly, because you knew that only you could actually refine Fasting Pills. Setting aside the fact that Spirit rice was virtually impossible to obtain in the mortal world, even if you provided the Spirit rice, ordinary people lacked the Separation Fire Technique and couldn’t possibly refine them.】

【Sure enough, a few days later Lu Yuanwu came to find you again. He told you to focus on refining Fasting Pills without worry—the people he had arranged couldn’t produce the pills at all.】

【You put forward your request: you wanted to enter the Demon-Sealing Pass dungeon to investigate it firsthand.】

【Lu Yuanwu hesitated upon hearing this. He said the Demon-Sealing Pass dungeon was far too dangerous, and with your strength, you would certainly die inside.】

【But under your persistent request, Lu Yuanwu ultimately agreed. However, he required that you not go to the front lines—you could only refine pills within the safe zone inside Demon-Sealing Pass. Furthermore, he assigned three Grandmaster-stage powerhouses and one Heavenly King-stage powerhouse to protect you at all times.】

【The next day, you followed a group of Class Users into Demon-Sealing Pass.】

【Looking at the Class Users around you, you felt a sense of familiarity. After careful inquiry, you were surprised to discover that quite a few of them were graduates of Capital Vocational Academy, and there were even a number of Capital Vocational Academy instructors among them.】

Seeing this, Su Xing nodded. According to the simulator’s projected future trajectory, he would still be at Capital Vocational Academy for another five or six years, making it roughly a decade total that he’d spend there.

Over those ten-plus years, he would surely come into contact with a considerable number of junior students.

And thirteen years later, those juniors would likely have become Master-stage, Grandmaster-stage, or even higher-level powerhouses.

【Through inquiry, you came to understand that the situation at Demon-Sealing Pass had deteriorated severely in recent years. Not only were Grandmaster-stage and above Class Users required to enter Demon-Sealing Pass, but even Master-stage Class Users now had annual assignments to serve there.】

【You stepped into the Demon-Sealing Pass dungeon. Everything here seemed no different from the real world.】

【The only exception was a massive transparent dome in the sky—this miraculous barrier covered the entirety of Demon-Sealing Pass.】

【You noticed there were no ordinary people in Demon-Sealing Pass. The weakest individuals, aside from yourself, all possessed at least Master-stage strength.】

【You were assigned to the deep rear of Demon-Sealing Pass, in an unremarkable little courtyard. Lu Yuanwu was living right next door, and a Heavenly King-stage powerhouse guarded you at all times.】

【You were not permitted to go to the front lines. Instead, you refined pills in the courtyard every day, and the vast majority of your requests were fulfilled.】

【You devoted yourself wholeheartedly to refining Fasting Pills, maintaining a daily output of fifty.】

【Half a year passed quickly. Through your continuous efforts to improve the process, your Fasting Pill refinement speed increased further, reaching sixty pills per day.】

【Every Fasting Pill you refined each day was shipped to the front lines, but Lu Yuanwu said this quantity was still a mere drop in the bucket for all the soldiers on the front.】

【This displeased you. You felt you were already working yourself to the bone refining pills, yet you still couldn’t satisfy the military’s appetite. It seemed you had become nothing more than a heartless pill-refining machine.】

【One night, when no one around you was paying attention, you quietly slipped toward the walls of Demon-Sealing Pass.】

【The city you were in was called the City of The Last Days. It was roughly the size of Capital City. Demon-Sealing Pass was at the city’s north, while you had been stationed in the south.】

【So you set off toward the north under cover of darkness. The farther north you went, the fewer people you saw on the roads. The occasional passersby all wore hurried expressions, clad in battle armor with weapons in hand.】

【You moved quickly, and half an hour later you arrived at the base of Demon-Sealing Pass. Gazing upon the majestic fortress before you, you were shaken to your core for the first time.】

【This could hardly be called a city in the conventional sense, because the walls stood over three thousand three hundred meters tall. Standing at the base and looking up, you couldn’t see the top no matter how hard you craned your neck.】

【You blended in with a squad of Class Users heading up to the wall and ascended to the top of Demon-Sealing Pass.】

【Along the way, you saw many critically wounded and dying Class Users being carried down. Priests, healers, and other support-class professionals kept pouring healing potions into their mouths, but most of them could not be saved.】

【You finally reached the top of the wall. It was far, far wider than you had imagined—over a three hundred thirty meters across, like a massive plaza.】

【Atop the wall, many Class Users bustled about. Your ears were assaulted by the intermittent roar of artillery fire and cries for help.】

【You saw brilliant spells launched like fireworks, raining down beyond the pass. You also saw modern missile weaponry firing frantically.】

【You forced yourself to stay calm and walked slowly to the edge of the wall.】

【You saw a sight you would never forget for the rest of your life. Across the boundless wasteland in the distance, tiny dots like ants were scattered everywhere—those were the corpses of human Class Users.】

【And upon that wasteland, there were also countless giant beasts with hideous faces and grotesque shapes. The tallest of them reached a thousand meters, and even the smallest stood dozens of meters high.】

【You were overwhelmed by the sheer pressure of these giant beasts, barely able to keep your footing.】

【Then you saw a slightly older Class User let out a furious roar and leaped off Demon-Sealing Pass, leading dozens of Class Users down with him.】

【You understood—they were using their own lives to stop the giant beasts from breaching Demon-Sealing Pass.】

【Unsurprisingly, a mere few dozen Grandmaster-stage Class Users stood no chance of stopping these terrifying giant beasts.】

【But more and more Class Users leaped from the wall, staking their lives in battle—Grandmaster-stage, even Heavenly King-stage Class Users among them… Hundreds of Class Users’ lives piled up, and the beasts’ assault was temporarily broken.】

【You were shaken to your very soul. For the past half year, you had been focused solely on refining pills. Only now did you see the true face of Demon-Sealing Pass.】

【At that moment, a figure appeared behind you. It was Lu Yuanwu. He let out a soft sigh, patted you on the shoulder, and said something you would never forget for the rest of your life.】

【He said: “While Great Xia’s mountains and rivers stand unbroken, how could we ever lack those willing to die?”】