Chapter 5172, Gathering Strength
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Yang Kai was dumbfounded after hearing this.
Just to prevent one man from advancing to the Eighth Order, the ck Ink n was willing to break the status quo that had been maintained for decades. It would undoubtedly have been arrogant if anyone else had said this, but since it was Xiang Shan, it was not far-fetched.
Yang Kai turned in the direction of the forward base, wondering how the battle was going, but with the current state of Dawn, it was impossible for them to participate right now.
Xiang Shan reassured with a smile, “Rest for now. If we hurry back in a few days, we might be able to finish the job.”
The void became calm and peaceful.
After a few days, everyone’s condition had significantly improved. Every Squad Leader gathered their men and put away their respective Warships before activating the Universe Transference Law under Xiang Shan’s leadership and returning to the forward base.
By now, the battle at the frontlines hade to an end, and as before, the ck Ink n had once again suffered a great loss.
Although the ck Ink n had the absolute advantage in numbers, the Human Masters had long been ustomed to facing enemies that outnumbered them.
Be that as it may, the reason why this battle had ended so quickly was because the ck Ink n no longer wanted to continue fighting. In fact, when the Territory Lords sensed the death of Wu Jiang, they knew that their n had failed. Although they didn’t know what had happened to Wu Jiang and Hong Hu, they had clearly fallen into the Human Race’s trap once more, which resulted in the demise of yet another Territory Lord.
The reason they quickly pushed this war was to upy the Eighth-Order Open Heaven Realm Masters so that Wu Jiang and Hong Hu could seed in their task. Now that they had failed, there was no point in continuing to fight.
Without knowing what other tricks the Humans were hiding up their sleeves, the Territory Lords didn’t want to take any more risks; as such, they decisively retreated over 10 million kilometres!
The soldiers of the forward base chased for a while and managed to eliminate quite a lot of ck Ink nsmen, but under the Eighth-Order Open Heaven Realm Masters’mand, the Human Army did not go too far and returned after just a couple of days.
By the time Yang Kai and the others returned, they were facing a situation where they didn’t have a chance to participate.
ording to postwar statistics, some 200,000 ck Ink nsmen were killed in this war, several hundred of whom were Feudal Lords, but no additional Territory Lords had been eliminated.
It wasn’t a particrly good result, but considering that the Humans were fighting the ck Ink n at the forward base and not the Great Pass, it was still eptable.
After this battle, the situation calmed down. The ck Ink n hadpletely given up over half of their territory. In fact, if the Humans were to travel between Blue Sky Pass and the forward base, they would no longer see any traces of the ck Ink n, nor would they see the ck Ink nsmen and Humans ‘hunting’ each other anymore.
Blue Sky Pass had achieved great sess in their campaign against the ck Ink n. When the news spread to other Passes, it immediately caused morale and envy to soar.
Nheless, everyone knew that Blue Sky Pass’ sess could not be repeated.
The basis for this victory was the battle outside Blue Sky Pass fought a few decades ago. In that battle, Blue Sky Pass had used a century-long n to kill over 30 Territory Lords at once, dealing a heavy blow to the ck Ink n.
Blue Sky Pass had Yang Kai find and open portals to the Universe Paradises and Universe Cave Heavens, where these traps were set up, but other Passes had no such person with simr skills.
On top of that, the crusade and establishing a functional forward base in the ck Ink n’s territory required two Universe Arrays to act as transit points, allowing the Humans to rapidly attack the ck Ink n as well as retreat to Blue Sky Pass. If the Expeditionary Force advanced deeper without these transit points, the ck Ink n would eventually exhaust their strength, resulting in mass casualties.
Right now, Yang Kai was the only one who could arrange Universe Arrays.
Blue Sky Pass’ victory was closely tied to Yang Kai’s existence, and there was only one of him, so the other passes could not reenact the same feat.
Furthermore, the ck Ink n forces in the other Theatres had be much more vignt after this news spread. Now, the ck Ink n was extremely cautious when they were besieging the Great Passes. They were afraid that they would repeat the same mistake they had made at Blue Sky Pass and fall into the traps and schemes of the Humans.
But no matter how the ck Ink n at other Great Passes investigated, they failed to find any simr traps outside the Great Passes, which put them at ease.
From the moment the Human cultivators stepped into the ck Ink Battlefield, they would have to undergo a great battle every 100 years or so. Furthermore, they were unable to rx even after the battle as they had to collect resources, recover their strength, and make preparations for the next war.
The special environment of the ck Ink Battlefield also trapped the Human Race at the Great Passes, making them unable to move forward or retreat. Even if they went looking for cultivation resources, they were unable to venture too far or risk being ambushed.
However, this situation at Blue Sky Pass had changed a little.
The loss of thetest battle had caused the ck Ink n topletely give up on the idea of reiming their lost territory. Now, whenever the soldiers of Blue Sky Pass went out, as long as they didn’t venture beyond the forward base and into ck Ink n territory, they basically didn’t encounter any enemy forces. The vast void had be Blue Sky Pass’ backyard where the Humans could roam freely.
In this peaceful situation, the soldiers of Blue Sky Pass could focus on cultivating to increase their strength.
This peaceful cultivation periodsted for two centuries!
No one could quite get ustomed to the quiet atmosphere and everyone was feeling extremely uneasy.
No battle had broken out for thest 200 years, which was simply unbelievable in a special environment like the ck Ink Battlefield, but this was the result of the many great victories in the Blue Sky Theatre.
Furthermore, judging by the ck Ink n’s attitude, this peace mightst even longer.
The ck Ink n could not recover from the massive casualties they had suffered in only two centuries.
Most of the Human Race soldiers rarely had a moment of peace, but now that they had plenty of resources and time, they worked hard to cultivate and their strength increased rapidly. In thest two centuries, the number of Seventh-Order Masters had increased by almost 300.
But not everyone was able to rx.
Compared to the leisure most ordinary soldiers enjoyed, the busiest people of Blue Sky Pass were undoubtedly the Alchemists and Artifact Refiners.
The crusade carried out by Blue Sky Pass was just a test, and after it concluded, the higher-ups discovered many issues.
The first problem they faced was the supply of Purifying ck Pills. These pills were critical to ensuring that their soldiers would not be corrupted by ck Ink Strength. Although there was still the Purifying Light to rely on, only Yang Kai could replenish it, and the total supply was limited.
As such, once arge-scale crusade began, Purifying ck Ink Pills would be the best weapon to deal with ck Ink Strength. These pills were needed in massive quantities, enough so that each soldier had at least a few dozen of them.
Therefore, over the past 200 years, Blue Sky Pass’ Alchemists had been refining Purifying ck Ink Pills day and night. Not only was Blue Sky Pass acting like this, but so were the other Passes.
Besides the Purifying ck Ink Pills, there was also the problem of Warships.
During the crusade, many Warships suffered serious damage and could not be repaired promptly. The Fifth-Order or Sixth-Order Open Heaven Realm Masters would be exposed to danger without the protection of the Warships; as such, the Artifact Refiners were also working hard to refine more.
The goal was to at least ensure that every Squad had a backup Warship, so that when the first was inevitably disabled or destroyed, they would have a spare.
The entire Blue Sky Pass had nearly 40,000 soldiers, and each Squad had 12 to 15 members or so. The Artifact Refiners thus had to refine some 3,000 extra Warships to meet the requirements.
This was a huge project;pared to the Alchemists, the Artifact Refiners had to work even harder.
Be that as it may, all this effort was worth it as in the near future, all of this hard work would pay dividends.
Yang Kai had been cultivating all the while.
Two centuries of umtion was enough to raise his strength by another step. Although he was still far from reaching the Eighth Order, he had made great progresspared to 200 years ago; after all, other cultivators could only rely on refining the Open Heaven Pills and various cultivation materials, but his Small Universe was special. Even if he didn’t refine any resources, his foundation would still continue to grow.
The umtion over time made his rate of growth extremely impressive.
Coupled with the World Tree Clone in his Small Universe, Yang Kai’s refining speed was much faster than an ordinary Seventh-Order Open Heaven Realm Master, and his World Force was both purer and denser than ordinary.
He was not in retreat all the time. In fact, no one could cultivate in retreat for a long time in a ce like the ck Ink Battlefield.
Every decade or two, he would take Dawn out on patrol. Although the ck Ink n hadpletely abandoned arge part of their territory and no one would run into any ck Ink nsmen while patrolling the rear, they still had to maintain vignce and could not lower their guard just because of that.
Every Squad had to take turns patrolling, so Dawn was no exception.
In addition to patrolling, they still had to mine resources in turns. Arge number of resources had been discovered in the territory currently upied by the Humans in the Blue Sky Theatre. Naturally, these resources needed to be harvested. Fortunately, the soldiers could move these Universe Worlds to the nearby forward base or Blue Sky Pass with the help of the Void Yin Yang Mirrors, which saved them a lot of time.
asionally, after cultivating in retreat for too long, Yang Kai would exit to rx on his own, either going to the Pill Hall to help refine Purifying ck Ink Pills or the Refining Hall to help refine the Warships.
He had some level of attainment in both Alchemy and Artifact Refining, butpared to those Great Grandmasters, he was naturally far toocking. Although he couldn’t preside over a project, he could offer some help.
He even took some time to visit Myriad Demons Pass.
After spending a massive amount of Military Merits, Yang Kai was able to obtain private tutge from Myriad Demons Heaven’s Old Ancestor on the mysteries of the Demon Eye of Annihtion and ck Purgatory Eye!
After hisst battle with Hong Hu, Yang Kai realized that he still had too few trump cards. Although he was strong and could easily crush a Feudal Lord, facing a Territory Lord was a bit difficult.
The Sun and Moon Divine Wheel’s power was extraordinary, but Territory Lords had methods to deal with it. He could not summon his Dragon Bead right off the bat either, while Purifying Light was rted to too many secret projects so he could not use it whenever he wished. After thinking about it for a while, Yang Kai still felt that he should put more effort into the Myriad Demons Cave Heaven’s two Eye Secret Techniques.
The various opportunities he had obtained from these two Eye Secret Techniques had not been a result of his own cultivation. Although he had received some guidance from an Eighth-Order Open Heaven Realm Master from Myriad Demons Heaven beforeing to the ck Ink Battlefield, he had made minimal progress. He could not tap into the full power of these two Eye Secret Techniques.
Under such circumstances, the guidance of the Old Ancestor of Myriad Demons Heaven was extremely valuable to him. Although it cost a lot of Military Merits, Yang Kai didn’t regret it.
Yang Kai spent an entire month at the Myriad Demons Pass, where he learned all kinds of profound knowledge from the Myriad Demons Heaven Old Ancestor, making it a fruitful trip.