Chapter 1323 Corps Formations

1323 Corps Formations

Ryu stood stoically, his white hair fluttering wildly and his hands clasped behind his back. He looked forward toward the garbage units, not minding the Sky Gods to his back that were stuck in place, seemingly unable to make a choice.

It was impossible for Ryu to suddenly make these troops powerful. Maybe if he only had to deal with one at a time, and if he was given a few weeks at least, he could make something happen with his skill. But not only did he not have any time, there were over a million of these troops. The idea of doing anything that could fundamentally change their fates was ridiculous.

What Ryu needed to do was to establish a usable foundation that could be usable, and the best option he had in succeeding in this endeavor were formations.

Formations weren't unheard of on the battlefield. In fact, they were exceptionally common in the True Martial World. Whenever there were large scale wars, only those with these powerful formations that could pour the strength of large numbers of warriors into a single strike would be of any use.

With a troop like this, so long as the formation was decent enough to make use of at least 10% of everyone's strength, they could even battle a small group of Sky Gods, assuming these Sky Gods weren't stronger than the False Sky God Realm, that is.

However, while this 10% number seemed low, the number of individuals who had access to formations of this level were almost non-existent. The idea of being able to use 10% of the strength of over a million cultivators at once was mind numbing.

To put this matter into perspective, even a Fragmented Sky God couldn't say that they were a hundred thousand times more powerful than a World Sea Realm expert. This was an astronomical number impossible to put into perspective.

While a Fragmented Sky God could battle an army of a million cultivators with ease, and slaughter every single one of them. If this army had a formation to gather their strength into a single point, even such an expert would have no choice but to turn tail and run.

Of course, even if there was such a formation, it was impossible for them to stop a Sky God from running from them. As such, such a formation could be said to bring about a stalemate in this situation.

But once again... Such formations were far too rare, impossibly so. Even those that could manage to reach the 10% threshold were often limited in the number of people that could use it at once. They would most often be limited to squads of 10, and if one was lucky you might run into an inheritance that granted you with one that could be used with a battalion of 100.

Of course, there were some legends of formations that could make use of a 20% threshold, some even spoke of 30%. At that point, you might only need a troop of 100 000 World Sea Realm experts to battle it out against a Sky God.

But these were practically fairy tales to the people of the Fifth Heaven.

The strongest formation that the Dream Asura Race had access to was only able to reach a 5% standard, and that formation could only be used by 100 individuals at once.

They even had a super large scale formation that could be used by up to a trillion people and had a standard of 22%!

Unfortunately, there was a great weakness of the Unbalance Art Sect Corps Formations. In fact, there was quite a large weakness, one related to the Nine Pillar Flame Sect at once.

The problem with the first was obvious... the irregularity of the Unbalance Art Sect. Just practicing their methods could make a person go mad, so one could imagine what would be required of such powerful formations. Finding enough people who could withstand the Unbalance Mantra, especially after they had been destroyed, was absolutely impossible.

There was a work around for this, and that was for the central of the Corps Formation to withstand the weight of the calculations and such on their own. But in his wounded state, it was simply impossible for Ryu to do so. Even if he was in top condition, he would have to bring his soul to a Sky God standard first, or at the very least an equivalent standard.

He might be able to withstand the small scale formation, but the medium scale and beyond was too much.

As for the Nine Pillar Flame Sect Corps Formation, while it was less demanding on its mind, one could imagine that its demands of the body were on a completely other level. And, unlike this Unbalance Art Sect Corps Formations, this burden couldn't be handled by others for you.

It seemed, then, that Ryu's only choice was to use the Frost Clan's formations... but he had never had any intention of doing so. He had already decided, he would use the Nine Pillar Flame Sect Corps Formations. However, in their current state, if these garbage units tried to activate such a formation, after a few seconds their Vital Qi would burn up and they would turn to ash.

So, Ryu had to counter this.

'Little woman,' Ryu spoke to the Favoured Alchemy Sky God for the first time in a long while. 'Pay attention to me closely. I'm going to start concocting now, after this, I probably won't have time to do this again. It'll be up to you to continue producing them during the war.'

The Favoured Alchemy Sky God's lip twitched, what was this brat talking about. Since when did she have to observe others to concoct? There were probably many top tier Dao Lord alchemists who weren't a match for her in this regard. Also, was she someone who could just be casually commanded around like this?

Unless...

The Favor Alchemy Sky God's pretty eyes widened.

A untamed aura came from Ryu as pillars plumed of fire and water qi began to surge in from the surroundings.

A smirk spread across his lips, the thundering heavens above seemingly reacting before he had even begun.

That was right. He was going to forge a new pill.