Chapter 724: Soldier Of War, Praised

Chapter 724: Soldier Of War, Praised

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The figure that stood on scorched land, beneath the incinerated clouds and hot air was other than Wei Wuyin.

"Tactics and planning are irreplaceable in cultivation," Wei Wuyin softly stated to no one in particular. Those words, however, resonated deeply with himself. With sufficient understanding of your opponent, sufficient understanding of your own limits, there was no battle that was unwinnable. Even against an Ascended top-tier talent, they could still be led to their deaths through a mixture of psychological and spontaneous warfare.

From the very moment Wei Wuyin read Jing Jiu's mind, learnt of Cai Liuyang's personality, her extreme level of excessive protectiveness despite her reluctance to serve as a detriment or crutch to Jing Jiu's path, he knew that his true opponent was her. However, to face a Demi-Mortal Lord, no matter how restricted, was quite a distressing scenario.

A single mistake and his death was all but determined. There would be no amount of lifeforce or trickery that would save him. Just a single mistake and he would be permanently finished before the Calamities of Hell could even make their attempt to cleanse him.

Truthfully, Wei Wuyin felt invigorated and a tinge of excitement from this development. It wasn't just him, both King and Kratos were fiercely aggressive in their elation. It was as if they were unaware that his death was a single misstep away.

He had to exert all of his power, King, Kratos, Ori, and Eden to truly claim the only path of victory. It wasn't enough to use all of his fire-attribute pellets, from the seventh-grade to ninth-grade at once that he'd concocted in the last six years, he needed to catch a Demi-Mortal Lord completely off-guard, taking them down at their most vulnerable, careless moment.

If he just launched the pellets wildly, while they may suffer severe damage, he felt that there was no way he could take out a Demi-Mortal Lord level cultivator. If they had means similar to Wu Jiao of the Wu Country in the Myriad Yore Continent, capable of seizing the pellets and preventing them from activating, he would be thoroughly screwed.

Every step, every action, from the moment he crushed Jing Jiu's head to when Cai Liuyang released the Void Crystallized Orb, was perfectly calculated according to all the information he had available. Furthermore, he was fully aware that his actions would result in an overwhelming victory for his titan allies. After learning about the War Spirit and the War Souls bestowed, including their uses from Jin Jiu's memories, he had fully concocted a swiftly deployable plan.

However, it helped sell the idea that Wei Wuyin was a specialized cultivator sent to extract Jing Jiu's Soul. After all, spiritual energy was the closest thing to the soul. Proving his adeptness sold his story further.

Wei Wuyin spoke from the heart: "You all did amazing, every last one of you. Ori's acting was astonishing; King's power was incredible; Kratos, your concealment was key, without it of this worked; Eden..."

"Mm." Eden needed nothing else, relaying that it knew all that Wei Wuyin wanted to say and more. Wei Wuyin could feel the roots settled into his Sea of Consciousness shake with joy. Regardless of its aloof attitude, it still liked being praised all the same.

Wei Wuyin grinned. He felt blessed. Not for Karmic Luck or becoming a Bloodline of Sin Inheritor, but having the opportunity to once again have a family that would unhesitatingly give their all for each other. Facing Ascended beings, they would stand by his side. Facing Hell, they would stand by his side. Facing gods, they would stand by his side.

Could a man want anything more?

Wei Wuyin enjoyed this feeling as he stood in the midst of scorched earth, feeling comfortable and relaxed. With all the Ascended beings distracted and all the enemies cleared for so far, he was perfectly safe. After a few minutes of this, he started to make his way back to his remaining squad members. He was a Squad Leader, after all.

"The Battlefield lasts for just twelve hours, such a short period of time. However, I didn't expect the sheer scope of the Battlefield to be like this. Is it really that large? To span across hundreds of thousands of miles, divided into nine zones of war." Wei Wuyin still had his eyes closed, unable to view the horizon yet the bloody expanse of numerous battlefields echoed in his thoughts. While his spiritual energy was almost entirely exhausted earlier, the issue was never his spiritual energy, but the Spiritual Strength of his Astral Souls.

At the moment, all except Ori was sealed. Even still, it exceeded his limit. That limit was even further pushed than when Kratos was the leading Astral Soul. Ori's 'Divine' aspect was not for show. All things spiritual, be it pressure, energy reserves, strength, aura, or sense was several times that of non-divine astral souls of the same type and foundation. King was the same.

However, at the moment, Ori's wood origin astral force was thoroughly working to repair his muscle fibers, meridians, and fractured bones from the damage of unleashing his spiritual sense. In a way, he was nearly crippled physically. He tried to use the Mark of Eden earlier, but when he unleashed a strand of lifeforce, it was sucked away by a strange power and vanished entirely.

It was likely due to the lifeforce being pure, unrefined life energy. The act of producing War Souls conflicted with it, so after testing it, he decided against trying to force it. He could only use the power that belonged to solely himself, so his ninth-grade pills and elixirs supplemented by Ori's wood origin force will have to do.

"I wonder if that female titan lived," Wei Wuyin asked himself as he walked slowly towards where he roughly remembered the former location of his cataclysmic fall... He added with a faint smile, "I hope she did; she had a courageous heart."