LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 401: The First Step of the Bloody Battle
On Azure Star, the military symbolizes the most advanced culture and technology.
Then, in the Cultivation World, can the cultivators afford to be complacent?
That's impossible. Each generation improves, innovates, seeks flaws, and then perfects even further.
Or, they measure themselves against the combat strength of their opponents.
Instant communication keeps everyone well-informed, and more and more powers are heading towards Wanbao City.
There are enormous entities like the Four Great Sects, various combinations of small and medium sects, and even mercenary squads composed of dozens of people, who also want to know how they can survive under such circumstances.
Or how they might die a warrior's death.
Isn't it just a big exercise? Isn't it just dying once? What's wrong with that!
The first casualty on the battlefield was Meng Yu.
Greeting Meng Yu was a critical hit gathered by thirteen leaders including True Monarch Yu Xia, a total of one thousand six hundred twenty-three people.
Boom!
Then, came the several hundreds or thousands under Meng Yu's command.
In this single critical strike, twenty-five individuals died, but the deaths of Meng Yu and others bought time for those who survived.
The combined force of True Monarch Yu Xia and one thousand six hundred twenty-three others was the flaw.
The Blood Knife Legion from Blood God Town made its first appearance before everyone.
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Half an hour before taking action.
Offline.
Chen Lianshan glanced at the announcement from the Four Great Sects on the Ascension List.
Anyone who joins the Blood Transmutation Divine Saber (Blood God Sect) can be directly promoted to Formal Disciple!
Similarly, other small and medium sects also have similar recruitment announcements.
The competition on the Ascension List is a major screening tool used to filter out the best cultivators from countless others.
There were numerous examples of individuals leaping through the Dragon Gate here, just exhibit a certain trait here and you can ascend to heaven, and if you truly have talent, like the White Crane Swordsmanship or the Blood Transmutation Divine Saber, especially the latter's Divine Refinement method, it is a glittering prize.
Chen Lianshan knew of someone who had mastered the Blood Transmutation Divine Saber, originally unnoticed in his family, but after his accomplishment, he immediately became a hot commodity!
The Blood Transmutation Divine Saber is not an evil path!
It is the most authentic Cultivation Technique!
Regrettably, Chen Lianshan did not have such a talent; although he benefited tremendously from practicing the Blood Transmutation Divine Saber, including integrating its methods of refining the Divine Soul and managing breath with saber techniques into his own Cultivation Technique, he was always just a bit short of breaking through.
However, he was already very satisfied.
He glanced at the Treasure Pouch next to him, which contained several dozen spirit stones, the reward given by Meng Yu.
"Thank you, Meng Yu!"
He thought to himself.
Ten thousand cultivators, each had some.
To unite people, you must first give money.
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The day before departure.
When Meng Yu met with the three leaders of the Fox Clan, he made a request, asking them to facilitate certain cultivators of the Blood God Sect offline.
Discount codes, storage services, financial services.
For the cultivators of the Blood God Sect, Meng Yu didn't need everyone to defect to his side or listen to their tales of deep-seated vendettas, nor did he think about acting heroically, but he used the Little White Rabbit News system to distribute money directly to everyone joining him in the campaign.
"Everyone, I am going to cause some trouble for the Myriad Gold Pavilion. Thank you all for accompanying me on this campaign, I can't let everyone work for free. Please accept this drink money as a token."
Each person didn't receive much, just a hundred spirit stones for merely starting the journey, Meng Yu handed out a total of one million spirit stones.
Then, there were the expenses on the road and organization.
...
Six days before departure.
While meeting with the three-tailed Fox Clan, caravans with vast amounts of supplies had already passed through the Teleportation Portal to trade in further places. These supplies, such as Spirit Rice and Array Plates, are substantial assets, then handling transactions with different commerce guilds.
The battle at Blood God Town had been prepared long in advance.
Meng Yu was willing to pay.
There is a movie called 'Ready Player One', where the protagonist confronts a large corporation, and countless unknown players respond to his call, deploying hundreds of thousands or even unique weapons for a good cause, all for the protagonist's spirited speech.
Meng Yu didn't think he had such charisma, he chose a more reliable method, giving money.
The cultivators' weapons came online through purchased money, and although their Divine Souls might be damaged and unable to participate online shortly after falling in battle, Meng Yu wouldn't underwrite everything but was willing to spend money to show his intentions.
It was merely a three hundred to one exchange of materials, Meng Yu couldn't produce so many spirit stones, but the materials prepared and brought from the Immortal Sect and Blood God Sect were enough!
...
"I've died in battle once again!"
Golden Fox shook its supple fur and with sharp claws, tore three disciples of the Taiyi Sect to shreds!
Belonging to the metal attribute among the Five Elements, each member of the Golden Fox Clan is sharp-tongued and excels in close combat, now leading its followers in a Thousand-Blade Mountain Array, reaping lives.
On July 3, Meng Yu led ten thousand warriors of the Blood God Sect to Wanbao City, unfolding a bloody battle.
It was a genuine clash, Meng Yu's Blood Transmutation Divine Saber displayed unprecedented power.
A Blood Blade streaking across the battlefield repeatedly slew the enemy; Meng Yu was killed time and again, but the saber intent of the Blood Transmutation Divine Saber only grew stronger on the battlefield.
Meng Yu wouldn't die, the saber light wouldn't die, the charge wouldn't die, ten thousand wouldn't die!
This was a meat grinder, this was a mad battle, countless cultivators entered it, loose cultivators responding to the impregnable defenses of Wanbao City with frenzied tactics, the saber light boiling and singing in the sea of blood.
And for the Fox Clan with seven tails, this time they had thrown their full force into the fight.
Like the Golden Foxes.
Why?
Because Bai Hu daringly made a bet, solemnly intimating to everyone that it wasn't begging them but providing them an opportunity.
If the Four Great Sects declared an open invitation to join the battle for mutual sparring without holding grudges afterward, then it was a good chance to hone the disciples' combat strength.
And...because Meng Yu was really giving out money!
The five thousand warriors of the Golden Fox Clan were actually fighting while receiving subsidies from Meng Yu!
Spirit Stones were wonderful, and the attitude was great.
An inspirational slogan might stir up passion, but without money or supplies, you'd starve; the Fox Clan's seven tails had wholly thrown themselves into the battle, all thanks to Boss Meng's generosity!
Then, when you find a generous boss who is quite decent, wouldn't you work diligently for him, possibly needing his help someday?
A millennium ago, the Fox Clan was renowned as having thirteen tails!
Without the Fox Clan's Royal Court and the Demon Race's Imperial Court, life was getting harder for everyone.
From such battles of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, one simply cannot be absent!
...
The hurricane brushed Meng Yu's body, numerous ice spears coming from all directions; this was the Wind Frost Sword Array of True Monarch Yu Xia and others.
Three different forces, one rigid, one flexible, one tranquil, then formed a delicate balance, a triangular structure—the most stable of all; the Three Talents Formation—the most versatile of arrays, disciples of the Taiyi Sect tightly blocked before Meng Yu.
Meng Yu was formidable, the combined strength of ten disciples merely couldn't deter him, but what about a hundred disciples, or five hundred?
What Meng Yu saw was another sect's disciples forming the Nine Palaces Sword Formation!
The battle was insane, Meng Yu endlessly encountering different arrays, his companions falling in battle only to reform time and again.
Occasionally, warriors would comprehend the Blood Transmutation Divine Saber, occasionally teams of cultivators would form various stances, likewise, disciples from other sects also comprehended various true meanings amidst combat.
Meng Yu could no longer count how many times he had died, but he felt extraordinarily good!
He had done all he could outside the arena, a mob that wanted to combat the Myriad Gold Pavilion and the Four Great Sects—he couldn't imagine how much money he had spent.
It was an incredibly, incredibly unprofitable expense, like someone spending tens of millions to become the top player in an online game; the money Meng Yu spent this time was enough to make countless people gasp in awe!
But, it was worth it!
Like when he was a Heavenly Destiny Child during his Foundation Establishment, the earned Spirit Stones were for future cultivation.
And moreover, Meng Yu didn't need to provide Spirit Stones, the collateral was painstakingly brought from Immortal Sect Blood God Sect, like Spirit Rice, Spiritual Wine, Array Plates, Alchemical Elixirs, etc., a three hundred to one balance, he had spent three billion Spirit Stones here, equivalent to spending one million at the Immortal Sect—this comparison was worth it!
To have big money and fame, when one is willing to throw billions in a virtual game, everyone in reality wants to make money off him, even those shady characters have to consider the terror of such a person.
"Nicely done!"
Passing by a fellow cultivator from one of the Four Great Sects, a swordsman with Foundation Establishment Cultivation gleefully engaged in combat amidst the chaotic scene.
The stage was set!
Blood Transmutation Divine Saber was to improve drastically in battle, only amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood could the essence be achieved.
The purpose of cultivation was to align with the Heavenly Dao and resonate with it but...today, another potential emerged.
The Blood Heavenly Dao!
More than three hundred thousand cultivators participated in the battle, saber light and sword shadows covered the skies, the battle stretched from the ground to the skies, from individuals to groups, bloody rain falling was a minor detail, various corpses dropping down like raindrops, Hell coming to life vividly!
Even the strongest warriors could perish at any moment; even spellcasters were not immune, danger was everywhere.
If the cultivators of the Blood God Sect came across the Ascension List, they would definitely declare, this is the true Ascension List!
The paradise of the Blood Heavenly Dao.
To comprehend the Blood Transmutation Divine Saber and related ultimate techniques, one must experience the great terror of life and death.
In reality, whether it be the Blood Transmutation Divine Saber or the Blood River Great Array, how could so many willing and successive participants gather?
Those leaders bravely fought to death, cultivators disregarding personal safety, endless flesh and blood building a towering gateway to heaven, and the flickering saber light was the thunder filling the skies!
The millennium grand ceremony of the Blood God Sect, the spectacle of countless cultivators competing fiercely, was merely child's play in this battle.
Only during a storm, only when blood rains from the sky, can the true Blood Heavenly Dao be nurtured!
It was at this moment, an anomaly occurred!