1323 Rapid Progress (1/2)
Gu Yan'er smiled and her appearance changed slowly, saying, ”Yan'er greets Senior Brother Mu. Senior Brother promised to gift me the Luminous Seven-color Butterfly to Yan'er then, but you haven't given it to me until now…”
”Huh?” Apotheon Mu's eyes widened and he looked incredulously at Gu Yan'er. ”You're Little Yan'er? You… You… Didn't you…”
”Senior Brother Mu, I was trapped in a desperate situation in the Immortal World back then. After a long time of cultivation, I was finally able to break the seals and rushed out of that place. In fact, I also have another identity that I'm sure Senior Brother has heard of.”
”Which identity is it?” asked Apotheon Mu.
”Immortal Rakshasi Monarch.” Gu Yan'er chuckled slightly.
Apotheon Mu's eyes slightly contracted and disbelief overflowed in his eyes as he exclaimed in astonishment, ”You turned out to be that notoriously famous Rakshashi Monarch who has shaken the entire Immortal World? Heavens! Back then, your existence became the talk of countless powerful people in the Immortal World. Your name reached even my ears in my seclusion!”
”Well, everything I did was for Master. Regardless of the process, I eventually found Master,” Gu Yan'er said with a smile.
”Both of you being able to meet each other again is really a happy event.” Tang Xiu slightly smiled. ”Anyway, you will be in charge of the Heavenly Abode, Yan'er. After you've released all the Great Tang Empire's people outside, take all the Monster Immortals with Mu to clean up the Misty Spring Ocean. Later on, the Misty Spring Ocean will be the stronghold of the Great Tang Empire. We will use this region as the center for the campaign to rescue your Martial Brothers and Sisters as well as to expand our territory to all directions.”
Gu Yan'er firmly nodded and said, ”I understand, Master.”
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The Repose Cliff was a wonderful blessed land with rich immortal spiritual force. The mist here contained rich liquid immortal force, and just taking one breath here was able to shake and lift one's spirit. Further, the eight Immortal Veins gathered in this place and anyone who cultivated here could extract the rich spiritual force of this land's vein and absorb it into their body continuously to enhance their cultivation speed.
Two months later.
Apotheon Mu and Gu Yan'er teamed up to lead a large number of the Great Tang Empire's Monster Immortals as well as a number of loyal experts under Apotheon Mu to carry out a frantic clean-up campaign in the entire Misty Spring Ocean. In just 2 months, hundreds of thousands of immortals who were not loyal to Apotheon Mu throughout the Misty Spring Ocean were massacred, including some intel operatives from other forces.
The most important move was that all the experts at the Golden Immortal Stage in the Misty Spring Ocean were nowhere to be seen aside from those groomed by Apotheon Mu. The number of Celestial Immortals and Profound Immortals in the region had also become scarce. The only remaining tens of thousands of ordinary Immortals in the region were now responsible for the safety duty of the entire Misty Spring Ocean.
During this time, Gu Yan'er and Apotheon Mu teamed up to manage the four major legions of the Great Tang Empire and recruited the remaining tens of thousands of Immortals into four new major legions. At the same time, they also recruited and absorbed hundreds of thousands of warriors at the Great Ascension Stage and Crossing Tribulation Stage to form a new Dragon Army, Tiger Army, Phoenix Army, and Martial Army, with each legion consisting of 100,000 people, a total of 400,000 strong.
These 400,000 soldiers were stationed in eight directions around the Misty Spring Island, with each direction guarded by 50,000 people. Tang Xiu gave Gu Yan'er and Tang Min 5 million Crystal Essences to be exchanged into Immortal Crystals by the Ministry of Finance. A total of 500 million Immortal Crystals were then prepared to be used as military expenses.
Subsequently, the Ministry of Finance formed 8 logistics teams that continuously sent massive cultivation resources to the eight branches of the four major legions, where they were distributed to all members. Due to receiving such a huge amount of cultivation resources, the nearly 200,000 immortal warriors who were originally loyal to Apotheon Mu all accepted to be incorporated into the Great Tang Empire as soldiers. Both sides were now devoting themselves to cultivation wholeheartedly and began to blend and get along with each other and gradually merged into one.
The fourth month.
On the edge of Repose Cliff, Tang Xiu sat cross-legged as an enormous aura suddenly burst out from him. The hundreds of thousands of celestial bodies in the cosmic space in his body suddenly shook at the same time, while a mysterious yellow aura gradually formed and finally merged with the Primal Chaos energy.
Tang Xiu clearly sensed that the scope of the cosmic space in his body had expanded a lot and countless minuscule small planets also appeared. The Heavenly Path Universe Tree suddenly grew sharply to tens of thousands of meters high with lush and verdant leaves while exuding endless lifeforce from its trunk that merged into some huge planets.
”The progress is very rapid.”
The moment Tang Xiu opened his eyes, a satisfied look could be seen overflowing in them. He was just a step away from breaking through the third major stage of the Heavenly Art of Cosmic Genesis. His strength was now comparable to a Golden Immortal. Reaching this realm within such a short time was mainly due to his comprehension and perception of his previous cultivation realm. At the same, the people Apotheon Mu sent had also gathered the medicinal ingredients enough for him to successfully refine 4 Demon Dragon Pills, all of which were taken by him completely.
Buzz…
Amidst the dusky world, a terrifying aura suddenly formed above Tang Xiu. He was the only person who could sense this fearsome aura. Even Gu Yan'er, who was quietly reading an array manual from Tang Xiu, wasn't able to sense it.
”Another divine ability? Fusion?”