Chapter 357 (1/2)
Chapter 357: The War Inches Closer
Translator: Radiant Translations Editor: Radiant Translations
Xue Ying investigated the detailed strategic plan and could not help but nod. His two seniors had made sufficient preparations in the aspects of assault, defense, and even escape.
“Your preparations might be more than enough,;your opponents are a Great Demonic God at the stage two realm, as well as the Sorcerer God, who is the Lord of a mortal world. Their wealth is likely not one bit worse than ours,” Ge Bai said. “Furthermore, they can select all sorts of war weapons from the Deity world to send down. This is not a war you can say you have any certainty of winning. The only thing I can say is that the possibility exists.”
“I understand.” Xue Ying nodded.
“The best case scenario would be you succeeding in destroying the spatial passage,” the thick-robed youngster began. “If you lose, however, you must make sure to retreat to the Infernal World as soon as possible! The Infernal World will be re-constructed to be more stable according to our arrangements, so they will find it impossible to break through! In that situation, your Xia Clan can stay in the Infernal World to gather strength, while you would return to Crimson Rock Mountain to continue cultivating. You would have to do your best to reach the peak of the Deity stage in terms of your comprehension and then refine the World Heart.
“Should you fail to refine it, you can either remain inside Crimson Rock Mountain forever or go to the Deity world. Either way, you won’t ever be able to return to the Xia Clan world.
“The Xia Clan world was already quite lucky to bring forth a genius Transcendent like you. It’s very unlikely for another such spectacular talent to appear in the Infernal World, or rather, they would not have much chance to become a Deity. After all, such a genius would still be forever trapped in the Infernal World,” the thick-robed teenager cleared up.
Xue Ying nodded.
He was already clear on the fact that failure would result in him being trapped. If that were to be realized, the only other way for him to succeed was to refine the World Heart.
“To refine World Heart in your ten thousand year-long lifespan would be really hard,” He Fei Yun took over. “On top of that, the requirement in terms of your comprehension—reaching the peak of the Deity realm, or even to be a half-step World Deity—are quite harsh. Unless you meet those, you would have no hope of refining the World Heart. That is exactly why it is so rare for a Lord of a mortal world to appear. Your talent might be good, but it is hard to say if you would really succeed in refining the World Heart within ten thousand years.”
“I understand. It would still be best for me to attain victory in this war by destroying that spatial passage.” Xue Ying smiled. He then added, “I’ve already succeeded in cultivating the “Great Chaotic True Force”, so it’ll be difficult for me to further increase my strength. If so, why wait for the Sorcerer God and the Great Demonic God to begin the war? It might be a better idea to begin the war right now and hold the initiative.”
“In other words, I want to attack the Oceanic Forest World and destroy their castle. Seniors, do you think I would have any chance of success if I were to proceed with this idea?”
The castle within the Oceanic Forest World most likely contained the fleshy bodies of the Great Demonic God avatar and Sorcerer God’s avatar! On top of that, they would likely have a space passageway built there in preparation for the war.
If he managed to destroy them, the war would already be over!
“You’re overthinking it.” Ge Bai shook his head. “Once you fortify the Infernal World, they will no longer be able to destroy it. In the same vein of though, you can put the matter of laying siege on their Oceanic Forest world to rest.”
He Fei Yun stepped in to explain, “The Oceanic Forest world will certainly have been refined using a Space Deity treasure, which has likely already merged to become a single entity with that castle. Since the Oceanic Forest World is also attached to the Xia Clan world, any attack on the Oceanic Forest world will be weakened by the Deity treasure, causing it to dissipate throughout the entire Xia Clan world. Unless you have the strength to directly destroy that Transcendent world directly or even the entire mortal world, you’ll find it impossible to shake that castle.”
“Ai.” Xue Ying felt his head ache.
He knew that it would not be so simple.
“Then, is it perhaps possible for my Xia Clan to cultivate Deity avatars for you two seniors, as World Deities, to come and help?” Xue Ying could not help but ask.
“If that were possible, we’d have been terribly happy to do so. We’ve been locked here for far too long.” The thick-robed teenager shook his head. “But refining an appropriate Deity avatar would take too long a time in the Xia Clan world and would have to be done using the fleshy body of a native of your Xia Clan. Only that way would it be pampered and protected by the World Heart. The earliest we could descend, even if you were to rush to refine them, would still be at least a hundred years from now. By then, it would simply be too late.”
Xue Ying shook his head.
There was no hope in laying siege on the Oceanic Forest World!
And there was not enough time to refine Deity avatars of their own!
“I have heard of the existence of a way to cultivate avatars,” Xue Ying began, “but despite having been on Crimson Dust Island for so long, even becoming an inner disciple, I’ve never heard of such techniques…”
He had been told about the method to cultivate Avatars by the Temporal Temple.
“It exists.” The thick-robed teenager nodded.
“Then is it possible for me to practice this technique? With it, I’d be able to have both my true body and my avatar during the war. That would increase the overall combat power for my side,” Xue Ying followed up.