Chapter 173 - The Calm Before the Storm (2/2)

If one were to stand perched on the highest peak and lower their gaze upon the scene before theholds were like tiny spots that surrounded the focal seventh prilow of a protective array forainst the invasion of Beast Tides, the uarding against array forardless of where the Beast Tide sprung froy from the array formation attacks that they conjured would be dispersed across the various thened the stability of the protective array forhold became a potential breach point in the eyes of the hold was equipped with its own Fire God Cannons Though the nuholds, they still numbered in the hundreds In addition, there was also a teleportation formation, so backup could be sent or received in a holds under the seventh priether, they formed the Federation’s Seventh Imperial Gate They were like an impenetrable wall that had stood the test of countless Beast Tides to this day, prevailing at the end of each battle

The flying cruiser descended and landed in the stronghold wang Baole and his friends e beard, and eased themselves into the crowd

In the blink of an eye, three days passed

During these three days, wang Baole barely had any ti’s lead and inspected a portion of the Fire God Cannons

Many disciples froned to this hold Combat cultivators counted for the majority, but a number of Alchemy and Array Formation cultivators, as well as cultivators from other disciplines, were also present

Everyone had their own task Dharmic Armament cultivators tasked with the repair and restoration of Fire God Cannons, including wang Baole’s group, numbered at a dozen or more All of them spread out to repair the cannons; only thirty cannons fell under the care of wang Baole’s group

It was a low nureat co Baole studied and inspected the machines ceaselessly; he had been bloay by the cannon’s structure right from the start

Every Fire God Cannon had been constructed from more than a hundred Numinous Treasures Each Numinous Treasure formed one part of the machine When the Fire God Cannon was activated, its poas more than the sum of all the Numinous Treasures combined

It was precisely because of such coe when things rong The warriors were not qualified to repair Nuhai, and Sun Fang could only serve as assistants; the pri

wang Baole was already capable of crafting Nu these three days’ study, his understanding of the co even Chen Yutong The latter eventually grew confident enough to let wang Baole go about the repair work independently This lessened the team’s workload substantially

Such busy work continued for a week Only after they had inspected all Fire God Cannons, as well as repaired and replaced the necessary parts, did wang Baole’s team have time to take a breather

At this point, their mission was almost halfway to completion What re the Beast Tides

During the tie part of his es Zhou Penghai eagerly followed suit, while Sun Fang got friendly with theBaole was the only one who took a greater liking to the warriors instead of the ar the course of the week, on many occasions, he found that many of the warriors were at the Ancient Martial realm They were obviously not his match, but when they looked at him, their eyes were filled with ad to be protected but to protect wang Baole, or to beBaole!

wang Baole’s repeated encounters with such a protective streak left hi a cultivator, these Ancient Martial real him

In their eyes, cultivators were few and rare; they symbolized hope; they were to be protected at all costs!

Cultivators who could create and restore Fire God Cannons all the radually ca stirred within hie, the battle scars many of them carried, and the marks left on their Dhares and repair

As he was cultivating in the Dao college, these people were engaging in life-or-death battles with ave their blood and life in exchange for tithen and a more peaceful life for the common folk

This hy as the work slowed doang Baole chose to approach these warriors and, to the best of his ability, repaired and treated the flaws on Dharradually led to his fostering a faot faot his position as a cultivator He was different when he was in the company of the warriors

“Come, as it who said that I won’t be able to beat hi? Let’s put that to the test today Loser washes the socks for everybody!” At the open square, outside barracks that housed a hundred odd warriors, laughter and cheering rang out loudly Sat there ang Baole He sla ly