AST 1584 - 100 Black Scales Mermen Slayers, Betrayal, Sunset Palace’s Arrival (1/2)

Qing Shui had accumulated a lot of medicinal pills and they were enough for the hundred people here. Moreover, these kinds of pills weren’t worth much to him, but they were regarded as immortal pills by these Mermen.

Even immortal pills couldn’t promise them instant success. Qing Shui took out a few Bloodline pills which had been reinforced with crystal and other things. There were also a lot of Bone Strengthening Pills and Constitution Nurturing Pills.

There were only a few Yang Pills left, which were given to some of the outstanding talents. Qing Shui had kept enough for Yiye Jiange and Muyun Qingge as well.

In these two days, a huge transformation occurred in the strength of these Black Scales Mermen. Two of them had directly broken through to the Elementary False God Stage by using the Bloodline Pills effect complementing their aptitudes.

This was a huge hope and boon for the Black Scales Mermen. Even Muyun Qingge also didn’t expect this to happen. She looked at the transformed Black Scales Mermen with amazement. Normally, it’d have taken some hundred years to reach this stage.

A period of a hundred years wasn’t a long duration to Beastmen, but Muyun Qingge couldn’t wait that long. A lot could happen in some hundred years, as time changed everything.

Although she was amazed, Muyun Qingge could accept this because she had personally experienced it while getting treated from the poison. Her strength as well as Yiye Jiange’s strength had experienced a huge breakthrough and Qing Shui’s strength had also increased greatly.

Muyun Qingge convened all the members and let them take a look at the Five Elements Formation. After explaining it, the training began. If there were any mistakes, Qing Shui was here to rectify them.

Beastmen weren’t that talented with formations, but they possessed powerful physical bodies. This was also a kind of balance. Though they weren’t talented, it didn’t mean they didn’t know the terribleness of formations. They had vast losses while fighting with humans due to these formations which caused their original strength to drop.

Hence, the Beastmen began to thirst for formations.

The Black Scales Mermen were pretty strong, but their talent for formations was hopeless. Their ability to learn formations was terrible. As for Drakaina, they were heaven’s pets, so they were stronger in this regard than the Black Scales Mermen.

Though the pace was slow, Qing Shui was there to directly divide up the positions and explain the theory they didn’t understand. He directly gave them instructions and each did as commanded. Although this would reduce the flexibility of the formation, the speed would undoubtedly increase.

The core was the most important part in the formation. It and some of the more important positions were held by the False God stage experts. They could cover for each other and keep the formation stable.

They eventually succeeded with great difficulty in using the formation as all things were difficult in the beginning. After that, they began to familiarize themselves with the formation and the speed with which they grasped the formation became faster.

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Qing Shui began to rush into the formation and instructed them on how to act. He naturally didn’t kill or injure anyone. He matched along with them and instructed then when they should attack and which position they should stand in. For a few of them, he explained about the best timing to attack and when it could result in a one-hit kill…

Teaching the theory of formations to Beastmen was like trying to straighten a dog’s tail. However, a lot of potential could be exploited if they were instructed on how to match with each other and how exactly they should act.

This was also the reason that there was oftentimes the shadow of humanity within Beastmen. These humans were mostly Formation Masters. Only with formations could the Beastmen’s strength be displayed perfectly.

The Five Elements Formation had many forms. The most important aspect was directing the five elements. The attacks were of all the five elemental types and could restrain the enemy’s attack by responding with the counteracting elemental type.

Five Elements Protection. It can use the five elements to resist the enemy’s attack by using the restraining elemental type. This would diminish the enemy’s offense by a lot. All formations have the ability to increase offensive as well as defensive ability. There was just a difference in the amount by which it increased. The Five Elements Formation’s most core function was the five elements suppression.

Qing Shui wanted them to familiarize themselves with the compatibility between the five elements and make them understand which element each was in-charge of. After understanding the restraining principles of the five elements, they’d have to clearly judge the enemy’s elemental affinity or else they’d make a joke out of themselves.

It was easy to judge the elements like fire and water but some were difficult to judge. There were even some with dual attributes. It was also rumoured that there were more than five elements, which was before even considering the fusion of five elements. Qing Shui began to explain all about it.

Time passed by slowly; the progress of these Black Scales Mermen was quite fast. Qing Shui felt success looking at their progress. These people were the guards of Muyun Qingge and Yiye Jiange. A name was already designated.

The Hundred Slayers!

They were the Hundred Slayers Regiment.

Qing Shui knew that it wasn’t possible to increase their strength to the summit in such a short term. Even he also didn’t have the ability to do so. However, it was quite unimaginable for them to even expect such an increase in their strength in the past few days.

Qing Shui wanted to exploit their entire strength right now by forcing all of it out with a formation. He possessed the Great Strength Increment cultivation art which was quite suitable for the Black Scales Mermen.

Great Strength Increment was a type of body refinement. Although it wasn’t a very mysterious martial skill, Qing Shui knew that it was suitable for the Black Scales Mermen tribe and wasn’t weaker than other cultivation arts once it was practiced to the peak.