Longevity: Starting with an infant's innate growth potential

Inside the main hall of Dinghuo Immortal City stronghold.

Zhou Ling sat in the main seat, while the other dozen or so Nascent Soul cultivators sat on either side.

This includes Lord He and others.

"Chief Zhou, should we continue pursuing the alien races of the Star Sea?"

Lord He bowed to Zhou Ling and asked.

After a day of fierce fighting, the alien army of the Star Sea was completely defeated.

Both of the ancient leaders were severely injured.

However, they failed at the last minute; he and the city lord were unable to kill the two of them as Zhou Ling had done.

Moreover, the ancient city lord expended a great deal of energy, and after destroying the ancient mirror, he immediately went into seclusion to recover within the stronghold.

He handed over command of the entire army to Zhou Ling.

"The remaining members of the Starsea alien race have already fled tens of thousands of miles away, so continuing to pursue them will not be very effective."

"Moreover, the alien army in the Star Sea suffered heavy casualties this time, and for a long time to come, they will definitely not dare to easily invade our Dao Alliance."

Zhou Ling shook his head.

He then turned his gaze to Pei Qingshuang beside him and said, "Commander Pei, could you give everyone a briefing on the battle situation?"

"Yes, take the head."

Pei Qingshuang cupped her hands in reply.

Then a jade book appeared in his hand, and he glanced at everyone before saying solemnly, "In this battle, we killed a total of seven fifth-tier Star Sea aliens."

"Among them is a late-stage fifth-tier commander, a mid-stage fifth-tier commander, and five early-stage fifth-tier commanders."

"One hundred and eleven fourth-tier Star Sea aliens were killed."

"Four thousand six hundred and thirty other alien races from the Star Sea."

"Our human race suffered casualties, including two early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators, eighteen Core Formation cultivators, and more than four hundred other cultivators."

As she spoke, Pei Qingshuang's voice choked slightly.

Although the human race achieved a great victory over the alien races in this battle, they also suffered considerable losses.

"This time, the alien army of the Star Sea numbered more than 7,000. We killed most of them and many others were injured. I believe they will not recover for at least a hundred years."

Zhou Ling continued.

The ferocity of this battle exceeded his expectations.

The alien race of the Star Sea possesses astonishing strength.

Even if he did his best to quickly kill Gu Lie and two other fifth-tier Star Sea aliens.

The left flank army completely overwhelmed the enemy, and in the end, all three armies still suffered considerable casualties.

Of course, this casualty rate is a complete victory compared to that of the alien races in the Star Sea.

After all, the casualties were already ten to one.

Without the assistance of the Seven Star Sword Formation, this would be an extremely difficult task.

Upon hearing Zhou Ling's words, everyone's faces lit up with excitement.

Most of those present were long-term garrison members of the Sword Qi Great Wall and knew the terrifying combat power of the alien races in the Star Sea.

In the past, battles were fought without the aid of sword formations.

The casualty rate of human cultivators is more than twice that of alien races in the Star Sea.

The main reason we were able to achieve this result was that Zhou Ling unexpectedly killed Gu Lie.

This allowed the human side to quickly gain the upper hand, resulting in such a record.

Therefore, it can be said that the foundation of this battle was laid by Zhou Ling.

Otherwise, the casualties would be unimaginable.

"Chief Zhou, what are the next steps?"

Lord He cupped his hands in greeting and inquired.

Now, he is the one with the highest cultivation level in the main hall.

However, he also highly approves of Zhou Ling.

He had no objection to Zhou Ling making the decision.

"Now that the threat from the alien races in the Star Sea has been eliminated in the short term, the construction of the Star Ring should be accelerated."

"If the star ring had already been built, the casualties wouldn't have been this severe."

"In addition, all cultivators who participated in this battle will have their military merits doubled."

Zhou Ling said seriously.

Of course, he himself was the one who made the most contributions this time.

Just killing Gu Lie would earn tens of thousands of military merits.

Afterwards, Zhou Ling discussed the matter of covering the rear with the others.

Three Nascent Soul cultivators were left behind to assist Zhou Ling in the Star Ring.

The other Nascent Soul cultivators led their soldiers back to the Immortal City.

In addition, more personnel need to be deployed to the construction of the Star Ring, and efforts should be made to complete it as soon as possible.

Based on the original one month for each stronghold, with eight strongholds remaining, it will take about seven or eight months.

As for the military merit rewards, Zhou Ling left it to Pei Qingshuang and others to handle.

Although the battle was a great victory, many soldiers from both the Star Breaker Battalion and the Personal Guard Battalion were injured.

This includes Feng Lan, He Zijian, and Zhang Yuhu.

Feng Lan is quite strong, but she has to consider the overall situation, which makes her the target of the alien races in the Star Sea, resulting in her injury.

He Zijian, on the other hand, lacked cultivation and experience. With his early Golden Core cultivation, he was clearly overwhelmed in leading a team of several hundred people.

Fortunately, Zhou Ling had two Blood Thunder Crows assist him.

But the injury was quite serious.

As for Zhang Yuhu, he led his team to charge into battle, bearing the brunt of the attack, and it was inevitable that he would get injured.

On the contrary, Qi Jianzhi was completely unharmed, and among the group, he had made the most contributions.

But all of this was worth it.

After this battle, they finally gained true control over the two military camps and earned the recognition of the cultivator armies of both camps.

As for Zhou Ling, needless to say, he single-handedly defeated the fifth-tier leader of the alien race in the Star Sea.

With such terrifying strength, who would dare to disobey?

Even those Zixiao Sect cultivators who had ulterior motives became obedient.

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Half a month passed quickly.

Dinghuo Immortal City, inside a cultivation room.

"This is an ancestral artifact of the alien race in the Star Sea. It is actually a fifth-grade top-quality bone artifact, containing a spatial divine power domain."

"No wonder its power is so terrifying. It can not only condense a spatial domain, but also directly teleport an army of cultivators into the turbulent sea of ​​stars."

Zhou Ling held a piece of blood bone in his hand and examined it carefully with the help of [Advanced Observation].

In the past few days, his cultivation level has been fully restored.

The five spiritual flames have also recovered most of their strength.

He immediately refined the bone ring he had acquired and planned to take inventory of the items.

Fortunately, I possess the Five Elements Spiritual Flame Divine Power, which allows me to lock down this world and suppress this spatial divine power.

Otherwise, if it were to activate its spatial supernatural domain and teleport the army, that would be far too dangerous.

With the help of [Advanced Observation] and [Advanced Analysis], Zhou Ling was able to more clearly perceive the terror of this spatial ancestral artifact.

However, refining it is not so easy.

Of course, Zhou Ling had no intention of refining it.

Gu Lie's physical body is within the Golden Eye.

After a period of refinement, he will become his own soul slave.

Just let him continue to control this ancestral artifact.

Moreover, with this ancestral artifact, plus Gu Lie's marriage puppet, which is comparable to the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, his combat power will be greatly enhanced.

This is undoubtedly the biggest gain from this battle.

Zhou Ling continued sorting through the spoils of war.

"Tsk tsk tsk, there are twelve fifth-tier bone artifacts alone. No wonder he is the Great Leader."

"Who wouldn't envy this wealth?"

"This Fire Scale Blade was actually forged from the skeleton of a fifth-tier Fire Scale Beast and its demon core. It can condense the Fire Scale Beast Demon Domain, and its power is absolutely astonishing."

"And this Black Dragon Bone Artifact is made from the bones of a Black Dragon, infused with its essence and blood. Its power is also considerable."

Zhou Ling looked at the bone artifacts with bright, piercing eyes.

With the help of his two talents, he had an unparalleled understanding of the structure of these bone artifacts.

The crafting of each bone artifact was extremely profound. This led him to originally attempt to combine the inscription and the mystical seal.

Creating a completely new method of weapon crafting seemed to bring about a sudden and entirely new understanding.

However, this insight was vague and he couldn't quite grasp it completely for the time being.

So there's no rush.

I plan to take stock of what I've gained first, and then find time to study it properly.

Moreover, Gu Lie is now his soul slave.

He first learned the method of bone artifact forging through his memories.

If we combine this with further observation, I believe the results will be even better.

After a stick of incense.

Zhou Lingcai finished counting the bone rings of the two fifth-tier Star Sea aliens.

When looking at the contents, Zhou Ling could only think of one phrase: "wealthy enough to rival a nation."

Especially Gu Lie's bone ring, which contained so many items that even Zhou Ling found it hard to believe.

There are over 1,300 top-grade Blood Spirit Stones, over 300 low-grade Blood Spirit Stones, and a whole bunch of other high-grade Blood Spirit Stones, estimated to number in the tens of thousands.

Although Blood Spirit Stones cannot be used by human cultivators.

However, he can use spiritual flames to remove the blood evil from these blood spirit stones.

It just takes a little longer.

Once the cleanup is complete, this will be a huge fortune.

In addition, regarding bone artifacts, there are twelve fifth-tier bone artifacts and eighty-three fourth-tier bone artifacts.

There are a lot of blood medicines, more than a thousand fifth-tier blood medicines and tens of thousands of fourth-tier blood medicines.

The variety of ores is dazzling and countless.

There is also one Tier 5 bone boat and two Tier 4 boats.

In addition to many other treasures, Zhou Ling couldn't possibly take them all in.

We can only wait until later to slowly count them, or have our family count them when we get back.

"There are also blood bone altars here. The power of these fifth-order blood bone altars is no less than that of the fifth-order great formation of the human race."

"Sometimes it can also be used in conjunction with the fifth-tier battle."

Zhou Ling looked at the several sets of bone artifacts used to set up the Blood Bone Altar and thought to himself.

As for the specific value of this gain, Zhou Ling was unable to measure it.

Aside from cultivation techniques, their other resources far exceed those of a Nascent Soul family.

Looking at all these things, Zhou Ling's face was full of joy.

We also gained a completely new understanding of the wealth of the alien races in the Star Sea.

Currently, the Dao Alliance is not strong enough and is still in a defensive posture against the alien races in the Star Sea.

Once the Dao Alliance's strength has increased, he wouldn't mind leading the Star Glory Legion to thoroughly sweep through the alien starfields of the Star Sea.

"Many of these blood-based medicines are also used as materials to assist in the refining of the Nascent Soul Pill and the Divine Transcendence Pill."

"These are hard to find in the Dao Alliance."

These blood-nourishing medicines would be of even greater value to Zhou Ling.

After all, several of his talents are related to elixirs.

Therefore, he could never have too many elixirs.

It can only be said that the more the better.

Zhou Ling then put the items back into his storage ring.

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In the blink of an eye, a month has passed.

The construction of Star Ring Outposts is progressing extremely rapidly, and they have already reached the ninth outpost, Immortal City.

Everything was going very smoothly.

Since the last great war, no trace of the alien races has been found in the surrounding star field.

After confirming that the surrounding area was safe, Zhou Ling began to forge the Star Gang Sword.

In recent days, he obtained the bone weapon crafting method of the Star Sea alien race from Gu Lie's memories, and with the help of his talent, he studied the more than twenty fifth-order bone weapons in his hands.

In terms of weapon crafting, his cultivation level has also improved significantly.

I'm trying to incorporate my insights from these past few days into the Sword Qi Immortal Sword.

Moreover, the Sword Qi Immortal Sword is a sword formation composed of twelve swords.

It is much more difficult than forging a sword of the same grade on its own.

The various inscriptions are more complex.

Moreover, as long as three of the twelve sword qi exist, they can form a sword formation.

It's just that its power is relatively small.

However, Ferchinan has already created six paths, so Zhou Ling only needs to create the remaining six.

As for compatibility, the fifth-order sword inscriptions that Zhou Ling learned all came from Fei Qinan.

Moreover, these sword inscriptions were originally set up by Fichnan.

Zhou Ling only needs to refine it according to the sword inscription.

However, in order to better demonstrate its power, Zhou Ling still relied on his own knowledge.

Without affecting the sword formation, make certain adjustments to the sword seals.

"The Fire Attribute Sword Qi Immortal Sword is complete!"

On this day, flames roared in front of Zhou Ling.

A sword floated amidst the spiritual flames.

He manipulated the spiritual flames to inscribe marks on the sword.

As his voice fell, a mountain-shaped flame sword imprint flashed on the sword's body before completely merging into it.

"call!"

"A fifth-tier, mid-grade fire-attribute sword aura immortal sword, combined with other attribute sword auras to form a sword array, the power of the three sword auras can be doubled."

"Six paths, three times the value; twelve paths, six times the value."

"Once all twelve formations are complete, they can be used to trap even a sixth-tier alien race."

"This power is no less than that of the Seven Star Sword Formation."

Zhou Ling looked at the sword, his eyes flashing.

Although I have never seen a sixth-tier alien race make a move.

But last time, I also saw the Ancient Mirror, a peak fifth-tier cultivator, fight against the Ancient City Lord.

With the help of the [Illusionary Realm Deduction], he was also able to roughly deduce the combat power of the Ancient Mirror after it entered the sixth tier.

It can be determined that as long as the twelve sword-wielding immortal swords are in formation, they are more than capable of fighting against sixth-tier alien races.

Furthermore, the sword imprints within these fifth-tier mid-grade sword qi immortal swords were all modified by him.

Its power is much stronger than that of a sword of the same level.

"However, in general, sixth-order alien races would not participate in such pioneering wars unless they had a life-or-death feud."

"Of course, given the enormous defeat suffered by the Star Sea Alien Race this time, it's hard to say whether any sixth-tier race members will come to attack."

"Therefore, we should forge all the Sword Qi Immortal Swords as soon as possible, just in case."

Zhou Ling let out a soft breath, thinking to himself.

It was initially believed that after this crushing defeat, the alien race of the Star Sea would be unable to muster a large army to attack the Sword Qi Great Wall in the short term.

However, he knew from Gu Lie's memories that Gu Lie was of extremely high status.

He was killed by himself in this way.

It might anger the higher-ups of the alien races in the Star Sea.

Perhaps the enemy will once again lead their army to attack the Sword Qi Great Wall.

"Next, we need to speed up the refining of the other attribute sword auras!"

"Now we can refine one every three days, and it can be completed within half a month."

"When the twelve sword beams are arrayed, facing the sixth-order Star Sea alien race will be no problem at all."

Zhou Ling thought to himself.

He immediately took out the pill and put it in his mouth.

Refine the medicinal power and, with the help of your talent, recover quickly.

Of course, there's no problem with his speed in forging immortal swords right now.

However, the construction of the immortal city stronghold was relatively slow.

"No alien races from the Star Sea should come during this period, so we still need to speed things up as much as possible."

Zhou Ling was making plans in his mind. (End of this chapter)