Longzang

Chapter 200 Mass Advancement
The great battle is over, but there are still people doing quizzes at the entrance of the Hall of Merit, and they have already reached the ninth question.

Ji Liuli estimated that she wouldn't be able to answer the last three questions and was afraid she would give up, so he called Zhang Sheng to flank her from both sides. However, just as they approached within ten zhang, before Ji Liuli's Demon-Suppressing Tower could even make a move, the person became alert and actually opened a gap in the air, slipped through, and disappeared.

This supernatural ability caught Zhang Shengji off guard, leaving him only able to watch helplessly as she escaped. It seems this person's ability to move silently within the realm is due to this very skill.

By this time, the Witch Army had withdrawn from the boundary, leaving tens of thousands of corpses on the battlefield. These would all become raw materials for Qingming's nurturing. However, Wei Yuan knew that the Witch Clan's retreat was only temporary; their main force had not yet been crippled and could return at any time.

Knowing yourself and your enemy is the top priority right now. Wei Yuan felt uneasy thinking about his previous strange experience with the dream-eating creature.

According to the Dream Eater, Wei Yuan's speed in breaking her Ghost Marriage Scheme was unexpectedly fast, mainly because he could retain a portion of his memories each time he woke up. Others, even with powerful primordial spirits, could not do this and could only be worn down in repeated cycles, eventually perishing and becoming nourishment for the Dream Eater.

The reason why the Dream Eater couldn't devour Wei Yuan is now clear. Their primordial spirit and foundation are one. Because of the vast land and rivers, Wei Yuan's primordial spirit is also extremely terrifying. Devouring this primordial spirit is equivalent to swallowing the entire vast land and rivers, no different from an ordinary person swallowing a gold nugget the size of a tabletop. Therefore, the Dream Puppet would die one after another, its body splitting apart.

What Wei Yuan wanted to figure out now was why he was able to retain his memories during the game. So he went to Ji Liuli and asked his senior sister to bless him with good fortune. Then he calmed his mind and tried hard to think about the reason why he could retain his memories. As Wei Yuan thought about it, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration when he thought of the laurel branch, and realized that it must be this celestial object that caused it.

The laurel branch already possesses sentience, but communication with it is not yet possible. However, Wei Yuan's Dao power is currently imbued with a trace of the laurel tree's aura, which greatly enhances its ability to suppress and erode the green energy of the Witch Domain. In addition, it also possesses the effect of moon flames. Even though the white-gold flames that ignited the Witch Clan are no less destructive than the true fire of the sun, they lack temperature.

Since it's caused by a celestial artifact, there's no need to investigate further. The mysteries of celestial artifacts are beyond Wei Yuan's current ability to unravel.

What truly unsettled Wei Yuan was the sorcerer named Shu Li. He had remotely captured Wei Yuan's primordial spirit, making him virtually impossible to defend against. However, such general information about high-ranking members of the sorcerer clan was kept in the Hall of Merit and could be exchanged for merit points.

Wei Yuan went to the Hall of Merit to check and found relevant information, but it all required Heavenly Merit. Without hesitation, Wei Yuan spent all his remaining Heavenly Merit to exchange for all the relevant information.

The Witchcraft Clan is a rather unique race. Their mature forms do not have a fixed shape, which is unique among known alien races. Their cultivation and advancement methods are also quite special.

In the stages of shaman and great shaman, there are generally four paths to heaven: Power Shaman, Magic Shaman, Blood Shaman, and Dao Shaman. Wei Yuan has fought with both Power Shaman and Blood Shaman and is very familiar with them. Magic Shamans are relatively few in number, while Dao Shamans are extremely rare. It is said that Dao Shamans begin communicating with heaven and earth from the shaman stage, thus having the lowest difficulty in advancing to the Heavenly Shaman level. However, Dao Shamans also have the highest talent requirements, and are one in a hundred among shamans.

After a high-level sorcerer reaches the pinnacle of their cultivation, they must seek out a place similar to the Netherworld to establish their own kingdom and draw power from it to continue their practice.

Blood Witches choose the Frosty Realm to ascend to the rank of Frosty Witch. Power Witches and Magic Witches also have their own kingdoms similar to the Frosty Realm. Power Witches ascend to the rank of Wild Witch, while Magic Witches ascend to the rank of Spirit Witch.

Only the Daoist sorcerers are truly unique; they establish their kingdoms directly within their own primordial spirits, embodying the unity of heaven and earth, and the unity of heaven and earth with themselves—those are the holy sorcerers.

Ultimately, all paths converge at the Heavenly Witch Realm and are collectively referred to as the Heavenly Witch.

However, there was one thing Wei Yuan hadn't considered: the Power Witch wasn't a noble warrior of the Witch Clan. Warriors followed a cultivation path similar to humans, requiring less talent but much more resources, which suited the upper nobility of the Witch Clan perfectly. The only problem was that warriors couldn't ascend to immortality, stopping at the equivalent of the Human Realm's Imperial View True Lord stage.

After reviewing all the materials, Wei Yuan seemed to be deep in thought. It seemed that the Witch Clan had fully mastered the method of drawing power from strange worlds like the Netherworld.

Wei Yuan originally did not plan to go to the Netherworld too soon, but now that Uncle Youwu has arrived outside the realm and attacked him from a distance, Wei Yuan is forced to retaliate and bring forward his plan to go to the Netherworld.

The battlefield had now been cleared, and all losses and gains had been tallied.

The Wu tribe's invading force numbered 55,000, of whom 38,000 perished in the battle. Over 600 Daoist priests and warriors also died. In the northwest city of the realm, there were over 20,000 people, of whom only 5,000 survived the battle. Over 8,000 enemy soldiers were killed within the city.

Of the main force, 4,500 survivors and those with minor injuries who could recover remain, along with 900 elite troops and 150 Foundation Establishment cultivators. This is all the remaining strength of the realm at this moment.

Regarding the spoils of war, Wei Yuan's greatest gain was luck. He now possessed over a thousand drops of azure energy in his sea of ​​consciousness, including twenty advanced azure energies, and two drops of great fortune. For a moment, Wei Yuan was at a loss as to how to use this luck.

Should Xu Wenwu continue riding a horse?

The thought of horses suddenly caused Wei Yuan a pang of pain in his heart. He pushed these emotions aside and continued to ponder. It was true that Xu Wenwu's handling of the fortune would cause changes; this was true for the Blood Demon Horse, the Azure Steed, and the Heavenly Star Dragon Sunflower. The problem was that Wei Yuan currently possessed too much fortune; Xu Wenwu alone couldn't possibly consume it all.

Another gain was the corpses of the Witch Clan, which were all materials for Qingming's nurturing process. The corpses of tens of thousands of elite Witch Clan members could save Qingming ten years of nurturing time.

In addition, the large amount of military supplies and armor brought by the Wu Clan also provided much-needed materials to the realm.

However, the situation is still far from optimistic. More than half of the elite forces within the territory have been lost, but the Wu Clan's army has not retreated far. Instead, it has stopped a hundred miles away, as if waiting for further orders.

What Qingming needs most right now is time, but unfortunately, there isn't enough time for stable development.

Wei Yuan was having a headache when he suddenly felt a significant fluctuation in the spiritual energy within the realm. At first, there was only one fluctuation, but in the blink of an eye, the fluctuations increased, eventually reaching hundreds of points!

This feeling of spiritual energy fluctuation is somewhat familiar; it seems to be the feeling of absorbing the primordial energy of heaven and earth when advancing to the Dao Foundation stage.

Wei Yuan pushed open the door and went out to see what was going on. He had just stepped outside when Cui Yu flew over at full speed and exclaimed upon seeing Wei Yuan, "Someone has advanced to the Foundation Establishment stage!"

Wei Yuan thought to himself, "Just as I thought." Seeing that Wei Yuan didn't react, Cui Yu quickly said, "It's not just one, it's many! There are more than fifty in my own troops alone!"

"So many people? At the same time?" Wei Yuan was taken aback. After the battle, only six hundred of Cui Yu's elite troops remained, including more than thirty who had reached the Foundation Establishment stage. Now, more than fifty people had simultaneously advanced to the Foundation Establishment stage? Wei Yuan had seen each of these elite troops before and did not recall having so many talented individuals among them.

Wei Yuan and Cui Yu immediately rushed to the troop's encampment, where they found that many areas had already been cleared and isolated from unauthorized personnel to prevent anyone from interfering with the promotion. Inside each isolated tent, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was being continuously absorbed.

After observing the group, Hou Yuan understood. These people were already at the Great Perfection of Body Forging, on the verge of advancement. Now, having survived the great battle, their mental state had improved, and they suddenly had the opportunity to break through. But wasn't it a bit too coincidental that over a hundred people broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage at the same time?
While increasing the supply of spiritual energy to this area and adding more Jia Wood Sheng Xuan power, Wei Yuan also retrieved the information of those who had advanced in rank and reviewed it one by one.

Upon investigation, Wei Yuan discovered that most of these people had mediocre talent ratings, with a very low probability of achieving the Dao Foundation stage. In the Tai Chu Palace's Dao Test, they would all be rated around two feet in talent; they wouldn't even be able to get into the Crimson Tide Sect, let alone the Tai Chu Palace.

They had all recently arrived in the realm, many less than a month ago. Aside from training, no cultivation methods were distributed within the realm; everyone was still using their own cultivation methods. Therefore, their advancement should have little to do with the realm's teachings.

So, there's only one reason why so many people simultaneously break through their talent limitations and advance to the Foundation Establishment stage:
All beings in an instant.

(End of this chapter)