Longzang

Chapter 472 One in Ten Survives
Cui Yu hurriedly walked out of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Battle Hall. He had just fought a fierce battle with the deputy hall master here, which greatly enriched his combat experience.

It must be said that the deputy master is indeed a rare genius. Although he is only at the Foundation Establishment stage and has just entered the late stage, he made Cui Yu suffer quite a bit. Eleven of the sixteen Six Ren Heavenly Soldiers were blown up, and he barely managed to win by half a move. If this master were born in the outside world, his skills would certainly be no less than Xiao Yu's.

However, compared to the others, the sect leader clearly had ordinary talent and an ordinary foundation in cultivation, and his cultivation level hadn't even reached the late stage yet, but Cui Yu felt that he was much more difficult to defeat.

The master of the martial arts school possessed a multitude of skills, including at least dozens of magical treasures, and was particularly adept at consuming elixirs. His magical treasures had all sorts of incredible functions, and sometimes some of their strange and unusual abilities could play a miraculous role in battle. In particular, a set of golden bamboo swords left a deep impression on everyone.

This martial arts master has excellent agility and is particularly good at escaping. Every time Cui Yu sparred with him, he felt extremely tired, as if he had fought more than ten matches in a row.

After leaving the Battle Saint Hall, Cui Yu entered the Creation of Heaven and Earth Research Institute and went straight to the top floor. The top floor was still empty, with only one seat, but for some reason, Cui Yu had been feeling for a while that someone was watching him.

Cui Yu took his seat, skillfully pulled over the ball of light, and began reviewing the assigned tasks, quickly becoming absorbed in the task at hand. Despite having already achieved the Dharma Aspect, Cui Yu still enjoyed working here. Each time he finished work, Cui Yu could feel the spirituality of his Dharma Aspect increasing, indicating that he was at least at the Nourishing Spirit Realm—a very effective cultivation method.

Soon, two tasks were placed before Cui Yu: one needed to be broken down into thirty-two parts, and the other into sixty-four parts, and then processed simultaneously.

Cui Yu hesitated for a moment, but then remembered that he was already a Dharma Aspect cultivator, so he gritted his teeth and chose the task that needed to be broken down into sixty-four processes, and began to work on it.

Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye. Cui Yu, enduring his dizziness and blurred vision, clicked submit. After a few breaths, the task feedback came down: Good.

Cui Yu was very excited. He clenched his fist and hummed a few lines of his favorite tune.

This time, no more tasks were distributed in the sphere of light, and a glass of water appeared on the table in front of Cui Yu.

Cui Yu picked up his water glass and drank it all in one gulp. He immediately felt a refreshing coolness spreading through his mind, which relieved his headache considerably, but he was still mentally exhausted. He knew he had reached his limit. The task, which needed to be broken down into sixty-four parts, was indeed extraordinary; just one task had drained his energy.

However, Cui Yu was always very curious about the function of the clear water. As far as he knew, this water was actually made from spiritual herbs that mortals grew amidst the smoke and fire of human life, and its function was to soothe the mind and nourish the primordial spirit. But how could herbs grown amidst human life have an effect on him? This was something Cui Yu couldn't understand at all.

He stopped thinking about it, withdrew from worldly affairs, and sat up in bed.

At this moment, Cui Yu felt extremely exhausted, as if he hadn't slept for days. However, he knew this was an illusion; in fact, he slept every day, and quite a lot, which was why he was so tired.

Cui Yu didn't get out of bed immediately. Instead, he thought about it carefully and confirmed that his feeling was probably right; someone had indeed been watching him. Cui Yu decided to find some time to ask Wei Yuan. Humanity was his Dharma body; he should know something, at least who was secretly observing him.

In the research institute where heaven and earth were first created, Zhang Sheng looked up and watched Cui Yu drink the water and then disappear from his seat.

The main hall was filled with hundreds of seats. Some people drank the water and disappeared, while others entered the hall and sat in the air. At this moment, a new task appeared in the sphere of light. Zhang Sheng focused her divine sense into it and saw sixty-four military intelligence reports appear before her. Her task was to compile these scattered reports and produce a unified and complete military intelligence report.

This was naturally no challenge for Zhang Sheng. With a thought, she first pulled up a map in front of her, then simultaneously opened all the military intelligence reports, extracting elements such as time, location, military branch, number of personnel, and direction, and summarizing them on the map. In the blink of an eye, it became a detailed and comprehensive military intelligence report.

Zhang Sheng casually clicked submit and then began processing the next task.

The ground of Ding'an City trembled slightly, and scouts rushed out of the city gates and disappeared into the vast green landscape not far away.

Then a cavalry unit of several dozen riders left the city and disappeared into the distance without a sound. This cavalry unit was very special; their military aura was extremely concentrated, and they were only about three feet above the ground, making them difficult to detect from a distance.

In the cavalry, Sun Lie, clad in the armor of an ordinary scout, led the way, galloping deeper into the Witch Domain. His face was resolute, but the knuckles of his fingers gripping the reins were white. He knew that his team was the main force of this operation, and hidden within the team was a Dharma Aspect Warrior, whose sights and hearings were those of the Realm Lord.

The scout cavalry battalion has a total of nine hundred riders, each personally selected and trained by Sun Lie. He knows each one of them and has led them on missions. Now, each rider in the scout cavalry battalion can rival the Mo Xue Feng Xing, the natural reconnaissance tribe of the Wu Clan, in a one-on-one fight. If it's ten riders against ten, they can win by a small margin. If it's one hundred riders against one hundred, the scout cavalry battalion will definitely win decisively.

However, the Mo Xue Feng Xing tribe has a total of five thousand cavalry, so Sun Lie is always extremely cautious in his actions, never making a move unless he is absolutely certain of victory. But once an opportunity arises, he will never miss it.

However, Sun Lie knew that the credit didn't belong entirely to him; perhaps a third, or even more, should go to the mysterious Dao Foundation Knights in the team. They almost never spoke, but they all had mysterious connections with the Realm Lord, communicating with each other in a way unknown to others.

Therefore, Sun Lie could know where each dispatched cavalry unit was and what it was doing.

Therefore, he always manages to seize opportunities, mobilize several scout squads around him to suddenly gather, and deliver a heavy blow to his old rival, Mo Xuefengxing, wiping out several or even a dozen of his riders in one go, before dispersing and disappearing into the vast world.

Sun Lie had originally planned to expand his scout battalion to two thousand, or even three thousand, soon. With two thousand scouts, Sun Lie would be able to watch his opponent like a starving wolf, searching for opportunities to strike. And with three thousand cavalry, he was confident he could suppress the Mo Xue Feng Xing, further compressing the Wu Clan's vision until they sent out another tribe similar to Mo Xue Feng Xing.

But now, Sun Lie knew his hopes had been dashed. Because of Wei Yuan's order, and also because of the plan he had personally drafted.

In this plan, even if the entire Mo Xue Feng Xing team were mobilized, it wouldn't stop him from rushing to a point 500 li away to see what the Wu Clan was up to.

But it was precisely this plan that would reduce the scout cavalry battalion to almost nothing.

(End of this chapter)