Longzang

Chapter 923 Humans and Witches are Different, in the Kidneys

Not long after Nine Eyes left, he sent over a thousand Power Witches and four Wild Witches. These witches were drawn from other fortresses, and a group of Witch Hunters and Sin Witches were also recruited.

With the addition of new recruits, the garrison finally recovered to two thousand. Now, Wei Yuan's number of powerful shamans has increased to five hundred, all of them seasoned veterans. These shamans had witnessed Wei Yuan's valor in the previous battle and had already contributed their own luck, making them easy to use.

This time, Wei Yuan changed his strategy and built five blast furnaces in one go, requiring two Wild Witches and hundreds of Power Witches to maintain their operation on a daily basis. After increasing the production of raw steel fivefold, Wei Yuan trimmed the Power Witches and put them in steel armor while forging the excess raw steel into steel bars and plates.

The fortress was constructed using raw stones from the desolate realm as the basic material. Some of the raw stones were ground up, and then mixed with the blood of wild insects and fire demons to create mortar for bonding. This resulted in an extremely sturdy structure that could endure in the harsh environment of the desolate realm.

Wei Yuan, on the other hand, embedded steel bars into the rebuilt city walls, and covered important buildings within the city with rough steel plates. This greatly enhanced the defense, making it virtually indestructible unless hordes of those fire demons that relied on suicidal blood-spitting attacks appeared.

After testing the new defensive facilities, which proved quite effective, Wei Yuan further expanded the production capacity of raw steel, increasing the number of blast furnaces to fifteen. This required two Wild Witches leading three hundred Power Witches to work day and night, roaring and refining steel.

The powerful sorcerer can still hold on, but the weak sorcerer is a bit of a wasteland sorcerer.

After seven days of work, Wei Yuan had to give one of the shamans a day off to rest. Two days later, he gave the other shaman a day off. The days off were a last resort; both shamans' throats were swollen from shouting, and they were even spitting blood. Wei Yuan reluctantly gave them a day off.

Wei Yuan's defense strategy was simple: maximize the production capacity of raw steel. With more steel, less flesh and blood would be needed to fill the gaps during wartime.

The Dragon Fusion understood Wei Yuan's intentions, so it simply gave Wei Yuan another three hundred Power Wizards. In this way, almost all the Power Wizards who had survived the initial clash were now in Wei Yuan's hands. Wei Yuan then converted all these Power Wizards into craftsmen, and they began to produce raw steel in a steady stream.

During large-scale steelmaking, Wei Yuan continuously fine-tuned the Wild Roar until it was finalized and composed into a battle song. The raw steel produced by this song was of slightly lower quality, but the output increased by 30%.

Large quantities of raw steel were continuously transformed into armor and weapons, the newly built city walls became more robust, and more and more buildings within the fortress began to show a metallic sheen.

Wei Yuan also set up gates at various key points in the fortress, so that the Flame Demons would be blocked everywhere they entered the city because they were unfamiliar with the terrain. Then Wei Yuan leveled the buildings in several areas and built several small squares.

Several roads lead from the small squares to the city walls. In wartime, closing the gates at appropriate locations allows the fire demons entering the city to gather in these squares. From here, they only have a few exits to attack, resulting in a very narrow attack area, and most fire demons will remain stuck in the squares. At this time, they become the best targets for the large-scale witchcraft of the wild sorcerers.

Wei Yuan worked tirelessly day and night, constantly improving the fortress's defense system and gradually assigning suitable positions to the power sorcerers based on their individual characteristics.

In his daily work, Wei Yuan began to gradually gain the luck of the new warriors. However, these powerful sorcerers had not yet witnessed Wei Yuan's prowess, so they did not have many top-tier luck.

After reviewing Wei Yuan's arrangements, the Molten Dragon did not offer any comments. Instead, it gave Wei Yuan a new Wild Roar Heart Sutra, instructing him to practice it whenever he had free time.

This mental cultivation method contains only five roars, but they are exceptionally ingenious and complex. The last one is even more exaggerated to an absurd degree. In one roar, hundreds of parts of the body must resonate with each other, generating a total of more than eight hundred frequencies, and finally turning into a howl.

This short piece of writing immediately opened the eyes of Wei Yuan, who thought he was an expert in the Wild Roar. Wei Yuan divided his consciousness into hundreds of points to monitor his own state, constantly correcting and adjusting, and it took him almost a month to finally grasp the first note of the five notes.

This sound is like a high-pitched "ga," and when it is called out, it sounds like a crowing rooster suddenly being choked.

But as soon as the sound was uttered, Wei Yuan suddenly felt as if his body had become transparent. In the past, sunlight could only penetrate the skin and flesh, but now it could suddenly enter the internal organs.

Wei Yuan instantly felt a sharp pain deep inside his body, as if all his organs were emitting a burnt aroma. This single blow had caused him serious injury.

However, the extensive damage to his internal organs also completely revitalized Wei Yuan's body. A surge of spiritual energy erupted from every part of his flesh and blood, and under the influence of his roar, the speed of his physical repair increased a hundredfold. In just a moment, the damage was fully repaired. After the repair, each organ experienced a slight enhancement. However, the most significant and noticeable strengthening was to his throat, nose, lungs, and all other parts involved in vocalization.

After mastering the first tone, Wei Yuan discovered that this Wild Roar was a cultivation method applicable only to the Wilderness Realm. It used the omnipresent power of the sun in the Wilderness Realm to temper the physical body without leaving any blind spots. The second tone focused on the liver, the third tone on the kidneys and all related organs with similar functions, the fourth tone on all digestive organs, which could greatly increase the speed of converting the primordial energy of heaven and earth, and the fifth tone focused on the heart, which is the source of all vitality.

The internal structure of a powerful sorcerer is incredibly diverse, so the Five Tones are cultivated with true meaning. For example, organs with functions similar to the heart, whether ten or fifty, can be cultivated in one go.

Furthermore, this mental cultivation manual also includes an auxiliary method: using the unique sacrificial power of the Desolate Realm as an aid, which can greatly enhance the physical tempering effect. Wei Yuan had thought his physical body was already strong enough, with no room for further improvement. Only now did he realize that he could continue to improve in the Desolate Realm; this realm truly was a holy land for body refinement. After mastering the first sound, cultivating the subsequent sounds became much faster; Wei Yuan mastered the second sound in less than seven days.

But he unexpectedly got stuck on the third note, and after more than ten days, he had only made slight progress. The complexity of the third note increased significantly, with a total of forty-nine frequencies. Wei Yuan kept trying, but he could only manage to produce more than thirty of them before he felt soreness in his lower back and weakness in his legs.

The Dragon only provided the cultivation technique without any explanation or answering Wei Yuan's questions, leaving Wei Yuan to figure it out on his own.

Wei Yuan knew that the Molten Dragon had put in a lot of effort. After all, humans and witches were vastly different, and their cultivation methods were completely incompatible. The document the Molten Dragon gave Wei Yuan was similar to a general outline of the Desolate Realm's body-refining path. Wei Yuan needed to figure out the principles himself and then convert it into a method suitable for human cultivation. No matter how powerful the Molten Dragon was, he was powerless to help humans cultivate. This was why the Molten Dragon didn't explain it further.

Wei Yuan then repaired the fortress while cultivating, but his progress on the third tone remained slow; a full month had passed and he was still less than 30% complete. Every time he had to shout halfway through, his back and legs would ache and he would feel overwhelmed.

With enough data accumulated, Wei Yuan finally thought of a possibility: the human race and the witch race seem to have different definitions of the kidney, and their functions also seem to be different.

After making a guess, Wei Yuan called Tianyu over.

Having been tempered by several major battles, Tianyu is now vastly different from when it first arrived. It has become more solid and composed. If Tianyu was previously a lump of sponge iron, it has now been forged into wrought iron.

"Boss, what do you want?"

Wei Yuan carefully chose his words before asking, "You used to always carry dozens of little witches with you. How many times a day did you... you know?"

Tianyu found it strange, but the Wu Clan didn't care about it at all. Many powerful Wu Clan members who considered themselves outstanding liked to demonstrate their abilities in public so that everyone could intuitively know how powerful they were. So he simply said, "One hundred times."

With a soft click, several cracks appeared on the rough stone chair that Wei Yuan was sitting on.

Wei Yuan remained calm and asked, "Every day?"

Tianyu recalled: "When I'm not busy, I usually round it up, since I'm just killing time anyway. When I'm busy, it's hard to say, maybe only eighty times."

Wei Yuan almost blurted out "beast," but fortunately, he still retained his composure and didn't say anything, thus dismissing Tian Yu. His eyes already showed undisguised malice.

After communicating with Tianyu, Wei Yuan finally understood that the difference between the physical bodies of humans and witches was simply too great. The third sound was specially designed by the Molten Dragon using the Power Witch as a template, which was extremely difficult for humans. Even Wei Yuan couldn't withstand it, and probably no human Dharma Body could withstand it.

Fortunately, as long as he continued to cultivate, he could still make progress little by little. So from another perspective, the upper limit of this third sound was extremely high. Cultivating this sound would almost be a transformative improvement for Wei Yuan's physical body; it was practically an unparalleled treasure. So Wei Yuan calmed down and began to work diligently, refining his physical body bit by bit.

The body is a lone boat that has endured tribulations, a precious raft that crosses the sea, the foundation of the Great Dao, and the stone that leads to heaven.

As his physical body gradually strengthened, many tiny pieces of flesh within Wei Yuan's body began to emit a hazy, intense sunlight. Borrowing the wisdom of cultivating in the Desolate Realm, Wei Yuan's understanding of the Daoist arts of the Primordial Beginning Palace deepened daily, and the power of secret texts such as the Undying Void and Color Technique also increased accordingly.

Life returned to normal, and Ronglong seemed to have returned to the beginning, not seeming to be very familiar with Wei Yuan, and not exchanging a single word with him for several days.

Nine Eyes, having pieced together resources from various sources, sent over a thousand Power Witches and two Wild Witches. He had now adjusted his policies, significantly reducing the military merits required to return from the Edge Fortress. As a result, many Power Witches saw hope in earning enough merits to return home in glory. In addition, with the Molten Dragon's reputation spreading far and wide, everyone knew that there was a leader here who would do everything in his power to rescue his subordinates, so more and more Power Witches were willing to come.

However, the calm was only temporary; the fiery storm hadn't ended yet, and the Flame Demon was merely recuperating, so Wei Yuan dared not relax. He was still waiting for the Molten Dragon's top-tier luck. Originally, Wei Yuan felt that the previous battle had been enough, but the Molten Dragon had made no move.

The desolate realm gradually calmed down, but ripples rose again in the azure sky.

(End of this chapter)