Chapter 257: Borrowing Monsters to Train Soldiers
“I surrender!”

The bear demon who had lost both arms fell to the ground, begging for mercy loudly.

Two sword lights swept across the bear monster’s head, cutting off a large piece of hair, and frightened the bear monster so much that his fat body trembled.

The figure of an old man with a star sword appeared in the sky, his eyes lightly swept over the bear monster, he took out a talisman emitting a faint silver light and threw it. The talisman quickly grew larger in the air and turned into a huge silver talisman that fell on the bear monster, covering it like a robe.

The bear demon dared not move at all. The silver seal merged into its body. A few of its descendants stood up and roared towards the sky.

Looking closely, there was a hint of silver light emerging from its huge eyes, which then slowly merged into its eyeballs. The turbidity and bloodshot in its pupils quickly disappeared, becoming clear and transparent. It lay down obediently and spoke in human language:

“Xiong Dali pays respect to His Holiness!”

Elder Xingjian nodded and said in a deep voice:
“From now on, you are the guardian beast of Xuanzong. You are not allowed to kill and eat your blood at will.”

Xiong Dali immediately nodded and bowed:
“Respect the Master’s order!”

Old man Xingjian took out a golden blood pill as big as his head and threw it down. The bear monster took it and swallowed it. Then he took back his severed limbs and reattached them. Golden light appeared and wrapped around the broken parts, and the severed limbs actually grew back.

After Xiong Dali surrendered, he immediately turned his guns around and launched a counterattack, defeating the remaining monsters in the monster village in a few moves.

Except for Xiong Dali, Old Man Xingjian did not accept the surrender of other monsters, including several other Nascent Soul monsters in the monster village.

According to Su Ze’s instructions, unless it is a great demon in the late fourth stage that is comparable to a great human being, or a great demon with extremely outstanding bloodline and the potential to become a god, all other demons must be killed.

There is no need for so many multi-infant monsters, otherwise we may not be able to afford them in the future.

The consumption of blood by Yuanying demons is too great. Just like Xiong Dali, he can easily eat hundreds of tons of blood in one meal. It is still affordable if he eats less, but it will be very troublesome if he eats more.

It took only two days to capture the Xiong Dali Demon Village. The troops reorganized here, took out a large amount of resources and began to build a mountain protection formation relying on the fourth-level spiritual veins in the demon village.

In the future, this place will be used as an outpost, and subsequent troops will settle here, using it as a fulcrum to expand in all directions.

Su Ze’s real body still stayed at Xuanzong Qianlong Peak, but he condensed the incarnation of Hou Tu and sent it over.

These true spirit incarnations can either be united with oneself or condensed individually.

The incarnation of Hou Tu reached the peak of the fifth level very early, which is equivalent to the perfection of the spirit transformation, and has been stuck in this realm without breaking through, just for today.

The fifth-order peak Law of Earth can penetrate deep into the ground, pry open the earth veins, change the direction of the earth veins, and adjust the mountains, rivers and peaks.

Su Ze plans to artificially change the environment and build a solid fortress base here.

The first step was to use the vast magic power and the principles of the great law to move the mountains, and move the surrounding peaks according to the position of the large formation that was about to be set up, directly using the mountains as the formation and the heaven and earth as the formation.

On the eighth day after the conquest of Crazy Bear Mountain, two Nascent Soul True Lords from a nearby human sect came to visit the now extremely unfamiliar Crazy Bear Mountain.

“Why has this Crazy Bear Mountain changed so much?”

“There were five Nascent Soul demons in Crazy Bear Mountain. They were defeated so quickly?”

“Isn’t that the demon king Xiong Dali?”

A giant bear several hundred meters long was obediently holding an extremely large iron pillar and inserting it into the laid foundation. It swung its huge bear paw and hammered the iron pillar deep into the ground.

The two Yuanying Zhenjuns looked at the extremely honest former Demon King in surprise, and after looking at each other, a shadow cast over their hearts.

The two of them soon met Old Man Xingjian. The fact that he was a sword cultivator made them cautious, but Old Man Xingjian’s undisguised purpose made them look solemn.

“It’s Xuanzong?”

“Didn’t they occupy the entire Qianlong Mountain Range? Isn’t that enough to satisfy them?”

“It’s only been fifty years and they can’t hold back and start expanding outward. What do they want to do? Are they trying to unify the Western Regions?”

“It seems possible. Although it is said that we need to deal with the demon race, I don’t think it is that simple. If we really wipe out the demon race in the millions of mountains, I don’t know how powerful they will be by then.”

“We need to inform those two families about this.”

“That’s right. Only the Huashen Sect can resist it. We can’t resist it.”

The visit of the two human Yuanyings did not affect the development of the base. The initial transformation of Crazy Bear Mountain was completed in just about a month, and the protective formation was built.

Then, with the sect protection formation as its center, a huge outpost was established. At the same time, a steady stream of disciples were transferred in from the Qianlong Mountains, and soon there were more than 300,000 foundation-building disciples.

When all the men had arrived and Su Qing also arrived, Su Ze directly ordered his troops to split into three groups and attack the nearest Nascent Soul Demon Kings.

Su Qing, who has reached the peak of the fourth level, is on the way.

Song Wan, who is in the late Nascent Soul stage, is all the way.

Xiong Dali cooperated with several Yuanying subordinates along the way.

The incarnation of Hou Tu was stationed in the base of Crazy Bear Mountain, while Old Man Xingjian was invited to go to the two major human sects in Baiwan Mountain to discuss with them how to deal with the demon clan’s holy land, Wangyue Mountain.

Of course, we cannot expect these two Divine Transformation Sects to be willing to cooperate, but we still have to show some attitude.

I have already warned you. If you don’t take action, that’s your business.

No matter what the two sects think, and no matter whether they agree or not, Xuanzong does not need their consent. He just wants to have a legitimate reason to attack.

The human and demon races in the Baiwan Mountains have maintained this balance for a long time. There have been many disputes between the two races, and it is common for humans and demons to hunt each other at the border, but the war between the Yuanying Sect and the demon village has not happened in hundreds of years.

Xuanzong suddenly launched a full-scale attack on the demon tribe in the Baiwan Mountains, which was really beyond the expectations of the two tribes.

The three armies charged into the interior of the Baiwan Mountains in one breath and destroyed seven demon camps in succession. Only then did the demon clan’s holy land, Wangyue Mountain, deep in the Baiwan Mountains, react.

A large number of demon camps received the order from the Demon King, gathered their demon soldiers and gathered together with Xuanzong’s three armies to attack the front line and defend the three major demon camps.

A huge number of spirits and monsters, both transformed and untransformed, gathered together and engaged in a melee with Xuanzong’s three armies on three fronts.

At the beginning, Xuanzong’s side had the advantage. After all, the soldiers were all foundation-building cultivators, and ordinary little monsters were equivalent to the Qi refining stage, and they were no match at all.

But as more and more demon kings arrived with their armies, the demon clan gradually gained the upper hand.

The Xuan Sect has a limited number of Yuanying Zhenjun, only about twenty in total.

Every demon village of the demon clan has at least two or three Nascent Soul monsters, a large demon village can have six or seven, and a dozen or so large and small demon villages together can have thirty or forty Nascent Soul monsters.

In the early stage, they could still form a formation to hold on, but later, as more and more Nascent Soul monsters appeared, they began to be unable to hold on.

Su Ze did not force them to fight, and ordered the three armies to withdraw to the Crazy Bear Mountain base. Then the old man Xingjian took action and killed more than ten Yuanying monsters in a row, bringing the strength of the top leaders of both sides to the average. When the strength of the top and middle leaders was equal, the Xuanzong of the lower level, who were all building foundations, got the advantage again and pressed back again.

Next, old man Xingjian, who had freed his hands, kept patrolling the three fronts, specifically keeping an eye on the Nascent Soul monsters that came to support. If there were too many of them, he would kill them in a wave, and then stop after maintaining the balance, to ensure that both sides were evenly matched and to keep a certain amount of pressure on his subordinates.

The reason for doing this is certainly not because they are bored, but mainly for training troops.

This group of foundation-building disciples all reached their levels by taking medicine. They have almost no combat experience and rely entirely on their realm and magic power to suppress the little monster.

Many of the newly born Nascent Soul True Lords had also just been promoted recently and had no combat experience at the Nascent Soul stage. The only thing they could do to withstand the battle-hardened Nascent Soul monsters was a collection of luxurious magic weapons.

Su Ze has been accumulating treasures in the Wanbao Fairy Pool in the prehistoric world for nearly two thousand years. He has a large number of Tongtian Lingbao and an inordinate number of fourth-level Lingbao. They are all top-grade and have the potential to be promoted to Tongtian Lingbao.

Each of them has a bunch of top-level spiritual treasures, including a universal spiritual treasure. No matter how great the combat experience and skills of the Nascent Soul monster are, if the attack is not enough, it will not be able to break the defense.

Just rely on your turtle shell to passively endure attacks for a period of time, and you will gain combat experience.

This battle between humans and demons is a very good opportunity for training. As long as you can survive, you will be an elite and have the hope of forming a pill in the future.

It is easy for all Xuan Sect disciples before they build their foundation, but they have to suffer after that. If they don’t practice hard, there is no possibility of forming a pill.

Anyway, it is very easy for Xuanzong to train disciples to build the foundation. Even if 90% of them die, the 10% that survive will still be tens of thousands.

Being able to survive under such a cruel death rate, the probability of forming a pill is very high, and even the possibility of becoming an infant in the future is not low.

Su Ze was not in a hurry to conquer the millions of mountains, and he would not mind taking fifty years or even a hundred years.

He has no shortage of time now, and he has no worries about his lifespan.

As long as we can train a group of Golden Core or even Nascent Soul disciples, it doesn’t matter how many disciples die or how much time it takes.

So even though the fighting was raging in the Million Mountains, Su Ze himself was still practicing in the Xuan Sect, entering the prehistoric world once every month, staying there for a few years and then coming back to deal with sect affairs, and working hard to have a baby with his wives and concubines.

Not long after, Su Ze unearthed the seventh ancestor witch Tian Wu from the newly mined Chaos Divine Iron Mine.

The ancestor witch Tianwu: He has eight human faces, a tiger body and eight tails, and is the ancestor witch of wind.

At this point, seven of the twelve ancestor witches have gathered, and five more are needed to complete it.

Su Ze had a strong premonition in his heart that as long as he could gather the twelve ancestor witches together, he would be able to directly control the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation, one of the three most evil formations in the prehistoric times, and thus condense Pangu’s physical body.

He was full of anticipation for this.

Time flies, and the years fly by.

Xuanzong’s full-scale attack on the Million Mountains Demon Tribe was an earth-shaking event at the beginning, which caused panic among the human clans in the Million Mountains. The independent cultivators were even more terrified, fearing that the war would get out of control and affect them.

But the result surprised many sects. Xuanzong actually relied on himself to block the entire Million Mountains of demons.

The two human sects that had reached the stage of God Transformation remained silent as if they had agreed upon it. They did not react to the matter and did not make any movement.

As time went on, the two sides remained in a stalemate, and many sects gradually got used to the war not far away. Occasionally, some independent cultivators or sect disciples would even enter the edge of the battlefield to gain experience.

In this battle, in the eyes of outsiders, Xuanzong suffered heavy losses. Countless disciples went to the battlefield and died in this battlefield that was like a meat grinder.

The foundation-building disciples are the backbone of every sect, even in the Huashen Sect, they are important disciples. In particular, the foundation-building disciples of the Xuan Sect are all very young. In other sects, they are eligible to compete for inner disciples and core disciples. There is no way they would be willing to send them directly to the battlefield.

But among Emperor Xuanzong, these disciples really died in batches.

After each disciple has established his foundation in the sect, he will be transferred to the battlefield in the Million Mountains.

Only after surviving on the battlefield for a year will he temporarily retreat to continue improving his cultivation, then go up to hone himself, and when his accumulation is enough, come down again to improve his cultivation.

The battlefield is the easiest place to break through. Even if you stay in the sect for ten years of hard training in peacetime, the effect will not be as good as staying on the battlefield for two years.

With an endless and unlimited supply of spiritual fruits and elixirs, they not only made up for their shortcomings in Qi Refining, but also continued to advance at a very fast speed without any sequelae.

In the twenty-seventh year, the first Jindan disciple was born.

From the beginning of cultivation to the formation of Dan, it has taken a total of 36 years, which is an astonishingly fast speed.

Although it is not as good as Su Ze and Lin Suxin who have formed the Dan in just a dozen years and transformed into the Nascent Soul in hundreds of years, but in the Small Thousand World, it is already very efficient. In the Nascent Soul Sect, it is definitely the Nascent Soul seed and the hope of the sect.

With a beginning, new Jindan cultivators appeared one after another, and the speed became faster and faster. Later on, they appeared in large batches. Sometimes, more than a dozen of them would undergo the tribulation at the same time in one day, which was extremely spectacular.

The fact that a large number of disciples were able to form their Dan was achieved at the cost of a mortality rate more than ten times higher.

That is to say, at least nine out of every ten foundation-building disciples died in these twenty-seven years, and only one could survive to form a pill.

However, with such a high mortality rate, the number of Xuanzong’s foundation-building disciples not only did not decrease, but was even greater than at the beginning.

With the emergence of a steady stream of Jindan cultivators, the combat power of the Xuan Sect’s middle-level warriors began to soar rapidly.

However, Su Ze did not focus all his attention here, but on another side. I don’t know if it was a coincidence, but three major events happened at the same time.

The first big event was that his wife Lin Suxin was pregnant. After his efforts day and night, the semen he had ejaculated into her over the past few decades probably filled a bathtub, and she finally became pregnant with his first child not long ago.

The second big event is that Azure Dragon Su Qing is about to undergo the tribulation of becoming a god.

After fusing the blood of the ancient dragon and accumulating for more than two hundred years, he finally reached the peak of the fourth level and was about to pass the tribulation.

The third major event was that the Shao family from Xuanyu Immortal City announced that Xuanzong was prohibited from using the Shao family Chamber of Commerce’s routes to transport supplies.

He also didn’t know whether the Shao family was concerned about Xuanzong’s strength, or whether other forces were concerned about Xuanzong’s strength and joined forces with the Shao family to suppress Xuanzong.

After all, the strength that Xuanzong had demonstrated in the past twenty-seven years was too strong, and he had not concealed it. Even if other families and forces were slow to react, they should have known about it.

Su Ze was not surprised because this was expected.

There are dozens of families and sects in this world of human civilization. It turns out that the strongest ones, apart from the Shao Chamber of Commerce, are only two Shenhua families.

Although these two divine transformation families are quite powerful, they are still far from conquering this world, or it is completely impossible for them now.

However, Xuanzong’s sudden rise and demonstration of his ability to conquer the Western Regions naturally made them wary.

If you can conquer one domain, you will have the potential to compete for the entire Xuanyu Small Thousand World.

As long as they don’t want to end up in vain after operating in this world for thousands of years, they will definitely find a way to suppress Xuanzong.

(End of this chapter)