The Northern Domain's Kui Mei tribe boasted a population numbering in the millions. Among them, the military personnel of their empires, large and small, exceeded one billion. Thirty million was but a drop in the ocean for the Kui Mei. However, it remained a mystery what the Saint Son Mengtian required such a mundane army for.
"No problem!" Su Yan answered decisively. Although he had his doubts, he knew that the blood pill supply had been cut off. Han Shi seemed unconcerned, but if Su Yan displeased him again, his own life might not be guaranteed.
"Good, then go prepare. Tell them to point their swords to the heavens in two days! I shall enter a brief seclusion for a few days."
Han Shi said with a smile, then waved his hand. Su Yan's entire body was sent out of the grand hall by a gentle force, and the hall's doors closed accordingly.
A total of thirty million soldiers. Even for Su Yan, the supreme ruler of the entire Northern Domain, gathering such a force within two days would be immensely difficult.
However, Han Shi had instructed them to proceed first, so these legions did not need to be assembled at once but could converge en route.
After all, the Qingyue Sect was hundreds of thousands of kilometers away. Even with beast mounts, these ordinary soldiers would take months to arrive.
This was also one of the reasons Han Li would go into seclusion first, as Han Li possessed a flying ship capable of traveling fifty thousand kilometers a day! Even if he left a month later, he could still catch up to the soldiers.
As orders were issued one by one, the entire Northern Domain was thrown into turmoil. By the time Elder Xiao and He Lin learned of it, the orders had already been dispatched for half a day.
"Sect Master, the Saint Son of Mengtian Sacred Land has descended upon the Northern Domain. You have mobilized such a vast number of soldiers without the consent of myself and Elder He. This matter must be reported!" Upon hearing that Su Yan had mobilized thirty million soldiers to march towards the Tianyu Kingdom, Elder Xiao and He Lin immediately rushed to Su Yan's cave dwelling to confront him.
"Report! Elder Xiao, Elder Lin, the Saint Son is currently a guest at our sect. If you believe you can report this, feel free to try."
Su Yan said calmly. The most important thing now was to erase any traces of his refining blood pills. As long as these were smoothed over, with Su Juncheng backing him, and with the Saint Son's connection, as long as he did not commit any severe mistakes here, his life would not be in danger.
"Su Yan! Thirty million soldiers, thirty million-man legions from three empires. Such a massive undertaking cannot be hidden from the main sect," He Lin said indifferently.
"My esteemed elders, Mengtian Saint Son is here, and Mengtian's two true disciples are also here. Do you think we can resist? I believe the higher authorities will negotiate with the Sacred Land themselves." Su Yan looked at the two colleagues he had worked with for a century and could not help but chuckle.
"As for the thirty million soldiers you mentioned, what are they? They are mortals! Do you think the main sect will agree to exchange the lives of thirty million mortals for the benefit of some Sacred Land?"
"Will they say it's good or bad?"
Su Yan said coldly. As a cultivator in the early True Human realm, having navigated the world of cultivation for centuries, he understood all too well how those high and mighty cultivators viewed ordinary mortals.
When they were useful, they were called the cornerstone of the entire race's survival. But in their hearts, they were deemed worse than beasts!
Elder Xiao and He Lin fell silent.
Su Yan had spoken plainly. If they still didn't understand, they would truly be fools.
"Then, we hope Sect Master will take good care of us in the future." After a moment of silence, He Lin, known throughout the Northern Kui Sect as the 'Iceberg Elder,' actually gave Su Yan a coquettish smile.
They both knew clearly that although they had some backing, their own patrons were not particularly influential. When it came to life and death, they would hardly pay attention to them.
"It's a small matter! The Saint Son's goal is now clear: the entire human race! Moreover, from the Saint Son's attitude, it seems he intends to exterminate the race! If you two truly wish to follow, then perhaps you can take the lead. I have other tasks to attend to!" Su Yan said, then directly left the sect and headed north.
He needed to go ahead and level the Blood Cave in the Kui Jian Sect. Although the disciples there were all dead, he did not want any unforeseen circumstances to arise from this matter.
Three months passed in a flash. The entire Northern Domain, apart from the thirty million soldiers on the move, was eerily quiet in the north, like the calm before a storm.
Meanwhile, in the Qingyue Sect, tens of thousands of kilometers away, there was an unusual tranquility. Apart from the outer disciples, even the inner disciples of the Qingyue Sect had been recalled. Aside from sect affairs, the entire sect had entered into secluded cultivation.
They had no idea about the Saint Son's arrival in the Northern Domain. However, even if they knew, they wouldn't care. A Saint Son, only at the peak True Human realm. They knew their Sect Master had already reached the peak Mahayana realm, just one step away from becoming a Celestial Venerable!
If not for the fact that the other elders and disciples of the sect were not strong enough, the Qingyue Sect could have already proclaimed itself a first-rate sect!
Sun Xiaoshan was still hiding in the back mountain. The black hole behind him had expanded to over fifty feet in diameter, reaching deep into the earth. The spirit stones he used for cultivation in front of him had increased to twenty at once. In addition to spirit stones, more than ten dark red blood pills were circling around him, emitting a sinister and eerie aura.
Since breaking through to the peak Mahayana realm, Sun Xiaoshan's demand for spiritual energy had become even more terrifying. With enough spirit stones, the Great Nirvana Art could fully satisfy Sun Xiaoshan's spiritual energy needs.
Unfortunately, the Hongmeng Burning Heaven Art was only at a nascent stage of mastery, unable to fully absorb and refine the spiritual energy devoured by the Great Nirvana Art.
The blood pills harvested from the Kui Jian Sect proved to be of great use, perfectly compensating for the shortcomings of the nascent Hongmeng Burning Heaven Art.
Huu...
Outside the forbidden area, tens of kilometers of spiritual energy turned into a gentle breeze, converging into the forbidden area, forming a faint, colossal vortex above the entire forbidden area.
The spiritual energy from twenty spirit stones was still not the limit of the perfected Great Nirvana Art, let alone Sun Xiaoshan, who had already reached the peak Mahayana realm.
Rumble...
Thunder suddenly roared in the sky, and dark clouds covered the heavens. At a certain moment, Sun Xiaoshan's aura surged into the sky, directly dispersing the clouds above!
In three months, after consuming eighty spirit stones, he had barely managed to advance his cultivation from the peak Mahayana realm to the early Celestial Venerable stage!
In the game of the Heavenly Dao, the spirit stones consumed by Sun Xiaoshan to purchase attributes that manifested as strength would have been enough to reach the Star Realm, beyond the Great Power realm!
Yet, here, it had only allowed Ye Yun's embodiment to advance from Mahayana to the Celestial Venerable realm!
However, he was already very satisfied with this Ye Yun. After all, the strongest in this world was no more than peak Celestial Venerable. With Sun Xiaoshan's current strength, cultivators of such a realm could be annihilated with a flick of his finger.
Huu...
Sun Xiaoshan exhaled a breath. All the spirit stones and blood pills in front of him turned to dust and seeped into his skin. Soon, a faint golden light flickered on his skin's surface, and the strength of his physical body was rapidly increasing at a terrifying rate.