Divine Brilliance

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

“The Black Fox Iron Cavalry are good at Illusionary Techniques and spells and their tracks are ethereal and tough to pick up. They are good at ambushing and can travel long distances to attack. The only time when they are slightly weaker is when they are charging at formations…”

“My view is that the Black Fox Iron Cavalry has many Double Cultivators and their talents are really rare. We can’t ask for much Formation Charging Ability from them. Why don’t we prepare a reserve mount that has thick leather and whose movement speed is around that of the Grade-5 Silver Scale Wind Stepping Beast!”

When he saw this, Zong Shou laughed. This was exactly what he thought.

“Since they are Double Cultivators, we can let them learn one or two explosive spells. We don’t have to worry about the strength of the spells initially, just that they need to be used in front of the formations. No need for preparations, no need for seals, those that can be cast with just a thought. To mess up the enemy formation would mean that the Cavalry army would have no more flaws…”

He closed the document and was in deep thought.

He had a rough structure for the Support Technique of the Black Fox Iron Cavalry.

He did want to strengthen the Formation Charging Ability of the Black Fox Iron Cavalry.

However, thinking about it now, based on his original idea, the added strength wouldn’t be much.

Why not follow Zhuang Yu’s suggestion, to continue to work on the spells that they were good at, to strengthen it even further.

However, if he was to do so, then everything that he prepared would have to be replanned.

Moreover, was the problem of an instant cast spell. Although the Black Fox Iron Cavalrymen were Double Cultivators, they still mainly focused on the Martial Path.

To think of a spell that these people could cast instantly wasn’t an easy matter…

Apart from those two points, the other things were small matters.

Zhuang Yu was a responsible person, he knew when to advance and retreat but wasn’t good at holding power. He handed the sensitive matters to Zong Shou’s few Army Generals to handle.

Next were the factionless cultivators that wanted to join the Great Gan Celestial Dynasty.

Zhuang Yu also didn’t dare to take such matters into his own hands. After all, he didn’t know if these people were reliable.

He also delayed the issue, waiting for Zong Shou to return so he could make the decisions for himself.

When they were at there greatest number, there were a total of 67 factionless cultivators who wanted to join. However, maybe after they saw that the situation wasn’t good, they all ran. There were only slightly over 20 people left now.

Zhuang Yu estimated that these people were either not afraid to die, supported Great Gan or were so dumb that they didn’t even realize the situation. Either that or they had their own motives.

Zong Shou was happy but he also knew that this person hadn’t truly placed himself as a member of the Great Gan system.

He considered many things and carefully dealt with all matters, trying his best not to cross that line.

This was a good thing but in the long term he might feel alienated.

When facing special situations, Zhuang Yu’s unwillingness to make decisions would cause them to suffer losses.

He wasn’t a Ruler that didn’t trust his men. With Great Gan Celestial Dynasty’s system, the possibility of subjects rebelling was really small. Zhuang Yu really didn’t need to act like he was doing so now…

Zong Shou shook his head. He could only talk about such issues in the future. It wasn’t the right time for him to deal with it now.

In just an hour, Zong Shou dealt with all the matters. Next would be to discuss with the various Generals how to take out elites to build and complete the Big Dipper Sword Soldiers and Big Dipper Crossbow Soldiers and arrange for them to have drills together.

Chahou Hu’s armors would arrive in a month.

Although the Grade-4 and above cultivators did drills usually, most of them also started training in the Support Techniques and had some understanding, but they didn’t have proper training yet. They didn’t turn into a true army which was why they needed to utilize the time they had left to do so.

Within Yuanlian World, the people below Xiantian Realm could also be put to work.

Once he was to conquer the other worlds, his main force would still rely on these proper Xuan and Huang Grade Dao Soldiers.

War focused on quality and not quantity. At most, he would recruit some weaker servants to add to the army locally.

Building up these two proper Huang and Xuan Grade Dao Soldiers and increasing the combat strength of the Black Fox Iron Cavalry, that was the most important thing for Great Gan now.

However, it was easier said than done. Once Zong Shou started on it, it was really complicated.

Even with Zhuang Yu and Shi Ruolan assisting, it took him 3 days to barely arrange all matters.

On that day, the first merchant group from Shura Race had silently arrived outside of Yuanlian World.

At this moment, the Nine Capital Celestial Court and Tianfang Guild ships had suffered heavy losses.

Under the suppression of Shi Ruolan, they were reducing their range of activity.

Who knows if they noticed this fleet or maybe they knew that it was the Shura Race, they actually didn’t try to block them.

500 Spirit Realm Slaves, 10 Taiyi God Lightning Ships and also the materials he bought to refine and craft Dao Soldiers. They all arrived as agreed, none of them were lacking.

The other things were okay, those 10 ships made Shi Ruolan so happy that she jumped up and down in joy.

The various navy forces were all on cloud nine.

These were the proper warships of the outer region. In comparison, their Spaceships couldn’t even be considered passenger ships. They relied on those Energy Destroying God Crossbows and Nine Arm Spiritual Crossbows which was how they barely had some combat ability.

Not only was each tower on the ship as powerful as a peak Celestial Realm Cultivator, its durability and toughness were great too.

Once they had them, the combat strength of the navy would instantly increase by dozens of folds.

But Zong Shou paid more attention to were those 500 Spirit Realm Slaves as well as the ingredients to refine them.

The exact day that he collected these “goods”, he went into secluded mediation once more.

Refining a Heaven Grade Dao Soldier required a full day. On the other hand, Earth Grade required around 6 hours.

Logically speaking, to refine all these slaves and also those Celestial Realm Cultivators sealed in the Jade Plate, he would need close to a year.

Luckily, he still had the Book of Eon and he also had some newly obtained Celestial Stones.

His days also passed quite leisurely. Each day he would refine 1-2 Dao Soldiers and spend the rest of his time studying the suggestions from Zhuang Yu in perfecting the Black Fox Iron Cavalry Support Cultivation Techniques.

He was progressing at the speed of light. Even when he was having problems, there was Aokun and Aoyi several worlds away.

He would often gain something by seeking help from these two people.

In just 12 days, he had a rough outline and started to ask all the Black Fox Cavalrymen to modify their cultivation methods.

Luckily, the armor that he custom made didn’t require any modifications.

The restrictions within the armor were to defend the cavalrymen and also to try to strengthen the power of their spells.

This was why Zong Shou just needed to make some slight changes before he sent the blueprints to Chahou Hu.

It wouldn’t cause the date when the Black Fox Iron Cavalry became a proper army to be delayed any further.

Based on Zong Shou’s plans, although the cavalry wouldn’t be like the Blood Cloud Cavalry, absorbing Vital Energy to increase strength, when they were in large numbers, their meridians could be connected. Under the control of the leader, they would also be able to cast strong spells on a large scale.

As long as there were over 10,000 of them, they would be able to totally suppress the same number of Blood Cloud Cavalry.

The more of them, the more their combat strength would increase in folds.

However, it wasn’t truly stronger than the latter. The Blood Cloud Cavalry only needed the weapon and armor to be prepared, training them was really easy.

As for the Black Fox Iron Cavalry, they had to be at least Grade-6 and above.

Each of them had their strengths and weaknesses and it was hard to decide which was stronger or weaker.

There weren’t many people suitable to become Black Fox Iron Cavalry. Even when the custom made equipment arrived, there would only be around 9,000 of them.

However, with this Iron Cavalry, he would truly have the strength to fight outer region battlefields, to go up against the forces of those four sides. He didn’t need to solely rely on the Heaven and Earth Grade Dao Soldiers as well as Aokun.

On the twenty-fourth day, the second Shura Race fleet followed.

This time, the 15,000 armors and weapons that Zong Shou requested to be custom made arrived, as well as a full 35,000 Grade-6 Horned Lightning Rhinos which was the formation charging mount he chose for the Black Fox Iron Cavalry arrived too.

They were a little cumbersome but they were quite fast and their skin was thick. Their Charging Ability was pretty much the best out of beasts of the same grade and when thousands of them charged, the Lightning Power could spread for hundreds of miles.

If one added the spells that the cavalrymen could cast, their fighting strength would immediately send chills down the spines of the enemies.

Apart from that, the equipment of the 60,000 Big Dipper Sword Soldiers and Big Dipper Crossbow Soldiers had also arrived.

The only awkward thing was that the self-made core parts Great Gan made were far worse than the armors and weapons that the Shura Race crafted.

This caused all the equipment to drop by half a grade which was something the soldiers below all grumbled about.

At this moment, not only did the Buddhist Faction and Sword Sect Cultivators find that something was up, but even Zhuang Yu who was born on Yuanlian World sensed it.

In less than a month, Great Gan Celestial Dynasty’s strength in Yuanlian World had grown by several folds.

8,000 Black Fox Iron Cavalry, 40,000 Big Dipper Sword Soldiers, 20,000 Big Dipper Crossbow Soldiers were all built.

In the other region, there were 10 Taiyi God Lightning Ships that could compare to 200-300 Spaceships.

For only half a Yuanlian World to provide all this was still insufficient.

The Dao Soldiers who Zong Shou recruited were mostly lined up within the Celestial Palace after he refined them.

He could hide this from others but not from those who lived in the palace along with him.

News spread within the palace and everyone would find out. Moreover, hundreds of Celestial and Spirit Realm Cultivators had just appeared from nowhere.

How was Great Gan supposed to provide for so many Celestial Realm Cultivators?

They had many doubts in their hearts but as Zong Shou was in secluded meditation they couldn’t disturb him.

Actually, they just needed to think back to what Zong Shou said to Feng Taiji in the outer region and they would roughly understand a part of it.

They were all extremely nervous and they all prepared deep down.

Zhuang Yu didn’t bother about what Zong Shou was doing, directly helping him to train the troops.

Since a war was about to arrive, naturally he hoped that the troops under him would be strong and elite.

Exactly a month later, Zong Shou stepped out of the room.

All the Dao Soldiers were complete. The news he received now was that after a full month, Feng Taiji finally got to meet Hong Jiuchen.

He laughed coldly. To drag for a full month, the attitudes of those few people were obvious.