Lin Chen watched as Meng Yuan, Zhang Deyuan, and Ding Yasen fled again, thinking to himself, After these several tests, the new soldiers have also been trained properly.
With only about twelve or thirteen thousand troops, they had defeated the allied forces of Zhangyang Country and Zhenning Empire, amounting to three hundred thousand soldiers. Lin Chen relied upon exactly this kind of confidence.
The Jade Cauldron Sect’s army not only possessed unfathomable killing formations but also each soldier’s aptitude and cultivation were not inferior to those of the two enemy armies.
The cultivation resources Lin Chen brought back from the Formation Sect had now rapidly enhanced the army’s strength, especially the effects of the Break-Body Pill and Void Pill.
These elixirs, which helped improve aptitude and cultivation, had enabled nearly twenty percent of the powerhouses within the Jade Cauldron Kingdom to reach the Reverting Void Realm!
Keep in mind that within these twelve or thirteen thousand troops, there were nearly twenty thousand Reverting Void Realm powerhouses. That was an enormous force.
Compared with any First Class Vassal State in the Eastern Domain, Jade Cauldron Kingdom had completely surpassed them.
Of course, Jade Cauldron Kingdom’s strength had only surpassed that of First Class Vassal States, and when compared to any of the super sects in the Formation Sect or Divine Flame Alliance, it still fell short.
After all, a super sect like the Formation Sect alone had more than a hundred thousand Outer Sect Disciples who had reached the cultivation of the Reverting Void Realm.
And that was just the situation for the Outer Sect.
If we include the Inner Sect, the number of disciples in the Sect whose cultivation had reached the Reverting Void Realm might well be as many as three to four hundred thousand.
This did not even include the force of the Sect’s War Department.
As one can imagine, the depth of a super sect like the Formation Sect’s foundation was truly profound.
Not to mention their top-notch forces, whereas within the Jade Cauldron Kingdom, the leading battle power was scarce.
After breaking through to the Half-Step Heavenly Human Realm, Yang Yuemin, Li Hanyi, and Li Xuanming also took the Heavenly Human Pills refined by Lin Chen, greatly increasing their chances of breaking through and successfully reaching the Heavenly Man Realm.
Lin Chen’s Second Soul Division had also reached the Half-Step Heavenly Human Realm, not far from the true Heavenly Man Realm.
However, Lin Chen’s Second Soul Division did not plan to break through just yet. Instead, he wanted to suppress his cultivation, make his foundation in the Half-Step Heavenly Human Realm more solid, and then seek to break through.
He was determined to build an exceptionally strong cultivation at every realm.
The reason Lin Chen had such thoughts was influenced by Wu Chao, and this idea grew increasingly firm.
After all, whether facing Zhangyang Country or Zhenning Empire, the Heavenly Man Realm powerhouses they encountered seemed to be easily defeated.
Including the warriors from the Shuanghan Royal Family that had merged into the Jade Cauldron Sect, their so-called Heavenly Man Realm cultivation was as fragile as papier-mâché in the face of real powerhouses.
Liu Yun, serving as a great general of the Shuanghan Royal Family, had the strongest fighting force among the royalty, with his cultivation reaching the fourth layer of the Heavenly Man Realm.
However, not long ago, he faced a third-layer Heavenly Man Realm martial artist—a general from the Zhenning Empire—and unexpectedly lost.
If not for Lin Chen’s timely intervention, Liu Yun might have died at the hands of the opponent.
Yet when facing that third-layer Heavenly Man Realm opponent, Lin Chen relied on a Heaven-grade Treasure and only needed a few moves to defeat him.
This left Liu Yun and other members of the Shuanghan Royal Family who had joined the Jade Cauldron Kingdom utterly shocked.
The new soldiers who had joined the Jade Cauldron Kingdom were just as astonished after witnessing the battles of the Jade Cauldron Kingdom’s veteran soldiers.
For the old soldiers of Jade Cauldron Kingdom, from generals to squad leaders to every ordinary soldier, they all possessed the strength to fight across ranks.
At one time, many had looked down on the idea of cultivating alongside the Jade Cauldron Kingdom’s army. Now, however, their attitude had completely changed. With the powerful strength of the Jade Cauldron Kingdom’s army right before their eyes, they finally realized the true gap between themselves and the Jade Cauldron Kingdom’s army.
These soldiers were nearly invincible in their respective cultivation realms.
Of course, this was relative to ordinary martial artists and not when compared to warriors of Lin Chen’s heaven-defying level.
Having witnessed the strength of Lin Chen, Xu Ma’an, and the entire Jade Cauldron Kingdom’s army, both the new recruits and former Shuanghan Royal Family warriors realized one thing: their method of cultivation seemed to have been wrong, and severely so.
They always believed that the higher the cultivation, the naturally stronger the combat power, and the earlier one broke through their cultivation, the sooner they could stay one step ahead on the path of cultivation and maintain that lead forever.
But they forgot that cultivation piled up through elixirs and the mere pursuit of breakthroughs in cultivation could not take them further on the path of martial artists.
The people discovered that following the Jade Cauldron Sect’s approach to cultivation, through diligent practice, could make up for their previous lack of a solid foundation. As long as they were willing to put in the hard work, deficiencies in cultivation could be compensated for. The rıghtful source is novel★fire.net
In Cloud Sky City, Zhao Rushi was still immersing herself daily in her alchemy room.
Over these days, with her sensitivity to elixirs and commitment to research, Zhao Rushi had finally deciphered the pill recipes for the several kinds of elixirs given to her by Lin Chen.
At present, Zhao Rushi could arguably be considered second to none among the pinnacle Fifth Grade Alchemists.
However, Zhao Rushi was also aware of her shortcomings—her cultivation was too low.
Typically, a pinnacle Fifth Grade Alchemist should be nearing the Heavenly Man Realm in terms of cultivation.
But despite her diligence and hard work, Zhao Rushi’s cultivation had only reached the Sixth Layer of the Reverting Void Realm.
Even her most cherished disciple, Wang Yilin, had surpassed her in cultivation.
Many of the younger generation within the Jade Cauldron Sect far exceeded her as well.
Because her cultivation was low, there were many high-level elixirs that Zhao Rushi could not refine, or she might encounter the situation of her furnace exploding again.
Not only would she fail to produce the elixirs, but she could even lose her life.
Luckily, Lin Chen had given her a Blue Lotus Divine Flame, which endowed her with the powerful ability to melt and refine, otherwise, she wouldn’t even be able to refine many elixirs now.
After all, the spiritual fire generated by her Reverting Void Realm Sixth Layer was far too weak.
It was precisely because she had refined the Blue Lotus Divine Flame that Zhao Rushi’s cultivation speed had been significantly improved.
Just as Zhao Rushi had organized the pill recipes she had researched, a figure suddenly appeared in the alchemy room.
Without even thinking, Zhao Rushi knew who had come.