Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 613 - 608 Territory IV

Chapter 613: Chapter 608 Territory IV

This was a specially made Array Plate that isolated sensing, breath, and Spiritual Energy, known as the Concealment Formation.

Although it was only Second Rank, if taken to the market in White Jade City, it would still fetch five Contribution Points.

If there had been enough time, Lin Xin had also planned to make Array Plates and Array Flags to sell.

Regrettably, time was too tight, and he did not have a background in studying formations. Once time passed, he would gradually be able to launder his savings and abilities through the battle city, which was also one of the main reasons he had come out here.

This place was in the Void’s Outer Regions, countless Spirit Miles away from the Mortal Realm. Even powerful beings couldn’t monitor him all the time.

Decades later, showing outstanding talent in formations and Alchemy Dao wouldn’t easily arouse suspicion.

Lowering his formation defenses, Lin Xin released his mental sensing while pinching a simple Decree in his hand.

In an instant, threads of Spiritual Energy, mixed with his mind, spread out in all directions with him at the center.

The strength of a Fifth Rank Human Immortal’s Scouting Technique easily covered the entire battle city and then rapidly expanded outward.

However, soon Lin Xin’s expression slightly changed as he noticed that his spiritual power consumption was excessively high while using this technique.

Normally, he could sustain this technique for a day and a night, but now, in just a short while, he had used up one-third of his spirit.

It seemed that something in the Void severely hindered his spiritual transmission.

Pure spiritual power alone actually couldn’t spread far; if not for the assistance of the Spiritual Energy network, achieving even a tenth of the current range would have been impressive.

But now, being suppressed, Lin Xin felt his technique hardly reached beyond the battle city and then stalled, unable to expand any further.

"I need to personally check the surroundings," he muttered, narrowing his eyes and squeezing his hand, immediately dispersing the technique.

Activating his Escape Skill, his entire body suddenly vanished from the spot.

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Outside the city, in a snowy area, several dark, humanoid creatures slowly crawled out of the snow.

These black humanoids had no eyes, no nose, no ears; their bodies were smooth all over, flawless like glass, devoid of any hair, their heads oval-shaped, and slick; their faces had only one feature, a mouth that occupied half of their faces.

Ha....!

As they drilled out of the snow, they made sounds similar to exhaling.

Che.

A monster clawed into the snowy ground and stone below with ease, shattering them.

Che!

A green silhouette suddenly appeared not far away, watching these creatures from a distance.

"Are these the Void demons recorded in the Jade Talisman?"

Lin Xin carefully observed these Void demons. They displayed no aura, their whole bodies were smooth as glazed glass, even reflective; they had a singular opening, a mouth, no genitals, and sharp claws on their limbs while their mouths were full of saw-like sharp teeth, with a black tongue like a snake’s flicking between shiny white teeth.

Huh huh...

The Void demons seemed to sense something and suddenly turned their heads toward Lin Xin.

Ah!!

Suddenly, they screamed, like suddenly crying children, moving all limbs and running swiftly through the snow, fiercely pouncing towards Lin Xin.

"I clearly concealed and retracted my aura..."

Lin Xin frowned slightly, waving his hand gently.

Chi chi chi!

Successive sounds echoed as invisible Vigor Qi carved a deep trench in the snow, instantly bisecting several Void demons around the waist.

With a flash, he quickly appeared in another part of the snowy field.

The five newly emerged Void demons were instantly dismembered.

After repeating this many times, all the Void demons around the battle city were temporarily eradicated by Lin Xin.

He also discovered that using spell techniques in the Void consumed three times as much as it did in the Mortal Realm. However, merely using strength was completely unaffected.

For someone as physically robust as him, this was indeed good news.

However, after clearing out the small demons, he sensed that in a more distant part of this small world, more and more small demons were beginning to gather.

Looking at the number, there were at least a hundred.

Although he could handle them himself, according to what was said on the Jade Talisman, these Void demons were endless. In the Void, the restoration of Spiritual Energy was very slow, so even a Fifth Rank could only operate at a deficit. Thus, to truly support a battle city, there were only two methods.

One could either invite a Sixth Rank powerhouse to preside over the early stages. Though Sixth Rank was also operating at a deficit, their endurance far exceeded that of Fifth Rank, so they could sustain it for a few years.

Or build up Dao troops quickly to match quantity with quantity. These Void demons’ bodies contained many minerals and various materials for creating Dao troops. As long as there were burning furnaces and refining devices to support it, it was possible to sustain continuously.

Knowing that this was just the beginning, Lin Xin, with a chill in his heart, quickly returned to the city. He entered the special Concealment Formation.

This was a special formation he had made, according to the information on Void Demon Spirits he had previously collected.

It might be able to isolate the Demon Spirit’s perception of this place.

Sitting within the Formation and waiting for a while, the Void Demon truly did not approach any further and seemed somewhat puzzled as it scurried around. Then, after searching for a while, it slowly dispersed and left.

Lin Xin also did not dare to provoke these Void Demons anymore. At this time, the Dao Troop’s construction seemed to have slowed down.

He immediately thought of the problem, hurriedly took out the Burning Furnace he was carrying, and gently tossed it into the air.

The red-glowing little stone shot into the air, then hissed as it fell from the sky and firmly embedded itself in the ground at the center of the city.

The operation of the Dao Troop’s construction quickly resumed.

With everything ready, Lin Xin then slowly sat down, operated the Green Yuan Decision, and adjusted his breath to recover his Spiritual Energy.

Time flew by, and soon a day had passed.

By noon the next day,

from the entrance of the Mountain God Platform, a small Green dwarf slowly emerged with big eyes, a flat nose, a tiny mouth, and thick limbs and buttocks.

This little dwarf immediately ran to stand still in front of Lin Xin, staring at him without blinking.

Lin Xin slowly recovered from his meditation, carefully observing the dwarf.

Dressed in green vine-woven garments, muscular contours on his body were very solid, and his hair was also a messy green with several small grasses sprouting from it.

Most importantly, he had no aura whatsoever—no Spiritual Energy, no life force, not even a Soul.

"Go work," Lin Xin commanded with a thought.

The little dwarf immediately twisted his ***** and ran toward the city wall, then somehow pulled out a hammer from somewhere and began to knock around, repairing the wall.

Considering this, Lin Xin took out some stones from his Storage Ring and gave the little dwarf orders to construct a war fortress. He also transmitted the specifications, size, and structure of the fortress through the Mental Link into the Mountain God Platform.

In this way, the dwarfs emerging from the Mountain God Platform would automatically join the construction of the fortress.

No sooner had he finished than the other side’s mud puddle began to gurgle.

A muddy figure, its body flowing with foul mud, climbed out of the mud puddle, and stood firm in front of Lin Xin.

This mud creature had no facial features, only limbs, and it was unclear by what senses it perceived the outside world.

"Go outside, find a spot for an ambush, and give a warning if a Void creature approaches," Lin Xin instructed.

The mud creature then moved slowly toward the city’s exterior.

Lin Xin looked at the mud puddle, which was still producing mud creatures, and realized that the little dwarfs were building the fortress around the area enclosing the two Dao Troops’ buildings, using the city wall as one side for support.

Under Lin Xin’s command, they managed to enclose this small area, creating a semi-circular defensive camp.

It took a full five days to build this camp, starting slowly at first because there was only one little dwarf.

Later, as more and more dwarfs appeared, by the fifth day, five little dwarfs were dragging large hammers around, clinking and clattering, and quickly completed the fortress.

They were very efficient; each could bring stones from the snowy ground in a moment, melt them into bricks with their innate Spell Methods, stack them together, and then coat them with a layer of snow powder.

On the fourth day, a heavy snow fell from the sky, covering most of the fortress.

Thus, when it was completely built on the fifth day, the whole fortress was perfectly hidden in a corner within the city, its surface white as the surrounding snow-covered ground.

All five little dwarfs stopped their work and quickly returned to the Mountain God Platform.

The mud puddle also produced five mud creatures, which Lin Xin dispatched around the city to find five spots to spread out and bury themselves as mud puddles, ready to detect any approaching Void Demons immediately.

He himself began to study the effects of the Void Demons on him.

Occasionally venturing out, he hunted the wandering Void Demons around him. After calculations, he found that it took nearly a hundred Void Demons to provide him with one attribute point.

Their bodies were full of flesh, but their souls were very scarce, making them extremely primitive with only basic survival and feeding instincts, which was why he got so few attribute points from them.

However, their reproductive ability was terrifying. He personally witnessed a Void Demon split into two individuals after growing to a certain size, with the newly formed individual just needing to quickly consume some black soil from the ground to grow into a complete entity within a few hours.

This fully grown entity was similar in actual combat to a regular Demon Spirit, nowhere near the level of a Demon General.

After gaining a rough understanding of the surrounding environment, Lin Xin felt at ease staying inside the war city, accumulating small dwarfs and mud creatures.

As the days passed, about a month later,

inside his constructed fortress, thirty-five Mountain Essence dwarfs were scurrying around, continuously inspecting the internal situation of the fortress and reinforcing it.

Then, following Lin Xin’s instructions, they created several hidden living rooms by partitioning sections of the space.

All the mud creatures were sent out, dispersed around to scout.

These mud creatures, devoid of any Spiritual Energy or signs of life, quietly surveyed the surroundings thoroughly.

Lin Xin sat in a small hallway he had built at the very center of the fortress, his seat the only stone chair there.

Through his sacrificial connection with the Dao Troop’s construction, he could clearly sense the distribution and ambush locations of the mud creatures.

"Relying solely on First Grade mud creatures and dwarfs is completely meaningless; ultimately, I must elevate their levels,"