Eternal Swordmaster
Chapter 637 - 632 Preparation 2

Chapter 637: Chapter 632 Preparation 2

"Young Master, it’s better to actively prepare for the battle,"

suggested one of the cultivators within the palace.

"With Elder Yu Xiu suppressing, there shouldn’t be a big problem, but we need to worry about whether the materials for various dao soldiers can keep up.

"If it really comes down to it, we can only sell the corpses to the Tower of Living Beings. Even though the price is a loss, it’s still better than losing the War City,"

said another person helplessly.

"Mr. Xu Chuan, please tally the current military force we have," Shen Tang said, massaging his temples, his eyes closed in a frown.

A cultivator stepped forward, glanced around, and then spoke loudly.

"First Rank Mountain Spirits, dwarves totaling two hundred and three.

Second Rank Earthbound Spirits, one hundred and thirty.

Third Rank Tree Demons, one hundred and fifteen.

Fourth Rank Snow Beasts, seventy-six. These are all the forces we have so far."

"What about the formations?"

Shen Tang’s temples throbbed at the thought of tens of thousands of huge Void Demon Spirits.

Another cultivator stepped forward and said,

"The Void Primordial Thousand-Arrow Formation has been set up. This Fifth Rank Formation, which the Young Master has spent a great deal of money on, can withstand all attacks below Sixth Rank for fifty days under the consumption of a Fifth Rank Burning Furnace. However, once activated, it will self-destruct after sixty days."

A Fifth Rank Burning Furnace...

Blood was dripping in Shen Tang’s heart.

A Fifth Rank Burning Furnace was worth tens of thousands of Contribution Points in the current market price, which was the foundation that could support the entire War City’s development for a hundred years. Once activated, no matter how strong the resistance, it would automatically destroy itself after sixty days.

Even for his family’s backing, to provide him with tens of thousands of Contribution Points in one breath was a massive expenditure. After all, Contribution Points weren’t always available for purchase.

To buy a large amount of Contribution Points, one usually has to spend three times the price of the goods that can be bought with Contribution Points to get them.

That’s the equivalent of spending resources worth thirty thousand Contribution Points to provide for him.

It would also require a huge amount of labor, material resources, and networks of relationships.

"What if the Void Primordial Thousand-Arrow Formation is destroyed? What about the backup formation?" Shen Tang asked again.

The cultivator pondered for a moment.

"The backup Pure Yang Formation has also been set up, but it must be connected to the Burning Furnace in time, or else..."

Shen Tang waved his hand.

"I understand. When the time of calamity comes, I hope everyone will work together. If the War City survives this disaster, each person will be granted a thousand mu of good land."

A thousand mu of good land! Although this was clearly not a Void territory but a small world, this land could also be granted hereditarily.

The eyes of all the cultivators suddenly lit up.

This good land wasn’t just any ordinary farmland but was specially treated with Spiritual Law. Crops, fruits, herbs, and other plants planted on it would yield results with half the effort.

And for cultivators, the land they were granted was private property, which could not be reclaimed by superiors without special conditions and reasons or unless a crime was committed.

This was almost tantamount to establishing a foundation for a family or clan.

"Willing to die for the lord!"

The crowd immediately voiced their agreement.

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Lin Xin stood on the edge of his territory, staring into the endless Void.

The red disk in the direction of Snowman City had disappeared, indicating that the energy storm was gone. Spells could be used.

These past few days, he had felt restless, as if something bad was about to happen, which is why he often came to the edge of his domain to check on things.

Fortunately, he had sent Lin Yaoyang away in advance.

"Could it be a Demon Spirit Army?"

He crouched down, stretching out his hand to touch the edge of the dimensional plane’s soil.

It was cold, hard, and somewhat prickly to the touch.

Lin Xin suddenly thought that perhaps he could use runes to create a device to detect the concentration of Void Demon Spirits.

Back in the Underworld, he had mastered the method of combining rune studies with Mechanical Techniques to create combined Formations. Now, it was simply a matter of miniaturization.

With his ability to miniaturize, he could achieve this as well.

As soon as he thought of it, he did it.

He quickly stood up, returned to the central War City, and had the Miwen Dwarves create some small Spirit Jade components the size of fingernails.

Then he personally fashioned some fine metal wires, all hollow, capable of conducting Spiritual Power.

He assembled the components according to the Mechanical Techniques Formation, and with his mastery of Formations, he quickly designed a simple Formation for detecting the aura of Demon Spirits and miniaturized it onto different little components.

Then he assembled the components according to their positions in the Formation, leaving a slot in the middle to place the Spirit Jade.

Soon, a palm-sized, compass-like black metal instrument was completed.

He picked it up and embedded a piece of Spirit Jade into it.

Click. The jade stone was set in place.

The entire disk immediately lit up, and the four symbols hovering around the dial lit up with White Light.

Ding!

Suddenly, three of the symbols turned red.

"What’s going on? Is it broken?"

Lin Xin carefully inspected it, but the Formation was working perfectly and running without problems.

But the four symbols represented four levels, indicating Demon Spirit concentration levels.

None, Low, Medium, High.

At this moment, Low, Medium, and High were all lit up in red, indicating that a large number of Demon Spirits were approaching fast.

According to the scale values Lin Xin designed,

Low level is between one thousand and ten thousand, Medium level is above ten thousand to under a hundred thousand. High level is above a hundred thousand to under five hundred thousand.

"Could it really be a Demon Spirit attack?" After checking the Formation and still seeing it lit red, Lin Xin became somewhat grave.

He connected with all the dao soldier structures in his mind, asking them to tally the total number of dao soldiers.

After waiting for a while, the dao soldier structures sent back information.

’Second Rank Steelmen, ninety-nine.’

The inscriptions dwarves couldn’t carry out a census because their architecture was damaged, which Lin Xin was aware of, due to the lack of a Taoist building to serve as a connection for transmitting energy and various routine maintenance tasks.

The inscriptions dwarves had been in continuous decline for some time, suddenly aging and dying violently.

Now only six remained, barely capable of maintaining the entire territory.

’Thirty flower demons in the small garden.’

The feedback from the small garden’s Taoist building made Lin Xin somewhat speechless.

Several months had passed, and there were only thirty flower demons.

He flew up onto the battlements of the fortress.

Looking down,

Apart from the steel men guarding various locations, all sixty steel men had already gathered and were rushing towards the city walls.

These huge creatures, four meters tall and covered in silver white, bore scars all over from battling with demon spirits.

Soon, the steel men were perfectly aligned in formation.

Then came the small flower demons.

A group of ten small flower demons flew out from the small garden one after another.

They had a pair of transparent cicada wings on their backs, each only the size of a palm, and their bodies were completely bare.

With a thought from Lin Xin, he ordered them through the small garden to cover their private parts with leaves.

By the time the little flower demons were all set, an hour had passed.

"The only ones capable of fighting are the steel men. If tens of thousands of large armies come again, my military strength won’t be enough."

Lin Xin couldn’t help feeling a little helpless in his heart.

But he also couldn’t find any place to supplement his forces in the short term.

He turned his gaze towards the small flower demons dressed in leafy outfits.

"I wonder if these little things can undergo attributes evolution."

He could clearly feel that the souls of these small flower demons were much stronger than those of the previous mud monsters and mountain spirit dwarves.

The mountain spirit dwarves and mud monsters could only be strengthened to the second rank.

The most common were the mud monsters: evolving from mud monsters to mud people, then to stone people, and finally to iron people and steel people.

It was said that in ancient times, the intelligence of Taoist seeds’ constructs was higher.

Whether it was true or not was still unknown.

Lin Xin ordered a small flower demon to fly over.

A small green-haired flower demon at the end of the group hesitated, her little face showing fear, but still shakily flew towards him and landed on Lin Xin’s palm.

"Can you speak?"

"Yiyiya~~"

The little flower demon opened her cherry mouth and cried out, her voice sounding very pleasant, crisp and cute, but it didn’t have any substantial meaning.

"Alright then," Lin Xin shook his head.

The more a construct fought and evolved, the faster it enhanced his cultivation.

So...

A white light slowly surged from his body and transferred into the small flower demon.

Yiyiya~~~

The small flower demon immediately screamed as a gentle white light enveloped her.

Her body quickly grew larger and heavier, and in the surrounding air, numerous unknown substances were drawn over and converged into her body.

Many pale yellow luminous spots seeped out from the ground and surged into her skin.

The small flower demon rapidly grew, her features maturing greatly from their original tenderness.

Lin Xin released her to land on the ground.

By now, the small flower demon had grown to over half the height of a person, similar to a girl around ten years of age.

’Big Flower Demon: Fifth-grade Taoist Construct, Ability: Nursing plants, promoting growth.’

Lin Xin sensed that the little creature’s soul seemed able to endure more, so he continued the transmission of attributes at an average rate of ten points per second.

Seconds quickly passed.

The Big Flower Demon underwent another transformation, her body started appearing ethereal, turning semi-transparent.

’Flower Demon Queen: First-rank Taoist Construct, Ability: Plant control, creation of simple illusions, seeding.’

In the midst of the white light, the grown flower demon stood nearly as tall as half of Lin Xin’s height, close to one meter forty.

She looked like an ordinary young girl.

"In the end, it’s still no use. After so many attributes have been transferred, it’s only a first-rank Taoist construct," sighed Lin Xin, feeling somewhat disappointed inwardly.

The Flower Demon Queen was already at the limit of what the small flower demon could withstand.

She now resembled a sixteen-year-old girl, with cicada wings on her back, green long hair draped over her shoulders, and her chest and lower body each covered by green leaves.

Just as he was feeling somewhat dejected, an action by the Flower Demon Queen made his eyelids twitch, causing a bit of astonishment in his heart.

He saw the Flower Demon Queen reach forward with her small hand and suddenly, a purple spiky oval fruit that resembled a pineapple appeared out of thin air.

"What is this?"

Before he could react, he saw the Flower Demon Queen toss the fruit to the ground.

The fruit instantly dissolved into the soil and vanished beneath the icy permafrost.

"Back to master, this is a kind of plant seed that can trap demon spirits. I’ve brought it here to sow, and it will grow shortly," explained the Flower Demon Queen.

The Flower Demon Queen could actually respond.

She smiled and said, "As your conjured subordinates, we can all communicate directly with your mind."

"A plant that preys on demon spirits?" Lin Xin’s heart started to feel a bit expectant.

"Yes, we Flower Demon Queens can capture a type of seed, then control its growth, and replace its will with our own. Then we fully become the other."

Her response immediately piqued Lin Xin’s interest.

"What about rank position?"

"It ignores rank position," replied the Flower Demon Queen calmly.