154: Chapter 154 Defending a Hundred Cities, Unveiling the Battle Record

For the second time condensing his Martial Domain, he suppressed his Qi and blood around the blade. The crimson flame saber could not withstand the power, and several old notches continued to extend inward.

Wang Shan retracted his blade and turned around, his Qi and blood domain shifting along with him. The training wooden stakes, Formation Flags, and weapon racks within a hundred zhang were all overturned together, scattering all over the ground.

The manager of the Medical Cultivator Camp shouted a reminder across the blockade formation, "Commander, the Martial Ancestor's Domain focuses on control. No matter how much Qi and blood you have, if you cannot suppress it, it is just chaotic force!"

"I know, there's no need for you to shout from a hundred miles away! Prepare the medicine first, you lot will have plenty of work later!"

Although Wang Shan gave a tough reply, when expanding his Martial Domain for the third time, he slowed down his blade momentum, attempting to incorporate every strand of externalized Qi and blood into his own perception.

The nine-section top-grade Spiritual Veins simultaneously nourished two Breakthrough areas, and the consumption of Spiritual Qi continued to climb. The Northern Mining Area was the first to experience a reverse flow.

The Spiritual Qi originally supplied to the Ancestral Court poured into the mining layers along the underground hidden veins. The gravity forging platforms were overloaded one after another, and three safe mining tunnels simultaneously issued collapse warnings.

The three new cities adjacent to the mining area were implicated, the defensive array lights dimming one after another, and the energy supply of the civilian water network and the academy fluctuated accordingly.

Inside the Ancestral Court headquarters, a deputy gripped the main array token of the entire territory. As long as the Nine-Ring Array Network was fully opened, Spiritual Qi could be drawn from the thirty-six cities.

Just as the token was about to fall, Wang Mu's voice came from inside the closed-door cultivation array platform, piercing through the thunder and array gates to suppress the noise of the entire headquarters.

"Seal two sections of Spiritual Veins, let the three sets of cycles run independently, and don't use the entire territory to back me up."

As Wang Mu's command spread out, the three deputies simultaneously released the territory's main array and turned to pounce on the second set of consoles of the Nine-Ring Array Network.

The two top-grade Spiritual Veins leading to the Ancestral Court were forcibly cut off, and the exchange ports closed accordingly. The reverse flow of Spiritual Qi in the Northern Mining Area weakened on the spot.

The defensive arrays of the three new cities lit up again, and the energy supply of the Nursery, Medical Cultivator Camp, and academy was restored. The citizens within the cities remained in their original places according to the contingency plan.

However, the Spiritual Qi that Wang Mu could mobilize was reduced by thirty percent. The Golden Core prototype within his Dantian lost external force supplementation, and its condensation speed dropped accordingly.

Several persons in charge of the Formation Hall walked back and forth anxiously. One of them looked at Wang Pingan, waiting for the Divine Lord to reopen those two sections of Spiritual Veins.

Wang Pingan's Divine Thought swept across the three new cities, confirming that the energy supply was stable. Then, he spread his Divine Kingdom's imprint on the periphery of the Ancestral Court, blocking the scattering thunder.

"Since Wang Mu has given the order, just do as he says. What he is cultivating is his own Golden Core; he has no qualification to use three cities to pave the way for himself."

That person in charge still wanted to speak, but Wang Pingan raised his hand to suppress the thunder fire at the edge of the array platform, controlling the expanding damaged area within a hundred miles.

"Being short of thirty percent Spiritual Qi will only make him walk a bit slower. If he can't even endure this, then his years of cultivating the Nine-Ring Array Network would have been in vain."

The crowd from the Formation Hall retreated to their respective positions and re-examined the two closed Spiritual Veins. No one mentioned opening the territory-wide main array again.

Inside the array platform, Wang Mu felt the reduction of Spiritual Qi. Instead of demanding resources from the outside, he continued to lower the pill condensation speed, gradually compressing the three sets of cycles.

Every time the Spiritual Qi completed a cycle, the Golden Core prototype became a layer more solid, and the cracks left by the Lightning Tribulation were once again incorporated into the internal array patterns.

At the military camp training ground, Wang Shan had continuously expanded his Martial Domain seven times. The ground within a hundred zhang had dropped by three feet, and the crimson flame saber was still enduring the scouring of Qi and blood.

Every time the blade momentum moved forward, the Martial Domain could smoothly spread out, but once the Qi and blood reached the edge, it would lose control and rush straight toward the military formation a hundred miles away.

Wang Shan could only forcibly retract his blade, dragging the rushed-out power back into his body. The Qi and blood backlash shook open his old injuries, and blood seeped from his shoulders and back one after another.

The Medical Cultivator Camp asked him to suspend his Breakthrough several times, but Wang Shan acted as if he hadn't heard. He wiped the blood off his shoulder and grasped the crimson flame saber once more.

He was used to charging into formations, used to pouring all his power in front of the enemy, but the Martial Ancestor's Domain required him to hold every single spot within a hundred-zhang range in his hands, allowing not the slightest loss of control.

Expanding his Martial Domain for the eighth time, the Saber Qi crossed the boundary of the training ground, and position number five hundred and seventy-two in the military formation entered his line of sight.

There were no armored soldiers there, only an old shield preserved to this day. Inscribed on the shield's surface were Wang Chuan's military rank and his battle achievements in defending the seventh array eye.

After the battle of the encirclement by the three deities, the legion did not fill this position, and during daily drills, the corresponding empty space was left out so that later generations would remember that array eye.

The blade in Wang Shan's hand stopped in mid-air. The externalized Qi and blood had already approached the hundred-mile boundary, and it was only a few zhang away from crashing into the blockade camp.

Before his death, Wang Chuan did not pursue the enemy, nor did he leave the array eye. He used his life to jam the poisoned spear, protecting the main Formation Plate behind him.

If Wang Chuan had been missing from that battle, the seventh array eye would have collapsed long ago, the sea of poison would have poured into the outpost, and the fifty thousand-strong army could not have waited for reinforcements from the rear.

Wang Shan clenched the hilt of his blade, for the first time not sending the blade edge forward. He turned the blade body, forcibly pressing the out-of-control Qi and blood back into the hundred-zhang training ground.

The externalized power slammed back into his body, and the old injuries on his chest and abdomen split open one after another, yet he did not take a step back, his feet nailed in front of the crimson flame saber as if they had taken root.

The edge of the Martial Domain retreated bit by bit, and the churning sand and stones a hundred zhang away fell back to the ground. The blockade camp and the Medical Cultivator Camp did not suffer the slightest impact.

Wang Shan suppressed all the Qi and blood within the range of the training ground, enduring the backflow with his own flesh and blood, and the ground that was originally collapsing outward finally stopped.

"Anyone can charge into a formation; protecting the people behind me is something I can do just as well."

Looking at the empty space number five hundred and seventy-two, with the crimson flame saber horizontal before him, the hundred-zhang Martial Domain had a complete boundary for the first time.

At the same time, in the center of the Task Hall of Xinghe University, the encrypted battle records sealed for twenty days unsealed their permissions without warning, and the main light screen unfolded accordingly.

The federal audit document occupied the entire light screen, and all trajectories of Carlo forcibly accessing the coordinates of the student's Divine Kingdom were publicly listed.

The audit record clearly stated that Carlo initiated the invasion first, followed by Baal and Tuya forcibly merging their tracks, and three alien deities jointly besieged and killed the federal student.

Wang Pingan's counter-campaign after seizing the space channel was defined by the federal audit as a legitimate extension of self-defense, with no illegal pioneering or private plundering involved.

The three Divine Kingdoms of Carlo, Baal, and Tuya, along with all Origins, Spiritual Veins, divine corpses, and military equipment wreckage, entirely belonged to Wang Pingan personally.

The people in the hall who were originally discussing the freshman rankings stopped what they were doing, their gazes simultaneously falling on the battle results column below the audit record.

[Participant: Wang Pingan, a Tier 1 Human Race deity.]

[Hostile Targets: Three Tier 1 alien deities, three hundred thousand alien legions.]

[Battle Results: Slashed and shattered three alien divine cores, annexed three alien Divine Kingdoms.]

[New Territory Added: One hundred and twenty thousand square kilometers.]

[Audit Conclusion: Legitimate self-defense, ownership of spoils of war is undisputed.]

A few short lines of records pressed in the center of the light screen, and no one made a sound in the hall. The previously circulated rumors of severe injuries and damaged Foundations were all knocked back to where they came from.

A scion from a noble family stared at "three divine cores" several times, still unwilling to believe it, and hurriedly brought up Wang Pingan's Realm records before entering the task.