71: Chapter 71 Battlefield Enters the Nation, the Prototype of the Demigod Legion

When Wang Pingan emerged from the Forbidden Secret Realm, Clan Leader Wang Tianhe was still waiting outside the stone gate.

Seeing that his expression was normal, Clan Leader Wang Tianhe nodded with a smile, not asking further about what had happened inside the secret realm.

Some things are better left known only to oneself.

After returning to his secret chamber, Wang Pingan did not rest and immediately sat down cross-legged.

His divine sense sank into his divine core, and his consciousness descended upon the firmament of his Divine Kingdom.

The vast land of 2,500 square kilometers spread out beneath his feet. His thirty thousand subjects were each at their posts: the Eastern Immortal Dao Ancestral Court was shrouded in spiritual mist, the Northwestern Martial Dao Holy City had blood qi soaring into the sky, and the battle flags at the Northern Military Camp stood motionless.

Wang Pingan took out two B-rank Battle Formation cards.

The dark golden Xuanjia Zhenyue Formation hung above the northwest, while the silver-white Xinghuo Liancheng Formation hung above the east.

As the two rays of light descended, the entire Divine Kingdom fell briefly silent.

Wang Shan was the first to notice the change.

He was leading five hundred Blood-Condensing Martial Heavy Armor troops in the drill grounds to refine their blood qi combined attack technique when he looked up and saw the dark golden Battle Formation card hanging in the firmament. The image of the blood qi shield formation on the card was clearly reflected in his eyes.

"What is this?" Wang Shan stood up abruptly, his eyes fixed on the firmament.

At the same time, in the east, Wang Mu also saw the silver-white Battle Formation card. The Artillery Battalion's firepower chain and the Sword Qi Battalion's linkage nodes depicted on the card left him stunned in place.

Wang Pingan's divine oracle descended.

"Wang Shan, the Xuanjia Zhenyue Formation is yours to comprehend. It is adapted for the Martial Heavy Armor legion; unite the shield formation and resonate the blood qi."

"Wang Mu, the Xinghuo Liancheng Formation is yours to comprehend. It is adapted for the Artillery Battalion, Sword Qi Battalion, and Formation Hall; coordinate the long-range firepower chain."

"The upper limit of both formations is a 2nd Order God."

As these last few words fell, the crimson flame saber in Wang Shan's hand almost slipped from his grasp.

Wang Mu also froze in place.

A 2nd Order God.

Their current Foundation Establishment and Blood Condensation legions used the improved version of the Xianwu Meat Grinder Array, which could crush opponents of the same rank and barely hold their own against those of higher ranks.

But that was only a fighting style for the novice stage.

What was the concept of a legion under a 2nd Order God?

Golden Core cultivators, Martial Ancestor generals, hundred-thousand-strong legions, and mountain-protecting formations.

The battle formations given to them by the Divine Lord could be used all the way to that stage.

They knew better than anyone what this meant.

The Divine Lord had already set his sights on a place far higher than the Seventeen Stars assessment.

And they would follow him up there.

Wang Shan gripped the hilt of his blade tightly, his gaze burning.

"Divine Lord, even if I don't sleep, I, Wang Shan, will master this formation for you."

Wang Mu was not as impulsive. He took a deep breath first, then reached out and grabbed Wang Shan, who was about to charge toward the sky.

"Wait."

Wang Shan was stunned.

"Why are you pulling me?"

Wang Mu pointed to the dense nodes on the surface of the Xuanjia Zhenyue Formation card.

"Did you look clearly? This formation's blood qi convergence points have thirty-six main nodes and one hundred and eight auxiliary nodes, and the formation eye rotation is divided into three layers."

"If you rush up now, you won't even be able to understand the first layer."

Wang Shan opened his mouth but did not refute.

Because what Wang Mu said was the truth.

He was fierce in battle, but delicate work like dismantling formations was indeed not his strong suit.

Wang Mu looked at him, his tone steadier than ever.

"I will first dismantle the node structure of the two formations and calculate the load-bearing limit of the Foundation Establishment and Blood Condensation elites."

"You are responsible for coordinating the test of the Martial Heavy Armor's blood qi connection frequency."

"We cannot rush; rushing will cause the formation base to collapse."

Wang Shan scratched his head and quickly nodded.

"Fine, we'll do it however you say."

This was the first time they did not compete for dominance but sat down to discuss military system upgrades according to the standards of Demigod Legion commanders.

Watching Wang Shan's rare cooperative attitude, Wang Mu's mouth twitched, but he didn't say anything.

Wang Pingan watched this scene and felt satisfied.

Both of his blades were growing.

Wang Mu was becoming increasingly steady and able to control the situation.

Wang Shan was becoming more capable in battle and was beginning to listen to tactics.

Only when the two of them coordinated well could the upper limit of the Immortal Martial Legion truly be unlocked.

One day in the outside world, three years in the Divine Kingdom.

The sun and moon in the firmament of the Divine Kingdom began to rotate rapidly. Spiritual mist surged in the east, blood qi steamed in the northwest, and war drums sounded one after another in the Northern Military Camp.

Wang Mu sat cross-legged before the Immortal Dharma Stele, dismantling the nodes of the Xinghuo Liancheng Formation one by one. He performed hundreds of deductions for every spiritual qi convergence point before finalizing it.

He brought the Artillery Battalion and Sword Qi Battalion over in batches to test the linkage nodes. In the first year alone, over three hundred simulations were wasted just calibrating the output frequency of the firepower chain.

Wang Shan, beside the Martial Dao Stele, led five hundred Blood-Condensing Heavy Infantry in stepping and pushing their shields over and over again.

The sensation of blood qi convergence was strange. The thirty-six main nodes had to resonate simultaneously; if one person's rhythm was slow, the entire shield wall would break its link.

In the first two years, they failed thousands of times. Every time the link broke, it resulted in the front-row heavy infantry being knocked back by the backlash of their own blood qi.

But no one complained.

They had just broken through after ten years of suppression, and the power that had been pent up in their bodies for too long needed an outlet to be consumed.

A year passed.

Wang Mu dismantled and mastered the first layer of the Xinghuo Liancheng Formation, and the Artillery Battalion began attempting coordinated volleys with two cannons.

Two years passed.

Wang Shan mastered the basic shield wall of the Xuanjia Zhenyue Formation, and small shield formations of fifty people could be stably maintained for a quarter of an hour.

Three years passed.

The second layer of the Xinghuo Liancheng Formation was activated. The three-stage linkage between ten cannons and the Sword Qi Battalion succeeded for the first time, and a round of volley fire shattered the target mountain temporarily set up in the Northern Military Camp.

The Xuanjia Zhenyue Formation officially expanded to a scale of one hundred people. The pressure-bearing capacity of the front shield wall tripled compared to the old formation, and the rear blood qi infusion also began to operate smoothly.

Wang Pingan watched all this from the firmament, his eyes growing brighter and brighter.

Only one day had passed in the outside world.

His legion had been reborn.

The Xianwu Meat Grinder Array was no longer the only reliance. After the two B-rank battle formations were embedded into the system as the underlying support, the attack and defense rhythm of the entire legion was fully unleashed.

When attacking, the long-range firepower chain of the Xinghuo Liancheng Formation provided suppression first, the Artillery Battalion focused fire in segments, and the Sword Qi Battalion blocked maneuver routes.

When defending, the Xuanjia Zhenyue Formation turned the shield wall into a true iron wall; even if the front row took a full-force blow from the opponent's high-end combat power, they could hold on by relying on the blood qi infusion from the rear.

When switching between attack and defense, the Xianwu Meat Grinder Array was responsible for cutting through the battlefield and segmenting enemies for encirclement and annihilation; the coordination of the three formations was seamless.

This was already the prototype of a Demigod Legion.

Wang Pingan withdrew his divine sense and returned to his physical body in the secret chamber.

He opened his eyes, his gaze calm, but his palm clenched involuntarily.

On Tianhai Star, he no longer had any opponents.

The place he was going next was the highest institution of the entire Human Federation.

Galaxy Deity University.

There, there were monster-level geniuses from various star regions, ruthless people who had killed their way out of bloody battles on the frontiers, and evildoers supported by 5th and 6th Order God families.

The Seventeen Stars championship was only an admission ticket.

After entering the door, everyone would stand on the same starting line again.

Wang Pingan stood up and took out the admission letter from Galaxy Deity University.

The Galaxy school emblem on the surface of the admission letter shimmered with a faint light, and the line at the very bottom, "Training Rating: Pending Review," flashed twice before settling.