249: Chapter 249 Constructing Teleportation

But the scene before him... Ten million? That's not even enough for the remainder!

At this scale, I fear that even if he pulled out all the elites of his Xuanhuang Empire, they might not be able to suppress the other side in terms of Aura!

He turned his head abruptly and looked at Lin Tian, who was standing on the city wall beside him, looking down at his own "belongings" with great interest. His voice carried a faint, imperceptible tremor due to extreme shock:

"Lord... Lord Lin Tian... forgive Li for his lack of insight, but may I ask how many soldiers the Lord intends to take with him this time?"

Hearing this, Lin Tian turned his head, a confident smile on his face, as if the terrifying legion below, which would make any monarch lose sleep, was just a group of "guards" in his courtyard.

"Oh, that!" Lin Tian pointed downward casually with his thumb.

"For this expedition, I intend to take eighty million. I have to leave some people to look after the house; after all, the territory is large and there are many things to do."

He said it lightly, as if he were talking about taking eight thousand yuan out for a stroll.

"Eighty... eighty million?" Li Yi gasped, feeling his heart gripped by this number.

Eighty million elites, all at least at the Platinum rank? This is no longer just "overpowered"; this is simply an existence that breaks the balance!

Lin Tian didn't seem to notice Li Yi's loss of composure, or perhaps he did but didn't care. He continued to ask:

"With me bringing these people, it should be enough to 'loosen the bones' of that Karl, right? On the other hand, your Xuanhuang Empire, being able to stalemate with Karl's undead army of nearly a hundred million for so long, your foundation shouldn't be thin, right?"

"How many troops do you intend to send to cooperate this time?"

Li Yi took several deep breaths before he could barely make his voice sound steady, though the shock on his face still remained:

"Lord Lin Tian, you make me blush. My Xuanhuang Empire... has gone through successive bloody battles with Karl, and our elite losses are not small. Now, our available troops, if we exhaust all our strength, can probably... still scrape together eighty million."

When saying this number, his heart was bitter. These eighty million were the foundation the Empire had accumulated over many years, and their combat power and equipment were likely far from comparable to this monster legion below the city wall.

"Oh? You also have eighty million?" Lin Tian's eyes lit up slightly, and he touched his chin, calculating.

"Hmm, that makes one hundred and sixty million. Against Karl's undead army of about one hundred million... the troop advantage is about 1.6 to 1. A head-on collision, the chances of winning are not small, and losses should be controllable."

A look of satisfaction appeared on his face. However, Li Yi's next words were like a basin of cold water poured on his freshly warmed calculations.

Seeing Li Yi's face show obvious worry and difficulty, he weighed his words and asked cautiously:

"Lord Lin Tian, the troop strength is certainly sufficient, even arguably robust... but, there is still one big problem."

He pointed to the east. "This place is far from the eastern front of my Xuanhuang Empire, where we mainly confront and fight Karl's army; it is about eighty thousand kilometers away. Li Yi came here this time by relying on a precious one-way teleportation scroll, at a great cost to arrive."

"If the army sets out... even if it's a forced march, supplemented by some magical acceleration, it would probably take a long time to travel non-stop. And with the war on the front line tense, soldiers are dying every day, and territories are being lost... I am afraid... we cannot wait."

He paused, looking at Lin Tian, his tone probing and earnest: "I wonder what the marching speed of the Lord's army is? Is there... any other way to arrive quickly?"

"Eighty thousand kilometers?" Lin Tian raised an eyebrow. This distance was indeed far beyond his estimation. Marching was indeed a problem? The opportunity would have long passed by then!

The Heavenly Dao mission wouldn't wait for him, and that guy Karl probably wouldn't sit still and take a beating either.

However, his face didn't show the difficulty or anxiety that Li Yi expected. Instead, he rubbed his chin and revealed a somewhat strange smile, as if he had thought of a good idea.

"Eighty thousand kilometers is quite far; walking is definitely not going to make it in time." Lin Tian nodded, then changed the subject, looking at Li Yi with a flash of cunning in his eyes.

"State Preceptor Li, let me ask you, when you teleported over, did you leave any 'marks' at the place where you landed? For example... spatial coordinates, positioning imprints, or something like that?"

Li Yi was stunned for a moment. Although he didn't understand why Lin Tian suddenly asked this, he answered honestly: "Yes. To ensure I could return to report, and to facilitate the Empire's experts to come and support if necessary, I did indeed leave a stable spatial Dao mark imbued with my Xuanhuang Imperial secret techniques. Why does the Lord ask this?"

"You have a mark? That makes it easy!" Lin Tian clapped his hands, his smile widening with a sense of "look, isn't that a coincidence" ease.

"As for the teleportation problem, State Preceptor, you don't need to worry. This humble one has his own clever plan!"

After speaking, he didn't wait for Li Yi to react, but shouted loudly towards the bottom of the city wall with full vigor: "Lin Kong! Come up! There's work to do!"

The voice wasn't loud, but it clearly spread across the city wall. Almost the moment his voice fell, Li Yi felt the space around him ripple slightly like water, and a figure appeared silently beside Lin Tian like a ghost, kneeling on one knee.

"My Lord, what are your orders?" Lin Kong's voice, like his eyes, was clean and crisp, without a trace of superfluous emotion.

"This is State Preceptor Li Yi of the Xuanhuang Empire." Lin Tian pointed to Li Yi, who was still a bit confused beside him.

"He left a spatial Dao mark near their Empire's front line, the distance is, well, about eighty thousand kilometers. You see if you can use your ability to build a spatial passage through it, so our brothers can 'walk' over directly?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Kong turned his gaze to Li Yi and nodded slightly: "State Preceptor, please hand the mark to me."

Li Yi suppressed the shock and suspicion in his heart and quickly took out a token from his bosom, neither gold nor jade, engraved with mysterious runes, and handed it to Lin Kong with both hands: "This is the 'Xuanhuang Guide' of my Xuanhuang Empire, which contains all the information of that spatial Dao mark. Just inject Mental Energy into it to sense it."

Lin Kong took the token without any nonsense and closed his eyes directly. A pure and strange fluctuation of spatial power radiated from him, wrapping around the token.

His brows furrowed slightly, as if he were carefully perceiving and analyzing the weak and complex spatial signal coming from across eighty thousand kilometers.

The city wall quieted down, with only the wind howling. Li Yi held his breath, watching Lin Kong nervously.

Establish a stable teleportation channel across eighty thousand kilometers? Even the top-tier spatial Divine-Grade archmage of the Xuanhuang Empire, with the help of precious Materials, would need long preparation and the success rate would not be high! Can this young-looking silver-haired general before him really do it?