148: Chapter 148 Settling Down, Revenge Begins

A thought flashed through Lin Xiao's mind.

Should he acquire more Troop Types in his territory and enhance his own strength by synchronizing their skills?

However, he quickly shook his head.

Since he wanted to enhance his strength, it certainly had to be powerful Troop Types; synchronizing skills from low-quality Troop Types was meaningless.

It had to be legendary grade.

However, the population occupied by legendary grade Troop Types was astonishingly high.

A Rank 5 legendary grade Troop Type required a population share of fifty thousand, ten times that of an Epic Grade.

It certainly wasn't a loss.

The strength of one legendary grade Troop Type was far greater than ten Epic Grade Troop Types.

The problem was that the Troop Types summoned via a troop talisman were at least five in number, which meant a population of two hundred and fifty thousand.

If ten were summoned, that was five hundred thousand.

This occupied population share was a bit too much.

Without barracks technology bonuses, unable to Cultivate Military Formation Techniques, and with low numbers, these legendary grade Troop Types were just street dogs compared to regular legendary grade Troop Types.

In Lin Xiao's territory, they could only serve as mascots.

The cost-effectiveness was very low just for a slight increase in Lin Xiao's strength.

Unless only one Troop Type remained, that might barely be justifiable.

"Forget it, let's talk about it after a year."

Disbanding Troop Types was equivalent to casualties.

Lin Xiao had gone to great lengths to obtain the samsara holy stele, which could guarantee zero casualties for his army; he didn't want the high points from the year-end ranking settlement to vanish into thin air.

Besides, by then, he might not even care about this slight increase in strength.

"Wait, the Legacy skill has changed."

Suddenly, Lin Xiao's gaze narrowed slightly, and he discovered with some surprise that the Legacy skills on Xue Ying and his group had changed.

The Outstanding Talent on Epic Grade Human Race Troop Types was A-Rank.

But they had become S-Rank, equivalent to Human Race heroes.

"So that's it. Being of the same Human Race, their compatibility with the Outstanding Talent Legacy skill was not low. However, Epic Grade could not bear S-Rank, so it was downgraded to A-Rank."

Lin Xiao felt surprised and delighted.

The higher the level of the passive skill Outstanding Talent, the stronger the Cultivation Aptitude and Comprehension Ability.

S-Rank was far stronger than A-Rank.

"I must prioritize raising the quality of the Human Race Troop Types."

Obviously, with S-Rank Outstanding Talent, the Human Race Troop Types were now perfectly compatible with Lin Xiao's talent, and their growth speed would become astonishing.

"Let's check the progress of the Military Formation Technique Cultivation."

Lin Xiao was not in a hurry to use up the remaining population share, preparing to wait and see the cultivation situation of the Military Formation Technique before making a decision.

The Xuan Turtle Origin Return Formation, Thunder Beast Annihilation Formation, and Wind God Soul Splitting Formation—these three Advanced Military Formation Techniques had already been distributed by Lin Xiao, allowing the Human Race Troop Types to study them carefully in their spare time from Cultivation.

However, the biggest feeling for those Human Race Troop Types who had read the Formations was that they were too difficult.

It was like reading a heavenly book.

Formations were just too obscure and difficult to understand.

And this was only Advanced Military Formation Techniques.

Lin Xiao couldn't help but feel relieved that he hadn't exchanged for Top-tier Military Formation Techniques.

Otherwise, they would just be gathering dust in his inventory.

With Level 5 Principles of Formations and Epic Grade quality, the difficulty of understanding Advanced Military Formation Techniques was too great.

As for mastering the basics, who knew how long that would take.

Compared to others, Lin Xiao's Troop Types had an additional Outstanding Talent skill.

Even with significantly improved Comprehension Ability, they couldn't understand it, let alone others.

Now, Lin Xiao understood.

Why those Rank 6 armies that invaded his territory, some of which practiced Intermediate Military Formation Techniques, didn't have a single one that had cultivated it to Perfection.

Only Lord Gao Mu's Rank 7 army had cultivated it to the realm of Perfection.

The difference between Level 5 Principles of Formations and Level 7 was truly significant.

Fortunately, after Xue Ying and his group completed their transformation, this situation had improved.

After receiving the Military Formation Techniques and studying them carefully, the reply they gave to Lin Xiao was finally no longer the monotonous "cannot understand."

Instead, it was "understand a little."

"legendary grade quality, combined with an S-Rank Outstanding Talent, is required to slightly understand Advanced Military Formation Techniques with Level 5 Principles of Formations."

Lin Xiao understood.

As long as someone could understand it, they could serve as the core to form a Military Formation, and others could just follow instructions; there was no need to wait until the territory reached Level 6 to start Cultivation.

Of course, mastering the basics was still very difficult.

Lin Xiao was not in a hurry; he did not force Xue Ying and his group to obsess over Military Formation Techniques.

Currently, they were still in a period of rapid growth in strength, so Cultivation was definitely most important; they could just study it in their spare time.

It would be in time to study Military Formation Techniques seriously once the speed of strength improvement slowed down.

To help the Human Race Troop Types master Advanced Military Formation Techniques, Lin Xiao also bought many basic and low-level Military Formation Techniques for them to reference, allowing them to have a better understanding of Formations.

Time passed quickly.

Progress on Military Formation Techniques was slow, but the strength of the heroes and Troop Types was advancing by leaps and bounds.

Especially the Human Race Troop Types.

Cultivation at the Rank 5 level was not even much slower than at the Rank 4 level; they quickly reached the Rank 5 limit and immediately crossed into the Rank 6 level.

Under the effect of Outstanding Talent, even after crossing into the Rank 6 level, their progress remained rapid.

Compared to the Human Race Troop Types, the growth speed of the alien Troop Types was much slower.

Fortunately, with the Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Lake, a legendary grade building, even though it could only exert Epic Grade effects in the Second Source Sea, it still made the growth speed of the Burning Sky Flame Dragon and Frost Giant much faster than before.

These two major Troop Types now loved nothing more than to soak in the Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Lake for a while.

Not only could it relieve mental and physical fatigue, but it could also stimulate their Bloodline potential, double the happiness.

After working hard to consolidate for some days, Lin Xiao became a bit restless.

"Resources are still not enough."

Lin Xiao sighed in his heart.

Some time ago, the Four Great Races had indeed sent many resources, but with Cultivation and growth speed maxed out, the consumption rate of resources was astonishing.

Especially since the heroes and Troop Types had broken through the Rank 5 limit and entered the Rank 6 level.

The demand for resources had immediately gone up a level.

Jiang Yao, whose Cultivation speed was the fastest, had long since entered the Rank 7 level, and her demand for resources was even higher.

Slowing down the Cultivation speed wouldn't matter much; after all, with five times the time flow rate, and having Epic Grade and legendary grade buildings like the Spiritual Vein, Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Lake, and enlightenment mountain, the growth speed of the heroes and Troop Types would not be slower than other War Lords.

But Lin Xiao certainly hoped that his territory's strength could become stronger at the fastest speed.

That way, even if the Four Great Races had any conspiracies, he wouldn't need to be afraid.

No resources?

Then go rob them.

Lin Xiao was the most pure War Lord; there wasn't a single territory resident in his territory, nor any business, and his development relied entirely on the contributions of hostile War Lords.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao opened the invasion panel.

The next moment, countless bright red revenge targets suddenly rushed into his field of vision.