Conquering Myriad Worlds from the Mythical Three Kingdoms

After several days of continuous struggle, Xu Shu trained the first batch of soldiers named Xuanming Warriors.

"Is this considered a success?"

Xu Shu tested the new legion's capabilities. They showed slight improvements in quality and willpower, but no other special abilities.

However, under the shroud of the undead, these soldiers will experience a significant boost in both their physical attributes and willpower.

The necromantic energy automatically condenses into armor and mounts on their bodies, making them look like death knights in an undead army.

"Still a little short, not quite reaching the level of a three-talented individual, and still quite different from the White Calamity Legion!"

"The icy environment itself possesses power, but the environment in which the undead survive is not that extreme, and we have not truly mastered the power of the undead!"

Xu Shu analyzed the composition of the new army and examined the strengths and weaknesses of the soldiers.

The enhanced strength of this batch of Xuanming warriors, which is equivalent to the Imperial Guard level, is still far from their estimated three-talent level.

But they don't seem to have much time left to adjust, as the undead have already begun to expand.

"Why don't we try visualizing gods and Buddhas, pull Xuanming down, and then visualize Xuanming!"

Xuanming is the water god of the north, the god of winter, and the assistant of Zhuanxu. He is in charge of punishment, killing, and concealment.

It wouldn't be out of place in the military, which is why it was named Xuanming.

After all, being simultaneously tainted by extreme cold, the netherworld, and execution is very suitable for the style of this new legion.

"That's a good idea. You've been coming up with some great suggestions lately!" Xu Shu thought for a moment and approved Guo Jia's suggestion.

The main combat strength of the Xuanming Legion relies on the environmental domain created by the undead. By visualizing Xuanming and simultaneously gaining some bonus from wind and snow, they can basically reach the third talent level.

With such a group of top-tier combatants at their disposal, they can find a way to turn the tide.

More importantly, the Xuanming Legion's future combat strength is guaranteed, and it will not immediately collapse back to its original form after losing the undead environment.

Without hesitation, Xu Shu used the military formation to successfully manipulate the Xuanming Legion's visualization, allowing them to control the power of ice and snow.

The specific manifestation of this was ultimately captured in the weapons in their hands, a mixture of frost and the undead, constantly radiating the chill of death.

On the other side, the undead were having a sudden inspiration.

Since both the Crypt Lord and Kel'Thuzad's ultimate abilities were countered, they naturally chose others to charge their magic circles.

The Frost Dragon Queen was their final choice. After several days of preparation, the long and complicated chanting was nearing its end.

The super-tier magic - Eternal Winter Blizzard - was successfully cast.

Extreme cold has little effect on the undead; most undead can simply ignore the effects of extreme cold.

However, for the living, this is a difficult problem to overcome.

The undead army is often able to crush the enemy's stubborn resistance by riding through blizzards.

Super-level magic is not a regular weather change, but rather the stripping and transfer of all heat within this space.

A deep layer of ice spread from the center of the magic strike, rapidly covering the surrounding area and turning the land into an ice field.

As Zhang Xiufei flew through the air, watching the undead army rapidly advancing across the icy plains, he involuntarily drew his sword and swung it down at the undead army in the distance.

The sword energy, over a hundred meters long, was worn down by the thick ice crystals and eventually turned into brittle ice that shattered in mid-air.

Zhang Xiu simply flew back to the camp. In the face of a large army, the power of an individual was ultimately weaker.

"We haven't found the location of the main force of the undead yet; there are only scattered undead spreading everywhere!" Zhang Xiu reported his reconnaissance results to Xu Shu.

There seemed to be a lot of undead outside, but Zhang Xiu, who had dealt with them in recent days, knew very well that they were just a drop in the ocean and not a major force at all.

"I'm curious about something else. It seems that the other side can somehow convert energy directly into these monsters."

Guo Jia remained calm and composed, leisurely squatting in the hall analyzing the problem.

As the threat level of the undead continued to rise, Zhuge Liang finally transferred manpower from other places, which greatly reduced Guo Jia's workload, allowing him to have time to analyze the situation for Xu Shu.

"If we could get our hands on this too, wouldn't we be able to mass-produce troops?" Guo Jia flipped through the naval records in the Heroes of Might and Magic world.

The same energy conversion can create combat units similar to terracotta warriors out of thin air; even if their strength is only slightly above average, they are enough to serve as cannon fodder.

However, buildings from the Heroes of Might and Magic world cannot be moved to the main world, and most of the troops are used by the navy to guard the islands, so there are not many slots available on the land.

But according to their observations, the Scourge also has the same technology, and it even seems to be simpler and more brutal than the Scourge's.

The technical department kept demanding samples for research, but unfortunately the undead's defenses were too strong, and they couldn't break through at all.

The Illusionary Warriors died wave after wave, nearly tens of thousands of them, yet they still couldn't advance into the central area.

Large numbers of gargoyles hovered in the air, constantly on guard against attacks from the illusionary warriors.

Xu Shu had no choice but to change his strategy, using Illusion Warriors to deal with the undead, and frantically depleting the number of undead with Illusion Warriors who cared less about life and death than the undead.

In the back-and-forth exchanges, the Illusionary Soldiers were almost always able to achieve a one-for-one trade, because the cannon fodder on the Undead side was simply too weak.

Despite being an opponent so fragile that the Illusion Warrior was so easily defeated, the Undead were locked in a fierce and evenly matched battle.

Xu Shu sometimes wondered if they should train a large army specifically to carry out this kind of attrition tactic.

According to Xu Shu's estimate, three years would be enough time for the Illusionary Warriors to completely wear down the undead, even considering the undead's production rate.

More importantly, casualties are likely to be low.

This unmanned warfare technology is of paramount importance for exploring other worlds.

Unless this ability is developed to the level of the Han Dynasty, it won't be of much use against imperial forces, or even smaller regional empires.

At least with Xinghan's current technology, sending it out would be like sending them to their deaths.

Especially with the Changshui Camp already revealed, the Illusionist system is basically a dead end.

If it weren't for the Miracle Legion supporting them, the Great Han itself would have sentenced the Illusion System to death. Even if it were preserved, it would only retain the organization of two or three legions at most.

Like Xinghan, the major empires all maintain some special legions within their borders for unforeseen circumstances.

Just like now, the three illusion-based legions within Xinghan directly neutralized the undead legion's ability to summon spirits.

They leave no corpse after death, making them arguably the most hated adversaries in the Undead series.

Similarly, the undead are also one of the most hated adversaries by the living. "These ghostly things are so troublesome!"

Ju Yi drew his sword from his waist and swept it horizontally. The power of his military spirit transformed into a magnificent sword beam that stretched for a hundred meters, shattering all the gargoyles in the air.

The gargoyle's hard shell was as fragile as cardboard in the face of this attack infused with military spirit.

With a single sword strike, hundreds of gargoyles were instantly wiped out, their remains turning into rubble that crashed to the ground.

Frustrated, Ju Yi swept his sword across the ground again, finally clearing away all the rubble.

The undead army's intention was simple: to wear down the fighting spirit of the Star River army through endless harassment.

Even the well-trained elite soldiers of the Star Han Empire cannot be on guard against enemy attacks 24 hours a day.

Unfortunately, gargoyles are aerial units and can launch suicide attacks from high above, making them virtually impossible to defend against.

They could only temporarily build rest areas by digging trenches and pits.

Similar scenes played out everywhere, with the stationed legions being harassed until they were exhausted, both physically and mentally.

In just a few days, the morale of the army began to decline.

"Are you only using small groups of gargoyles and ghouls for harassment?"

Xu Shu felt things were getting a bit tricky. He wasn't quite sure what the enemy's tactics were, and the enemy's small units had suffered tens of thousands of casualties in the past two days.

Aside from making them increasingly irritable, there were basically no battle losses.

Xu Shu thought it would be better to split into two groups and attack from the front and back, which might even result in thousands of casualties.

Xu Shu was highly vigilant about what seemed like a foolish act.

When the other side doesn't try to gain a small advantage, they're probably plotting something bigger.

"Should we withdraw the Illusionary Force and fight these undead?"

Xu Shu hesitated for a moment, then shook his head. The significance of the Illusion Legion destroying the undead defense towers was greater; they couldn't allow the enemy to build structures at will.

Although he hadn't fully figured out how the opponent's construction technology, which resembled summoning, was working, Xu Shu at least understood one thing: the opponent's construction wasn't something that appeared out of thin air.

They use a technology they don't yet understand to convert life force into the energy needed by the dead, then extract it through some means and use it to summon buildings.

This process takes quite a bit of time.

The reason why the opposing side expands from time to time is precisely this: in order to acquire more energy reserves.

Xu Shu roughly understood that the Undead Scourge could also be regarded as a large empire, and resources were their national strength.

Ultimately, the war between the two sides came down to a contest of national strength.

A direct confrontation with the enemy is not in Xinghan's interest, but they are currently unable to pinpoint the Lich King's location.

The decapitation tactic was out of the question, and the undead had built the center like an iron barrel, making it impossible to see any hope of infiltrating.

The daily carpet-bombing suicide attacks by the Illusion Warriors are also aimed at finding the Lich King's location from the Undead's command.

Unfortunately, Xu Shu judged from the command perspective that the command of the undead side was entirely in the hands of Kel'Thuzad at the front line.

"We can't wait any longer. Gather a group of elite troops, kill this guy, and force the Lich King to come out!"

Xu Shu's eyes fell on Kel'Thuzad's position, a murderous glint flashing in them. He was now waiting for the plague to end.

Once the plague was over, he immediately assembled his troops, rushed in, and killed the frontline commander.

He knew this might not be a good idea, but sitting idly by and waiting to die was not his style.

Take the initiative and get the opponent moving so that he can find more weaknesses.

Zhang Xiu and Ju Yi naturally agreed wholeheartedly, as they were quite disgusted by this endless whack-a-mole problem.

After two rounds of free fighting, Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing finally developed a plague-preventing medicine that could be mass-produced. One bottle could provide immunity to 90% of the plague's effects. As for the remaining 10%, it wasn't impossible, but the cost-effectiveness was too low.

From a mass production perspective, a 10% effect is sufficient. After all, regular soldiers all possess internal energy, and a plague reduced to one-tenth of its effectiveness is no match for their immune system.

If someone is unlucky enough to get infected, they have even more effective purification agents on hand; one dose will instantly restore them to their full potential.

“We have been studying this plague for the past two days. Its structure is simple, and it should be a plague caused by the accumulation of corpses.”

As Hua Tuo spoke, he handed Xu Shu a vial of what looked like medicine. However, Xu Shu's mental energy was boiling wildly, telling him that this thing was definitely not as simple as it seemed.

"But some idealistic forces have been mixed in with the plague!"

“We replicated this part of the idealistic application.”

"This is the result of our research. As long as it is smashed, the plague within a radius of ten miles will be immediately purified."

Xu Shu felt that Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing were not telling the truth. Although he didn't know what they were hiding, he was certain that the effects they described were genuine.

This thing is still very important at this critical juncture when they decided to launch an offensive. As for the doubts in their hearts, they can wait until he returns to the capital to investigate them slowly.

"What do you think he'll do if he knows this thing is essentially a bigger plague?" Hua Tuo watched Xu Shu's departing figure, rubbing his hands together with a hint of nervousness.

They cleverly avoided the question of what the medicine itself was.

“Using poison to fight poison is a pharmacological principle. There’s nothing wrong with using the plagues they’ve already adapted to to drive away other types of plagues!” Zhang Zhongjing’s eyes darted around.

"Are you sure our free-fighting can solve the problem?" Hua Tuo asked with some unease.

"Don't worry, I've thought it through. As long as we both act extreme enough, they'll be more likely to accept our problems."

Zhang Zhongjing stroked his beard. He was a man who had risen to the position of prefect, and his political wisdom far surpassed that of Hua Tuo.

They both knew exactly what they were doing, and they could guarantee that the effect would be exactly what they said it would be.

But after so many medical disputes, the two of them realized one thing: don't show others the process, just give them the result.

Otherwise, many things they don't care about will become points of attack for others, and the key is that they have no way to refute them.

So they simply focus on the results and ignore the process.

As long as it works, there's no need to delve into the specifics.

Knowledge is a curse; the more you know, the less happy you become. (End of Chapter)