Elven cultivators

In the days that followed, the Silver Moon Squad's operations developed a fixed rhythm.

Hunting dragon souls while searching for spatial nodes in the subspace.

Once the three-month period is up, leave the warp and return to the Annihilation Fortress to rest.

At this time of year, Anton would return to Taichu City via the teleportation array. While absorbing the dragon soul essence stored in the Soul-Gathering Cauldron, he would also take time to continue refining the Jia Shen Divine General.

Time slips away quietly in this cyclical rhythm.

Anton could clearly feel that his golden core was being nourished day by day, growing stronger at a slow and steady pace.

The feeling was unlike when refining pill essence, where you can clearly feel your own strength improving; it was more like polishing a piece of rough jade.

Each time it absorbs the essence of the dragon soul, it adds a touch of warm luster to this piece of raw jade.

Meanwhile, the forging of the Jia Shen Divine General is also progressing steadily. One by one, the tens of thousands of restrictions are being lit up, connected, and fused together, bringing the day of its final formation ever closer.

The only pity is that Anton was unable to find a new spatial node in the following years.

Similarly, the coalition forces gained nothing in the first two years.

It wasn't until the year 9380 of the Dawn Calendar that the Allied Forces finally destroyed the second spatial node.

From that point on, the war of attack and defense in subspace seemed to have been accelerated.

In the year 9382 of the Dawn Calendar, Grant led a team to destroy the third spatial node.

In the year 9383 of the Dawn Calendar, Rexxar led his team to destroy the fourth spatial node.

In the year 9385 of the Dawn Calendar, Eugene, a legendary powerhouse among the Sea Clan, led a team to destroy the fifth spatial node.

In the year 9386 of the Dawn Calendar, good news once again came from the subspace.

The sixth spatial node was successfully destroyed by a joint force composed of elites from multiple races.

At this point, one-third of the eighteen core hubs in subspace have been completely eliminated.

As the number of spatial nodes decreased, the internal structure of this distorted space, forcibly torn apart by the dragons, began to undergo irreversible changes.

The time interval for the remaining nodes to change positions has increased significantly, and the frequency and regularity of their operation are easier to detect than before.

Those spatial fluctuations that were once so hidden as to be almost impossible to find have now spread to a much wider area than before.

The difficulty of finding spatial nodes is gradually decreasing.

Thanks to this, the morale of the allied forces was greatly boosted.

……

Just as the allied forces were putting all their effort into continuing their conquest of the warp...

The city of Taichu, hundreds of thousands of miles away.

The puppet workshop was brightly lit.

The light from the light source stone fell from the dome, illuminating the divine general puppet on the stone platform in the center of the workshop.

The humanoid body, standing three meters tall, was cast entirely in dark gold, with broad shoulders and a wide back, its outline resembling a condensed mountain.

It wears a crown with a golden jewel in the center. Its face has no features, only a few grooves outlining the shape of its eyebrows and eyes. It is empty and solemn, yet it inexplicably gives people a sense of majesty.

Its body is covered in scales, one after another, with shoulder armor towering like flying eaves, a golden line running through the center of the breastplate, and thunder patterns winding on both sides.

A dark gold belt cinches the waist, with a buckle carved into a tiger's head, its fangs protruding, lifelike.

Beside the body lay a dark gold longsword, its blade engraved with runes, exuding a chilling and sharp aura.

Anton stood before the stone platform, his eyes fixed intently on the divine general above.

Divine sense surged forth like a tide, probing into the body of the Jia Shen Divine General, slowly meandering along the tens of thousands of restrictive meridians.

Each time he ignited a restriction with his magic power, a wisp of dark golden light would shine from the divine general's body, like stars blooming one after another in the night sky, densely packed and connected.

The moment the last barrier was ignited, all the light simultaneously reached its peak brightness.

Anton flicked his ten fingers in rapid succession, and one spell after another, like shooting stars chasing the moon, entered the body of the Jia Shen Divine General.

Under the guidance of the incantation, those restrictions began to connect, nest, and merge with each other, like thousands of rivers flowing into the sea, transforming into a perfectly integrated whole.

hum!

A deep humming sound emanated from the god's body.

Suddenly, the two slender grooves in the tightly closed eyes of the Jia Shen God General lit up, and golden light burst forth from the depths of the grooves, like two solidified pillars of light piercing into the void.

The light carried a sharp, penetrating quality, as if it could even cut through space itself.

It slowly sat up from the stone platform and stood upright on the ground.

Just standing there quietly, he exuded an aura of profound and imposing authority, suppressing the world.

Jia Shen Divine General, accomplished!

Anton gazed at the guardian deity before him, a genuine joy appearing on his face.

After spending so much time and effort, I finally succeeded in refining this guardian deity.

With the Jia Shen Divine General in his hands, he has more confidence and leverage, whether it is the increasingly fierce subspace attack and defense or the possible future struggle for supremacy among all races.

Since this was the first time he had crafted a Dao weapon of this level, Anton dared not say that he had crafted it perfectly.

However, the strength of this guardian deity has definitely reached a qualified level.

According to Anton's estimation, the Jia Shen Divine General possesses formidable power surpassing that of a Golden Core cultivator at the third level, and is infinitely close to the Nascent Soul stage.

Even now, he is no match for the Jia Shen Divine General in a head-on confrontation.

However, proportional to this immense power is the staggering amount of energy it consumes to operate.

Daoist soldiers of the level of Yellow Turban Warriors and Five Camps Divine Soldiers can absorb free-floating heaven and earth energy on their own, simply by placing them in a suitable location, and use this energy for wartime consumption.

Alternatively, spirit stones can be embedded as an energy source.

However, for guardian deities like the Six Ding and Six Jia, relying solely on their own absorption of free-floating heaven and earth energy, it would take an extremely long time to accumulate enough energy to support a battle of normal intensity.

For Dao soldiers of this level, there are generally two faster ways to 'charge' them.

First, it consumes a large number of spirit stones to replenish its energy.

This method is the fastest and can restore a god to his full strength in a very short time.

However, the cost is also the greatest. With the power of a guardian deity approaching the Nascent Soul stage, the number of spirit stones required to replenish energy in one go is an excruciatingly high figure.

Anton roughly estimated that the energy consumed by General Jia Shen in a single battle of normal intensity would be equivalent to the Silver Moon Clan's spirit stone production for at least two or three years.

This is clearly not feasible.

The Silver Moon Clan is currently facing a shortage of spirit stones, and simply does not have enough extra spirit stones to power up General Jia Shen.

This method can only be used occasionally once the spirit stone vein has been transformed and the spirit stone production has increased significantly.

The second method involves placing the Jia Shen Divine General at the core of the earth vein node, using an array as a medium to draw energy from the spiritual vein and slowly inject it into the vein.

This method takes a relatively long time, but it doesn't require much additional cost. And although it takes longer, it's still much faster than autonomously absorbing free energy.

In the world of cultivation, many sects recharge their guardian deities by placing them at the core of a mountain-protecting formation during non-combat periods, using the energy gathered by the formation to power them.

Anton estimated that, given the current scale and energy concentration of the protective array of Taichu City, it would take about ten years to inject enough energy into the Jia Shen Divine General for him to carry out a normal battle.

"The scale and energy concentration of the mountain-protecting formation are still a bit low."

Anton frowned slightly.

The Hunyuan Five Elements Grand Array, based on the spiritual vein, has an energy concentration far exceeding that of the Dayan Qingxuan Array in the Silver Moon Forest. However, since the Taichu City has only been built for a few decades, the various performance aspects of the array are still slowly improving and have not yet reached the limit that the spiritual vein can support.

However, this problem is not unsolvable.

Once the Silver Moon Forest connects to the Primordial City, the two great protective mountain formations will be integrated, significantly increasing the overall scale and energy concentration of the formations.

The charging speed of the Jia Shen Divine General will also increase accordingly.

Moreover, with the power of the Jia Shen Divine General, unless it encounters an enemy at the Saint level, it would probably take less time to defeat the enemy than the duration of a normal-intensity battle in most cases.

It should take about six months to recharge before it can be used once.

"Now it's up to you to destroy the spatial node."

With a flick of his sleeve, Anton put away the Jia Shen Divine General, and then his figure flashed and disappeared into the puppet workshop.

When they reappeared, they had arrived at the core of the Nine Heavens Tower.

This is the hub of the entire Primordial City array complex, and also the place with the most concentrated energy.

Anton took out the Jia Shen Divine General from his sleeve and placed it on an energy node of the core formation.

He then formed hand seals, drawing upon the energy of the Hunyuan Five Elements Grand Array, which surged from all directions like rivers flowing into the sea, converging into the divine general's body.

The deity was quickly enveloped in a layer of misty spiritual light.

Having done all this, Anton nodded in satisfaction, then vanished from the core hub in a flash.

Back in his quiet room, he sat cross-legged and summoned the sword pellet to begin his cultivation.

After advancing to the second level of the Golden Core stage, Anton began to comprehend the divine power of the sword.

Initially, he hesitated about which sword technique to choose.

While the number of sword techniques is far less than that of the Five Elements techniques, it is still considerable.

Each technique was forged by generations of great sword cultivators through their life's work, and each possesses its own unique mystery and power.

The way of the killing sword has two great supernatural powers: one thought to annihilate the sword and severing spiritual energy.

The former is said to be able to kill an enemy in the blink of an eye, and can directly sever the opponent's life force at the soul level.

The latter can sever the spiritual energy in one fell swoop. With a single sword strike, all techniques of concealment, clones, and transformation will be exposed and annihilated.

However, the One Thought Absolute Sword is too profound, touching upon the very essence of life and death. With his current swordsmanship skills, he is far from being able to cultivate it.

Cutting off any potential avenues of inspiration is something worth trying.

However, this supernatural power is more focused on restraint and countermeasures than on direct combat.

It can produce unexpected results when facing enemies who are good at using unorthodox methods, but it does not provide an immediate boost to one's current combat strength.

After thinking it over, Anton decided to give up.

In the path of the ultimate sword, there are both the world as close as neighbors and the ends of the earth as close as a foot apart.

The former can ignore spatial distance and appear anywhere the sword light reaches in an instant.

The latter can greatly increase the speed of the sword light, even to the point of near teleportation.

But what Anton lacks now is not speed, but a killer move that can deliver a fatal blow to a powerful enemy.

Even the fastest sword is useless if it cannot inflict sufficient damage on the enemy.

After much thought, I still think that the "One Sword Transforms into Myriad Laws" technique from the Sword Transformation Path is the most suitable.

Strictly speaking, the "One Sword Transforms into Myriad Laws" technique is not a specific supernatural power, but rather a method that carries supernatural powers.

Its philosophy is to integrate all laws with sword light and to carry the essence of Tao with sword intent.

The sword is no longer just a sword, but a vessel of the Dao and an extension of the laws.

Taking the Xuanhuang Dragon-Capturing Hand as an example, if this supernatural power is integrated into swordsmanship, then every sword light that is unleashed will be imbued with the immense power to shatter mountains and break peaks.

Before the sword even arrived, the force of the attack was already there. The enemy was as if suppressed by an invisible mountain, his movements sluggish, and even breathing became difficult.

If the True Water of the Northern Darkness is incorporated into the sword light, the sword light will contain a vast and profound sense of erosion.

Where the sword light passes, it's like a flood of water, causing the enemy's life force and mana to flow away silently, like sand in an hourglass, until they realize it's too late.

This is the mystery of "one sword transforming into myriad techniques".

It fuses the essence of supernatural powers into the sword intent, giving the sword light itself the power of supernatural powers.

In this way, there is no need to be distracted by using extra supernatural powers during battle.

Over the years, Anton has been studying this method, trying to integrate the essence of the Xuanhuang Dragon-Capturing Hand into the sword light.

Although it's not completely successful yet, we've already made some progress.

With a slight thought, a beam of dark gold sword light leaped from his chest and hovered in front of him.

The sword light was clear and bright, its sharpness concealed, seemingly unchanged from before.

However, if you look closely, you can see a faint layer of yellowish light slowly flowing around the edge of the sword light.

The light was not very bright, but it conveyed a sense of weight and solidity, like a mountain.

It was a trace of the Dao essence of the Xuanhuang Dragon-Capturing Hand.

Anton stared at the sword light, his eyes suddenly flashing.

The sword light suddenly moved, instantly traversing the streets of Taichu City, crossing the city walls, and striking a giant rock on a distant hillside.

The moment the sword tip touched the stone surface, the giant rock was crushed as if by an invisible mountain, silently turning into dust that fell to the ground.

Anton withdrew his sword and nodded in satisfaction.

He has only just begun to grasp the basics; the profound meaning within the sword light is still shallow and far from being comparable to true supernatural powers.

Even so, the overall power of the sword light has been significantly improved.

Given time, once the Dao essence of the Xuanhuang Dragon-Capturing Hand is fully integrated into the sword light, his swordsmanship will surely reach a new level.

At that time, each sword light will be equivalent to a Xuanhuang Dragon-Capturing Hand. Two hundred and fifty-six sword lights unleashed simultaneously will be equivalent to two hundred and fifty-six divine powers descending at the same time.

Just thinking about such a scene sends chills down your spine.