The Yang Household's Soaring Strength
"News from the Alliance Headquarters indicates that many medium and Large Realm Gates are showing unusual activity, and the Spatial Power is gradually increasing. It will only take two or three years for the Realm Gates to expand," Yang Tianyou said softly to his wife Yunhua, holding the intelligence he had obtained from the Lu Wu Realm Alliance.
"Two or three years..." Yunhua's beautiful eyes flickered slightly. "If we calculate it, more than forty years have passed since the start of the Interface War. The spatial structure of many World Interstice has become relatively stable, and the expansion of Realm Gates has a foundation. It's a natural progression and nothing to be surprised about!"
"Yes, Madam is right. All the necessary preparations have been made. Now we just need to wait for the expansion of the Realm Gate and have a fair fight with the Nine Phoenix Realm!" Yang Tianyou's eyes flashed with sharpness.
Since he accelerated the pace of Lineage development more than 20 years ago, even at the cost of the lives of his family members, the Yang Household has been undergoing rapid changes every day, and its strength in all aspects has greatly improved.
First, there's the Formation system on Purple Moon Mountain. After the Sixth Tier Spirit Veins are upgraded, the Ten-Thousand-Mile Mountains and Rivers Formation, the Grand Mystery Illusory Void Formation, and the Geng Metal Annihilation Array can all fully unleash their power.
In addition to these three major Sixth Tier Formations, numerous low-order Formations are also set up on Yang Household Purple Moon Mountain.
These low-level Formations, when released individually, are indeed not as powerful as the former, but when combined and nested together, they can definitely achieve an effect greater than the sum of their parts.
Next is the Purple Moon Army.
Under Yang Yusheng's leadership, the Purple Moon Army fought fiercely in the gap between the Mo Province World Interstice and engaged in bloody battles with the Divine Wind Clan Army. Every year, the number of Purple Moon Army Soldiers who died in battle was no less than a thousand.
At its peak, it wiped out a full four thousand people in one go.
That incident truly broke Yang Tianyou's heart, but he withstood the pressure, his policy remained unchanged, and he always believed that only a truly fierce and bloody battle could forge a sufficiently strong legion.
Thus, relying on its immense wealth and large population, the Yang Household frantically supplied Cultivators to the Purple Moon Army, managing to maintain positive growth in the Purple Moon Army's numbers and increasing its combat strength even amidst constant bloodshed.
Today, the Purple Moon Army has a total strength of over 36,000, which has completely exceeded Yang Tianyou's initial target of 30,000.
However, due to the Yang Household's increasingly strong economic power, supplying this large army was surprisingly easy and effortless.
Of course, although the Purple Moon Army has more than 36,000 soldiers, it is important to understand that in just over 20 years, nearly 50,000 Purple Moon Army Soldiers have died in battle.
The resources consumed were countless: death benefits, Law Artifact Law Treasure Pills, Talisman... all these resources combined were enough to train several ordinary Prefecture-Level Army Corps.
This audacious move left the major powers standing by dumbfounded.
The Cultivator Legion trained using such cruel and tyrannical methods naturally possesses extremely formidable combat power.
The 36,000 Purple Moon Army have reached the pinnacle of Prefecture-Level Army Corps in terms of combat strength.
The ability to defeat ten thousand men Sage Manifestation, which once seemed difficult, is now a piece of cake.
The Purple Moon Army has three legions, with the second and third legions each having tens of thousands of members, yet they are still able to defeat ordinary Sage Manifestation powerhouse.
The First Legion is the strongest, with 16,000 men selected from the best of the best. Its combat power is comparable to that of Sacred Land-Level Army Corps, and it is no less powerful than the Reverse Scale Army before its expansion.
Moreover, all of the above does not include the large number of White Tiger Talisman Soldiers that Yang Tianyou had hidden.
Since the Purple Moon Army entered Bloodbath mode, the rate at which their Weapon Sha Qi has accumulated has skyrocketed.
The production of White Tiger Talisman Soldiers naturally increased significantly as a result.
Not to mention the White Tiger Talisman Soldiers already deployed to the Purple Moon Army, Yang Tianyou alone has hidden a total of sixteen Nascent Spirit Transformation White Tiger Talisman Soldiers and one hundred and seven Nascent Soul White Tiger Talisman Soldiers.
There wasn't a single Talisman Soldier at the Golden Core stage or below.
Yang Tianyou planned to throw all of these White Tiger Talisman Soldiers into the First Legion after the battle began.
It's really hard to say how strong this legion will be at that time.
However, Yang Tianyou estimated that he should be able to defeat or even kill the former True Lord Wan Lei in a head-on confrontation.
This alone demonstrates just how much power the Yang Household has amassed over the decades.
Of course, besides the openly recognized heroes, we must not forget the group of people who were secretly responsible for raising money and supplying the Lineage's rapid development.
Led by Yang Tianjiu, the Purple Moon Trading Company has expanded its branches throughout the entire Lu Wu Realm over the past few decades, spreading its operations far and wide. With its unparalleled business acumen, it has amassed countless riches for the Yang Household.
In addition, the Yang Household's own interests in various aspects also contributed significantly.
Under Yang Yuqi's leadership, the Agriculture Hall has seen its production of resources such as spirit medicine, Spirit Grains, Spirit Beast Meat, and Spirit Wood increase year after year. Moreover, with Yang Yuqi's rapid breakthroughs in cultivation, the rate of increase in these resources is also growing.
Besides the Agriculture Hall, the earning power of other halls such as the Pill Hall, the Artifact Hall, and the Spirit Cuisine Hall should not be underestimated.
In addition, the resources from several Secret Realms such as the Three Blazing Flame Palace Secret Realm, the Blood Moon Secret Realm, and the Blood-Slaying Dao Secret Realm, as well as the Mineral Deposits resources from several nearby states such as Xuan Province and Mo Province, also contribute to a considerable income.
The Shanhai and seas of the Nine Phoenix Realm and Yang Tiankang are also continuously sending back massive amounts of resources, especially Spirit Vein Essence, which allows the geniuses of the Yang Household to maintain an extremely fast cultivation speed.
All of this ensured that the Yang Lineage's coffers were always in a state of extreme abundance.
Previously, Yang Tianyou had planned for the Lineage to develop despite operating in a fiscal deficit.
Now it seems that it was completely unnecessary!
If this trend continues, the Yang Household's wealth will only increase.
This is largely due to the Yang Household's flourishing Fortune and the smooth sailing of all things.
Since the Yang Household's Spirit Veins were upgraded to the Sixth Tier, their Fortune grown increasingly powerful. Not only has the Lineage's income increased steadily, but the proportion of talented individuals they produce has also become increasingly outrageous.
After Yang Lingjiao, a prodigy born with the innate Yin Spirit Root, was born, in the following thirty years, the Yang Household produced two more members with the Sacred Body aptitude: Yang Shengyu and Yang Shengjun.
Yang Shengyu's physical constitution is unknown and has not appeared in the Lu Wu Realm before. Its attribute is earth, and it is particularly skilled in strength. Its life-bound Law Artifact is a giant axe.
Yang Shengjun's physique is much more famous; it is the renowned Warrior-Breaker Sacred Body.
This type of physique is naturally able to gather Sha Qi, making them particularly adept at frontal attacks and killing.
Fortunately, Yang Shengjun's mother was a Golden Core Cultivator; otherwise, if her cultivation level had been lower, she would probably have been eroded to death by the Sha Qi inherent in the Warrior-Breaker Sacred Body during childbirth.
This is not just unfounded worry. There have been precedents in the Cultivation World where Mortals have the opportunity to give birth to children with the potential for Sacred Body. However, many times, these children die during childbirth because they cannot withstand the power of the Sacred Body.
Only Cultivators with strong vitality and exceptionally talented offspring can withstand it. However, even Foundation Establishment Cultivators would be in danger if they encountered a physique like the Warrior-Breaker Sacred Body.
That's why it's said that, fortunately, Yang Shengjun's mother was Golden Core Cultivator and managed to pull through. But even so, she Origin Qi after giving birth to him and it took her a long time to fully recover.
As a member of the Warrior-Breaker Sacred Body, Yang Shengjun was sent to the Purple Moon Army camp after the age of six. He was carefully taught by several Yang Household commanders and cultivated as a future pillar of the Purple Moon Army.
After all, his physique was perfectly suited for commanding troops in battle, and the battlefield was like a fish in water for Yang Shengjun.
Besides these two most talented prodigies, many other members of the clan with innate Innate Spirit Bodies have also been born in recent years, numbering over a hundred.
The reason why so many geniuses were born was not only due to the flourishing of Fortune, but also largely due to the explosive growth in the number of Cultivators in the Yang Household.
Since the start of the Interface War, in the past forty years, the Cultivators in the Yang Household has surged from over ten thousand to over four hundred thousand.
And that doesn't even include the fallen members of our clan; if you include them, the number would probably be close to 600,000.
With such a large number of Cultivators, the number of geniuses and powerful individuals born naturally increases accordingly.
Besides the geniuses, the number of High-Rank Cultivators in the Yang Household has also increased dramatically.
Yang Tianyou's Seven Bonded Spirit Beasts successfully broke through to the Spirit Transformation more than 20 years ago.
After that, Yang Xuanwu, Yang Yusheng, Yang Xuanyang, Yang Yuqi, and Yang Tianshi all broke through to the Spirit Transformation Realm.
Yang Yujin, Yang Xuanyun, Yang Xuanye, Yang Xuangang, Yang Xuanli, Lu Qianqian, Lu Zhenzhen, and others have also reached the Nascent Soul Great Perfection stage and are currently honing their cultivation. It is estimated that in two or three years at the shortest, and ten or twenty years at the longest, they will be able to begin to break through the barrier of the Spirit Transformation Realm stage.
Clan members like Yang Tianyun and Yang Tianwang, who weren't particularly gifted, or younger clan members like Yang Taishan and Yang Taixuan, also made significant progress by cultivating to the Late Stage Nascent Soul with the support of resources.
In total, the Yang Household has 400,000 Cultivators, including more than a dozen Spirit Transformation cultivators, over two hundred Nascent Soul Cultivators, and more than a thousand Golden Core Cultivators. Even without their terrifying number of Talisman Soldiers, the Yang Household can rank in the middle among Province-Level Power.
With the addition of Talisman Soldiers and various trump cards, it is no exaggeration to say that the Yang Household's strength has reached the pinnacle of Province-Level Power.
It is even stronger than a weak Sacred Land like the Ten Thousand Laws Palace, truly standing at the pinnacle of the Lu Wu Realm.