Torch City had been built around the jump board, both to serve as a base for the Spiritualized Universe in the Threefold Universe and to keep watch over the jump board.
The starry sky was dark and vast, but Torch City blazed with lights. Countless cultivators from the Spiritualized Universe were stationed there, making it the front line for the invasion of the Consciousness Universe.
Cultivators were unlike ordinary people. Each had their own environment and method of cultivation. Even if the Spiritualized Universe invaded the Consciousness Universe, it couldn't arrange its cultivators like an army.
Xi Zu had already explained this to Lu Yin aboard the Boundless.
"A squad?" Lu Yin was surprised. The Progenitor, Chu Yi, and the others were equally astonished.
Xi Zu's tone was grave. "The Spiritualized Universe has tried many ways to attack the Consciousness Universe. At first, just as everyone expected, it launched a large-scale assault, intending to sweep through our universe. But the strongest aspect of Consciousness Life is consciousness. And as I've told you, consciousness is entirely intangible. It connects through the thoughts of living beings, and it appears in whatever form those beings imagine. As a result, the Spiritualized Universe's cultivators couldn't coordinate their attacks on a large scale."
"Besides, consciousness attacks over an area. It doesn't matter whether there's one person or a group—everyone is enveloped by it."
"A large-scale assault simply wasn't worth the cost. After that, the Spiritualized Universe kept changing its tactics. By the time I left the Consciousness Universe, it had settled on a method: squads."
"The size of each squad depends on the captain's strength. It might have ten people, a hundred, or even a thousand. Every squad has an exceptionally powerful consciousness cultivator, matched to the other members' methods of attack, so they can