Linking with the will of heaven.
It sounded simple enough, but Li Shun knew full well that even in Great Qian, only a tiny handful of cultivators could accomplish those four words.
Much less in this time and space, where the transcendent was nowhere to be seen.
"Better not let my thoughts run wild for now. First, I need to get a firm foothold and find out exactly what this trial is."
"And I'm still too weak. Is there any way to effectively improve my ability to protect myself without relying on transcendent power?"
Without the protection of his cultivation, Li Shun once again felt the heaviness and exhaustion of an ordinary man. Amid his tangled thoughts, he fell into a deep sleep.
The army remained stationed at Sui City for seven days.
Once they had finished resting and reorganizing, the army broke camp and advanced in mighty ranks toward the heartland of You Kingdom.
The soldiers of all three armies had witnessed with their own eyes the hellish scene of Sui City's massacre. A grief-stricken army was bound to win; the flames of vengeance and morale throughout the entire force had already been stoked to their peak.
In those brief seven days, the elites whom Li Shun had secretly taught the "Blood and Qi Circulation Method," and who had successfully awakened their blood and qi, had expanded to a full eight hundred men.
These eight hundred were all battle-hardened veterans under Bai Yunlie.
Once the blood and qi throughout their bodies had been awakened, and they were clad in armor and armed to the teeth, they became terrifying humanoid beasts.
If all eight hundred charged together, they could crush an army of ten thousand in an instant.
Their only flaw was that their bodies had nearly swollen by