Xu Taiping nodded.
"That is our only option."
Something suddenly occurred to Lü Daoxuan, and he asked Xu Taiping with some curiosity:
"Taiping, how many troops can you now command in a military formation?"
After giving it serious thought, Xu Taiping said solemnly:
"The more, the better."
Lü Daoxuan gave Xu Taiping a long look. Once he confirmed that he was not joking, the corners of his mouth suddenly lifted slightly.
"In that case, I will no longer impose a cultivation requirement. Let all cultivators willing to enter the Heaven-Demon Battlefield continue ascending here."
Xu Taiping was speechless.
"Those thirteen thousand sword cultivators were actually ones you had selected, Master?"
Lü Daoxuan grinned.
"Why else would I have kept you waiting so long?"
Hearing this, Xu Taiping smiled as well.
"I look forward to the coming battle all the more."
If more than fifty thousand reinforcements could be transported here within these three months, he would be confident of taking on that hundred-thousand-strong Demonic Army.
Just as Xu Taiping was thinking this, the Lotus Eye in his left eye suddenly grew somewhat hot, as though it had sensed something.
But when Xu Taiping focused his mind on sensing it, that heat abruptly vanished.
Just as Xu Taiping was puzzling over it, Lü Daoxuan's voice rang out again:
"Taiping, aside from the reinforcements, there is something else I must tell you."
Xu Taiping's heart tightened, and he asked curiously:
"What is it?"
Lü Daoxuan took a deep breath and said gravely:
"Taiping, both you and I must forge swords."
"Forge swords?" Xu Taiping did not immediately understand.
Lü Daoxuan promptly explained in earnest:
"For cultivators who possess the Taixuan Sect Inheritance, once their cultivation reaches great completion in the Dao-Integration Heavenly Communion Realm, they can forge a magical sword of the