Several hours later.
"Battalion Sixty-One, Battalion Four, enter the formation!" The army supervisor instructor's icy voice rang out again, cutting through the din of the drill ground.
Lin Changsheng rose abruptly, and the two thousand Demon Lotus elites behind him moved in perfect unison.
They silently sat cross-legged, closed their eyes in concentration, and sank their minds into the Formation Talisman at their waists.
Hum!
Mystic light rose again, and the light screen reappeared.
The battlefield was still a Desolate Wilderness Forest!
This time, however, the torrent of light points representing Battalion Sixty-One displayed an entirely different bearing the moment it poured into the jungle through the battlefield's western entrance!
Lin Changsheng stood at the formation's heart, spreading his Divine Sense like a net and issuing orders instantly, without words.
Dozens of crack ten-man scout teams slipped silently into the depths of the forest like drops of water sinking into sand.
They moved nimbly, their auras suppressed to the utmost, using the gnarled roots of ancient trees and hanging curtains of vines to conceal themselves perfectly as they advanced.
Every one of them wore a specially made Spirit-Concealing Talisman.
Moreover, members of each team continually formed hand seals and cast the Divine Sense-Sealing Curse Seal, maximizing interference with spiritual energy fluctuations and Divine Sense detection in the areas where their teams operated.
As the main force advanced, Foundation Establishment cultivators had already planted thirty-six Mind-Disrupting Ripple Formation Flags precisely at their designated positions;
their halos stabilized, instantly spreading a mind-disrupting zone more substantial and extensive than any previous battalion's.
At the same time, over a hundred cultivators specializing in these arts simultaneously cast Earth Vein Disruption and the Miasma Assimilation Restriction;
they churned the earth energy and Poison Miasma around the troops into an even murkier, thicker mass.
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