Chapter 257 : Chapter 257
Chapter 257: Infiltration
【You looked at Xuanyuan Tianji beside you in surprise. You had not expected her to see through your thoughts.】
【You nodded and looked at her in confusion.】
【Xuanyuan Tianji told you that based on her understanding over the years, there was a great difference between the combat strength of the Eldritch Race and the Human Race.】
【Xuanyuan Tianji told you that because of their special physiques, the Eldritch Race was extremely difficult to kill. If everyone charged in together, then after several waves, everyone would have consumed a great deal of Spiritual Power. If more members of the Eldritch Race attacked afterward, they would be too weakened to resist.】
【Xuanyuan Tianji told you that although the current arrangement would cause each team to consume a large amount of Spiritual Power, the next attack would be carried out by another squad, giving your team time to recover.】
【“So that is how it is...”】
【After listening to Xuanyuan Tianji’s explanation, you thought back to the first time you encountered the Eldritch Race in the Qingxuan Realm.】
【Back then, killing a single eldritch being had taken you a very long time. That thing could not only revive multiple times, but also seemed to possess an inexhaustible amount of Spiritual Power.】
【Now that the situation was urgent, even if you did not want to fight the Eldritch Race, you had no way to retreat.】
【You gritted your teeth, took out the Taixu Immortal Sword, and charged into the battlefield.】
【At the same time, you sent a Voice Transmission to Chen Shu and Xuanyuan Tianji, telling them that if they encountered danger, they should come to your side immediately. You would open the Void Domain and let them hide inside.】
【“Die!”】
【Holding the Taixu Immortal Sword, you tangled with an eldritch being at the Mid Immortal Realm.】
【You knew very well that under these circumstances, you absolutely could not stand out too much. Otherwise, you would definitely attract too much attention, and your plan to take the opportunity to slip away would fall apart.】
【You fought the eldritch being before you at an unhurried pace, making it seem as though the two of you were evenly matched.】
【Three days later!】
【The battle gradually came to an end.】
【In the end, your side won this battle.】
【Of the one-thousand-man team, only five hundred survived in the end.】
【You had not expected that in your team’s very first battle after leaving the Human Race’s territory and fighting the Eldritch Race, you would lose half of your combat strength.】
【You saw Li Mutian return to the Immortal Boat with an extremely ugly expression.】
【You did not know whether such a result was caused by the Eldritch Race being too strong, or because Li Mutian’s squad was too weak.】
【Immediately afterward, you continued onward.】
【The eleventh year!】
【After a year of campaigning, you drew closer and closer to the Eldritch Sect.】
【As you approached the Eldritch Sect, each wave of eldritch beings you encountered became even stronger.】
【Now, Li Mutian’s squad, which you belonged to, had gone from five hundred people before to only one hundred remaining.】
【After the first battle, you learned that not every team had such a high death rate.】
【In the first few rounds of battle, only Li Mutian’s squad had the highest death rate, reaching fifty percent. The highest death rate among the other teams was only around thirty percent.】
【At this moment, you finally understood why Li Mutian’s expression had been so ugly when he returned to the Immortal Boat back then.】
【Now, because your squad had too few people, it had already been merged into another squad. However, the one hundred of you still obeyed Li Mutian’s arrangements.】
【At this moment, you went to find Chen Shu.】
【You told Chen Shu that in the next battle, she should pretend to die in combat while actually hiding inside your Void Domain.】
【After witnessing the previous battle, you realized that in the battles to come, there would be fewer and fewer Immortal Realm eldritch beings. With Chen Shu’s current strength, there was no way for her to survive.】
【“This...”】
【Chen Shu hesitated for a moment, but in the end, she still nodded.】
【Immediately afterward, you looked toward Xuanyuan Tianji beside her.】
【Xuanyuan Tianji met your gaze and smiled faintly.】
【“I do not need that for now!”】
【Xuanyuan Tianji told you that she had discovered she could break through her cultivation faster in battle, and that it benefited her cultivation.】
【Hm?】
【Suddenly, you discovered that at some unknown point, Xuanyuan Tianji’s cultivation had actually broken through to the Mid Immortal Realm, completely surpassing you.】
【“No way. Why can she do it, but I cannot?”】
【You began to feel somewhat envious of Xuanyuan Tianji’s physique.】
【“Of course you cannot. Do you really think the path of the Chaos Body is so easy to walk?”】
【...】
【The twelfth year!】
【Another year passed. Now, in your current force, you were the only cultivator left at the Early Immortal Realm.】
【You looked at the Immortal King on the Immortal Boat with hatred in your eyes.】
【You had not expected his heart to be so ruthless. He did not take your lives seriously at all and could abandon you whenever he wished.】
【The war this year was even crueler than it had been in the first year.】
【Later on, because there were not enough people, those who had just finished fighting were sent into battle again and again. This included all of you.】
【Your only time to rest was the brief interval between each battle.】
【Now, even Xuanyuan Tianji had hidden inside your Void Domain. Li Mutian had even had one arm eaten by the Eldritch Race.】
【You knew that an arm eaten by the Eldritch Race could not be restored.】
【From then on, Li Mutian became a one-armed hero.】
【“I have finally come here again!”】
【Expressionlessly, you looked at the fleshy sphere above the Eldritch Sect.】
【At this moment, the thousands of eyes above opened in unison, looking toward the disciples of the Great Dream Immortal Sect in every direction.】
【You knew that the true battle was only beginning now. The previous two years had merely been minor skirmishes.】
【Sure enough.】
【In the next second, the Dreamless Immortal King gave the order, and four Immortal Kings led the charge.】
【This time, everyone attacked together.】
【The purpose of doing this was very simple. It was to buy time so that the Dreamless Immortal King would have time to take away the Realm-Boundary Grand Array.】
【You knew that in this battle, the Great Dream Immortal Sect was burning its boats and leaving itself no way out.】
【In their eyes, as long as the Immortal Sovereign could survive, he was worth more than one thousand or even ten thousand Immortal Realm cultivators.】
【As soon as the Dreamless Immortal King’s voice fell, everyone launched a full assault.】
【Seeing this scene, you knew that the opportunity had come.】
【The opportunity you had waited two years for had finally arrived.】
【Taking advantage of the chaos, you used Void Concealment to hide yourself.】
【In your semi-intangible state, you completely merged yourself into the void.】
【In this state, as long as no one was paying attention to you, it would be impossible to discover your existence. Therefore, the current chaotic battle was your best opportunity.】
【You slowly walked toward the Eldritch Sect.】
【Along the way, you avoided every line of sight from the Thousand-Eyed Emperor.】
【Although the Thousand-Eyed Emperor had been gravely wounded, you always had a bad premonition in your heart.】
【You followed the Dreamless Immortal King’s path and walked in one direction.】
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