Chapter 168 Summon a Million First

At this moment, the Sun-Shooting Bow burst forth with an extremely intense radiance!

Its brightness was like that of a blazing sun, radiating endless light!

The bowstring trembled, energy vibrated, and the buzzing sound was like a tsunami, one wave after another!

At the same time, this great bow exuded an extremely terrifying pressure, carrying an extremely surging sharp force. Just looking at it was like being aimed at by countless sharp arrows, as if one would be pierced through the heart by ten thousand arrows at any moment!

That's terrifying.

The Sun-Shooting Bow, a top-tier mid-grade weapon of level nine, is truly terrifying!

In a daze, it seemed as if there were countless sharp arrows piercing the air, but in the next instant, it all seemed to be an illusion.

After an unknown amount of time, the tsunami-like sound of the strings gradually subsided, like the receding tide, or like the sea before a storm—calm yet shrouded in a danger as deep as an abyss.

It sent chills down your spine, made you break out in a cold sweat, and chilled you to the bone...

This is the real Sun-Shooting Bow!

That Sun-Shooting Bow that once accompanied Wu Shaogan through many dangers!

It also brought Wu Shaogan a powerful ancient inheritance, giving him a companion treasure that allowed him to possess a secret technique with higher combat power than cultivators of the same realm!

Now, even though it has been reassembled and is no longer bound to Wu Shaogan by life, it still recognizes Wu Shaogan as its master and can still be driven by him.

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If a mystical artifact is only slightly higher than the cultivator's level, the cultivator may find it difficult to fully utilize its potential, but can still use a small portion of it. As their strength increases, they can continuously unleash the true power that the mystical artifact should possess.

If the level of the mystic artifact is much higher than that of the cultivator, the pressure it automatically emits will be extremely powerful for that cultivator. In that case, the cultivator may not even be able to pass through the pressure it brings or get close to it—unless some mystic artifacts of level seven or above have already possessed sentience, and they may choose to restrain their pressure according to their "own will".

Only companion treasures can be used by their owners without being bound by hierarchy—even if they have sentience, even if they are vastly different from their owners, they can only be used to their full potential, and they will be quite handy and have a mutual understanding.

Although Zhong Cai drew out many high-level Xuan artifacts during the sacrifice, they still possessed extremely powerful auras, only these auras were suppressed by the ancient city.

Of course, due to the inherent power of the ancient city, the pressure of high-grade mystic artifacts will be partially suppressed. For example, when the ancient city is at level six, the pressure of mystic artifacts at level six and below will completely disappear; only mystic artifacts above level six will retain a considerable amount of pressure.

But whether it's suppression or excess, it won't harm the city lord of the ancient city.

Besides, they still relied on the ancient city's own capabilities. Although Zhong Cai and Wu Shaogan had difficulty directly touching those high-level Xuan artifacts—especially those with strong attack power—they could control those Xuan artifacts with their minds and store them in their storage tools.

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Wu Shaogan raised his hand and grabbed the Sun-Shooting Bow, which landed in his hand with a "whoosh." He then casually swung it around, and a whooshing sound suddenly rang out, like a thunderclap, deafeningly loud.

At the same time, an immense force burst forth—

With just this slight, understated movement, the immense energy stirred up gusts of wind, instantly whipping up Wu Shaogan's long hair and causing his clothes to flutter and rustle.

Zhong Cai had already quietly slipped to the side.

Just then, I saw Wu Shaogan looking so spirited and high-spirited.

At this moment, it really feels like I've gone back to more than ten years ago!

When the Sun-Shooting Bow was restored to level six in the past, Wu Shaogan had also demonstrated it in this way, but that was ultimately different.

Level 6 and Level 9 are ultimately quite different in terms of flair.

At this moment, Zhong Cai stared straight at the dashing young man, her eyes shining.

His husband, Mr. Wu, is getting more and more handsome!

There is no one in this world more dazzling than his old man, Wu!

It was at this moment that the incomparably handsome young man suddenly smiled at him.

Zhong Cai also showed a bright smile and pounced on him!

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Wu Shaogan held the Sun-Shooting Bow in one hand and Zhong Cai in his arms with the other, his smile gentle.

Zhong Cai wrapped her legs around Wu Shaogan's waist and pressed her head against the side of Wu Shaogan's neck, staring at the Sun-Shooting Bow at such close range.

The dark gold color was deep and steady, yet it exuded an extremely domineering aura.

Zhong Cai put one arm around his old man's shoulder, and with the other hand, he couldn't resist touching the Sun-Shooting Bow.

Just like Wu Shaogan himself, and just like many years ago, the Sun-Shooting Bow was always so docile when facing Zhong Cai, as if the endless arrows had suddenly retracted, without any killing power.

Zhong Cai touched the longbow again this time.

It is hard, with a very fine granular texture, and feels very comfortable to the touch.

Everything felt like it had returned to the beginning.

Apart from the fact that the golden-red color turned into dark gold, there was no difference whatsoever.

Zhong Cai was overjoyed.

Wu Shaogan was overjoyed.

The completion of the Sun-Shooting Bow signifies his complete "healing," filling the last gap in his life—even if it cannot be filled, his life was already extremely fulfilling after having A-Cai. But the Sun-Shooting Bow truly returned in A-Cai's hands, which was an immense stroke of luck for him... and an indescribable happiness.

Thinking of this, Wu Shaogan couldn't help but smile again.

This idea is a bit cheesy, and if A-Cai knew, she might say he's being pretentious, but it truly reflects his most genuine feelings.

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The two were affectionate for a while.

With a flick of his wrist, Wu Shaogan unleashed a flash of dark golden light, and the Sun-Shooting Bow vanished.

Instead of putting it back on the weapon rack, he took it into his Dao Palace.

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Wu Shaogan has an advantage over other cultivators in that he can also bring the top-grade, mid-level Sun-Shooting Bow of the ninth rank into his Dao Palace.

It should be noted that for ordinary cultivators before reaching the Palace Building Realm, their Dao Palace can only accommodate their accompanying treasures.

Although Wu Shaogan could not unleash the full power of the Sun-Shooting Bow, in actual combat, when the opponent used a high-level companion treasure, he could use the Sun-Shooting Bow to fight back head-on without damaging his handy Xuan weapon because the opponent's companion treasure was too hard.

Even if the opponent uses ordinary Xuan weapons, they will most likely be destroyed when they clash head-on with the Sun-Shooting Bow!

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Zhong Cai jumped off Wu Shaogan's waist and reached out to touch Wu Shaogan's stomach.

Wu Shaogan: "...A-Cai, the Dao Palace is in the Yuan Soul, not in the Dantian."

Zhong Cai chuckled twice: "This is due to the influence of my past life memories. I'm used to it and have made a mistake."

Wu Shaogan was helpless, but when Zhong Cai tried to pull her hand away, he grabbed her wrist.

Zhong Cai looked up at him.

Wu Shaogan smiled slightly, took his daughter A Cai's hand, and slipped it inside his shirt.

Zhong Cai: "..."

The two looked at each other, both feeling a surge of excitement.

The next moment, they appeared on the large bed in the dormitory and rolled together into the depths of the bed.

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After a long and passionate encounter, Zhong Cai and Wu Shaogan finally released the emotions that had been building up inside them, and both felt much better.

At this point, it's time to get down to business.

After tidying themselves up, the two went to the city gate tower together.

In front of the summoning pool.

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The two of them still have quite a few various kinds of Xuan stones left, with more than three million high-grade Xuan stones alone. However, apart from those used to train new Dao soldiers, the rest must be stored away for the Dao soldiers to use to acquire various Yin-Yang and Five Elements refining materials.

The ancient city has already reached the eighth-grade top-quality level. To upgrade it further, it will require ninth-grade refining materials.

Level 9 refining materials are already rare, let alone those with Yin-Yang and Five Elements attributes, which are even more difficult to find.

Currently, the ancient city can map out the search routes for various refining materials of level eight and below, but the energy field of level nine materials is too strong, so they can basically only rely on the Dao soldiers of the Seventh State to inquire about them.

In addition, the price of level nine refining materials is also extremely high.

Although the estimated price of ordinary refining materials of this level is at least 10,000 high-grade Xuan Stones, this is really just the "lowest" price - in fact, it is impossible to find level 9 refining materials for sale on the market, not even the most common ones.

If such a level-nine ordinary refining material suddenly appeared in a very powerful merchant guild, it would cost at least tens or hundreds of thousands of high-grade Xuan stones to acquire it.

Therefore, one can imagine that if special attributes are required, the price of just one piece might exceed one million high-grade Xuan stones!

And his and Lao Wu's ancient city still needs to be upgraded twice!

The next step is to upgrade to the top-tier Heavenly grade, which requires at least a mid-grade level nine Yin-Yang Five Elements attribute refining material; the next step is to upgrade to the top-tier Immortal grade, which requires a level nine supreme grade refining material of this type!

The mystic stones they've saved up might not even be enough for their next upgrade.

Fortunately, the level nine top-grade Yin-Yang attribute refining materials can be replaced with mirror fragments, so there is still a good chance that all the resources can be found smoothly during the final upgrade.

that is……

You still have to spend a lot of money to play.

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The current summoning pool is very large, filled with many small stone platforms, with a certain distance between each pair.

At the same time, the open space around the pool was also very large, enough to allow these Taoist soldiers to quickly walk out, so that the pool could continue to be used for summoning.

Zhong Cai and Wu Shaogan sat on a wide stone table, each holding a mustard seed bag.

It was filled to the brim with mysterious pearls.

Their goal today is to summon Dao soldiers that have reached the Spirit Transformation level—regardless of the type, but at least one Golden Armored Soldier must be included. If any have not reached the Spirit Transformation level, they must all be trained to the highest level.

At the same time, it will continuously synthesize Taoist soldiers.

As for the final types of Dao soldiers to be left, and the number of each type, that depends on the circumstances of their summoning.

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Zhong Cai stroked his chin and said directly, "Let's throw in one million Xuanzhu first."

Wu Shaogan naturally agreed.

Then, Zhong Cai raised his arm, and a large number of mysterious pearls sprayed out from his mustard seed bag, forming a silver river in the air, which fell into the huge pool in a dazzling display.

Wu Shaogan casually struck the first large drum standing next to him.

In an instant, the sound of drums filled the air.

The summoning pool seemed to be awakened by the drumbeat; in an instant, all the mystic pearls shattered into endless dust, like countless stardust, floating above the pool.

Inside the pool, a black sea of ​​fire rose.

Gray mist swirled around, covering the entire surface of the pool. But upon closer inspection, one could discern wisps of dark blue smoke swirling within the gray mist... though they were few in number and so inconspicuous among the countless wisps of gray mist that they were almost imperceptible.

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Zhong Cai leaned against Wu Shaogan and began to count, relying on her keen eyesight.

"Blue one, two, three... four?"

"Only four?"

Zhong Cai really wanted to come up with a few more, but there was nothing she could do. It was exactly as expected, no more than five wisps of dark blue smoke.

This pool can summon a thousand Dao soldiers at once.

In the past, when the pool was small, after spending a thousand Xuanzhu in batches each time, they would only have a handful of bronze-armored soldiers.

Zhong Cai watched as one after another, burly figures clad in armor emerged from the black flames. Leading the way were four tall Dao soldiers clad in bronze armor.

As always, the soldiers were genderless and their faces were covered by helmets.

Wu Shaogan gently massaged Zhong Cai's wrist and said softly, "Your luck was so-so this time."

Zhong Cai sighed, "It's not what we wanted at all."

However, don't be impatient.

Since they've been stuck here for the past two days, let's just summon them slowly.

We will not give up until we achieve our goal!

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Wu Shao chuckled and ordered, "The Dao soldiers will automatically combine into bronze armor soldiers."

The numerous Taoist soldiers obeyed orders very well, and soon lined up in the surrounding open space and walked directly into a side hall.

The hall was already very large, and it also contained five pools for synthesis.

Each pool can complete the synthesis of a batch of 100 Dao soldiers—not only can iron armor soldiers be synthesized into bronze armor soldiers, but 100 bronze armor soldiers can also be synthesized into silver armor soldiers.

However, if the synthesis fails, it will be a huge waste of time and effort.

Zhong Cai covered her eyes and said sullenly, "Let's not bother looking at the synthesis process—especially when synthesizing silver-armored soldiers. The success rate is definitely lower than when synthesizing bronze-armored soldiers. It's too frustrating to see one failure after another."

Wu Shao chuckled dryly and agreed, "I'll do whatever A-Cai says."

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At this moment, the million Xuanzhu in the Daobing Pool are far from being exhausted.

Even if it consumes a thousand units at a time, it can be used to synthesize a thousand times.

Sure enough, the black sea of ​​flames is still spreading, embracing, and converging with each other.

Each time, amidst the swirling black flames and smoke, a large number of enormous Taoist soldiers would emerge.

And so, the summons were carried out four or five times...

More than a dozen bronze-armored soldiers appeared automatically, but there were no special Dao soldiers.

Even the silver-armored soldiers and the gold-armored soldiers were nowhere to be seen.

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Zhong Cai's lips twitched: "Today's luck is actually a bit bad, isn't it?"

Wu Shaogan calmly gave an example: "In the past, it would take about one in ten thousand summons to summon a special Dao soldier or a silver-armored soldier. This time, we've only summoned a few thousand times."

Zhong Cai curled her lip: "This only proves that we were never lucky when we summoned Dao soldiers."

Wu Shaogan chuckled: "A-Cai is right."

The two looked at each other and sighed together.

All the Dao soldiers that had already appeared were instructed to synthesize on their own, and while they were talking, the summoning pool produced another two thousand Dao soldiers.

The soldiers were very obedient and followed the procedures set by the two men completely.

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When they reached the ninth pool, a glimmer of silver light suddenly appeared amidst the surging gray smoke.

They are silver-armored soldiers!

The silver-armored soldiers looked even more magnificent and their aura even more powerful.

Zhong Cai's expression improved considerably. He glanced at the two bronze-armored soldiers following behind the silver-armored soldier and nodded in satisfaction.

The silver-armored soldiers also had to go to the adjacent side hall.

Then came the tenth time the pool was opened—

Amidst the black flames and smoke of varying colors, nothing truly new or interesting emerged.

There were five bronze-armored soldiers, though.

Zhong Cai sighed.

Wu Shaogan looked at him amusedly, offered his palm, and asked with a smile, "Want to pinch me a couple of times?"

Zhong Cai rolled her eyes, grabbed the hand, put it to her lips and bit it—leaving a small tooth mark.

Wu Shaogan let him bite, but he also pinched Zhong Cai's face.

Zhong Cai turned her head away and bit Wu Shaogan's finger as well.

Wu Shaogan: "..."

Of course, bite back immediately!

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After a while of playful fighting, both of them had teeth marks on their faces, and all ten of their fingers were also covered in them.

Because the two of them were having so much fun playing around, they momentarily forgot that the summoning pool was still continuously churning out Dao soldiers...

When the two came to their senses, they turned their heads and met a pair of dark eyes.

Zhong Cai: "..."

Wu Shaogan: "..."

This is a bit awkward.

It turns out that a special Dao soldier had appeared while they weren't paying attention!

And special Taoist soldiers...

They are intelligent beings!

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Zhong Cai silently sat up straighter, facing the special Taoist soldier.

Wu Shaogan also wore a calm smile.

As long as they don't show any awkwardness, then it's not awkward!

At this moment, both of them were sizing up the newly appeared Taoist soldiers.

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Although the two had already summoned dozens of special Dao soldiers, the appearance of a new one shouldn't be surprising.

However, this is the first time in ten years.

So... it still felt a bit novel.

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This new soldier was very thin, with a fairly handsome appearance, and was dressed in a black, close-fitting outfit.

He carried a long sword on his back, and his whole body exuded a cold and sharp sword aura, making him very imposing.

At his feet lay a giant, fiery red wolf.

This soldier was actually a special silver-armored soldier!

When he appeared, he already possessed the peak strength of Tsukimiya!

If he is lucky and has enough resources, he may break through again in a relatively short period of time and become a Spirit Transformation cultivator!

but……

This so-called "shorter" is also relative.

Because Xiong Biao, who is on par with this soldier, is currently fighting in the Seventh State. If he needs resources, Zhong Cai and Wu Shaogan will certainly not be stingy with them... but he is still only at the peak of the Palace Constructing stage.

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The new Daobing appears aloof, but he is clearly not the arrogant type.

His expression remained unchanged, as if he hadn't seen the two city lords arguing at all. He simply stepped forward, bowed, and said, "Your subordinate, Jin Huai, greets the two city lords."

Zhong Cai immediately said, "Senior, there's no need for such formalities."

Jin Huai stood quietly in place, not saying a word, clearly waiting to answer whatever the two city lords asked and to do whatever they instructed him to do.

Following the usual practice, Wu Shaogan asked him about his background and asked him to give a brief self-introduction.

Jin Huai did indeed answer truthfully.

"I come from the Cold Heaven Continent, a rogue cultivator, with a mid-level Earth-grade aptitude."

"I died in a fight with someone before I was born. This Crimson Wind Wolf was my contracted pet and my partner. It died in battle with me."

"The era in which I live is nearly 50,000 years ago..."

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Zhong Cai listened attentively and discovered that this Senior Jin's own experience was relatively simple—not that he had little experience or knowledge, but rather that he simply lived the life of a solitary cultivator, rather like a lone wolf.

If Senior Xiong Biao is well-suited to lead Dao soldiers to conquer territory, then this guy is only suitable to be a henchman, or perhaps it's best to let him train and improve on his own—we'll notify him when we need him.

But because of this, Senior Jin might break through earlier than Senior Xiong?

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Zhong Cai respected the wishes of this special Dao soldier with intelligence, and after a moment's thought, he quickly offered three options.

“Senior Jin can choose to train on his own, or he can choose to go to the Seventh State to fight alongside Senior Xiong Biao.” Zhong Cai paused, then smiled and said, “If Senior Jin is confident and willing, he can also lead his Dao soldiers to conquer territory, just like Senior Xiong Biao… But in that case, he can only choose the Seventh State or the Thirteenth State.”

Ever since Jin Huai was summoned, his mind has been automatically bombarded with a large amount of information.

This includes the current total number of Dao soldiers, the names, genders, and strengths of special Dao soldiers, etc.

At this moment, the city lord of the ancient city has offered several options, which can be considered quite generous.

After thinking for a moment, Jin Huai finally said, "I choose to train alone."

Zhong Cai guessed that he would most likely make this choice, so he instructed, "I also need to tell you, senior, that no matter where you go, you must hand over 30% of all the resources you acquire to the ancient city."

Jin Huai nodded, having no objection.

Zhong Cai then smiled and said, "If Senior Jin has any excellent resources, you can trade them with Canglong Academy through me and Lao Wu, which would also be a resource exchange."

Jin Huai said, "Thank you."

Zhong Cai said nonchalantly, "What are you thanking me for? Senior Jin is one of us."

Jin Huai didn't say much, he just nodded and made a note of it.

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The soldiers continued to emerge in droves, and Jin Huai was so crowded that he barely had room to stand.

Zhong Cai then instructed the Dao soldiers to continue synthesizing the items in the side hall, and also asked Jin Huai to keep an eye on the synthesis process.

Jin Huai naturally accepted the order and left.

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After everyone left, Zhong Cai immediately buried her face in her husband Lao Wu's arms.

Wu Shaogan suppressed a laugh and said, "Anyway, it's just the two of us making a fool of ourselves, so it's fine."

Zhong Cai turned over and looked up at his old man, wanting to say something... but he just happened to see his old man's face from a deathly angle and forgot about it in an instant.

All I can remember is that "Old Wu is so handsome".

Wu Shaogan lowered his eyes slightly and looked tenderly at Zhong Cai.

Zhong Cai stared intently without blinking.

He looks even more handsome from this angle!

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It took almost a whole day to summon the million Dao soldiers.

The number of iron-armored soldiers is not even worth counting; there are over a thousand bronze-armored soldiers and more than forty silver-armored soldiers.

The number of special Dao soldiers reached fifty-two—but there was only one special silver-armored soldier, Jin Huai.

Then there were twenty-one special bronze-armored soldiers and thirty special iron-armored soldiers.

The golden-armored soldiers were still nowhere to be seen.

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Zhong Cai stretched and said helplessly, "One million is still not enough to summon the golden-armored soldiers. The odds are so low it's unbelievable."

Wu Shaogan didn't say much, but simply stroked Zhong Cai's hair and suggested, "Let's go take a look at the synthesis over there to change our mood?"

Zhong Cai was somewhat interested.

But actually, he also knew very well... that going next door might not change his mood at all.

The success rate of synthesis is extremely low.

Furthermore, if you really want to synthesize Silver Armor Soldiers, synthesizing them layer by layer will result in continuous losses...

Zhong Cai had estimated that of the one million summoned Dao soldiers, only one or two silver-armored soldiers could actually be synthesized.

However, as long as you get the Silver Armored Soldiers, it's not a complete loss.

To reach its maximum capacity, it requires energy measured in mystic stones.

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The two of them slipped away and entered the side hall hand in hand.

Jin Huai stood in the corner with his arms crossed, intently scanning the numerous synthesis pools.

He showed respect upon noticing the two city lords enter.

Zhong Cai nodded to Jin Huai, telling him not to pay any attention to the two of them.

Jin Huai then went back to doing his own thing.

Zhong Cai and Wu Shaogan, on the other hand, were among the crowded soldiers.

Because the summoning speed of the Dao soldiers is too fast, while the synthesis takes a certain amount of time... this actually means that the synthesis is not finished yet.