"What bullshit retreat? It means 'gone'!"
Another soldier, his uniform loosely draped, chimed in, "Of course, it was our General Yun! His divine might descended from the heavens, as if possessed by a celestial being, and he routed that million-strong army, sending them fleeing in disarray... Wait, what's that idiom again?"
"Mountains of corpses, seas of blood, rivers of blood."
"Yes!" the loosely packed soldier replied, "Mountains of corpses, seas of blood, rivers of blood!"
"What nonsense are you spouting?!" the messenger roared.
[If these soldiers were exhausted and mentally drained after a month of arduous defense and fighting.]
Even if they were sleeping on the ground, he wouldn't feel it was impolite to lift his eyelids and look at them; in fact, he might even think of letting these brave soldiers lie down a little longer and rest a little longer.
[But these sons of bitches, these soldiers, are all full of energy, yet they're utterly颓废 (颓废 is a difficult word to translate directly, but it conveys a sense of listlessness, apathy, and a lack of discipline) and don't resemble soldiers at all!]
"Do you even resemble soldiers of the Great Li now?!"
"It used to be there, but it's gone now."
"A month ago we were all strapped for cash, but ever since General Yun displayed his might that day, we've all become like this, all loose and flabby."
"With the incomparably mighty and unstoppable General Yun around, why should we continue to strive?"
The communications officer found these people...incomprehensible!
Until your voice came from afar.
"Let him come up."
Then, these soldiers, who had been slouching just moments before, instantly stood at attention, their entire bodies tense!
"This choice of words...you bastard, are you doing this on purpose?!"
"Yes, General Yun!"
Their voices were incredibly loud; when they answered in unison, it felt like the messenger's ears had been exploded.
He suddenly realized a new character: "Wait, General Yun? Who is General Yun?"
The original general of this city was not surnamed Yun!
A few minutes later, the messenger entered the city and climbed the city wall. Looking at the land facing the enemy in the distance, he was speechless.
As the vast expanse of earth turned a dark red, countless heads were piled up to form a mound of skulls.
[A mound has appeared on the original flat land. The mound itself doesn't seem unusual, but the problem is that it's also dark red overall, and a pool of blood gathers at its base.]
It was as if... countless corpses were buried inside, freshly killed, living corpses!
[A round object was suddenly tossed into the messenger's arms. He hurriedly caught it, and when he saw what the spherical object in his hand was, he was startled.]
[Heads, heads!]
"Is this... is this the head of the Marshal of the Li Kingdom?"
He asked, his voice trembling.
【"no."】
You waved your hand behind you.
The messenger turned the head to face forward.
He frowned: "He looks familiar, very familiar, but he's definitely not the marshal. He is... he... he... he... he!"
His brain was overloaded; he couldn't believe the truth he was seeing.
The owner of this head is the ruler of the Li Kingdom!
[You stand with your hands behind your back: "You've come too late. I've already conquered the Li Kingdom."]
"Now that I've achieved success and fame, I have nothing left to cherish in this world."
[After saying this, you clench your fist and raise it upwards.]
"This general will shatter the void today and surpass the pinnacle of martial arts!"
[With eighteen layers of divine intervention superimposed, you leaped high into the air and vanished from the spot...]
[When your superimposed state dissipates in mid-air, that's when you'll complete the sixty-ninth trial and return.]
[We've returned to the cultivation space provided by the Immortal Ancient Secret Realm.]
After you left, that illusory assessment scene also shattered; after all, it was merely a world constructed from the principles of the Dao.
A message popped into my mind.
[You have been granted resources that will allow you to cultivate at full speed for 123 years, and will increase your comprehension by 131 times, lasting for 6 years.]
Of course, the most important thing is the thirty-fold increase in cultivation speed, which you've been given a year and a half in total.
This means that in this year and a half you can consume the resources that would normally take forty-five years of full-speed cultivation, but in return, you also gain cultivation advancements that would normally take forty-five years!
"The initial acceleration was only 2x, then 5x for the 20th trial, and 12x for the 30th trial. I doubt there have ever been many people throughout history who could reach 30x speed."
"Based on the information I gathered about the Immortal Ancient Secret Realm, many people who completed more than twenty trials obtained enough resources to fully develop a system."
"However, some exceptional geniuses who possess the potential to become immortals, or who simply rose to power through the Ancient Immortal Realm, are different!"
"When they reach the twentieth or thirtieth level, they have enough resources. The rest will continue to push forward, often reaching around the fortieth level, all for the reward of enlightenment, allowing them to complete the True King Path and condense their Dao Seal more quickly."
"I, on the other hand, represent the extreme of the latter!"
"Even with my current consumption of over 800 times the true essence resources, the total amount of resources awarded by the trial at around level 50 will be enough for me."
"As for those comprehension bonuses... they're practically negligible!"
"What I want to achieve is the third reward—the cultivation speed boost!"
"For mediocre talents who have passed more than twenty trials, and for prodigies who have passed forty trials, the so-called accelerated cultivation is just an added bonus; it's better to have it, but it won't take much more time if they don't."
"This is precisely what I'm striving for. My ultimate prodigy, a genius surpassing the entire ocean of the multiverse, is aiming for the gradually increasing cultivation speed and duration after the fiftieth or sixtieth level!"
You grinned, feeling multiple positive buffs bestowed upon you, while the targeted resources of the Undying Divine Demon Art system around you increased by another small mountain.
"Before the formal training begins, let me relieve some of the monotony of the past month."
"Although I had a good time in that Li Kingdom, they were just a bunch of ordinary people, and it wasn't enough to satisfy a connoisseur like me who's used to fine dining."
"So, let's start with a <."
[Your right hand transforms into the Holy Grail, while your left hand retrieves an image device from your spatial ring.]
[Click to play the video.]
Then they put the Holy Grail on.
[...]
A few minutes later, you frowned.
"Something seems off?"
(I forgot to mention yesterday's plot point that it could only occur within 24 hours, I made a mistake, it's been corrected now (?′ω`? ))
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