Chapter 482: Progressing Forward & Training
Chapter 482: Progressing Forward & Training
Chapter 482: Progressing Forward & Training
With only one sign from Tianlong Yun, everyone on his side immediately got to their positions as they prepared for the fight.
The enemies in front of them didn't seem to move right now, as everything was just too calm, and quiet like they had no relation whatsoever with what was about to happen.
It was like in front of them was just a quiet and peaceful forest, like an oasis from the noise and sounds of the outside.
It wasn't truly different from what they had experienced until now though, as every time they came outside to fight, they were faced with the same situation and silence.
There was one big difference that all of them could notice though, there was no level 1 trees this time, each tree in there was level 2.
It wasn't like they hadn't fought any level 2 trees until now, it was just that the difference in numbers between them was terrifyingly different.
But none of them looked like they had any idea of stepping down right now, quite the opposite actually, they were all looking forwards to it.
After what happened in the last two months, and their booming speed of cultivation, they were all looking forward to it.
Certainly, this was going to be a dangerous undertaking for them, but as long as they survived all this, the benefits would be just amazing.
Furthermore, as long as they were careful and managed to work together as a group they would be able to achieve success without losing many people.
With these thoughts in their mind, the whole army was ready in but a few moments, and immediately as they got Tianlong Yun's second sign they attacked.
This time Tianlong Yun had decided to use a different strategy from the usual 'circular disc' that they would use on the outer district.
In there this strategy was extremely useful since they were surrounded all the time, but this time they were the ones taking the initiative and attacking.
The disc strategy would be too difficult to enact, especially since they had no idea of how many trees there were, and when would the mother tree appear.
After all, right now they had an advantage in the terrain they were, why should they stupidly give up on that advantage.
So this time he decided to use a saw formation, the base would the Soul Severing Formation, and the backups, while the teams would be arranged into two big fighting groups.
Each group would have 300 disciples each, the first group would attack first and engage the enemies in a fight, then the second group would immediately rush forward, and help them deal with the targets.
The impact would surely result in quick victory, so the first group would then continue forward to engage deeper and then pull back until the formation.
Like this the trees they would pull towards them, and the surrounding trees would come and make contact with the second group, as they blocked the attacks.
As soon as that happened, the first group would proceed forward with the impact on the new enemies, as the second group took the position of the first group.
Like this, they would imitate the moves of a pointy saw into the heart of the enemy, as Tianlong Yun would be the sharp point of that sword.
It had been more than a while since Tianlong Yun started fighting with more than 40% of his strength, showing his disciples what was the disparities in their strength.
He did this with two goals in mind, first was to finish this damn mission he had as soon as possible as the more time it passed the more he felt like something bad was happening.
Secondly, he wanted to show all the disciples that the disparity between them was just too big and it would be better for them not to make any stupid move.
With that said, Tianlong Yun was the first to jump out of the Soul Severing Formation, as he struck the first tree in sight with a punch.
The tree wasn't able to even defend itself as it was completely turned into nothing more than wood particles, while Tianlong Yun did a flip back, and without waiting for the 'herb root' to cry or escape, he squeezed it to death.
The first time that something like this happened, the whole army of disciples were stupefied, as to how it was possible, but right now they felt that it was only normal, and followed his lead.
No matter how stunning or surprising something really is, as long as you see it happen enough times it seems like it is totally normal.
The same thing was happening to each and every one of these disciples, they were looking at this like it was the most normal thing in the world. Well, not totally normal, but still!
While Tianlong Yun started to make a path for them, they immediately came from behind him and started to spread open the trail.
When they finally reached 10 meters spread of the trail, they stopped expanding it horizontally and started doing it vertically following their Patriarch.
Immediately after they started their original strategy, with the two groups working in harmony just like the edge of a short sword.
On the first day only, they managed to take down more than 1000 level 2 trees, without losing a single soul from their side.
If someone would have told them that this was possible from the start, then they would probably think that he was some kind of overly optimistic idiot.
But right now, this was a fact, they had all taken down at least one level 2 tree on average and it wasn't something minor.
That was without counting Tianlong Yun's own numbers, as he alone had taken down more than 200 level 2 trees.
On the outer district the level 3 trees had almost 5000 level 2 trees, and 20000 level 1 trees in their rule, but most of those trees were used by the level 3 tree on the battles with Tianlong Yun.
Due to the high damage that the level 3 tree suffered in a short time, it would suck all these trees in order to regenerate, and continue its fight against Tianlong Yun.
Still 'Life's Regret' was too sharp for those trees to actually pull a challenge to Tianlong Yun, as he didn't take any more risks.
Going by these numbers just in one day Tianlong Yun and his army of disciples had already gone for more than 1/3 of the work, but things weren't that easy!
The ringleader wasn't a level 3 tree anymore, but a legit level 4 tree at least, and the number of the level 2 trees in its rule wouldn't be the same as some weak level 3 tree.
In fact, they couldn't even see what lied on their way, as the more one approached the center the darker it became.
That advantage of 50% they had gained these two months by destroying the whole outer district was slowly getting destroyed as they approached the center.
Tianlong Yun had thought a lot about using a knife strategy and entering in one breath towards the center, but since he didn't know what expected them there, he wasn't comfortable with the thought.
His entrance to the Nightmare Forests like he did was already a big mistake from his side, he couldn't afford to make a second one.
For that reason, he had decided to go slow and steady on this one, and take care of the center step by step, just like they said slow and steady wins the race.
Like this a new routine started for Tianlong Yun and his army, they would proceed with their attack in an average of 3 strikes in 2 days, and each day they would proceed at least 3% steps towards the center.
How did they know about it? Really simple actually Tianlong Yun was measuring the distance they walked forward by looking at the pressure around him.
The more they walked towards the center the more did the pressure on them increase, and the more difficult it was for them to deal with the level 2 trees.
While at the moment they were walking steadily at a 4% difference in a day, he knew that soon their speed would drop and they would have to work harder.
For that reason, when they reach the 60% pressure level, he intentionally eased their battle time, making it only one strike per day, as he spent the rest of the day training them.
The best way to solidify a cultivator's foundation is to push them to the limit and condense their power as much as one can.
While it would be impossible for Tianlong Yun to put upon them his own Soul Power and Qi pressure on them, he found an easier way.
He separated all the disciples into groups of ten, with a one-in-ten leader. During their training time, all the teams would form a circle.
Then each team would send one representative to the subsequent team as they were left with 9. The 9 left members would use all they had to pressure the representative of the other team.
If the representative was able to last for longer than 30 minutes, then the representative won, if he wasn't able to then the team of 9 won.
To make things more interesting, and the disciples more motivated there were surely even awards concluded, which was the daily resources.
If the team won then the team would get the daily resources of the representative that day, and it was in their own discretion how they divided them.
If the representative won, he would win the team's daily resources for himself that day. The other big rule was that the representative couldn't be the same in 10 consecutive matches.
A good training method, that he had stolen from the Royal Turtle Clan in the Immortal World