Chapter 1755 - 1740: Profound Yin Nine Tribulations Sword Formation

The selection of Elite Generals for the Sky Wing Three Saints was actually very easy to handle.

Because before this, the Sky Wing Three Saints had already each selected over a thousand Bloodline descendants from Heavenly Wing Island on the True Profound Continent and secretly sent them to Xiansheng Water Mansion, where the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi was much denser, for Cultivation.

Picking a hundred people out of these thousand Bloodline descendants was extremely simple.

But on Ye Zhen’s side, things were a bit more troublesome.

Those one thousand Divine Envoy Attendants could be taken away from the True Profound Continent with a single word from Ye Zhen, but Ye Zhen would have to personally make a trip to the Southern Barbarian Tribe of the True Profound Continent.

However, Ye Zhen’s Mirage Dragon Pearl could now hold people; bringing two hundred people back, at the speed of the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten, would only take a day or two.

But the problem lay with his senior martial sister, Liao Feibai.

As for training Elite Generals, Liao Feibai herself wasn’t very interested; she only wanted to raise her own Cultivation.

But under the strong insistence of Ye Zhen and the Sky Wing Three Saints, senior martial sister Liao Feibai also had to train a portion of elites.

Even if they weren’t Elite Generals cultivated by the Sky Wing Three Saints to face powerful enemies head-on or hold a region by themselves, for Liao Feibai’s own safety, she still had to cultivate some elites who could be commanded as an extension of her own limbs, loyal without fail, to be absolutely secure.

Moreover, whether Liao Feibai would be traveling the world or sitting in command of a territory in the future, it wouldn’t do for her not to have trusted elite attendants at her side.

At first, Liao Feibai’s idea was to select twenty Female Martial Artists with decent aptitude and meticulously train them; that would be enough.

However, after Liao Feibai chatted for most of the day with Purple Spirit, that woman whose heart was bound to the sword body, Liao Feibai suddenly changed her mind.

She also wanted to select a hundred Female Sword Attendants for training, and the requirements for these hundred Female Sword Attendants were somewhat special.

They had to be Martial Artists whose Cultivation was below the Establishment Realm, and they had to be Female Martial Artists who cultivated Water Attribute Cultivation Techniques and whose Primordial Yin was still intact.

With these requirements stacked together, it became somewhat difficult to find them.

Of course, given how vast the Primordial Continent was, meeting these requirements wasn’t hard, but Ye Zhen and his group’s current influence was mainly in the North Sea and North Sea County, and they also had to find Female Martial Artists whose backgrounds they knew thoroughly.

To gather them, have the Ann Family take them away for training, would probably require quite some time.

But in the True Profound Continent, it would be different.

As long as Ye Zhen gave the order, without Ye Zhen and Liao Feibai needing to personally act, Qiyun Sect could rely on its vast power and manpower to find, in the shortest time, the people who met these conditions.

Moreover, even in the follow-up work of making these people completely settle their hearts and ensuring their loyalty, it would be incomparably simple.

Because in the True Profound Continent, both Ye Zhen and Liao Feibai had already become legends of the True Profound Continent; simply revealing their names would naturally inspire awe in those people.

Furthermore, this was precisely the critical juncture when Ye Zhen had torn things open with the West Patrol Xio Qiangu. On Xio Qiangu’s side, his power was vast and deeply rooted; after thousands of years of management, how could he be easy to deal with?

If he discovered that Ye Zhen was currently searching for manpower and casually slipped a few people in, then let a bit of information leak, that would be enough to give Ye Zhen a major headache.

Whereas selecting from the True Profound Continent had none of these troubles.

The only trouble was that Ye Zhen needed to personally make a trip to the True Profound Continent and waste five or six days of time.

Although this was indeed a critical period in his confrontation with the West Patrol Xio Qiangu, since the other side was sitting tight and not moving, Ye Zhen couldn’t just sit there and grind it out either.

Moreover, on this return from the Demon Soul Realm, Ye Zhen had brought back ten Realm King Realm Demon Soul Military Officers and five hundred Dark Palace Realm Demon Soul Military Officers.

Because Humans and Demons were different, it was not appropriate for these Demon Soul Military Officers to appear in North Sea County; that would basically be handing others a handle against him.

So Ye Zhen handed these ten Realm King Realm Demon Soul Military Officers and five hundred Dark Palace Realm Demon Souls entirely over to the Black Wolf, who had long been sitting in command of several major Water Mansions, for secret unified control.

With this batch of forces secretly taking up residence in the Market of Dulong Island and several major Water Mansions, the safety of those Water Mansions would have a certain guarantee.

For someone like the Heavenly Patrol Divine General Fengg Jiumo, who was often patrolling and traveling through the Market of Dulong Island and several major Water Mansions, he could now rest assured and return to North Sea County.

With Heavenly Patrol Divine General Fengg Jiumo and Ye Zhen’s three hundred Sacrificial Guards sitting in town in North Sea County, any attacker below the Dao Realm would pose no problem.

Ye Zhen leaving for a few days was no big deal.

Just so happened that Ye Zhen and his group were at Xiansheng Water Mansion; they could directly make a round trip to the True Profound Continent, saving the time of going back and forth later.

By now, returning to the True Profound Continent—for Ye Zhen, who had already opened up trade between the two realms—was already smooth and familiar.

At the very first moment after returning to the True Profound Continent, Ye Zhen used a small Teleportation Formation to notify Qiyun Sect Leader Guo Qijing, asking him to help select, in the shortest time possible, one hundred Female Sword Attendants meeting the requirements.

On the way to the Black Dragon Domain, Ye Zhen also understood what exactly Liao Feibai’s thinking was—or rather, what Purple Spirit’s suggestion to Liao Feibai actually was.

That fellow Purple Spirit had a mysterious origin, but in terms of Sword Dao, it was the strongest existence Ye Zhen had seen so far. It wasn’t strange that it ended up sticking together with Liao Feibai.

Liao Feibai’s Sword Dao had been advancing by leaps and bounds; that couldn’t be separated from Purple Spirit’s constant nagging, and in turn, it also learned of this plan to cultivate elites.

Liao Feibai’s intention was that simplicity was best; having a few Sword Attendants she could trust and command would suffice, but Purple Spirit didn’t see it that way.

If you do it at all, then do it to be the strongest.

Purple Spirit provided Liao Feibai with an Ancient Sword Formation Joint Strike Technique called the Profound Yin Nine Tribulations Sword Formation.

The Sword Array could fight independently, unleashing powerful strength, and it could also overlay the power of the Sword Array onto the Sword Master, causing the Sword Master’s strength to multiply over and over.

As long as this Sword Formation reached even Small Success, it could allow the Sword Master to challenge across realms.

This kind of cross-realm challenge wasn’t leaping across small realms, but challenging across Grand Realms; its might was unmatched.

According to Purple Spirit, this Profound Yin Nine Tribulations Sword Formation was one of the most powerful Sword Arrays among All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds in Ancient Times.

However, the cultivation conditions for personnel selected for this Sword Formation were quite harsh. It required them to eat and live together, to have absolute trust in each other, and there were special Cultivation Methods involved; it took a great deal of time and was not easy to train to success.

But with the help of Ye Zhen’s current Mirage Dragon Pearl Sequential Space, time was no longer an issue, and in terms of selecting candidates, with the True Profound Continent as a backing, it was not difficult either.

Only then did Purple Spirit take the opportunity to bring it up.

Ye Zhen still trusted what Zi Ling said.

At least when it came to the Sword Dao, Zi Ling never spoke empty words.

So troublesome was troublesome, but Ye Zhen was still very supportive of Liao Feibai.

This Profound Yin Nine Tribulations Sword Formation could be large or small; with at least three people the formation could be established, but the power increase would be quite ordinary. At most, it could be deployed by eighty-one people, and then its power would be unmatched.

However, if in battle one or two sword attendants were unfortunately killed, then the sword formation would immediately become incomplete, and training another sword attendant to fill the gap would again take a very long time.

Therefore, Zi Ling’s suggestion to Liao Feibai and Ye Zhen was that this time they had to select at least a hundred sword attendants to train, so that when sword attendants died in battle, replacements could be slotted in smoothly.

On this point, Ye Zhen fully agreed!

And he was incomparably expectant!

The people at Ye Zhen’s side, the Sky Wing Three Saints, all had very strong strength and all had the ability to challenge opponents of higher realm, but for a long period of time, the Sky Wing Three Saints might have the ability to preserve their lives before Dao Realm experts, yet would not have the ability to threaten Dao Realm experts.

But according to what Zi Ling said, as long as this Profound Yin Nine Tribulations Sword Formation was mastered, then even if this sword master Liao Feibai’s cultivation had not broken through to the Realm King Realm, Liao Feibai as sword master could still threaten existences of the Dao Realm.

The higher Liao Feibai’s cultivation, the higher the overall cultivation of the sword attendants deploying the formation, and the stronger the combat power they could display.

By then, relying on this Profound Yin Nine Tribulations Sword Formation, Liao Feibai would be able to hold a territory on his own; even if he sat alone in town over the Market of Dulong Island, there would be no problem at all.

At that time, Ye Zhen would no longer be as constrained as he was now.

It had to be said, after traveling for so long across the boundless Primordial Continent, suddenly returning to the True Profound Continent gave him a feeling that the True Profound Continent was very small.

The kitten only took a day and a half to travel from the Ancient Subterranean Teleportation Formation located beneath the Outer Domain Dead Sea to the Qiyun Sect of the Black Water Empire.

Whereas ten years ago, for Ye Zhen to cross this distance, it would have taken at least four months, and along the way he would have had to avoid countless dangers.

Now, they just flew in a straight line the whole way; as long as the kitten released just a sliver of its aura, even those tens of thousands of flying monster beasts moving in groups would flee in fear, wishing only to avoid them.

It had been more than three years since Ye Zhen last left the True Profound Continent.

In just three-plus years, the Qiyun Sect had once again undergone earth-shaking changes.

Because of the influence of Ye Zhen, this Territory Suppressing Heavenly King, Qiyun Sect had already become one of the most prosperous sects under heaven.

Qiyun Sect had already expanded to one hundred and eight peaks, and every peak was packed with people.

All this had been within expectations; Ye Zhen was not surprised.

After sweeping a glance over Qiyun Sect from high above, Ye Zhen quietly arrived at the back mountain where his parents lived.

The first scene Ye Zhen saw was actually his little brother Ye Jin getting beaten.

He was being fiercely thrashed with a stick by their father.

But this little fellow had been tempered by Ye Zhen with Dragon Clan Blood Essence, his muscles and bones remade; though his body was small, his Blood Qi was already comparable to that of a Spirit Transformation Realm Martial Artist, and his fleshly body was incomparably tough.

The stick in his father’s hand had already been beaten to pieces, yet this little guy acted like nothing had happened, head held high, lively and cocky, which made their father Ye Tiancheng so angry he wanted to use Spiritual Power to whip Ye Jin, but their mother Mi Jiangxue kept stopping him.

Discipline was fine, but he could not use Spiritual Power.

In their mother Mi Jiangxue’s words, how could a child possibly withstand that.

What surprised Ye Zhen even more was that he actually saw the figures of Fengh Qingyue and Luluo.

Luluo now stayed year-round at Ye Manor, keeping their mother company; he hadn’t expected Fengh Qingyue to have come as well.

"You little bastard, I told you not to only practice Martial Arts and not read! Tell me, are you going to read or not!" Ye Tiancheng, still in a rage, shouted.

Ye Jin, however, lifted his head and said, "Dad, Big Brother made his name known across the world with Martial Arts and became that Territory Suppressing Heavenly King! In the future, I also want to become a Territory Suppressing Little King.

So I only cultivate Martial Arts, I don’t want to read!"

"You... Who said your brother made his name known across the world by relying on Martial Arts..."

"Isn’t that the case?" The little fellow Ye Jin looked utterly serious, making Ye Tiancheng so angry he stamped his foot.

Ye Zhen’s figure flickered and he appeared in the training yard of Ye Manor. Under everyone’s ecstatic gaze, he walked straight over to Ye Jin, crouched down in front of him, and said, "Little brother, if you only practice Martial Arts and don’t read, you’ll only become a brute and a hired thug. Only by first reading and then practicing Martial Arts do you have a chance to become a Territory Suppressing Little King!"

"All the books Father gave you, I’ve read them all!"

"Big Brother, you’re back? Is what you said true?" Ye Jin’s face was full of delight.

"Of course!"

"Then do you like reading, Big Brother?"

"I don’t exactly like it that much!"

"Then, Big Brother, how did you..."

Ye Zhen did not answer. He casually took out a dark-colored whip and handed it to his father Ye Tiancheng. "Dad, this Dragon Whip is refined from True Dragon Skin. You only need to use half your strength; with one lash, you can flay little brother’s skin and split his flesh!

Even if his cultivation rises to the Establishment Realm, with a light lash, you can still flay his skin and split his flesh!"

Then he bared his teeth in a grin at Ye Jin. "Now do you understand how I used to read?"

Ye Tiancheng froze for a moment, then took the Dragon Skin whip. With a light crack of the whip, he blasted a big pit into the grass before him.

Then he walked toward Ye Jin with a ferocious grin. "You little bastard, let’s see if you still dare disobey this time. I’ll whip you to death!"

Seeing that Dragon Whip unleash such terrifying power with just a light crack, and then looking at Ye Tiancheng walking over with the whip in hand, Ye Jin let out a terrified shriek and bolted into his mother Mi Jiangxue’s arms, crying out for help!

Watching this scene, Ye Zhen laughed, then turned toward Luluo and Fengh Qingyue and gently opened his arms. The next instant, the two girls, eyes brimming with tears, rushed into Ye Zhen’s embrace like fledgling swallows returning to the forest!