Chapter 946: Imperial Decree to Punish the Rebellious

Wei Yuan no longer deliberately tried to find the inner demon hidden among the common mortals. His Mind-Reflection World was full of flaws everywhere; catching one would only lead to another entering, endlessly.

There were a large number of mortals in the Human World Renjian Yanhuo, and most of them had been enlightened, which was actually a very considerable help. There were over 30 million people in the entire Azure Void, and those who were truly learned were only a mere 500,000 or 600,000, far worse than the Human World Renjian Yanhuo.

Wei Yuan no longer took everything upon himself, but let the Human World Renjian Yanhuo play its role. Sure enough, in less than half a day, the mortals came up with countless plans, among which over a hundred were quite feasible, and several were even ones Wei Yuan didn't dare to think of.

Facing these many plans, Wei Yuan pondered for a long time before choosing a plan called "Advance Slowly and Plan Gradually" to implement.

This was a long-term plan divided into several stages. The first stage was to establish spiritual energy monitoring means throughout the Human World Renjian Yanhuo to accurately measure the consumption of spiritual energy by both sides in this war against otherworldly monsters.

This step seemed unrelated to the war itself, but it was actually quite important, and its results directly affected the subsequent strategy.

So Wei Yuan ordered the mobilization of over 100,000 mortals to go to sea, and with the help of immortal plants, it took more than ten days to finally set up monitoring devices throughout the Human World Renjian Yanhuo, including the sea.

At the same time, Wei Yuan also enabled the strategy of "Drawing a Line as a Prison."

This strategy required registering all mortals in the Human World Renjian Yanhuo. During registration, every mortal had to clearly explain their current cultivation base, abilities, innate supernatural powers, etc. Everything was recorded. After registration, if anyone had a major discrepancy with their registered abilities, without a reasonable explanation, they would be arrested and imprisoned to test for inner demons.

This method was equivalent to fixing the current status of all mortals. The otherworldly demons had various secret methods that could make the possessed person's cultivation advance by leaps and bounds; it was not impossible to break through to the Master Yu Jing in a year or so of Dao foundation. But now, as long as they dared to do so, they would be discovered immediately. After all, carrying fifty pounds of water, having the strength of a hundred pounds versus a thousand pounds, the performance was completely different.

In this way, the inner demon could only be trapped in a mortal body. As long as they practiced, they would be discovered, but without practice, they had no great power and couldn't play any role, so Wei Yuan couldn't be bothered to pay attention to it.

In the blink of an eye, more than a month passed. By this time, it had spread throughout the world that Wei Yuan was about to advance to the Master Yu Jing, but something went wrong in the heavenly tribulation link.

Many cultivators outside naturally didn't know exactly what problem Wei Yuan had encountered. But no matter what the problem was, as long as he couldn't ascend to the Master Yu Jing, everyone was especially happy.

At this time, in the Human World Renjian Yanhuo, the monitoring network had been set up for more than ten days, and the preliminary data analysis results finally came out.

The data showed that because of the war with the otherworldly demons, the consumption of spiritual energy in the Human World Renjian Yanhuo had soared. Although the speed at which the three Cave Heavens absorbed the heaven and earth origin energy was also shockingly fast, with a breathing volume much larger than that of ordinary Master Yu Jing cultivators, it still couldn't keep up with the consumption as a whole.

Fortunately, the three Cave Heavens had just taken shape and were growing most rapidly at this moment, so it wouldn't be long before they could make up for the deficit. During this period, Wei Yuan could also rely on pills to maintain and replenish spiritual energy.

The monitoring network also collected a large amount of data on the otherworldly monsters. At this time, just maintaining those purple-spotted small worlds on the firmament was equivalent to the full effort of a late-stage Master Yu Jing cultivator. This was not just one or two strikes, but constant and non-stop.

In addition, the monsters that killed their way in also needed spiritual energy to maintain. They fought in the Human World Renjian Yanhuo, naturally receiving distortion and suppression, and their spiritual energy consumption increased greatly during battle. If they died in battle, it was an even greater loss.

After analyzing all the data, the Human World Renjian Yanhuo concluded: the inner demon summoning otherworldly monsters to attack the Human World Renjian Yanhuo now was equivalent to five Master Yu Jing cultivators working at full capacity day and night. If the monsters dying in battle were also counted, it was equivalent to twelve Master Yu Jing cultivators exerting force at the same time. And the daily breathing volume of the Human World Renjian Yanhuo was equivalent to that of a normal Primeval Palace Master Yu Jing cultivator.

That is to say, for every unit of spiritual energy Wei Yuan consumed now, the otherworldly monsters had to consume twelve units. This didn't even count the consumption of maintaining the passage.

Once this report conclusion came out, Wei Yuan was immediately invigorated. The entire Primeval Palace had only thirty or forty Master Yu Jing cultivators, so Wei Yuan was equivalent to holding up nearly half of the Primeval Palace with his own strength.

This heavenly tribulation was getting interesting.

With this conclusion, the plan officially entered the second stage. The core of this stage was to ignore the inner demon, fully improve combat capabilities, mainly fight against otherworldly monsters, use every means to improve combat results and reduce consumption, increase the comparison of losses between the two sides, which was equivalent to constantly bleeding the opponent at a small cost.

At this stage, there were many means available.

So Wei Yuan waved his hand, and more than a dozen corresponding research institutes were established, and then over a hundred types of war machines were developed in one breath.

The "All Beings Equal War Equipment Research Institute" once again entered the center of Wei Yuan's vision. What it was developing was a large-scale war platform that could shuttle back and forth between the ground and the firmament, which itself was equivalent to a fully functional war fortress.

In addition, the protective gear and magic tools of various cultivators also began to be researched, and large-scale war Dao techniques cast by multiple cultivators working together were the top priority.

Thus, the Human World Renjian Yanhuo had completely turned to a comprehensive war mode.

In the quiet room, Wei Yuan finally opened his eyes, ending this retreat. This retreat lasted for more than a month, and the battle situation in the Human World Renjian Yanhuo had initially stabilized and began to fall into a stalemate. Now Wei Yuan needed to take one Master Yu Jing qi-replenishing pill every day, costing about 10,000 taels of immortal silver.

This expenditure could already be ignored for the current Wei Yuan, so he left the retreat calmly, preparing to pick up all the things he had put down before.

After leaving the retreat, Wei Yuan summoned the cultivators of the Primeval Palace and informed them of his situation. After hearing this, the cultivators didn't know what to say. It looked like the Realm Lord intended to cross the tribulation while eating and sleeping normally.

Xu Henshui said that he could cover the pills Wei Yuan needed; qi-replenishing pills were just the most common Master Yu Jing pills, and with Xu Henshui's ability, he could barely refine them. If the Azure Void refined its own medicine, it could save another 70%.

Wei Yuan was naturally overjoyed; saving a little was a little. Then they discussed the daily development affairs of the Azure Void. During the time Wei Yuan was in retreat, the cultivators led by Zhang Sheng were not willing to be lonely and tried to expand the army again.

It was just that there were no enemies to be found in the surrounding area, and even the Zhao Guo officials spoke in a gentle and respectful manner, with perfect etiquette. The officials of Western Jin were even more eager to crawl to the ground when they met. So facing Zhang Sheng's plan to expand the army to two million within the year, Wei Yuan didn't know what to say either. ===== CHAPTER 947 =====