The Prodigies War
chapter-1549

It was easy to get a group of mortals to worship you as their leader. All you needed to do was provide them with benefits, meet their needs, and know how to utilize your subordinates.

However, it was another story to earn the same recognition from a group of cultivators. This was the same as ruling a sect where one took charge of various powerful experts. This required the strength, wisdom, and majesty to take responsibility as a ruler.

And wanting to make supreme Saints like Shaohao and Ruowu cooperate and follow one willingly as their leader...

This was even more difficult than plucking stars!

After all, Saints could already be considered top behemoths in the Nine Domains Battlefield, and supreme Saints were a whole other level above them.

At least, not a single supreme Saint had emerged in the Ancient Wasteland Domain during the countless years since the ancient era.

It was only during the early period of the Nine Domains Battlefield that Shaohao and Ruowu had been able to step into this stage one after another and become legendary existences more dazzling than even True Saints.

But Lin Xun, who had never consciously put effort into this, was able to achieve this feat that was harder than plucking the stars!

One proof of this was that Shaohao and Ruowu had all put themselves at his beck and call.

This made it impossible for Ruowu to deny her admiration for him.

......

A month quickly flew by.

During this, Shaohao had led a group of people through various regions of the Ancient Wasteland Territory and set off one bloody storm after another.

As a result, the numerous foreign enemies that once roamed this land were as good as wiped out.

With a supreme Saint like Shaohao at the helm, the group had been invincible and unstoppable throughout this killing spree!

And in turn, the enemies’ corpses and blood had been sent toward the temporary construction camp in batches.

The corpses and bones were piled up into one small mountain after another.

And one after another, pools were dug and constructed to accommodate the blood.

The large temporary camp suddenly became a landscape of mountains of corpses and pools of blood.

It was so gory that ferocious phenomena were manifesting above the corpses and blood, such as raging thunderstorms and the endless howling of ghosts and demons.

The majority of the slaughtered enemies were longevity kings, and there were even True Saints.

Even though they were dead, their remains still carried residual resentment and hatred. Being piled together, it wasn’t surprising that they would trigger horrific phenomena.

Due to this, Lin Xun had specially set up a formation to suppress them. Otherwise, the aura of misery oozing out from these remains would affect the human mind!

During these days, the Ancient Wasteland Domain cultivators seemed to have found their backbones. They were no longer frightened and desperate like before, but were instead glowing with fighting spirit.

Some seized every second to cultivate.

Some gave a hand in searching for cultivation resources scattered throughout the Ancient Wasteland Territory.

The Nine Domains Battlefield was boundless with many secret realms here and there, some of which were filled with great perils while others with unimaginable opportunistic fortunes.

They included divine materials, precious herbs, exotic treasures, and various types of fortunes rarely found in the outside world. Some were so rare that even Saints would covet them.

In a word, the temporary camp had been full of energy and enthusiasm lately.

Having witnessed these changes firsthand, Ruowu was also greatly invigorated.

In the past, she would never have dreamed that everything would have changed in just over a month!

In the horizon, Shaohao had returned with a group of cultivators, and they all looked to be in high spirits.

Clearly, their harvest today was not bad at all.

Ruowu couldn’t help but turn her gaze to Lin Xun, who was still in deep thought, so focused with his calculations for the formation that he was oblivious to everything else.

Ruowu was dazed for a second. She murmured, “No more aimless wandering, no more running away in fear... How great would it be if this can go on forever...”

However, she quickly returned to her senses.

This was the Nine Domains Battlefield, where any kind of peace was destined to be broken eventually by bloody and cruel fighting. Such was the normality of this place!

......

“Completed!”

On this day, Lin Xun roused from his calculations and exhaled a long, satisfied breath. His eyes shone brightly, and he could finally relax.

In his mind, a detailed, majestic, and miraculous sketch of a Protective Saint Array had taken shape according to the data results.

The array used the Zhoutian Star Dipper Array as its foundation, around which Lin Xun set up four main killing arrays which were the Severing Heaven, Destroying Earth, Breaking Gods, and Extinguishing Spirits respectively.

Each of these main killing arrays were imprinted with an array of rune diagrams, and each diagram consisted of tens of thousands of runes!

Taking the most powerful Severing Heaven Killing Array for instance, it encompassed 64 rune diagrams drawn with 8.4 million runes in total. Once in operation, it could easily eliminate True Saints!

In addition to the four main killing arrays, there were also eight defensive arrays that would serve to protect the city.

These defensive arrays would cover all the city walls while drawing power from the sky above and the earth below.

After spending nearly two months of sleepless calculations and meditation to perfect every detail of this array, Lin Xun was suddenly washed over by exhaustion.

No one truly understood how much effort and energy he had put into this!

It was fortunate that he had obtained the complete inheritance of the Zhoutian Star Dipper Array. Otherwise, it would have been impossible to, in just two months, mentally build such a large-scale Saint Array that took into account both offensive and defensive measures.

That year at the shore of Star Chess Sea, Lin Xun had been able to slaughter a group of kings by merely borrowing the power of the Zhoutian Star Dipper Array, spilling blood across a thousand miles and covering the region in a dim atmosphere.

Even when Saints had come for him with ill intent, this array had still intimidated them to the point that they hadn’t dared to take a step into it!

This formation was derived from the Zhoutian Star Dipper Array, but it beat the latter as Lin Xun had poured his life-long knowledge on runes into it.

It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that this protective array was the most obscure and powerful array he had ever created so far!

He named it the ‘Total Annihilation Perfect Protection Array’!

“Next, I should consider the base, the flags, and the materials needed to set up the array...” mused Lin Xun.

For this kind of large-scale array, the base and flags had to be made of at least Saint-level Treasures, or else the true power of the array couldn’t be utilized.

Fortunately, what Lin Xun currently did not lack were Saint Treasures, which had been collected from all the supreme Saints he had killed.

Some of these Saint Treasures could certainly be repurposed as the array base and flags by inscribing runes on them.

The only tricky thing was the materials, as this demanded not only a large number of them but also very harsh requirements in regards to their quality.

“Brother Lin.” Shaohao walked over and asked, “How’s the rune formation going?”

“All that it’s missing are the materials,” replied Lin Xun frankly.

Shaohao instantly laughed with a look that he already knew this was the case. “I’ve come to find you precisely for this matter. Come with me.”

Saying this, he teleported toward a far place.

Lin Xun was surprised, but he still followed Shaohao despite all the doubts he had.

After teleporting at full speed for a quarter of an hour, the two arrived before a huge, barren canyon.

“Here lies a secret realm. I believe it will solve your problem,” said Shaohao before he suddenly leapt into the canyon and vanished.

Lin Xun was stunned. Then, with some anticipation, he followed Shaohao’s lead.

Whooo~

The canyon was shrouded in a layer of enigmatic Law Power fluctuations. The moment Lin Xun got near it, he felt as if the stars were switching places and space time was turning over.

Upon regaining clarity, his vision was instantly pierced by an overwhelming golden light, and it almost blinded him.

Lin Xun squinted his eyes and spread his spirit sense, after which he was stunned.

The secret realm was filled with nothing but golden sand that was as bright as stars. Blotting out the sky as they drifted about in the air, they were the epitome of crystalline and dazzling.

Upon closer inspection, each grain of sand was the size of an almond and perfectly round, with a golden sheen streaming along the surface. The first thing one would feel from these beads was their divine auras.

Andalusite Golden Sand!

Lin Xun’s mind trembled as he recognized this rare material. For Buddhist cultivators, the Andalusite Golden Sand was the world’s purest and strongest treasure that was used to build their lifewill lotus seats.

For sword cultivators, this was a priceless material in the refinement of flying swords. Only a small amount of Andalusite Golden Sand was needed in the mix to increase the sword’s sharpness by thirty percent!

For all Saints in existence, the Andalusite Golden Sand was a sacred material that could be used to refine Saint Treasures!

Generally speaking, a handful of this sand was enough to satisfy the needs of a Saint Treasure.

But now, before Lin Xun was a world of Andalusite Golden Sand, drifting about like a golden galaxy!

“How is it?” Shaohao walked over with a smile.

Lin Xun exhaled a long breath and said, “Enough, this is more than enough. Brother Shaohao, you’ve given me a heavenly surprise.”

Shaohao burst into a hearty laugh. “Then, I will look forward to the heavenly surprise that you will give our Ancient Wasteland Camp.”

......

When Lin Xun returned to the temporary camp, he immediately jumped into action.

Half a month later.

Lin Xun successfully finished refining sixteen Saint Treasures that acted as the base and twenty-four Saint Treasures that acted as the flags for the formation.

Something as simple as engraving runes on Saint Treasures couldn’t pose any difficulty to him.

A month later.

Lin Xun had tempered one batch of Andalusite Golden Sand after another until he ended up with around a hundred thousand pounds.

He now had more than enough materials to set up the Total Annihilation Perfect Protection Array.

It was also this day that Shaohao returned with injuries, which had everyone wondering in uncertainty.

The calm atmosphere immediately became overcast.

“Brother Lin, the other eight domains have figured out that we are about to rebuild the City of Protection here. I’m afraid that we have many powerful enemies on the horizon,” reported Shaohao in a heavy tone.

During his expedition today, Shaohao had run into three foreign supreme Saints as they were sneaking into the Ancient Wasteland Territory. After a vicious battle, he ended up killing two of them and letting one escape.

He was also injured as a result. It was not serious but not light either.

From this fight, Shaohao had immediately judged that the other eight domains had noticed their plan to rebuild the City of Protection!