Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme

Chapter 445: Chapter 281: Predicament_1

Indeed, it’s a pity.

A Ten million artifacts level Five Elements Mecha, now nothing but scattered waste and debris on the ground, beyond the possibility of being reforged; Even the Five Elements Spiritual Treasure at its core is only slightly better, but still covered with cracks, near shattering. Even if it could be repaired, retaining its Spiritual Treasure tier would be doubtful.

This is the consequence of “Mecha Overload” — ten million magic artifact components, including the Spiritual Treasure core, all nearly destroyed.

Thirty-eight years of accumulation, mostly invested in this Five Elements Mecha, now ruined in an instant; who wouldn’t feel heartache?

Not just heartache, but also danger.

After all, the Five Elements Mecha is Xu Yang’s main combat power at the moment.

Without the Five Elements Mecha, relying solely on his cultivation, he is merely at the Nascent Soul Realm.

Although he still has formations and many other methods, he can barely cope with the pressure from the major powers. But just barely is still just barely — he can’t move freely anymore as before, taking the initiative to attack and capture strategic places like the Dragon and Tiger Platform and the Evergreen Palace.

The consequences are severe, the risks great.

But Xu Yang still did it.

Because he needed to take down Li Hengjiang, and to do so, such a price had to be paid.

Li Hengjiang, the leader of the Overlord Gate, with Divine Intention Ultimate Peak cultivation, equivalent to a cultivator at the full completion of the Divinity Transformation. He has perfectly integrated the Overlord Non-urgent Body with the Broken Vajra Skill to create the Overlord Non-urgent shattered Vajra Body. Within the fifth tier realm, it can be said that he has honed the power of his physical body to the utmost, unmatched by anyone.

Even Xu Yang, without resorting to the ultimate measure like “Mecha Overload”, could only defeat him but not severely wound him, let alone take his life and seize the Unhindered King Monument.

Just as he said before, being able to fight doesn’t guarantee victory; being able to win doesn’t ensure a kill; being able to kill one doesn’t mean one can kill a group.

Li Hengjiang falls into the category of “being able to win doesn’t ensure a kill.” With Xu Yang’s strength, defeating him is not an issue, but it’s very difficult to capture him. Even if he can’t beat Xu Yang, he could still ensure his own retreat.

Thus, Xu Yang had no choice but to employ an ultimate tactic like “Mecha Overload,” sacrificing a Ten million artifacts level Spirit-Treasure Mech Armor to severely wound Li Hengjiang, seize the Overlord Non-urgent Monument, and in one swoop, deter the Righteous Path factions and powers of the world.

The former is secondary; the focus is on the latter.

He has to deter the world, make all factions, whether from the dark or the righteous path, fear his might, to prominently establish Wandao School and secure an important period for development, to prepare for the War God’s Contest in two hundred years.

This is the crucial point; Li Hengjiang and the Unhindered King Monument are just incidental gains.

Why suddenly stand in the open and confront major powers when the previous strategy was to fight guerilla battles?

Because times have changed!

The previous guerilla warfare was actually a helpless choice, because guerrilla warfare requires mobility, lacking a fixed base, which is very unfavorable for development, especially for Xu Yang’s “Great Ye.”

Without land or water, how to cultivate Spirit Plants, rear Spirit Beasts, or produce various kinds of Spirit Materials?

Without materials, how can he meet the needs of a continuous production line for Alchemy, Artifact Refining, Talisman Making, and Formation setting?

Continue to plunder?

The inheritors of Divine Martial are not fools. With the bloody example of the Dragon and Tiger Platform and the incident of the Pavilion of Heavenly Mechanism, how can they not be vigilant and prepare defenses, instead of being an undefended girl for you to take advantage of as you please?

After the upheaval at the Pavilion of Heavenly Mechanism, the dynamics of offense and defense have also changed!

Without surprise, the factions from both dark and righteous paths, the major Divine Martial powers, will soon shift from offense to defense, from proactive to reactive. They may even unite, establishing camps, with several Divine Martial heritages consolidating into one place to jointly resist his threat.

By then, even if he could still make a move, the returns would not be worth the risks, and there could even be a possibility of capsizing in the gutter.

So, continuing guerilla warfare and looting everywhere is a very foolish, dead-end approach.

He has to stand in the open, entrench himself, and develop steadily.

Only then can he resolve the factions of both dark and righteous paths, the major Divine Martial powers within a mere two hundred years.

Only by resolving the major Divine Martial powers and unifying the world, consolidating resources, can he focus wholeheartedly on preparing for the War God’s Contest two hundred years later, dealing with the numerous uncertainties and hidden dangers of the Temple of War God.

What about the War God’s Atlas?

True, the War God’s Atlas can produce Spiritual Objects, but the production of these Spiritual Objects is not without cost.

It requires taking over a place, using the War God’s Atlas to lock in the Heavenly Earth Prime Spirit, creating locations akin to Spirit Lands and Spirit Veins, to nurture the War God’s Atlas, allowing it to continuously produce Spiritual Objects.

This is also why the world is divided into the Forty-eight Domains.

One domain for one monument, dividing resources, only then can the production demands of the War God’s Atlas be satisfied.

If everything was concentrated in one place, how would the Heavenly Earth Prime Spirit be sufficient for forty-eight sets of atlases to share?

As a result, the output of Spiritual Objects would plummet abruptly, even leading to a “complete failure” of production.

So, even with the War God’s Atlas, Xu Yang also needs a base, and this base will definitely be discovered by the major Divine Martial powers.

Because the War God’s Atlas’s lock and absorption of the Heavenly Earth Prime Spirit are regional, even without the Pavilion of Heavenly Mechanism, such an underhanded act of stealing Spiritual Energy would eventually be noticed by the major Divine Martial powers.

If it can’t be concealed, then there’s no need to hide!

Stand openly in the open, strike until they are afraid, until they dare not move, dare not come!

By doing this, he would not only occupy a vast population and resources but also secure a stable period of development.