Chapter 2148: Chapter 2148: Consolidating the Team
"Can we set off now?" Coming out of the Heaven Escape Bead, Ye Haochuan went to find Pan Muxiang at the first possible moment and asked.
"What are you panicking for? Go have a few more rounds with that woman, then we can set off!" Pan Muxiang’s low voice carried a faintly sour tone.
But Ye Haochuan really didn’t have the mood to notice that right now. He glanced around and found that indeed some cultivators of the Kris Family were working hard to heal their injuries.
Ye Haochuan slightly furrowed his brows, then zipped once through the crowd, slipping past everyone, and placed a Nine-Bend Continuation Pill into each injured person’s hand.
The injured stared blankly at Ye Haochuan. Only after a long while did someone finally try swallowing the Pill.
The moment the Pill entered his stomach, they were all dumbfounded. Their horrifying wounds actually began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Divine Pill! A Divine Pill!" Quite a few whose injuries had recovered cried out in ecstatic surprise, then each of them bowed to Ye Haochuan with heartfelt gratitude.
It was just a Mortal Level first-grade Mysterious Pill, how could it be called a Divine Pill? These people really had no experience.
Ye Haochuan sneered inwardly.
The alchemy level of the Tianxi World was obviously extremely low.
Someone on Dennis’s level wouldn’t even count as a Mysterious Pill Master in the Immortal Realm, yet here he was already a top Alchemy Master. And the Pills he refined with his method lost most of their medicinal power, the effect was ridiculously weak.
Precisely because of this gap, so many people treated the Nine-Bend Continuation Pill—which was nothing at all to Ye Haochuan—as some kind of revered Divine Pill.
"Can we go now?" Ye Haochuan returned to Pan Muxiang’s side again and said coldly.
Pan Muxiang was still a bit dazed. After a long while, she finally looked Ye Haochuan over and gently nodded.
Right now Pan Muxiang felt that forcing Ye Haochuan to stay earlier had truly been a wise decision.
Leaving aside Ye Haochuan’s own overwhelming combat strength, just these Pills alone could greatly reduce the casualties of this team.
Under Ye Haochuan’s endless urging, the team finally set off again, but the speed of this march made Ye Haochuan somewhat lose his mind.
Ye Haochuan once more went to find Pan Muxiang and said in a very nasty tone, "Are you deliberately messing with me, little master here? Dragging along a bunch of old, weak, sick, and disabled—when the hell are we going to get there?"
"What old, weak, sick, and disabled? Aren’t they all in their prime?" Pan Muxiang said, a bit puzzled.
In this team, everyone looked fairly lean and capable. Even the older ones were in high spirits thanks to their Cultivation. She really couldn’t figure out where Ye Haochuan’s "old, weak, sick, and disabled" was coming from.
Ye Haochuan pointed at the group at the very back and snorted. "Those who haven’t even reached the Core Formation Stage yet—what are you taking them to the battlefield for? To be cannon fodder? And you say they aren’t old, weak, sick, and disabled?"
It wasn’t that Ye Haochuan looked down on those with low Cultivation. It was just that at this level of battle, people below Core Formation Stage really had no use. Any random Cultivation Technique could reap a large swath of them. Other than adding to the body count, what could they do?
"Even a fly’s leg is still meat, isn’t it? Having them is still better than not. No matter what, they can make the team much larger. When both sides are deadlocked, maybe they can provide a lot of help," Pan Muxiang insisted.
"What do you think war is? A bunch of kids brawling in a schoolyard?"
Ye Haochuan said irritably, "The way of using troops lies in elite soldiers, got it? A bloated team not only moves slowly and is easily exposed, but on the battlefield these weaklings will also hinder the experts’ performance. Bringing them is just dragging dead weight!"
This kind of battlefield was not like some videogame back on Earth where you had automatic friend-or-foe identification and could fling your attacks around without ever hitting teammates.
This was real war—blades and swords had no eyes. If you had a large bunch of weak teammates around, you wouldn’t even dare to use a slightly stronger Cultivation Technique, or you’d end up mowing down a huge pile of your own people and be condemned afterward.
Ye Haochuan’s voice was loud, and Ghost Spirit and the three Clan Leaders of the Kris Family not far away all turned their gaze over.
From the look in their eyes, it wasn’t hard to see that they supported Ye Haochuan.
In the previous battles, they had already experienced the awkward situation Ye Haochuan described; they just didn’t dare mention it under Pan Muxiang’s pressure.
Pan Muxiang fell silent; it was obvious she also felt Ye Haochuan made sense.
After thinking for a while, she finally spoke. "Looks like I really don’t have enough experience in leading a team. From now on, you’ll be the one to command these people. Whatever you decide, goes!"
By the end, there was actually a trace of lightness in her tone.
This was her first time leading a team into a great war; she had absolutely no experience. Handing the authority over to Ye Haochuan meant she didn’t have to think about so much anymore, and naturally she relaxed.
Ye Haochuan didn’t stand on ceremony nor refuse. He directly ordered the three Clan Leaders, "Count how many there are above Core Formation."
"No need, I counted long ago!"
The Second Clan Leader said loudly, "Above the Core Formation Stage there are a total of more than two hundred and sixty people. Most of them are only at Core Formation. There are sixty at Nascent Soul Stage. As for Immortal Transformation and above, including us three brothers, only seven in total."
This team was entirely composed of the Kris Family; their overall strength really couldn’t be considered strong.
Ye Haochuan heard this and said coolly, "Over two hundred people is enough. Now split these two hundred into three parts. The Core Formation Stage and Nascent Soul Stage cultivators are to be divided evenly into two square formations, arranged in a formation with Mages at the center and Mid-Knights on the outside. Find two Immortal Transformation Early Stage Mages to act as Commanders and also as fire-support."
"The remaining five Immortal Transformation Cultivators, plus Ghost Spirit and Pan Muxiang, will form a separate squad under my direct command, acting as the spearhead on the battlefield."
As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Haochuan had already received countless admiring looks.
In just a few words, he’d straightened out the entire team so everything was in perfect order. That wasn’t something an ordinary person could do.
This kind of phalanx-type offensive formation wasn’t actually hard to think of. It was just that since the Tianxi World had come under the Holy See’s rule, there hadn’t been any large-scale wars, so no one had bothered to study War Formations. People just swarmed in and fought.
Now that they had a War Formation, it undoubtedly gathered all these scattered units together, and the resulting combat strength was obvious.
Under Ye Haochuan’s urging, the team quickly reorganized, and in no time the three phalanxes were formed.
The cultivators below Core Formation who’d been cut out of the main group were not discouraged at all; instead they cheered. They knew their own strength clearly, and the terror of being casually crushed into dust on the battlefield was something they really didn’t want to experience again.
After settling these people in a concealed valley, the team set off again. This time their marching speed was more than doubled compared to before.
"Where the hell are we exactly now?" In the moving column, Ye Haochuan asked Pan Muxiang angrily.
As the team’s leader, the fact that he didn’t even know where they were heading looked ridiculous no matter how you saw it.
"You’ll know when we get there, won’t you?" Pan Muxiang replied crossly. "If I told you now, wouldn’t you just run off on your own? I’m not that stupid!"
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