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 Chapter 3128: The Last Task in the Mid-Level Area

Strengthen was the new ability brought by the general-level seal.

It had two functions. One was to strengthen Divine Rune Army soldiers, greatly enhancing their power.

The degree of strengthening was tied to Lin Moyu's military rank.

With the current eighth-grade general strengthening, Divine Rune Army soldiers could be raised one realm, effective for seventh-level Dao Venerable and below.

If summoning sixth-level Dao Venerable Divine Rune Army soldiers and using this ability, it could make their individual combat power reach the limit of sixth-level Dao Venerable, infinitely close to seventh-level Dao Venerable.

Just a hundred such Divine Rune Army soldiers forming a battle array could contend with an ordinary seventh-level Dao Venerable.

With a thousand such Divine Rune Army soldiers, they could kill relatively weak seventh-level Dao Venerables.

This ability was very useful for those sixth-level Dao Venerable cultivators.

They could summon sixth-level Dao Venerable Divine Rune Army soldiers, thus having combat power to contend with seventh-level Dao Venerables, providing strong support for completing their tasks.

Unfortunately, Lin Moyu's own realm was limited. The Divine Rune Army soldiers he summoned were only third-level Dao Venerable. Even strengthened by one realm, they would only be fourth-level.

Forming a battle array, at most they could contend with fifth-level Dao Venerables.

Perhaps concentrating the power of 40,000 Divine Rune Army soldiers could directly contend with a sixth-level Dao Venerable four-winged rat general, but in Lin Moyu's eyes, this ability was useless.

However, the strengthen ability had another function, which was to strengthen oneself.

Concentrating the Divine Rune Army's power to unleash a strike far beyond one's own realm.

The cost was sacrificing some Divine Rune Army soldiers, and oneself would also suffer backlash.

This reminded Lin Moyu of the strike from that seventh-grade general in the previous task.

With a sixth-level Dao Venerable body, he launched a seventh-level Dao Venerable attack with great power.

But after that strike, hundreds of Divine Rune Army soldiers died on the spot, and he was also seriously injured.

Each strike could sacrifice up to a thousand Divine Rune Army soldiers, minimum a hundred.

The backlash suffered would also be proportional.

Lin Moyu felt nothing about this.

Divine Rune Army soldiers were just summoned, sacrificing them didn't matter.

As for himself being injured, that was even more trivial. He could heal anytime.

Most crucially, the enhancement brought by this ability ignored one's own realm.

It forcibly raised one realm based on one's current realm.

If he used Gather Power to raise himself to seventh-level Dao Venerable, then using strengthen could launch an attack equivalent to eighth-level Dao Venerable.

If he could further use Gather Power to reach eighth-level Dao Venerable, he could launch ninth-level Dao Venerable attacks.

This way, even without using Great Dao Immortal Pills, Lin Moyu could temporarily possess Dao Venerable level attack power.

This was a very practical ability.

Lin Moyu's mind was clear. Knowing how to properly utilize this ability, he flapped his wings of time, flying towards the distance.

He was going to do the last and only task in the mid-level area.

After completing it, he would head to the high-level area.

Lin Moyu believed that after completing this task, his military rank could rise again, reaching seventh-grade general without problem.

The mid-level area was very large. Until now, the skeleton generals Lin Moyu sent out still hadn't finished exploring the mid-level area.

This ancient battlefield was far larger than described in the materials, astonishingly huge.

"Let the exploration of the mid-level area end here."

Lin Moyu's mind moved, recalling the skeleton generals in the outside world.

Although the ancient battlefield's range was extremely large, Lin Moyu had roughly understood its overall structure.

The ancient battlefield's environment was very primitive, most areas being ancient forests and high mountains, without cities or camps.

Between mountains and forests were numerous secret realms, far more than recorded in the materials.

Because of this, although ten thousand people entered, the vast majority entered secret realms. It was very difficult to encounter others in the outside world.

Lin Moyu sent out so many skeleton generals but only encountered less than ten people, six of whom had already died.

They were killed by battle beasts.

In the ancient battlefield, the only living beings were battle beasts. Battle beasts would attack all who entered the ancient battlefield.

Those people entering secret realms had no tasks. Without joining the Divine Rune Army, they couldn't trigger any tasks.

They would only explore secret realms, hoping for some gains.

But they were completely unaware of what the true gains in the ancient battlefield were.

"I wonder what the high-level area is like."

"According to records, the danger in the high-level area is extremely high, not just inside secret realms, but also in the wild."

"In the high-level area, the probability of encountering battle beasts will greatly increase. Moreover, battle beasts often move in groups. Encountering them alone would be a nightmare."

"To avoid battle beasts, the materials suggest quickly entering secret realms. Secret realms are much safer than the wild."

This was indeed the case. Battle beasts in the high-level area started from seventh-level Dao Venerable. In single combat they were already stronger than most seventh-level Dao Venerables. If in groups, those usually high and mighty seventh-level ancestors would have a 90% chance of death upon encounter.

Relatively speaking, secret realms were indeed much safer.

But Lin Moyu's heart rose with strong interest, his battle intent surging, "Then let's go take a good look at whether the high-level area is as dangerous as others say."

Wings of time carried Lin Moyu flying over a million li, getting closer and closer to the last task point in the mid-level area.

Being able to fly in the sky was Lin Moyu's advantage.

If there was real danger, he could simply fly away.

Even battle beasts couldn't fly in the ancient battlefield. Flying was the Divine Rune Army's privilege.

From afar, Lin Moyu saw a vast ocean.

Lin Moyu wasn't surprised to see an ocean in the ancient battlefield.

This land was originally not ordinary land, but a special world created by a terrifying being using their will to establish rules, utilizing the battle intent and obsessions within the ancient battlefield.

In such a world, everything was real, everything was also illusory. Whether true or false, all was within that being's thoughts.

So, whatever appeared was normal.

The ocean was boundless, with many islands within.

These islands weren't small. On each island rose a bloody aura.

Lin Moyu frowned slightly. On the islands was the Bloody Legion.

The Bloody Legion occupied these islands, with over ten thousand Blood Rat monsters on each island.

Not ordinary Blood Rat monsters, but Blood Rat generals.

The weakest were fifth-level Dao Venerable two-winged rat generals, the strongest being sixth-level Dao Venerable four-winged rat generals.

Among ten thousand Blood Rat monsters, about nine thousand were two-winged rat generals, the remaining thousand all four-winged rat generals.

At the center of the island stood a statue, in the shape of a six-winged rat general.

This was Lin Moyu's first time seeing a six-winged rat general. Six-winged rat generals were equivalent to seventh-level ancestors, not easy to deal with.

Then, Lin Moyu saw a rat general sleeping soundly on top of the statue's head, its wings uncountable.

But judging from its aura, it had indeed surpassed sixth-level Dao Venerable.

Lin Moyu looked to both sides, finding many more islands also occupied by the Bloody Legion.

Island after island, Bloody Legion after Bloody Legion guarding, cutting off all sea routes in the entire ocean.

The distances between these islands weren't far. Pulling one hair would affect the whole body. Attacking any island would alert the others.