Chapter 2621: You Call This a War Horn?
For Jiangnan and the others, the remaining three months of preparation time would feel extraordinarily long!
However, for the Starry Sky Races actively preparing for war, no amount of time was ever enough!
The Carbon Alliance continued to grow. The Human Race's Lingxiao Project had already shown initial results—at least internal communications within the Human Race had completely shaken off the infiltration of Silicon-Based technology!
The internal connections within the Carbon Alliance also used the newly established Star Sea Network!
The Xingwu Arsenal was quietly completed during this period, with its location still set in the Dimensional Gap!
It already had the capability to mass-produce conventional weapons and equip troops!
Everything proceeded in an orderly fashion!
The other top ten Sequences weren't idle either. The Celestial Star and Stardust Clans had fallen far behind during the Cosmos Grand Hunt!
They had even been overtaken by the Insect Race and Chaos Race, so they were putting in extra effort to catch up during the Sequence Offensive and Defensive Battle!
The Chaos Entity refused the Carbon Alliance's invitation and even cut ties with the Insect Race. No one knew what their plans were, but giving up was out of the question!
The only possibility was that they had found a new support, though it was unknown whether they had become dogs for the Silicon-Based or the Bose Race...
As for the Angel Race, they had bet everything on this Sequence Offensive and Defensive Battle!
If they failed to reclaim their spot in the top ten Sequences, an abyss awaited them!
Even if they had to exhaust their entire treasury, they had to push their total points up!
If they fell behind again in the second round, they would truly have no more chances!
The Carbon Alliance members, on the other hand, were at ease. They had fortified the Human Race's defense zone in the Sea of Star Embers to be unbreachable, just waiting for the battle to start so they could ride the humans' coattails!
In the blink of an eye, only five days remained before the Sequence Offensive and Defensive Battle began!
The once desolate and ruined Sea of Star Embers had, in less than half a year, been transformed into a magnificent and densely scattered spectacle by the Starry Sky Races!
It was even grander in scale than the Thousand Stars City!
However, after the war, this place was destined to be battered into ruins and rubble, and would even become a hot spot for Starry Sky treasure-hunting expeditions!
Many races' armies had already begun assembling outside the Sea of Star Embers!
One day before the official start of the offensive and defensive battle, each faction's forces would be allowed to enter their respective star zones in advance to make all preparations before the war!
The number of troops mobilized by some races was truly terrifying. Marching from their home star domains to outside the Sea of Star Embers alone took a massive amount of time!
Therefore, many races came early to prepare outside the Sea of Star Embers!
Not to mention the possibility of reinforcing troops during the battle. The stockpiling of troops outside the battlefield would continue until the end of the Sequence Offensive and Defensive Battle!
As the day of battle drew closer, the number of troops from various factions outside the planetary domain grew larger and larger!
The once empty starry sky now even felt a bit crowded!
However, none of this had much to do with Jiangnan. He was still cultivating in the Star Sea Source Flow Cosmic Array!
He had originally planned to train until only three days remained before coming out!
But then Jiangnan received a message from Youming!
Youming asked Jiangnan if things were settled and when he would take away that Erbi fish!
The Youming Clan had indeed built the Dali manufacturing factory, but the amount of authentic Dali produced daily wasn't even enough to feed the fish!
Ever since the Erbi fish had its sewer unclogged, its appetite had become especially good!
Knowing there was tasty food at the Dali factory, it came every day to freeload!
If not given? It would ram the factory!
After feeding it, the Erbi fish would give Youming a combo of punches before leaving satisfied!
Clearly, the Erbi fish still remembered the grudge of Youming punching its belly and making it... relieve itself!
What kind of Dali factory was this for the Youming Clan? It was clearly an automatic feeding machine for the Erbi fish!
Youming couldn't stand this hellish life anymore!
He begged Jiangnan to take the Erbi fish away immediately!
Helpless, Jiangnan had no choice but to come out of seclusion!
With a ripple in space, Jiangnan, looking slightly thinner, suddenly appeared above the formation's core planet!
Don't ask why he was thin! Ask: Jiangnan is thin (Nanshou)!
Though he had become a bit leaner, his aura seemed more mature and steady!
Even though only three months had passed on the outside, for Jiangnan and the others, they had been buried in cultivation for over two years inside!
Jiangnan's level was still at Transcendent Tenth Stage, his aura restrained, and a faint glimmer of treasure light emanated from his skin!
During this period, Jiangnan had frantically cultivated with the help of the Cosmic Array. But damn it, he hadn't advanced a single stage!
Two and a half years, ah!
Jiangnan had still underestimated the difficulty of cultivation beyond the tenth stage. Every small step forward required a massive amount of energy and time accumulation!
However, it wasn't without progress. At least he had reached the peak of the tenth stage, just one step away from the eleventh stage!
Continuing to cultivate in the Cosmic Array had little chance of a breakthrough, so Jiangnan just came out!
Zhong Yingxue and the others were still cultivating inside!
The main reason for coming out this time was to deal with the Erbi fish issue!
Based on past experience, to fully turn the Erbi fish into a human, it would take at least four or five "Becoming Human Grass" doses!
That was over 200 million resentment points!
Where would he get that much? Besides, he had to save some resentment points for the Sequence Offensive and Defensive Battle to exchange for items!
Items like the Strongman Pill, Fate Coin, and Deadly Green Club were used in no small quantities. And the Strongman Pill could only be obtained through draws for now, not from the system store!
Checking his total resentment points, he had about a little over thirty million left!
Including what he had drawn before, he could probably scrape together one Becoming Human Grass!
Jiangnan counted on his fingers:
(｡･ˇ～ˇ･)੭ "I have one here, Black God has two there. Even if I squeeze them all, that's only three? Not enough at all! Tsk—"
He frowned and scratched his head:
(งᵒ̌皿ᵒ̌)ง "Aah—I really want to go look for trouble! Poke around, pick fights, trash talk—that would be great!"
"But in this situation, who can I go stir up a fight with? I have a bunch of allies, and everyone else backs down when they see me. I can't mess with the Bose or Silicon-Based now either, tsk—"
"Seriously, it's all because I'm too awesome. My reputation is so fearsome that nobody dares to cause me trouble. I'm really Nanshou (suffering). If this keeps up, I'm going to get depressed!"
[(•́ω•̀٥)…]
* "I'm so awesome nobody comes to cause me trouble, and now I'm nearly depressed. Truly Nanshou."*
This made it hard for Jiangnan to earn resentment points!
Jiangnan gritted his teeth:
(︶益︶〃) "Forget it! I'll use what I have first and earn more during the battle!"
"Hey, Treasure—give me a boost, okay?!"
[(￢◡￢)～]
[Host, since you're so troubled, ignoring it isn't the way, Treasure~]
[Do a ten-pull to liven things up—luck is sure to follow~]
[ヾ(ᵒ̴̶̷ꇴᵒ̴̶̷ゞ) Yo yo~ Check it out, ay!]
Jiangnan's mouth twitched. Was the system now smart enough to use emojis and rap in his head?
Those two and a half years weren't wasted, huh?
Pull!
Jiangnan immediately dumped all his remaining resentment points into it!
[From... ah, forget it~]
[Lucky Ten-Pull Draw Begins!]
[Thank You For Your Patronage! Consolation Prize: One Pack of Strongman Pill!]
[Congratulations! Prize: One Ox-Horse Pen!]
...
Jiangnan's little heart tensed up. According to past patterns, with a main prize and two consolation prizes this time, if a new item appeared, it should be a proper prize, right?
After all, Fate Coin and Strongman Pill were super powerful, but they were both consolation prizes!
The last time a proper prize came out was back in the Minghe Death Prison!
Before long, his resentment points were down to just a few million!
And then, the long list of results finally showed a new change!
[Congratulations! Prize: One War Horn!]
[Congratulations...]
Jiangnan was stunned.
(๑ʘ̅дʘ̅๑) "Holy crap?"
A new item really came out?!
At this stage, sometimes Jiangnan would dump a few hundred million in without getting a new item!
After all, as the system store's inventory grew, the later prizes became more powerful!
And this prize—just its name already made Jiangnan's blood boil!
Meow!
For a proper prize, this was the first time the name was this serious!
Just hearing it made it sound like something good!
It must be for war, right?
System Treasure must have known he was about to start the Sequence Offensive and Defensive Battle, so it gave him a heavy hitter!
Before the last Cosmos Grand Hunt, it gave him the Strongman Pill and Fate Coin, which had been a huge help!
And now, this War Horn...
Just thinking about it made Jiangnan's blood boil!
(*ﾟﾛﾟ) "Treasure, Treasure, is this War Horn thing awesome or what?"
[(˵ಡ̫ಡ) I think the host will absolutely love it~]