Heroes' Prison

Chapter 1022 - 966: Heavenly Dao Unifies the Invading Army

At this moment, Heavenly Dao stood up from his seat again, eyes sweeping over all the leaders in the conference room, and summarized, "Since the majority have decided to stay and fight till the end, then the minority shall abide by the majority. We’ll take one last risk and stay to finish this national war. But before that, I have an important proposal!"

"What proposal?" A graceful woman in the corner of the conference room suddenly asked. She wore a floral crown on her head, a grass skirt on her body, and held a curved tree branch magic wand, looking just like a Flower Fairy.

Her name was Rain of Flowers, a legion leader from Southeast Asia. Although not as prominent as Fuchan Fenrao, she was a renowned female expert player in the Southeast Asian region.

Heavenly Dao glanced at Rain of Flowers, then looked at everyone else again, raising his voice by eight octaves, "I propose that all your legions merge into my Dongying Legion, so we all become one entity."

The conference room suddenly came to a standstill, with everyone looking at each other.

"Ridiculous!" Miyamoto Musashi scoffed, giving Heavenly Dao a sidelong glance, "Even if we are to become one entity, why should we merge into your legion, instead of you merging into mine?"

"Because your legion isn’t qualified enough!" Heavenly Dao’s tone was cold, "Your legion is inferior to mine in terms of numbers and achievements. You yourself have been killed multiple times in the national war. In contrast, my legion has performed the best among all the invading armies, garnering the most achievements among all the legions present! Once we win the national war, only my legion will receive the post-war rewards from the system! I’m asking you to merge into my legion for your sake because that way, when we win, everyone can enjoy the post-war rewards together."

Miyamoto Musashi clenched his fists, with veins bulging from his neck, consumed by anger!

Yet he could not refute. The performance of each legion in this national war was apparent to all. His Martial Arts Legion indeed could not compare to Heavenly Dao’s Dongying Legion.

"Since that’s the case, my legion is willing to merge under your legion." At this moment, Rain of Flowers, who had previously questioned, nodded and was the first to express agreement.

With Rain of Flowers taking the lead, the other legion leaders immediately became somewhat eager, whispering among themselves, discussing back and forth.

After a while, a rough-looking man clad in armor also made a decision, "Our Bengal Tiger Legion is willing to merge into the Dongying Legion."

"Our Eastern Africa Legion is willing to merge into the Dongying Legion."

"Peru Legion, willing to merge into the Dongying Legion."

"Thailand Legion, willing to merge into the Dongying Legion."

...

In an instant, several small legions expressed their willingness. They were originally no match for those large legions, and even if they won the national war, they wouldn’t receive the system’s post-war rewards. But after joining the Dongying Legion, they’d have a chance.

"Alright! My Divine Tune Legion will also merge into the Dongying Legion!" At this point, Dante also spoke.

He was one of the nine super-first-class masters present, and his Divine Tune Legion was also a large legion. His agreement weighed heavily in pushing everyone’s decision. Even a super-first-class master’s legion began merging into the Dongying Legion.

Finally, only Miyamoto Musashi remained not joining in the conference room. He glanced helplessly around at the leaders of the various legions present, finally locking eyes with Heavenly Dao, and said with a hint of reluctance, "Since everyone else is joining you, I can’t be an exception. But I’m not merging my legion into yours to submit to you; it’s purely for the post-war rewards."

Subsequently, he also merged his Martial Arts Legion into the Dongying Legion!

At this point, all the invading legions were completely merged into the Dongying Legion. The Dongying Legion instantly became the largest legion in history, even surpassing the Hero Legion in scale.

Heavenly Dao then became the nominal commander of this legion!

"Very well, from now on, we are family, and we will work together to achieve victory in this national war." Heavenly Dao smiled slightly, once more scanning the room.

At this moment, the defeated look on his face had vanished, replaced by a sense of powerful confidence.

Heavenly Dao paused and continued, "After we win the national war, the territories we occupy need to be digested quickly, and our fortress must be built anew. Yet with our current military force and resources, we are unable to completely assimilate such vast territories. I will be negotiating with the other two vice presidents of the Dongying Guild to transport the main materials and wealth we have accumulated over the years from the Land of Dongying to here, to help establish the territories we’ve conquered..."

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After leaving Thornbush City, Huang Yi flew back to the Ancient Godship of the Thunder God.

At this time, the Thunder God was gently wiping the Pillar of Sea God, as if treating his own child.

The Pillar of Sea God emanated an eternal radiance, filling the entire cabin, making one feel as if wrapped in endless warm seawater, full of a sense of security.

"Ah-Yi, have you reached level 270?!" The Thunder God turned his head, surprised to see Huang Yi, noticing his level change.

"Yes, I was about to level up anyway. I just killed a High-Rank Pain Acolyte and finally leveled up." Huang Yi nodded, flipping his hand to take out two bottles from the storage ring.

In the first bottle, it was filled with black smoke. Faintly visible within the smoke was a single drop of black liquid, emitting a majestic dark aura that seemed to want to break through the bottle and spread out. However, the light of the Pillar of the Sea God had already filled the entire cabin, preventing this dark aura from spreading and forcefully compressing it within the bottle.

The second bottle also contained similar black liquid, filling the entire bottle, but the aura it emanated was slightly different, leaning more towards a sense of depravity.

The Thunder God looked at the two bottles and was amazed once again, "This... is the Dark King’s blood, and the King of the Fallen’s blood!"

He swallowed and stared at Huang Yi, continuing, "These are legendary substances! All along, The Seven Archdemons have been sending avatars to wreak havoc, which are merely masses of life essence and not real flesh and blood. Only by acquiring directly from their true forms can one obtain the real Demon King’s blood. How did you manage to acquire the blood of these two Demon Kings?"

"This drop of the Dark King’s blood, I obtained it from the Desolate Magic Temple on the Central Continent, and this bottle of the King of the Fallen’s blood, I got it after killing the Fallen General yesterday." Huang Yi said, shaking the two bottles, "The Seven Archdemons are about to descend soon. I want to see if I can absorb these bloods before they arrive to gain a bit more self-preservation power!"

His Rare Race allows him to evolve every 20 levels. The last time he evolved was just after his Reincarnation ended a few days ago, evolving into an Ancient Giant, using his evolution opportunity at Level 180. He now possesses evolution opportunities at Levels 200, 220, 240, and 260, a total of four chances!

These precious evolution opportunities, he does not want to waste them just like that. Only when obtaining exceptionally powerful or special blood would he consider evolving, and Demon King’s blood is one such example.

He previously tried with the Dark King’s blood, but its strength was too high to absorb. However, he was at Level 245 back then, and now he has reached Level 270, becoming stronger, so he can attempt it again!

Huang Yi opened the bottle of Dark King’s blood and poured that drop onto his palm!

"Sizzle!" Instantly, a corrosive sound was heard from his palm. That drop of blood contained all sorts of sinister and negative evil auras, frantically corroding his palm.

However, he has the Nefalem’s Bloodline, granting him Immunity to Demonic Aura damage, and he was under the warm glow of the Pillar of the Sea God, completely suppressing this drop of Demon King’s blood.

"[System Prompt]: You have obtained the blood of a mysterious species. Would you like to absorb and evolve?"

Huang Yi eagerly chose yes!

Instantly, his palm sank, emitting a strong suction!

The drop of Dark King’s blood started to tremble violently. At first, it could still maintain its droplet form, but over time, it gradually dispersed.

Slowly, Huang Yi felt the aura from the blood start to penetrate his skin and permeate into his body, where an epic and magnificent power began to take root and sprout within him!

Eventually, that drop of blood completely infiltrated into his skin, though it was not entirely absorbed, appearing as a black mole on his palm!

"[System Prompt]: Due to your Nefalem’s bloodline including Demon Clan lineage and your previous evolution through the Eyeless Demon, you are able to absorb [Dark King’s Blood], current refinement progress 1%."

"Success!" Huang Yi’s heart leaped with joy!

However, the strength of this Dark King’s blood is too high to absorb all at once like before. Just like that broken divinity of the Harbinger of Doomsday, it would take a long time to absorb bit by bit.

Huang Yi touched the black mole on his palm and was filled with anticipation. The Dark King is an eternal epic; who knows how powerful he will be after transforming into the Dark King?

Moreover, this comes with no drawbacks. If one joins the Demon Clan to become a Demon King, they must sign a contract with the King of Hell, always constrained, with limited future achievements.

However, evolving into an existence like The Seven Archdemons poses no such worries!

Huang Yi gave a flick of his hand to store away the other bottle of the King of the Fallen’s blood. Since he can already evolve into the Dark King, it’s not very necessary to evolve into the King of the Fallen.

His future evolution opportunities are very limited, needing to be used sparingly. Currently, he still has two evolution targets: one is the deep evolution in Dragon Clan form. He has progressed far on this path, having undergone deep evolutions as a member of the White Dragon Clan, Sea Dragon Clan, and twice as the Golden Holy Dragon. Each Dragon Clan evolutionary form enhances the power of his Incarnation. If he wishes to evolve his Incarnation into a Divine Embryo-like existence, he must reserve a few evolution opportunities for the Dragon Clan form.

And his second evolution target is the mysteriously much-attempted Python Blood!

Next, Huang Yi took a deep breath and retrieved several drops of the Mysterious Serpent’s Blood from his storage ring.

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