Chapter 989: The Unique Advantages of the Yellow Turban Collar
It was a great victory. Although it was not good to kill or capture the Jiao Demon King, the Jade Emperor was still very happy. He praised Thunder Tiger and Zhu Ganglie and gave them generous rewards.
Lei Hu did not refuse in person. When he met with the Jade Emperor in private, he returned the reward and expressed his attitude that he must accumulate his merits and exchange them for higher-level physical training techniques.
This time, the brief battle with the Dragon Demon King allowed him to clearly see his own abilities.
Facing the veteran Jinxian Mighty, he may be superior in martial arts, but there is a lot of gap in overall strength, otherwise Jiao Demon King would not easily force him and Zhu Ganglie to escape.
He is not in a hurry right now. He has gained a lot from this short and intense battle with the Jiao Demon King. After he has thoroughly digested and absorbed it, his cultivation level will reach a higher level.
As for the eye-catching rune battle equipment and rune formations selected for this show, the Jade Emperor didn't pay much attention to them after learning about them.
That's the way it is. There are many experts in Heavenly Court in formations. If you want to improve your army's combat effectiveness by studying rune combat equipment, it's quite easy. You will soon be able to catch up with or even surpass the level of the Yellow Turban Army. There is no need to care too much. .
Lei Hu didn't feel strange at all. After returning, Hao Lian supervised the Taiping Dao Teacher Academy, the core department under his command, and asked them to continue their research on Fu Dao.
"At least the Tianhe navy has noticed the role of rune weapons and formations. I believe that with their background, they will soon catch up with and surpass us!"
Recruiting the senior officials of the Taoist Academy, Lei Hu warned: "I hope the Taoist Academy can keep up with the overall improvement trend of the Yellow Turban Army as soon as possible. At least the core Taoist masters must be promoted to the level of earthly immortal or even heavenly immortal. Otherwise, there will be no way to develop immortal-level skills." Rune Battle Tool!"
Taiping Taoist Academy is definitely the core of the new Yellow Turban collar.
At least half of the Yellow Turban Army's combat power is tied to the rune instruments studied by the Taoist Academy.
Once the Taoist Academy cannot keep up with the situation, it will have a great impact on the Yellow Turban Army's combat effectiveness.
For example, in this battle against the Jiao Demon King, the Yellow Turban Army's rune combat equipment played an extremely crucial role. They had never seen such methods before, or they underestimated the combat effectiveness of large-scale use of rune combat equipment, so they suffered heavy losses and were directly defeated. , it’s not that the demon clan under the Jiao Demon King is not strong enough.
If there is another time, if the Yellow Turban Army wants to continue to rely on the help of rune combat equipment to achieve the level of victory this time, it will be impossible to achieve it.
Moreover, in this battle of conquest, the rune war equipment also revealed many obvious weaknesses.
The main reason is that the power of the rune war equipment is insufficient. The most powerful five-element rune array attack technique, the effect of each blow is comparable to the full force blow of a peerless mid-level warrior.
It is naturally very lethal against the demons who have not become immortals, but it has little effect against the demons who have become immortals. Otherwise, there would not be a large number of demon cultivators with high levels of cultivation in the battle, using rune weapons to release them. The Five Elements spell went against the trend, and in the end it had to be solved by the immortal warriors of the Yellow Turban Army.
On the other hand, the energy source of the rune formation cannot be guaranteed. If there is not enough spiritual stone reserve, we can only rely on the mana in a single soldier to activate the spell like the stupid method of the Yellow Turban Army soldiers this time.
As a result, although the Yellow Turban Army has a large number of soldiers, it cannot withstand the crazy energy output of the rune array. It is also a troublesome if it cannot last long.
It's just that with the current power of the Yellow Turban Army's rune war equipment, it is quite easy to deal with demons below the immortal level. But once the target becomes an immortal, the result will be hard to predict.
Unless some stupid person ignores the continuous bombardment of countless rune weapons and exhausts the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army who maintain the mana output of the rune weapons, his mana is exhausted and he is finished.
This still refers to targets at the Earth Immortal and Heavenly Immortal levels. Once the target is changed to a powerful Golden Immortal, even if the talisman array on the tens of thousands of rune battleships is fully firing, it will be difficult to injure the opponent at all.
To put it bluntly, the key point is that the Taoist Academy of the Yellow Turban Army has not developed immortal-level rune weapons, and the five-element spells it outputs are not powerful enough. It is enough that they were caught off guard when they appeared. Once they appear, imagine again.
The glorious results before were impossible.
In other words, in the current world of heaven, including the cultivation circles of the four major continents, the mainstream emphasizes methods and weapons, while despising the application of talismans and formations.
In other words, at this time, in the world of cultivation in Heaven and the four major continents, powerful magic weapons and powerful magical powers are the most sought after, and Talismans and Formations are both niche.
This resulted in the shortage of Fu Dao skills required by the Yellow Turban Taoist Academy. Even if Lei Hu plundered the surrounding heavenly treasure house, there were all kinds of magic and physical training, as well as weapon training, elixir training and other skills, but Fu Dao skills
But I only found one incomplete copy of the local fairy level and a heavenly fairy level.
This resulted in a rather embarrassing situation.
During the Qingzhou period in the territory of the Han Dynasty, Taiping Dao Normal University, which was the strongest driving force for the development of the Yellow Turban collar and the Yellow Turban Army, showed signs of being unable to keep up with the changes in the situation after it was moved to Tianting.
After so many years, there have been hundreds of Earth Immortal level Talisman Masters in the Taoist Academy, but not a single Heavenly Immortal level Talisman Master has appeared. This is quite abnormal.
In the environment where the Yellow Turban Army generals broke through one after another, the progress of the millions of Taoist masters in the Taoist Academy slowed down, causing the update speed of the rune combat equipment that the Yellow Turban Army relied on to suddenly slow down.
This can't happen!
Obviously, some of Lei Hu's guesses were incorrect.
After the conquering army returned to heaven, Zhu Ganglie, the commander of the Tianhe navy, quickly came to Taiming Yuwantian where the new Yellow Turban leader was, and took the initiative to ask him for all the runes and war equipment of the Yellow Turban army.
"Speaking of Lao Zhu, doesn't it mean that the Tianhe navy doesn't have talents in this field? It's impossible!"
Lei Hu agreed without hesitation, and then curiously asked: "They are all inferior to immortal weapons, so there is no need to value them so highly, right?"
"Hey, Marshal Taiping doesn't know something!"
Zhu Ganglie smiled bitterly and told the reason without any concealment. Only then did Lei Hu suddenly understand.
He obviously misunderstood something. There is indeed no shortage of Fu Dao monks in Heaven, and there are also many Fu Dao Celestial Immortals and even Golden Immortals. They are also good at formations, but they are mainly concentrated on the Jie Jiao disciples who have been on the list of gods.
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As for the rest of the Fu Dao Immortals and Gods, their numbers are not so good.
Again, even the Jade Emperor has a headache when he wants to mobilize the gods of Jiejiao, let alone Lao Zhu, the general marshal of the Tianhe Navy, especially since he comes from the human sect, haha...
As for the Tianhe navy, there are some soldiers who have practiced Fu Dao, but the number is quite impressive, and the research on Fu Dao is not in-depth. They are just thinking about it out of curiosity.
It is not impossible to rely on the soldiers within the Tianhe Navy who have studied the Tao of Runes to come up with rune weapons, but it just requires too much time and resources.
They also did not have the opportunity of the Yellow Turban Taoist Academy. They were able to help improve the production and living standards of the Yellow Turban collar, and formed a complete research and production system step by step from low to high.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Taiping Taoist Academy under the leadership of the Yellow Turban is absolutely unparalleled in the three realms and the four major continents in terms of research depth on the underlying aspects of Fu Dao. I am afraid that only a true Fu Dao master can hold the top position.
But even if the level of the Fu Dao clan is higher, without the Taoist Academy's experience in combining research and practical application, it is really difficult to say how effective the rune weapons produced can be.
Lei Hu suddenly realized!
I couldn't help but feel a surge of pride in my heart. You must know that Taiping Taoist Academy was founded by him and it can be developed to the current level. It can be said that he was the one who contributed to it.
Although the level of the Taoist masters in the Taoist Academy is not high, and it is much inferior to the immortal weapons widely used in heaven, the advantage is that the use of runes is more convenient and simple, and there is no huge energy consumption requirement for the immortal weapons.
It can be said that as long as the rune equipment that meets the requirements can be researched and manufactured, there is no need to spend additional energy resources. Simply relying on the monk's own mana can maintain the stable effect of the rune equipment.
Unexpectedly, without knowing it, the Yellow Turban Army also mastered a very practical side technique. The powerful people in heaven may not look down on it, but beings like Zhu Ganglie are quite optimistic about it.
"Lao Zhu, we all have fought side by side, do you think you can do me a favor?"
Seeing that Zhu Ganglie was in a good mood, Lei Hu took the opportunity to make a rather difficult request: "I know, Lao Zhu, you are a disciple of the Human Cult. It seems that you have a great relationship with Lao Jun's sect in Xuandu and have a good relationship with the master. You may not be able to pass through Xuandu."
Damn, because of the relationship with the mage, please come to Laojun’s Yiyuan Taoist Temple to have a look?”
After saying that, Lei Hu showed an embarrassed look and said helplessly: "Lao Zhu should know that Lao Jun's one-yuan Taoist talisman can be said to be the mother of Talisman Tao, and the evolution of three thousand divine talismans is the foundation of Talisman Tao. A certain Talisman Master under his command has no
If you have enough Talisman Techniques to improve your cultivation level, you can only find a way to improve it by studying the three thousand divine texts!"
Of course, Lei Hu would be even happier if he could directly understand something from the One Yuan Dao Talisman.
"this……"
Sure enough, Zhu Ganglie looked embarrassed when he heard this, and smiled bitterly: "It's hard to help with this!"
That's right. Although there was a look of embarrassment on his face, there was no fluctuation in his eyes. It was obvious that this job was not a trouble for him.
The reason why he acted so embarrassed was mainly because Lei Hu's "sincerity" was not enough.
"As long as Lao Zhu can help with this, the Yellow Turban Army will take care of all the rune combat equipment that the Tianhe Navy will need in the future. How about just charging the cost?"
Lei Hu understood and smiled and said: "If my talisman masters have some understanding and develop more powerful talisman weapons, Lao Zhu can win fifty of them at the cost price!"
"Fifty is too few, at least there must be a hundred!"
Zhu Ganglie was a little dissatisfied, shook his head and said: "The Yiyuan Taoist Talisman is equivalent to the acquired spiritual treasure, and it is also a Taoist Talisman Lingbao..."
"make a deal!"
Lei Hu agreed directly without saying a word, but he couldn't help but feel happy.