Cultivator army

History/geografi
Monstrous Beasts coming tide after tide from the ocean

Not only Monstrous Beast, but the cultivators that come from across the Yi Xing Ocean. Wanting to cross the Yi Xing Ocean is as hard as transcending the heavens, it is even innumerable times much more difficult than practicing one’s cultivation to the peak in the Yi Xing Mainland. therefore 9 out of 10 cultivators who try to cross the Yi Xing Ocean end up dying over the skies of the Yi Xing Ocean. But there are also a fraction of those cultivators who were able to find a few islands that were comparable to the continents here, in the Yi Xing Ocean, before they kicked the bucket. In these continental sized islands, they ended up sp.a.w.ning multiple descendents.”

“Although some of the islands were even bigger that the continents here, but the resources there are very limited. With their descendants growing more and more in number, it ended up in creating a huge deficiency in their resources. So they had to seek out other islands that had more resources, as a result they ended up finding the Yi Xing Mainland with its 9 continents, this kind of thing is as such not much surprising.”

Do you mean to say that the people who attack our Yi Xing Mainland come from those continental sized islands? Why is this? The Yi Xing Mainland is extremely vast, those people could also easily come here and find a place to cultivate in secret.”

Cang Shuo said, “Do you even know just how many people that they amount to, they are not just in tens of thousands, but even the number of several tens of billions would be insufficient to estimate their numbers. Not only that, they also have some sort of control over the Monstrous Beasts in the Yi Xing Ocean. They just want to turn this mainland into one of the territories of the islands, as such the fight for the mainland has never stopped till now. Because the Hua Continent is far from the battle being fought at the front against the Yi Xing Ocean, as such it is relatively calm here. The reason why my father got injured was because he had fought on the battlefield against those from the Yi Xing Ocean.”

“Senior Apprentice Brother Xiao Cheng, actually the Yi Xing Ocean’s War is not just the War of the 3 Continents. The War of the 3 Continents is just something that is spoke in the Hua Continent and the other lower cla.s.s continents, moreover it is just a small part of the Yi Xing Ocean’s War. It’s just a battle between some small fishes and shrimps. My father was in the Battlefields belonging to the Intermediate Level Continents, and as such had to deal with some of the genuine masters.” Meng Jing Xiu corrected Ning Cheng’s view.

The 10th Continent that is lying across the Yi Xing Ocean is called the Tian Continent, this continent is truly the gathering place of the supreme powers. In the 3 Advanced Level Continents of the Yi Xing Mainland, a Crucible Transformation Cultivator is already considered as a peak existence, but in the Tian Continent, a Crucible Transformation Cultivator is not the peak, as there is even a higher presence there than the Crucible Transformation Realm.”  This Tian Continent can also be interpreted as ‘Heaven’ Continent

Heaven Way
“The reason why I spoke to you about these things, is that although the Yi Xing Ocean’s cultivators had sneak attacked the cultivator army of the 9 Continents on the Mainland, but it is because the war should soon calm down, at least it would calm down temporarily.”

“I ask General to dispel these doubts.” Ning Cheng quickly spoke up once again.

Kong Peng Peng’s tone became somewhat earnest, “According to the latest news, the Tian Continent’s Heaven’s Way has once again opened……”What is Heaven’s Way?” Ning Cheng could not help but ask this question.

“After the Yi Xing Mainland was broken up, the laws of the Heaven and Earth here also ended up broken and hence were left incomplete, and we were unable to take advantage of the incomplete Heaven and Earth’s Laws to get out of the Yi Xing Mainland. But in Tian Continent, there is a path called the Heaven’s Way, when a cultivator’s cultivation level reaches a certain threshold, they would be able to pa.s.s through this Heaven’s Way to come out of the Yi Xing Mainland, and go to a place where the Spiritual Qi and other cultivation resources are much richer than here, moreover the main motivation for them is in order to search for a higher understanding of their Dao.” As Kong Peng Peng spoke, his tone became even more excited. It was apparent that he himself wanted to go onto the Heaven’s Way.

“Heaven’s Way……” Ning Cheng kept repeating those words to himself, as he set Heaven’s Way as his goal now.

Kong Peng Peng gave a chuckle, “Do not think that the Heaven’s Way is something good, although theoretically after reaching a certain level in one’s cultivation, anyone could go onto the Heaven’s Way, but if one could truly pa.s.s through it or not, no one knows about it. Because since ancient times no one has ever been able to come back. It is because after entering the Heaven’s Way, all the cultivators that entered had disappeared, and as such no one knows whether they managed to pa.s.s through the Heaven’s Way or not. Because of which no one knows whether the Heaven’s Way is real, or if it is just a legend.”

“Then how is one able to cross the Heaven’s Way?”

“When your cultivation reaches a certain level, you will come to understand about this. But it is because the Tian Continent has such a thing called the Heaven’s Way that it is called the Tian Continent. The Heaven’s Way has been shut for countless years, and had only recently opened. As such all those cultivators who were trapped in their cultivation for many years, have flocked to the Heaven’s Way, so as to find a way out. The Yi Xing Ocean’s cultivator army conducting a large scale attack on the mainland of the 9 continents, is also because of the Heaven’s Way.”

The Le Continent’s Heaven’s Way had always existed, but with respect to the Tian Continent’s Heaven’s Way, the Le Continent’s Heaven’s Way is called a Pseudo-Heaven’s Way. Because after one goes inside the Le Continent’s Heaven’s Way, they can also come out, moreover only after a cultivator advances to the Essence Building Realm, till before they have not yet formed their Soul Essence, only they are allowed to enter. In other words, only Essence Building Realm, Profound Congealing Realm and Profound Core Realm cultivators can go in. This Heaven’s Way in addition to the called as Pseudo-Heaven’s Way, is also at times referred to as Law’s Way.”

When the Yi Xing Mainland broke apart, other than the Tian Continent having enough cultivation resources, even the Heaven and Earth Laws were more complete than the Laws in the remaining 9 Continents, as such if any cultivator wanted to cultivate above the Sea Opening Realm here, then they all have to go through this Law’s Way. Only after a cultivator advances to the Essence Building Realm, can they start to comprehend and cultivate the incomplete laws inside of this Law’s Way, in order to improve upon the Dao of their cultivation. Only by going through this Law’s Way, and gaining a near perfect understanding, will it be possible to aim for an even higher realm.

As more and more cultivators grew up on the islands, and although the ocean was rich in resources, but it is not as abundant as the inlands. With the resources consumed for cultivation, after the Yi Xing Ocean’s cultivators advanced to the Soul Essence Realm, it would become more and more difficult for them to advance. The reason why they were cutting off all their means of retreat, is just because they also want to share the Law’s Way, in other words they want to let the Yi Xing Ocean’s cultivators to tread on the Law’s Way.

Ning Cheng then came to understand, “Then those cultivators with high cultivation levels in the Tian Continent would be moving towards the real Heaven’s Way, which is the reason the high levelled cultivators of the Yi Xing Ocean are afraid that after they leave the Yi Xing Ocean, there would be no successors of them left in the Yi Xing Ocean, as such they want to rush to cultivate their talented successors. Thus for these people to want to rush to cultivate their talented successors to a higher level, it is necessary for them to enter the Law’s Way.”

Kong Peng Peng nodded with appreciation to the points stated by Ning Cheng, “You really are smart, it indeed is like you spoke, the reason why the Yi Xing Ocean’s cultivators suddenly started their war at this time, is in order to reach an agreement with the cultivators of the 9 Continents. They want it such that every time the Law’s Way is opened, a portion of their people could also enter it.”

Ning Cheng suddenly thought of something, although he had attained some meritorious deeds in this war, but in the end he was only an ordinary Essence Building Cultivator. While Kong Peng Peng was a Soul Essence Cultivator, even if he appreciated him, there was no need for him to explain these things in detail, right?

There is always a monstrous beast tide explosion at a specific time every year from the Yi Xing Ocean, it is actually due to the spontaneous and natural behaviour of the monstrous beasts, and as such does not have any relationship with the cultivator army of the Yi Xing Ocean. All the cultivator forces stationed on all the major islands in the Yi Xing Ocean collectively fight against this beast tide annually. This kind of beast tide does not affect the 9 Continents, rather the cultivator soldiers of the 9 Continents stationed in the Yi Xing Ocean only benefit from this without much harm.

Yes, this is not only true in the Pu Bu Island, but it is the same throughout all the 9 Continent’s cultivator army, all of them can bet something in the form of ordinary duelling challenges. But there is also a requirement, that is, the cultivators that are higher up in rankings cannot challenge those that have lower cultivations. Only cultivators having a lower cultivation level can challenge cultivators of a higher cultivation level, moreover the challenges would be such that, as long as it would not affect the foundations and life of the opposite party, it would not be against the rules. Moreover, the high level cultivators also have the option to refuse the challenge.”

Ten enormous battalions
There are ten enormous battalions of the cultivator army stationed here in the Pu Bu Island, and the number one battalion among them, is the Kong Hui Battalion. It is then followed by the three major Battle Battalions, Zhi Battle Battalion, Chang Battle Battalion and Kai Battle Battalion. Followed by the six big Yi Battalions, Yi Zheng Battalion, Yi Hai Battalion, Yi Ming Battalion, Yi Fei Battalion, Yi An Battalion and Yi Cheng Battalion.”

From strongest to weakest
 * 1) Kong Hui Battalion
 * 2) Zhi Battle Battalion
 * 3) Chang Battle Battalion
 * 4) Kai Battle Battalion
 * 5) Yi Zheng Battalion,
 * 6) Yi Hai Battalion,
 * 7) Yi Ming Battalion
 * 8) Yi Fei Battalion
 * 9) Yi An Battalion
 * 10) Yi Cheng Battalion.

Army Ranks/Story
For an ordinary soldier, who had just joined the cultivator army, he would only have a shoulder card without any stars. Only after gaining a certain amount of military exploits, would they be qualified to be promoted to the rank of a red coloured 1 Star Soldier. After that was the orange coloured 2 Star Second Lieutenant. Then a yellow coloured 3 Star Senior Captain.

After that came the ranks of green coloured 4 Star Junior Marquis and green coloured 4 Star Senior Marquis, after which was the 5 Star Rank which was that of the Junior Commander who held a cyan coloured shoulder card. Then came the rank of 6 Star, which were for the Generals and was blue in colour, such as that worn by Kong Pengpeng.
 * 1) Rank of a red coloured 1 Star Soldier
 * 2) the orange coloured 2 Star Second Lieutenant
 * 3) yellow coloured 3 Star Senior Captain.
 * 4) green coloured 4 Star Junior Marquis
 * 5) cyan coloured the 5 Star Rank
 * 6) Rank of 6 Star,Generals and was blue in colour,

Members
Kong Peng Peng ch 168-173

Yang Honghuo ch 150-160

Nan Yuefang  ch 179

Junior Marquis Wei Peng ch 180-183= dead ch 186/187

General Ni ch 187