( Lin Lingtian's POV )

What is War ?

By definition war is an intense conflict between

societies, governments ,states and paramilitary groups such as insurgents , mercenaries and militias . It is generally characterized by extreme

aggression , destruction, violence and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces .

Why are wars fought ?

There are many potential reasons, including: competition over territory and resources, historical rivalries and grievances, and in self defense against an aggressor or a perceived potential aggressor.

These two questions form the basis of the War God Technique .

It times of war , intense conflict his powers bloom .

But for a war , an army was required .

According to the War God Technique for his army to form , he needed to form his second heart or core .

The Core or second heart would connect his soul with the soul of his soldiers that would remain forever loyal to him .

One command from him and his army will crawl from the depths of the abyss to just carry out his command .

To gain the ability to form his army he needed the blood of a dual attribute wood yin demon beast to form his second heart .

There are actually three ways to form a second heart .

One way was to use the blood having the attribute corresponding to the soul form for example he has the soul form wooden yin lotus so to form the second heart or core he needed blood having the attribute of yin and wood .

The second way was to use the Nether Blood ritual .

The Nether Blood ritual required me to create a head .

To be precise, the head was to be made of eight completely different people, including men, women, elderly, children, and so on.

Each of the heads must have

experienced one the emotions of rage , greed , the delusions of grandeur , hedonism , the feeling of emptiness , terror the face of despair , the persistence of nihilism , the inevitability and fear of death .

Then the heads would all be sewn together.

Using the newly created head , he must channel soul force through it for 7 days and to create the egg of nether .

The Egg of Nether attracts the wandering souls of the dead that would be refined and formed into his army .

The Last way to create was to use a medium that would hold the spirits of his army.

( Roar ! )

Hearing the roars , Lin Lingtian frowned , this was not right .

A demon beast having yin and wood attribute never roared .

As it was their nature to fight using illusions .

Something was not right .

His mind flashed back to fat woman ,' Did she rip me off with fake info ?'

Taking a deep breath , Lin Lingtian gazed hardened as he walked towards the sounds of the roars of the demon beasts .

' For the sake of your head remaining on your shoulders , this place must hold a demon beast with a dual yin wood attribute or else .'

Climbing up into the trees , Lin Lingtian closed his eyes and produces a clicking sound using his tongue and listened to the reflected sound using his enhanced hearing.

He was using essentially using echolocation to determine how many enemies were around the forest .

An embarrassment of Fanged Pandas were feasting of Sky Imperial Grass .

A frown made it's way on Lin Lingtian's face as he tried to positively think , maybe a yin wood demon beast was allowing the Fanged panda to live in it's territory as a source of food or to attract other demon beasts .

He crouched down slowly as soul force began to flow to his legs , and then in a blink he pushed off shoot up through the air. A loud crack rang out behind him as the branch he was on splintered into chunks and fell to the ground.

By the time it hit the ground not two seconds later, he had already cleared three hundred feet of distance. Nimbly slashing each Fanged Panda he passed by too fast for them to react.

Five fell to his blade, then ten, and four as he leapt up towards the demon beast that charged at him with a roar far faster than any of its brethren could have hoped to match.

( Roar ! )

With a thunderous roar the Fanged panda brought it's lightning covered palms towards Lin Lingtian .

Lin Lingtian's eyes glowed red as he felt the War God Technique circulate .

Red Soul force covered the axe in his left hand as he intercepted the lightning covered palm .

( Swish ! )

Like a hot knife through butter , his axe dismembered the palm of the hands .

Before the beast could even feel the pain , it's head went flying through the air as Lin Lingtian's eyes glanced over the other demon beasts .

The War God Technique had stopped circulating .

Thirty three Fanged Panda corpses littered the ground behind him, and his blade found the neck of a fanged panda that towered over fifteen feet tall.

His crimson red aura to dispersed as he hung from the sword jammed in the beasts throat, blood beginning to stain the white of its fur.

The War God Technique was stimulated only for a few seconds .

With a deep breath, Lin Lingtian pulled his

blade form the massive demon beasts throat and allowed its massive corpse to drop to the ground with a loud, ground shaking thud.

Behind him, he heard the others of its species begin to roar in anger as his battle had attracted quite the audience .

A pressure descended upon him , no rather gravity was increasing around him .

The Fanged Pandas seeing their kin dead , attacked Lin Lingtian with their gravity field as a single demon beasts gathered soul force in its mouth as Two spheres of power vibrated into existence within its mouth, one a blinding white and the other a deep, dark black that seemed to

suck the light all around within it.

The two spheres converged into one as a beam tore through the air .

Seeing the extremely fast beam of light ,his heart sank in as his intense emotions began stimulating the War God's Chant .

A crimson aura enveloped his body as the soul force enforced his body with soul force according to the War God's Technique on instinct

[ War God's Body Strengthening : Soul Force has enforced the body according to War God's Technique . Increasing strength , durability , agility and stamina by 100% ] [ Duration : 1 minute ] ( + - )

( Boom ! )

Lin Lingtian's body flung through the trees .

( Boom ! )

Breaking the bark of multiple trees , Lin Lingtian's body crashed on the ground

Lin Lingtian stood up as blood dripped down his busted lip , nothing more .

Lin Lingtian had overestimated the power of yin Yang blast .

Even without the reinforcement of the soul force , he would have not been damaged by the yin Yang blast but seeing the beam of light his mind had assumed that he had a chance of dying causing the War God Technique to reinforce his body .

Wiping the blood of his lip he pushed the plus button .

[ War God's Body Strengthening : Soul Force has enforced the body according to War God's Technique . Increasing strength , durability , agility and stamina by 100% ] [ Duration : ∞] ( - )

Looking at the Fanged panda a grin made it's way to his face .

" Thanks for the status , this would help in fighting whatever dual attribute demon beasts in this place ."

Red Soul force covered his sword and axe as he rushed the group of Fanged Pandas .

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[ At Midnight ]

An erie silence had befallen the forest as bloodlust of thousands of Demon beasts covered the land .

Some Demon Beasts like the water grasshopper , dark owl e.t.c. were hiding .

There instincts screamed if they so much as move they would attract the attention the furious predator .

Sitting on a slump was the source of the blood lust of the thousands of Demon Beasts .

" Lin Lingtian ".

He would furious .

2478 Fanged Panda had been killed by him as he had essentially looked through every nook and cranny of this damn nest and the only species he had found was that of Fanged panda .

There was no sign of any Dual attribute wood yin demon beast .

That fat pig had scammed him out of his money .

Lin Lingtian looked at the fire in front of him .

He was looking forward to battling a wood yin attributed demon beasts .

Why ?

Because wood yin attributed demon beasts used illusions to fight and as a physical fighter this would have be a challenge .

A challenge that may have allowed him to advance from a 3 star bronze rank to a 4 star bronze rank .

Taking a deep breath , Lin Lingtian stood up as he walked in the direction of Glory City .

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