Saint Emperor Devourer of Heaven

Shen Xi understood Jun Wu Xie's thoughts.

Indeed, the reason he wasn't letting his senior brothers and sisters join the army to oversee things for the time being was to have them use this time to cultivate the Art of War.

The Art of War, for artifact refiners like them who primarily used weapons as their means of attack, would provide a significant boost in combat power.

Jun Wu Xie thought that if Fallen Red Dust were to find other agents in the Canglan Ancient Star, and have more dynasties unite to target the Dawn Dynasty, then the pressure faced by the Dawn Dynasty would be immense.

This pressure would not come from the army, but from the pressure of the dynasty's top-tier experts.

One could imagine that the number of strong individuals, whether they were the hidden experts of those dynasties or those sent by Fallen Red Dust, would definitely be considerable.

He needed his senior brothers and sisters to become stronger so they could defend Qingzhou's vast border and protect the dynasty's citizens from the suffering of war.

As long as his senior brothers and sisters cultivated the Art of War to a certain extent, even if they couldn't comprehend a very profound realm, just reaching the entry level would greatly enhance their combat power.

After all, their fighting style was too simple, and the Art of War could add many variations to their original, simple style, greatly increasing its power!

Although the Art of War was very difficult, he had his cultivation insights and understanding, and the Art of War he gave to his senior brothers and sisters was not as profound as the one he cultivated himself, but rather much shallower.

With their comprehension abilities, it wouldn't take long to just reach the entry level.

He believed that before the Dawn Dynasty faced the siege of various dynasties, his senior brothers and sisters would definitely have some understanding of the Art of War.

"It's truly embarrassing! We, as senior brothers and sisters, are actually being taught mystical arts by our junior brother…"

Shen Man's face showed a hint of shame. Being taught by his junior brother made him feel that he, as the eldest senior brother, was truly derelict in his duty.

"Junior Brother's art is truly shocking…" Shen Zhu exclaimed, "With such mystical arts, after we cultivate them, our strength in the future will increase more than tenfold! Our path in life has been changed by Junior Brother. Refiners like us will soon be able to become outstanding kings in terms of combat power within the same realm. This is something we never dared to imagine before…"

Shen Xi nodded in agreement upon hearing what her second senior brother said, and she also felt a lot of emotion in her heart.

Indeed, artifact refiners like them had very few means of attack and were not good at fighting at all, mainly relying on the weapons they refined to fight.

Therefore, among cultivators in the same realm, artifact refiners were undoubtedly at a disadvantage in terms of combat power, and this disadvantage was even greater compared to those cultivators in the same realm with extremely high growth potential.

Those cultivators with high talent and growth potential had powerful attack and defense secret techniques in their bloodline inheritance, as well as sublimation-type forbidden techniques, all of which were methods that artifact refiners did not have!

"Senior brothers and sisters, hurry up and cultivate. With your comprehension abilities, I believe it won't be long before you can comprehend the Art of War. I have to go to the border now."

Jun Wu Xie bid farewell to his senior brothers and sisters and left the Artifact Refining Sect.

"How many amazing secrets do you think Junior Brother has?"

Shen Xi looked at Jun Wu Xie's departing figure, her eyes flashing with brilliance.

She knew that Junior Brother was extraordinary, otherwise, Master wouldn't have valued him so much, and she had already known about Junior Brother's legend in the Lower Realm, but she found that Junior Brother was always able to constantly refresh her upper limit of recognition of him.

At this time, Jun Wu Xie had already left the Artifact Refining Sect. With a flash of his figure, he disappeared, and almost at the same time, he appeared in the area where the Qingzhou border was located, which was extremely far from the imperial capital.

The entire regional distribution of Qingzhou was already in his mind. His purpose for coming here was to set up rune arrays on the border.

Next, hundreds of millions of Xuanjia Army soldiers would be stationed on the border, and the purpose of the rune arrays was to prevent the Xuanjia Army from being discovered.

Having cultivated the Path of Runes to his level, rune arrays were naturally easy for him to create. He didn't need to carve runes one by one by hand.

He walked in the border territory, and as his footsteps moved, mountains and rivers changed. With each step he took, runes bloomed beneath his feet, deriving endless runes and evolving into rune arrays.

His actions were naturally not discovered by anyone.

He was a Primordial-level Rune Master, and even more so a Primal Beginning Rune Master, far stronger than other Rune Masters in the same realm, and his soul realm was very high, able to perfectly control his own aura.

In the vast mountains and rivers of the boundless border, if he didn't want people to discover him, unless an Eternal-level expert came, perhaps they could sense his existence.

Jun Wu Xie had already sensed that there were strong individuals from Fallen Red Dust hiding in the mountains outside the border, spying on the entire Qingzhou. This border was the closest to those strong individuals. Logically speaking, any movement on the border could not escape their eyes and senses.

However, the strong individuals from Fallen Red Dust did not notice Jun Wu Xie setting up rune arrays on the border at all.

"Fallen Red Dust, only Supreme Sacred Realm experts? Did they not send any Primordial Realm experts?"

After Jun Wu Xie set up rune arrays in many areas of the border, he turned to look at the area outside the border.

Although separated by continuous mountains, countless rivers, and countless lakes, he still instantly locked onto the location of the Fallen Red Dust experts.

"I wonder if Fallen Red Dust is wary of Master Ciyin and the rune master I pretended to be, or is it wary of the Heavenly Dao Academy. If only Supreme Realm experts have arrived, then they probably won't choose to take action."

Jun Wu Xie suddenly realized that he might only be facing local enemies.

However, this didn't mean it would be easy, after all, there were many local forces, and there were a lot of dynasties, as well as many Dominator-level forces, some of which had deep grudges against him.

The Dominator-level forces had a long heritage and deep foundations. Who dared to say that there were no Eternal-level experts in their forbidden areas?

Not to mention what stage the Eternal Sacred Realm was at, or how far they had gone, even just entering the Eternal Realm was an incredible expert. For those below the Eternal Realm, they were invincible!

Even those dynasties might have Eternal-level ancient ancestors in slumber.

After all, their heritage was too long, many of them had crossed eras, which meant that these dynasties had experienced more than a dozen small prosperous ages, and at least one large prosperous age.

In these long years, in so many prosperous ages, would they not have produced any particularly brilliant talents? Who would believe that?

It just depended on whether those amazing talents were still alive, and whether they had fought against the darkness back then.

Without a doubt, if they had fought against the darkness, eight or nine out of ten would not have survived, and most likely fell in a certain era.

If they had not fought against the darkness, then the possibility of those amazing talents still being alive was extremely high!

Such people sealed themselves in slumber in the Dharma Ending Era, and awakened in the small prosperous age, obtaining natural treasures and rare resources. Today, it was not impossible that they had entered the Eternal Sacred Realm.

"It seems I have to find an opportunity to go to the Heavenly Dao Academy. If I can't get their consent, then Master Ciyin won't be able to deal with the Eternal Sacred Realm experts that may exist from certain dynasties…"

Jun Wu Xie thought to himself, the Heavenly Dao Academy guarded the order and rules of the Canglan Ancient Star.

Dominator-level forces were not allowed to forcibly interfere in wars between dynasties.

Dynasties made a significant contribution to social stability. Wars between dynasties were basically protracted wars, and both sides would eventually tacitly cease the war.

If Dominator-level forces joined, this balance formed since ancient times would be broken.

The Heavenly Dao Academy did not allow this, not only for the sake of stability in the world, but also to prevent the emergence of super-scale dynasties, so that they would break away from their control in a certain era in the future and become transcendent!

How could the guardian of order and rules in the Canglan Ancient Star allow the existence of destroyers of order and rules?

A super dynasty might develop to the point of challenging the majesty of the Heavenly Dao Academy. At that time, there would be no rules in this world, and it could do whatever it wanted.

Jun Wu Xie entered the rune array area, guided the Xuanjia Army out of the Trial Tower, and quietly deployed the hundred million troops between the long borders of Qingzhou.

"Take good care of yourselves and conserve your energy. The arrival of war will not be too far away, it will be in these days! You will be facing the notorious Great Sacrifice Army of the Sacrifice Earth Dynasty. This is a very cruel army! They leave nothing alive wherever they go! Therefore, I want you to strive to annihilate the Great Sacrifice Army as much as possible in every battle!"

Jun Wu Xie was not as kind and tolerant to the Great Sacrifice Army as he was to the Wu'an Army in the past!

He was very disgusted with the military style of the Great Sacrifice Army.

"Receiving - Lord Divine's decree! All the soldiers of the Xuanjia Army will definitely live up to Lord Divine's expectations!"

The neat voices of the Xuanjia Army soldiers shook the mountains and rivers in the rune array.

…

Jun Wu Xie came out of the rune array area and returned to the imperial capital in an instant.

He was just about to go to his Senior Sister Linglong's residence to see Chan'er when a piece of ice and snow light appeared in front of him, and a clear aura came towards him.

"Master Ciyin, do you need something?"

Jun Wu Xie didn't expect her to appear in front of him so quickly again.

"This Master has something to ask you."

A slight, imperceptible emotional fluctuation flashed in Mu Ciyin's cold eyes.

Once again, she felt indifference from his words and actions. It seemed that the distance between their master and disciple relationship was growing further and further.

"Please speak, Master Ciyin, this disciple is listening."

Jun Wu Xie kept his distance from her and secretly remained fully alert.

"Why are you so far away from this Master? Is this Master so terrible to you?"

Mu Ciyin's moth eyebrows furrowed slightly, and a touch of dimness flashed in her ice-like clear eyes.

In her life, the only person she truly cared about and kept in her heart at all times was the disciple in front of her. As for the rest, they were all people related to him, and she was just extending her love to those around him.

But now, the disciple she cared so much about was indifferent and perfunctory to her, and it seemed that even being close to her was something he couldn't accept.

Although she knew there was a reason for his sudden change, she still found it hard to accept in her heart.

However, her nature was always aloof and indifferent, and her heart rarely experienced emotional fluctuations. Even if she did, she rarely showed it in her expression.

“Revered Master Ciyin is overthinking things.”

Although Jun Wuxie had done this, he certainly wouldn't admit it.

He knew that, in truth, Mu Ciyin wasn't as strong in her heart as she appeared in front of him.

If he could make her misunderstand, or get angry and turn away, that would be for the best.

Right now, he was truly afraid of being with her. He couldn't beat her in a fight, and if she wanted to use force, he would have to call on Aunt You for help.

But what he wasn't sure of was whether Aunt You would help in this kind of situation.

Because it didn't endanger his safety, wouldn't cause him harm, and might even be beneficial.

If something like that happened, Aunt You would probably only see it as karma between them and stand idly by.