Condense and Disintegrate
After successfully gaining control of the Black Mosquito Bastion's second level, Ye Xuan considered returning to the first level of Cataclysm and bringing the green-bearded Lu Wenxuan out to fulfill his promise.
However, after thinking about it for a while, he finally gave up on this idea.
The entire second level of the bastion was safe, and Lu Wenxuan could leave at any time through the portal that connected to the void of the universe.
However, this action would most likely be detected by the Black Mosquito Bastion's AI. After all, Lu Wenxuan wasn't a demon – at least he didn't have the psychic energy of a demon scout. Therefore, when he crossed the black membrane beneath the portal, the chances of him being detected by the Black Mosquito Bastion's AI was high.
Although he was still able to calmly leave, the spatial door was only a passageway and didn't have the ability to seal those who passed through it. However, in this way, it would be tantamount to exposing Ye Xuan. Everything he'd done before would be for naught.
What's more, with Lu Wenxuan's temperament, if he found out about Ye Xuan's plan, he'd most likely refuse to leave. Since that was the case, it was better to let him remain in the Cataclysm for a while longer. At least he wouldn't have to worry about his safety!
After putting this matter aside, Ye Xuan calmed his heart and began to focus on refining the slave seals.
Of the thousand over slave seals from before, only sixty or so were left. As for the second Demon Slave, he hadn't filled it up yet. There was a difference of several hundred people, so this was the first thing Ye Xuan did.
When the hundreds of ordinary slave seals were completed, Barker led his men to Ye Xuan's abode, escorting the hundred demons they'd captured from the central plaza.
Ye Xuan only left after he'd placed a slave seal on each of the hundred demons.
After repeating this several times, it only took less than two days for the gap to be filled. Ye Xuan now had two fully staffed thousand-man Demon Slave Brigade under his command.
Apart from Guihai Yidao, the chiliarch of the second demonkin brigade was also chosen. His name was Cang Qingyu, and he was a demonkin powerhouse who was also at Level 7 Core State. He had just returned two days ago. If Guihai Yidao had not been at the central square, it would have been difficult to capture him.
Once the two thousand-strong demon slave brigades were full, Ye Xuan told Barker not to disturb him if there was nothing important. Barker was to collect a hundred demon cores from the demon slaves and deliver them to him. He was to place them directly on the small table in the abode.
Then, he began to focus on condensing the strengthened version of the slave seal to deal with the Demon Dweller elites on the upper two floors.
In less than two days, Ye Xuan had refined hundreds of ordinary slave seals. In addition to the fifty-two that he had refined previously, he only had a total of four hundred and two slave seals in his mind source core.
Then, he stopped refining new ordinary slave seals. Instead, he repeated the process of refining the four hundred and two slave seals.
Among them, the two individual pills were given special attention and were refined the most times. As for the other four hundred pills, they were prepared for elites of the same cultivation level as Barker, so the number of times they were refined was much lower!
Just like that, Ye Xuan continued to refine the four hundred and two strengthened version slave seals day and night. Occasionally, he would stop to collect the demon cores that Barker had delivered to him from the table in the abode's hall outside the small cubicle. He would throw them directly to the devouring system to break them down before continuing to refine them.
Time passed in this monotonous and boring process of refining and breaking down the demon cores. Unknowingly, ten days had passed in the blink of an eye.
Sitting cross-legged on the small cubicle bed, Ye Xuan opened his eyes and fell into deep thought.
The strengthened version of the slave seal should be enough. Even the four hundred seals that had been refined less frequently had already surpassed the one he had used to deal with the wretched Mosquito Slayer.
As for the other two pellets that had been condensed for the longest time, the number of times they were condensed was several times more.
Ye Xuan decided to use the remaining time to improve his psychic power. This would be the last step of his preparations before he officially set out for the third floor.
After that, Ye Xuan would immediately rush to the third floor. He had a feeling that if he delayed any longer, the changes in the lower two floors of the Black Mosquito Bastion would soon be exposed.
This was obvious.
In the ten days that he'd been using all his strength to condense the strengthened version of the demon slave, the head of the demon slaves, Barker, had sent over nearly two thousand demon cores. All of them were immediately thrown to the devouring system to be decomposed by Ye Xuan. At this moment, these demon cores had just been decomposed, and the large amount of mental energy absorbed from them were all stored in the devouring system. Ye Xuan could withdraw them at any time.
Each brain represented a Demon Dweller Scout.
If Ye Xuan were to include the demon core that he'd consumed earlier, the total number of demon cores he'd obtained from the beginning to the end had actually reached a terrifying amount of nearly four thousand.
The entire Black Mosquito Bastion had only ten thousand demon scouts. In a short period of time, Ye Xuan had killed four thousand and taken two thousand. If one were to exclude the thousands of elite demons on the upper two floors, there were at most three thousand demons left outside.
Of these three thousand or so, two or three hundred returned almost every day. One by one, they were captured by Ye Xuan's demon slaves. They were killed on the spot, their brains cut open and their cores extracted.
Once the three thousand demons had been completely wiped out, there would be no more demons coming in or out of the Black Mosquito Bastion. Such an obvious anomaly would quickly attract the attention of Mount Naibo. If he was lured down because of this, then all would be lost.
It wasn't that Ye Xuan hadn't thought of letting the two thousand demon slaves under his command continuously come in and out to create an illusion to confuse the monitoring power of the Black Mosquito Bastion. However, this method was obviously just a fool's dream and couldn't be realized at all!
Because the psychic power of ordinary demon scouts was too weak, they couldn't activate the portal multiple times in a short period of time. Every time they activated it, they had to wait at least half a month before they could do it again.
Under this kind of restriction, with the two thousand demon slaves under Ye Xuan's command, it was clearly far from enough to create an illusion that they were strong enough for a long time!
Ten days!
Within ten days, he had to take down the third and fourth floors above. Otherwise, once the three thousand demon scouts outside were completely exhausted, the changes in the lower two floors of the Black Mosquito Bastion would be exposed!
Thinking of this, Ye Xuan, who was deep in thought and analysis, suddenly felt his heart skip a beat. In an instant, he felt a sense of urgency that he had never felt before.
"Within two days, I have to absorb all the psychic power extracted from the demonic cores by the system!"
"After the last breakthrough in psychic power, the ability to condense slave seals appeared. I wonder if there will be a similar surprise this time?"
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