God of Pets-Chapter 647: Thousand Tortoise Valley

In the meeting room of the Red Blood Corps, Ji Nanhong had her brows tightly furrowed, and the atmosphere was somewhat oppressive.

In the past two months, the Red Blood Corps had attacked Thousand Turtle Valley three times but still had not managed to capture it.

Without breaking through Thousand Turtle Valley, the resources of the Red Blood Corps are limited, preventing them from advancing further.

One could say that Thousand Turtle Valley is the key area limiting the development of the Red Blood Corps. If they can't break through, the Red Blood Corps can at most maintain its current scale, having now reached a bottleneck.

Ji Nanhong's gaze swept over the faces of various commanders and officers; she knew they had all done their best.

From strategy, tactics, to command, improvisation, and various details, they had all performed quite perfectly, with nothing to criticize.

The reason for not capturing Thousand Turtle Valley is nothing other than being unable to break the Nine Rocks Old Turtle King's defense.

The defense of the Nine Rocks Old Turtle King is simply too strong. Even though Ji Nanhong had borrowed the Secret God Level armor-piercing divine artifact "Thundering Hammer," it still couldn't break the Nine Rocks Old Turtle King's defense.

If the defense can't be broken, then all efforts are in vain.

The group had held several meetings to discuss it but had come up with no effective plans.

"Perhaps now we can only rely on the Corps' combined skill; maybe a ten-thousand-soldier level combined skill could break the Nine Rocks Old Turtle King's defense," Bai Yueguang said.

"That's not realistic. Not to mention, although our Red Blood Corps has ten thousand soldiers, a large portion of them are support troops. Even if all ten thousand soldiers are main battle units, training them to perform a ten-thousand-person Corps combined skill is extremely difficult. It requires a lot of time to train, and without three to five years of training, it's prone to failure," Zhu Hongzhi retorted.

Bai Yueguang naturally knew that the more people involved, the harder the combined skill is to control and the more prone to failure.

In battlefield scenarios, completing a multi-person combined skill, usually a ten-thousand person scale is the limit, while control is easier below a thousand people. Combined skills exceeding ten thousand are difficult to control as the command isn't as timely, and individual soldier's reactions vary, so without prolonged training, failure is common.

In the Battle of Mute City, the demons had an army of two hundred thousand, but they divided into ten thousand arrays because managing combined skills for more than ten thousand was too difficult, and the failure rate was too high.

Only one person is an exception; if led by Fujimura Reiko as the commander, she can complete a ten-thousand or even a hundred-thousand-level Corps' combined skill with a high success rate after a brief period of integration.

That is her innate talent, something that others cannot learn, and it's just how it is.

The Red Blood Corps lacks such talent, and even the current best commander, Shi Zhimen, cannot train a ten-thousand-person combined skill Corps in a short time.

Bai Yueguang was very aware that her suggestion was only because no other viable options existed.

"Have you considered inviting a master who can break the Nine Rocks Old Turtle King's defense to help us clear Thousand Turtle Valley?" Zhang Yujian pondered aloud.

Ji Nanhong had considered this too, but whom to invite was a question.

The Nine Rocks Old Turtle King's defense is terrifyingly strong; even the current strongest commander in the Red Blood Corps couldn't break it using the Thundering Hammer. Whom else could they turn to?

Moreover, now the Celestial Court Army is watching the Red Blood Army closely, seeing if Ji Nanhong can elevate the Red Blood Corps to new heights.

Going to other Corps for help now would effectively be announcing Ji Nanhong's failure.

"I recommend someone. If he wields the Thundering Hammer, there's a high probability that he can break through the Nine Rocks Old Turtle King's defense and hammer it down," Zhang Yujian said.

"Who does Commander Zhang suggest?" Ji Nanhong asked.

"The person is not from our Celestial Court Army," Zhang Yujian, understanding Ji Nanhong's difficulties, thoughtfully replied, "His name is Huang Tianming, nicknamed South Hegemon. You all have likely heard of him, right?"

The name South Hegemon was naturally familiar to all present.

This name is quite renowned in Celestial Pillar Treasure Extreme Profound Heaven, a classic case of one man, one kingdom.

Inside the Grotto Heaven, there are many humans, and sometimes many cultivators choose to stay inside the Grotto Heaven for years, some never returning to the Divine Land for their entire lives.

Most people build cities inside the Grotto Heaven, but some choose to establish their kingdoms in areas not particularly monitored by major families.

Such kingdoms in the Grotto Heaven are not few; virtually every Grotto Heaven has them.

Calling them kingdoms, in truth, most of these so-called kingdoms cover merely a single city, or even just a town of less than ten thousand people.

Most self-proclaimed kings are little more than local emperors.

Of course, there are kingdoms with populations over a million, whose power is truly formidable.

Celestial Pillar Treasure Extreme Profound Heaven belongs jointly to the Qin Family and the Celestial Court Army. Due to unclear sovereignty, apart from these, there is a third force — these many small kingdoms.

Huang Tianming is a king of one of these kingdoms, nicknamed the South Hegemon.

Huang Tianming's kingdom isn't large, merely a city with a population of about ten thousand, but Huang Tianming's prowess here remains quite famous.

Initially, the Qin Family wanted to recruit Huang Tianming, sending top-notch Sixth Awakening Powerhouses to duel him.

Back then, Huang Tianming uttered only a single phrase: "If anyone from the Qin Family can take my hammer blow head-on without retreating, I will immediately bring my kingdom under the Qin Family."

The result was that seven people from the Qin Family, one after another, failed to withstand Huang Tianming's hammer blow, and his formidable hammer power remains legendary.

Huang Tianming named his kingdom the Southern Heavenly Kingdom, which gave birth to his nickname, South Hegemon. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Zhang Yujian continued, "I have some connections with South Hegemon since our fathers' generation. If the Corps Commander thinks it viable, I can persuade him to come to help. Ideally, it'd be best to convince him to join our Red Blood Corps, though I can't guarantee success."

"There's only this way forward now. Everything is in your hands, Yujian," Ji Nanhong said, lacking other solutions, seeing this as the best option for now.

"Alright, then I'll head to the Southern Heavenly Kingdom. Though I can't promise that Huang Tianming will join our Red Blood Corps, asking him for help shouldn't be an issue, although due pay must be given," said Zhang Yujian, being quite familiar with Huang Tianming, having grown up together, confident in their rapport.

After the meeting, Ji Nanhong wearily returned to her room.

Since arriving in the Grotto Heaven, she's been like a machine running non-stop, almost without rest, fueled by determination to become stronger and manage the Corps better, hoping to grow quickly and truly take over the Celestial Court Army.

She couldn't let Chen Guan have died in vain; this debt was inscribed in her heart, one she was determined to repay.