Chapter 1819 - 467: Dual-Line Sword Forging, Voice of Qi Ming_2

Chapter 1819: Chapter 467: Dual-Line Sword Forging, Voice of Qi Ming_2

Jingsi’s team analyzed the traits of this clan and improved the "Spirit Guiding Breathing Technique", allowing warriors to more keenly perceive energy anomalies underfoot and avoid danger in advance.

The real breakthrough came from Lie Zhua’s military industry system.

They developed a heavy drilling assault unit called the "Barrier Breaker".

Based on the enhanced Thunder Armor chassis, the front end is equipped with a high-speed rotating drill capable of quickly tearing through rock layers, and can release directional shockwaves from the drill tip to counter and even paralyze the abilities of the Earth Drying Clan.

When the "Barrier Breaker" led the Thunder Armor Warriors, drilling through the core nest of the Earth Drying Clan like a torrent of steel, the years-long war concluded with New Star Valley’s comprehensive victory.

Crucial mineral veins were firmly controlled by the Downspirit Civilization.

Moreover, during the expansion towards Star Valley, New Star Valley inevitably infringed upon the interests of the "Winged Beast Clan".

These creatures, who held air superiority, used their mobility to continually harass the ground forces, throwing explosive fireballs, causing troubles in expansion.

Conventional energy shooting was largely ineffective against these high-speed flying units.

Lie Zhua urgently needed a means to counter air units.

This time, a researcher named Qin Si provided assistance.

He led the team to develop the "Sky Binding Net" projector.

Mounted on heavy vehicles, it can shoot an expanding energy net into the air.

Any Winged Beast entering this area would have its bio-energy field severely disrupted, causing unstable flight, and even temporary loss of balance and falling.

Though it couldn’t directly kill, the "Sky Binding Net" greatly restricted the Winged Beast’s mobility advantage.

Coupled with energy shooting from ground forces, New Star Valley gradually gained control over airspace, pushing the Winged Beast Clan back step by step.

As expansion reached a vast swamp exuding a putrid stench, the Downspirit Clan angered the Mire Throat Clan residing there.

These creatures, resembling giant slime monsters, could lurk in the depths of the swamp, ejecting highly corrosive and spiritually polluting mucus, and could dissolve dead creatures into corrupted energy.

Conventional energy shooting was ineffective against their jelly-like bodies, and Thunder Armor’s mobility was significantly reduced after falling into the mire, with warriors constantly resisting spiritual pollution’s erosion, leading the battle into a stalemate.

Facing these strange and tenacious enemies, New Star Valley’s response system operated efficiently once again.

Jingsi’s team improved the resistance cultivation section of the "Blood Refining Technique" against spiritual pollution and extracted an ingredient from swamp-specific plants to create a temporary anti-pollution potion.

Lie Zhua’s military department swiftly showcased their strong targeted research and development capabilities.

They identified the "Mire Throat Clan’s" fear of high temperatures and quickly drafted the design plan for the "Flame Purification Spray".

This individual heavy weapon combined the Rage Energy of Fire Brilliance Crystal with the purified stable light of Light Stone to emit a white-hot energy flow with purification properties.

This "Purifying Flame" could effectively evaporate the bodies of the Mire Throat Clan, purify polluted areas, and had a strong suppressive effect on corruption traits.

Equipped with the "Flame Purification Spray", the Thunder Armor Squad acted like a mobile Holy Fire, turning the polluted swamp into scorched earth, eradicating the threat of the Mire Throat Clan from its roots.

The area, once considered inaccessible, was eventually transformed into a new resource point and forward war node after environmental modification post-war.

However, war was not without its challenges.

During expansion, the Downspirit Clan once suffered heavy losses due to insufficient knowledge of environment in a forest sea teeming with poisonous spores.

They also underestimated a spirit group good at spiritual shock, leading to the mental collapse of several elite squads.

Each failure was a quenching process.

Under Lie Zhua’s leadership, the Downspirit Clan immediately adjusted tactics, and Jingsi’s team sought biological or spiritual countermeasures, quickly improving technology.

They learned from mistakes and evolved through failures.

Prolonged warfare tempered the soul of the clan.

The "Trials of Adulthood", established by Tu Hu years ago, had not been eroded by ease over the centuries, but rather, under the baptism of revengeful fire, became even harsher.

Every Downspirit on the verge of adulthood, whether destined for the battlefield or laboratory, must, under the watchful eyes of elders, enter the dangerous wilderness alone, relying on their strength, wisdom, and courage to hunt a beast and then bring the most representative trophy back to hang in their room.

The Trials of Adulthood represent a significant hurdle in the growth of the Downspirit’s new generation, as well as a true test of life and death.

Injuries or even deaths during the trial were not uncommon.

But it is precisely the pressure of facing death that allows the new generation of Downspirits to deeply understand the meaning of strength and temper a steel-like will before stepping into the workforce.

Those returning from the hunt all bore a new accessory on their earlobes: a miniature broken spear-shaped earring polished from Beast Bone.

This "Broken Spear Earring" carries the clan’s heaviest memories.

Its prototype comes from the war spear ultimately broken by the first generation combat leader Ah Lann in the final battle of Star Valley.

It symbolizes Ah Lann and all the first-generation warriors’ selfless sacrifice to protect the clan’s spark.

It also serves as a testament to the clan’s darkest moments, and as a monument to the ancestors’ indomitable will.

Later, Tu Hu passed Ah Lann’s broken spear to Blue Star.

Thus, the broken spear also acts as the token for the second-generation leaders’ succession, embodying the legacy of the revengeful spirit.

Tu Hu often quietly follows the young trialists, watching as young figures burst with potential amidst crises and seek ways to survive in desperate situations.