Chapter 714 393: The Only Path (2)

After all, the Association has obtained many technologies from the Source, and even without the existence of the Eight Great Forces, it would inevitably confront the Source and find it difficult to escape.

Since that's the case, there's no need to be timid or preserve strength.

Anyway, the more power invested, the more significant rewards can be exchanged from the Eight Great Forces.

Whether in terms of technology inheritance or resources, I believe these powers won't be stingy at such times.

This is not blind confidence but a conclusion reached after deep exploration.

The Eight Great Forces are already tightly connected under the pressure given by the "Source".

Let alone technology sharing; even resources and many management bases are fully shared.

Under such circumstances, the Association, as a powerful entity, aggressively participating in this war that temporarily doesn't threaten its security, would undoubtedly be warmly welcomed.

What Shen Yu mentioned are nothing but necessary principles.

Even if the Association didn't request it, these forces would take the initiative.

After all, the initial transactions often can significantly enhance the Association's strength, bringing maximal assistance to this war!

To this extent of warfare, everything is solely for victory, with nothing else taking precedence over victory.

Thus, the call to arms resonated through the entire Association and every world within a short time!

Even some small worlds that the Association had just explored heard the news that the "Upper World is preparing to campaign against the demons beyond".

And in the development over more than ten thousand years, the Association has never stopped preparing for this war.

Even in times of peace, the Association continually promoted the development of warfare throughout civilization, inspiring people to develop combat methods, and advancing combat levels on multiple fronts.

Under such guidance, it is not an exaggeration to say that many in the entire Association are looking forward to this war!

If something is well-prepared with a great chance of achieving one's desires, even a war will fill people with passion.

With the first wave of support arriving on the battlefield, these well-prepared strong figures of the Association brought great surprises to the Eight Great Forces struggling to hold on.

They even directly caused heavy losses to some units managed by the Source.

Letting everyone on the battlefield know of the Association's arrival!

However, despite the intense warfare on the surface, the higher levels have not focused on the front battlefield so early.

In this level of warfare, the power of the Thirteenth Stage is extremely important.

As long as the Association hasn't fully mastered this level of power, it cannot fully deploy troops into this battlefield.

Indeed, each of the Eight Great Forces possesses this level of power.

However, no matter how united the Eight Great Forces are, they are ultimately not the Association's own, and there is considerable uncertainty in some critical support.

In fact, the Source has already identified this fatal weakness of the Association during such a short time.

Several times, the Thirteenth Stage forces controlled by the Source were prepared to deliver a fatal blow to the Association's support forces.

Even though the Association has established a joint command center with the Eight Great Forces, it remains fraught with peril.

Fortunately, the Eight Great Forces clearly recognized the problem.

They almost unreservedly traded all their technologies and experiences with the Association.

This undoubtedly greatly accelerated the advancement of many Shen Yu.

In reality, many Shen Yu have already discovered that the Gray Mist is not incapable of helping in this aspect.

But it consumes an enormous amount of Gray Mist.

Yet, by mastering these paths, the required Gray Mist has been reduced, and under the collective effort and cultivation of many Shen Yu, the need for Gray Mist continues to decrease.

"The Gray Mist Space is cooperating with us." Shen Yu undeniably feels this most deeply.

He has realized that the Gray Mist Space seemed to have determined their development route from the start.

And this space itself is the power they need to step into the Thirteenth Stage.

In fact, aside from this direction, no other direction could lead Shen Yu into the Thirteenth Stage.

Because their souls are intricately linked, their Extraordinary Power is shared and superimposed, yet they each have their own soul, their own consciousness, their own identity.

This essentially cut off the possibility of them taking the traditional path because they are not just one but many.

Although they do not know what awaits them at the end of this path.

But for now, this is the only choice.

Fortunately, this won't take too long.

"Approximately only four thousand three hundred years," Shen Yu estimated the time roughly.

This is already a very short time.

The Thirteenth Realm experts of the Eight Great Forces, even after clarifying the direction, took tens of millions of years.

This is the necessary time for the "world" to form.

However, the "world" chosen by the Association is ready-made and from the start, closely linked with all Shen Yu.

It's equivalent to skipping the forming process, leaving only the fusion, and the Gray Mist can greatly speed up this process.

The reason it still takes such a long time is naturally because this step involves not just fusing the Extraordinary Power of one Shen Yu.

But requires fusing, encompassing all Shen Yu's Extraordinary Power.

Sometimes, Shen Yu even feels that this is not creating a "world" but creating an "All Heavens".

The Gray Mist Space originally simulates the All Heavens!

"Once we succeed, it won't be just an ordinary Thirteenth Stage."

All Shen Yu have this common understanding.

After all, this path was meticulously laid out by the creator of the Gray Mist Space from the very beginning.

If it still ends up ordinary, how could it do justice to such a long setup?

At the very least, a common Thirteenth Realm entity has no ability to create the Gray Mist Space!

However, these over four thousand years won't be easily endured.

In the one thousand three hundred twentieth year of the Association's strong intervention in the war, the Source seemed to have adjusted its tactics.

Began to focus on the presence of the Association.

Originally, this was considered normal, after all, before the Association arrived, the Source was basically assured of victory, with the Eight Great Forces suffering heavy losses, retreating step by step, reaching the late stage of a war of attrition, with little means of resistance.

It was entirely because of the Association's intervention that they gained a reprieve.

To the Source, the presence of the Association is the only variable.

Paying particular attention is completely normal.

However, the Association quickly detected reconnaissance troops belonging to the Source appearing in their homeland region, which they have been cultivating for twenty thousand years!

At this point, the many Shen Yu in seclusion could no longer stand idly by.

"The enemy has discovered our origin," Shen Yu squinted his eyes, realizing through instinct that there might be more to it.

If it was merely discovering their origin and attempting to shift the battlefield center to this All Heavens Region, it wouldn't be a disadvantage for the Association and the Eight Great Forces.

For billions of years of past wars, the Source has continuously advanced step by step in that region.

The worlds occupied, the war arrangements constructed, had long erased the law advantage that originally belonged to Extraordinary Power in that region.

In fact, the strategic plan of the Eight Great Forces originally included a collective retreat at the final moment to gain a period of respite.