Chapter 5392, The Distance is Shortening
Translator: Silavin & VictorN
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All the Theatres and the Great Passes set off from the Royal Cities without a clear goal, but today, they had a destination.
The Source Domain!
The Source Domain was the source of the Black Ink Clan, where the Mother Nest was, along with a gathering of many Royal Lords!
Not only were there Royal Lords, there must be many Territory Lords and soldiers as well.
Furthermore, there were not just Acquired Territory Lords like Ge Chen, many of the Territory Lords there were probably Innate Territory Lords.
The Great Evolution Army now had less than 30,000 soldiers, 45 Eighth-Order Open Heaven Realm Masters, and one Ninth-Order Open Heaven Realm Master.
Such an army was considerable in size and strength.
The other Great Passes likely had fewer forces than Great Evolution Pass, but there were 106 of them on this crusade. When all the Armies converge into one, by then, the Human Army would exceed 2 million.
This was a full 2 million Masters at or above the Fifth-Order! It was also the heritage accumulated over the ages by the Cave Heavens and Paradises.
Such a force was extremely powerful, but could it defeat the Black Ink Clan in the Source Domain?
Yang Kai was not sure, and neither were the Old Ancestors.
Even though the Human race was strong now, who could guarantee that they would win this battle?
What if they lost?
Also, what was the power that limited the Black Ink Clan in the Source Domain.
Who did that jade white hand that Old Ancestor Xiao Xiao and the others saw previously belong to? Would this unknown force aid them in battle?
The road ahead was full of uncertainty, but they had to forge ahead.
The Great Evolution Army continued to march forward. The reconnaissance Squads were always out front to check the situation. Inevitably, they encountered a lot of dangers and unintentionally triggered many restrictions which caused them to suffer some casualties.
Even Dawn, led by Yang Kai, nearly met its demise.
Fortunately, Old Ancestor Xiao Xiao had arrived in time to save them at the critical moment.
The deeper they went, the more dangerous the void became. Yang Kai wondered if Ge Chen could have returned to the Source Domain safely even if they had let him go.
He might if he was lucky; however, he was likely to encounter a lot of dangerous traps along the way.
Considering that even after countless years, the leftovers from the ancient war were still so dangerous, it was hard to imagine what kind of violent clashes had taken place in ancient days.
As time passed, years had gone by.
It had now been a full three years since the crusade to the Source Domain began. The road was fraught with dangers, but there was still no sign of the Source Domain. This made some wonder if they were going in the wrong direction.
However, with more than 100 Armies continuing to march forward, sweeping across such a vast swath of the void, there was bound to be one of them who was advancing directly at the Source Domain.
All the Great Passes kept in touch with each other regularly; however, many Great Passes would occasionally lose contact because of the chaotic energy in the void. Fortunately, communications were always restored after a while.
There were no enemies along the way, though the hidden Arrays and residual Divine Abilities still made the void treacherous.
One day, Yang Kai was exploring the hidden dangers ahead when he suddenly sensed something unusual.
When he focused his senses on it though, he found nothing.
A short while later, he flashed back to Dawning Light and greeted Feng Ying, “Stand guard for me.”
Feng Ying nodded her head and acknowledged Yang Kai’s words.
Yang Kai then formed a set of hand seals, causing his World Force to undulate as a mysterious Grand Array suddenly appeared under his feet.
The troops aboard Dawn were puzzled, not knowing why Yang Kai had activated the Universe Transference Law.
The Universe Transference Law allowed one to teleport across vast distances to a Universe Array. Ever since Yang Kai installed Universe Arrays in the Purifying Black Ink Battleships, many soldiers had begun using the Universe Transference Law to save their lives during the battle with the Black Ink Clan.
However, Yang Kai rarely used the Universe Transference Law because he was proficient in the Dao of Space, making him faster than any Territory Lord or Eighth-Order Master. The only ones he could not escape from on his own were the Royal Lords.
Although Dawn was scouting ahead of Great Evolution Pass, they were not far from each other. If Yang Kai wanted to return to Great Evolution Pass, he could just travel there on his own using Instantaneous Movement and did not need to activate the Universe Transference Law.
The members of Dawn were puzzled, but Yang Kai appeared truly shocked.
He was following a hunch just now, but did not expect to find anything.
He did not intend to return to Great Evolution Pass, but wanted to use the Universe Transference Law to investigate something else.
The Universe Arrays in all the Purifying Black Ink Battleships were personally arranged by Yang Kai; thus, his Imprint was left on every single Purifying Black Ink Battleship. As long as the distance allowed, he could travel to any Purifying Black Ink Battleship with the Universe Transference Law.
Others could only return to the Purifying Black Ink Battleships they had left their Imprints on.
At this moment, Yang Kai could sense the location of all the closest Purifying Black Ink Battleships with the Universe Transference Law, but apart from the four ships around Great Evolution Pass, he was able to faintly sense four more to his left, and another four to the right.
There were now 12 Purifying Black Ink Battleships within range of the Universe Transference Law.
Of course, there were many more, in extremely distant locations, which all felt so faint that even Yang Kai could not reach them.
However, he could clearly perceive the 12 ships closest to him were within the range he could teleport to.
This was a very abnormal situation.