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There was no shortage of experts in military strategy among the high cultivators of the Palace of Absolute Beginning. Bao Yun was one such example. With her present, Wei Yuan, a master of military strategy, need not step forward for the time being.
How should they characterize the mortal army? That was the primary issue. Bao Yun had been pondering this question since Qingming activated Life is a Flash, and now, she had a clearer direction in mind. “Assuming that Life is a Flash will last thirty minutes, the mortals’ task is to deal with the ordinary Shaman soldiers. Their numbers are great, but their combat prowess is lacking. If the empowered mortals can achieve a one-for-one exchange against them, that would be a major victory for us.”
Shaman fighters might be mere cannon fodder, but they were still fighters, not commoners. Only about one in ten commoners would turn out to be a fighter. Most of the humans currently living within the realm of Qingming were mere mortals. Without Life is a Flash, a single fighter could have taken on a dozen of them with ease. To be able to trade one mortal for one fighter was such an unbelievably good trade that any great general of the human race would wake up laughing in their sleep.
The physical strength of an ordinary Shaman fighter was only equal to that of a human who had just attained the blood tempering stage, falling short of the Northern Liao. That was why Bao Yun had a solution for this: firearms.
Xiao Yu disagreed. “I think bows and arrows are better. When the boon is in effect, these mortals would be on par with blood tempering stage cultivators. Drawing a bow is very easy. They’re only going to fight for thirty minutes anyway, so even burst shooting[1] should not be a problem to them. Besides, bows and arrows are more powerful than firearms.”
Bao Yun shook...
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