65 The Stages Are Se (1/2)
As the sky filled with dangerous lights of dozens of Daos, Jam's right eyebrow playfully curved upwards. A literal dome of talismans appeared and covered everyone behind Jam, shielding them from the bombardment for only second. That single second was enough for Jam to start tagging everyone with the basic power, speed, and defence enhancing talismans. For the people he knew, like Rina, Kirin, and so on, Jam also tagged them with Dao talismans.
Everyone knew what they had to do and started using their own talismans or pills to continue enhancing themselves as much as possible. Cynthia used another one of her green Great Wind talismans to redouble her already buffed speed. Kirin used a Thunderdrive Pill to put his fighting potential on double time. Similar to Kirin, Rina used an Ignition Pill to put her fighting potential on a higher level.
Jam knew that Danger Noodle could potentially change the outcome of the entire battle by herself, so for her he did something special. She wasn't a human, but a demonic beast; an impressive demonic beast with royal mythical beast blood coursing through her veins. Thus, it was possible for Danger Noodle to directly eat and ingest Heavenly Natural Treasures. Sure, the efficiency would pale in comparison to using natural treasure to make pills. However, Jam planned on giving Danger Noodle the only Tier 7 Natural Treasure he had on hand; the effect of eating a raw treasure of this caliber would be on par with Jam's consummate pills after he reached Tier 5.
Through an energy transmission, Jam said ”Danger Noodle… You might not like where this is going, but for now, you'll have to put up with it if you want to come out of this fight alive.” On Jam's hand, a crimson lotus appeared. This lotus stood eerily static, not moving for any reason. It looked plain, but the aura of bloody murder emanating from it was astounding.
Danger Noodle gave Jam an odd look and said ”Are you serious? How am I supposed to survive eating this? I don't even practice the Demon Dao?”
Jam sighed as he looked like back at Danger Noodle. He said ”That's why I said you might not like where this is going… I'll have to ride you to keep the Demon Dao's influence at bay.”
The odd look Jam was getting from Danger Noodle, turned into pure confusion. 'Why would I care if he wants to ride me? How many times do I have to tell this idiot that I'm his demonic beast?'
For some reason, Jam couldn't quite get it through his head that Danger Noodle was HIS demonic beast. She understood fully well and expected to be treated like a tool, but to a cultivator like Jam, that was unfathomable. To Jam, she was family; riding her like a wild beast wouldn't even be an option if Jam wasn't so insistent on hiding his Divinity. He truly cared for her as he would his friends and wouldn't even dare think to ”use” her like a tool.
”Uh… That's fine?” Danger Noodle whispered back. She ate the Bloodsent Lotus and had to immediately teleport out of the dome of talismans as her body uncontrollably expanded back to its natural 150 meter long size.
This entire exchange of tagging talismans and talking to Danger Noodle took less than a second of time. Thus, even with Jam and Danger Noodle teleporting out of the defensive wall of talismans, the people inside still had ”ample time” to make further preparations.
In the dome of talismans, Xie Fang gave his fellow Junkie Saint Gods array flags and they set up their battle formation; the Nine Souls Formation. Likewise, Kirin gave Rina, Cynthia, and Arnold his own flags to set up one of the less complex Tier 5 Cardinal Battle Formations; as a Saint Master, he could support Tier 5 formations with no problems.
The Nine Souls Formation was a Tier 6 battle formation all the members of the Junkie Tribe would learn upon entering the Saint God level. It could support small groups of three to build up exponential soul strenght. Thought, at the moment it was a bit unstable as Xie Ming, the tortured Saint God prisoner Jam rescued, wasn't back to his peak form.
Kirin's Cardinal Battle Formation was a bit more flexible, being capable of supporting builds of teams of four or five, and with exactly four people sustaining it, the formation was several degrees weaker than then Junkie's formation. However, with Kirin leading as the core, everyone's Saint Lord levels of power would rise to an entire step to the Saint God stage.