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Thousands of troops and horses entered the forest and mountains. The Imperial Court's most elite army, with alien blood horses, found navigating the dense woodlands as easy as walking on flat ground.
Qi and blood converged into a thousand-zhang White Tiger, and within the scarlet blood clouds, there were indistinct orbs of various colors—some in human form, some being some kind of Magic Artifact, and others the solemn Dharma Images of other treasures, natural anomalies, and so on.
These were the Dharma Images of magicians. Unlike cultivators, magicians do not possess True Qi or Mana. Through Xu Xuan's eyes, what magicians actually practice is mental strength, which the cultivators of this world call Thought.
The cultivation of Thought requires meditation and willpower. Once cultivated to a certain degree, Thought will become a Dharma Image, which is a manifestation of one's unwavering willpower.
