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"Since it was successful, why hasn't the Temple of War been cultivating Orc Warriors on a large scale? In today's battle, although those dozens of warriors performed excellently, each Orc Warrior could only use high-level magic three or four times. If we had hundreds of such warriors, couldn't we launch a direct assault on the mountaintop?" Chen Xuanfeng couldn't help but ask, recalling what the 'War Saint' Leimen had told him before his death about Samanda's astonishing potential strength. Now it seems, even if Samanda hadn't become a Sword Master, his strength was beyond what he and Catherine could handle, whether it was his own strength, the strength of his transformed family experts, or the status and influence he gained in the Temple of War, all far surpassed previous expectations.

But... why is such a powerful technology kept under wraps instead of being deployed as the primary force?

"Sigh... it's not that easy. If just one success could reveal the peak technology of the Goblin Empire era, someone should have been able to challenge the gods again tens of thousands of years ago."

Samanda's talent, willpower, and cultivation are all extremely astonishing, which is why he was able to overcome all dangerous obstacles and achieve this. However, even with his talent, he still couldn't completely offset the fatal flaws of orcs in alchemy and magic technology. So, although this transformation plan achieved unprecedented success, it still has many drawbacks, far from the achievements of the goblin alchemists of that era. Samanda's success came from his powerful and perfect personal strength. Unless later generations also master the Emperor Martial Overlord Art to the peak of Sword Emperor, it would be impossible to replicate such success. Fortunately, the Temple of War has existed for ten thousand years and has its own secret methods. After several trials, they finally invented a method to significantly increase the success rate by using Samanda's flesh and blood for transformation. However, to make Samanda's bloodline effective, the recipients of the transformation must be lion clan experts closely related to him by blood. Even so, fewer than one in five transformations are successful.

In the great retreat four hundred years ago, the lion clan, as the royal family of the orcs, suffered the most severe losses, with their population once dropping below four thousand. Despite years of reproduction and using the orcs' forced bloodline selection (a method to enhance bloodlines through controlled breeding) to increase their numbers, they only have about a hundred thousand now. For this transformation, the number of individuals who meet the conditions of age, constitution, bloodline, and cultivation does not exceed a thousand.

Beyond that, there is another major flaw that greatly limits the number of potential participants in the transformation: Orc Warriors cannot produce offspring.

This flaw does not come from the orcs' imperfect alchemy abilities but from the original technology of the Goblin Empire a hundred thousand years ago, which never solved this problem. To ensure the future reproduction of the population and the continuous production of Orc Warriors, only about a hundred Orc Warriors have been produced in the past decade, and only forty-seven of them have grown to a level where their cultivation and crystal cores are ready for actual combat.

However, this is enough to elevate the peak combat power of the orcs by one level. A lion clan expert at the tenth level of Sword Sect Master, combined with several instant-cast eighth or ninth-level magics, although lacking in sustained combat power, has an instantaneous attack power almost surpassing that of a top-level orc Sword Emperor. The entire orc alliance has only a dozen top-level Sword Emperors, so adding so many combatants at once is like a sudden leap to the top.

But...

"I never thought Samanda would sacrifice so much..." Chen Xuanfeng felt a hint of respect for this recognized opponent for the first time.

Although orcs can use forced bloodline selection to mix and reproduce without limit, countless experiences and lessons have proven an iron rule: only the offspring of the strongest can become stronger. Weak orcs, even if they reproduce many offspring, will only become weaker. Breaking through the limitations of ordinary bloodlines, like the 'War Saint' Leimen, is a once-in-a-century genius. Even Chen Xuanfeng, if not for his reincarnated body and training in otherworldly techniques from a young age, would have been destined for a mediocre life.

This has driven the entire orc race to place an extraordinary emphasis on the progeny of the strong, especially among the five major combat races, where almost half of the male population is not qualified to have offspring. The top strong, however, can take many wives and concubines, producing numerous descendants. If they can combine with females of excellent bloodlines or powerful cultivation, it is considered a privilege and honor, as such offspring, although not all geniuses, will have at least one outstanding elite among three or four children. This rule is somewhat similar to the saying in Chen Xuanfeng's previous life in the Central Plains: 'Nine dogs produce one mastiff, three tigers produce one fierce tiger.' Therefore, in combat races, being able to produce strong offspring is almost as important as being strong oneself. Like Catherine's father, the former orc king Carter, who had nine sons and eight daughters, six of whom died in battle, two of whom were said to be genius warriors no less than Catherine. Were it not for this, the entire War Fang family would not have fallen into such decline.

In the more than twenty years since Samanda ascended the throne, the issue of his few offspring has been secretly criticized by various clans. He has only three sons and one daughter, the youngest of whom has long been rumored to be an adopted child from the same clan. Chen Xuanfeng had not paid attention to these details before, but now, thinking back, he can understand the pressure Samanda faced in his rule due to losing his fertility, forcing him to resort to adoption.

...When Sima Qian was determined to write the Records of the Grand Historian, it was out of necessity. If given a choice, Sima Qian would probably have preferred not to write a single word rather than lose his male foundation. Yet Samanda was willing to sacrifice his life and offspring for a plan that had failed thousands of times. Is this to be hailed as greatness or condemned as madness? At least for me, Chen Xuanfeng, I could never accept such a transformation...

"Sigh, the Emperor Martial Overlord Art is the martial art that most tests the practitioner's temperament. Every Emperor Martial has his own unique persistence, but someone as extreme and firm as Samanda is truly one of a kind. His dream was to become the greatest emperor of the orcs, and for this goal, he almost spared no cost." The Pope sighed deeply in the gradually darkening twilight and said, "Leimen once warned you not to confront Samanda before reaching the Saint Realm, didn't he? That wasn't just because of Samanda's strength, influence, and power, but also because of his character... If you rashly challenge him, I can't guarantee what he might do..."