Chapter 59: Pillars of the Empire and Iron Cavalry

  The Fandor Empire is located in the fertile continent of Central and Southern regions, surrounded by strong enemies and few allies. In order to meet the challenges from all sides, the imperial family of Peiping collected a large number of high-quality martial arts and selected people with higher elemental affinity from the folk, taught them high-quality martial arts from an early age, and supported their daily practice directly by the imperial family. Finally, these fighters became the power to defend the imperial family.

  During the reign of Emperor Matei Peping, the founder of Fandor, two major Qi Gong Associations were established: "Feng Yu Dou Qi Gong Hui" and "Lei Ting Dou Qi Gong Hui". Both associations possess a superior single-lineage Qi Gong method bestowed by the Imperial Family, with extraordinary power.

  The two major fighting guilds' fighters made great contributions in the war between the Farnod Empire and its enemy countries, many of them became nobles of the empire, some even served as soldiers for generations to conquer all corners of the empire.

  After the founding emperor, Matt Peiping, all subsequent emperors recognized the great role of the Fighter's Guild in the empire and supported the collection of Qi Gong methods to establish the Qi Gong Guild. Of course, there was also the purpose of suppressing the power of the two major guilds. After going through thousands of years, the Fano Empire formed seven major Qi Gong guilds, each owning a superior single-line Qi Gong method bestowed by the royal family as the "Treasure of the Guild".

  The seven major martial arts schools select suitable children from the poorest families in Fano every year to cultivate them from a young age. These children are generally born into poor families, and becoming a martial artist is their shortcut to no longer suffering. Therefore, they all train extremely hard, and many have become powerful martial artists.

  The Farnod Empire had a large army and needed many powerful fighters to join the military to enhance its combat effectiveness. Among the seven major martial arts associations, some fighters with leadership skills joined the military as mid-to-low-level officers, while a few exceptionally talented fighters became high-ranking officers in the Farnod Empire.

  And those powerful warriors in the guild who are not suitable for leading troops will become attendants, specializing in dealing with strong enemies on the battlefield.

  In addition to enhancing the combat effectiveness of the military, the Empire of Vano specially selected some simple and easy-to-learn low-level martial arts techniques for popularization within the military. Soldiers who joined the military with the ability to cultivate could cultivate these martial arts, and those who achieved success in their cultivation would also be selected into one of the Seven Great Martial Arts Guilds, becoming a member and being granted higher-level martial arts techniques.

  "In short, the direct legions of the Farnod Empire are everywhere overshadowed by the Seven Great Fighting Spirit Guilds." Gillen made this conclusion after telling Liu Yu about the Seven Great Fighting Spirit Guilds of the Farnod Empire.

  When Liu Yu heard about the Seven Great Fighting Spirit Guilds, he still felt quite enlightened. The Farnod Empire was indeed good at ruling the world. These fighters from humble backgrounds would constantly inject new blood into the empire, and for their own identity, wealth, and status, they would naturally continue to strive to make achievements on the battlefield, so that the combat effectiveness of the Farnod Empire's army could be maintained forever.

  In ancient China, many powerful dynasties were eventually destroyed when their military strength declined, and it was useless to talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality if they could not win on the battlefield.

  The same is true of the powerful empires in world history. The Roman Empire, which unified the Mediterranean, had no decent Roman army that could take to the battlefield in its final years. The empire's most combat-effective troops were all foreign mercenaries, resulting in the emperor's rise and fall being controlled by these foreign mercenaries, ultimately leading to the downfall of the once-mighty Roman Empire in the great wave of barbarian invasions in Western Europe.

  The Fano Empire saw the importance of military combat power and successfully maintained the combat power of the army through the Douqi Guild, and the Peiping family sat firmly on this land was not accidental.

  "The Eternal Empire is not a vain name, it indeed has a set." Liu Yu stood up straight and threw a small stone into the creek, sighing to himself.

  However, the system of the Douqi Association also has its drawbacks. Those martial artists who came from humble backgrounds and became officers would often consider their own interests when facing enemies. They would rush to take credit for military achievements and avoid strong enemies. After all, their lives were their own, and they didn't have any family honor to uphold because there was no family supporting them. The officers Liu Yu and his group encountered last time belonged to this category.

  The Fano Empire has arranged the oldest Dou Qi Guild, "Wind Language Dou Qi Guild", in the western part of the empire to deal with the many strong men of the Beastman Kingdom. In addition, there are not a few powerful members of the Imperial Family of the Peiping family who are also responsible for the war situation in the western part of the empire.

  Liu Yu's previous encounter with the two Farnode duel kings, the general who confronted Komu, was a strong man from the Wind Language Duel Spirit Association. And the duel king who responded to the two wolf tribe duel kings without falling behind was the true strong man of the Farnode Empire royal family, a member of the Peiping family who cultivated the purest continental second-level divine duel spirit "Gallorin" wind and thunder hybrid duel spirit.

  Liu Yu sat by the stream for a while, thinking about how to come up with a good strategy to defeat this powerful empire. Unbeknownst to him, the sun had already reached noon, and Liu Yu prepared to head back to eat lunch.

  Just then, a rumbling sound of footsteps came, as if a large group of people were rushing to pass by this area. Liu Yu's heart tightened, for here was very close to the main road in front of the camp gate.

  "Could it be that a large army has arrived." Thinking of this, Liu Yu immediately ran out of the mountain.

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  A cavalry of only about 100 to 200 Mongolian warriors, riding tall war horses, galloped across the vast green steppes. They wore uniform black iron armor, each warrior equipped with fine weapons, and the horses they rode were all excellent ones that could run a thousand miles in a day. Most importantly, this army was clearly well-trained, able to maintain formation while galloping on horseback without any disorder.

  When a general riding a black war horse and wearing golden armor with a red cloak appeared, he was even more eye-catching.

  "It seems that it's really going to be a fight, I'm actually going to go onto the battlefield." Standing at the small mountain pass, Liu Yu looked far away at the golden armored general who was leading the charge and said with a face full of playful intent.

  The general's attire was all too familiar to him, his father Gaius, the great centurion, wore it every time he led his own centurion guard battalion on patrol. Now there was only one great centurion in the kingdom and that would be his father Gaius.

  The most powerful army in the Beastman Kingdom, apart from the King's Guard, is the personal guard of the Commander-in-Chief. A brigade of 100 Bimon warriors, all of whom are mid-to-late sixth-stage cultivators, including some who practice both magic and martial arts, as well as the strongest Golden Bimon among those who practice dual cultivation.

  As Liu Yu knew, this small team had opened up the situation on the battlefield countless times, and with the opening of each generation of Da Sima, the merits established were astonishing.

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  "Understood, I've seen the Grand General, Elder." Before long, Liu Yu hastily rushed back to the military camp and saw Gilen and Tiel leading several officers to greet Gaya at the entrance of the camp.

  When Gillon and the others said "Elder", Liu Yu only noticed that there was a tall, black-clothed old man in Gaya's team. Although he only saw the old man's side face, Liu Yu's heart was shocked. He was also very familiar with this old man, and his appearance made Liu Yu have a higher estimate for the next battle.

  "The grandson has seen the fourth grandfather, and the son has seen his father." Half a month after Ai Su's passing, in Dalun's large tent, Liu Yu bowed to the elderly man sitting on the main seat and his father Gaiya standing beside him.

  "The grandson has met the fourth grandfather, and the nephew has met the paternal uncle." Fiete by Liu Yu's side also bowed to pay his respects.

  "Ah, good, you two go to the side first." The black-robed old man sitting in the main seat smiled at Liu Yu and Feite. After Gaya and others had seen many officers of the mixed brigade, they were summoned by the military's Weilin family's children in Jiren's large account.

  Aurelio, the fourth brother of Kero King in Liu Yu's line, is the strongest besides Kero King. He is a late-stage 9th-level Dou Zun and a powerful fire-type strongman.

  He is not only an elder of the Council of Elders, but also a powerful executive member of the Council of Elders, who has great prestige both within the Weilin family and in the Beastman Kingdom.

  After Liu Yu and Fei Te exchanged greetings, several other young men from the Weilin family in the Fourth Army also came to pay their respects to Aurelio and Gaia.