Chapter Seven: The Storm is Coming

  Everyone came over to pay their respects to Guo Fei. In Guo Fei's eyes, Lao Er was a shrewd person with a bookish appearance, very affectionate towards him but with many "false" elements; Lao Ba and Lao Jiu were a bit simple-minded, treating people very sincerely; the rest of the people were all very cold, just giving a faint greeting before returning to their own beds to rest.

  Through chatting with them, Guo Fei knew that this barracks was a motley crew, the soldiers were from all walks of life, and most of them were not there to protect their country, but to make money. It had the meaning of mercenaries.

  For example, eight people in this team are not from Zhao Guo at all, but from Beiyuan Weiguo, a kingdom thousands of kilometers away. They came here just to get the soul crystal and make some money back home.

  Only Lao Jiu was from Zhao State, and when everyone asked Guo Fei, he also said he was from Zhao State. As soon as Lao Jiu heard this, he immediately became much closer to Guo Fei. Lao Jiu was not very old, only around 16 years old, and not very tall, about 1.75 meters, but his physique was robust, his skin dark, and he looked like he had a burst of energy, like a leopard, using two one-meter-long short-handled axes.

  In the afternoon, Jin Datong took ten people to the training ground to practice the formation of ten people attacking and defending. Guo Fei had never been in contact with this kind of formation before, but although their formation was very simple, it was very practical, and Guo Fei was very interested.

  The barracks do not often organize large-scale collective drills, only once a month to compete in a duel, through the challenge method, to select the hundred-man squad leader and ten-man team leader. This approach has indeed stimulated many people, all of whom secretly exert their strength in private.

  Positions above the rank of chiliarch were appointed by the legion, and Regimental Commander Wang Zhi had a thousand elite imperial guards, which was his own faction and also the strongest battalion in the entire military camp.

  "It turned out to be a ragtag battalion!" Guo Fei couldn't help but feel disappointed after understanding. A military camp emphasizes overall combat, but this camp was completely self-directed and sloppy in its training, clearly not a regular army at all.

  In addition, from their conversation, Guo Fei learned a lot of knowledge, such as the current continent being called Haoyuan Continent. The continent is divided into five parts: Beiyuan, Zhongzhou, Nanhuang, Xiyu and Donghai.

  Each region is abnormally vast, and they only hear rumors with their experience, and are only active in a few small countries nearby. Only those high-level cultivators who can fly through the sky and escape from the earth may travel across the entire continent.

  This is a world of gods and demons, where there are not only humans, but also spiritual tribes, demon tribes, ghost tribes, and magic tribes. From their mouths, it was discovered that the spiritual tribe is the guardian of the human tribe. The demon tribe, ghost tribe, and human tribe have been at war with each other. The magic tribe is extremely sinister and is the mortal enemy of both the spiritual tribe and the human tribe. Whenever they are mentioned, everyone changes color.

  Guo Fei is most concerned about the problem of cultivation, but these people do not understand it either. They only know that human cultivators condense the true energy of the five elements. Cultivators follow two paths: martial artists and Taoist priests. The lowest are martial artists and Taoist priests, while those at a higher level are called Qi cultivators and Taoist masters. Qi cultivators can emit formless true energy, and Wang Zhi is a low-level Qi cultivator.

  The Taoist priests are extremely mysterious and it is impossible to get anything valuable out of them.

  The division of other ethnic monks is also different from the human race. For example, the ghost tribe, the lower level is the ghost soldier, the higher level is the ghost guard, and above that there are ghost generals, ghost kings, etc. They only know a little because they fought against the ghost tribe, the military department sent people to popularize this knowledge, other tribes don't know at all.

  Guo Fei was very interested, but they knew little. However, from their mouths, Guo Fei learned that if one made great contributions and became a noble or an officer in the kingdom, the kingdom would bestow upon them a cultivation method or high-grade weapon based on their physical attributes of the five elements. Every empire, kingdom, and duchy used this to attract talent, so the cultivation methods were all unsolvable mysteries, extremely precious.

  This is where their motivation lies.

  "This world is indeed complex, dangerous and exciting!" Guo Fei understood that he felt pressure at the same time, but was also full of expectations. His own mutated soldier symbol, I'm afraid it's not only possible to cultivate fierce soldiers, but also a cultivation method. The hot flow in his body is probably the path of cultivation.

  "Killing people and gaining experience to level up is the true way!" Guo Fei thought deeply.

  The demon tribe's ultimatum quickly caught the attention of the upper echelons of the Zhao Kingdom, and within ten days, the Black Wall Defense Line was reinforced with a large number of troops. Occasionally, a brilliant light would flash across the sky. Every time this happened, Camp Commander Wang Zhi would stand upright in the camp courtyard, gazing upwards, his eyes revealing a hint of envy.

  Guo Fei looked out of the window of his tent and gazed at the sky, discovering a hint of something in the eyes of the camp commander. He secretly made an educated guess that the commander must know the origin of these rays of light, after all, he had reached the level of a Qi Refining Master, stepping into the threshold of Five Elements True Energy Cultivation, far surpassing Jin Datong, a mere warrior.

  Guo Fei really wanted to go find the camp commander to ask for advice, after all, he was eager to know about the martial arts of this world. Every time he brought up this topic with Wen Shu, he became unusually disheartened, making it difficult for Guo Fei to continue questioning him.

  What Guo Fei is most concerned about now is how powerful the skills bestowed by his own military symbol are in this world, and whether he can establish himself. Guo Fei vaguely feels that after entering this space, the military symbol has been transformed by this space, producing a slight variation.

  For his own sake, Guo Fei had to carefully ponder the hidden secrets of the military symbol. The most reliable way was to learn the martial skills of this world and verify them with his own symbol skills.

  Ten days after Guo Fei entered the barracks, their camp was also pulled up to the black wall of the city. At this time, a million soldiers gathered in this place, and the 800,000 soldiers from Dingguo Gong's fiefdom and the 600,000 soldiers sent by Zhao Wang were all concentrated here.

  In the icy and snowy land, swords and knives were like forests, war flags were like seas, a solemn and murderous scene. The infantry battalion was guarding on the black wall of the city, the archer battalion was distributed among the infantry battalion, and the cavalry battalion was lined up outside the black wall of the city waiting for orders.

  According to the establishment, divided by troops, each performed their own tasks, all busy but not chaotic, and the deployment of soldiers was also in order. This made Guo Fei extremely surprised. Jin Datong painstakingly explained the rules of military camps and battles to Guo Fei, fearing that he would violate discipline, and if he violated discipline here, it was likely that he would be beheaded on the spot.

  When he came to this world, first was Wen Shu who saved his life; then Jin Da Tong led him with enthusiasm, although he had a purpose, but Guo Fei felt a strong concern from his words, this rough man was a straightforward and honest person. The care of these two people made Guo Fei feel a warmth in this hierarchical, cold environment.

  This world has a large population, and the momentum of war is vast. A small Zhao kingdom alone has hundreds of millions of people, with an extremely broad territory, and calling up millions of soldiers is not considered a large-scale battle. What surprised Guo Fei was that there were countless such kingdoms in Bei Yuan.

  The kingdoms and duchies constantly changing seems to be a common occurrence, just like the rising and setting of the sun in a cycle of survival of the fittest. However, in Beiyuan, there are only three empires. Because, the Ling clan Jiang family, who rule over the people of Beiyuan, have decreed that there can only be three empires.

  To establish an empire, one must challenge one of the empires and obtain the consent of the Ling Clan's Jiang family to destroy it and replace it. Moreover, becoming an empire seems to have conditions.

  However, from the discussions of Jin Datong and others, they also didn't know much. But through their conversations, Guo Fei still came to understand that in Beiyuan, every emperor, king, and duke wasn't just a title; their cultivation and status were basically matched. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to guard their own family business.

  "This world is a cruel place where one must strive to survive and profit." Guo Fei heard this information, feeling a surge of hot blood. At the same time, he became deeply interested in the Ling tribe, wondering what kind of divine power a family in Beiyuan possessed that allowed them to have such great influence and rule over so many ethnic groups.

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