Chapter 107: Three Suns in the Sky, Zhao Xing Stirs Up Trouble, Five Elements Earth-Splitting Art!

Zhao Xing also looked over. He saw that on the flying boat of the Blazing Sun Army, there were two men and one woman. Among them, one youth wore a coir raincoat and a bamboo hat.

As for the other man and woman, their attire was different; the man wore armor and carried a battle saber on his back, while the woman wore a dharma robe and carried a cloud-brocade bag.

"It seems these three are a Si Nong, a martial artist, and a weaver."

One cannot seek special treatment when participating in training. The equipment distributed before reporting this time was all of a uniform grade.

Of course, one could still choose the style; for instance, among the eighteen types of weapons for martial artists, you could choose based on the weapon you were most proficient in.

The range of choices for Mechanists was even broader.

However, the grade of the items distributed was the same for everyone; no one was given special treatment.

"Kid, if you run into a Si Nong from the Blazing Sun Army after you go in, beat them hard!" Long Xiao held a grudge. "As long as you don't kill them, beat them to death."

"Why are you having him vent your frustrations just because you're weak?" Chen Shijie said. "Train well, and later you can go to the Blazing Sun Army to challenge him."

"Zhao Xing, don't listen to him. After you go in, find the location of the Si Nong Inspectorate immediately."

"The higher your ranking, the more points you'll be awarded. If you can get ten thousand points, your subsequent training will be a step ahead of others."

"If you have enough points, you can even hire the Si Nong Captains or Si Nong Commandants inside to give you one-on-one guidance."

Training within the Soldier Realm naturally involves the strong training the weak.

Guidance from the strong is also a resource, and you can use points to purchase sessions.

"I understand." Both Zhao Xing and Chen Shijie were extreme pragmatists.

What's the point of fighting a battle with no benefits? With the time spent competing, I'd rather go plant a few trees.

Helian Lie and Lei Huan were also giving instructions to the people on their flying boat.

"The reserve military Si Nong are to report at the Hour of the Rooster today; the other military branches will have their turn tomorrow and the day after."

"Zhuo Li, after you go in, find your position immediately and rush to the Si Nong Inspectorate."

"The top one hundred all receive point rewards, but I hope you can achieve an even better ranking."

Helian Lie looked at the youth in the coir raincoat, Zhuo Li, a seedling he had picked from the local army.

In fact, many of the reserve military Si Nong present already had experience serving in the army.

Many were selected from positions such as auxiliary troops, Great Granary, Equalized Transport, and Field Order in secondary legions.

It was just that the various armies of the Ten Suns Cave Heaven had higher standards for military Si Nong.

Of course, many were also assigned from well-known academies and Daoist temples.

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As for those selected through the official examination system? They were few and far between.

"I will do my best," Zhuo Li nodded.

Time ticked away, and soon it was exactly the Hour of the Rooster.

"Clang!!"

A melodious bell rang out, instantly spreading across the entire camp.

"Swish, swish, swish!"

Countless figures jumped from the air toward the surface of the lake.

The large lake below was one of the entrances to the Ten Suns Cave Heaven.

"So many people jumping into the lake; there must be at least two or three thousand who dare to enter by jumping," Zhao Xing remarked, looking at the scene below, which resembled dumplings being dropped into a pot. It was truly spectacular.

Whoosh~ Whoosh~

At this moment, he also jumped down, falling from a height of one hundred meters.

The reason for jumping from mid-air was to save time.

Although the entrance to the boundary wall of the Cave Heaven small world was thin, if one swam from the shore, it would take quite a bit of time to pass through the boundary wall.

But if one jumped from the air, one could pass through quickly; this was the special feature of the lake entrance.

Choosing this method to enter meant suffering a strong impact when crossing the boundary wall, so everyone who dared to jump from the air was confident in their own strength.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~"

Zhao Xing felt the lake surface before him getting closer and closer.

Long Xiao, watching from the boat, couldn't help but exclaim: "He's truly confident. The falling speed is already fast, and he's even borrowing the wind to accelerate his descent."

"To dare to do this on his first time here, he really isn't afraid of anything."

Chen Shijie said: "Confidence comes from ability."

Long Xiao watched Zhao Xing fall into the lake surface: "It's a pity we still have to travel and can't wait here... I really want to know immediately what number he was to report. I hope he can give us a surprise."

"It's the same whether you see it early or late."

Seeing that Zhao Xing had already disappeared into the lake surface, Chen Shijie looked up: "Let's go, to Xier Commandery to see the Marquis."

"Mm."

The moment he entered the lake surface head-first, the impact wasn't great, because this wasn't real water; the lake water was actually the external manifestation of the Cave Heaven boundary wall.

However, as his entire body submerged into it, an invisible repulsive force surrounded him, preventing him from descending.

Qi rippled on his skin, and at the same time, he injected it into his Cloud-Stepping Boots, and Zhao Xing continued to swim downward.

After maintaining a rapid descent for about a quarter of an hour.

Suddenly—

The repulsive force reversed, turning into a powerful attractive force!

"I've already entered the range of the Cave Heaven world. The repulsive force turning into an attractive force is to prevent the loss of Cave Heaven matter," Zhao Xing thought to himself.

At this point, he didn't need to use the Cloud-Stepping Boots to accelerate; he just followed this pull to continue falling.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~"

The speed of the descent became faster and faster. Zhao Xing felt that he descended twenty or thirty meters in a single breath, and this speed was still increasing.

"The azure boundary wall is getting fainter; I'm about to pass through it."

Zhao Xing prepared himself.

Hum~

At a certain moment, the pale blue suddenly disappeared from his field of vision, replaced by a grayish-green.

Zhao Xing felt his whole body lighten as he broke free from something.

But the descent was even faster, and he also felt a wave of scorching heat.

Because he had appeared in the air.

In the sky of the Ten Suns Cave Heaven.

"Rise, wind!"

Zhao Xing couldn't cast spells while crossing the boundary wall, but now he could.

"Whoosh~"

The intermediate-level Wind-Rising spell didn't achieve the expected effect. Zhao Xing felt the wind force; it was only half the power of the outside world.

Zhao Xing controlled the wind to flip his body.

He had been head-down when entering, but now he was feet-down.

"Feet tread on clouds!"

The floating power provided by the Cloud-Stepping Boots appeared again.

But Zhao Xing discovered that his speed was still very fast; if this continued, hitting the ground would still be very dangerous.

"The earth vein power is so strong. The Ten Suns Cave Heaven is equivalent to casting an Earth Palace spell on everyone who enters."

Swish, swish, swish!

Golden light emerged from Zhao Xing's fingertips, striking the ground at an extremely fast speed.

Since the earth vein power of the Ten Suns Cave Heaven was strong enough, casting the Earth Palace spell was even easier.

[Boundless Earth Palace] could absorb all external objects, and this absorption force was naturally under Zhao Xing's control. It could naturally also be used to offset this falling force.

"Hum~"

An Earth Palace quickly formed on the shallow surface, reflecting the airspace where Zhao Xing was located.

"Rise, wind!"

Zhao Xing cast the Wind-Rising spell again; this time the spell's power returned to normal.

A powerful wind force supported Zhao Xing, and his figure stabilized twenty meters above the ground.

"Snap~"

The dead branches under his feet were crushed, and Zhao Xing landed on the ground.

"Whoosh~"

Zhao Xing took a deep breath, but felt his chest burning, so he quickly exhaled.

"The air is a bit scorching. How many suns are in the sky now?"

Zhao Xing looked up and found three luminous bodies in the southeast, southwest, and due north.

Among them, the luminous body in the due north was the most dazzling, like the blazing sun at noon.

The light in the southeast and southwest was weaker, to the extent that ordinary people could look directly at them with their eyes.

"Three suns in the sky; the power isn't particularly great yet," Zhao Xing narrowed his eyes slightly.

The Ten Suns Cave Heaven was named after these luminous bodies.

"The scene of ten suns in the sky is the rarest. In the five or six years since the Cave Heaven was discovered, it has only appeared once. However, once it appears, it is a disaster. Except for staying inside buildings covered by dharma arrays, even Rank 5 experts cannot hold on for long. Those below Rank 5 will die in a very short time."

"A single sun in the sky, rising in the east and setting in the west, is also very rare, with a probability similar to ten suns in the sky. However, once it appears, it represents powerful vitality; all things revive, and many treasures are born, just like in the spiritual mountains and spiritual lands."

"Normally, the Ten Suns Cave Heaven has three to five suns, and not all suns have such great power," Zhao Xing recalled the information in his mind.

Some of the information he had just seen in the Armory, and some he had learned in his previous life.

"Now there are three suns in the sky, located in the southeast, southwest, and due north. It's not too hot yet. They must reach the cardinal positions for the power of the three suns in the sky to be complete," Zhao Xing thought to himself.

Now it was equivalent to two suns appearing in the sky at the same time. Although it was very scorching for ordinary people, for Zhao Xing, the impact wasn't very great.

"The time on the Disaster-Avoiding Almanac is completely chaotic," Zhao Xing took out the Disaster-Avoiding Almanac from his bosom.

He set off at the Hour of the Rooster, and the process of entering should have only taken about two quarter-hours, but now the Disaster-Avoiding Almanac showed the third quarter of the Hour of the Horse.

Not ten seconds later, it changed to the first quarter of the Hour of the Dog.

"It's been affected by the chaotic time within the Ten Suns Cave Heaven," a thought flashed through Zhao Xing's eyes. "There is a way to calibrate it, so that the time on the Disaster-Avoiding Almanac always follows the sun in the cardinal position."

In his previous life, the Ten Suns Cave Heaven had been explored halfway, and some Si Nong had summarized the Ten Suns Positioning Method.

The Ten Suns Positioning Method was very complex, but the Three Suns Positioning Method was relatively simple.

"You only need to cast a Cloud spell to block the light of the other suns, open a window in the clouds, and align the Disaster-Avoiding Almanac with the sun in the cardinal position, and the time on the Disaster-Avoiding Almanac will return to normal."

"Once the time function returns to normal, the orientation function will also return to normal."

Zhao Xing intended to give it a try, because the southeast, southwest, and due north he currently perceived were judged based on his own orientation and light intensity.

But this judgment was not accurate. Being in different locations in the Ten Suns Cave Heaven and at different times, the changes in the strength of the light bodies would all lead to errors in the current judgment. [114] To make the orientation accurate, one must rely on the Disaster-Avoiding Almanac, this Rank 3 superior treasure.

To ensure accuracy in orientation, one must rely on the Almanac, a third-tier high-grade treasure.

"Move clouds!"

Just as Zhao Xing was about to prop up a cloud layer above his head, he didn't expect a sound to ring out two miles away, and golden light burst toward the sky.

It was someone else also casting a Cloud spell.

"Hm?"

Zhao Xing looked in that direction, his bright eyes reflecting a flushed, square face.

"Could it be that he is also trying to calibrate the almanac?"

"Also, although the Ten Suns Positioning Method was summarized later, it's not surprising that someone knows the Three Suns Positioning Method now."

He originally thought that the other party would withdraw the cloud layer after calibrating the almanac.

But he didn't expect the other party to keep the cloud layer propped up, and without even looking at the almanac, just walk in a certain direction.

The square-faced Si Nong didn't know how to calibrate the almanac himself, but he also didn't want others to confirm their orientation through the sun.

"He doesn't know how to calibrate the almanac, so he's propping up clouds just to block the three suns in the sky? He's weak, so he pulls others to the same starting line... Hm, this is very Si Nong."

Seeing this, Zhao Xing no longer hesitated.

Swish, swish!

Golden light flickered, heading straight for the sky.

The Cloud-Moving spell that would normally cost one portion of Qi now consumed double, and the effect was greatly reduced.

However, Zhao Xing's cloud layer formed a black vortex in mid-air.

"Swallow clouds!"

The overbearing Cloud-Swallowing spell began to devour the other person's cloud Qi to reduce his own consumption.

The cloud layer quickly spread across the sky.

It forcibly tore apart and swallowed the square-faced Si Nong's Cloud spell.

"Who?!"

The square-faced man was greatly shocked.

He didn't expect that his preemptive Cloud-Moving spell could be overturned by a latecomer.

One must know that his Cloud spell was at the seventh turn of the intermediate level, and he practiced the Military Cloud spell; he was already in the ranks of experts among the reserves.

Through sensing, the square-faced man quickly saw Zhao Xing's existence.

"To be able to tear apart and swallow my cloud Qi, what an overbearing Cloud spell. Why have I never seen it before?"

"Which army are you from, Excellency? My name is Ouyang Song, from the Five Plates Army of Lishui Commandery in Pinghai Province. I am now about to join the Town Sea Army. Can we be friends and go together..."

Ouyang Song wanted to make friends with Zhao Xing and go to the Si Nong Inspectorate to report together.

But before he could finish speaking, the cloud layer in the sky disappeared.

"Hm?" Ouyang Song looked at the sky in surprise. Didn't he just prop up the cloud layer? Why did he withdraw it again?

Looking back, Zhao Xing had also disappeared.

"There are really many experts." Ouyang Song looked in the direction where Zhao Xing had disappeared, and the pride in his heart also vanished. "I am a genius in the Five Plates Army, but here, who isn't a genius?"

"A genius from the local area is merely the threshold for participating in the training here. I'd better keep a low profile..."

Ouyang Song no longer propped up clouds and honestly traveled in one direction.

Over ten thousand people entered the Ten Suns Cave Heaven, but Zhao Xing found that there weren't many people landing around him.

Except for the square-faced youth he had just seen, he didn't see anyone else or discover any signs of spells for the next quarter of an hour.

"It seems I crossed the boundary wall relatively early. That's good, it saves me from wasting time fighting."

Zhao Xing looked at the map. He had now arrived at a broken rock zone where not a blade of grass grew; the surroundings were either very fine gravel or dark red.

"Earth Fire Plain. According to the markings on the map, I am on the east side of the Earth Fire Plain, while the direction of the Si Nong Inspectorate is on the west side."

"I can take a detour, but it would be eight times the distance."

"But if I walk through the Earth Fire Plain, it's more dangerous. The earth vein fire floats on the surface. Even with the Golden Coir Raincoat, it's easy to get injured, and there are some ranked exotic beasts blocking the way in the Earth Fire Plain."

A detour wouldn't necessarily be slower, because according to the map data Old Chen gave, if one took a detour, the danger would be smaller, and even if there were fierce beasts, they wouldn't be ranked.

If you don't take a detour and want to pass through quickly, it depends on whether you have the ability.

"The Earth Fire Plain is a zone that filters out geniuses and mediocrities. This terrain alone is enough to filter out seventy or eighty percent of the trainees." Zhao Xing didn't hesitate and stepped directly into the Earth Fire Plain.

He was still somewhat confident in his own strength; so many spells had been practiced to perfection, enough to deal with many complex environments.

"The earth vein fire-traveling power is surging, and there isn't even grass around, otherwise I could weave a few grass men to scout the way."

"Five Elements Earth-Splitting Art!"

After Zhao Xing quickly passed a broken piece of earth fire rock with his Cloud-Stepping Boots, he suddenly cast a spell toward the rear.

"Boom!"

The earth suddenly split open, and a crack spreading seven or eight thousand meters appeared behind Zhao Xing.

Dark red earth fire rocks were exposed, and the earth fire surged violently, quickly spilling out to form a small magma river.

"Gurgle~"

The earth fire surged, forming pillars, like a red silk ribbon. Seen from the sky, this formed an isolation zone.

Great success in Qi Luck!

Zhao Xing revealed a smile.

His thinking was exactly the same as Ouyang Song's.

While he was traveling, he also had to make it difficult for others to travel.

It just so happened that Zhao Xing discovered the earth vein power here was abnormal, making it the best place to cast the Five Elements Earth-Splitting Art.

So Zhao Xing cast it without hesitation.

"The Five Elements Earth-Splitting Art has guided out all the earth vein fire below. The Cloud-Stepping Boots can only allow for short, low-altitude leaps. Even if the people behind want to fly over, they have to consider whether they will be sprayed by the earth fire."

Zhao Xing looked at his masterpiece with satisfaction and then continued on his way.

Ten Suns Cave Heaven, Great Granary Academy.

The Great Granary Academy was part of the Si Nong Inspectorate and was also the place where the military Si Nong reserves came to report this time.

At this moment, in a palace of the Great Granary Academy, two Si Nong officials were sitting at a desk.

In front of them were dozens of mirrors, each more than ten meters high.

What was reflected on the mirrors were the main areas from the large lake entrance to the Great Granary Academy of the Si Nong Inspectorate.

"The reserves participating in the training this time are mediocre; there aren't many outstanding ones." One middle-aged official wearing a Qilin-patterned casual robe was drinking wine and flipping through a roster.

"Brother Lu, you say that every year." Another man wearing armor with seven auspicious clouds on his chest laughed: "Every year you tell these new recruits that they are the worst batch. Didn't the Town Sea Army and the Blazing Sun Army produce a few good seedlings the year before last? In two years, they were promoted to the commander level."

"Zi Zhi, I said their performance during training was poor; what does that have to do with their later promotion?" Lu Bang looked at Zuo Zizhi. "Besides, those few you mentioned all relied somewhat on their family background, which is why they were promoted quickly."

"That's also true. I hope there will be some good seedlings this year that can catch Brother Lu's eye." Zuo Zizhi said.

"Whether they catch my eye or not, I have to train them. Who told me to take this job?" Lu Bang threw the roster aside. "I just hope it won't be too boring. I'll sleep for a while; Brother Zuo, please help me keep an eye on things..."

"Hum~~" Suddenly, one of the mirrors marking the Earth Fire Plain began to shake. Beside the mirror were seven beads, representing Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, and Thunder respectively.

When the mirror shook, the red bead beside it also lit up, indicating that an abnormal situation had occurred in that area. ===== CHAPTER 108 =====