Chapter 607: Deploying Troops and Arranging Formations

Several days passed, and after consuming the Nine Heavens Divine Dragon Pill, Xue Ke immediately reached Level Ninety.

Then, with Feihuang's help, she hunted for spirit rings; although she did not obtain a Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, she at least achieved the optimal spirit ring ratio of two yellow, two purple, and five black.

She could also be considered the first Swan Title Douluo of her family.

Moreover, her level was not fixed at Level Ninety like Jia Kui and the others; after absorbing five Ten Thousand Year Spirit Rings in one go, she barely reached the early stage of Level Ninety-Two.

This is another aspect where the Nine Heavens Divine Dragon Pill is stronger than the Nine Heavens Dragon Transformation Pill.

For someone who consumes the Nine Heavens Dragon Transformation Pill, even if they absorb nine Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings in one go, their internal soul power will not see any further progress.

But for those who consume the Divine Dragon Pill, there is still a possibility of progress, though the margin is relatively small.

For example, with those five Ten Thousand Year Spirit Rings, if it were an average person, they could have improved to at least Level Ninety-Four, but she could only absorb less than half of the soul power within the spirit rings, ultimately reaching just over Level Ninety-Two.

However, this was enough; Feihuang never expected her to truly go to the front lines to kill enemies, only hoping that when war arrived and the continent fell into chaos, she would at least have a certain ability to protect herself.

Afterward, Feihuang taught her his North Star Immortal Trace Footwork, allowing her to further strengthen her survival capabilities.

All of Feihuang's intentions were simply to hope that she could be safe and sound.

Xue Ke naturally understood her husband's painstaking efforts and practiced extremely diligently.

Fortunately, the North Star Immortal Trace footwork was not too obscure; Xue Ke's natural talent was insufficient, but her realm was high. One must know that her attainments in music had already reached the level of a grandmaster, just like a Title Douluo among musicians.

What Xue Ke excelled at most was calming her mood and settling her heart to focus on one thing; this mindset allowed her to achieve twice the result with half the effort in learning anything, which was also the key factor in her being able to handle the affairs of the Heaven Dou Empire so quickly.

Not many days later, she had already mastered the basics of the North Star Immortal Trace footwork.

Together with Lingqi, she spent a night of intimacy with Feihuang, allowing him to enjoy the blessings of having multiple wives for the first time. Then, the two of them, along with partners like Shui Yue'er, Xue Wu, and Feng Xiaotian who had gone to Sea God Island for training, as well as Gu Lei Empire experts like Yu Yuanzhen, rushed to Jialing Pass to set up defenses in advance to cope with potential crises that might arise in the future.

The new Gu Lei Empire was already operating, and Xun Yu had gone into seclusion again with Ye Lingling; he needed to raise his level to Level 89 as soon as possible.

This was a very critical level; as long as he reached Level 89, Xun Yu would not be far from becoming a Title Douluo.

Because his martial soul was inherently a war martial soul, much like the Glory Shield of the Xu Rong family, which could use national destiny to cultivate.

The truly optimal mimetic cultivation ground for Xun Yu's martial soul was, in fact, the battlefield.

He was confident that he would break through to Level Ninety during the war with the Star Luo Empire.

Therefore, during this period, Feihuang did not arrange any government affairs for him, and he did not need to worry much about military matters either.

After all, there is a specialty in every trade; the three heroes of the early Han Dynasty also each performed their own duties.

Devising strategies within a command tent to decide victory a thousand miles away—that was Zhang Liang.

Stabilizing the country, comforting the people, and providing supplies so that the grain routes were never cut—that was Xiao He.

Leading an army of a million, always winning in battle and taking what was attacked—that was Han Xin.

Now, while Xun Yu was shouldering almost all of Xiao He's work, he was also bearing part of Zhang Liang's work.

It was truly too exhausting.

Finally, as for Han Xin's part, Feihuang had to do it himself.

Deploying troops and dispatching generals should have been the work of a military commander; Lingqi was also an expert at this, and when Feihuang studied the military strategy chapters of the Dunjia Heavenly Book, he also focused on the military formations.

Anyway, with Xun Yu there for strategy, he was too lazy to waste that time. According to Xun Yu, he was confident in reaching Level 89 within two months, so Feihuang also had to arrange the army, provisions, and everything else within two months without a single oversight.

Regarding this point, Feihuang was still very confident; where would it take two months? Troops value speed; at most twenty days, and he would definitely have everything prepared and ready to march at any time.

This day, Feihuang was in the military camp, training the light cavalry battle formations.

The Dunjia Heavenly Book recorded many methods of battle formations; Feihuang did not expect them to quickly learn high-level formations like the Eight Trigrams Formation.

But the nine basic formations had to be mastered with great expertise.

Namely, the Square Formation, Circular Formation, Cone Formation, Goose Formation, Mysterious Elephant Formation, Fish-Scale Formation, Hook Formation, Arrow Formation, and Charge Formation.

Square Formation: The basic formation for cold-weapon army combat, with relatively balanced offense and defense.

Circular Formation: Conducts circular defense with drums and flags deployed in the center, having no obvious weaknesses.

Cone Formation: The vanguard is sharp and swift, with strong and powerful flanks, suitable for raids and flexible tactics.

Goose Formation: Deployed horizontally, with the left and right flanks arranged in echelon forward or backward, suitable for flexible formation adjustments.

Mysterious Elephant Formation: A fake formation to confuse the enemy, using various methods to deceive them.

Fish-Scale Formation: A formation combining war chariots and infantry tactics, with the vanguard and rear units, suitable for protracted warfare.

Hook Formation: The front is a square formation, with the flanks curving backward into a hook shape to protect the safety of the flanks.

Arrow Formation: A sharp-knife formation naturally formed when a cold-weapon legion charges, possessing a vanguard and a reserve rear guard.

Charge Formation: Utilizes the arrangement of inner and outer distinctions to maintain the stability of the troops and the exertion of the soldiers' strength.

As Feihuang's flags swayed, the army's formation changed with rhythm; although these were only light cavalry, if they could flexibly use these nine basic formations.

Even the ace troops of Heaven Dou and Star Luo, the Heavy Armored Iron Cavalry, would be enough for them to handle.

Nan Feiling and Shui Bing'er looked at Feihuang's calm manner of commanding the army, their eyes filled with little stars.

Nan Feiling was a natural brother-obsessed person, nothing more to say; even someone with a cold temperament like Shui Bing'er could not help but feel infinite admiration for Feihuang.

"Junior Brother is truly too amazing. This is the first time I've seen someone so omnipotent; not only is his own strength boundless, but he is actually so proficient in commanding battle formations. In my opinion, his military talent probably already exceeds Ge Long's."

"Hehe, that's for sure, after all, he's my brother!" Nan Feiling was extremely proud, as if the person Shui Bing'er was praising at this moment was her.

They were also here to learn; after all, as Feihuang's deputy generals, others might accompany Lv Lingqi to deal with the Spirit Empire's invasion, but the two of them would definitely follow Feihuang to conquer the Star Luo Empire.

It was just that the two girls really had no interest in army formations and such, just a three-minute enthusiasm; before long, they were bored and prepared to go home.

As soon as the two returned to the imperial palace, they saw a guard kneeling before Nan Feiling and reporting, "Report, Princess, Ning Rongrong requests an audience with the Crown Prince!"

Feihuang was training the army, so he had ordered that if there was anything, they should report it to his two sisters first.

"Ning Rongrong, why is she here again?" Nan Feiling frowned and said.

Shui Bing'er reminded her, "Has Junior Sister forgotten? Back then, Junior Brother made a deal with her, letting her search the continent for treasures to buy her life. Now that she has suddenly come, she must have found something good while treasure hunting!"

(End of this chapter)