Chapter 14: with translation of chapter title

Yang Hongyue, who had been silent for a long time, stopped her horse, pointed to a small grove nearby; Shen Tianxing, without wasting words, dismounted directly, ran to a big tree, leaned against it and closed his eyes to rest.

You run pretty fast, what a strange fellow, aren't you cold with your clothes torn like that?

Yang Hongyue dismounted, muttering as she walked over to Shen Tianxing, and actually heard his snoring.

Is this a pig? Just leaning against a tree and falling asleep?

Although she said that, Yang Hongyue still took off her own already somewhat tattered cloak, unable to tell whether its original red was from the fabric or stained red with blood, and draped it over Shen Tianxing.

Shen Tianxing wasn't actually sleeping; he was organizing the rewards from the system, anyway with his eyes closed he could still see all the system interfaces.

One unused Zongshi Peak card, eight Small Return Pills remaining. The Second-Grade Red Gem is not embedded, the Third-Grade Yellow Gem is not embedded, the Fourth-Grade Red Gem is embedded, the Second-Grade Green Gem is not embedded.

The Third-Grade Yellow Gem adds 200 defense points, the Second-Grade Green Gem adds 100 speed points, and they need to be embedded in armor and shoes; from this it's easy to see that the Beheading System's modeling is based on the game system.

Lei Bi has 4/5 bottle left, a bag of eight small packs of Wangwang Snow Cake, two loose packs, Ke Xi half a bottle, a full pack of hard Hua Zi, eight small packs.

One token for random summoning of ordinary permanent second-rank troops, one token for intermediate guard summoning, and one token for summoning initial permanent third-rank troops!

Killing Value still has 8800, the beginner lottery has three uses, the intermediate lottery has three uses, and both lottery and killing can only be used after the system upgrade is complete.

Shen Tianxing first embedded the yellow gem into the Xuanwu armor, adding 200 defense points, then he looked at the other guard token and the third-rank troop token.

"Intermediate Guard Summoning Token can summon a sixth-rank first-layer martial artist as a guard, with 100% loyalty; name, gender, age, appearance, and personality can be chosen freely, it can be cultivated up to ninth-rank first-layer, and cultivation requires spending Killing Value equal to the amount needed for the host to raise their realm."

"Initial Permanent Third-Rank Troop Summoning Token can be used to summon a hundred host-designated third-rank troops, absolutely loyal, martial dao realm second-rank sixth-layer, can be cultivated up to third-rank sixth-layer, and troops of third rank and above can be resurrected by spending Killing Value after their death."

Looking at the summoning effects of these two tokens, Shen Tianxing was very excited, yet also fell into contemplation.

According to the system's pattern, guard summoning tokens should be divided into beginner, intermediate, and advanced, with probably a ultimate or super one as well; the strength divisions would likely be third-rank, sixth-rank, ninth-rank, and the last one possibly being a grandmaster.

As for troop summoning tokens, since there are permanent ones, there must also be temporary ones; judging from the ordinary and beginner, there should likely be intermediate and advanced, and perhaps even a higher tier.

Looking at the tiers, it might be about quantity? It's hard to guess how many ranks the troops have, but if we calculate that second rank equals first rank and third rank equals second rank, even if the highest is only sixth rank, they'd all be sixth-rank troops; if there were ninth rank, a bunch of ninth-rank troops would be terrifying.

"With the system in hand, being ennobled and made a minister is probably just the beginning; unifying the world is the real ending, being emperor isn't bad either—at least you could have three thousand beauties in the harem."

Shen Tianxing thought to himself, grinning so hard he was about to drool; Yang Hongyue had already fallen asleep, otherwise if she noticed his appearance she might give him a big slap and shout 'lecher'!

"Using the ordinary permanent second-rank troop random summon token, using the intermediate guard summon token, name Zhao Lingfei, female, age 18, appearance like Zhao Ling'er, personality upright and kind."

"Using the initial permanent third-rank troop summon token, troop type selected: light cavalry!"

The first guard Shen Tianxing chose a female character; that was the goddess figure he imagined in his youth from his original world, the name being a combination of a famous drama role she played and her real name.

Although it's unknown whether this summoned guard could be taken into the harem, just her appearance alone is pleasing to the eye.

"Congratulations, host, you have successfully summoned fifty permanent second-rank sword-and-shield soldiers; they will arrive at your location in a quarter of an hour."

"Congratulations, host, you have successfully summoned intermediate guard Zhao Lingfei; she will arrive by your side in a quarter of an hour."

"Congratulations, host, you have successfully summoned one hundred permanent third-rank light cavalry; they will rush to your location in a quarter of an hour."

Three system prompt sounds rang out in succession; Shen Tianxing opened his eyes and looked outside the small grove, waiting with full anticipation.

Choosing this moment to summon, Shen Tianxing mainly wanted to ask Yang Hongyue privately to hand over all these troops for him to command, after all he is currently a commander of a thousand, able to have a thousand troops under him; first bringing 150, Yang Hongyue would surely not refuse.

Uniform footsteps, urgent hoofbeats, and gusts of wind howling; before the quarter hour was up, Shen Tianxing had already seen Zhao Lingfei leading the team, bringing 150 people to outside the grove.

Yang Hongyue suddenly realized, opened her eyes and grabbed the phoenix-tail red tassel spear, turning toward Zhao Lingfei and the others stopped outside the grove; she saw Zhao Lingfei dismount with the cavalry, then quickly gather the people to a point five meters in front of Shen Tianxing, all kneeling on one knee.

"Subordinate Zhao Lingfei greets the master!"

"Subordinate greets the master!"

Shen Tianxing showed a satisfied smile; Yang Hongyue was a bit dazed, these people were clearly paying respects to Shen Tianxing, except the leader who is a sixth-rank expert, the rest are all elite troops.

"All rise, you've also worked hard, coming from afar; from now on, follow me well."

"We don't find it hard; we will faithfully obey the master's orders."

Zhao Lingfei and the others spoke in unison, then stood up.

Yang Hongyue's face changed unpredictably, her fierce gaze fell on Shen Tianxing.

"Speak, what exactly are you? What is your purpose in approaching this general? Who are they? Why do they call you master?"

Facing Yang Hongyue's questioning, Shen Tianxing had prepared beforehand and immediately began to bluff:

"Now that it's come to this, I won't hide it from the general; they are guards sent by my family to protect me fully, there's not much else I can say, so I'll just say this: I have been raised by my family in a mountain village all along."

"Only after I came of age and passed the family's trial would the family acknowledge my existence, whereupon they would dispatch the guards they had carefully cultivated to follow me, so that I might achieve merit for the Great Zhou."

"The trial the family gave me was to join the Great Zhou Army, kill a commander of a thousand in the battle at Humen Pass, and survive amidst the chaotic troops; having passed the trial, they naturally came to follow me now."

Shen Tianxing doesn't know much about this world, but the notion of a hidden world family seems to exist in any world, and the family trial is something the younger generation must undergo.

Indeed, after Shen Tianxing finished speaking, Yang Hongyue subconsciously nodded.

"I was wondering why you're so strange; turns out you're from a hidden world family, surname Shen? Could it be the Shen clan that hasn't appeared in a hundred years?"