Chapter 477: Martial Artists of the World Follow (6000)

Feng Province, Datong Prefecture.

Drum Shizhen is located at the northernmost edge of Datong Prefecture.

Once, the Azure-Faced Ghost was set up and besieged by the "Beast King" Yu Longqing in the wilderness outside Drum Shizhen.

For more than a year, there has been a rumor in the Jianghu of Datong Prefecture:

Actually, the Azure-Faced Ghost is the Marquis of Jing'an, Li Fei!

This rumor is spread with nose and eyes, plus the Azure-Faced Ghost hasn't appeared for a long time, and his forces are entirely used by Li Fei, so more and more people feel that this rumor is true.

So after Li Fei became famous throughout the world, many Jianghu people came here by reputation to visit the place outside Drum Shizhen where it is rumored that the Marquis of Jing'an fought.

Over time, this wilderness where Li Fei once fought has actually become a "scenic spot," and many people come to visit every day.

So many small vendors sell things here, and some people sell secret manuals here, saying they are the saber techniques, fist techniques, palm techniques, etc., that the Marquis of Jing'an practiced.

Where there are people, there will be disputes.

This wilderness, which was originally bird-pooping-less, has become a territory contested by local forces since it became popular.

And as Li Fei's fame grew, the value of this "scenic spot" also grew, and the two gangs in Drum Shizhen have had no fewer than three major fire-fights to compete for this "scenic spot"!

Now this "scenic spot" is controlled by the Blood Alliance Gang.

Lu Kai is the Double-Flower Blood Stick of the Blood Alliance Gang, which means a gold-medal thug.

He is nineteen years old this year, and he reached the late stage of Body-Breaking just one year after incorporating the implanted body, and his talent is quite good.

Lu Kai is responsible for sitting in this territory that the gang worked hard to win, sitting under a simple wooden shed with a few brothers every day.

Such days are actually very relaxed, just sitting and playing cards and drinking every day.

But Lu Kai is not satisfied with such days; compared to mixing and waiting for death every day, he longs for fighting with others even more.

Previously, in the three fire-fights with the Rock Gang, he personally broke the legs of two martial artists, cut off the arms of more than a dozen people, and killed three people!

The scene of flesh and blood flying, and the wailing of the enemies, made him feel happy from the bottom of his heart.

"So fucking boring, why don't the people of the Rock Gang dare to continue fighting?"

Lu Kai suddenly threw away the cards in his hand and cursed.

A few younger brothers looked at each other, and one smiled flatteringly:

"Brother Kai, that's not because you are too fierce and scared the people of the Rock Gang."

"Yeah, Brother Kai is too fierce, in that last battle, he chased dozens of people and cut them alone!"

"..."

A few younger brothers desperately flattered him.

Lu Kai listened, but didn't feel much pride and joy, instead feeling very boring.

Next, he wants to break through to the Qi-Changing Stage, which requires experiencing more life-and-death struggles to stimulate his mental power, so that he has a chance to break the realm and allow the implanted body to deeply integrate with himself, thereby producing innate Qi.

In Drum Shizhen, martial artists in the late stage of Body-Breaking are already the strongest existence, but Lu Kai is not satisfied with dominating a mere Drum Shizhen.

He has a great ambition that he has never mentioned to anyone:

He wants to become a martial artist like Li Fei!

Even if he can't break the realm as fast as Li Fei and continuously create history, he must desperately chase the other party's back!

Suddenly, dust rose in the distance.

"Brother Kai, a car is coming."

A younger brother turned his head and glanced, then said quickly.

In this day and age, people who can afford a car are either rich or expensive.

Those loose cultivators who mix in the Jianghu come here to visit on foot, and no one has ever driven here.

Soon, the black car stopped more than ten meters away from the wooden shed.

Lu Kai narrowed his eyes and stood up.

The other younger brothers also stood up one after another, and some subconsciously touched the pistol at their waist.

"Don't fucking mess around!"

Lu Kai immediately scolded.

His keen sixth sense told him that the people in the car were also martial artists, and very dangerous!

Soon, two men wearing cyan long gowns and black hats got out of the car.

"Are they from the Azure-Faced Villa?"

Lu Kai was shocked in his heart.

Cyan long gowns, black hats, this outfit is almost the standard configuration of the Azure-Faced Villa.

Of course, it is possible that others are impersonating, but impersonators wouldn't go to buy a car.

Plus the danger faintly felt from the two, made Lu Kai sure that these two were from the Azure-Faced Villa.

The Jianghu of Datong Prefecture used to be the world of the "Seven Kings."

With the "Beast King," "Queen," "Poison King," and others being successively killed by the Azure-Faced Ghost, the Jianghu of Datong Prefecture was reshuffled.

Now there is only one big boss in the entire Jianghu of Datong Prefecture—the Azure-Faced Villa!

For local small gangs like the Blood Alliance Gang and the Rock Gang, the Qingmian Villa could crush them to pieces just by 'stamping its feet'!

Seeing that it might be someone sent by the Azure-Faced Villa, Lu Kai was a bit nervous, and took the initiative to greet them, holding his fist:

"I am Lu Kai of the Blood Alliance Gang, may I ask who the two are?"

"We are from the Azure-Faced Villa."

The person who came directly stated their identity, then took out a stack of leaflets and said in a commanding tone:

"From today on, every Jianghu loose cultivator who has been here, you must give them a leaflet. If someone doesn't understand, you are responsible for explaining it clearly to the other party."

Lu Kai was stunned, and immediately stepped forward to take the leaflet from the other party's hand:

"No problem!"

Compared with the Azure-Faced Villa, the Blood Alliance Gang is a tiny ant, so he naturally has no power to refuse.

The person who came looked at Lu Kai: "Literate?"

Lu Kai nodded.

If he is illiterate, even if the peerless martial arts secret manual is placed in front of him, he won't understand it, so he spent a lot of effort to learn cultural courses and read quite a few books.

"Take a good look at the content of the leaflet."

Leaving this sentence, the two turned and got into the car, then drove away.

"Brother Kai, what is written on this?"

A few younger brothers quickly surrounded him.

Lu Kai lowered his head to look at the leaflet in his hand, his face changing constantly.

The leaflet mainly talked about a few things:

First, the Marquis of Jing'an led the Barbarian-Killing Army deep into the wilderness to fight, making great contributions!

Second, the Emperor has an edict to officially establish the Barbarian-Killing Army, led by Li Fei, with a quota of 10,000 people, and martial artists from the Blue Patrol Pavilion in various places can sign up to join the army.

Third, as long as you are a martial artist and want to join the Barbarian-Killing Army, you can go to the Azure-Faced Villa and be recommended by the Azure-Faced Villa.

The end of the leaflet detailed the various treatments for joining the Barbarian-Killing Army.

Because they are all martial artists, the Barbarian-Killing Army will not only contract the pills needed for daily training, but the military pay given also includes various resources needed for cultivation, and it is very generous!

After reading, Lu Kai was very moved.

The resources the Barbarian-Killing Army can give are several times more than the Blood Alliance Gang!

"Barbarian-Killing Army, following the Marquis of Jing'an..."

Lu Kai's eyes were bright.

Li Fei has always been the idol in his heart!

In the next few days, he learned more news through various inquiries:

At first, more than 3,000 martial artists from all over the country joined the Barbarian-Killing Army, but these people were squeezed out by the Northern Frontier border army, leading to the pills needed for daily training being deducted.

Later, the Marquis of Jing'an Li Fei actually led people to break into the military department, and finally got the pills back, and also got more resources!

Later, the Barbarian-Killing Army went deep into the Northern Barbarians to fight, and when encountering danger, Li Fei took the initiative to break the rear, letting the Blue Patrol Pavilion martial artists withdraw first.

In the end, most of these Blue Patrol Pavilion martial artists returned alive.

Just these two things made Lu Kai very moved!

And he also learned about Li Fei's battle record this time:

Killed five Wu Gong Masters of the Northern Barbarians!

Joined forces with others to kill two top-tier True Persons, and played an important role in the battle.

Commanded the Imperial Guard Army to heavily injure the Northern Barbarian King!

These battle records made Lu Kai's blood boil, only feeling that a man should be like this!

Who wouldn't want to follow such a commander who is capable, talented, has a bright future, protects his own people, rushes to the front, and walks at the end?

48th Year of Hongguang, September 17th.

Lu Kai took the train to the Northern Frontier through the recommendation of the Azure-Faced Villa.

Similar things happened in twenty-three provinces of the Great Lan Dynasty!

The establishment of the Blue Patrol Pavilion greatly condensed the Jianghu forces of the Great Lan Dynasty.

The series of "contribution point" systems formulated by the Chief Secretary Ye Zean was to absorb Jianghu forces into the army, thereby enhancing the national strength of the Great Lan Dynasty.

But for many martial artists, the battlefield is too dangerous, and they are not sure whether they will be treated as cannon fodder after they go?

So previously, only more than 3,000 Blue Patrol Pavilion martial artists were absorbed into the army.

But now with the amazing battle record of the Barbarian-Killing Army, plus Li Fei's behavior on the battlefield, and Li Fei's personal prestige.

This is simply the best "recruitment advertisement"!

So Li Fei doesn't need to spend energy to promote it at all, the imperial court has already promoted it for him in twenty-three provinces.

From August 1st, when the Barbarian-Killing Army was officially formed, martial artists from all over the country successively rushed to the Northern Frontier.

Most of these martial artists belong to Jianghu forces in various places.

Many bosses are actually unwilling to let their subordinates leave, such as gold-medal thugs like Lu Kai; once they leave, it will have a great impact on the strength of the Blood Alliance Gang.

But the conditions offered by the Barbarian-Killing Army are too generous!

Unless the bosses in various places also "raise wages," and the conditions must be better than the Barbarian-Killing Army, otherwise it is difficult to keep people.

After all, the Barbarian-Killing Army has an "establishment," is a regular army, and many local forces simply cannot compare.

In this case, if you want to force your subordinates to stay, it is easy to have problems.

Conversely, if you take the initiative to recommend martial artists to join the army, these forces can obtain contribution points, which can be used to improve their authority and right to speak in the Blue Patrol Pavilion, which is a win-win.

So in the end, the vast majority of Jianghu forces took the initiative to let people go.

In just over two months, more than 3,000 martial artists applied to join the Barbarian-Killing Army!

It can be said that the martial artists of the world follow!

According to this trend, Li Fei's Barbarian-Killing Army wants to recruit 10,000 people, which is not difficult at all, and there is even room for screening.

Northern Frontier, Barbarian-Killing City.

After Feng Cheng read the imperial edict that day, Li Fei continued to stay in Barbarian-Killing City for more than two months.

The Barbarian-Killing Army was officially formed, and there were too many things to be busy with; Li Fei, as the commander, was not free at all.

He could only transfer Lu Wenxing from Blue Spirit City as soon as possible, asking the other party to help him handle various military affairs.

Lu Wenxing was previously a seat official of the Stop-Goe Pavilion; the Stop-Goe Pavilion was specifically responsible for managing the martial artists of the world, and was the department that connected most with the military, so Lu Wenxing was relatively familiar with various military affairs of the Barbarian-Killing Army.

He brought a total of seven assistants, and it took more than two months to help Li Fei handle various affairs of the Barbarian-Killing Army and get on the right track.

Wanting to be a good army commander is not just about being able to fight and kill.

Various daily training, reward and punishment systems, resource allocation, personnel promotion, tactical formulation and practice, maintenance of morale and military heart, etc., all need Li Fei, the commander, to make decisions.

For this reason, Li Fei spent more than two months learning, and finally concluded—

He is not a general, let alone a commander.

With his ability, managing a few hundred people is already the limit.

Wanting to manage thousands, or even tens of thousands of people, is completely beyond his ability scope!

This is a problem that the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl cannot solve.

Daily management is already so difficult; once on the battlefield, wanting to command tens of thousands of people to enter the battle in an orderly manner is even more difficult!

"Han Xin points soldiers, the more the better."

After becoming an army commander, Li Fei truly realized the gold content of this sentence.

"Commanding 10,000 people" is already so difficult; he simply cannot imagine what the difficulty of "commanding 100,000," or even "commanding 1,000,000" would be?

No wonder in the history of his previous life, there was only one "Soldier Immortal."

And even in this world, with various extraordinary abilities, divine abilities, and military martial arts, being able to command 100,000 people to fight on the battlefield, doing it in an orderly manner, and truly exerting the combat power of 100,000 people can already be called a famous general of a generation.

Among the military generals of the Great Lan Dynasty today, those who can reach the level of a famous general are no more than ten people.

And because the Great Lan Dynasty has big killers like evil weapons and military formations, there is another independent "extraordinary system" for the evaluation of generals:

Generals who can command 100-level military formations are considered introductory, called "Yu Level."

Those who can command 500-level military formations are considered ordinary, called "Yu Level."

Those who can command 1,000-level military formations are considered excellent, called "Jiang Level."

If one can possess military divine abilities like Bai Yan, commanding three 1,000-level military formations to exert the power of 3,000-level, one can be considered a military master, called "Shuai Level."

Such a military master can not only integrate several 1,000-level military formations into a higher-level military formation, but also drive the strongest 10,000-level military formation!

In the entire Great Lan Dynasty, except for Bai Yan, only the commanders of the four 10,000-level Imperial Guard Armies are "Shuai Level."

So losing a Bai Yan is not just as simple as losing a Grandmaster for the Great Lan Dynasty.

After Li Fei determined that he did not have the qualifications to become a "famous general" of a generation, he began to consider military martial arts.

Back then, with the help of the Heaven-Mixing Luo Pan, he experienced military martial arts.

Controlling military formations, fighting across realms!

This feeling is indeed fascinating.

But now without the assistance of the Heaven-Mixing Luo Pan, it is impossible for Li Fei to imagine controlling a 1,000-level military formation like an arm as before.

However, having had such a rare experience once, his understanding of military martial arts has exceeded the vast majority of "Yu Level" Imperial Guard Army generals.

So-called military martial arts, compared with other martial arts, pay more attention to the perception and control of the external environment and power.

The peerless martial arts Li Fei practiced before were mostly about the mastery of his own strength, mental heart, and blood, while military martial arts are "seeking outward."

The strength of the mental heart, the delicacy of perception, the ability to respond on the spot, and most importantly, the "multi-threaded" processing ability.

These qualities will determine whether a person can practice military martial arts well.

Of course, these qualities can all be obtained by relying on extraordinary abilities or divine abilities.

For example, the 【Ten Thousand Knowledge】 divine ability, which can make people use one heart for many purposes, and even use one heart for ten thousand purposes at the highest!

Or for example, Bai Yan's 【Soldier Master】 divine ability, which can strengthen the control over various external forces, and can produce qualitative changes after integration.

The Barbarian-Killing Army not only has a quota of 10,000 martial artists, but also has the establishment of 3,600 Imperial Guard Army.

Li Fei doesn't count on controlling those 10,000 martial artists like an arm.

But like Bai Yan, integrating three 1,000-level military formations to exert super-limit power and becoming a "Shuai Level" military martial artist, he still has a chance.

"For my next divine ability, should I consider practicing divine abilities related to military arts?"

Li Fei began to think seriously about this question.

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 478 =====