In the evening, Tang Xinhan settled everyone down and said that he had to take care of some things and would not be back until tomorrow night. Let them rest for a day in the Beast City, buy some supplies for entering the mountains, and then take Xiao Caizi to get familiar with human life and buy some new sets of clothes and delicious food.
"Get a pterosaur ticket to Dawn City." Tang Xinhan came to the ticket office of the flight station and said to the girl who collected the ticket.
"Two!" Chen Lan's cold voice suddenly sounded from behind. Unexpectedly, Chen Lan had already stood behind him.
Tang Xinhan was about to say something, but found that Chen Lan was looking up at the sky, with an attitude of "I can't hear what you are saying." Tang Xinhan knew that it was impossible for her to go back. Tang Xinhan had no choice but to smile bitterly and said: "Okay. Two!"
The two boarded the pterosaur ship, but did not enter the cabin. Instead, they stood on the back of the blue-feathered pterosaur near its neck. Tang Xinhan's destination this time was Shuguang City, the headquarters of the Shuguang Legion, one of the four major legions of the Guanghan Empire. Because Dawn City is only an hour away from Beast City by taking a pterosaur boat.
The Guanghan Empire had only three major legions when Tang Xinhan's biological father, Tang Shiyi, was emperor, and there was no such thing as the Shuguang Legion. The current commander of the Dawn Legion, known as "Crazy Sword" Shen Haolin, is Tang Xinhan's master. He was originally the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guard beside the late emperor. Although the Imperial Guard is also called an "army", it is mainly composed of elites, with only 20,000 people in number, which is far from being comparable to the entire army, which can easily reach hundreds of thousands. Before Tang Shiyi passed the throne to his junior brother Zi Tingjian on his deathbed, his only request was to order Shen Haolin, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guard, to create a new Dawn Legion and serve as its commander. As for the position of prince, it was naturally Zi Tingjian's own insistence.
Unexpectedly, after Shen Haolin ascended the throne as the new emperor, no matter how much Zi Tingjian urged, he still took no action. Instead, he chose to stay in the imperial capital and pass on all his martial arts skills to Tang Xinhan. It wasn't until Tang Xinhan was nine years old that he began to form a new army.
However, Shen Haolin rejected Zi Tingjian's suggestion to allocate troops to him from other legions at that time. He only accepted the military supplies and financial support provided by the empire and recruited 400,000 more troops on his own. Within a year, there was the current Dawn Legion. Especially his method of recruiting troops is really...unflattering.
Since then, Tang Xinhan has not seen his master for 7 years. When the master left back then, he said that he could only come to him when he broke through the Star Level. At that time, I will teach him the last three levels of Dawn Technique.
An hour later, Tang Xinhan took Chen Lan off the pterosaur boat with mixed emotions. Arriving at the city gate, as soon as I was about to enter the city, I felt something was wrong with the atmosphere. There are no more than 20 city gate guards, including sentries on the city wall. Each one of them was even more listless, eating and waiting to die. There is not even a basic registration process for people entering the city, let alone checking any customs clearance documents. Although Shuguang City is a newly established city, Tang Xinhan knew that when his master formed the Shuguang Legion, he provided residence rights in the new city for the families of new soldiers. So rather than saying that this is a city, it is better to say that it is a military base. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is an important military fortress in the empire. How could it be so loosely managed?
Tang Xinhan came to a sleepy city gate guard with confusion and asked: "I want to visit General Shen, the commander of the Dawn Army. Can you inform me?"
The soldier reluctantly opened his eyes and said impatiently: "Looking for our boss? Then go to the house to find him. Who is our boss? He doesn't know how to guard at the city gate."
Tang Xinhan was helpless but did not dare to say anything, so he had no choice but to pull Chen Lan towards the city. Just kidding, haven't you seen Lan'er's eyes getting colder and colder? Tang Xinhan was really afraid that if he asked any more questions, if the soldier said something unpleasant again, Chen Lan would kill him directly.
After entering the city, Tang Xinhan realized what it means to have strong folk customs. The city was a bustling scene with all kinds of disputes. Finally, after asking for directions several times, they arrived at an inconspicuous medium-sized courtyard with the word "Shen Mansion" written on the door.
Tang Xinhan stepped forward and knocked on the door knocker. The person who opened the door was a lean old man wearing gray cloth. The old man's eyes were originally dull and lifeless, but when he saw Tang Xinhan, he immediately smiled and said, "Oh! The young master is here! Come in quickly, I will report to the master right away."
Tang Xinhan saluted the old man respectfully and said, "Uncle Qin, don't bother me. I'll go in and find the master myself. Are you in good health?"
The old man's whole face was twitching with laughter: "Okay! Okay! It won't be a problem to serve my little master for another few decades, haha!"
"Uncle Qin, this is my friend, Chen Lan." Tang Xinhan introduced.
The old man glanced at Chen Lan, but immediately straightened his face and said to Chen Lan: "You are too murderous, you can't go in."
Chen Lan was shocked, could this old man recognize my identity?
Tang Xinhan was stunned. Although Uncle Qin had a weird temper, he was rarely rude to anyone so directly, let alone the people he brought. So he explained: "Mr. Qin, don't you mind? Lan'er has been trained as a death warrior by the royal family since she was a child. Isn't it normal to have murderous intent in her body?"
The old man immediately laughed and said: "Haha, I am joking with my little master. However, the little girl is not old, so she can't always keep a cold face, right? It will scare the ladies in my family. Hehe, little master, You don’t know that in recent years, the master has married six wives and added nine young ladies to the family. The master said that he would not give up until he gave birth to a young master, and he would not need him to be born again anyway. It was a coincidence that the little master came. Yesterday, ten The fifth lady has just been born, and the ladies and ladies are all in the front hall competing to name the fifteenth lady."
Tang Xinhan had a helpless smile on his face, he was too much of a junior sister! No, with these 9, there are already 15 junior sisters, and it seems that there will be more in the future. It’s not that Master doesn’t like girls, he loves every junior sister terribly. But I just can't get rid of the knot of having no future.
As they said this, several people had already arrived at the door of the front hall, and from far away they could hear the playfulness of a group of older and younger girls in the hall.
At this time, a hearty laugh sounded: "Haha, okay! The fifth child got up well. He eats glutinous rice balls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The fifteenth child is called glutinous rice balls!"
"Master! Think again, this name will stick with your junior sister for the rest of her life." Tang Xinhan walked into the lobby and said with a smile.
A stalwart middle-aged man wearing a dark blue loose military uniform who was sitting at the main seat in the hall was stunned for a moment, then suddenly rushed towards Tang Xinhan quickly and punched the door in front of him.
Tang Xinhan was about to take the punch when a black shadow quickly flashed in front of him. He kicked up one foot high, just in time to block the fierce punch. However, Chen Lan's body was then knocked away and flew into the yard along with Tang Xinhan who was trying to catch his body behind him.
Tang Xinhan put one hand around Chen Lan's waist, and used the other hand to shoot a beam of star power behind him. He used the force to spin twice before the two of them managed to stand firm and not fall to the ground.
Shen Haolin shouted: "You brat, when did you learn to hide behind women? Is this what I taught you? Haha, but seeing as how quickly you have been able to spread your star power, I will consider you to have passed the test today. What? Did you just say that my daughter’s name was not chosen well?”
Tang Xinhan stood still, let go of Chen Lan, and then smiled and said: "Master, I remember that you said that you would eat dumplings on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, so the fifth junior sister called them dumplings. Today, the fifth junior sister named the fifteenth junior sister Tangyuan. It’s obviously revenge!”
Shen Haolin chuckled: "Is such a name easy to remember? As soon as the name is called, you will know who is the oldest. You see, the seventh is called Noodles, your thirteenth junior sister is called Thirteen Yao, and the fourth is called Seven Little Couple. Isn’t this easy to remember? I can’t remember it no matter what. Haha, let them go and let them make trouble. Come with me and tell me what martial arts you have practiced over the years and what level you have reached. Oh, that’s right , this little girl is pretty good! She’s agile and loyal! Your boy has found another treasure.”
Then Shen Haolin asked the housekeeper Qin Changchun to take Chen Lan to rest, while he took Tang Xinhan to the study. It was called the study room, but it was just to sound like he was knowledgeable. In fact, it was the room where Shen Haolin usually practiced. There was only a small bookshelf that was mostly empty, and all the martial arts classics were placed on it.
After the master and apprentice entered the room, they chatted all night long. No one knew what they talked about. Until the morning, the two came to the martial arts field together and began to practice the Shuguang Jue. After practicing, the master and apprentice sat face to face on the small stone bench next to the martial arts arena.
Shen Haolin warned: "Go back and do your business in a while. If I can really cure the abnormal poison in your body this time, I will have an explanation to the late emperor. But you have to remember, even if you can practice as a spirit control master in the future, , and don’t give up on martial arts. In the early stage of martial arts training, the fourth level of "Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang" is body refining, which is the foundation of martial arts. The quality of the foundation directly determines what level you can reach in the future. Although the foundation is very important, in fact, only by entering A person who reaches the Lianxing level can be regarded as a true martial artist, but he has just begun to embark on the path of martial arts. What we warriors practice in the early stage of the fourth level is to train each node in the meridians, which is what the classics call the star points. The stored internal power should be compressed and enriched as much as possible. At the same time, the more star points that are opened in the body, as many as the stars in the sky, the more beneficial it will be for future cultivation. However, only when you reach the Lianxing level, you can connect the star points to let the star power By traveling along different paths within the body and releasing it from the body, different powers can be exerted. This is the use of star power. Only one who can better utilize star power can be considered a true martial artist."
Tang Xinhan listened carefully, and then asked: "Master, the highest martial arts recorded on the mainland is the Cangqiong level, which is equivalent to the level of the 50th level spirit control master - the spirit control king. Even if you reach the peak of cultivation, you will not He will be an opponent of the Spirit Controlling Emperor, which is why martial arts cultivators have never had a status in the Lingdong Continent. But, Master, is there really no possibility for martial arts cultivators to go further?"
