Volume 1 Chapter 7: Cannon Fodders’ Unique Uses
When she is not smiling, she seems like a rich historical personal, but once she changed her expression, her charms can make one speechless.
Thus her voice and her actions are absolutely tempting towards one, some of the bigger sized kids started breathing faster and faster, whereas some of the ‘ thugs’ had fear written all over their faces, even LongHai’s expression seemed unnatural.
QianYe suddenly thought of the two kids that did not pa.s.s the test, being beaten to death by her, how heartening.
Shortly after, ZhangJing explained the reasonings for practicing the original Force and the method to start training in the BingFa manual.
In the human body, there is 9 main nodes of the original force. Which 3 is from the lower abdomen, chest and inside the forehead. The other 6 are at all of the limbs and both of one’s knee. Storing of the original force is also the start of it. Learning of the original force also starts from there.
As humanity’s history is mostly made out of war, thus the current cla.s.sification of military force is how immense one’s aura is. Igniting the first node is the official ceremony of entrance to the military, becoming a first grade soldier. After igniting another, one will advance by a grade
When all 9 nodes of the original force have been ignited, one shall have a chance to break through the bottleneck and a vortex force will be formed when one lights up all the nodes. And that is a qualitative breakthrough. They are real powerhouses, and have what it takes to fight the dark forces. They are the main pillars in the war, also called generals.
BingFa manual is the basis for the Imperial Army exercises, like its name, it has a very sharp overbearing. Its most notable feature is its speed, as long as one succeeds in igniting the first node, then the body will be like the tidal surge of the Force, superimposed layers, like a flood wave, constantly hitting onto the node of the original force.
There are other manuals that are similar, their recruitment process is very quick, and some may even break through their own ability barrier. But their weakness is fairly obvious too, which is their overflowing amount of tidal force as it would hurt the body of whoever’s training it. The more that person trains, the injuries would be more obvious.
None has ever depended solely on the BingFa manual and survived in the battlefield, there needs to be a breakthrough in the late conversion exercises. Due to this, this power and law was known as cannon fodder training.
But as what ZhangJing said, those that came for such trainings are all from different background with different motives. Besides, not many can survive to the last lighting of the node. So why worry ?
If someone really broke through all 9 nodes, he or she will become an amazing warrior, one that has no limits, one that will be called by many people. There is nothing to worry about when it comes to them and resources.
Come to think, QianYe’s batch of students have been doing physical training to train their own bodies ever since the first day of camp. It is to withstand the fearsome attacks.
Ever since that day, on QianYe’s timetable, is practices for 2 hours each during afternoon and night, but the amount of physical training and other cla.s.ses did not lessen. Upon hearing the new schedule, the kids that endured 1 year of hardship did not have a face of relief, instead, they broke down a little.
Around noon, these kids were called to a small valley nearby.
The central valley is a hot spring area with much steam, dozens of gold pillars were inserted and rooted into one end of the hot spring, the other end are winded up together.
A huge cobweb-like metal pipe covered the entire valley, a tower stood at 10 metres with unknown mechanics. All these mechanics did not have any outer sh.e.l.l on, the smallest exposed mechanics measures more than 1 metre in length that was gripped on tightly to the belts and metal chains.
Around the machinery was the construction long houses row by row. The exterior of these houses were glistening, and as it was coated in copper, it will not rust.
The kids were split into groups and they entered in groups of 10. The houses were split into single rooms for the kids, and this is their new training ground.
The practice rooms were small and the walls were strangely thick. The insides were rusty and were made up of copper fences. Deep dark holes could be seen through the exposed cracks.
QianYe followed the order and entered a small room. It was empty, no furniture. There was only a small cabinet wrapped in leather.
He took off his outer wear, long pants and stuffed it into the cabinet. Next, he revised what the officer demonstrated and sat cross-legged. Almost instantly the door was kicked open.
A bare-chested, dark-skinned servant came in, opened a bronze doors on the wall, lit a small piece of wood and threw it in.
The servant spoke nothing, and left the door dead shut.
Followed by a sharp piercing alarm, the rooms shook slightly and gave off a faint roar of machinery. Moments later, a large amount of hot piping steam shoot out from all four corners of the room and it quickly filled the entire room.
Suddenly, there was a wisp of smoke escaping from the bronze door that was half a human height, in the midst of all the steam, you can first see stretch of white smoke curl that gradually spread. The last of the steam thoroughly mixed into one and diffused the fragrant that was indoor.
Within such a small s.p.a.ce and a change in the humidity, it became a little stuffy in the room. QianYe breath in deeply and out. He suddenly felt aroused, and felt that his surroundings had something active moving around. That night, the raindrops felt a little different.
The is the original Force resonating !
QianYe felt great joy and hurried to calm his mind down and meditated according to the BingFa tactics. Sure enough, it seems like something that was sleeping very soundly in his body has awaken. The Force around him seems more excited and were attracted to his body.
2 Hours pa.s.sed by very slowly, suddenly, the alarm rang again and woke up all of the kids.
QianYe slowly opened his eyes and felt very sad.
Just by this afternoon’s practice, QianYe’s body already trained a very sustainable force. Though small, it was more than enough to make QianYe very elated. According to the BingFa manual’s description, just one day is enough for him to form out a Force, which means his talent is more outstanding and is capable to train to at least level 7 or higher.
The spices that were giving off a smell burnt off, even though the steam still remains, QianYe’s feelings for the force slowly dampened and was blurry.
The lesson ends there.
The room suddenly rang another alarm, and the walls shook again. Coming from the ground was some great suction power that sucked up all the steam clean. The sounds of the machinery could be heard once more and the doors were lifted up slowly.
QianYe did not care about the condition of his clothing, he quickly donned his outer wear, rushed out of the room and ran towards the field and stood in place.
LongHai reappeared with a sly and cruel smile and said slowly, “ From just now’s lesson, you guys would have probably experienced the pros of “ZhuYan” blood’. You guys should know such a small one, “he gestures his index finger length and width, grinned, up and down his gold and silver teeth reflected coldness, ” is enough to buy a dozen lives ! “
QianYe long knew that piece of wood was special, but he did not know it was worth that much.
(ED: the wood here refers to ZhuYan blood, probably in solid state)
However, one must see how these 10 people’s life is being calculated, for someone like QianYe that grew up in a dumpster, 10 people is not even worth a mere copper coin. Before meeting Lin XiTang, QianYe only saw a total of 2 copper coin, one was even missing a corner, he had never seen a silver coin before though .
LongHai paused for a moment and then suddenly raised his voice, he hollered,” But, there will not be such a thing anymore ! From this week onwards, all the training topics will be based on your own performance score. Examination is after a week ! The ones that are ranked below half would not be able to attain the “ZhuYan” blood, whereas the other half will be given double of the “ZhuYan” blood. Those that can enter the top 10 will get 3 of the “ZhuYan” blood ! “
There was a change in the expressions of the kids, they became more alert.
Some glanced past QianYe and very quickly looked at others. QianYe did not bother, he just simply looked at the training ground opposite him.
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Just like this, the first week went past very quickly, in the rankings, QianYe was ranked the 75th, thus he had no “ZhuYan” blood for a week.
During the night of that announcement, QianYe did not have any sleep.
He reflected on the topics he got. The army did not really mind the ranking for now. In ZhangJing’s lesson, QianYe could always score well and score the top, however in such courses, he’s always at the bottom.
QianYe quietly lay on his bed while gazing at the ceiling and gently touched the huge wound on his chest. The food in camp cured his malnutrition he suffered during the days at the dumpster. But because of this scar, he looked weaker than the other kids.
QianYe understood what Gu TuoHai said at the start, that this scar hides a hidden danger . Whenever he has excessive training, the wound would hurt, reducing the time and intensity of his patience. But QianYe could only rely on the mindset of having tenacity above others, and work even harder, only then can he keep up with the training.
But as for now, the new rule shows that they want to get of half of the people as soon as possible. There is a huge difference between those that has the “ZhuYan” blood and those that do not, if this carries on, the gap would be furthered even more.
QianYe did lots of thinking while he was deep asleep, but he had never thought of giving up. If he persevered, he will be able to see tomorrow, and the light in darkness.
QianYe wants to slowly, step by step recover his losses. For every topic, for every mark he shall fight for it !
Within this week, QianYe trained like mad, though improved, he only did by a rank.
Another week has pa.s.sed, QianYe successfully pa.s.sed the 70th rank barrier and became the 69th. After the 3rd week, QianYe fell sick to due the excessive amount of training, thus dropping to rank 93th.
Maybe lady luck took an interest in him and saw his determination, at the fourth week, he has improved greatly on all the subjects he was bad in.