Chapter 173 The Five Elements Residual Method is successful, and self-sufficiency is expected "Huang Lan, your progress in cultivation has stagnated recently. Even if there is a reason, you shouldn't be so short-sighted." "If I hadn't arrived in time, you would have been killed by this Tartar master just now." "Look at Huang Zhanglong's deputy general He Guang, who is in charge of the Third Xuanwu Battalion, and Chang Liyun's deputy general Wu Hongai, who is in charge of the Second Xuanwu Battalion. They have both reached the peak of the third level of martial arts." "You have just entered the third level of martial arts, and you are already lagging behind others." Xiao Douya looked around the battlefield and found that this surprise attack was basically over. There were few shouts and cries of killing coming from everywhere, so he spoke to his deputy Huang Lan with some lack of interest. She knew in her heart that this was because Huang Lan had a younger brother, Huang Zhen, who had just become a warrior, so she used most of her military merits to exchange for training resources for her younger brother to use. The two siblings are orphans and have depended on each other since childhood. Huang Lan naturally wanted her younger brother to grow up quickly, fulfill her parents' dying wishes, and raise her younger brother to adulthood. "Hey!" "never mind."
Xiao Douya simply said, "I have accumulated a lot of military merits. When I return, I will help you exchange a bowl of nourishing soup at the logistics department to speed up your cultivation and break through to the peak of the third level of martial arts as soon as possible." "We, the Xuanwu First Battalion, cannot let the Second and Third Battalions surpass us. Otherwise, I will lose face." "We now have more and more generals in the Fuxing Army who have reached the peak of the third level of martial arts. In half a year at most, there should be a fourth or more Qi Refining Realm masters." "Huang Lan, you have good qualifications, but you need to work harder." "Once you become a master of the Qi Refining Realm, you will be able to easily obtain various resources of the Body Refining Realm. It will be too easy for you to help your brother grow at that time." Among the three combat battalions of the navy today, leaving aside Xiao Douya, a master in the Qi Refining Realm, Chang Liyun's Xuanwu Second Battalion is the strongest, Huang Zhanglong's Xuanwu Third Battalion is the second strongest, and Xiao Douya's Xuanwu First Battalion has the weakest overall strength. This made Xiao Douya very unhappy. She secretly made up her mind to lead the soldiers of the Xuanwu Third Battalion to catch up as soon as possible. Although on the surface, the Xuanwu Third Battalion seems to be the strongest because of the master Xiao Douya, in fact, everyone knows the true combat effectiveness of these three battalions. "Commander, I remember this. I will try my best." Just now, Huang Lan was almost killed by the Tatar leader of this tribe. She was still frightened and realized that her previous decision was wrong. Anyway, in the current Renaissance Army, all warriors and soldiers have sufficient basic training resources. The basic training resources that my brother usually gets will be distributed regularly and in full by the Logistics Department, so there is a guarantee for maintaining normal training. It was just that I was too eager to succeed, which led to this embarrassing situation. Xiao Douya was right. As long as he could break through to become a Qi Refining Realm master, he would be able to easily obtain enough resources needed for his younger brother to use. This would be a wise choice. "Okay, let's go and command the soldiers to clean up the entire Tartar base, then clean up the battlefield as quickly as possible, load all the spoils on the ship, and set sail back to the navy base." Xiao Douya waved her hand and gave Huang Lan an order, "I see that this Tartar tribe has a small population, only a few thousand people, but there are about 2,000 Han slaves. They must have entered the pass to raid the valleys in recent years and plundered them." "We have made great gains from the rescue work of the Han people that we completed after the war. The military merits that the soldiers have received should also double. It is a great harvest." She was right. In the current Fuxing Army, destroying various Tatar tribes while saving Han slaves is one of the ways to gain the highest military merit, which is even more than killing enemies.
What the Fuxing Army lacks most now is sufficient manpower, and the military attaches great importance to this aspect. The chief steward Hongmei has even suggested to Li Dingguo that they should start to organize several special large caravans after the beginning of next spring. The members of these special caravans, while hiding their identities to trade within the borders, were also responsible for gathering a large number of refugees and finding ways to extradite them out of the borders, doing their utmost to increase their own population potential. Otherwise, any large tribe on the grassland would have a population of one million, and today's Renaissance Army would seem too shabby compared to them. While the two were talking, the fighting in this small Tartar tribe was completely quelled, and the soldiers had killed all the remaining Tartars. Under the command of Xiao Douya and Huang Lan, the grassroots officers of the Xuanwu First Battalion worked closely together, performed their duties, and began cleaning up the battlefield. There are all kinds of spoils here, including cattle, sheep, horses, etc. The harvest after the war is not small. Over the past ten days, soldiers from the Xuanwu Camp have robbed several treasure ships on the Jialu River. Now, each of the three naval camps has eight treasure ships. There are two medium-grade treasure ships each, and six low-grade treasure ships each. With the powerful transportation capacity of the treasure ship, it was enough to transport all the spoils and personnel harvested here, including the rescued Han people, away at one time. In this great world, even the common people of the Ming Dynasty still considered themselves Han people instead of calling themselves Ming people. It is conceivable that the once powerful Han Dynasty had a profound influence on the people of subsequent dynasties. About an hour later, the huge fleet of eight treasure ships of the Xuanwu First Battalion, loaded with all kinds of spoils and personnel, began to return. …… "Duh!" "Earth Spirit Technique!" In the spiritual plant experimental field behind the military hall, Xiao Douya and Hongmei stood aside nervously and curiously, watching the magical performance that Li Dingguo was performing. Li Dingguo was seen making a very strange hand seal with his hands, exhaling and making a sound, circulating the true energy in his body and combining it with his spiritual power, then waving his big hand towards the dozens of spiritual fruit trees in front of him! "Woooo..." An extremely magical scene appeared: the seal made by Li Dingguo turned into an ochre-colored stream of light and sank into the ground in front! In the open space between the spiritual fruit trees in front, the soil on the ground suddenly rolled up! However, when the soil was rolling and surging, it did not affect the roots of any spiritual fruit tree! This magical technique is so incredible that it is simply unbelievable. After a while, all the weeds, soil, etc. on the ground were deeply plowed, leaving only extremely flat new soil on the ground! These new soils exude a strong spiritual energy of heaven and earth! "Wow!" "Brother, you finally succeeded!" "You have cracked such a miraculous technique and successfully practiced it!" "In order to practice these two magical ancient techniques, Brother Dingguo, you have worked hard for more than 20 days, and today you have finally mastered them." "The ancient times were so mysterious and strange. It was so magical that there were even such incredible magic techniques!" "Brother Dingguo, this is the Earth Spirit Technique, right? And what about the Cloud and Rain Technique you mentioned?" Seeing this magical scene, Xiao Douya and Hongmei were both so excited that they cheered nearby.
No wonder they were so excited; the scene that was really happening before their eyes was beyond their understanding of magic. After Li Dingguo obtained two ancient fragments of this magical technique, he studied it for a long time and finally formally practiced the only two remaining basic five-element techniques. "Cloud and Rain Technique, huh? Right here!" Li Dingguo saw that he had finally reaped the rewards of his hard work for so long, and with an unconcealable smile on his face, he answered excitedly. He practiced his Qi and adjusted his breathing for a while, then made a very mysterious and strange hand seal on the spot. "Hey!" "Cloud and Rain Technique!" As this magical seal was pinched, a stream of azure light emanated from the palms of Li Dingguo's hands and shot directly into the sky above the spiritual fruit tree in front of him! "Woooo..." In an instant, in the area of sky about ten feet in radius, a whistling sound of wind was heard, and instantly a thick azure cloud gathered together! "Crackling..." As a loud thunder exploded in the extremely dense clouds, a misty drizzle fell from the sky, covering the area of ten feet in radius. A drizzle with extremely rich spiritual energy continued to fall! After lasting for about a quarter of an hour, the misty drizzle dissipated along with the azure clouds in the sky and disappeared without a trace. All I saw were the dozen or so spiritual fruits that had been watered by the spiritual rain, all full of vitality and emerald green. The three people at the scene could clearly see that the spiritual fruit trees that had just been watered by the spiritual rain were obviously different from the nearby fruit trees that were not affected by the spiritual rain! "Wow……" "This...this is amazing!" “Brother Dingguo, these are just the entry-level two ancient basic five-element techniques. If you reach the proficient and mastered levels, it will be incredible!” "Brother, please teach me! I also want to learn these two ancient magical techniques! This is too much fun!" Hongmei and Xiaodouya were stunned for a while and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise! As long as they were not stupid, they would be able to guess that these two magical ancient five-element techniques would play a huge role in cultivating various spiritual plants, herbs and roots at home. Maybe by cultivating a certain kind of spiritual plant for a long time and vigorously, the grade of a level one spiritual plant can be upgraded to level two. "call……" Li Dingguo felt that his internal energy had been almost exhausted. He took a deep breath, but his spirit was still very high. "If you two want to learn, of course you can." "Anyway, you have already reached the Qi Refining Stage and have the true Qi. The prerequisites for learning have been met, so you should be able to learn it." These two girls have excellent aptitude, and maybe they can learn these two basic five-element techniques. Of course Li Dingguo would not refuse to teach. These two girls are his most capable assistants. If they can also learn it, it will be of great help to his force. "Oh...brother, please teach us right away. I'm sure I can learn it." "Yes! Once you learn these two magical techniques, they will be extremely useful."...
Because she was so excited, Xiao Douya pulled Hongmei in one hand and ran to Li Dingguo. "Okay, let's just sit here on the grass. We can teach you here anyway. You two should listen carefully..." Li Dingguo sat down on the spot, practicing his main skills to recover the huge amount of true energy he had just depleted, and at the same time he began to seriously teach the two girls the only two basic five-element techniques he knew. Don’t underestimate these two ancient basic five-element techniques. The word “basic” in their name makes them inconspicuous, but their complexity is enough to rival that of top-level combat techniques. However, whether they can learn it or not depends on the talents of Xiao Douya and Hongmei. According to rumors, the requirements for practicing this kind of ancient magic are extremely strict. It seems that practitioners need to have corresponding special talents to be able to learn it. Compared with the various skills and techniques of practicing martial arts, the threshold is much higher. Fortunately, after Li Dingguo broke through to the Qi Refining Realm, Xiao Douya and Hongmei used the power of their souls to condense two Zhoutian Xingchen Sutra runes and taught this top-level main practice method to the two of them, allowing them to complete the conversion to the top-level Sutra-level practice long ago. Since they switched to practicing this top-level Zhenjing-level technique, the quality and quantity of the Qi in their bodies have been greatly improved. Otherwise, because the level of the main practice is not high enough, resulting in insufficient reserves of one's own true energy, even if one has learned these two ancient basic five elements techniques, there will not be enough true energy and spiritual power to perform them. Even Li Dingguo, who had just performed the basic Five Elements spell twice, almost exhausted his internal energy. Even the power of the soul is consumed greatly. Even for Xiao Douya and Hongmei, who have learned them now, they can only use them once at most. They have to meditate to recover to their peak state before they can use them again. Unless they have broken through to the middle fourth level of martial arts, they will probably only be able to use it two or three times in succession. After all, their foundation is far inferior to Li Dingguo's, so it is normal for this situation to occur. This is enough to prove how high the threshold is to successfully practice or smoothly perform these two ancient basic five-element techniques. It can be said that most of the martial arts geniuses in this world, even if they are lucky enough to obtain these two basic five-element techniques, cannot even think of successfully practicing them. Under Li Dingguo's continuous teaching, it took about an hour for Xiao Douya and Hongmei to completely master the common sense and key points of practicing these two basic five-element techniques. The two of them immediately began to try to practice impatiently. Seeing that the two were very serious, Li Dingguo immediately stood up and walked towards a nearby spiritual field with a special mark, so as not to disturb Xiao Douya and Hongmei. To practice these two magical basic Five Elements techniques, one must rely mainly on comprehension, and also on whether one has the corresponding talent. Apart from teaching them the secrets of practice, Li Dingguo could not help them in other aspects. If you have the corresponding talent and enough understanding, you will naturally get started. On the contrary, no matter how hard you try to practice, it will be useless. While the two girls were practicing hard, Li Dingguo soon walked to the spiritual field with a special mark. This place is empty, except for a special dry tree root. It was the magical tree root that Li Dingguo had obtained by accident before, which looked completely dead but was full of vitality. Li Dingguo had a strong curiosity about it for a long time. After completing the construction of this spiritual plant planting experimental area and setting up a large five-element spirit gathering formation, he immediately planted this mysterious and unusual dry tree root alone in the spiritual field in front of him. "what?"
He used his mental power, which had been restored to its peak state, to sense it, and his face lit up with joy, "Sure enough, this Five Elements Spirit Gathering Formation has a miraculous effect on restoring the vitality of this mysterious tree root!" "The vitality accumulated within it has now more than doubled compared to when it was first planted ten days ago!" "I'll try using the Earth Spirit Technique and the Cloud and Rain Technique, and give it some extra strength. I think it won't be long before it can really take root and sprout." Thinking of this, Li Dingguo used his old trick again, and continued to cast the Earth Spirit Technique and the Cloud and Rain Technique successively towards the spiritual field which was about ten feet in radius. Because of his previous spellcasting experience, Li Dingguo was obviously much more proficient in casting the Earth Spirit Technique and the Cloud and Rain Technique this time. After he finished performing the two ancient basic five-element spells, he discovered through his divine sense that the vitality contained in this magical piece of tree roots had more than doubled again! "Ha ha……" Li Dingguo really couldn't hold back his joy and couldn't help laughing out loud. This seemingly dead tree root was so mysterious that Li Dingguo was very curious about it. Now that I see it has the potential to take root and sprout, of course I am very happy. (End of this chapter)