"If it were up to me, if I had the authority to freely select a batch of recruits and form a special unit, I would only choose half of its members from the Training Camp."
Meng Chao said, "And I would not simply choose those with the strongest bodies, the greatest strength, and the best results in the trials on the Path of Glory.
"I would choose those who started out at a disadvantage on the Path of Glory, yet gritted their teeth and persevered until they overtook the rest.
"And those who made serious mistakes, even suffered grave injuries, yet still endured the pain and completed the trials.
"On a battlefield fraught with danger and changing in the blink of an eye, suffering severe injuries and falling behind are always unavoidable.
"When the storm comes, even pigs can fly through the sky. Being able to crush everything in one's path when the wind is at one's back proves nothing.
"Only those who, even in adversity or utter desperation, remain unshaken and never give up, who can launch a counterattack from the brink with incomparable calm and astonishing courage—those are the finest soldiers."
In fact, this had also been Black Skull Training Camp's standard for selecting soldiers in Meng Chao's memories of his previous life.
In his previous life, he had worked as a Harvester for many years and had not received especially professional combat training.
His results in the trials to join Black Skull Training Camp had not ranked among the very best.
But because he had worried about his younger sister Bai Jiacao's safety and longed for the power to protect his family, he had still limped through the trial even after spraining a joint in the first stage, with his ankle swollen like a ball.
Although his