If one spoke of the most sensational event and hottest topic in Luoyi these past few days, it had to be the Zhenhai Army charging alone into the Devil Race's heartland, slaughtering tens of millions of Devil Race soldiers and civilians, attacking and destroying nearly a hundred cities and tribes, and finally presenting captives before Qiankun Hall.
Yet in Luoyi, the people attracting the most attention and discussion at this moment were not Duke of North Sea Commandery Ye Zhen, Marshal of the Zhenhai Army.
They were Liu Feng and Gu Tieqi, two commanders of the Zhenhai Army.
From streets and alleys to brothels and teahouses, people everywhere were talking about those two.
Naturally, this was hardly strange.
Once one saw through the heart of the matter, it was actually quite simple.
At the time, one of them had a capable father and many legitimate sons in the family, leaving him no chance whatsoever of inheriting the title. The other had been an illegitimate son, bullied by his legitimate brothers until, in fury, he severed all ties with his family.
But now, both had returned home in glory.
The merits they had earned earlier on the Human-Demon Battlefield had directly accumulated into titles of first-rank baron.
These were first-rank baron titles.
The rank might seem low, but it still left ninety-nine percent of Great Zhou's men in the dust.
It also surpassed countless ranks of merit. A first-rank baron, after all, could at the very least be passed down for two generations.
Previously, the titles of first-rank baron had merely made people look upon Liu Feng and Gu Tieqi—two noble sons once considered to have no future—with new eyes.
But now that the two had returned with the army as commanders of the Zhenhai Army, it was truly a homecoming