Old Master Lu's jade slip message, delivered in full view of everyone, left Ye Zhen stunned on the spot.
Yet Old Master Lu himself acted as though nothing had happened. From afar, he nodded to Ye Zhen, signaling him not to worry.
Ye Zhen was stunned again. The Phoenix Spirit Guard's military exercise could be played like this?
But looking around, the participating Phoenix Spirit Guards were constantly exchanging Talisman Signals with their elders or friends. Ye Zhen was hardly the only one.
According to the military exercise rules, anything went before entering the exercise battlefield. But once inside, no matter who it was, anyone who activated a Talisman Signal without authorization would immediately be eliminated from the field by the battlefield Military Law Officer.
The Military Law Officer for the exercise battlefield was not a person, but a wisp of the Seven-Colored Bead Spirit from an incarnation of the Phoenix Spirit Clan's clan-protecting treasure, the Seven-Colored Bead.
With an artifact spirit serving as battlefield Military Law Officer and enforcing every rule laid down for the military exercise, all possibility of human interference was eliminated. That was the fundamental reason the Phoenix Spirit Guard's military exercises were so popular and could draw massive wagers from countless Phoenix Spirit nobles.
"Tell me, Old Lu, your two little recruits have barely joined the Guard, and you're already giving them such heavy instructions. What are you planning to have them do?" An old man with a broad mouth and hawk-like eyes, seated three or four places away from Old Master Lu, suddenly spoke.
Old Master Lu fixed his gaze on the old man. "Precisely because they're little recruits, I need to give them a few pointers, lest they take a wrong step.
"But when new recruits join the camp, their morale must be