"Thirty-seven... thirty-eight... forty..."
"Count again, count again... one, two... forty..."
"Heavens!!!"
Tears shimmered in the captain's eyes.
His grin stretched wide.
Tears streamed from the corners of his eyes into his mouth.
He could not taste whether they were salty or bland.
He did not know whether he was crying or laughing.
"Forty..."
"It's forty..."
"Not a single one is missing..."
Everyone's eyes were filled with utter bewilderment.
They did not dare believe it.
Everything before their eyes.
Had they done this themselves??
This...
"Down the mountain!! Back to the city!!"
The leading captain's voice was terribly hoarse.
He raised the long blade in his hand, his voice brimming with unwavering resolve:
"The Yuanyang Formation is invincible under heaven!!"
"What??"
Inside the military tent.
The focus in Ji Qing's eyes had scattered somewhat.
Listening to the figures reported by this newly trained Yuanyang Army before him, he felt as though the world was not quite real.
"A total of eleven new Yuanyang Army units."
"There were four hundred and twenty-six men in this military exercise."
"Four hundred and seventy enemies annihilated."
"Our army suffered sixteen dead and forty-seven wounded."
Just a few simple lines of report.
Yet they left Ji Qing, supreme commander of the three armies who had fought several major battles against the Demon Race, utterly bewildered.
"Twenty squads of the Yuanyang Army... trained for barely two months..."
Ji Qing felt that his mind was no longer sufficient.
"Could it truly wield such power on treacherous mountain roads?!!"
He murmured softly.
Just then.
A fresh breeze swept past.
The next moment, a familiar figure appeared inside the tent.
Dean Shi of Qilin Academy.
He remained white-haired yet youthful-faced, with a calm expression.
"This old man heard that the results of the military exercise are out?"
There was