Su Xin had deployed two kinds of forces in the Northwest Circuit. One was the Dark Guard, which specialized in dealing with elite fighters and gathering intelligence.
The other was the army, which operated in the open. So it wasn't just the people he'd brought from Jiangnan and Jianghuai who needed to be placed in the Northwest Army; Su Xin also had to recruit large numbers of martial artists from the Northwest Circuit to serve under him. Naturally, they had to be at least at the Post-Heaven Mid-Stage.
Though others considered it extravagant to use Houtian Martial Artists as ordinary soldiers, this was the strategy Su Xin had always believed in: quality would always outweigh quantity.
Take the Golden Tent Khanate's Eagle-Shooting Cavalry, for example. Ten thousand riders could conquer cities and seize territory, and even an army of a hundred thousand was no match for them. The reason was that every one of those ten thousand riders was above the Post-Natal Great Perfection Realm. Their squad leaders were at the Xiantian Realm, their centurions at the Divine Palace Realm, and their commanders of a thousand were martial grandmasters at the Spirit Transformation Realm.
Every unit of Eagle-Shooting Cavalry was led by a Soul Fusion Realm expert. Their strength was enough to rival Great Zhou's three great field armies: the Longying Army, the Huben Army, and the Feixiong Army.
Su Xin intended to follow the same path, so he would never compromise when it came to quality.
Once everything had been put in order, Su Xin finally turned his attention to the Tuoba Clan.
Meanwhile, a joyous occasion was underway within the Tuoba Clan: the wedding of Tuoba Feng and Zhang Chuchu, the Zhang Family's legitimate daughter.
The Tuoba Clan lay beside a vast lake in the heart of the