Let's All Get Competitive

Chapter 23: Let's All Get Competitive

The night passed uneventfully.

In the early morning, Li Dingguo awoke from deep cultivation, and upon sensing the significant increase in his Qi and Blood Power, he was pleasantly surprised and quite satisfied.

The Body Refining realm, to put it simply, is about refining essence into qi.

At the Lower Three Realms: Body Refining stage, this "qi" refers to Qi and Blood Power.

Unlike those basic, intermediate, and advanced Cultivation Methods, Divine Techniques and Marvelous Methods of the true scripture type can not only accelerate the refinement of energy absorbed daily through food, Spirit Grass, Spirit Root, Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, monster meat, medicinal soups, etc., to supplement cultivation needs, thereby continuously improving and increasing one's Life Essence and enhancing physical fitness while constantly strengthening Qi and Blood Power.

At the same time, true scripture type Cultivation Methods can also continuously absorb the external Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy by meditating and visualizing the profound Cultivation Method runes in the Spirit Sea, using one's spiritual power. This energy enters the Spirit Sea from the top of the head and then, through the Circumstellar True Scripture's circulation, also achieves the effect of supplementing and increasing Life Essence and Qi and Blood Power.

This two-pronged cultivation method is the biggest difference between true scripture type Cultivation Methods and those basic, intermediate, and advanced ones.

It is precisely because true scripture type Cultivation Methods are so miraculous that they can be called Divine Techniques and Marvelous Methods, or peerless divine techniques.

Therefore, although the Circumstellar True Scripture that Li Dingguo is currently cultivating requires more than ten times the amount of cultivation resources like Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and Spirit Grass compared to ordinary Martial Artists at the same level, because he can supplement the energy needed for cultivation through meditation, his cultivation speed is not slower than that of ordinary Martial Artists at the same level.

In fact, because his spiritual power is strong enough and the Circumstellar True Scripture is incredibly miraculous, he can absorb a large amount of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy into his body with each meditation session, making his cultivation breakthrough speed even faster than ordinary Martial Artists at the same level.

"Li Dingguo, I feel like my Qi and Blood Power has increased quite a bit compared to yesterday!"

Ai Nengqi opened his eyes, got out of bed, and said excitedly to Li Dingguo while putting on his shoes.

"Yeah."

Li Dingguo nodded and replied, "Me too."

"However, both of us are currently the lowest level Martial Artists, with our cultivation only at the early stage of Martial Dao First Level, so it's normal to feel this kind of rapid progress."

"Once our cultivation becomes deeper, the improvement in cultivation speed won't feel as obvious."

"Oh, and also..."

Li Dingguo remembered something and quickly got out of bed to put on his clothes and shoes, saying to Ai Nengqi, "Last night, when our cultural class ended, the Eight Great Kings said that today he would teach us various basic skills essential for Martial Artists."

"Things like horsemanship, archery, saber techniques, spear techniques, etc., we have to start learning!"

"Let's both hurry and wash up, and then rush to the front courtyard. Don't be late. It wouldn't be good to keep the King waiting there for us."

From now on, as members of the Rebel Army, it's certainly not enough for them to just have cultivation realms without understanding killing techniques.

Therefore, after Li Dingguo and the others broke through to become Martial Artists, the next step is to quickly learn some combat and killing skills.

Only in this way can they quickly become qualified Martial Artists.

Moreover, it's not just that.

The Eight Great Kings Zhang Xianzhong also said last night that after Ai Nengqi and Li Dingguo learn the basics of various Martial Artist skills, they will also need to start learning some Military Strategy and Tactics.

Only then can they become qualified Rebel Army generals and lead troops in battle in the future.

In short, Li Dingguo and these other talented youths will have their time fully scheduled every day from now on, at least until the government troops come to encircle and suppress the Rebel Army.

Of course, this is also the treatment Zhang Xianzhong is giving them by putting his full effort into cultivating them, wanting them to become successful as soon as possible.

As for the other Rebel Army soldiers, including the three hundred Veteran Camp soldiers, they won't receive this kind of treatment.

Even those Veteran Camp soldiers only get one bowl of Spirit Rice Meal and one bowl of Vitality and Blood Soup per day now, and no more.

Hungry?

Now that they've captured a county town, they don't lack money or grain, and ordinary food is plentiful.

As for the Rebel Army's rabble, being able to eat two full meals a day, one dry and one watery, is already quite good.

As for Spirit Food, don't even think about it.

If you want good treatment, that's fine, but you must earn corresponding merit and perform well to receive the appropriate rewards.

Zhang Xianzhong, being an experienced military officer, has quite a system for managing the Rebel Army.

"Oh, oh..."

As soon as Li Dingguo finished speaking, Ai Nengqi became anxious and quickly said, "Let's hurry up, it's almost completely light."

"I wonder if we'll start learning to ride horses today? I've wanted to ride a big horse and show off for a long time!"

"Preferably a Spirit Beast Warhorse, riding one of those would be truly majestic!"

For a simple-minded youth like him, his biggest wish right now is to be able to ride a warhorse and show off majestically everywhere.

"This... probably."

Li Dingguo said somewhat uncertainly.

After all, for these talented youths, the most urgently needed skill to learn is undoubtedly horsemanship.

Only in this way, when the government troops come to encircle them, even if they can't defeat the enemy, riding a horse to escape will greatly increase their chances of survival.

As for whether they will have a warhorse to ride today, it depends on how much Zhang Xianzhong values these talented youths.

However, based on Li Dingguo's guess, leaving aside the other youths who haven't yet entered the Martial Artist realm, he and Ai Nengqi will likely get a Spirit Beast Warhorse to ride.

Becoming a cavalryman by riding a Spirit Beast Warhorse is not that simple.

First, you need to spend time with the Spirit Beast Warhorse day and night, establish a certain level of understanding, and get it to recognize you.

How could training a true cavalryman be so easy?

Especially for Martial Artists who have just started, personally subduing a Spirit Beast Warhorse is definitely not a simple task.

The two didn't dare to waste time. After getting dressed, they quickly took their toiletries to the nearby well to wash up. After bringing their things back to the side room and putting them away, they walked out shoulder-to-shoulder and strode towards the front courtyard.

At this time, other talented youths also rushed out of nearby side rooms, taking their things to wash up.

They weren't usually this early today, and Zhang Xianzhong hadn't assigned them any other training content; they were supposed to continue as usual.

But they had been startled by Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi, so naturally they didn't dare to delay further, lest they leave a bad impression on the Great King.

"Good, the Great King hasn't arrived yet."

"Those two, Liu Wenxiu and Zhang Huier, are actually earlier than us?"

Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi quickly arrived at the front courtyard. As they looked around and breathed a sigh of relief, they were surprised to find that Liu Wenxiu and Zhang Huier had already been there for a while.

The two of them were even practicing Tiger Roar Fist side-by-side, one move at a time. Their young faces were very serious, and the sound of their fists cutting through the air was loud.

"These two are really going all out, aren't they?"

"Working this hard?"

Li Dingguo immediately rolled his eyes inwardly and muttered a complaint, unsure what else to say.

Without needing to think, this was because Liu Wenxiu and Zhang Huier had been encouraged by the Eight Great Kings, Zhang Xianzhong, yesterday, which gave them motivation and made them not want to fall behind others.

They were probably holding their breath, wanting to catch up to Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi through their own efforts.

This was healthy competition, and Li Dingguo had nothing to say, but his own motivation also increased.

Before long, life-and-death crises would inevitably follow one after another. To save his own life, he also had to work hard.