Another week later, Great Qin finally finished sweeping through Terror Forest. There had been virtually no obstacles—ordinary villages had no power to resist, while the slightly more resistant towns were still easily wiped out before the terrifying strength of Great Qin.
At the same time, after clearing out every force in an entire region, Great Qin's strength received another terrifying boost.
First, its total population had surpassed 6.5 million. Of these, Zhao Fu's army had expanded to 1.2 million soldiers. Eight hundred thousand of them were already first-order soldiers, while the remaining four hundred thousand were newly recruited members. They had all taken Blood God Pills to increase their cultivation, and with the aid of third-order pills, they should soon advance to the first order as well.
The number of second-order soldiers had risen to ten thousand, all of them veteran troops. These second-order soldiers could easily cut down first-order soldiers within a few moves, with one person easily able to handle seven or eight.
If there were twenty thousand second-order soldiers, they could deal with at least one hundred and forty thousand first-order soldiers. This was already extremely powerful. If third-order soldiers could be cultivated, a single one could rival fifty first-order soldiers.
This was originally a world where high-order soldiers ran rampant. They were the main force in conquering the world, while ordinary low-order soldiers could only be slaughtered. Zhao Fu had long wanted to cultivate high-order combat power.
Unfortunately, Zhao Fu had already exerted every effort, yet the pace was still too slow. Soldiers could possess ninth-order cultivation, yet Great Qin had not even fully equipped its soldiers with first-order cultivation. There was truly nothing to be done about it; they could only take things slowly. Hadn't Great Qin already cultivated twenty thousand second-order soldiers? Third-order soldiers