"Life is like a play, and a play is like life! What is real? What is illusion? If you Otherworlders treat this world as a second life, then this is the real world!"
"Everything in this world could actually connect with your world, including the strength and abilities you possessed here. Even you Otherworlders could bring this world's natives into your world!"
"For example, someone by your side—as long as your intimacy, or rather, loyalty, reached a trust level of over 95, you could apply to transfer them to your world..."
"The price? Not much. Ten thousand Diamond Coins!"
Ever since leaving Penglai Trading House, Jian Shang's mind had been muddled and chaotic. Even as he went to recruit soldiers to replenish the Black Wolf Cavalry, it remained the same. The earth-shattering news he had bought from Shopkeeper Ji for ten Diamond Coins kept echoing through his mind.
Half a cart of luxury goods had sold for 630 Diamond Coins. Even after paying for the Black Wolf Cavalry's cloaks, helmets, armor, weapons, and other equipment, he had spent only fifty Diamond Coins. Knowing he was newly arrived and that the situation at the Chaos Military Camp was unfavorable, Jian Shang had been generous with this recruitment. He had directly recruited soldiers up to the number of Northern Plains Biao, all of them the most expensive battle-tested guards—expert riders and archers, veterans of a hundred battles. He had spent his enormous newfound wealth clean in one stroke! (Each battle-tested guard cost 20 gold.)
The Black Wolf Cavalry now numbered 583 men, the same as the Northern Plains Biao—exactly one mount for every man.
Jian Shang's goal was to forge the Black Wolf Cavalry into elite troops capable of striking from afar and fighting up close, following the path of absolute