With the soldiers' training grounds sorted out, the Southwestern Guard's development plan finally got on track. All that remained was to select the true elite a month later.
According to Wu Ming's expectations, more than seventy percent of these ten thousand elite soldiers had to reach the martial artist realm before the Beast Tide arrived in September. Together with the soldiers from the former Independent Regiment who were steadily breaking through, they would form a martial artist legion ten thousand strong.
It was already late May, leaving him only three months.
Fortunately, these reservists already had a solid foundation. After training throughout April, every one of them had mastered the core secrets of Internal Martial Arts, and their average physical strength had reached five hundred kilograms.
Wu Ming therefore planned to concentrate the Garrison Headquarters' resources on them for a month, helping as many as possible cross the threshold to Quasi-Martial Artist before the golden period ended.
As long as half of these twenty thousand soldiers succeeded, he would have achieved his goal.
Besides the cultivation methods, another factor gave him the confidence to do this: medicinal herbs.
Since April, mutated plants had become noticeably more common throughout the country. Although true Wood Spirits remained rare, large quantities of ordinary medicinal herbs had evolved, greatly increasing their potency. As a result, the effectiveness of various body-tempering medicines had also risen considerably.
Under the agreement Wu Ming had reached with the state, any cultivation resources found within the southwest belonged to the Garrison Headquarters.
Thus, upon discovering this development, Wu Ming, who had been inspecting the waterways, immediately ordered personnel from every branch to collect mutated herbs across the region and transport them to headquarters.
Medicinal herbs poured into the Garrison Headquarters in a steady stream. After a month, mountains of