After hearing the four report on the defenses under their respective charge and offer their personal views on the Human-Demon War, Liu Changxu raised a concern of his own:
"I just inspected the defenses along the wall and found that the Qi Refinement cultivators under our command were rather lax in their conduct!
"That would be tolerable in ordinary times! After all, most of them are lineage cultivators and rogue cultivators, accustomed to being free and undisciplined.
"But facing the approaching beast tide in such a state simply won't do.
"Against a beast tide that blots out the sky and blankets the earth, fighting alone and doing as each person pleases will hardly suffice. We must change this immediately."
As soon as Liu Changxu finished, Xia Wenxia, the beautiful middle-aged woman, spoke in a sweet, delicate voice:
"True Person! Just tell us what to do, and we will obey."
Yet she only said this to flatter Liu Changxu! She felt that everyone behaved this way and saw nothing that needed improving.
At this point, Wang Ling, who stood to one side, spoke:
"True Person, do you intend to introduce battle formations?"
"Yes! Before the beast tide arrives, I want to train our shift of cultivators in battle formations and put them into practice. Otherwise, holding back the beast tide with our present strength will be quite difficult!"
Liu Changxu spoke solemnly.
Hearing Liu Changxu say this, the four could not help wearing wry smiles!
"What you say is entirely right, True Person, but battle formations are closely guarded secrets of sects and certain cultivation lineages. We don't know how to use them!"
Wang Ling spoke with a wry smile.
Wang Ling was the patriarch of a small lineage, and he knew full well that the art of battle formations lay