Two days later, Xue Ke, the Empress of the Heaven Dou Empire, set off with her entourage. Her destination was naturally Spirit City, where she would attend the inauguration ceremony of the new Pope Bibi Dong.
However, it would only take a maximum of half a month to travel from Heaven Dou City to Spirit City, so the people of the Heaven Dou Empire were speculating that Queen Xue Ke's early departure might have other purposes, such as visiting other duchies or cities.
Although the Heaven Dou Empire has many historically significant cities and prosperous duchies, all the lords and kings know that since Empress Xue Ke has set out, there can only be one destination she is heading to!
That city was the first city that Empress Xue Ke took over to manage before inheriting the throne. It was also the most prosperous and wealthy city on the entire continent, and could be called the world's commercial center— Dragon's Glory City.
After all, the headquarters of the world's two largest chambers of commerce are located there, so it's impossible for them not to be wealthy. More importantly, Qi Ling, as the Imperial Tutor, naturally has a different status, and no one would think that anyone could compete with Qi Ling.
Therefore, the group from the Heaven Dou Empire first went to Dragon's Glory City. In order to show enough respect for Xue Ke, Qi Ling specially instructed everyone in Dragon's Glory, as well as all the elite troops belonging to Dragon's Glory in various places, to rush back to Dragon's Glory and hold a temporary military parade.
Standing atop Dragon's Glory City, Qi Ling stood beside Xue Ke. After all, Xue Ke represented the majesty of the Heaven Dou Empire, and it was necessary to maintain a certain image. Behind them stood numerous princes, ministers, and ducal kings.
However, despite what is said, Qi Ling and Xue Ke standing together do not look like a king and his subject, but rather a teacher and student, or rather, Qi Ling is more like the protagonist.
After all, Qi Ling was talking about his most proud army, and he was naturally beaming with pride. Xue Ke, on the other hand, was not really focused on the military parade, but rather on Qi Ling.
In Xue Ke's eyes, Qi Ling, who was full of vigor at this moment, was much more attractive than these soldiers. In recent days, she had seen many young men from all over the country who came to submit memorials in the palace, but none of them could compare to even one percent of her teacher, and none of them could even leave an impression on her.
" Xue Ke, Xue Ke, are you listening?" Qi Ling asked when she noticed Xue Ke was lost in thought.
"Ah? I... I was listening, teacher." Xue Ke was taken aback, her face flushed, and she hurriedly said, like a student caught daydreaming in class.
"Really? That's good." Qi Ling smiled and said, "Then, next, I'll introduce you to my most prized masterpiece to date, which is also a new strategy that I've been researching."
As Qi Ling spoke, five troops stepped forward from the parade. These five troops were not many in number, but each of them wore brightly colored uniforms, and each seemed to represent some kind of meaning.
Seeing Qi Ling so serious, Xue Ke couldn't help but take a closer look as well. The five troops were dressed in red, blue, cyan, purple, and green uniforms, and they marched forward in five square formations.
"Teacher, what does this mean? Do the different colors of their clothes have any special meaning?" Xue Ke couldn't help but ask.
Qi Ling then kept everyone in suspense, saying with a smile, "You'll have to discover that for yourself, so your teacher can see if your brain has gotten duller lately."
Xue Ke immediately said, "I didn't! Then I'll see for myself what you're talking about, teacher."
After careful observation, Xue Ke immediately noticed something amiss: the leaders of the various formations were all people she knew, from which she could deduce something.
The red formation is led by Huo Wu, the blue formation by Shui Bing'er, the cyan formation by Feng Xiaotian, and the purple formation by Yu Tianyi.
As for the green square formation, Xue Ke didn't recognize it, but she could already guess its secret. She excitedly said to Qi Ling, "Teacher, I know! It's elemental attribute, right?"
"Oh? How did you figure that out?" Qi Ling smiled. "That's right, what distinguishes them is their respective elemental attributes! Because these teams were established based on the original single-attribute academies."
"But teacher, while single-attribute teams are powerful, they have significant limitations. Didn't you already tell me that?" Xue Ke asked, puzzled. "If that's the case, what's the point of you building these single-attribute teams?"
Qi Ling then smiled and said, " Xue Ke, this is what I'm going to talk about next. Ordinary team compositions are simply based on the strengths of each Soul Master, divided into defense, offense, and support. Although they can complement each other, they can only bring out the strength of their own abilities."
"What I need to do is to enable them to further leverage the power of teamwork," Qi Ling said. "That's right, to create elemental reactions between different elemental attributes! This will produce a situation where 1+1 is greater than 2!"
In fact, this idea had already begun to form in Qi Ling when he saw Huo Wu and Shui Bing'er's Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Unlike simply using defense and offense to distinguish teams, using elemental reactions to combine teams would produce unexpected results.
Qi Ling didn't consider himself a tactical genius. He was sure that others had thought of this idea before, but when it came to implementation, it was fraught with problems. The main problem was that the various single-attribute experts were all unwilling to submit to each other and naturally refused to cooperate.
At times like these, a more powerful force is needed to unite them! Qi Ling possesses such strength, enough to overcome any difficulty!
"In this way, it might not be noticeable in small-scale battles, but in large-scale wars, the power they can unleash will absolutely exceed everyone's imagination!" Qi Ling said.
After listening to Qi Ling's explanation, Xue Ke's eyes lit up with excitement, because she understood what kind of power this would unleash. She exclaimed, "I see! Wind fuels fire, fire is aided by grass, lightning can spread with the help of water, and water elements can nourish plants!"
"Teacher, this combination of elements is truly amazing! It's just a bit of a shame we can't see them in actual combat."
Indeed, given the immense power of this combination of elements, it cannot be used lightly, otherwise it could easily cause injury.
Qi Ling, looking at the excited Xue Ke, smiled and said, "Do you want to see their power in actual combat? Of course you can, I'll grant your wish right now."