"What? You're not going to unleash your full power, are you planning to win by glaring at me with your eyes?"
Upon hearing this, the veteran soldiers burst into laughter. The new recruits, though confused, also joined in the laughter at Wei Gongyan's somewhat comical actions.
Yuchi Feihu stared in astonishment at the scene. Wei Gongyan's sword technique was wrong. Instead of attacking downwards, he was trying to overturn the opponent's downward sword strike. It was an extremely contemptuous move, but it should have been possible. After all, there was a fundamental difference in strength between bloodline disciples and ordinary martial artists. But just now...
Di Yun's power seems somewhat abnormal!
"You're asking for death!" Wei Gongyan, regaining his senses, was immediately provoked by the uproarious laughter around him, his face turning red. He no longer cared about hiding anything, and with his blood fully activated, snake scales appeared faintly on his face. His roar was like that of a snake, which startled some of the new recruits!
With his blood vessels fully unleashed, Wei Gongyan's strength increased exponentially. He shattered the stone slabs beneath his feet, and the terrifying force bent the sword in his hand, yet he remained completely unmoved!
The burly man in front of him held a knife in one hand, like a mountain, pressing down on his blade. No matter how much he struggled, he couldn't move an inch!
"You—" Wei Gongyan stared wide-eyed at the other person in disbelief.
"Is that all you've got?" Di Yun sneered, raising his knife slightly. The opponent's tense grip caused the knife to swing upwards, but in that instant, Di Yun's knife slammed down again. With such a casual flick, Wei Gongyan's knife shattered with a crack, and the intense shock twisted his wrist like a pretzel, causing Wei Gongyan in agony!
"How crude." Di Yun shook his head slightly. "With the blade pressed down three inches, you'd need three times my strength to forcefully knock me away. I've given you enough time to react and make you realize you don't have the strength, yet you still don't know how to control your force and change your stance. You really only know how to use brute force?"
"You—" Wei Gongyan knelt on the ground, the intense pain bringing him to the brink of emotional collapse. He roared with heart-wrenching fury, "You bastard, how dare you! Do you even know who I am?"
"Oh?" The gleaming blade pressed down on his head instantly, and Di Yun's cold voice rang out. "Who are you?"
That idiot.
Yuchi Feihu was utterly ashamed to look at him. He never imagined that the Wei Household's direct subordinate, assigned to him by his elder brother, would be so incompetent.
Wei Gongyan immediately calmed down and realized that revealing his identity in this place seemed to be useless.
"I... I'm a descendant of the bloodline!"
"A useless bloodline descendant." Di Yun disdainfully withdrew the knife he had been holding to the other's neck. "You have a good body but don't know how to use it. You clearly have an agile bloodline, yet you fight like a brute. Your attack just now was full of flaws. Even if you encountered someone half your speed, let alone someone as fast as you, if you had a better timing, you could have been killed instantly!"
Wei Gongyan clutched his twisted arm tightly, glaring fiercely at the other man. Combined with the scales on his face, he looked like a man-eating serpent monster!
"Kid, listen up," Di Yun said disdainfully, looking at the other man. "Let me tell you why I let you get the upper hand yesterday. The moment your bloodline erupted, I knew you were at least Fourth Rank martial artist. Most of the onlookers were ordinary people from Liuzhou. Fighting you at such close range, I wasn't confident I could avoid affecting those around me. That's why I used the force of your anger and embarrassment to send you flying. But obviously, I overestimated myself!"
With that, he tossed the knife back into the weapon rack and sneered, "If I'd known you were only this good, I could have crushed you yesterday. I hereby declare that my group will not accept bloodline trash like you!"
"My second group won't accept either!" A burly man, much taller than Di Yun, chuckled beside him.
"Group Three, no acceptance!" said a stern-faced soldier standing nearby.
"Four groups are not accepted."
"Group Six won't accept you!"
Finally, as the nine people who had stepped onto the stage spoke, the burly man at the head of the group coldly declared, "If all nine groups are rejected, it's considered elimination. Wei Yan, the candidate, will be relegated to the reserves for basic training. He will be re-evaluated in a month. If he passes the training, he'll be promoted to the rescue team; if he still fails, he'll either join the city garrison or get out!"
"Men, take him away!" Di Yun ordered, raising his hand directly.
"You'll regret this!" Wei Gongyan roared involuntarily.
"I look forward to the day I regret it," Di Yun said coldly. "But I've seen plenty of bloodline wastes like you, and none of you have ever made me regret it!"
Upon hearing this, several veterans straightened their chests!
Di Yun stepped forward to the front of the stage, looked at all the soldiers, and said coldly, "I, Di Yun, am a level four fighter. In your bloodline disciples' terms, my overall strength is roughly equivalent to Fifth Rank martial artist. That piece of trash just now was only Fourth Rank, but as you all saw, he couldn't even withstand a single move from me!"
Some of the bloodline descendants hidden among the soldiers couldn't help but swallow hard. Many of them recognized Di Yun, but they never expected him to become so powerful!
"I'll say it again, I don't accept trash here!" Di Yun said sternly. "Whether you're an ordinary person or a descendant of a powerful bloodline, if you can't even use a fraction of your own physical abilities, you're trash. No matter how powerful your bloodline is, I won't accept you here. Understand?"
"Clear!!"
The soldiers below roared like thunder, startling the new recruits who then nodded and shouted that they understood.
Looking at the obedient bloodline soldiers below, the veterans who had followed Di Yun all the way to the present were extremely excited!
This was definitely the right path!
Two months ago, although they were all centurions of the Black Dragon Guard, in the eyes of the true elites of the Black Dragon Guard, they were just cannon fodder!
No matter how hard they tried or how ambitious they became, they couldn't shake off this label. Even new recruits looked down on centurions like them. They lived like that for over a decade!
They never imagined that in just two months, their group would be able to point fingers at these bloodline descendants and berate them. A few days ago, they wouldn't even dare to dream of such a thing!
Yuchi Feihu below was also completely stunned.
He had heard the other party say yesterday that those with useless bloodlines couldn't survive in Liuzhou. He had been wondering why a mere mortal martial artist would say such a thing, but now he understood!
Are all of these people Transcendent?
Where does their strength come from?
Yuchi Feihu could clearly sense that they didn't possess any demonic bloodline, but rather emanated a very different purity of power. What was this power?
Looking at the sharp eyes of the soldiers on the platform, he immediately understood that they were the same as the elite troops outside the city, and that the soldiers in this city were different from those of the Great Jin!
This city is different from Great Jin!
" Old Wei, are these people from your Wei Household?" Zhou Haitao watched all this from a distance, then immediately gloated, "Not so great, is he? Third Master Shen?"
Master Shen San also laughed and said, "It's really not that great."
Wei Gongcheng rolled his eyes at the other person. "Why are you getting involved?"
He then looked at Wei Gongyan, who was yelling and threatening, with amusement, feeling utterly humiliated!
He knew how corrupt the privileged sons of soldiers were in the army, because the hard and tiring work was given to the ordinary soldiers. Many of them developed the spoiled soldier mentality, especially in the capital.
But I never imagined it would be this weak!
My cousin was favored by his stepmother since childhood, with all sorts of resources piled on him. He was given famous teachers and the best medicinal baths. The reason he couldn't reach the Third Rank before the age of thirty was because his bloodline purity was not high enough. But he should still be at the Fourth Rank! What was that fight just now? He lost badly!
Wei Gongcheng sighed and shook his head, "It's easy to imagine how much the soldiers of the Great Jin have fallen. No wonder Her Highness the Princess wanted to cooperate with demons. Otherwise, given the state of the soldiers in the capital, they probably wouldn't be qualified to fight against the Duke of Qin's troops."
"I do think Chen Qing's Divine Path Style system is a bit too powerful," said Master Shen San. "I remember that Di Yun and the others were just ordinary mortal martial artists two months ago, right? How long has it been? Even if your brother is useless, he's still a Fourth Rank martial artist. His humiliating defeat is partly due to his own incompetence, but isn't Di Yun's growth rate a bit too fast?"
Wei Gongcheng chuckled upon hearing this, "You haven't seen Xu Hu yet, he's almost First Rank martial artist now!"
"Not everyone can do that," Wei Gongcheng shook his head. "The power of the gods is mainly distributed. The stronger a person's potential, the faster they can consume divine blessings. Di Yun's rapid progress is due to years of honing his body, pushing it to the limits of a mortal. Now that he has encountered an opportunity, he can finally unleash his accumulated power. Others wouldn't be able to do it so quickly."
"That's still quite remarkable!" Master Shen gazed wistfully at the people coming and going in Liuzhou City below. "There are many heroes like Di Yun in this world, possessing ambition, perseverance, and martial arts talent, but lacking a good bloodline. Such power in the army is a hundred or a thousand times greater than that of those with bloodlines. If Chen Qing could cultivate these people like Di Yun, it would be an extremely terrifying force, a force that could probably overthrow entire bloodline families!"