PFC Chapter 6993 is in the works!
Chapter 6993 is in the works!
Chapter 6993 is in the works!
"Dead?" Chen Xi turned to Zhao Yun, who was providing the lockdown for the entire small world, and asked.
"Yes, he's dead." Zhao Yun nodded and said, "That attack just now, if you don't charge up your power, a full-force attack from a normal Breaking Realm would only be this strong."
"Moreover, that was actually a triple attack. The explosion and the flames were only what you saw. The attack that annihilates the will came after the explosion and the flames," Guan Yu said with a hint of caution. "The pure explosion and flames could kill Helian Tuomiao, but his will could still escape."
"It's a pretty unbeatable talent. If the opponents weren't Zhang Yong and his two companions, it would be really hard for anyone else to win. That's just too disgusting." Chen Xi said with a sigh. To be honest, the Illusionary Mind Movement framework is indeed a bit too childish.
"Thinking about it carefully, I was actually wrong just now. If we're talking about an unsolvable problem, then under normal circumstances it is indeed unsolvable. But for the Illusionary Trace to be activated and turn into Illusionary Warriors, and to be precise enough, the range can't be too large. A massive, all-encompassing attack can indeed solve the problem." Huangfu Song said leisurely. Zhang Yong's move really gave him a wake-up call.
"Good, as long as there's a plan, that's fine. However, we also need to study this talent. We need to have a countermeasure, so that next time it appears, it won't be a situation where even three top experts working together can't defeat it." Liu Bei said upon hearing this. Huangfu Song's eyes narrowed upon hearing this. With such a grand martial arts exercise, he, as the great general, had a lot more work to do.
"Hunters have been cleared out?" Chen Xi asked Zhao Shuang, who was counting the number of enemies beside him.
“Helian Tuomiao was the last Xiongnu to invade the small world,” Zhao Shuang quickly replied. “The remaining Xiongnu were mostly captured. There are no more Xiongnu left who can still roam the battlefield.”
“Alright then, the Xiongnu are finished too. Let’s move on to the final stage now.” Chen Xi thought for a moment and said, then turned to Sun Wu beside him and said, “Ancestor, throw in some more demon gods to increase the intensity. We’ll be closing the circle soon. The Grand Martial Arts Competition is only now officially starting.”
"The demons inside haven't been dealt with yet," Sun Wu said, frowning as he glanced inside.
"Don't worry. We weren't fully staffed before, and I was also a bit worried about the strength of this demon god. Now, we have a pretty accurate assessment, so we can put more in and kill them all together." Chen Xi said confidently. The demon god with seven layers of forging was indeed very powerful, but the second stage of the trial had already determined that the unarmored and unarmed demon god was only so-so. What was there to panic about? Kill them a few more times, and even if they couldn't kill them by breaking their willpower limit, they could at least weaken them.
"Alright then." Sun Wu glanced at the guys who had killed several demon gods, especially Slavnis. This guy really treated it like he was coming to a buffet, actually killing three demon gods, and completely refining and absorbing them.
To put it simply, when Slavnis came in, he was only the third-best player in the Roma team, but now he's almost ready to fight Hasgard!
If Slavnis hadn't given up on reuniting with his teammates, he would have gone to the small world to find demon gods to refine. Refining a demon god would bring about a 6% enhancement, which was much more effective than Slavnis's crazy training. So he ate as much as he wanted at the free buffet.
“That guy refined three demon gods.” Sun Wu suddenly said to Chen Xi as he was preparing to unleash another wave of demon gods.
“There’s nothing we can do about it. The Romans’ sacrificial talent is developed in a really strange way. We really can’t catch up with them. Moreover, they also have the ability to burn away everything, which is perfect for a combination of burning, refining, and absorbing.” Chen Xi said with a sigh, “And it’s a level seven one. Our Han Dynasty doesn’t have any. Ancestor, you can count on Nanqiao. He’s refined two of them too.”
“Not only is the absorption rate less than half that of the Roman veteran, but he also can’t be killed by the alchemy. To be more specific, the Roman method is like alchemy, turning poison into medicine, where poison is also medicine, and then it is completely absorbed. Your method is different; it picks and chooses, expelling the poison in the end. It looks like he was killed by the alchemy, but after a while, he comes back to life,” Sun Wu said, waving his hand.
"Well, there's nothing we can do about it. We're not good at this kind of sacrifice here." Chen Xi said, looking at Bai Qi. Bai Qi crossed his arms and remained silent. What does it have to do with me? Back then, things were so chaotic. In my eyes, doing this kind of thing was considered lewd worship. I killed them on the spot. Now that we need to use this hundreds of years later, is it my fault?
"Although there are many prerequisites, this is indeed the best approach at present. As for the difficulty, it's not too bad." Sun Wu said slowly. "The Marquis of Huaiyin said that he was good at developing the Xuanxiang Military Formation, so I commissioned him to help develop a military formation based on killing and sacrificing."
Sun Tzu could also develop this, but as I said before, the core reason why the Binshi Demon God is difficult to deal with, besides its excessive strength, is its universality.
There are no barriers to entry for this. If you only look at the veterans in the Grand Martial Arts Tournament, any group of them, with sufficient weapons and equipment, could easily kill a demon god of the same size. At most, there would be some loss of troops and personnel.
Even three years later, once the first phase of defensive etching and the pacifying elixir is fully implemented, the three million main shield guards who destroyed the Kushan Empire will return, led by 500 shield guards. It will only be a matter of time before they wipe out Sun Tzu's 30,000 demon gods via Yunmeng Marsh.
It can be said that Chen Xi was already confident in solving the existing historical problems. However, the toxicity of the sacrificial ceremony for the deceased lies not only in the current historical issues but also in the possibility of its recurrence in the future.
To put it bluntly, if in the future a large, inhumane army commander were to emerge, realize this thing, and then spread it all over the country, those guys who harbor resentment towards the times and society would definitely use it to practice when they don't want to live anymore.
When more and more people practice this, if ordinary people can't solve the problem, it will most likely turn into a vicious cycle. In other words, if you don't practice it, but your enemy does, you will most likely die as a whole family.
Therefore, the solution to deal with the Bin Shi Demon God must be something that ordinary people can master and use, and cannot rely on so-called gods.
Just like the typhoid fever at the end of the Han Dynasty, Hua Tuo could save people even with all the necessary herbs, but was it effective? Tens of millions of people across the entire country contracted this disease, and a bowl of his life-saving medicine cost tens of thousands of coins. How many people could afford that amount of money for treatment?
This is why Zhang Zhongjing is considered a medical sage, while Hua Tuo is not.
Just like most cancers, even in their late stages, they are treatable. One injection of Yttrium-90 microspheres costs 358,000 yuan, followed by a monoclonal antibody injection every 21 days. If the medication is used correctly, there is a high probability that the patient can continue to survive. The problem is, how many ordinary families can afford this kind of treatment?
Keep in mind that this thing isn't even considered too expensive; it's relatively affordable.
However, for many families, this kind of thing is already an unacceptable burden.
Therefore, to solve the problem of something universally applicable, what is needed is an extremely cheap and effective drug, even if it has certain side effects and its effects are not rapid. But for the general public, this is what is truly needed.
Similarly, to deal with demons, and to resolve this kind of species abnormality that is actually universal to humans, we need solutions that ordinary people can solve.
Chen Xi's plan is not applicable to ordinary people! The logistics of soldiers and models, daily training, etc., are only realities that can be achieved in a very few eras. Most of the time, drawing salaries without working, making dirty money, and conducting drills every five days are the real feudal society. Well, sometimes feudal society doesn't even reach the point of conducting drills every five days.
“Simplifying it to a level that normal people can use, or even combining it directly with the village's cloud formations, would take a lot more time, and the effect might only be about 30% to 50% of what it is now,” Han Xin said truthfully. But even this answer was already very good for Chen Xi.
After all, even if the Binshi Demon God is exposed one day, it won't suddenly appear in large numbers. At the beginning, there will definitely be only a few. And a village with such a thing, even if the effect is poor, spending some time and sacrificing a few lives, is almost enough to kill the newly born demon god directly.
In some ways, this is the most suitable solution for ordinary people.
“Time is not a problem, there is still plenty of time.” Chen Xi nodded to Han Xin. He didn’t care about the time consumption, because the next era still belonged to him. After he stepped down, Zhuge Liang’s era would still maintain the power to suppress the demon god, so there was still enough time.
"I'll optimize it a bit. Actually, as far as I remember, the talent of killing and absorbing is the first version I came up with." Bai Qi chimed in. After all, the Han Dynasty was a nation that relied on cannibalism, and Bai Qi quite liked the Han Dynasty era. So Bai Qi felt it was necessary to give the Han Dynasty a hand if he could.
"If I remember correctly, during the era of Lord Wu'an, the essence of heaven and earth was nearing its end, almost the end of the Dharma realm?" Chen Xi said thoughtfully. "Would it have been possible to develop a talent for absorbing killing energy back then?"
"Kill enough people, and you'll be able to open it up," Han Xin said leisurely, replacing Bai Qi.
Chen Xi was silent for a while. Indeed, killing to absorb this talent normally requires practice, but if you kill too many people and the data accumulates to hundreds of thousands or millions, it seems that you really don't need to practice anymore. Even if you don't have the concept of this talent in your mind, it will come naturally after accumulating so much.
"After all, if we're being honest, I'm a symbol of the talent for killing." Bai Qi didn't deny what Han Xin said. He did indeed kill a lot of people and then, when the essence of heaven and earth was about to be exhausted, he came to know about this thing, but it was of little use.
Of course, it wasn't very useful back then, but now, if we compare and optimize the original template with the current killing and absorbing techniques, it's quite simple for Bai Qi.
During the optimization process of talents, some unnecessary content will be continuously trimmed. Of course, whether this content is really unnecessary needs to be considered separately. From the perspective of the effect required by the talents in the future, some content of the original talents does need to be removed.
This is also because as more people use talents and the scale expands, the talent itself will reduce the time required for forging without reducing its strength.
Because during the process of using it, the master will delete some of the original talents that were not manifested, reduce the basic requirements for carrying the talents, and reduce the content that needs to be mastered during the smelting process.
Therefore, from this perspective, the entire process from the development of a talent to its final form is a positive optimization.
Of course, this kind of optimization has its limits. After removing the unnecessary content that is not yet apparent, further optimization would require changing the structure of the elite talent.
Theoretically speaking, all elite talents can be optimized to the point where a normal person can complete the refinement in about five years, but it is too difficult. Even now, most talents still have not had all the extra content added when they were created completely removed.
In the entire world, the only talent that has reached the pinnacle of talent optimization is the Burning talent. This talent only requires you to reach the pinnacle of two talents. Don't be incredibly stupid. In addition, you are not naturally suited for Burning. Even in the current harsh environment, you can basically complete the fusion in three or four years.
Of course, this optimization is not all good. The more extra content a talent contains, the easier it is to develop other effects or even extend into new talents during the process of refining and mastering it, thus comprehensively strengthening it.
This is also why some talents can achieve great results. Essentially, very few people use these talents, and no one in our ancestors optimized them. What you receive is less a talent and more a reflection of our ancestors on how to create the talent I want. If you follow this line of thought, because you and the creator are not the same person, your wisdom will be triggered, and you will come up with something different.
It's safe to say that unless you're truly an idiot, every unlucky kid who manages to forge the first generation of talent can concoct some strange contraption.
On the contrary, the less content there is in the later stages of the talent, the more it is cut out, and the more difficult it becomes to read the creator's thinking from it. In the end, the fully optimized talent is just a path, and you can just follow it without having to think about anything else.
Jiang Guang was able to develop the Great Success Adaptive Technology, but now it's basically impossible for anyone studying adaptive talent to do it, because the adaptive technology they use has already been optimized, with much less content, and it's directly aimed at the path of overweight adaptation.
Just like those who study mathematics in later generations and those who followed the geniuses to create mathematics in the early days, the former can calculate calculus and the latter can also calculate it, but surely no one would think that these two things are the same. To be honest, only the results are the same; the process and interpretation are completely different.
If you ask most people who study mathematics in later generations to explain why this is so, they absolutely cannot explain it. But those who followed the genius in creating this thing can at least say why they created this tool. This is already a fundamental difference.
So, if Bai Qi says he has the original killing template, then to be honest, it's really worthwhile to learn from it, even if you don't actually adopt those two words.
"And what about the two of you?" Chen Xi asked Sun and Wu with a grin. At this point, calling them ancestors was pointless.
“I’m going back to Yunmengze to guard it,” Sun Wu said calmly. “If I’m not there for too long, there will be a riot.”
"I won't be able to fully wake up in a short time. I'll only be able to be awake for a very short period every few days. I think I should just fight against God," Wu Qi said.
Chen Xi curled his lips. He was still thinking of temporarily supplying these two with some national fortune, making them work like cattle and horses for a while, and then discarding them after using them!
"Let's just leave Wu Xi's matter as it is. Zhang Ping is considered an assistant, so how about half a rank?" Liu Tong asked Xu Yue, who was standing next to him, to take notes. After all, every meritorious deed like killing the Xiongnu should be recorded.
The merits of the Hu people can be filled with their own feet, and as long as it's not too outrageous, the higher-ups will turn a blind eye. But the merits of the Xiongnu people really need to be carefully counted. Assisting in fighting other things may not count as merit, but in fighting the Xiongnu, assistance has always been counted.
"Let's combine them all," Liu Bei suddenly said.
“That works too.” Liu Tong nodded. Zhang Yong and Zhang Ping had already been granted the title of Marquis within the Passes for their contributions to the Northern Ottomans and the suppression of the locust plague. It was originally planned to be announced at the Grand Court Assembly, but now that the Xiongnu chieftain had been executed, the titles could be awarded together.
Soon, the group of women who were chattering in the side hall saw that the Weiyang Palace Master had brought over two more boxes of the same items as before, which were handed over to Zhang Yong's wife and Zhang Ping's wife.
The two women, who were initially envious of Zhang Yingying and Guo Yuan, had their eyes light up when they received this gift. After all, everyone present was a daughter of a noble family, and they all understood what these things meant.
To put it bluntly, Zhang Yingying and Guo Yuan's ancestors were at least marquises. The Yingchuan Yu family, from which Zhang Ping's wife came, was definitely a second-rate family in those days. They had a reputation in the prefecture and county, a lineage of over a hundred years, and several officials with a salary of a thousand shi (a unit of grain), but they didn't have any special privileges!
Yu Yan and Zhang Yong's wife, Zong Mei, had previously envied Zhang Yingying and Guo Yuan when they transformed into Marquis's wives. However, they knew their own situation best; the title of Marquis within the Pass was not so easy to obtain. The two, who were relatively familiar with each other, even discussed this matter.
Just moments before, Yu Yan was saying, "If my husband becomes the Marquis of Guannei, I'll definitely bring a bunch of gifts back to my parents' home to see those girls properly," and so on.
After all, she was an illegitimate daughter, and very few children were not bullied when they were young. Big sister types like Wang Qian had very high standards for personality and age.
So even though Yu Yan had gained some peace of mind as her husband rose to power and was increasingly concerned about her family, she would still say that if she became a Marquis's wife, she would even pay out of her own pocket to have a Marquis's wife's carriage made so that she could drive to the ancestral home of the Yu family in Yingchuan and let those shoving guys have a good look at her.
However, this idea was immediately extinguished by Zongmei, who said that if you go back now, all the sisters you knew back then who were supposed to get married have already gotten married, and those who weren't married were too young back then, so it's meaningless, blah blah blah.
Then Yu Yan laughed and began to revise her thoughts, chatting with Zong Mei about what she would do if she became a Marquis's wife one day. After all, she was genuinely envious. However, the two of them had a very positive attitude. They were already very satisfied with their current lives. In particular, Zong Mei was quite resistant to Zhang Yong going to the battlefield. Back then, a big reason why Zhang Yong retired from the army was actually Zong Mei.
Well, Sun Er and Jiang Guang were the same. They both had wives, held ranks of seven to nine, and had decent local jobs. At their wives' request, they both retired from the military.
Before long, while the two were still chattering about what it would be like if they became wives of marquises, Liu Tong had already delivered the marquis's outfit to them.
"Alright, now we really need to discuss our previous plans." Zong Mei said with a smile. Although their Zong family was not well-known, they were a powerful clan with a deep foundation. They were the kind of family that could rival Zhou Yu's Zhou family. They were a true family of three dukes. Zong Mei had seen them when she was a child, but she never expected that one day she would be able to enjoy such treatment.
However, many people can't overcome the hurdle of becoming a Marquis within the Pass in their entire lives.
"Uh, I have to say now that I was joking before." Yu Yan said after a moment of silence. Now that she had really become the Lady of the Marquis, Yu Yan really had no interest in going back to her original family, since her family was now much larger than her original family.
"I wonder what my husband did?" Zongmei opened the hairpin and Huasheng, glanced at them, put them away, and asked with some curiosity, resting her chin on her hand. How could a grand martial arts competition produce four Marquises from within the pass? What exactly was going on inside?
"I'm quite curious too." Yu Yan was actually trembling with excitement, but she still tried her best to imitate Zong Mei's manner, took a few deep breaths, and pretended to be normal as she spoke, but her flushed cheeks betrayed her true state.
"Let me activate the Lady of the Marquis's authority and ask one of the palace guards!" Zong Mei had clearly received a more in-depth education; at the very least, she knew how to use power once she had it. The palace guards from Weiyang Palace were difficult to communicate with before, but now…
"Oh, is there a lady who wants to come in and take a look?" Liu Tong received the message and did not refuse. Although most women do not like this kind of bloody and brutal competition, it does not mean that everyone dislikes it.
"Then let him in." Liu Tong waved his hand, not taking it to heart. Then Zong Mei led Yu Yan, who was eating melon seeds, in. As soon as she entered, she saw her husband's heroic figure!
"Zhang Yong, you bastard!" Han Tong's face turned green. Damn it, I have no grudge against you, why did you do this to me the moment you saw me? We're comrades!
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