Chapter 174 Sword Immortal 'Zhang Yang'
The huge royal city suddenly became quiet.
Because Zhaozhou and 1,000 senior craftsmen, plus 2,000 captain-level soldiers, have suspended the construction of the royal city and went to build an official road leading out of the mountains.
Because of the towering mountains and steep cliffs, even with a legendary master craftsman like Zhaozhou, 1,000 senior craftsmen, and 2,000 captain-level soldiers who can carry thousands of pounds on their hands, it is still an extremely arduous task.
Fortunately, the route and direction of the official road can be adjusted randomly. Old Man Zhaozhou and Zhang Liang walked back and forth more than ten times, and finally determined a route that is easiest to build, relatively easy to maintain, and not too affected by geological disasters.
This new official road no longer went westward as originally planned, with a length of 500 miles, but went north and then west, turning several corners, with a total length of 1,200 miles, increasing the mileage by two and a half times.
However, such a route ensures that the official road is flat, without having to cross mountains and ridges, without huge steep slopes and dangerous sections, the maximum ups and downs of the entire route will not exceed 20 degrees, and the width of the official road is enough for twelve horses to ride in parallel.
In addition, the foundation of the road will all be made of stones with a side length of 0.5 meters, which will be laid out piece by piece, ensuring that it is flat and strong enough. As long as there are no major natural disasters, this official road can even be passed down for thousands of years.
However, building such a road would be extremely expensive, not to mention the materials. Old man Zhaozhou directly asked for 1,000 senior craftsmen, which was the last recruitment quota in Zhang Yang's village construction order.
Finally he had to promise to solve the problem in two months at most.
Now, of his original recruitment quota of 5,000 people, 1,000 were used to recruit senior craftsmen, and 1,000 were being trained in the training grounds to become 500 Rock Heavy Infantry and 500 Flying Cloud Archer Guards.
The remaining 2,000 captain-level soldiers will still serve as engineers.
Of the 3,000 new recruits Wu Lei trained as captain-level soldiers, 2,000 were assigned to guard the royal city, and the remaining 1,000 were responsible for protecting the construction team. If they were to become engineers, their morale would drop.
In addition, Zhang Yang also has Wu Ya's 5 palace guards, Lei Ming's 6 Feiyun arrow guards, and Zhang Liang's 12 heavy-armored Modao captains.
This is the strongest military force. Each of them possesses strength comparable to Zhang Yang, especially the 12 heavily-armored Mo Dao captains. Their combat effectiveness is even stronger than Lei Ming who trained them. Any one of them can beat Wu Lei, Wu Ya, and Lei Ming.
Zhang Yang assigned 6 heavily-armored Mo Dao captains and 3 Feiyun arrow guards to Zhang Liang and Zhaozhou to protect them. The rest were placed in the royal city, making a total of 14 extraordinary masters.
But this was still not enough. Zhang Yang had not forgotten that there was a red-skinned monster with superhuman strength three thousand miles to the north. The other party had now built a level 4 royal city. Although he was definitely trying his best to recruit troops, what if the other party suddenly didn't want to hide and came over to cause trouble? So Zhang Yang had to think of other ways.
"Just hold on for another nine months."
In another nine months, 500 Rock Heavy Infantrymen will be trained, and by then they will have the ability to deter and protect themselves.
As Zhang Yang thought about it, he strode to a special building in the royal city, the level 22 Qingyun Sword Sect.
You can also recruit two extraordinary professions that are not part of the soldier system here.
The Qingyun Sword Sect is located at the foot of a green hill. It was not designed by Zhaozhou, but was given by the village construction order. From a distance, the tall green pines and ancient cypresses look majestic, and it has a bit of the demeanor of a hidden sect.
Pushing the door open, it was quiet inside. Facing me was a pool of clear water and a few green lotuses. Facing me was a huge incense burner with nine incense sticks as tall as a person rising from it, adding to the tranquility.
Behind the incense burner was a very ordinary three-room wooden house with a hole in the middle, empty inside.
Looking at both sides, there is a small bluestone square on each side. There are wooden men and weapon racks on the square. There are three 8-year-old boys, three 12-year-old boys, three 15-year-old boys, three 18-year-old young men, and three 24-year-old young men training with swords in this square.
These are the disciples of Qingyun Sword Sect that come with the special building. As for the leader, of course there is none, or maybe Zhang Yang is the leader.
At this time, Zhang Yang walked to the incense burner, and a piece of information was immediately reflected.
"Do you want to manage Qingyun Sword Sect? Or entrust Qingyun Sword Sect to someone else?"
Zhang Yang chose the former, and suddenly a virtual interface appeared.
The above is a series of attributes, personnel, and various expenses of the Qingyun Sword Sect.
But he didn't need to pay attention to these, just look at the bottom, where there is an option for job transfer and recruitment.
"There are currently three senior brothers in the sect. Their strength has reached the requirements for job transfer. Should we transfer them to other jobs?"
"There are currently twenty vacant training positions in the sect. Should we recruit twenty new disciples? They need to train for three years before they can change their professions."
"You are currently the acting leader of the sect, so you are eligible to freely change your job to Qingyun Swordsman/Qingyun Swordsman."
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“It looks good.”
Zhang Yang thought about it and didn't get anxious. Instead, he pondered the difference between the Qingyun Swordsman and the Qingyun Swordsman. The former was a melee fighter with the highest agility and weaker defense.
The latter is the highest soul, probably somewhat similar to one’s own soul force field?
"I'd better change my job first and see."
Zhang Yang first chose the Qingyun Swordsman.
"Please go to the Sword Hall, the place where Qingyun Sword Sect is passed down, and pay one unit of mana."
The so-called sword hall is just those three ordinary wooden houses. When Zhang Yang walked in, he found that the mysteries were all on the ground. Sword shadows were carved on it. They looked familiar. They were clearly the contents of the first volume of Qingyun Sword Technique.
Zhang Yang stood in the middle and chose to pay.
In an instant, golden light rose up. In the golden light, human figures were waving swords, and their moves were changing like fleeting shadows. In an instant, they were injected into Zhang Yang's body.
Just three seconds later, the information appeared.
"You have successfully transferred to the extraordinary profession - Qingyun Swordsman."
"You have successfully obtained the talent: Sword Intent Chongxu."
"You have successfully mastered the Sanchai Sword Technique, the Youlong Sword Technique, and the Chongxu Sword Technique."
The golden light faded, and Zhang Yang walked out of the sword hall, looking thoughtful. Regardless of how ridiculous this job change method was, it was completely different from his foundation-building job change task.
This way of changing jobs actually gave him a feeling of déjà vu.
"The sword relief on the ground is obviously some kind of enchantment, a more advanced enchantment. If a sword school disciple with sufficient basic skills stands on it and injects one unit of mana, it is equivalent to adding ink. With a click, the copy is successful."
"But in reality, it would be great if this Qingyun Swordsman could unleash 10% of the power of the Qingyun Sword Controlling Technique."
"So, look through the phenomenon to the essence, erase the mystery of the Qingyun Sword Sect's job transfer process, and what remains is the truth. I even think that this sword shadow relief copying method and the demon clan's magic language are actually similar. Therefore, can I take the advantages of both, eliminate their disadvantages, and integrate them? Maybe I can get a more powerful Qingyun Swordsman and Qingyun Swordsman."
Zhang Yang was pondering, and with a thought, his soul force field spread out. A wooden sword dozens of meters away was sucked into his hand out of thin air. He didn't even look at it, and casually made a few sword flowers. He was indeed very skillful. He continued to use the Sanchai sword technique, the Youlong sword technique, and the Chongxu sword technique.
He really seemed to have transformed into a great swordsman with extraordinary strength, elegant and extraordinary, with an intimidating sword aura.
After performing only a set of sword techniques, Zhang Yang showed a hint of disdain on his face, and then gathered the soul force field, instantly compressing it to the critical point of materialization.
"boom!"
After a huge soul shock, Zhang Yang was dizzy for three seconds, and then he woke up. All the talents and skills of the Qingyun Swordsman that were previously imprinted on him had been completely stripped away.
"Nothing more than that! So, to see whether a supernormal profession is really powerful, we have to look at how strong his soul is. If all other attributes are A+, but the soul is only below C level, then a soul shock will kill him."
"It seems that the extraordinary profession provided by Qingyun Sword Sect is unreliable. I have to figure it out on my own."
Zhang Yang muttered to himself that he was in urgent need of extraordinary soldiers, and the Qingyun Sword Sect could provide him with 6 extraordinary professions at one time. He naturally could not ignore it and must strengthen it to the strongest.
With this in mind, Zhang Yang decided to stay in the Qingyun Sword Sect and began to comprehend the Qingyun Sword-riding Technique. He had studied this before, but at that time he did not even have the magic power, so his comprehension was limited.
It is different now. He is already a cultivator in the Qi training stage and has thirteen breaths of innate spiritual energy. That is to say, in an emergency, he can transform these thirteen breaths of innate spiritual energy into 1.3 units of mana. Then, he only needs to meditate and practice for a few days, and these thirteen breaths of innate spiritual energy will be generated continuously.
After nine full days, Zhang Yang finally stood in front of the training hall again, staring at the sword relief on the ground thoughtfully.
The nine days of comprehension did not allow him to master the Qingyun Sword-riding Technique. He was not yet such a genius. The content of this sword-riding technique was vast and the amount of things it contained was simply unimaginable. If he did not already have the complete version of the upper, middle and lower volumes, it would be impossible for him to figure it out.
Therefore, in the end, after nine days of comprehension, he only figured out the most core context and the ninth level of sword realm.
The core is just one word: control.
What is "Yu"? It means to control, dominate and master. Therefore, the core of Qingyun sword-controlling technique is a technique that can control the sword, increase its power, kill the enemy and protect the Taoist tradition.
That’s right, it’s a technique, not a method.
The mysterious art of stealing the energy from heaven is the real method, the way to cultivate immortality. It has nothing to do with fighting, it only asks about longevity.
If these two points are confused, it is easy to misunderstand the cultivation of immortals.
Zhang Yang was very fortunate that he was exposed to complete theories at the beginning, otherwise he would not have been able to grasp this principle so quickly.
Since Qingyun Sword Controlling Technique is the most typical technique, it cannot be separated from the weapon.
What is a tool? It is an external object. Weapons and weapons are all tools.
Therefore, in the three volumes of Qingyun Swordsmanship, a small half of the content is used to introduce how to make an excellent sword. Without the weapon, there is no sword.
Without a sword, there is no sword-wielding technique.
Once you understand this, you will be able to better understand the nine levels of sword realm described in Qingyun Sword Controlling Technique.
The first three sword realms are all created by the power of the weapon, that is, they are achieved with the help of the sword's sharpness, characteristics, and charm, so they are called the Sword Qi Realm, Sword Soul Realm, and Sword Heart Realm.
Zhang Yang did not study the last six levels of the sword realm, because it was useless to study it. Even if he knew it and understood it, he still could not master it.
But just the first three levels of the sword realm are enough for him to resolve the current situation.
The first level of sword realm is, sword energy is self-generated. Does it sound familiar? This is clearly the innate sword intent of the Qingyun swordsman, the sword energy is virtual, the sword is real, the virtual and the real intersect, the real becomes virtual, and the wind is controlled by the virtual, strange and unpredictable, it is called a wandering dragon, you can see the head but not the tail, this is the origin of the wandering dragon swordsmanship.
Then the sword energy rushes into the void, and the virtual and the real are superimposed. This is the origin of the Chongxu sword technique.
In other words, what Qingyun Swordsman mastered was only a beggar-resistant version of the first level of sword realm.
The second level of sword realm, that is, the sword enters the soul, the soul controls the sword, well, this is clearly the innate sword soul of Qingyun Swordsman, the sword enters the soul, the soul can carry the sword, in a flash, the enemy is killed a hundred feet away. It is still a version that even beggars don't want.
The third level of sword realm means that the heart of the sword is me, my heart is the sword, the intention is for the sword to arrive, and a rainbow pierces the sun. It is still considered a higher level of murderous aura.
"So, how do we perfectly enchant this triple sword realm in the sword hall?"
Zhang Yang thought that this was different from teaching his disciples to practice.
No matter how skilled a master is, it is impossible for his disciple to master the triple sword realm in one day, but enchantment can, or to use a common saying, it is assembly line manufacturing.
The reason why Zhang Yang’s foundation-building job transfer task is so difficult is because it is not an assembly line manufacturing process.
"It seems that I can only borrow the talents of the demons. The demon language is actually very magical. Putting aside the incompatibility between races, the role of the demon language is more like C language code. By inputting different codes, an ideal demon can be created. Therefore, I can try to program this triple sword realm with the demon language, and then carve the programmed triple sword realm into the sword hall. Then I can transfer to sword masters in batches."
Do it when you think of it. Zhang Yang had accumulated quite a few magic words before. Although they were not very advanced, they could be used as is.
The most hardcore key here is how to translate the magic language into the triple sword realm language.
What Zhang Yang did was that he practiced swordplay himself, then branded it with the soul force field, translated it into a programming code similar to magic language, and finally engraved it in the sword hall.
"This method is not very clever, and it may take some time, but after all, this is an extraordinary profession that I personally cultivated, so I don't have to envy other people's exclusive extraordinary soldiers. Wu Lei, Lei Ming and others need at least a year to train extraordinary soldiers, but I may only need a few months to half a year. Let's see who is more powerful!"
Zhang Yang left excitedly. If he wanted to practice swordplay, he had to forge a sword first. This was the only way to learn the Qingyun sword technique. Without the weapon, how could he learn the technique?
The quality of the tool largely determines the level of the technique.
Anyway, he has to guard the city during this period and cannot cultivate his innate spiritual energy, so it is good to have an extra skill to rely on.
"How did you say that? I want to be a sword immortal!"
(End of this chapter)
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