Chapter 344: Big Changes Outside the Pass, the Dragon Awakens
"Commander-in-chief, while you were personally leading the army into the pass, nothing major happened outside the pass."
After Chang Liyun refined the Shura Battle Flag, a top-grade acquired artifact, into her own innate artifact, a hint of joy flashed across her face, and she immediately stood up and reported to Li Dingguo.
"The main reason for this situation is that the selection of the last batch of warrior recruits in all the recruit training camps outside the pass has ended, and we have added 150,000 warriors to our army."
"These new recruits, led by those talented warriors who have stood out, are stationed in a branch base and have intimidated small and medium-sized demons and monsters in the surrounding areas, allowing the planting and breeding work in the large farms of our branch bases to proceed very smoothly."
"Since we have almost wiped out all the large monster tribes on the Dongtao Plain, these new recruits can now handle it."
"Among this last batch of warrior recruits, there are thousands of talented recruits who have broken through to the third level of martial arts, and more than 300 have reached the peak of the third level."
"In the six months since you entered the country, we have harvested two crops. The various agricultural products we obtained have filled up the large warehouses of various bases. I also ordered the construction of many new large warehouses to store all the food."
"The number of soldiers and civilians remaining in the various sub-bases and the areas surrounding the headquarters has stabilized at around 12 million because immigration from the interior has stopped."
"This year alone, more than 300,000 babies were born. Thanks to the large number of maternal and child health centers you ordered to be built, a large number of qualified midwives have been trained, and the perfect environment and food hygiene conditions, the number of babies and children who died is very small, less than 100."
"This is a huge reduction compared to the previous infant mortality rate of over 30% in the general public!"
"This incident has caused a huge response among the people. All the people are praising you, the Great Commander. It has made our internal situation extremely stable and prosperous."
No one, including Chang Liyun, could have imagined that under the various rules and regulations established by Li Dingguo, the various bases of the Fuxing Army outside the Great Wall would grow and develop so rapidly!
It is even better than the legendary paradise.
Such a harmonious situation has never been seen from ancient times to the present.
"With the people's hearts settled, our Ministry of Internal Affairs has become quite idle outside the Great Wall. So far, I have left only 10,000 of the 110,000 Ministry of Internal Affairs personnel outside the Great Wall, and have transferred the rest to the interior."
Chang Liyun then reported, "The situation inside the Great Wall is much more complicated now. Our Ministry of Internal Affairs has a full 100,000 people, but it's not enough."
"Commander-in-chief, if we want the various tasks of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to be carried out smoothly inside the Great Wall, we must increase the number of combat troops to at least 300,000 if we occupy the entire Qin territory."
"In the areas we just captured, there are too many hostile forces hiding."
"Although the Military Intelligence Department and the soldiers of each main combat corps carried out several rounds of repeated cleansing of the local areas after capturing each town, there are still a large number of enemies hiding."
"If possible, I would like to personally go through the border to take charge and focus on combating the enemy's various incitement and sabotage actions."
"As for the island in the middle of the lake of our base camp, the power of the current protective formation has increased by more than a hundred times under the influence of the Five-Colored Divine Tree. Perhaps even the legendary advanced Five Elements formation is not as powerful as this one."
“Not only can practitioners at the Qi Refining Realm not enter, even the legendary Spirit Refining Realm practitioners, I guess, are powerless.”
"Commander-in-chief, our safety here is still guaranteed. I asked you to bring back two level 5 peak goshawks and let them guard the island in the middle of the lake."
As the situation inside the Great Wall is too complicated, Chang Liyun has to go inside the Great Wall to support the soldiers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Otherwise, there is a high probability that a large number of mistakes will occur, causing various serious losses and hidden dangers to the Renaissance Army.
"Well, Chang Liyun, take the Level 5 Black Hawk that you left on the island in the middle of the lake and head inside the pass."
Upon hearing this, Li Dingguo nodded and said, "The current situation inside the pass requires you to go there in person."
"In the Yansui Town area within the Great Wall, the first batch of warriors have been selected. The total number of warrior recruits in various recruit camps has reached about 500,000. You go and select personnel directly to expand the total number of personnel in the Ministry of Internal Affairs to 300,000!"
"No matter what, we must stabilize the place and make sure no riots occur!"
"Any forces or individuals in our jurisdiction that are hostile to our Renaissance Army will be killed without exception!"
"Before I returned to the base camp outside the Great Wall this time, I had already ordered Wei Jinfan to expand the number of staff in the Military Intelligence Department to a total of 300,000 combat soldiers."
"The first round of warrior recruit selection in Suide Prefecture and Shenmu Town has also ended. The military intelligence department will not select personnel in Yansui Town, but will select recruits from the new recruit camps in these two places. This will not conflict with your Ministry of Internal Affairs' military expansion plan."
The current situation inside the Great Wall really requires Chang Liyun to be in charge personally, so as to prevent chaos from arising in the new occupied areas and give hostile forces from taking advantage.
She has now broken through to the middle stage of level five, her talent and aptitude have greatly increased, and she also has a life-originated magical weapon, which has increased her combat power by more than ten times.
I can handle most situations I encounter.
"Yes! Commander-in-Chief!"
Seeing that Li Dingguo agreed to the request to greatly expand the Ministry of Internal Affairs and allowed her to enter the pass to take charge, Chang Liyun was overjoyed.
After giving Li Dingguo a military salute, she quickly left, preparing to head south today with the level five spiritual bird, the Black Hawk, that had stayed on the island in the middle of the lake.
"Daqing, Xiaoqing, you will temporarily stay on the island in the middle of the lake."
Li Dingguo turned around and instructed the two big hawks, "There is a very magical innate spiritual root five-color sacred tree here, which will be of great benefit to the evolution of your bloodline."
"You two should stay on the five-colored sacred tree on the island in the middle of the lake and practice for two or three months. There is a great possibility that you will break through to the sixth-level spiritual bird."
What Li Dingguo said was right. The bloodlines of these two big goshawks were extraordinary. It would not take long for them to break through to the sixth-level spiritual birds.
The same goes for Dajin. It should be able to break through to the sixth-level spirit bird faster than the two big goshawks and become the clan spirit bird of the Renaissance Army.
"Chirp..."
The two big goshawks nodded their big heads quickly and agreed quickly.
Under the leadership of Dajin and Dameng, the four level five birds flew away together and returned to the five-colored sacred tree to meditate.
Now, half a year has passed since Li Dingguo last left, and the island in the middle of the lake has changed dramatically.
The five-colored sacred tree grew nearly twice as tall again, about three thousand feet high, like a huge mountain, standing on the huge island in the middle of the lake that expanded to a radius of three thousand miles.
This island in the middle of the lake has become a legendary blessed land. Under the influence of the mutated protective formation, it is completely isolated from the outside world and has become a special Sumeru space.
The current island protection formation has evolved to the point where Li Dingguo cannot understand it at all.
This formation, which has been upgraded by the Five-Colored Divine Tree into a companion protective formation, should be beyond the scope of a ninth-level formation.
This means absolute safety in today's world.
Even if any cultivator in the Spirit Refining Realm came here, it would be impossible for them to discover this blessed land, let alone break in.
The protective formation led by the five-colored sacred tree is still evolving rapidly, and is transforming the island in the middle of the lake into a cave.
Any innate top-grade spiritual root has this ability, naturally including the Five-Colored Divine Tree, an innate top-grade spiritual root.
Li Dingguo has concluded that as long as his innate spiritual root grows completely, it should become an innate top-grade spiritual root.
Although it is not known why it has not been mentioned in ancient myths and legends, various signs indicate that its grade is not inferior to any innate top-grade spiritual root, and it is even more magical than the legendary ten innate top-grade spiritual roots.
"Brother, let's go see the little golden dragon."
Wan'er suddenly suggested, "Maybe it has woken up!"
"I don't know how it is now. Will its true form grow to several hundred feet in size?"
Wan'er is not just making a random guess, this is very likely.
The Five-Colored Sacred Tree has a very powerful effect in assisting the growth and evolution of any spiritual beast, and its auxiliary effect is even stronger for divine beasts.
The little golden dragon, which had not been hatched for countless thousands of years, easily recovered its vitality after absorbing a large amount of special life energy emitted by the five-colored sacred tree, and then easily broke out of the shell.
Through this abnormal situation, we can guess how powerful the auxiliary effect of the Five-Colored Divine Tree is on various divine beasts.
"Ok?"
Before Li Dingguo opened his mouth to answer Wan'er, he suddenly sensed something and quickly looked up in the direction of the five-colored sacred tree.
"Whoosh!"
A dazzling golden light shot towards Li Dingguo from the huge five-colored sacred tree!
As his own natal divine beast, Li Dingguo knew very well that the little golden dragon had woken up and came to find him.
"Woooo..."
In the blink of an eye, a mini dragon appeared on Li Dingguo's shoulder.
This is not the real body of the little golden dragon, but it is the dragon that has used its innate magical power to transform into whatever size it wants.
"Xiaolong, you finally woke up?" Wan'er shouted happily, then reached out and touched the little golden dragon's head. She immediately widened her eyes and shouted, "No way?"
"Xiaolong, you just took a nap, and when you woke up you were already at level six?"
"It's not just the early stage of level six, but the middle stage of level six!"
Not only her, Li Dingguo was also frightened after feeling the terrifying aura emanating from the little golden dragon.
Less than a year after the little golden dragon was born, he easily broke through to the middle stage of level six!
There is a huge gap between humans and real dragons!
It just took a nap under the Five-Colored Sacred Tree, and it naturally broke through from the peak of level five to the early stage of level six.
If Lu Xiangsheng or Cao Bianjiao, two peerless geniuses, knew about this, they would probably be so depressed that they would want to vomit blood!
The level six bottleneck that had held them back for years simply did not exist for Little Golden Dragon.
"Angang..."
The little golden dragon wagged its tail proudly at Li Dingguo and Wan'er, and nodded with its head held high, indicating that what Wan'er said was absolutely correct.
The little golden dragon had not seen its owner for a long time, and it happily coiled around Li Dingguo's shoulders, appearing to be very attached to him.
"Little Golden Dragon, we found something good this time!"
Wan'er said to the little golden dragon proudly, "That is an acquired superb spiritual fruit and an acquired upper-grade spiritual fruit, as well as a large number of acquired middle-grade spiritual fruits."
"Humph!"
She hummed complacently, "My brother and I returned to the island this time just to plant those fruit cores, so that we can eat them whenever we want when we return home."
"Big brother!"
Having said that, Wan'er looked up at Li Dingguo.
"Well, Xiaolong, Wan'er is right. Look at these two acquired spiritual fruits. Do you like to eat them?"
Li Dingguo certainly understood Wan'er's meaning. With a thought, a high-quality acquired spiritual peach and a bloody fist-sized fruit appeared in mid-air in front of the little golden dragon.
"Woooo..."
Li Dingguo and Wan'er could not have imagined that the little golden dragon took one look at the acquired top-grade Phoenix Blood Fruit and ignored it. Instead, it happily took the acquired top-grade large spiritual peach with one dragon claw and could not wait to eat it in one bite!
Then it looked at Li Dingguo with pitiful eyes, the meaning was self-evident.
"You..."
Li Dingguo shook his head helplessly, then his mind moved, and the Phoenix Blood Fruit in his hand flew into the cauldron, his natal artifact, and two acquired top-grade large spiritual peaches appeared in his hands again.
"Come on..."
This time the little golden dragon was not so anxious. He just slowly ate the two big peaches with a very contented look on his face, as if he was finally full.
It felt sleepy and immediately used its divine sense to tell Li Dingguo that it was going to sleep on the Five-Colored Sacred Tree again. Then it turned into a golden light and disappeared from Li Dingguo's shoulder.
The next moment, it returned to the Five-Colored Divine Tree, came to the big tree trunk where it had slept before, and continued to lie on it and sleep soundly.
The acquired high-quality large spiritual peach is not an ordinary treasure from heaven and earth. It is also a high-quality acquired spiritual fruit with miraculous effects for the Golden Immortals in ancient myths and legends.
Even though the little golden dragon was a seven-clawed golden dragon with extremely noble blood, it was born not long ago and had only the cultivation level of the middle sixth level.
After eating three acquired top-grade large spiritual peaches at once, even a Golden Immortal would need some time to digest them, let alone the little golden dragon.
"Brother, when the little golden dragon wakes up again, will it break through to the peak of level six directly?"
After the little golden dragon left, Wan'er couldn't help but speculate.
"Probably."
Li Dingguo nodded and said, "This little golden dragon is growing too fast. We can't look at it with normal eyes."
"When it finishes digesting these three acquired high-grade large spiritual peaches and wakes up again, it will at least reach the peak of level six cultivation."
"When the time comes, let it go and gather a group of giant dragons. Then our island in the middle of the lake will be bustling."
"With a sixth-level peak dragon in charge, no powerful enemy in the world will be our opponent!"
He thought of something else and said, "It's just that when we awakened our star destiny, the message from the origin rules of the universe mentioned some restrictions."
"Any top-level dragon and phoenix spirit beasts and divine dragons owe a lot of karma to the universe and heaven, and cannot kill the enemy at will."
"Unless the other party takes the initiative to cause trouble for me, or a war mode is initiated that both sides agree on, then there will be no karma incurred if I kill them."
"But no matter what, the little golden dragon will be the most powerful trump card of our Renaissance Army in the future."
"If a level six warrior comes looking for us, there will be something interesting to watch, including all the dragons."
“I wonder if those level six dragons will be frightened to the point of falling down when they encounter the little golden dragon!”
The situation he described is very likely to occur.
After he transformed into a primary spiritual body, he could clearly sense the great changes in the destiny.
If nothing unexpected happens, various primary spiritual beings will appear one after another among the top human forces in the near future.
Human masters with level six cultivation should appear soon, and not just one.
This is the inevitable arrival of a glorious era, and it is also the law governing the operation of the fundamental rules of the universe.
Unless you are the master of the universe, you will never be the only one to stand out.
"Yes, I will also work hard to cultivate and strive to become one of the first great masters to break through to level six among the top human forces!"
Wan'er excitedly raised her fist and waved it in the air, saying, "When the time comes, no matter which level six expert dares to cause trouble for us, I will kill him with the Fantian Seal!"
Ever since she obtained an innate divine weapon called Fantian Seal with extremely strong attack power, Wan'er has been full of confidence and does not believe that she cannot defeat any enemy of the same level.
"Brother, why did the little golden dragon just now look down on the acquired top-grade spiritual fruit Phoenix Blood Fruit?"
"It's not like it doesn't like to eat acquired spiritual fruits. It obviously likes to eat the big spiritual peach that is one level lower."
Wan'er was somewhat puzzled and said to Li Dingguo.
"After seeing the little golden dragon's performance earlier, I have guessed the reason."
Li Dingguo replied, "In the early days of the ancient mythological period, I heard that the Dragon Clan and the Phoenix Clan were mortal enemies!"
"The two tribes have even formed an irreconcilable hostility, and they wish to kill each other and exterminate each other's tribe."
"That top-grade acquired spiritual root Phoenix Blood Fruit Tree contains a strong phoenix aura, so it will naturally be rejected by the little golden dragon's blood inheritance memory. It is impossible for it to eat any spiritual fruit with a strong phoenix aura, unless it is phoenix meat, which is almost enough to eat to relieve its hatred."
"Ha ha……"
Li Dingguo gave a helpless smile, "I never thought that the acquired top-grade Phoenix Blood Fruit, which is so hard-earned by any Qi Refining Realm or Spirit Refining Realm cultivator, would be disdainful of Little Golden Dragon!"
"This Phoenix Blood Fruit is obviously of great benefit to its growth, but it just ignores it."
"This is really a big world, there is nothing strange, nothing strange."
Half a month ago, he and Wan'er took four level five big birds and headed straight from Ji Wang Mountain to Beimang Mountain outside Luoyang City.
There were no setbacks during the process, and the two successfully found the Kang family's secret spiritual land and picked nine newly ripened top-grade phoenix blood fruits.
In order to provide this acquired top-grade spiritual root with a better growth environment, and also to see if the fruiting period of this Phoenix Blood Fruit can be shortened under the influence of the Five-Colored Divine Tree.
Li Dingguo had already dug up the top-grade acquired spiritual root Phoenix Blood Fruit tree from the deserted spiritual land and was planning to plant it in his own courtyard.
This is also an important reason why he and Wan'er returned to the base camp outside the Great Wall this time.
It is never too much to attach importance to this extremely precious acquired spiritual fruit tree.
Although it has a full fruition cycle of ninety years, it will make most low-level practitioners despair.
(End of this chapter)
