The most secure job in Dajin

Chapter 353, Three Years Later

As soon as the announcement was made that the Vermilion Bird Army would take over the security of Nanxiang County, the Lingguang Palace was abuzz with excitement.

After most cultivators joined the Vermilion Bird Army, they basically spent their time practicing. The mission hall issued very few missions, and they felt that they were just "wasting their time" because they were doing nothing.

They are the Vermilion Bird Army.

The Vermilion Bird Army, one of the four most orthodox armies in the Four Spirit Realms, should have gone out to seize territory long ago.

Uh, it's not about seizing territory. The Palace Master already said that Nanxiang City is the garrison of the Vermilion Bird Army, and they have a legitimate reason to take over Nanxiang County.

Everyone in Lingguang Hall responded enthusiastically, and everyone was eager to get started.

Compared to the Vermilion Bird Army, who were eager to 'make a name for themselves', Hua Changxi was having a headache inside the main hall.

She discovered that maintaining an army was really difficult.

The current Vermilion Bird Army lacks standardized armor, weapons, and a token like the 'Xuanyuan Token' that instantly identifies its members; furthermore, it lacks logistical support.
Hua Changxi didn't want to think about it anymore; the more she thought about it, the poorer the Vermilion Bird Army seemed.

"Whoo~"

Hua Changxi breathed a sigh of relief. Originally, she had planned to explore other blessed lands and grotto-heavens after a while, but now that the Vermilion Bird Army was going to start maintaining the security and stability of Nanxiang County, they had to ensure that the logistical supply was sufficient.

After returning to Danyuan Peak, she should continue exploring other blessed lands and grotto-heavens.

"Ok?"

Hua Changxi suddenly sensed the surging morale of the Vermilion Bird Army. A quick scan with his divine sense revealed that the Vermilion Bird Army soldiers were all poised for battle.

High morale is a good thing, but for no apparent reason, Hua Changxi felt a little worried.

She suddenly realized that the Vermilion Bird Army must have strict discipline.

Sending an army out into the wild is like sending a tiger down the mountain; without strong discipline, it might cause even greater unrest.

Hua Changxi pondered for a while and then took out a fragment of a lotus petal that she had collected from the Karmic Fire Platform.

The fire platform was very large, and each lotus petal was also very large.

Therefore, even fragments of lotus petals can be tens of meters long.

In the following time, Hua Changxi polished the lotus petals into a red stone tablet that was ten meters high and five meters wide, and then began to carve words on the stone tablet with her divine sense.

The first line contains only eight striking characters: Vermilion Bird as the Soul, Forging Iron Laws

"The Vermilion Bird governs the virtue of fire, and is associated with loyalty, courage, discipline, and the punishment of evil."

"The Vermilion Bird Army was established with the motto 'The Soul of Vermilion Bird, Forged into Iron Laws': All those who enter the army must first have the four characters 'Loyalty, Courage, Strictness, and Trustworthiness' engraved on their bones, and then learn the art of battle and killing."

"Military discipline is like a blazing flame, which will burn if touched; orders are obeyed as strictly as the stars, and those who disobey will be punished."

"This order is not the command of one person, but the life and death of the entire army. Those who uphold the order will be protected by the Vermilion Bird and safeguard the peace of the country; those who break the order will fall into the Avici Hell and their souls will never find peace."

"The Vermilion Bird Army Discipline: Loyalty and Righteousness Chapter - Slay evil spirits and protect the country, unwavering in life and death; comrades are like hands and feet, advancing and retreating together in life and death; do not flatter the powerful and wealthy, do not deceive the common people."

"Battle Formation Chapter - Advance at the sound of the drum, retreat at the sound of the gong; weapons and armor must be worn day and night; scouts must go first, intelligence is paramount; provisions are essential, do not move them without permission; even in defeat, do not collapse, the remnants return to their original positions."

"Camp Regulations: The camp gates are strictly guarded, entry and exit must be registered; military appearance must be impeccable, no slackening is allowed; gambling, drunkenness, and fighting are strictly prohibited; the wounded and sick will be cared for, and the dead will be honored."

"Punishment Section - Those who desert in the face of battle; those who leak military secrets; those who embezzle military pay; those who insult superiors or bully subordinates; those who violate camp rules; those who disgrace the image of the Vermilion Bird Army will be punished, depending on the circumstances, with corporal punishment, expulsion from the Lingguang Hall, etc."

"The Rewards Chapter—."

"The Vermilion Bird Army shall defend our land and protect our country, and fight to the death without retreating; we shall help each other as brothers and uphold military discipline as high as a mountain; we shall be marked by our souls and clear in our hearts with our blood."

Soon, a red stone military discipline stele appeared on the right side of the Lingguang Hall gate tower.

With the erection of the stone tablet, the discipline of the Vermilion Bird Army spread rapidly.

Once the military discipline regulations were issued, the high morale gradually cooled down.

All the officers and commanders stood for a while under the military discipline stone tablet.

Yang Zhaoye, the head of the Discipline Hall, was the last to leave the military discipline stone tablet. When he returned to the Discipline Hall, he saw a line of red characters floating in the hall: The Discipline Hall is responsible for the enforcement and supervision of military discipline. Manager Yang is expected to treat this matter with utmost care.

Yang Zhaoye came from an ordinary family and knew all too well the impact that the army in charge of maintaining order would have on the lives of ordinary people. He immediately bowed to the writing and said loudly, "Yang Zhaoye will certainly do his duty and live up to the Palace Master's trust."

The mission has been issued, and the military discipline has been announced. As for the logistics supply of the Vermilion Bird Army, Hua Changxi plans to return to Danyuan Peak to check on it before making further plans.

Before returning to Danyuan Peak, Hua Changxi thought that since the Weapon Saint Palace was located between Lingguang Palace and the capital, she planned to go to the Weapon Saint Palace to find Tong Yao and have the Karma Box made.

She couldn't stay in Lingguang Palace indefinitely; she had to rely on mutual supervision among the stewards, captains, and ordinary soldiers to ensure the strict discipline of the Vermilion Bird Army.

"The territory has grown even bigger!"

Hua Changxi rode his somersault cloud and flew for nearly an hour before arriving at the Weapon Saint Palace.

The Weapon Saint Palace is no longer hiding itself. Although the sacred ground is limited by external spiritual energy and cannot yet be revealed to the world, the disciples of the Weapon Saint Palace have built a small cluster of buildings resembling a village around the sacred ground and have begun to openly recruit disciples.

The people who were displaced due to the explosion of the protective array of the Weapon Saint Palace have also been resettled here.

What surprised her most was that the spiritual energy shield that had been preventing the demonic energy from leaking out was gone.

"It hasn't been long, and the Artifact Saint Palace has already repaired the array core. They're fast."

Hua Changxi entered the village, intending to find Tong Yao, when she ran into Yan Zhenzhen.

Yan Zhenzhen looked at Hua Changxi with surprise and quickly stepped forward: "Changxi."

Hua Changxi smiled and said, "Zhenzhen, what are you doing here?"

Yan Zhenzhen did not answer. When she got to Hua Changxi, she looked her up and down carefully: "It seems you are much better. You have no idea how worried we were during the three years you were not around."

"I came to the Weapon Saint Palace because the Array Saint Sect wants to forge it."

Hua Changxi interrupted her, "Wait, what did you just say? How long has it been since I last showed myself?" Yan Zhenzhen stared at her for a while, "Do you remember when we broke into the Xuanyuan Manor?"

Hua Changxi: "The seventh day of the first lunar month." As she spoke, she looked up at the sun in the sky and then at the obvious spring colors around her. "It should be around the end of March or the beginning of April now."

Yan Zhenzhen took a deep breath: "Yes, today is March 20th, but it has been more than three years since we broke into the Xuanyuan Mansion."

"How long has it been?"

Hua Changxi was stunned. She had actually stayed in the Nine Heavens Fire Spring for more than three years?!

"Changxi!"

When Tong Yao arrived, he was overjoyed to see Hua Changxi standing with Yan Zhenzhen. As soon as he got closer, he quickly asked, "Is your injury healed?"

Hua Changxi's slightly dazed gaze shifted to him: "My injuries?"

Yan Zhenzhen looked at her: "We all thought you were seriously injured by the Duke of Liang, otherwise you wouldn't have disappeared for three years and not even cared about your own family."

Hua Changxi: "So the Spirit Platform Realm cultivator who attacked me was the Duke of Liang." He paused, then suddenly looked at Yan Zhenzhen, "What did you just say about my family?"

Yan Zhenzhen and Tong Yao exchanged a glance.

Tong Yao: "Don't worry, nothing has happened to your family. It's just that the Duke of Liang has said that unless you hand over the Xuanhuang Fruit and help him restore his physical body, he will fight your family to the death."

"For the safety of your family, the Earl of Dingyuan has brought your whole family to live in his mansion. For the past three years, apart from not being able to go out at will, there has been nothing else to worry about."

Upon hearing this, Hua Changxi laughed in anger: "The Duke of Liang wanted to kill me, but I injured him instead. That's because he was not strong enough. How dare he ask me to compensate him?" With that, he prepared to return to the capital.

Before leaving, Hua Changxi handed Tong Yao a storage bag containing fragments of lotus petals from the Karmic Fire Platform and explained the requirements and function of the 'suggestion box' to him.

Yan Zhenzhen watched Hua Changxi's rapidly receding figure and looked at Tong Yao: "Have you noticed that Changxi seems to have become stronger again?"

The mere mention of the Hua family caused Changxi's aura to fluctuate, making the hairs on her body stand on end.

Tong Yao nodded. As a body-refining cultivator, he felt it even more clearly. Just now, Chang Xi's surging blood energy, like a raging torrent, almost made him unable to breathe.

Yan Zhenzhen sighed, "Everyone thought Changxi was seriously injured and recuperating, but now it seems she has entered some kind of ruin where the flow of time cannot be perceived."

Tong Yao thought so too. Looking at the storage bag in his hand, he opened it and asked, "What kind of material is this?"

Tong Yao couldn't discern the material of the lotus fragments from the Karmic Fire Platform. Just as he was about to close the storage bag, Elder Yi Ming suddenly appeared in front of him and Yan Zhenzhen.

"What were you looking at just now? Show it to me!"

Seeing the anxious Elder Yiming, Tong Yao was a little confused, but he still handed over the storage bag and explained that it was given to him by Hua Changxi, asking him to help make four 'boxes'.

Elder Yiming gasped as he sensed the karmic energy emanating from the storage bag: "Using this to forge a box? Hua Changxi is wasting a precious resource!"

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Tong Yao and Yan Zhenzhen exchanged a glance.

Elder Yiming took away the storage bag. Tong Yao was about to say something when he was interrupted: "You can't refine this kind of material yet. I will personally refine the box that Hua Changxi wants."

Yan Zhenzhen quickly asked, "Elder, is this some kind of extraordinary material?"

Elder Yiming glanced at the two of them and said, "This thing was forged from karma." After saying that, he vanished in a flash.

"Karma?"

Yan Zhenzhen and Tong Yao looked at each other.

"It seems that the ruins Changxi went to are quite extraordinary."

Cultivators are most afraid of bearing karma.

After flying more than 5,000 miles from the Palace of the Sacred Artifact, Hua Changxi discovered that people were building houses along the way. It wasn't the kind of random construction that happened here and there, but rather organized and planned construction.

More than half of those involved in building the houses were monks.

When she sensed the spatial fluctuations and the aura of Xuanhuang Qi in the air, she realized that she had arrived at the Xuanyuan Mansion.

The Xuanyuan Mansion hasn't appeared yet, but its location has already been determined.

Since Xuanyuan Mansion is the center of power in the Central Continent, naturally the closer one is to Xuanyuan Mansion, the closer one is to power.

"Is this the start of construction on Xuanyuan City?"

As Hua Changxi flew over Xuanyuan Mansion, she also noticed that outside the mansion's barrier, there were Demon Suppression Army soldiers stationed, clearly indicating that no one was allowed to approach.

After passing Xuanyuan Mansion, the journey continued towards the capital. Everywhere one could see bustling construction sites, with people from the Heavenly Department responsible for maintaining order.

When Hua Changxi arrived at the original location of the south gate of the capital, there was no trace of the gate left, only the stone tablet that strictly prohibited cultivators from flying and fighting remained.

"Who goes there? Flights are strictly prohibited in the rear urban area."

At the stone tablet, there was also a team of five demon-suppressing soldiers guarding the area.

Hua Changxi flew down and stood in front of the stone tablet. She looked at the five demon-suppressing soldiers in front of her, her eyes flashing.

Has the Demon Suppression Army begun to take over the defense of the capital?

It seems that three years have passed, and some things have quietly changed.

Hua Changxi took a deep breath and strode into what was once the 'Southern District' of the capital.

"That's... Hua Changxi!"

"Hua Changxi has finally shown up. The Nascent Soul cultivators of the Liang State Duke's Mansion no longer need to stand outside the Dingyuan Earl's Mansion as statues."

"Do you think Hua Changxi will bow down to the Duke of Liang?"

(End of this chapter)