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Chapter 436 The Five Virtues of a General
Xie Lingxin: What exactly is this competition?
Jin Yuan: You didn't know?! You didn't know and you still dared to get involved?!
Leng Lie: As expected of Your Highness.

Nian Youyou: Ox.

Xie Lingxin: ...I didn't say I wanted to participate.

Jin Yuan: You scared me! It was the right decision not to participate. Those guys are monsters, and much older than you. It's not shameful for us to avoid them for now.

Xie Lingxin: But I didn't say I wouldn't participate.

Jin Yuan: ...Are you kidding me?

Xie Lingxin: What's it to you?
Mingyu: Only His Highness can control Jin Yuan. However, the competition for the "promotion" has not yet been finalized. Our elders are still discussing it.

Mingyu: We just heard a bit of a rumor. This competition is to determine the commander who can truly lead troops and conquer cities in the domain.

Mingyu: Although that domain is a wild and desolate place with many cultivators and countless powerful individuals, large-scale battles are still mainly fought with cold weapons, unlike the Federation, where battles are mostly fought with naval cannons, and the focus is on resources and information.

Mingyu: The military strategies of ancient times are still very useful. It is said that the content of this competition was found in ancient military books. It seems to be about five... five gains?

Five gains?

Xie Lingxin frowned.

What the hell?

Ancient military treatises... Five key takeaways...

Xie Lingxin: You mean the Five Virtues, right?
Jin Yuan: Yes, yes, yes! It's the Five Virtues! Mingyu, you illiterate! What Five Virtues? I think you're the one who's good at it!

Mingyu: ...

Leng Lie: Your Highness has even studied ancient military strategies?

Xie Lingxin: I wouldn't call it research, I just happened to have heard of it.

It was clearly meant to embody the Five Virtues, yet it also grants the Five Benefits...

Tsk.

Mingyu: I almost forgot, Your Highness, you are the youngest registered scripture master on Far East Star.

Mingyu: Your Highness, could you please explain in more detail?

Jin Yuan: Xiao Ming, you haven't given up on that idea yet, have you?
Mingyu: ...

idea?

Xie Lingxin raised an eyebrow slightly, a hint of curiosity in her eyes, but she didn't press the matter.

Xie Lingxin: Five virtues for a general: wisdom, trustworthiness, benevolence, courage, and strictness.

Jin Yuan: What do you mean?
Mingyu: Please enlighten me, Your Highness.

Leng Lie: I'm curious too.

Gao Ming: Class begins!
Gao Yuan: Sit up straight.

Xie Lingxin: ...Intelligence enables strategizing, trustworthiness enables rewards and punishments, benevolence enables winning over the masses, courage enables decisiveness, and strictness enables establishing authority.

Jin Yuan: I still don't quite understand, but he looks very impressive.

Gao Ming: Amazing.

Gao Yuan: Absolutely amazing!
Mingyu: Excuse me.jpg, Your Highness, could you elaborate?
Xie Lingxin: To put it bluntly, wisdom allows one to devise countless strategies; integrity enables one to fairly and justly carry out rewards and punishments; benevolence earns the support of soldiers and unites the troops; courage allows one to make decisive decisions in the face of adversity; and authority allows one to subdue and control a fierce and powerful army.

Xie Lingxin: It can be summed up in one sentence: The lesser wise manage affairs, the wiser manage people.

Xie Lingxin: The way of being a leader is the way of self-cultivation and experience, the way of rationality and wisdom, the way of recognizing and employing people, the way of combining strength and gentleness, and the way of advancing and retreating safely.

Xie Lingxin: With the five virtues combined, the five paths employed, and both literary and martial skills mastered, one will naturally be invincible and unstoppable.

Jin Yuan: Your Highness is awesome!
High-minded: to worship.

Gao Yuan: I'm kneeling.

Lenglie: I've learned something.

Nian Youyou: You didn't just happen to know a little bit. It's one thing for you to know ancient classics, but you're even proficient in ancient military strategy? Is this the true value of a great Confucian scholar?

She clearly regarded Xie Lingxin's "talent" as a lesson from Lao Xie.

Most other people probably think the same way.

Xie Lingxin: Stop messing around.

Jin Yuan: Why is Lao Ming so quiet?
Mingyu: Digesting.

Jin Yuan: Tch, you talk like you know everything.

Mingyu: Your Highness, I suddenly think that you might as well give it a try. This competition isn't just about cultivation level. Even if you can't beat them, you should have a chance to surpass those monsters in other aspects.

This time, no one in the group tried to dissuade them.

Because they also felt that perhaps there was still hope, although that hope was still very slim.

Xie Lingxin: Let's talk about it later, let's not talk about it anymore. Do you have any news about the Wang family?
Jin Yuan: Hey, this is really interesting. The Wang family is awesome. They mobilized over a thousand starships and treasure ships into the domain, making a huge show of force, but they've also stirred up a hornet's nest.

Jin Yuan: Don't be fooled by his willingness to attack the royal court. In fact, he has already made enemies on all sides. Of his thousands of treasure ships, he has to guard against the other courts, and he can only spare a dozen or so.

Jin Yuan: I heard that Wang Ting is just one of the cities, and it has a Grandmaster and nearly twenty other Grandmasters and mages. Even if the Wang family can conquer it, it will be painful for a while. If they provoke Wang Ting into going crazy, the outcome is uncertain!

Xie Lingxin: So, you'd say it's a close contest?

Mingyu: Pretty much. At least before the Wang clan attacks the other courts, this great battle will probably be in a stalemate. I'm just listening to the analysis from my clan.

Leng Lie: Your Highness, you don't have some plans, do you? It sounds to me like you're getting a little interested in this Wang woman.
Jin Yuan: Huh?! Really? You're so reckless!?

Nian Youyou: Don't worry, if you die, I can help you turn your corpse into a medicine puppet. Although it will lose its core, it will still allow a part of you to "live on".

Gao Ming: It still has to be the alchemist who's ruthless.

Gao Yuan: That's terrifying!

Xie Lingxin: ...I'm not going to talk to you guys anymore, I have to go.

Seeing that he had indeed fallen silent, the group discussed it for a while, and finally started betting on when Xie Lingxin would make a big fuss again.

Hundred Flowers Castle.

Xie Lingxin put down her phone.

Is it at a stalemate?

A stalemate is good; a stalemate gives him a chance to fish in troubled waters.

After thinking for a moment, he came out, summoned the Golden Lu, left Hundred Flowers Castle, and returned to his small villa.

He wouldn't waste any time waiting for news.

I obtained the recipe for Lingfei Powder before, but I never had the chance to try it.

Now is the perfect time to give it a try.

Take out the Bagua Furnace.

Lingfei Powder is a precious medicine for cultivating mental and spiritual power. He already has the main ingredient, jade dates, which he can use.

The alchemy method that Songjian taught him has three fundamental elements: diagrams, oral formulas, and rituals.

The catalogue contains the prescriptions for elixirs.

The most important thing is not the ratio of medicinal materials, but the qi-regulating line diagram above.

Just like a visualization manual.

Xie Lingxin took out the pill formula that Nian Youyou had given him, and after just one glance, she had already drawn a complete Qi circulation diagram in her sea of ​​consciousness.

What is most difficult for others, he can learn in no time, thanks to his unhindered ability to learn anything.

Following the prescription, the medicinal herbs and other metals and minerals were added to the Eight Trigrams Furnace one by one in sequence.

As soon as the fire was extinguished, an uncontrollable "qi" was indeed felt to emerge.

It rampaged wildly inside the furnace.

No wonder there's a Qi circulation diagram. This Qi is the key to forming the elixir.

For him, it was simply a matter of following the instructions; there was no difficulty involved.

As he put in a dozen or so jade dates, he suddenly felt a sense of complete roundness.

This seems to be the omen of elixir formation mentioned in the prescription.

So easy?

Xie Lingxin was somewhat surprised, even suspicious.

Didn't Songjian and Nianyouyou both say that Lingfei San is difficult to refine?

Suppress the doubts in your heart.

The key to achieving the elixir lies in the Subduing Mysterious Pearl Technique and the Elixir-Making Ritual.

Xie Lingxin performed the actions one by one.

raging!

The Eight Trigrams Furnace vibrated slightly.

Xie Lingxin sensed that the time had come, and with a thought, she opened the furnace lid.

A beam of precious light shot out.

Xie Lingxin was already experienced; a broken tile flew out and blocked the precious light.

Reach out and make a move.

A cloud of dust, like starlight, fell into his palm.

Is this the Spirit Flying Powder?

According to the description in the prescription, the strange phenomenon just now was only possible with the precious elixir.

Is alchemy really that easy?
Isn't it said that elixirs are difficult to refine?

This has become a precious elixir!

He held the wisp of stardust-like spirit in front of him and gently inhaled it.

Stardust specks seeped in through the opening.

Xie Lingxin felt a chill, as if she were floating on air.

It was as if I had flown into some mysterious place, like a fairyland.

Wow, that feels so good!
No wonder it's called Lingfeisan!
After a while, Xie Lingxin finally snapped out of her blissful state.

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"Hi~!"

More than a year of cultivation?!

This is the power of the Spirit-Flying Powder... no, the Precious Pill?!

Refine!
We absolutely must train! Train hard!

Xie Lingxin put away the Eight Trigrams Furnace, her eyes flashing.

He embezzled from the Spirit Mine last time and used the Eight Trigrams Furnace to refine 36 Spirit Beads.

The jade dates in the pottery jar are almost exhausted, and nurturing them again will require consuming spirit pearls.

If a dozen or so jade dates can be refined into this amount of spiritual energy, it probably won't take long for 36 spiritual beads to be used as well.

That should be enough to refine about fifty or sixty sets of Spirit Flying Powder.

Even if they were all precious pills, they would only be enough for him to cultivate for about 300 years.

He's still quite a ways off from the threshold of 360 years of cultivation.

Unfortunately, the Lingzhi Mine is no longer under the jurisdiction of the Environmental Protection Bureau and has been taken over by different parties.

As for the shares Chen Yuntao mentioned giving him... well, he hasn't seen them materialize.

We still have to go into the realm to deal with it.

Xie Lingxin stood up, went out and summoned Jin Lu Hao, and prepared to return to Baihua Fort.

"Humph!"

Suddenly, a humming sound was heard.

Turning my head, I saw a round, pink figure in the corner of the wall.

She was staring at him with her two round eyes wide open.

I couldn't help but laugh.

Isn't this the pig that Wangcai picked up back then?
He hadn't seen him for a while and thought he had run away.

"What are you looking at me for?"

"Humph!"

The little pig seemed to sense that Xie Lingxin wouldn't hurt him, so it swung its four short legs and rolled over like a ball of flesh.

"You want to come with me?"

"Humph!"

He actually nodded.

"Do you know where I'm going and you're going to come with me?"

"Hum!"

The little pig climbed right onto his lap.

However, her body was too round and her legs were too short, so she failed several times.

Xie Lingxin grabbed it by the neck and lifted it up: "You'd better not regret this."

"Humph!"

Can't understand.

But he could guess it too.

They're quite determined.

Thinking back, it seems that it was because of this pig that Wangcai discovered Master Shuiyue's golden statue of merit, so he felt he owed it a debt of gratitude.

That's it.

"Follow me, and you will bear the consequences of your own fortune or misfortune. You are not allowed to complain."

"Humph!"

"Hmph, you're so fat... let's just call you Hmph for now."

"Humph?"

The little pig's round eyes showed a hint of doubt.

It seems impossible to understand the causal relationship between being fat and making a humming sound.

Holding the chubby little Hengheng, I boarded the Golden Carriage.

……

As soon as they returned to Hundred Flowers Castle, Hua Baorui came looking for them excitedly.

"Thank you, brother! Good news!"

"It's done!"

(End of this chapter)