Chapter 7 For Cannon Fodder

　　When this woman didn't smile, she was as dignified as a noblewoman in a history book, but once her expression became vivid, there was an indescribable charm and seductiveness. 　　At this moment, her voice, her movements were all seductive, some of the older children's breathing began to shorten, however, next to the odd-job men who were also fighters all had a fearful look on their faces, and even Long Hai's expression also became obviously unnatural. 　　Qianye suddenly remembered the two partners who failed the exam and were smoked alive by her, and also had a chill in her heart. 　　Next, Zhang Jing explained in detail the principles of Force cultivation, as well as the introductory method of the Soldiering Technique. 　　The human body had nine major Force nodes, three of which were located within the belly, chest, and forehead, while the other six were in both hands and feet, as well as both knees. The Force nodes were the key points for storing the Force and also for drawing the Force. 　　Since the entire history of mankind was a history of war, the current generalized division of ability levels carried a strong military flavor. After igniting the first Force node, one formally enters the ranks of a war soldier and becomes a level one war soldier. Each additional node ignited thereafter was considered an advancement of one level. 　　When all nine nodes were lit, there would be a chance to hit the first big bottleneck, and successfully breaking through all the nodes would result in the formation of a Force vortex. That was a qualitative breakthrough! Such a person is already a truly strong person, with the ability to fight the dark races head on, on the battlefield that is the mainstay, can be called a general. 　　Since the Soldiering Technique is the basic technique of the Imperial Army, the style is just as its name suggests, extremely harsh and overbearing. Its biggest feature is the quick success, as long as you successfully ignite the first node, after the body will be like a tidal wave of Force, layer upon layer, like a tidal wave of Force nodes. 　　Compared to the secret methods of other sects and clans, the Bing Fu Decision is extremely fast in the early stages of cultivation, and may even allow a person to break through the original natural talent barrier. However, its shortcomings were also very obvious, that is, the tides of Force were too powerful, and at the same time, it would damage the practitioner's body, and the later one practiced it, the more obvious the damage would become. 　　That is why no one has ever been able to cross over to the level of a War General with the Soldiering Technique alone, and if you want to make a breakthrough you must convert the technique at a later stage. Because of this, this technique was known as a technique specialized in cannon fodder. 　　But as Zhang Jing said, people who would come to cultivate the Soldier's Recipe, regardless of their status, had their own reasons for having to come, and the vast majority of them wouldn't live to see the ninth level, so why worry about it? 　　If one really had the amazing talent to break through the ninth level and become a war general, then such people would naturally have unlimited opportunities, and would be vigorously recruited by people everywhere, and wouldn't need to worry about the resources for the later stages of advancement at all. 　　Thinking back, the first year that Qianye's batch of children entered the training camp, they were all using various methods to exercise their bodies. The only way to withstand the ferocious and overbearing nature of the Soldiering Technique was to have a strong body. 　　From this day onwards, on Qianye's daily schedule, there were two more hours of cultivation in the afternoon and two more hours in the evening, but the amount of physical exercise and learning of various knowledge and skills had not been reduced at all. Upon hearing the new arrangement, the faces of these children who had survived the bloody training of the past year were no longer relaxed, and their little faces all collapsed. 　　In the afternoon, the children were led to a small valley not far from the camp. 　　In the center of the valley was a pool of hot springs emitting hot air, dozens of thick metal tubes were inserted into the hot springs at one end, while the other end was snaked together. 　　These huge metal pipes with a diameter of more than one meter were spread all over the valley like a spider's web, during which there were several ten-meter-high machines with unknown purposes. Those machines had no shells, and the smallest exposed gears were more than a meter in diameter, biting into each other through densely packed conveyor belts and metal chains. 　　Around these machines, rows of metal longhouses were built. The outer walls of these longhouses were yellow, covered in what appeared to be copper skin, and had no rust at all. 　　The children were divided into teams, and every tenth person entered one of the metal huts. The longhouse was divided into individual rooms, which were their training rooms. 　　The cultivation room was quite small, while the walls were surprisingly thick. Inside, it was patina stained, the floor was a copper fence, and through the gaps, one could see a dark hole below, so deep that one couldn't see the bottom. 　　Thousand Nights entered a small room in order, it was empty, without any furniture, only a small cabinet wrapped in leather was placed in the corner by the door. 　　Chiyo took off her top and pants and stuffed them into the cabinet. Then recalling the previous instructor's demonstration, he sat down on his knees, and almost immediately, the door was pushed open. 　　A shirtless, dark-skinned slave walked in, pulled open a brass door in the wall, set a small piece of dark, heavy wood on fire, and cast it in. 　　The black slave didn't say a word from beginning to end, and slammed the door to the room shut as he left. 　　With the passing of a shrill bell, the cultivation room vibrated slightly, and there came a faint roar of machinery. A few moments later, a large amount of rolling hot steam poured in from the four walls and the ceiling, quickly filling the entire space. 　　Suddenly a wisp of smoke escaped from the wall behind the half-man-high copper door, in the room full of steam, first you can clearly see the curling and elongated white smoke, gradually spreading out, and finally mixed with the steam completely. Indoor fragrance filled the room. 　　In such a small space, the humidity went up all of a sudden, a little stuffy, thousand nights instinctively did a deep breath. Suddenly felt the spirit revitalized, actually seemed to vaguely feel something in the surrounding emptiness in the lively leap. It was similar yet different from the green-colored raindrops that sprinkled on his body on that Crimson Moon night. 　　This was Force resonance! 　　Thousand Nights was overjoyed in his heart and hurriedly tranquilized his mind, meditating on the heart method of the Soldiering Technique, and sure enough, something also seemed to wake up from the silence in his body. The surrounding emptiness of the Force became even more excited and active, being attracted like a strand of it penetrated into the body. 　　Two hours passed quickly, and a clear bell suddenly rang in the valley, waking all the children from their immersion. 　　Qianye slowly opened his eyes, his heart incomparably regretful. 　　In just this one afternoon's effort, a substantial strand of Force had already condensed within his body. Although it was still extremely tiny and felt if anything, it was enough to make Qianye ecstatic. According to the description in the Soldiering Technique, to be able to achieve the Force Condensation and Formation on the first day meant that one had outstanding natural talent, and was hopeful of cultivating to the level 7 or above Advanced Warrior Realm. 　　The spices inside the copper door had already burned out, and no more aroma overflowed. Although the room was still filled with steam, Thousand Nights' sense of the Force was gradually becoming dull and fuzzy. 　　The session was over. 　　The room suddenly resounded with the sound of roaring machinery, the walls began to vibrate, and from under the floor grates came a powerful suction, the room full of steam disappeared in the blink of an eye to dryness. Then in the creaking sound of gears and hinges, the heavy copper door of the training room slowly lifted. 　　Not caring about his still wet underwear, Qianye put on his clothes as fast as he could and walked out of the cultivation room, ran to the designated field and stood in his own queue. 　　Long Hai appeared again, and with a somewhat devious and cruel smile, he slowly said, "From the homework just now, you should have all experienced the benefits of the 'Vermillion Blood'. You should know that such a small piece," he compared the length and width of his index finger and grinned, his upper and lower gold and silver teeth reflecting a cold light, "is enough to buy a dozen or so lives!" 　　Thousand Nights had known that the piece of wood wasn't a mortal product, but he didn't expect it to be worth so much. 　　However, a dozen lives depends on how to calculate, like QianYi this kind of children growing up in the garbage dump, a dozen together may not be worth a silver coin. Before meeting Lin Xitang, Qianye had only seen copper coins twice, one of which had a corner missing, and silver coins had never been seen. 　　Long Hai paused for a moment and suddenly raised his voice, roaring, "But in the future, you won't have such a good thing again! Starting this week, all training subjects will be scored according to your performance, and the assessment will be done a week later! The bottom half of the ranking will not have 'Vermillion Blood', while the top half will receive double the amount of 'Vermillion Blood'. If you are able to rank in the top ten, then congratulations, you will also be able to receive a third piece of 'Vermillion Blood'!" 　　The children's faces all changed, and the gazes they looked at their surrounding companions became wary. 　　A few gazes swept over Qianye and quickly looked at the others. Qianye was unremarkable, taking a back seat in the passing training. 　　In this way, the first week passed quickly, and at the end of the week, Qianye was ranked 75th, which meant that he would not have any Vermillion Blood for a whole week. 　　The night the rankings were announced, Qianye didn't fall asleep. 　　He reflected on each of his training subjects one by one. The Soldiering Technique was not ranked for the time being, and in the various knowledge courses that Zhang Jing was responsible for, Qianye always came out on top, but it was the various physical training programs that made up the bulk of the training. In these programs, Qianye fell behind in almost every item. 　　Qianye quietly lay on his back, staring at the ceiling above his head, reaching out to gently stroke the huge scar on his chest. The malnutrition from years of living in the junkyard had been pretty much toned down by the training camp's food, but it was because of this wound that made his physique much weaker than a normal child's. 　　The current Qianye already somewhat understood those words Gu Tuo Hai had said at the beginning, this injury also left hidden problems, whenever he overloaded his training, there would be hidden pain in the injury, reducing the time and strength of his endurance. Chiyo was only able to keep up with the pace of training by relying on a much tougher will than the others, as well as putting in more hard work and sweat. 　　But now, the new rules are obviously going to accelerate the elimination of half of the people. There was a huge difference in cultivation speed with or without Vermillion Blood, so as the days and months went on, the gap between the front and back groups would only widen gradually. 　　When Qianye finally fell asleep, he thought a lot, but he didn't think of giving up. As long as you keep going, you will always see tomorrow, and the faint light in the darkness. 　　Thousand Nights wants to recover the disadvantage little by little, every subject, every point he has to fight desperately to get! 　　This week, Thousand Nights worked his ass off to train, and the rankings went up, but only by one place. 　　Another week passed, and Thousand Nights managed to cross the seventy mark to become sixty-nine. However, during the third week, Thousand Nights fell ill due to over-training, and his ranking slipped down to ninety-three. 　　Perhaps the Goddess of Fate saw Thousand Night's struggles and efforts, and from the fourth week onwards, the knowledge classes suddenly increased dramatically.