Chapter 198: Public outcry, immediate results
As soon as the hour of Chen arrived, the huge pier built with large bluestone blocks around the huge Ling Lake at the source of the Jialu River was already crowded with people.
"Dudu..."
The navy horn carefully made from iron-clad ox horns was blown, and as the horn sounded, a medium-quality treasure ship emerged from the distant misty lake.
This treasure ship served as a special means of transportation for the Inner Lake of the Restoration Army headquarters. It did not participate in foreign wars but was only used in the Inner Lake.
It is responsible for transporting soldiers between the military camp and the island in the middle of the lake every day, and it only sails back and forth three times a day.
Once at Chenshi, once at Wushi, and once at Youshi.
"The treasure ship is coming!"
"The Logistics Department announced three days ago that our army has successfully developed a new type of magical elixir that assists in cultivation. From today on, it can be exchanged for military merits. I got up early in the morning and waited here early."
"It is rumored that there are various kinds of elixirs that have miraculous effects on assisting cultivation. I heard that the quantity each month is limited. We must hurry up."
"I have been stuck at the first level of martial arts for a whole month. This time, I spent almost all of my military merit points to exchange for a second-level nourishing spirit pill, hoping that it will help me break through the bottleneck in one fell swoop and enter the second level of martial arts that I have always dreamed of."
"The Logistics Department has already explained that the effect of the same level of Yang Shen Pill is more than three times stronger than that of Yang Shen Soup!"
"Unfortunately, my military merit points are not as high as yours. This time I will exchange it for a Qi and Blood Pill. I hope that with the power of the pill, I can break through from the middle stage of the first level of martial arts to the late stage of the first level."
"This time I'm going to exchange for that unheard-of rejuvenation pill. My sister failed to become a warrior and has been sick recently. Several military doctors are helpless. I hope that the rejuvenation pill that has an immediate effect on the diseases suffered by ordinary people can make my sister recover." ...
The treasure ship had just docked, and hundreds of soldiers of the Fuxing Army gathered here quickly boarded the ship in an orderly manner under the command of the treasure ship operators.
After they boarded the treasure ship, they talked excitedly and said all kinds of things.
There was only one topic: that was to use the military merit points that one had accumulated to go to the logistics headquarters in the military building and exchange them for the magical elixir that one wanted.
The soldiers would never doubt the credibility of the military.
The entire Fuxing Army's top leadership has always been realistic in what they say and do, and never exaggerates.
If any high-ranking military official is found to have exaggerated on military and political matters and caused any adverse effects, he will be severely punished without mercy.
Since the Logistics Department has announced the specific information of various elixirs to the entire army, it must be correct.
The size of a medium-grade treasure ship is so huge that it can accommodate not only the hundreds of people here, but even thousands of people.
Seeing that there were no more soldiers on board, the operators on the treasure ship put away the anchor and ropes, and slowly steered the treasure ship away from the large dock, and soon headed for the depths of the lake.
About half an hour later, an island in the middle of a lake, shrouded in thick fog, appeared before the soldiers.
As the soldiers watched anxiously, after a while, the treasure ship docked at the large pier around the island in the middle of the lake.
On the island in the middle of the lake and its surroundings, no loud noises such as blowing horns are allowed unless under special circumstances, so the treasure ship was very quiet when it docked.
The soldiers who had just arrived did not dare to make loud noises. After getting off the boat in an orderly manner, they quickly walked towards the huge military building in front.
The logistics headquarters of the Fuxing Army is located on the right side of the military building complex and covers an area of about six acres.
It is smaller than the military building next to it and is a relatively large and exquisite complex of buildings.
Today is the first day that military merits can be exchanged for elixirs and magic tools. The staff at the logistics headquarters knew that many soldiers on leave would come this morning, so they added sufficient staff to the logistics department.
After the soldiers entered the service hall, they began to line up in an orderly manner along the dozen or so service windows of the Logistics Department.
Everyone used their identity cards as proof, and soon they were able to exchange for the elixirs they wanted by spending more or less military merit points.
"Sister Xiaohong, I want to retreat to the training chamber of the logistics department. Please help me arrange a room. The military merit points required can be directly deducted from the roster under my name."
"It's the same for me. Anyway, I've already spent so much military merit today, so it won't matter if I spend a little more. I can rent a closed-door room here and make use of the increasingly rich spiritual energy on this island. I should be able to break through successfully in one fell swoop."
"Sister Xiaohong, I also want to rent a secret room for retreat and take elixirs and practice here!"...
After exchanging the unprecedented elixir, quite a number of soldiers did not leave, but walked to the office of the head of the logistics department hall and spoke to Zhao Hong, the person in charge of the logistics department.
"You guys are really smart."
Zhao Hong quickly registered these soldiers and deducted the military merit points corresponding to their identity tokens from the roster. He said, "The concentration of the spiritual energy on this island in the middle of the lake has increased tenfold compared to a few months ago due to the effect of the spirit gathering formation."
"With the help of the new type of elixir, you soldiers who have reached the bottleneck of your own cultivation have a great chance of successfully breaking through in seclusion here."
Zhao Hong is speaking the truth now, without any exaggeration.
Today, the island in the middle of the lake has a rich spiritual energy of heaven and earth that is comparable to that of a large spiritual land.
In this excellent training environment, taking the latest developed elixir to achieve a breakthrough will at least double the chance of success.
Zhao Hong, the head of the logistics department, took this situation into consideration and, after reporting it to Li Dingguo, recently started the construction of hundreds of secret retreat rooms for the soldiers to use for a fee.
The retreat chamber here was newly built not long ago, and today is the first time it is open to the soldiers.
The soldiers who are able to become warriors have mental strength far exceeding that of ordinary people, so naturally there will be no fools among them.
As long as they are not stupid, they will not be stingy with the mere ten points of military merit to rent a secret room.
Taking elixirs and practicing retreat here to break through can increase the chances of a breakthrough in your cultivation, which is the most important thing.
In just a quarter of an hour or so, all the retreat rooms had been rented out.
We will have to wait a while for the next batch of candidates.
Wait until this group of soldiers have completed their retreat and breakthrough, and then they will take turns to be used.
Anything will only be cherished if its quality is raised.
Otherwise, the story of "a little bit of rice is a favor, a big bit of rice is resentful" will also spread in the army.
This suggestion was put forward by the three sisters Zhao Hong, Zhao Li and Zhao Juan. They could have built several times more secret retreat rooms, but they ordered only about a hundred to be built because they had this problem in mind.
Logistics management is far from being as simple as it seems on the surface. Instead, it involves a lot of experiences that cannot be learned from books and can only be understood through individual practice.
About an hour later, the soldiers who had applied to rent the secret room and were in seclusion on the island in the middle of the lake, rushed out one after another with ecstatic faces!
This time they all succeeded in breaking through their own bottlenecks in cultivation! The miracles created by these soldiers quickly caused a sensation, and the soldiers who remained at the scene were overjoyed.
No one could have imagined that the elixirs that the Logistics Department opened up for exchange this time would have such miraculous effects.
How can this be considered a new type of cultivation resource to assist in cultivation?
It's simply a magic pill!
Although the expenditure this time almost exhausted the military merit points accumulated by the soldiers, the immediate effect was absolutely worth it!
The accumulated military merit points were meant to be spent.
Even the three sisters Zhao Hong, Zhao Li and Zhao Juan, who had already taken the latest elixirs developed by Li Dingguo and had long known about their miraculous effects, were still shocked after seeing such a large-scale breakthrough.
The three sisters have excellent aptitude for cultivation and are geniuses among geniuses.
Three days ago, they each used their accumulated military merit points to exchange for a third-level nourishing spirit pill. After taking it in seclusion, the three sisters all successfully broke through from the middle third level of martial arts to the late third level.
Apart from Li Dingguo himself, the first people to experience the magic of these new elixirs were the three sisters.
Now seeing such an overwhelming public outcry, they were a little dumbfounded.
In the future Renaissance Army, these new types of elixirs and the secret retreat room built on the island in the middle of the lake will surely be sought after by soldiers and will become in short supply.
The three Zhao Hong sisters already knew that the large number of various low-level spiritual medicines planted on the island in the middle of the lake would be harvested in less than half a month, and could be used to refine a large number of various spiritual pills.
Otherwise, the stock of elixirs in the logistics department would soon be exchanged by the soldiers who flocked in.
Even if everyone spends all their accumulated military merit points in this round of exchange, it is worth it.
"Report what happened here to the commander-in-chief as soon as possible."
"Now only the commander-in-chief is refining the elixirs and weapons, I hope we can supply them."
After the second batch of soldiers who applied for secluded training were registered and assigned to secret rooms, the three Zhao sisters took some time to gather together and discuss in a low voice.
They simply didn't realize that because of the magical innate artifact, the Human Emperor Cauldron, which was helping Li Dingguo cheat, the success rate of refining the elixir and the weapon was 100%, and there was no possibility of failure.
Especially in alchemy, the yield rate of each furnace is the most perfect.
As long as all kinds of elixirs are available, the automatic elixir-refining function of the Human Emperor Cauldron can be used to refine large quantities of elixirs, which can easily meet the exchange needs of the soldiers.
After this round of military merit consumption, the soldiers of the Renaissance Army will have to accumulate at least two or three months before they can have enough military merit for the next round of redemption.
So Li Dingguo will not be very busy, but rather very idle.
The various kinds of elixirs he refined were different from similar medicinal soups, pills, etc.
As long as it is sealed in a jade box, it can be kept for several years without deteriorating.
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"Ha ha……"
Upon learning about the popularity of today's pill exchange, Li Dingguo chuckled.
Li Dingguo already knew the miraculous effects of the various elixirs he had recently refined.
As long as the soldiers are not stupid, they will naturally flock to it.
It would be abnormal if the scene of the exchange on the first day at the Logistics Headquarters was not popular after vigorous publicity by the entire army.
He doesn't have to worry about being too busy.
Because the prices for exchanging various elixirs are not cheap, but rather very high.
It is impossible for soldiers to redeem their medals every day. They need to accumulate military merit points for at least one or two months before they can come to the logistics headquarters to redeem their medals.
With the magic of his own natal artifact, the Human Emperor Cauldron, his increasingly proficient skills in refining medicine and equipment, and the large number of spiritual herbs, spiritual roots, spiritual rice, spiritual fruits and other spiritual plants he has planted and cultivated on this island in the middle of the lake with a radius of more than ten miles, he only needs to spare a few days each month to work on refining medicine and equipment, which is enough to provide the soldiers of the Renaissance Army with what they need for exchange.
Li Dingguo doesn't have to worry at all about whether he will turn into a robot that makes medicine and weapons.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of refining elixirs and weapons, one can gain relevant knowledge at the same time, which is of great benefit to the refinement of one's own spiritual thoughts, true qi, and innate true fire.
No skill is innate. It takes a lot of time to hone your skills and build your foundation.
Li Dingguo vaguely felt that the knowledge of alchemy and refining, as well as the various related formations, that he would master in the future would be of great help to him.
This is the practitioner's sudden impulse and a warning from destiny.
Anyway, there will either be great blessings or great crises.
It will definitely not be wrong to pay attention to these aspects now.
By refining elixirs and weapons, Li Dingguo gained a lot of experience in formations from his natal artifact, the Human Emperor Cauldron. This was enough for him to spare a few days every month to work hard and persevere.
Why is it that the human race in this big world, despite being at a huge disadvantage compared to those demons and monsters, is still able to occupy enough territory to allow the race to reproduce and thrive?
The fundamental reason is that humans have various formations including city defense formations, military killing formations, etc.
Even if a level six demon king attacks, it is difficult to break the city defense formation of a large town.
A human cultivator at the peak of level five cultivation could preside over a military killing formation consisting of tens of thousands of elite soldiers and could even kill those level six demon kings.
As the leader of a faction, Li Dingguo could not possibly be unaware of the importance of mastering various formations.
He will become a master of formations in the future, and the Renaissance Army will have real foundation, and no big force will dare to provoke them easily.
Since I have such a good opportunity, I can easily learn various formations.
As long as Li Dingguo is not stupid, he will know how to choose this opportunity that others are eager for.
(End of this chapter)
