Cultivating Immortality: Starting from Ferrying Passengers

Chapter 75: The Army Sets Out

Over the next three days, Fang Jingxuan became friends with everyone. These people were pulled out to practice formations during the day and play gambling together at night. Fang Jingxuan even deliberately lost a dozen low-grade spirit stones to make everyone very happy.

Not only that, Fang Jingxuan was able to get meat every day through his connections. This made the other cultivators in the neighboring Bing Camp drool with envy.

Fang Jingxuan was quite curious about the practice of this formation. He was also pulled into the formation and experienced it a few times.

However, the cultivators of the Bing Camp were not the core of the Chu family's formation practice. Fang Jingxuan felt that these people were just making up the numbers.

The real core of the formation is the few Chu family cultivators and a large number of Qi-refining family vassals.

In comparison, these monks have stricter discipline and will only follow orders when they are in the formation.

There are certain rules for when and how much spiritual power to input into the formation flags in your hand, and when to start changing the formation.

After seeing the Chu family's military formation, Fang Jingxuan had an idea. Although they had a large number of people, they were just a motley crowd. Even if they had three or five times the number of people, they would never be able to shake the Chu family's military formation.

After a few days, the Bingba Battalion where Fang Jingxuan was located finally reached its full strength, with a total of thirty people.

Later, another cultivator at the fifth level of Qi Refining came, and it turned out to be Lu Yue. He was an old acquaintance of his and had a relationship with Wei Tong. Fang Jingxuan felt that Wei Tong must have had a change of heart and sent him to help him.

With Lu Yue around, Fang Jingxuan felt more confident. After taking advantage of the opportunity to deal with a few troublemakers, he had already gained preliminary control of the 30-man Bingba Battalion.

At present, these cultivators will basically obey Fang Jingxuan’s orders as long as they are not unreasonable requests.

After the actions taken over the past few days, Fang Jingxuan's prestige has been initially established. What remains is to continue to deepen this perception in the minds of these cultivators.

Fang Jingxuan originally thought that this kind of life could last for a while, but it was obvious that the Chu family's patience would not last that long.

On the morning of the eighth day after Fang Jingxuan entered the barracks, the messenger gave the order that the army was about to set off.

At that moment, Fang Jingxuan hurriedly asked everyone to pack up and gather at the training ground.

When Fang Jingxuan's C8 Battalion arrived at the designated place and stood there waiting for a while, a group of monks flew over from a distance.

When these people landed on the high platform in front, Fang Jingxuan used his eyesight to find that they were the two foundation-building cultivators of the Chu family, who had brought with them a dozen cultivators in the late Qi-refining stage.

The head of the family, Chu Shenfeng, and the cultivation genius Chu Yunhou stood at the front. Fang Jingxuan also discovered a familiar face, the sword-wielding cultivator Chu Yunshen.

Thinking of Chu Yunshen's demeanor, Fang Jingxuan couldn't help but wonder, can the thirty cultivators of his Bing Camp kill him together?

Or could he kill all of his men with just one sword?
Fang Jingxuan thought about these things in his mind and made up his mind that when he really had to fight in the battlefield, he would stay away from the monks with swords.

Before he knew it, Chu Shenfeng above him had finished speaking, which was nothing more than the necessity and justice of launching this war.

Fang Jingxuan was not interested in this. In Baishan, fighting was inevitable. The name was just a fig leaf, better than nothing. But when the atmosphere was right, a fight was inevitable.

So, the army set out, and the 15th Battalion of Group C was arranged at the periphery of the army formation, spreading out to protect the camel caravan in the middle.

This camel caravan is made up of hundreds of different spirit beasts, carrying food, war equipment, and various bulky supplies.

Fang Jingxuan also saw eight huge stone pillars carried by eight huge yaks. It was obvious that these things were the key components of a powerful formation.

The Chu family was well prepared. From time to time, flying talismans of inquiry were sent from outside. Some scout monks were sent out to an area three to five hundred miles ahead.

Fang Jingxuan was at the left rear of the army formation, three miles away from the Chu family's main camp.

He was also surrounded by the Ninth Battalion of the Bingzi Group. Since the two groups were not far from each other, they could look after each other. With Tu Yuan with him, Fang Jingxuan didn't have to walk himself, allowing him to rest and recuperate.

Tuoyuan was forced to stay in the animal pen these days, without Fang Jingxuan's company, and he felt a little suffocated.

Now that he can walk freely, he has become more lively and walks with great vigor.

At this time, the benefits of owning a large spiritual beast can be reflected. With Tuoyuan, Fang Jingxuan does not have to waste precious mana to travel.

As for cultivators without spirit beasts, they can only use their own methods, either flying weapons or walking, which requires consuming some of their magic power anyway.

Because the Chu family's main camp in front was carrying large supplies, the speed of advancement was not fast, only thirty miles per hour.

This is still in the wild, and we need to travel through mountains and rivers, otherwise the speed could be even faster.

In fact, if the Chu family was stronger, they could use flying pack animals, such as flying camel rays, to take all these cultivators away. They could probably fly three thousand miles in a day, and any place around Hongyefang could be reached overnight.

But unfortunately, the Chu family could not borrow a pack animal of this level, so they could only trek across.

Fang Jingxuan invited Lu Yue and five others to sit cross-legged on Tuoyuan's back. These five were the core combat force of the Bingba Battalion. Their magic power was precious and could not be wasted on the road.

The others had no objection to this, and it was impossible for Tu Yuan to carry all thirty people.

There is a strong sense of class among monks, and many of them are quite self-conscious.

In the early stage of Qi Refining, when you see a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi Refining, you naturally have to call him "senior".

Those cultivators who have low cultivation levels and look down on others have probably been taught a lesson by reality.

While on the road, Fang Jingxuan chatted with everyone. The war was about to start, and chatting more could help ease the tension.

Fang Jingxuan asked everyone about the purpose of joining the war. Some said it was for the various training supplies provided by the Chu family.

These things are available in the world, but they are very expensive and not something that monks like them can afford.

But if you can achieve merit through this campaign, there is hope of obtaining it.

In addition to the cultivation materials hanging around, there are also a large number of spirit stones to attract people. The reward of ten low-grade spirit stones a day is enough to make those low-level cultivators who are about to die go crazy.

However, Fang Jingxuan was not optimistic about this. Ten spirit stones a day would be three hundred a month. Hiring four hundred casual cultivators, just these expenses, would cost 135,000 low-grade spirit stones.

Moreover, the amount of spirit stone reward distributed will vary depending on the level of cultivation, and the calculated number will only increase.

In addition to the various material preparations previously made, this means that the Chu family will have to pay a price of two to three hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones for this campaign.

Although the Chu family is also an old-fashioned foundation-building family, isn't there any pressure in paying out so much at once?

Unless, what the Chu family can gain is more valuable than these two or three hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones.

For example, the hundreds of years of collection of an entire Qi-refining family can be profitable.

Thinking of this, Fang Jingxuan looked forward. That location seemed to be the location of the Beast Taming Ning family.

(End of this chapter)