Eternal Life: I'm Grinding Experience in the Patrol Division

The two sides fought until the sky and the earth were dark, and the sun and the moon were dim, but there was still no winner.

Hu Donghuo was indeed the most promising successor of the Hu royal family. Although he had just broken through to the Grandmaster level not long ago, his combat performance was not much inferior to that of the White Master.

Even with his extraordinary sword attainments, he seemed even more difficult to fight.

If Song Changming had not used all five seals, it would have been difficult to defeat this general.

Fortunately, this was not a life-and-death duel. In the end, the two did not decide who was better, and the game ended in a draw.

"It's well-deserved!"

Hu Donghuo stopped in the air, looked at Song Changming and took a few breaths, and deeply recognized Song Changming's strength.

Sometimes it is like this. No matter how much you hear, it is better to experience it yourself.

Otherwise, you will always have some doubts about the rumors in your heart.

"Thank you." Song Changming cupped his hands, and he actually had similar feelings.

If it weren't for this duel, he wouldn't have taken this former military commander who was praised to the sky seriously.

He only thought that Hu Zong, the Grand Marshal of the Army, was the only one in the military who could compete with him in terms of strength.

At the level of the commander, he should be ahead in terms of strength!

It wasn't until today's battle that he realized that he had been a little arrogant as his strength soared.

The appearance of Hu Donghuo was another wake-up call for him. Don't let this hard-won achievement of martial arts cloud your heart and eyes, otherwise one day he might lose himself and sink.

Or he might become the next Tang Leshan, with only paranoia in his heart.

The alarm bell needs to ring long.

In addition, although he didn't do his best in this battle, he could see that Hu Donghuo also had some tricks that he hadn't used.

If they really fought to the death, the outcome would still be unknown.

Hu Donghuo calmed down the fluctuating blood and qi in his body, gathered his master's aura, approached Song Changming, and then spoke.

"The Emperor's Banquet, which is held every 25 years, is about to be held. Last time, the king took me there, but this time, the king plans to choose one of us to go."

"Emperor's Banquet" Song Changming heard Hu Donghuo's words and roughly understood that this so-called Emperor's Banquet was the main reason why the other party wanted to compete with him this time.

And he had heard about this Emperor's Banquet from Hu Zhong.

In those days, the huge Yunzhou was divided into 36 regions by the Yun Emperor, and 36 kings under his seat were promoted to govern various parts of Yunzhou.

After that, the Yun Emperor also set a rule, that is, every 25 years, the kings of various parts of Yunzhou must return to the imperial capital to meet with the Yun Emperor, report the results of each region's governance, and then negotiate a series of important matters such as resource allocation.

Because the Yun Emperor would hold a banquet to welcome the returning 36 kings, it was called the Emperor's Banquet.

According to the tacit rule, each king would only bring one person as an accompanying guard on that day.

Since they could attend this high-end game together, and this was a precious opportunity to meet the current Emperor Yun, the quota of the accompanying guard seemed a little special, which was worth Hu Donghuo's attention.

"I originally thought that the candidate could only be me, but now I understand why you can compete with me."

He did not resent Song Changming's strong strength and compete with him for this precious quota, but just calmly said it.

"You are indeed qualified to go to the imperial capital. If the king finally chooses you, I just hope that you will not let the king and our Cuibai Road lose face at that time."

"What do you mean?" Song Changming asked puzzledly.

Isn't the focus of this emperor's banquet the interaction between Emperor Yun and the thirty-six kings? Even if he goes, he is just a small guard beside the Cuiwang. What does it have to do with him?

"You will know when the time comes." Hu Donghuo didn't want to say too much, and left with his generals.

Afterwards, after the first army took over the garrison mission, Song Changming took all his 19th army and prepared to return to the main city of Cuibai.

It is worth mentioning that when Song Changming led the officers and generals through the city, he was greeted by many people's spontaneous cheers and farewell.

During this period of time, Song Changming's 19th Army was stationed in the mine while guarding Leicheng.

The previous killing of the water monster in the mine river was just one of them. All the ferocious monsters that appeared in the area around Leicheng were basically cleared by the 19th Army at the first time, and many people were saved.

Therefore, whether it was the people in the city or the villagers, they all believed that the 19th Army under Song Changming was an upright and righteous army, worthy of respect and trust.

If possible, they did not want this army to leave them.

But their words did not count.

The generals following Song Changming saw this scene, and they were more or less benefited in their hearts.

After all, being welcomed and supported is a good thing.

And this is also the best time for the army to establish its reputation and for the soldiers to develop a sense of belonging.

Therefore, Song Changming was also happy to see this scene happen.

In the distance, on the city wall, Hu Donghuo watched Song Changming leave the city, wondering what he was thinking.

In the past, he was always the most powerful marshal in the eyes of the people, and his status was the highest among all the marshals. Even Meng Kunlun and his ilk could not touch his status.

But today, he suddenly realized that no one can always be a winner.

Perhaps in the near future, all his reputation will be replaced.

The signs of this have already appeared, and that person is Song Changming!

[Establishing a Mansion: Minor Success (0/400), Basic Success Rate of the Method: 30%]

As the Cuibai main city approached, Song Changming completed the realm upgrade of the Establishing a Mansion Method on the way.

As he expected, when the level of mastery reached Xiaocheng, the success rate of this method of opening a house still only increased by 10%.

If we continue to follow this increase ratio, when the liver is full of experience and reaches the state of perfection, the success rate of this method of opening a house will only be 50% at most.

Even if he had the assistance of treasures such as Earth Core Fire Milk, theoretically it would be impossible for him to be promoted to Grandmaster with 100% certainty.

"It seems that even with the blessing of the panel, not all problems can be solved." Song Changming looked at the information and data displayed on the panel and frowned.

He never liked betting on luck.

But if you want to set foot in the Grandmaster realm, it seems that you have the right time, right place, right people, and a little bit of ethereal luck.

It is different from any breakthrough in cultivation realm in the past.

Many of the martial arts masters of the human race failed to break through once, twice, or three times before finally succeeding after all the hardships.

And every time you fail, you need to endure the pain of failure, spend a lot of time recovering from injuries, repair the foundation of martial arts, and then attack the master realm again until you succeed.

Rao is his military marshal, Hu Zhong said that he also failed once when he broke through to the realm of grandmaster.

But after he failed in the attack, the damage caused to him was not too serious. He only lost a little Gangqi and closed a Tianwu vein.

Only seven years later, he made another breakthrough, and then he truly succeeded in opening up the Zi Mansion.

In addition, even if he is as strong as King Cui, it is said that he has failed once before and it is not all smooth sailing.

On the contrary, Hu Donghuo, the former commander of the First Army, did it in one go and completed the opening of Zifu.

"It shouldn't be." Song Changming always felt that this shouldn't be just a matter of luck.

In other words, the proportion of luck should not be so large.

Based on his analysis of panel data over the years, the key to whether he can enter the master realm lies in the method and personal qualifications and potential.

Techniques are necessities, and most of them are good or bad. Just like the grade of martial art, it determines the most basic breakthrough success rate.

In addition, personal qualifications, that is, the level of the dual attributes of spiritual roots, may also greatly affect whether one can eventually open up the Purple Mansion and enter the Grandmaster realm.

Even the higher the value of these two attributes, the smaller the damage caused by failure, and the corresponding fault tolerance rate will be higher.

If you don't fail once, you will have to bear an irreparable price. This can be seen from the situation of King Cui and Hu Zhong.

Both of them were considered to be extremely talented people back then. It was precisely because of their high talents and deep and solid foundations in martial arts that even if they unfortunately failed once, they could continue to try again and again until they succeeded.

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For Song Changming, it was a pity that he could only see his own personal attribute panel, but could not see other people's potential values ​​for reference.

Therefore, he is not sure whether his over 100 spiritual root dual attribute qualifications are higher or lower than those of geniuses like Hu Zhong and Cui Wang?

If his qualifications and potential are high enough, as he thinks, he can put down some of his psychological burden and boldly try to make breakthroughs.

Even if he failed, he would have the confidence to try again.

"Even if I am not as good as martial arts geniuses like Cui Wang Hu Zhong, my potential value should not be low," Song Changming thought to himself.

It didn't take long for them to arrive at the station. When the soldiers and horses entered the station, they felt as if they were returning home. There was an inexplicable sense of intimacy.

This Nineteenth Army garrison outside the city is the place they are most familiar with.

Song Changming returned to the main city and returned to Hu Zhong with documents. After discussing the details of the mission in detail, he was given a period of rest for his troops.

"Changming, you must have seen that boy from Donghuo." After talking about business, Hu Zhong put down the paperwork and asked.

Song Changming nodded.

This is more than just seeing each other, both sides have already finished a round of fighting.

After listening to what Song Changming said, Hu Zhong showed a look of helplessness.

"Dong Huo has been like this since he was a child. He likes to play nonsense and refuses to obey discipline. If it weren't for his martial arts qualifications that are rare in a century, his legs would have been broken by the elders in the family."

The implication of Hu Zhong's words was to tell Song Changming that what Hu Donghuo did was purely a personal act and had nothing to do with him or the Hu family.

He was afraid that Song Changming would think too much and make a mistake.

"But one thing, he is right. King Cui really wants to take you with him to attend the imperial banquet." Hu Zhong did not forget to add at the end.

"Is this finalized?" Song Changming asked in surprise.

"Well, just yesterday, it was decided by King Cui that the time will be one month later. At that time, you and King Cui will go together. In fact, the reason why you ended the garrison mission of the 19th Army is because of this important event. Consider going to the imperial capital," Hu Zhong continued.

After walking out of Hu Zhong, Song Changming felt inexplicable.

He didn't have many surprises about going to the imperial capital, he just thought it was to see the world.

After all, in the many years since he came to Gu Yuan Kingdom, he could count on two hands the number of times he had gone out to the Green Cypress Road, which was not many.

It's not that he's too lazy to travel, but that Yunzhou is too big. Even if it is divided into thirty-six realms, each realm is as huge as a small country.

This is not only the case for Song Changming, but also for ordinary people, their walking distance is even more limited. It is very likely that they have never been out of the Cuibai Road in their entire lives. This is the most common phenomenon.

As for the imperial capital, Song Changming had never been there. If he had any expectations, it was to meet the human Yundi.

The entire human race occupied three states and was divided and autonomous, so there were three supreme emperors of the time, and Yundi was one of them!

It was a great blessing to be able to meet and admire such a great man. It was enough to show off for a long time, and Song Changming couldn't help but be curious.

A few steps from Hu Zhong, he soon arrived at his mansion in the second district.

More than eight years have passed, and now this Song mansion is no longer unknown.

On the one hand, because of his great reputation in the army, it is called Song Mansion, but it is also the Marshal's Mansion in the city!

On the other hand, the industry and power that Song Ping'an has developed to date are already quite large. Although it is still not as good as those top families in Cuibai Road, it still has influence.

If Song Ping'an was not his housekeeper, he would be respected as a master if he moved to another residence.

"Master."

"Master."

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In the mansion, there were hundreds of servants. Seeing Song Changming return, they all stopped and saluted.

Ada and Aer also strode over.

"Young Master."

Their address to Song Changming was different from that of the servants who came later.

Only those who were close to him could call him Young Master.

Ada and Aer no longer boiled water or cooked. Song Ping'an was the housekeeper of the Song residence. The two of them were Song Ping'an's right-hand men and left-hand men, and they were considered small housekeepers.

"Did anything happen when I was not here?" Song Changming asked.

"Nothing serious." Ada thought for a while and shook his head.

During the long time that Song Changming was away, it was not that nothing happened.

It was just that they were all trivial matters of life. Just tell the big housekeeper Song Ping'an to deal with them. There was no need to take up the precious time of their own young master.

Song Changming did not ask too much and went straight back to his main courtyard.

Da Huang and Da Bai rushed out of the yard and looked at Song Changming with great joy.

These two guard dogs had obviously grown bigger in the past eight years. They crawled on all fours and ordinary people could not even reach their backs.

Their big claws, like a palm leaf, were almost as long as half of a person's body. If they were hit by a slap, they would be enough to smash a person's body.

It was precisely because of these two loyal dogs that no one dared to act rashly in his master's main courtyard.

"Okay, okay."

As in the past, Song Changming selected two large pieces of water monster's flesh and blood from the Qiankun Ring and gave them to the two big dogs as gifts.

The water monster's flesh and blood was icy and cool, just right for the hot summer in June. The two dogs were very happy holding the meat in their mouths.