Chapter 1845: Chapter 1845 Can’t Pretend to Lose
Ye Liuyun immediately began military training, completely putting the martial arts recruitment for marriage out of his mind.
He instructed Yu Xiaofeng to lead three thousand men, with Xiao Yunfang leading the Spear Team of another three thousand, for joint training.
He instructed them to start from the basic formation changes, imparting knowledge bit by bit.
Yu Xiaofeng, Xiao Yunfang, Tong Xin, and even Lei Ming and the gang, all trained together.
Ye Liuyun made sure that everyone knew how to use the formation in coordination, even Tong Xin took the training very seriously.
Next, they practiced formations involving six people, nine people, and other more complex formations.
Before long, all of the equipment and supplies customized by Mystique Mart were delivered. The stuff were even delivered by Xuan Yuanling personally.
"How come you’re here?" Ye Liuyun was quite surprised to see Xuan Yuanling.
"You’re a commander now. I’m tryna build a good relationship with you by delivering your items myself. Hopefully you’ll bring me more business. What? Can’t I come?" Xuan Yuanling responded with a smile.
"No, you’re very welcome! I was just curious, that’s all!" Ye Liuyun hurriedly invited her into his tent.
Ye Liuyun had been living in the military camp every day recently, not returning to his residence.
"You left suddenly at the party that day, and I don’t know what happened to you, so I came to check," Xuan Yuanling finally revealed her intentions.
Ye Liuyun also quickly responded with a smile, "I was in a hurry so I forgot to tell you!"
"That Tong Xin, he’s really a Weapon-refining genius? where is he?" Xuan Yuanling curiously asked.
"He’s in training. He’s already joined the army!" Ye Liuyun responded.
"Oh!" Xuan Yuanling was somewhat disappointed.
She thought that if Tong Xin were truly a genius at weapon-refining, Ye Liuyun would not let him train along with soldiers.
It appeared that Tong Xin was just ordinary. What piqued Ye Liuyun’s interest could be the combat power of that puppet.
Therefore, she started chatting with Ye Liuyun about He Lianxiu.
"That day after you left, He Lianxiu kept asking me bout you. She seems interested in you!" Xuan Yuanling said.
"Oh!" Ye Liuyun replied nonchalantly, not paying much attention.
He thought that he wouldn’t be seeing He Lianxiu again so he paid no mind.
"The pre-selection for the martial arts marriage proposal tournament is over, and you’ve been directly selected for the final. The final officially starts tomorrow, will you go?" Xuan Yuanling asked.
"Huh? I didn’t even join, and now I got into the finals?" Ye Liuyun was also surprised. He thought that they had already disqualified him.
Xuan Yuanling said resignedly, "Yeah, all the participating martial practitioners already seen your strength. No one has any complaints though!"
"Who cares, I’m not going tomorrow. Can’t I just forfeit it? I’m busy, I don’t have time to play with them!" Ye Liuyun said casually.
"Not afraid that the lord’s gonna punish you?" Xuan Yuanling asked worriedly.
"Nope. It’s not a big deal either. Plus, so many people are participating! I’m busy with important matters, why would he punish me?
And now that I’ve got the equipment, I need to get ready to deploy troops and get some resources. Otherwise, I can’t afford to feed so many people on my own!" Ye Liuyun exclaimed.
"Always complaining how hard you are!" Xuan Yuanling rolled her eyes at him, but still asked, "How many people are under your command now?"
"Six thousand! If each person takes an Elixir daily, that’s six thousand pills. You think that’s a small number?" Ye Liuyun retorted.
"Well, you’re right too!" Xuan Yuanling nodded in agreement. Even the wealthiest person couldn’t sustain such daily consumption by this many people!
"You planning to fight bandits?" Xuan Yuanling asked afterward.
"My plan was to kill the bandits first, get us enough resources to last us to the border battlefield, and then go back to the border battlefield to find resources," Ye Liuyun explained.
"Going to the border battlefield again?" Xuan Yuanling exclaimed in astonishment.
Ye Liuyun, looking a bit helpless, responded, "What else can we do? Now that we have more people, the resources from the bandit gang won’t last us long! I was thinking about going to the foreign race battlefield to get some training, but that seems impossible now."
Hearing this, Xuan Yuanling was even more astounded.
"Do you really have to go to such dangerous places for training?"
"Would it be called training if it’s not dangerous?" Ye Liuyun countered.
Xuan Yuanling couldn’t help but shake her head and jest, "If you were any stronger, you’d barely fit in Regalty!"
At this, Ye Liuyun agreed, "Well, a man should aspire to broaden his horizons."
His words left Xuan Yuanling with no room for a rebuttal. After a pause, she sighed, "I also long to travel and see the world. I’m really envious of you!"
Ye Liuyun chuckled and replied, "What you want is to admire the scenery and enjoy good food! But in reality, it’s a matter of life and death."
Xuan Yuanling couldn’t help but laugh. "Alright, then. I’ll be heading back. I won’t keep you from dealing with danger!"
"Hold on! Since you’re here, I should at least give you some orders. I can’t let you come here for nothing!"
Ye Liuyun promptly took out pen and paper, jotting down a list of herbs and their quantities, and asked Xuan Yuanling to prepare them for him.
"This much?" Xuan Yuanling was taken aback when she saw the list.
Ye Liuyun felt that the army’s consumption was too high, and it would be cheaper for him to prepare his own Elixirs.
"I also need to buy a few Elixirs recipes. The fourth and fifth stages recipes of the Qi Refining, Body Refining, and Soul Condensing Elixirs. We also need a hundred thousand sets of herbs," Ye Liuyun added.
Xuan Yuanling then curiously asked, "You know how to refine Elixirs?"
"Just a little," Ye Liuyun casually replied.
"I’m really curious, is there anything you can’t do?" Xuan Yuanling asked. Her curiosity about Ye Liuyun was growing.
"I also need to buy ten thousand sets of materials for weapons and armours refining. You can use the same materials," Ye Liuyun continued.
"You also know how to refine weapons?" Xuan YuanLing’s got more surprised now.
"Not really. But as long as someone else can, that’s not a big problem!" Ye Liuyun laughed.
"Are you talking about Tong Xin?" Xuan Yuanling thought of Tong Xin.
"He’s my soldier. Don’t you lay your fingers on him!" Ye Liuyun had already seen through Xuan Yuanling’s intentions.
"You’re so stingy!" Having no other choice, Xuan Yuanling noted all these down and returned to Mystique Mart to prepare the stuff Ye Liuyun wanted.
Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun continued his training with the troops.
Not long after, a royal palace messenger came to him, delivering his troop’s equipment and military payment.
Then, the messenger soldier told Ye Liuyun, "Commander Ye, by order of the prince, you must participate in the princess’s martial arts contest for her hand in marriage, and...you can’t pretend to lose!"
"Huh?" Hearing this, Ye Liuyun was left speechless.
He then questioned the messenger, "What does the prince mean? Is he insisting on marrying his daughter off to me? Why don’t he just arrange the marriage directly instead of going through all this effort?"
The messenger calmly responded, "Out of all the participants in the last contest, only two were selected. What the prince means is, there’s talent in there!"
"Oh?" Ye Liuyun was taken aback.
He thought to himself, "If there really are talents among them, it’s still worth checking out!"
But seeing that the messenger soldier did not leave immediately, he asked again, "Did the prince say anything else?"
