Cosmic-Level Demon God
Chapter 316: 192: Fourth Battle Group, A Producer of Water Buckets!_2

Chapter 316: Chapter 192: Fourth Battle Group, A Producer of Water Buckets!_2

Qin Shi expressed understanding; to obtain more satisfactory attribute enhancements, one must improve one’s attributes to meet the standards.

This is very reasonable!

“But Marshal Qin is a genius, those Martial Gods who shine across the Star Sea, the legacies they have founded, all gathered their own efforts and experiences, like palaces in the clouds, magnificent and grand, yet unreachable. And Marshal Qin has taken a different path, realizing human potential is endless, developed through training, and condensed Life Essence!

Every ten strands of Life Essence can create a Qi Vortex, helping to absorb energy particles, with a very low threshold.

This is not even the strongest point of the Warfare Strategy; its strength lies in its boundless future. As long as your Life Force is strong enough, you can open endless Qi Vortexes, strengthening the Mortal Body.”

A sense of worship and admiration rose in Old Liang’s eyes. As a practitioner of the Warfare Strategy, he fully felt the breadth and infinity of this path.

“To a certain extent, the rapid growth of Dongxia’s soldiers, able to support the enormous consumption of the Great Expedition, owes much to the Warfare Strategy.”

The cost?

This question popped into Qin Shi’s head.

He had also made some achievements in Life Force development and had a profound understanding of the Martial Arts Path.

Looking at the vast Star Sea, there is nothing perfect.

“The defects, or rather drawbacks, are two.”

Old Liang sighed:

“First, like walking the Old Martial Road, it indeed results in over-exploiting the Mortal Body, depleting potential, leading to premature aging and a shortened life span. Because of this, in New Dongxia’s fifth millennium, Marshal Qing proposed abolishing the Warfare Strategy’s army-wide promotion, which was passed by the other Marshals.

Currently, only the Fourth Battle Group, always at the frontier defense line, is maintaining the tradition.”

It seems that the Nine Marshals of Dongxia don’t always move in unison.

Qin Shi thought silently.

From the spiritual resonance in the dilapidated temple and various information gathered, he could roughly judge.

Although Marshal Qin had significant influence, he rarely used a one-word decision-making approach voluntarily, willing to make compromises, and even cede matters concerning his own “interests.”

“What’s the second one?”

Qin Shi’s thoughts diverged slightly, then quickly refocused.

“The Warfare Strategy does not have the concept of perfection.”

Old Liang smiled bitterly:

“This is a road that never ends. Condensing ten strands of Life Essence to create a Qi Vortex, then continuously doubling…”

“Exponential growth?”

Qin Shi smacked his tongue. He calculated simply, assuming the Warfare Strategy had ten thousand layers, the Life Essence needed at the end would far exceed the number of atoms in the universe, not measurable by conventional means.

Fortunately, Marshal Qin dares to envision this; who could walk this path through?

Even Marshal Qin might not have reached the ten-thousandth layer, right?!

This thought flashed through, and Qin Shi had a new question:

“Master Liang, since there are so many practitioners of the Warfare Strategy, do you know who has advanced to the highest level?”

He was very curious about which prominent figure had such perseverance and determination to contend with the Warfare Strategy.

“During the Great Expedition…”

Old Liang hesitated but eventually said the name.

“The Vice Marshal of the Fourth Battle Group, Qin Yue. According to statistics, before the rebellion occurred, he was already very close to the six-thousandth layer of the Warfare Strategy.”

The Vice Marshal was named “Qin Yue”?

Qin Shi recalled that in the spiritual resonance, Marshal Qin indeed called him Ah Yue.

“The six-thousandth layer of the Warfare Strategy?”

He immediately marveled. Old Liang’s Specialized Level strength amounted to just over sixty Qi Vortexes.

It was hard to gauge how much enhancement the six-thousandth layer could provide for the Vice Marshal.

Breaking a small asteroid with a punch should be no problem, right?

Qin Shi tried to use his limited imagination to guess those powerful existences.

After all, he had not yet reached the end of the path, unable to touch higher-level vistas.

“But Vice Marshal Qin Yue was deprived of Dongxia citizenship and all rights. Generally, people don’t count him in these discussions.”

Old Liang added.

“The officially recognized record is Jiang Wanli, who emerged during the Grand Pioneering Movement. Although he never served in the Fourth Battle Group, he still chose to specialize in the Warfare Strategy and has broken through to 5,428 layers, known as a Half-step Martial God. He is now a corps commander, stationed on the Gouchen Ancient Star.”

All impressive men!

Qin Shi couldn’t help but become interested.

He felt practicing the Warfare Strategy was like participating in some kind of “speed contest,” comparing who could clear more levels faster.

“Master Liang, I am not afraid! I have deep potential, and the new stage of rebirth after breaking the Four Great Limits fits well with the Warfare Strategy!”

Qin Shi proactively requested, intending to challenge this “race track.”

“I was planning to teach you. The military training materials are highly classified, but the Warfare Strategy is not restricted. You are close to the one-hundred-point threshold of the Specialized Domain, with your strength, crossing over is not difficult.”

Old Liang, experienced, imparted the key points:

“But from Amateur Level to Specialized Level, this step, the Old Era Martial Arts World called it ‘leaping over the dragon gate.’ There is a lot of particulars in how to leap. Breaking through the one-hundred-point threshold is an outburst of all your accumulated efforts, so it must be treated cautiously.

The Warfare Strategy’s potential exploitation can push you forward a bit more. I suggest opening about twelve Qi Vortexes before considering entering the Specialized Domain.”

Qin Shi also thought it made sense; the Specialized Domain is the second stage of the Martial Arts Path, equivalent to a whole new world.

In the following days, apart from eating at home with his elder sister Qin Xiao and his youngest sibling Qin Lan, he would mostly come to Old Liang’s place to study the “common textbook” of the Fourth Battle Group—the Warfare Strategy!

“No wonder Old Liang said this is a road without end. Marshal Qin really intended to make this difficult for people!”

On the fifth day, Qin Shi finally opened a vortex-like transparent Qi Vortex three inches below his navel, where the Life Seed is rooted.

By rights, with his strong accumulation and the Mortal Body that has broken the Four Great Limits, condensing ten strands of Primordial Qi should be a breeze.

But when actually practicing the Warfare Strategy, Qin Shi realized this was not a mindless technique of simply piling up Primordial Qi.

“Each strand of Life Essence must be extracted from the muscles, bones, and skin, intertwined and merged, like ten threads twisted into a rope, becoming exceptionally tough.”

Qin Shi pondered to himself:

“Then the created Qi Vortex feeds back into the muscles, bones, and skin, penetrating deeply. If ordinary techniques add one point to an attribute with each layer, the Warfare Strategy enhances agility, physique, and strength in all aspects.

The price is high consumption and slow breakthroughs…”

After completing the first layer of practice, he found Old Liang.

On the open ground in front of the dormitory building, the latter was also meditating, absorbing half a Blood Flower, and smiling gently:

“When you were younger, you probably didn’t know much about the various Battle Groups. In Dongxia’s military, there is a saying, ‘The Fourth Battle Group excels in producing Water Buckets.’

This means that the senior officers and elite warriors from the Fourth Battle Group have almost no weaknesses and are fit for many different tasks.”

Water Bucket Soldiers?

This nickname, which sounds funny, actually highlights the strength of the Fourth Battle Group.

“For example, the Seventh Battle Group likes to maintain large-scale formations and often perform outstandingly in large-scale joint operations.

The Ninth Battle Group, which guards the Black Xie Star Domain, is of a different style. In Dongxia’s early Great Expedition campaigns, they were on par with the Fourth Battle Group as a model force!

The berserkers of the Ninth Battle Group are highly adaptable, able to maintain combat capabilities even on heavily polluted planets. I participated in one of their ‘grand competitions’ between the Battle Groups, where their tactical diversity was remarkable, favoring spearhead formations for flexible and scattered, interspersed attacks.

We suffered a great loss that time and almost lost.”

Old Liang had much praise and admiration for the Ninth Battle Group, though he said little about the Seventh Battle Group.

The Battle Groups indeed have differences.

Qin Shi observed Old Liang’s attitude and felt that each Battle Group probably had its own complete “pecking order.”

Thankfully, the Fourth Battle Group was apparently at the top.

“Master Liang, how is your recovery from your injury?”

After discussing the training, Qin Shi asked with concern.

“Seventy to eighty percent recovered.”

Old Liang, touching his left leg, which had been disabled for many years but now fully restored, suddenly sprang up and kicked at Qin Shi!

Savage air currents, like a river, surged sweeping across!