Peace Order
Chapter 542 - 31 I’ll Take You Home_3

Chapter 542: Chapter 31 I’ll Take You Home_3

And those naive smiles continually interweaved in his mind.

A pair of hands gently pressed on the young boy’s head.

The touch was soft and delicate.

Silver strands of hair fell down as Li Guanyi looked at the map, not turning his head.

Shaking Light looked at him, she knew Li Guanyi was making a huge decision. The girl reached out, pulled the boy’s head toward herself, and after thinking, according to the records of the "First Generation Yao Guang Manual," she gently exerted some force to pull the boy closer to herself.

The young General embraced Shaking Light’s waist, burying his face into her embrace.

The girl’s palm gently rested on the top of Li Guanyi’s head.

The silvery-haired girl looked calm, her voice smooth as flowing water. "It’s alright."

She said,

"Whatever you decide to do, I will be with you."

That day, Li Guanyi went to see the prisoners, especially Yuwen Tianxian, which was beyond Yuwen Tianxian’s and Yuwen Hua’s expectations. Li Guanyi had not mistreated these prisoners and had provided them with sufficient food, although the portion of meat was not as substantial as that for his own people.

But this was already beyond Yuwen Tianxian’s expectations.

When the group of prisoners realized they ate similarly to Li Guanyi and his men, Yuwen Tianxian could clearly feel the spirit of resistance rapidly dissolving within these prisoners: no weapons, no armor, and no mistreatment, with all necessary food provided.

Only a fool would rebel under such circumstances.

Yuwen Tianxian sported a bowl of big stew, which Mr. Lei had personally prepared, with the help of the local chefs. Mr. Lei, in great anger and utilizing his cultivation from the Martial World, furiously stirred with the large ladle, managing to produce perfectly flavored slices of stewed meat.

Pot by pot, each large pot containing a whole wild boar.

Under the leadership of the disciples from Divine Beast Manor, the wild animals in these mountains suffered.

What could be eaten was consumed; what couldn’t, turned into dried meat.

No other reason: Poverty!

Over these days, Mr. Lei, watching the reserves of food and meat depleting rapidly, his scalp turned numb. As the new logistic officer, chef, and leader of the beast group, Mr. Lei and his team of five frantically pulled out their sect’s manuscripts, staying up late to study.

What they had only casually listened to at the sect, they now desperately wished they could extract every bit of knowledge from their brains.

Elder, I’m sorry; we shouldn’t have slept during lessons.

Please teach us again!

But the elders were thousands of miles away, and Mr. Lei cried his eyes out, studying through the night.

Then immediately applied it the following day.

Eventually, Mr. Lei realized that what his master wrote wasn’t necessarily correct, making continuous improvements. "This thing can only capture five at a time; if we scatter the ’Beast Attraction Incense’, dilute it a bit, it can attract fifteen at a time, they just aren’t completely knocked out, and a pitfall would suffice."

"Damn, what kind of stuff did the grandmaster write!"

Thus Mr. Lei, under the pressure of thousands of hungry mouths waiting to be fed,

had no choice but to delve into the skill tree of trap-making.

Several days later, Mr. Lei started to proficiently use the ferocious beasts he had tamed for hunting.

He had no choice; without doing so, there would be no meat.

He began to ponder whether experiences in life were all forged from necessity, driven by two conditions—[extreme hunger] [gluttonous satiety].

Sitting on the back of a bear, driving wild animals into traps, he drafted over a hundred hunters from among the infantry into his command, Mr. Lei bafflingly watched the group behind him who couldn’t even recognize characters.

Mr. Lei looked up at the sky and roared, grinding his teeth. "Weren’t we supposed to retire from the martial world?"

His brothers looked innocent.

Mr. Lei had no choice but to start breaking down the cultivation techniques and skills of Divine Beast Manor, frequently angered to the point of exploding by that bunch of slow learners, suddenly understanding why the external elders who taught him appeared to age a decade within five years.

This rugged army continued to stubbornly traverse between the borders of two countries.

Yuwen Tianxian watched silently as his own forces also slowly began to merge with this group. At least, they could help slaughter pigs and stew dishes. This army, filled with numerous elements not adhering to classic military strategies, possessed a raw adaptive ability.

Li Guanyi’s voice reached him. "General Yuwen, how has it been going?"

Yuwen Tianxian turned to look at him and said, "Li Guanyi."

This eminent general, subjected by Pang Shuiyun to the tactics of the Zongheng School, was entangled in internal energy constraints, unable to harness the power of the Sixth Layer Heaven. His Dharma Form was suppressed by Siming, who, after resolving Murong Qiushui’s Dharma Form dilemma, threw a weakened version of the seal onto Yuwen Tianxian.

Yuwen Tianxian responded silently. "It is a strong army, but, this force remaining here isn’t a long-term plan. Being an isolated force, you must implement some changes, otherwise, an isolated force cannot endure long, and this force will definitely be destroyed."

Li Guanyi said, "I know, which is why I have already made a decision."

Yuwen Tianxian looked at him and suddenly asked, "Do you plan to kill us?"

Li Guanyi looked back at Yuwen Tianxian and Yuwen Hua, eventually responding, "I definitely can’t kill you. Given how weak we are now, killing you would enrage the Yuwen Family and Ying Country. Even with a tenth of the likelihood of them dispatching troops, I cannot take the risk."

"However, in exchange, I would like you to teach me the arrays of the Military School."

General Xue had only taught Li Guanyi strategy, while Ling Pingyang was a Cavalry General. Yuwen Tianxian, being a general who understood everything and reached a considerable proficiency, had very solid knowledge and skills pertaining to the Military School. Li Guanyi hoped to learn something from him.