bookrandom Chapter 63 Sleep
Chapter 63 Sleep
Nanyangzi couldn't help but ask his instructor.
"Instructor, why is she leading those three units? Is she also an instructor? How are instructors assigned?"
Those around him secretly cheered, as they also wanted to ask the same question. Of course, they also secretly laughed at him, thinking, "You really dare to ask that!"
Nanyangzi's instructor revealed a chilling smile and said kindly to the new recruit who dared to offend him, "Oh, I originally wanted to conduct this ceremony later, but it seems that changing the order of activities is not a good choice."
"What ceremony?"
"A ceremony to establish authority."
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Zhong Ming had no idea what was going on with the noise behind him; he was surprised by their accommodation.
It really is... minimalism.
Such a large military camp, such large buildings, and the new recruits' rest room is... like a toilet? What's the difference between this room and carving a cave into a cliff face?
He felt like a row of goods on a shelf, neatly packed into such a regular square wooden building.
"Everyone, immediately enter the designated room and begin reading the jade slip. I'm giving you one night; this is an order."
After speaking, Instructor Xueyan crossed her arms and supervised the group as they entered the room. She warned anyone who dared to cause trouble that they would be piled on top of Chen Dahai's wheelchair.
She even found herself somewhat fond of the wheelchair-bound boy. No one in this world would restrict the artifacts a cultivator possessed; who knew which ones were divine weapons? But sitting in a wheelchair was truly fascinating.
The new recruits, meeting the instructor's cold gaze, dared not utter a word and quickly followed his instructions.
The members of the second team finally remembered to take their captain with them. Chen Dahai was under a lot of pressure. After Yue Kaishan pushed him into the small room, he also walked into the next room in a sullen mood.
Zhong Ming sat down in his seat, which was indeed a stone chamber with a stone bed that was barely big enough to lie down on, and nothing else.
Or rather, their only reason for being in the room was to cultivate and sleep; the rest of the time they had to be outside and tormented by the instructors.
Once Zhong Ming realized this, he immediately began reading the jade slip.
As spiritual energy was poured into the jade slip, a massive amount of information surged forth. The Chen family dynasty in Yunzhou truly had many enemies, and its relationship with the left and right states was quite delicate.
They competed with each other, then formed a united army and marched south. The enemies in the south were numerous: demonic beasts, sorcerers, shamans, and barbarians... as well as a large number of fugitives wanted by the authorities.
The regulations for recruit training are actually not many, because after that, they will be selected by the Seven Heavenly Armies. Recruit training is just the most basic training, to let these free and undisciplined cultivators get rid of the fixed mindset of wild cultivators and mortal army behavior.
This time, it was specifically stated that most of the new recruit training will be conducted near Mount Sekiho.
Just as Zhong Ming was seeing the details of the two dragons moving through the water, he suddenly felt dizzy and nearly fainted, and was forcibly pulled out of his reading state.
"Hmm, I've been reading for too long and my mind is exhausted. I wonder if there are any treasures that can restore my energy." Zhong Ming pushed open the door and saw that it was already night. He stretched and prepared to take a nap. He still needed to sleep during the Qi Refining stage.
He clutched the jade slip and fell asleep on the cold stone bed.
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In a daze, Zhong Ming felt as if he were sleeping in a snowy wonderland, with an unsettlingly cold wind blowing across his arms, making his hair stand on end.
"Oh? Is it snowing?"
Zhong Ming opened his eyes groggily. All around him was a vast expanse of white snow, with snow-capped peaks in the distance.
"Where did this send me?" He tried hard to figure out where he was, but there was no useful information around him, just a vast expanse of white, and the cold seemed to seep into his bones.
'If only it were warmer.' The moment this thought crossed his mind, the earth trembled, and a huge rift tore open beneath Zhong Ming, completely engulfing his body.
"I...is this a cloud? Am I unconscious in a cloud? Oh no! I can't fly!"
Zhong Ming plummeted from the sky, the surrounding air becoming unbearably hot, scorching his skin. Even more terrifying, below him lay a sea of fire.
He sensed it, and as if possessed, he turned his head to the side. There, right there, a gigantic fire dragon was spewing flames, scorching the earth and burning the forests. Herds of beasts were running wildly, but the fire dragon was flying much faster than them.
Flames, flames that slaughter everything.
The fear in Zhong Ming's heart was stirred up. In a daze, he saw himself standing on a small bridge in Qingxi Town, with familiar and unfamiliar faces jumping into the Gao family compound, and wisps of translucent souls floating into the air.
That's a soul, isn't it? That's a soul!
Everything before Zhong Ming's eyes suddenly became clear. Wherever the fire dragon passed, the flames below burned the flesh of countless living beings, turning them into pure spiritual power and pure souls. These souls were swept up by the surging flames and rose from the ground, returning to the fire dragon's side once again.
One after another, endless lines of fire stretched from the earth to the dragon, reaching infinity.
The fire dragon absorbed the souls of all living beings, growing even larger, and forcefully spewed out even more terrifying flames, instantly turning a green mountain in front of it into charred ruins.
It shook its head and flicked its tail, its body covered in flames as if a divine punishment, its dragon head raised, looking up at the sky.
"No, no, no, no! Someone stop this! This can't be happening! Fire! Fire! Where's the water? Where's the water...?"
The moment the thought arose, towering waves immediately surged in the distance, resembling a giant blue wall separating heaven and earth, with white foam adorning the wall with a sacred silver edge.
"Water! Great! Water! Put out the fire, extinguish it..."
The sound of the bell stopped abruptly, and he sadly realized that the giant wave was not approaching, but moving away.
The giant wave swept in another direction, and the indigenous people there, all those fleeing in that direction, discovered with horror that the water was also going to take their souls.
The shadow of another giant dragon could be faintly seen floating in the water. For the creatures in the water, the river water they usually relied on for survival instantly turned into splashing blades. Several turbulent currents tore their bodies apart and took away their souls.
Where the flood passed, floating corpses replaced the white waves. After tumbling on the surface a few times, they were splashed back into the water, torn apart, and mixed together. Blood, bone fragments, and river water blended together, like a pot of murky soup.
The water dragon is enjoying it.
Burning heat and rage are about to rob Zhong Ming of his reason; this is the Double Dragons Driving Through the Water.
That's utter nonsense! This is a case of two dragons slaughtering heaven and earth! What kind of water dragon will extinguish the fire brought by the fire dragon? That's utter rubbish!
The receding water slowly reached the black ruins, washing away everything that remained, all traces of humans, wild animals, fish, and birds that had lived there.
It was so clean it looked like an "unpolluted sanctuary".