Conquering Myriad Worlds from the Mythical Three Kingdoms

The Great Han's use of the "willpower nail" technique was, frankly speaking, also an experiment.

After all, they all knew about the existence of the Sun Knights.

As long as Lü Meng notices the unusual behavior of these unconscious soldiers.

Even without technical personnel under Lu Meng's command, the Sun Knights could easily remove these obstacles.

After confirming that there was a solution, Lü Meng did not choose to remove these mental obstacles, but instead took matters into his own hands and researched a special secret technique that could block these obstacles at crucial moments.

According to the technicians' analysis, the opposing illusionary soldiers could sense the presence of these will nails.

Therefore, the opposing side will definitely choose a suitable time to send in the illusionary soldiers to control these soldiers and make them defect in battle.

Lu Meng's strategy was precisely this information gap, which allowed the opponent to send a wave of illusionary soldiers to their deaths.

It's just a difference of one wave of illusionary soldiers. Strictly speaking, the loss is negligible, enough for the opponent to make an attempt, since the gains outweigh the losses.

This was enough for Lü Meng to gain an advantage.

Advantages are something that are accumulated little by little.

At least for Lü Meng, accumulation is the best method, and it is also a reflection of his inner spirit that enabled him to develop the talent for intensive learning.

Although Lü Meng came with the mindset of simply completing a task, he was also well aware that his performance would determine his future status, so he took it very seriously.

From the moment he decided to launch the attack, Lü Meng began to accumulate cards in his hand.

Lu Meng repeatedly selected different legion combinations within his army to prepare for all possible situations.

"Send someone to bring Shen Zhengnan back!"

Lu Meng frowned as he looked at the army's information after the investigation. There was a shortage of supplies. Was the Yuan family dragging him down?
When Shen Pei was brought in, his eyes were quite bloodshot, clearly indicating that he had been overworked.

Upon seeing Shen Pei's appearance, Lü Meng hesitated for a moment, but still threw the list in front of Shen Pei.

"I need an explanation!" Lu Meng got straight to the point. If Shen Pei hadn't been in this state, he would have definitely started yelling at him.

"It was my oversight. I was too engrossed in training the new army!" Shen Pei picked it up and read it over, directly admitting his mistake.

He had indeed forgotten about these matters these past few days, focusing only on the new army, which led to such a major blunder on Lü Meng's side.

This is a mistake that should never have happened to a wise and intelligent person, so it's no wonder that Lü Meng was so furious.

No general wants to be controlled by others in terms of logistics and supplies before the war even begins.

“I will have Guo Tu personally follow up on these matters later!” Shen Pei put down the list and looked directly into Lü Meng’s eyes.

"Please rest assured, Marshal Lü, such a thing will never happen again."

Upon hearing Shen Pei's assurance, Lü Meng nodded, looked Shen Pei up and down, and asked with great curiosity.

"What on earth are you doing? How did you get into such a... mess!"

Lu Meng looked at Shen Pei, and for a moment he couldn't find a suitable word.

"Marshal Lü, please follow me!"

Shen Pei was quite direct, leading Lü Meng directly to see the training results of their new army.

Curious, Lü Meng followed Shen Pei and the others to the camp of the new army.

Once inside, they discovered something strange: this camp was quite unusual.

The campsite was filled with lush green branches, and its location was relatively close to the forest. Many firebreaks had been dug around the perimeter, clearly indicating that fire prevention was a top priority.

"Zheng Nan, you've come back just in time! The Qingyang ceremony is all ready!" Yuan Tan greeted him from the camp.

"I'll be right there!" Shen Pei nodded, then led Lü Meng to the venue.

"The Qingyang Ceremony?" Lu Meng looked at the setup of the venue with curiosity.

Under the command of a centurion, hundreds of bodies were buried in the lush forest.

"This……"

Lu Meng frowned; clearly, these soldiers were all his own men.

But Lü Meng remained silent. It was not unusual for a portion of the newly formed army, which was so large, to die unexpectedly during training.

In previous years, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry even had a death rate of one in ten, and this was only after the standard was lowered following a forceful suppression.

After all, the Xiliang cavalry's training method was based on actual combat. It's only because modern medicine is advanced that many serious injuries can be directly repaired; otherwise, the mortality rate would be even higher.

"They were the ones who died because they couldn't withstand the force!"

Shen Pei explained calmly that he had witnessed such scenes many times in recent days.

Sun Tzu's plan was excellent, but many problems arose during its implementation.

Despite continuous adjustments, some soldiers still couldn't hold on and collapsed.

"Three percent?" Lu Meng squinted and calculated, arriving at a mortality rate.

"Yes!" Shen Pei was a little surprised, but still nodded.

"You want to awaken their will, and then pass their power to others through this sacrificial ritual?"

"That's right. After a round of death, the danger of this power has been greatly reduced, and it can be transformed into a controllable power to be inherited!"

Shen Pei walked to the center of the site and bowed to the tree-buried corpse in front of him.

"We respectfully invite you all to appear and transmit the Dharma!"

In an instant.

Within the tree burial area, the bodies that had just been planted under the large trees began to move slightly.

A wisp of verdant, ethereal energy flowed into the corpse through the tree trunk and roots.

Immediately afterwards, corpses radiating green light crawled out from underground.

Lu Meng frowned. He could tell that the combat power of these corpses had basically reached the level of dual-talent soldiers. On the other hand, the soldiers who came on the field to receive power were basically new recruits with only basic training.

"How could this possibly work?" Lu Meng asked, puzzled. It should have been a one-sided massacre.

"These resurrected souls possess the most basic senses. Because they belong to the same faction, they instinctively limit their performance. In addition, due to the influence of my mental talent, they can only exert 30 to 40% of their power at most."

"What's more, that centurion will also be there!" As soon as Shen Pei finished speaking, the centurion who was presiding over the ceremony strode up to the group of new recruits.

"Form ranks and meet the enemy!" the centurion roared.

The new recruits around the centurion reacted instinctively, gathering in a circle around him. A green glow emanated from the centurion, enveloping everyone within it.

"Contemplation of gods and Buddhas?" Lu Meng was somewhat surprised, not expecting such a development.

"The god-Buddha, specially summoned according to the needs of life force—the Medicine Master—is a product of the combination of the origin and fragments of gods related to life force. The control is in the hands of Sun Tzu, and he is the core key of the entire army!"

Shen Pei explained the training plan for the new army, and Lü Meng nodded repeatedly. He could understand the ingenuity of the plan and also comprehend the difficulties involved.

"How did 100,000 people achieve such unity in their contemplation of the same deity?" Lü Meng asked, directly addressing the core question.

A major problem with Kushan deity visualization is that even when visualizing the same deity, different understandings of the deity can lead to a lack of consistency in the final visualized deity, even if it points to the same deity.

Because the visualized deity or Buddha will be concentrated and influenced by the visualizer's will, the possibility of overlap becomes smaller.

After all, every deity or Buddha that is visualized is an aggregate of the visualizations of hundreds of people. Two people might be able to keep in step, but it is impossible for thousands of people to be in step.

"As long as you take the subject of your visualization as the core and the visualized deities as individuals, and then conduct Danyang Coordination Training, you can maintain a consistent pace as a whole."

Lu Meng suddenly realized that this pyramid structure could not only guarantee the basic combat effectiveness of the lower-level soldiers, but also ensure the unity of command of the large army. It was indeed a brilliant idea.

It sounds simple, but there are too many prerequisites to be met. If Sun Tzu hadn't been a military genius and a master of micro-management, he wouldn't have been able to accomplish all of this so quickly.

With the blessing of the military formation and the visualization of gods and Buddhas, even a group of new recruits easily defeated the timid and helpless corpses.

Then, the verdant spiritual energy of heaven and earth flowed into the army formation and was distributed equally to each soldier, completing a wave of power transfer.

"One last question, can other people's bodies still be used for this Qingyang ritual?" Lu Meng asked, pointing to the tree burial area.

"Yes, but the corpses of others, especially those of the opposing camp, will retain an instinctive hostility. Ordinary soldiers cannot digest this power; only the fully formed Qingyang soldiers can bear it."

"Qingyang soldiers?" Lu Meng gave Shen Pei a deep look.

During the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the theory of the Five Elements was prevalent. The Han Dynasty was associated with the element of fire, while Yuan Shu, when he declared himself emperor, claimed to be the successor of the Yellow Emperor, which was associated with the element of earth, and thus he was believed to have the mandate of heaven.

This saying is still popular in Xinghan because the Azure Heaven of the Yellow Turbans is dead, and the Yellow Heaven should establish a slogan, which happens to be in line with the Earth Virtue theory. It is also called the Mandate of Heaven, and it is one of the popular opinions circulating among the people.

Now, Shen Pei's creation of the Qingyang Army, whether intentional or not, undoubtedly represents replacing the meaning of Earth with the meaning of Wood, in order to conform to the mandate of Heaven.

In addition to the previous problems of the Yuan family, this Wood element also implies a transformation from the Earth element rulers of the Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu generations.

Overall, it's rife with political undertones.

However, Lü Meng wasn't particularly interested in this, since the Yin-Yang school of thought was now considered a heretical or unorthodox doctrine.

Confucianism and Taoism stand side by side as two powerful schools, while other schools are striving to catch up. The Yin-Yang School is just one of them. In fact, if it weren't for the existence of the Netherworld, which led the Yin-Yang School to develop in the direction of communicating with Yin and Yang, it might have been kicked away as a roadside dog long ago.

After all, these days, military strategists prosper because of war, Mohists because of innovation, medical strategists because of technology... and even novelists prosper because of entertainment.

The Yin-Yang School alone, in its doctrine of destiny, could not surpass the slogan of "The Yellow Heaven shall rise," and in its technology, it could not surpass the Mohists, Taoists, and Confucians. Its greatest strength, astronomy and calendrical calculations, was rendered ineffective by the existence of large-scale secret arts and strategists with spiritual talents.

If it hadn't transformed itself in time to become a bridge between the human world and the underworld, the vitality it regained thanks to the revival of the Hundred Schools of Thought would likely have quickly declined due to its inferiority in every aspect.

The Yuan family's move also aimed to win over the Yin-Yang School.

After all, the Yin-Yang School was no match for the other schools of thought in Luoyang, but the Yuan family was still a worthwhile partner to cultivate.

Lu Meng was too lazy to care about the intricacies behind it all.

He asked directly, "When do you plan to send these new recruits to the battlefield?"

"That's why we've called you here. We need them to go to the battlefield for less intense combat training. Currently, only 10,000 men are available for the battlefield," Shen Pei immediately said.

His summons of Lü Meng this time was certainly not without purpose.

Theoretical implementation requires practical support. They have already achieved the first step, and the next step is to achieve the second step: actual testing on the battlefield.

The only battlefield that can be immediately entered is the surprise attack that Lü Meng is about to launch.

"Yes, but I can't guarantee their survival rate. You should understand how brutal the war will be, and we might even be defeated."

After some thought, Lü Meng realized that these people were originally the best cannon fodder, and could be recycled after they died. They could be considered the best weapon against the Illusion Warriors.

"Just do your best!"

Shen Pei nodded. He naturally wouldn't ask Lü Meng to give special treatment to the Qingyang soldiers. These Qingyang soldiers were undoubtedly the future, but the Yuan family also needed the victory now.

Only by living can we reach the future.

After Lü Meng left, Shen Pei found Sun Wu.

Sun Tzu was currently directing a Qingyang soldier in basic training. After all, no matter what kind of legion or soldier, the most basic military orders and formations still needed to be mastered.

Otherwise, everything that follows will be in vain; these fundamentals determine their minimum standard.

"What did Lü Ziming say?" Sun Wu asked without turning his head, waving the command flag in his hand.

"He just did his best to win!"

“This kid really doesn’t want to get involved in any trouble. Let him be!” Sun Wu understood the subtext in Lü Meng’s words.

"Let's continue, this is a good opportunity to test the limits of the hymn fragments!"

Sun Wu spoke calmly, and Shen Pei nodded, stepping forward to activate his spiritual talent, reawakening the power of the sacred song fragments through the descent of gods and Buddhas.

"kill!"

Sun Wu coldly waved his command flag, and the legion's attack condensed in an instant, then transformed into a blue torrent that crushed the embodiment of the hymn fragments.

Then the power of the transformed form began to flow into the army formation and then into the body of every Qingyang soldier.

"Success! They've improved by about five percent!" Shen Pei tested the changes in the soldiers and gave a positive conclusion.

"The improvement is getting weaker and weaker. It seems that the power of the Holy Song Fragments is not endless. It seems that there are not many opportunities to make money this way!" Sun Wu sighed, then washed away the elite talent on Qingyang Soldier and began to condense other elite talents.

This method can only retain about one percent of the talent strength each time, but little by little, it can improve the level of Qingyang soldiers in all aspects.

This was also Sun Tzu testing the elite talent framework that best suited the Qingyang soldiers.

After all, it's a fledgling legion, and there are still many areas where it's worth experimenting. (End of Chapter)