Changsheng: My experience in patrolling the liver

Chapter 433: The Emperor's Banquet, the Small Success of the Establishment Method! (Two in One)

The two sides fought until the sky and earth were dark and the sun and moon lost their light, but there was still no winner.

Hu Donghuo is worthy of being the most promising successor of the Hu royal family. Although he has just broken through to the Grandmaster level not long ago, his combat performance is not much inferior to that of Master Bai.

Even with his extraordinary attainments in swordsmanship, he seems even more formidable in a fight.

If Song Changming did not use all five seals at the same time, it would be very difficult for him to defeat this military commander.

Fortunately, this was not a life-and-death duel. In the end, the two were unable to determine who was better and the game ended in a draw.

"Well-deserved!"

Hu Donghuo stopped in the air, looked at Song Changming and took a few breaths, then he deeply recognized Song Changming's strength.

Sometimes it is like this, no matter how much you hear, it is better than experiencing it yourself.

Otherwise, you will always have some doubts about the rumors in your heart.

"Thank you." Song Changming cupped his hands. He actually had similar feelings.

If it weren't for this confrontation, he wouldn't have taken this once-praised general seriously.

He believed that only the Grand Marshal Hu Zhong in the military could compete with him in strength.

At the level of a general, I should be leading by a huge margin!

It was not until today's battle that he realized that as his strength soared in the past, he had become a little arrogant.

The appearance of Hu Donghuo was another wake-up call for him, telling him not to let the hard-earned achievements in martial arts cloud his heart and eyes, otherwise one day he would be lost and fallen.

Or become the next Tang Leshan, with only a heart full of paranoia.

The alarm bell needs to keep ringing.

In addition, although he did not use his full strength in this battle, it can be seen that Hu Donghuo also has some tricks that he has not used yet.

If a life-and-death fight breaks out, the outcome is still unknown.

Hu Donghuo calmed down the fluctuating energy and blood in his body, gathered all the energy of a master, walked closer to Song Changming, and then spoke.

"The Emperor's Banquet, which is held every twenty-five years, is about to be held. Last time, the King took me with him, but this time, the King plans to choose one of us to go."

"Emperor's Banquet" After hearing what Hu Donghuo said, Song Changming roughly understood that this so-called Emperor's Banquet was the main reason why the other party wanted to compete with him this time.

He also heard about the imperial banquet from Hu Zhong.

Back then, the huge Yunzhou was divided into thirty-six regions by Emperor Yun, and he promoted thirty-six kings to govern various parts of Yunzhou.

Afterwards, Emperor Yun also established a rule that every twenty-five years, the kings from all over Yunzhou would return to the imperial capital to meet with Emperor Yun, report on the results of their respective governance, and then negotiate a series of important matters such as resource allocation.

Since Emperor Yun will hold a banquet to welcome the returning thirty-six kings, it is called the Emperor's Banquet.

According to the tacitly accepted rules, each king would only bring one person as his personal guard on that day.

Since they can attend this high-end game together and this is a precious opportunity to meet the current Emperor Yun, the position of the accompanying personal guard seems somewhat special and worthy of Hu Donghuo's attention.

"I originally thought that the candidate could only be me, but now I understand why you would compete with me."

He did not feel resentful about Song Changming's strength and the fact that he had to compete with him for this precious spot. He just told the matter calmly.

"You are indeed qualified to go to the imperial capital. If the king chooses you in the end, I just hope that you will not bring shame to the king and the Cuibai Road where we are."

"What do you mean?" Song Changming asked puzzledly.

Isn't the focus of this imperial banquet on the interaction between Emperor Yun and the thirty-six kings? Even if he goes, he is just a small guard beside King Cui. What does it have to do with him?
"You will know when the time comes." Hu Donghuo didn't want to say more and left with his generals.

Afterwards, after the First Army took over the garrison mission, Song Changming took his entire Nineteenth Army and prepared to return to the main city of Cuibai.

It is worth mentioning that when Song Changming led the officers and generals through the urban area, he was greeted with spontaneous cheers and farewells from many people.

During this period, Song Changming's 19th Army was stationed at the mine while also guarding Leicheng.

The previous destruction of the water monster in the mine river was just one of the incidents. Subsequently, all the ferocious monsters that appeared in the area around Leicheng were basically eliminated by the 19th Army at the first opportunity, and many people were saved as a result.

Therefore, whether it is the urban residents or the villagers, they all believe that the 19th Army under Song Changming is an upright and just army, worthy of respect and trust.

If possible, they did not want this army to leave them.

But what they say doesn't count.

The generals following behind Song Changming were more or less pleased when they saw this scene.

After all, being welcomed and supported is a good thing.

This is also the best time for the army to establish its reputation and for the soldiers to develop a sense of belonging.

Therefore, Song Changming was also happy to see this scene happen.

In the distance, on the city wall, Hu Donghuo watched Song Changming leave the city, wondering what he was thinking.

In the past, he had always been regarded as the most powerful marshal by the public, and his status was the highest among all the marshals. Even the likes of Meng Kunlun could not touch his status.

But today, he suddenly realized that no one can always be a winner.

Perhaps in the near future, all this reputation he has will be replaced.

The signs of this have already appeared, and that person is Song Changming!

[Kaifu Method: Minor Success (0/400), Basic Success Rate of the Method: 30%]

As they were approaching the main city of Cuibai, Song Changming completed the realm improvement of Kaifu Fa on the way.

As he expected, when the mastery level reached the minor success stage, the success rate of this method of opening a mansion still only increased by 10%.

If you continue to increase the ratio at this rate, by the time you have gained enough experience and reached perfection, the success rate of this method of opening a mansion will only be 50% at best.

Even if he had the assistance of precious materials like the Earth Core Fire Milk, it was theoretically impossible for him to be promoted to Grandmaster with 100% certainty.

"It seems that even with the support of the panel, not all problems can be solved easily." Song Changming frowned as he looked at the information data presented on the panel.

He never liked gambling.

But to reach the Grandmaster level, it seems that this really requires the right time, right place, and right people, plus a bit of illusory luck.

It is quite different from any previous breakthrough in cultivation realm.

Many of the human race's martial arts masters failed in their attempts to break through once, twice, or even three times before they finally succeeded.

And every time he fails, he needs to endure the pain of failure, spend a lot of time healing, repairing his martial arts foundation, and then re-struggle to reach the master level until he succeeds.

Even though he was the Grand Marshal of the Army, Hu Zong recounted that he had failed once when he tried to break through to the Grandmaster level.

Fortunately, after his attack failed, the damage to himself was not too serious. He only dissipated some of his internal energy and closed one of his Tianwu meridians.

Only seven years later, he made another breakthrough, and finally succeeded in opening up the Purple Palace. In addition, even someone as powerful as the Green King was said to have failed once before, so it was not all smooth sailing.

However, Hu Donghuo, the commander-in-chief of the First Army, succeeded in one go and completed the development of the Purple Mansion.

"It shouldn't be like this." Song Changming always felt that this shouldn't be a simple matter of luck.

Or maybe luck shouldn't play such a big role.

Through his analysis and judgment based on panel data over the years, he concluded that the key to whether one can enter the Grandmaster realm should still lie in the method and personal aptitude and potential.

Methods are necessities, and most of them are divided into good and bad. Just like the grade of martial arts techniques, they determine the most basic success rate of breakthrough.

In addition, personal qualifications, that is, the level of the dual attributes of spiritual roots, may also have a considerable impact on whether one can eventually open up the Purple Mansion and enter the Grandmaster realm.

In fact, the higher the values ​​of these two attributes, the smaller the damage caused by failure will be, and the corresponding fault tolerance rate will be higher.

In order to avoid paying an irreparable price after a single failure, we can see this from the situations of King Cui and Hu Zhong.

Both of them were considered to be extremely talented back then, and it was precisely because of their high talents and solid foundation in martial arts that even if they unfortunately failed once, they could continue to try again and again until they succeeded.

For Song Changming, it is a pity that he can only see his own personal attribute panel, but cannot see other people's potential values ​​for reference.

Therefore, he was not quite sure whether his dual-attribute qualifications of over a hundred spiritual roots were higher or lower than those of geniuses like Hu Zhong and Cui Wang.
If his talent and potential were high enough, as he thought, he would be able to let go of his psychological burden and boldly try to break through.

Even if he fails, he has the confidence to try again.

"Even if I'm not as good as martial arts geniuses like Cui Wang and Hu Zhong, my potential value should not be low," Song Changming said to himself.

Not long after, they arrived at the garrison. The soldiers felt like they were returning home and there was an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

The 19th Army’s base outside the city is the place they are most familiar with.

Song Changming returned to the main city and reported to Hu Zhong with the documents. After discussing the details of the mission in detail, he was given some time to rest his troops.

"Changming, you must have met that kid Donghuo." After finishing the business, Hu Zhong put down the documents and asked.

Song Changming nodded.

This is more than just a meeting. Both sides have already completed a round of fighting.

After listening to what Song Changming said, Hu Zong looked somewhat helpless.

"Donghuo has been like this since he was a child. He loves to make trouble and disobeys discipline. If it weren't for his rare talent in martial arts, his legs would have been broken by the elders of the family."

What Hu Zhong meant was to tell Song Changming that what Hu Donghuo did was purely a personal act and had nothing to do with him and the Hu family.

I was afraid that Song Changming would think too much about it and misunderstand me.

"But he was right about one thing. King Cui really wanted to take you with him to attend the imperial banquet this time." Hu Zhong added at the end.

"Has this been finalized?" Song Changming asked in surprise.

"Well, it was decided yesterday by King Cui that the time will be one month later. You will go with King Cui then. In fact, the reason why we ended the garrison mission of the 19th Army where you are is also out of consideration for going to the imperial capital this time," Hu Zong continued.

After walking out of Hu's tomb, Song Changming felt inexplicably sad.

He was not too surprised about going to the imperial capital, he just thought of it as a chance to see the world.

After all, in all these years since he came to Guyuan Country, the number of times he had left Cuibai Road could be counted on two hands, which was not many.

It's not that he is too lazy to travel far, but Yunzhou is too big. Even if it is divided into thirty-six regions, each territory is as huge as a small country.

It's not just Song Changming who is like this. For ordinary people, their walking speed is even more limited. It is very likely that they have never left Cuibai Road once in their entire life. This is the most common phenomenon.

As for the imperial capital, Song Changming had never been there. If there was anything he was looking forward to, it was to meet the human emperor Yun.

The entire human race occupied three states and governed themselves separately. There were also three supreme emperors in the world, and Emperor Yun was one of them!

It is a great honor to be able to meet and admire such a great man. It is something enough to brag about for a long time, and Song Changming can't help but be curious.

A few steps from Hu Zhong, you can quickly reach his mansion in the second district.

More than eight years have passed, and today this Song Dynasty residence is no longer unknown.

On the one hand, because of his great reputation in the army, it is called Song’s residence, but it is actually the Marshal’s Mansion in the city!
On the other hand, the industries and power that Song Ping'an has developed to date have become quite large. Although it is still not as big as those top families in Cuibai Dao, it still has some influence.

If Song Ping'an wasn't his housekeeper, he would be respected as the master if he moved to another place.

"Master of the house."

"Master of the house."

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Inside the mansion, there were hundreds of servants who, upon seeing Song Changming returning, hurriedly stopped and saluted.

A Da and A Er also strode over.

"Son."

The way they addressed Song Changming was also different from that of the later servants.

Only those who are close to him can call him Young Master.

A Da and A Er no longer boil water and cook. Song Ping'an is the steward of the Song residence, and the two of them are Song Ping'an's right-hand men and women, and can be considered little stewards.

"Did anything happen while I was away?" Song Changming asked.

"It's no big deal." A Da thought about it and shook his head.

Not everything happened during the time Song Changming was away.

But those are just trivial matters of life. He can just tell the chief steward Song Ping'an to handle them. There is no need to take up his own young master's precious time.

Song Changming didn't ask any more questions and went straight back to the main courtyard of his home.

Dahuang and Dabai rushed out of the yard and looked at Song Changming excitedly.

These two guard dogs have grown noticeably larger in size over the past eight years. They crawl on all fours and ordinary people cannot reach their backs even if they raise their hands.

The huge claws, like a palm-leaf fan, were almost as long as half a person's body. If it hit them with a solid slap, it would be enough to smash the person's body into pieces.

It is precisely because of these two loyal dogs that no one dares to act rashly in the main courtyard of his family.

"OK OK."

As he did in the past, Song Changming picked out two large pieces of water monster's flesh and blood from the Qiankun Ring and gave them to the two big dogs as a gift when they returned.

The water monster's flesh and blood was icy and cool, just right for the hot June weather. The two dogs felt like they had found a treasure and were very comfortable holding the meat in their mouths.

(End of this chapter)