Promise!

Chapter 99, Dacheng

August 17th.

That night, the Shen family launched another all-out attack in the north of the city, repeating their old tactics and preparing to imitate what happened on the tenth day of the lunar month.

On the Dongqiaowu side where Zhuang Jin was, they once again joined forces with Pingshuibo. The two quarters joined forces and headed straight for the Yaowang Gang's Luqingfang. Unexpectedly, there were warriors from both quarters of the Yaowang Gang waiting there.

Obviously, on the night of the tenth day of the lunar month, the Shen family launched a fierce counterattack, and the Medicine King Gang paid a heavy price in the north of the city. They finally understood the principle of "saving people and losing land", and secretly gave up some of their territory temporarily and concentrated their forces.

——Gathering two blocks like this is already the limit. It's not that the Medicine King Gang doesn't want to gather more, but the Shen family is not fools. If there are more, they can't hide it and will be exposed in advance. However, two blocks are enough. When the number of warriors is roughly the same, the Medicine King Gang has a clear advantage. Compared with the Shen family warriors, their warriors have stronger combat awareness and more ruthless methods. This has been proven by facts before.

Dong Pei and Dou, the incense master of the Medicine King Gang, two of the Seven Classics, stopped Xing Yan and Liu Licheng.

"Xing Zhen Shou, Liu Zhen Shou, we meet again. Didn't expect it to be like this? Tonight, I will make you pay for the blood debt you incurred on the tenth night!"

"You two, this is a fight between the people below. Let's not interfere. Why don't we just watch together?" The incense master surnamed Dou also spoke.

Xing Yan and Liu Licheng looked at each other with serious expressions.

They were not worried about themselves, but about the people below them. On the opposite side, the Medicine King Gang also had warriors from two gangs gathered together. With the number of people being equal, their side was at a disadvantage.

However, Xing Yan was still very tough, saying, "You are very courageous. You gave up one block and concentrated your strength. But Master Dong is a little too arrogant. Now that we have equal numbers, my Shen family may not be afraid of you."

"Yes, how long can this trick be concealed? Support from my Shen family will come soon." Liu Licheng, the guard of Pingshuibofang, said, took out a flare and lit it, and the fireworks rose into the sky instantly.

While the two Seven Sutras Incense Masters of the Medicine King Gang were talking to Xing Yan and Liu Licheng, a war was about to break out.

From one to three levels, the warriors formed battle formations based on streets and teams, fighting each other. Street guards like Zhuang Jin also blocked the small incense masters of the Medicine King Gang, and they all got into a tough fight.

Well, some people are fighting hard, that’s for real; some people are just acting.

For example, Zhuang Jin's real strength lies in the Six Classics. Now, if he faces a Yaowang Gang member with only Five Classics, he can surely defeat him in dozens of moves if he really uses all his strength. If he is willing to pay a certain price, it will be even faster, and life or death will be decided within ten moves!

"In the street guards of Dongqiaowu, the number of Six Classics, Five Classics, and Four Classics warriors is one, three, and two, respectively. On the Pingshuibo side, it is one, one, and four, adding up to two, four, and six. This seems to be a tacit understanding. The same is true for the Xiaoxiangzhu of the Yaowang Gang on the opposite side."

"If I were to reveal my Six Classics prowess at this moment, it could indeed serve as a lever to influence the entire situation."

However, this thought only flashed through his mind before he gave up: "The consequence of that is that I will be targeted by the Medicine King Gang and regarded as a thorn in their side."

Even within the Shen family, this might not go over well... Keeping the breakthrough secret is quite taboo. Xing Yan, the small group, and the other street guards would probably feel bad... Even if we can suppress this matter to save the situation, it may seem glorious, but it will also attract too much attention. In the future, we will have to face the Six Classics of the Medicine King Gang.

Zhuang Jin would never do something that would purely bring him suffering and happiness to others.

"The Shen family's warriors are indeed inferior to the Medicine King Gang in terms of numbers, but we are not trying to crush them... That commander Liu has already sent out a signal flare. As long as we can hold on until reinforcements arrive, we will be successful."

Zhuang Jin thought to himself that he had fought back and forth with his opponent with great passion and enthusiasm. Judging from the Five Classics, he had indeed tried his best.

Then, he could also devote some of his energy to observing the battlefield.

Let's first look at the team under his command. After the baptism of war this month, they have grown a lot. Although they are at a disadvantage and have even suffered casualties, they can still barely maintain their defense line and prevent the Medicine King Gang's one to three warriors from coming to interfere.

The situation on the street guarding side is more dangerous. The small incense masters of the Medicine King Gang are all from the fighting. They are the ruthless ones among the ruthless ones. Every move they make is fatal, and they exchange injuries for injuries. Most of them are cautious about their lives and are not used to this style of fighting, so they are quickly dragged into the opponent's rhythm.

Let’s not talk about Pingbofang, let’s just talk about Dongqiaowu.

Taoist Xue Yan was a bit arrogant, but he was still very capable and had a good fighting awareness. He blocked a Six Classics and fought back and forth.

Du Shiyuan and Miao Lun seemed to be in danger and extremely dangerous, but they were warriors after all. At this point, they still had the courage to fight to the death. The idea of ​​dragging the opponent to death or at least seriously injuring the opponent made the opponent fearful for a while.

Duan Tao in the small group is also a ruthless guy. His opponent is ruthless, but he is not inferior to him. At this time, both of them have a lot of injuries on their bodies.

The worst one turned out to be Miao Lun. This man was kind and a good guy. His opponent was also a veteran of the Five Classics. He saw that Miao Lun lacked the fighting spirit, so he took advantage of this and exchanged minor injuries for serious injuries. If this continued, Miao Lun would probably die within twenty or thirty moves.

"No, we can't let Miao Lun pounce. Not to mention that he is one of our small group, and he can still provide cover in the future, let's say he is really going to die, so that the Medicine King can help the Five Classics free up their hands and join other battlefields. With a chain reaction, the battle on the street guard side will soon collapse, and then I can't continue to act!"

Zhuang Jin thought of this, and it was as if his inner universe suddenly exploded: "Get out!"

At this moment, his palm power suddenly extended more than three inches, forcing back the young incense master of the Medicine King Gang on the opposite side.

"Don't panic, Miao Zhenshou... I'm here to help you!" Then he flashed to the battlefield on Miao Lun's side, blocked Miao Lun's opponent, and gave Miao Lun a chance to catch his breath.

To be honest, at this moment, Miao Lun's gratitude to Zhuang Jin was beyond words. He thought he was going to die, but he didn't expect Zhuang Jin to come down from the sky like a miracle... I am really grateful to Zhuang Jin!
Thanks to Zhuang Jin's 'explosion', the originally shaky war was once again supported and maintained.

A short while later, seeing that the reinforcements from the Shen family were about to arrive, the two opposing Yaowang Gangs had no choice but to give up their current advantage and retreat, which seemed a bit anticlimactic.

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After the inventory was taken, it was found that sixteen warriors from the first to third levels in Dongqiaowu and Pingshuibo were killed in the battle, and even more were injured. Almost everyone at the street garrison level was injured, but fortunately no one was killed in action.

However, the Shen family launched an all-out attack tonight, and the battle line where Zhuang Jin was located was only a corner. Other places were not so lucky. In several battle lines, more than half of the Shen family warriors were killed.

Compared to the worst, Dongqiaowu and Pingshuibo were relatively well-off. Xing Yan was even praised at the meeting. He had witnessed the entire battle from beginning to end and was naturally aware of Zhuang Jin's contributions. He even considered him a fortunate general, and later internally awarded him a hundred military merits. Turning to the overall situation in the north of the city, the Shen family's offensive suffered a setback that night, allowing everyone to sober up and calm down from their great victory on the tenth night. They licked their wounds, prepared for a counterattack, and sought a solution to the Medicine King Gang's tactics. The Medicine King Gang had achieved a battle-level victory, but also suffered heavy losses. At the same time, it had not fundamentally changed the strategic situation of the enemy being strong and the team being weak, and they were also taking a breather.

As a result, the two sides entered a brief period of calm lasting seven or eight days.

……

On the night of August 17, the day after the battle, Miao Lun's injuries had healed a little, so he came to the door with valuable gifts and expressed his gratitude, which needs no further explanation.

In the following days, Zhuang Jin continued to practice martial arts diligently, and it was August 22nd.

That night, the moon was reflected in the river and insects were chirping everywhere.

Zhuang Jin was practicing martial arts in front of the door, while Chen Yun was beside the bamboo fence, lighting incense to repel mosquitoes and making sandals under the bright moonlight, with a palm-leaf fan next to her. Outside, the sound of old people gossiping could be faintly heard from the corner of the street.

call!call!
Zhuang Jin practiced the Black Evil Palm, starting out extremely standard and rigid, but gradually began to change. He no longer followed the rules and stuck to superficial routines, but broke them down according to his own feelings, and each move became more and more vigorous.

When he finished practicing the Black Evil Palm, his robes rustled and Chen Yun was attracted by the sound and stopped to watch.

Just then——

Finally, as if it had accumulated to a certain peak, Zhuang Jin's internal energy was released from his palms, and it turned into a gushing force that surged like a landslide or tsunami, suddenly surging to a distance of six inches.

laugh!
The two leaves that fell in front of him suddenly shattered into pieces at this moment, turning into powder and falling down in bits.

"Husband, have you made any progress in practicing martial arts?" Chen Yun asked after pouring tea when she saw Zhuang Jin stop.

"Yeah, luckily there was a breakthrough!"

Zhuang Jin nodded with a smile and sat down beside him, feeling slightly pleased. "The Black Evil Palm has matured a little faster than expected. It's due to the strengthening of Qi and blood, the replenishment of potential, and the bonus of exotic beast meat... a combination of various factors."

"Very good, the Great Mastery level Black Evil Palm, this is my second trump card."

Now, Zhuang Jin claims to have mastered the Five Classics, but in fact he has mastered the Six Classics and the Black Evil Palm. He is the one who guards the Seven Classics Square and no one can do anything about it.

In this case, the fault tolerance rate is extremely high.

……

In the following days, after the Black Evil Palm was perfected, Zhuang Jin focused again on his cultivation realm and began to switch to the meat of exotic beasts that had reached the perfect skin grinding realm.

The skin of the exotic beasts has been polished to perfection, which is equivalent to the six classics of a warrior. The meat of these exotic beasts is transferred from the state capital and is expensive. It takes twenty points of military merit to exchange one kilogram of military merit.

However, as I said before, military merit is earned by spending it, and spending it and turning it into strength is making the best use of it!
On the surface, Zhuang Jin only had the Five Classics, so it was naturally a bit strange to use the flesh of an exotic beast that had reached the perfect level of skin grinding.

——At the Five Classics Realm, it is enough to eat the meat of exotic beasts at the Great Accomplishment Realm of Skin Grinding. Eating the meat of the beasts at the Perfect Accomplishment Realm is too wasteful. Compared with the meat of exotic beasts at the Great Accomplishment Realm, eating the meat of the beasts at the Perfect Accomplishment Realm will not increase the speed of cultivation much. Most of the energy will be dissipated and wasted because it cannot be digested, and the cost-effectiveness is extremely low.

Zhuang Jin said: "We are living on the edge of a knife, and we don't lack this little bit of military merit. If we don't spend it and keep it in the account, how can we have children? Every bit of improvement is a bit. With this little bit of strength, maybe in a certain battle, we can save our lives."

The others agreed with this. In the small group, Duan Tao even started to follow suit, but Miao Lun did not. That was because the other party was stuck at the bottleneck from the fifth to the sixth classics. The meat of exotic beasts was useless to him, so he wanted to accumulate military merits to exchange for Shuluo Pills.

After explaining this, Zhuang Jin, who had obtained the exotic beast meat at the perfect level of skin polishing and put his focus back on his cultivation level, began to advance by leaps and bounds again. It is estimated that in about two months, he will be able to complete the accumulation of the six classics realm, break through the seventh classics, and truly step into another level!
……

While Zhuang Jin was concentrating on his cultivation, the Shen family in the north of the city also found a way to deal with the Medicine King Gang's move: cage policy, strict blockade, and point-to-point surveillance.

Once a method is found, it is natural to verify it.

After that, in the remaining days of this month, the Shen family carried out two small-scale exploratory attacks, keeping a close eye on the attacks, and no longer had such a big appetite. They thought of annexing the areas in units of blocks. Now they would be satisfied if two blocks could take over two or three streets at a time. In this way, they would proceed steadily and attack again after digesting and consolidating the situation.

To put it simply, it is like a pack of wolves hunting, tearing off flesh and blood piece by piece and pressing forward step by step.

The Medicine King Gang's tactics were broken, and they were once again in a passive position. They didn't dare to face a head-on fight between two districts alone, so they could only resort to sparrow warfare and harassment warfare when the Shen family warriors scattered and occupied the streets... However, this only slowed down the speed of occupation. In fact, they were still being squeezed, forced to retreat, and gave up the occupied streets bit by bit.

In such a big background, Zhuang Jin's performance was to follow the crowd and hang out with others... Well, that's not right. Judging from his superficial Five Classics realm, he was working quite hard and no one could find any fault with him.

Lately, he feels that his acting skills have improved a lot - bullying those below him, disguising himself to hide his realm, pretending to be in the same realm, not killing the opponent so quickly, and occasionally showing his dangerous side to make his friends feel balanced. It's also very difficult, okay?

Because of this "hard work", Zhuang Jin often earned more military merits than Duan Tao and Miao Lun in the small group, further solidifying his reputation as a "lucky general".

Little did he know that his "good luck" was actually obtained by hiding his strength, acting, and scheming.

The war went smoothly, and the military merits naturally poured into the account. In addition to the supply of cultivation supplies and exotic beast meat, by the end of August, there were still more than 960 points of military merit in the account!
This is a yellow-grade top-grade exotic beast leather armor that can only be used by Six Classics warriors. It is worth one thousand military merits. Zhuang Jin cannot afford it for the time being. His strength is improving very quickly, and it will soon be eliminated. Otherwise, he would want to buy one.

During these seven or eight days, he had accumulated more than 10% of his knowledge in the Six Classics.

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(End of this chapter)