Martial God Development Plan

"I can do it." Ji Zhao responded calmly.

The coach was about to start scolding, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he realized something was wrong and shook his head gently: "Sorry... there was something wrong with the tone of my words just now, Ji Zhao, I know you want to win, you have the most training in the team, and you have made the fastest progress. I believe that if there is anyone in the world who can beat Dictator before he retires, then that person must be you, but... I think, maybe not now."

"Ji Zhao, you are only seventeen years old. You just graduated from junior high school two years ago. No one wanted you in the first year. You couldn't afford a coach in the second year, so you could only practice blindly on your own. Now it's the third year. You have a little money, hired a suitable coach, and have made a lot of progress. I know you want to win. I promise you that with your talent, you will dominate this game for at least five years in the future... But, it's really not today. You don't have to be stubborn with me. You won't miss this week."

"No." Ji Zhao shook his head and said sincerely, "I really need this week... I don't want to waste any second of this month."

"No, you...?!" The coach was really anxious now, "Do you know how rare this endorsement is? If you miss this opportunity, you will never get it again!"

"Coach, I want money more than you do." Ji Zhao looked at the coach, "I have experienced the years of poverty. I know that feeling better than anyone else in this building. I am not trying to be strong or stubborn. I am just trying to gain greater benefits for myself."

The coach was old, and he tried to talk to Ji Zhao nicely but to no avail, so his face was naturally not very good: "What benefits?"

"Money." Ji Zhao gave a very mercenary answer. "This year, I won the Spring Season, Summer Season, Intercontinental Season, Overlord Cup, Wuqi Cup and Olympic Championships, but this is not enough. They are all just to fool laymen. Since the game of life and death was developed, there has only been one trophy with gold content, and it has never changed over the years... I must win this championship. Only in this way can I have real value. Coach, you know, since ancient times, there is no first in literature and no second in martial arts."

The coach was really angry. He jumped up and said, "Ji Zhao, why don't you understand? Do you really need me to tell you straight out? I'm telling you, Dictator is invincible. You can't beat him at all!"

"I can't win at all......?"

Ji Zhao asked back, with something indescribable flickering in his dark eyes.

"I don't understand."

Volume 3: Taizong Luohe: Chapter 2: Bloody Battle Physique ⑦

Distant memories flooded my mind, revealing a hazy sense of unreality.

Ji Zhao opened his eyes with great effort, and what he saw was the ceiling that looked a little familiar.

"you're awake."

Ji Tan, who was sitting on the bed, closed the book and spoke lines that sounded familiar.

"Um......"

Ji Zhao responded subconsciously and then tried to get up, but as soon as he moved, he felt excruciating pain all over his body. He had to give up the idea and lay back down obediently.

Liu Wei...he almost killed Ji Zhao, even though he only hit Ji Zhao a few times from beginning to end.

[“It seems that I can’t move for a while…”]

Ji Zhao thought so and replied, "I'm awake."

"It's really rare." Ji Tan said, "I thought you wouldn't wake up... I heard that after you chopped down with the knife, you fell down a few seconds later, and fell headfirst to the ground. The doctor was shocked when he came to treat you. It's a good thing you survived... So, did you gain anything this time? For example, Liu Wei's slaps opened up your Ren and Du meridians, and your bones became excellent?"

Ji Zhao subconsciously looked at his own panel and found that the bone was still at the pitiful level 1. He couldn't help but complain: "How could such a good thing happen?"

"But didn't this happen before? After getting hit on the head, he suddenly became smarter." Ji Tan looked calm, "And he became a martial arts genius. I heard that you dance with the spear very well... Moreover, Han Jie, the black knight thief, and Liu Wei all had obvious dagger wounds... I remember that my elder sister was teaching you the sleeve hammer, right?"

Ji Zhao sighed: "What's wrong with the attitude of interrogating the prisoner... From the fact that you, the second sister, haven't committed suicide yet, you should not have been insulted, that is, An Chun has not been broken."

"...What's wrong with you? You suddenly become so disgusting." Ji Tan tightened his clothes in fear, "How could you say such disgusting and horrible words casually..."

"I'm just confirming my results." Ji Zhao, who came from another world line, said calmly, "If I try so hard and An Chun is still defeated, what am I?"

"......That's right." Ji Tan put away the smile on his face and said in a calm tone, "Anchun held on... With that strike of your sword, Liu Wei was beheaded, and the Black Knights were frightened by your appearance and completely lost their morale. They didn't hold on for long before they were beaten back. I sent someone to check yesterday, and there was no one in the camp."

"Yesterday... does that mean I was in a coma for two days?"

"Ah."

"What did the doctor say about my injuries?"

"The first thing he said was, 'You asked me to come and save people, why are you asking me to look at a dead body?'"

"...As that corpse, is it a little hard for you to laugh?"

"Sorry, sorry, this is a lie." Ji Tan smiled, "But, in fact, the meaning is almost the same. The doctor said that you have a very strong physique for blood fighting, so you can hold on..."

Bloody Battle Physique... a product of the mirror's materialized characteristics. This world understands it as 'a special and relatively rare physique that becomes particularly strong in battle, greatly improving resistance to blows and vitality'.

Obviously, this is because this world has no way of understanding and imagining something like "characteristics". Why some people become stronger when they fight alone, and why some people become stronger when they are left with little health, there is no way to explain it. There is no way, it can only be attributed to the "infinite mysteries of the human body".

"Blood fighting physique?" Ji Zhao pretended to be thoughtful and asked a strange question, "Second sister, do you think I have this physique before or after this?"

"Who knows..." Ji Tan said, and suddenly remembered something, raised a finger, "Wait, let me tell you a fortune."

Ji Zhao looked at her calmly, and Ji Tan's breath weakened.

"Ah... Come to think of it, I seem to have agreed to a strange request of yours. But, isn't it strange? Fortune-telling is my hobby. No matter if it's accurate or not, as long as I'm happy, isn't that enough?"

"No." Ji Zhao rejected Ji Tan mercilessly. "You whisper to my elder sister and me every day that 'Dayan is going to be destroyed' and 'Anchun is going to be destroyed'. It's annoying to hear that. Besides, if others hear it, we will lose our heads."

"As the great hero who saved Anchun and the reincarnation of Lord Wu'an, you shouldn't care about such trivial matters."

"I can't afford that."

"It's nothing to be ashamed of." Ji Tan said lazily, "I heard that you followed Liu Wei like a dog that day, and drove him to the city gate and killed him with a sword... Just hearing about it makes me feel that you are a hero, especially since Liu Wei died so tragically, with both of his eyes gouged out and most of his ears pierced by internal energy... How did you do it?"

Ji Zhao closed his eyes and said, "The great hero of Anchun is going to rest."

"Ability brings confidence, confidence changes character... I think I understand." Ji Tan shook his head, actually didn't say anything, and turned away.

What she said before was actually somewhat false, but mostly accurate.

'Wu Wei' is something that can work on a group. Coupled with Liu Wei's tragic death and the previous phrase 'the reincarnation of Lord Wu'an', the defeat of the Black Knights was a matter of a moment. Even from an objective point of view, they were still able to capture Anchun at that time... but it was useless.

For a team with poor equipment, low morale, lack of command, no formal training and the death of its only core member, this is the limit.

Ji Zhao lay on the bed and finally breathed a sigh of relief... He had been holding this breath for some time and finally let it out today. Although there would be a lot of troubles ahead, such as how to explain why he suddenly became so strong, compared with those crises that would cost his life, these were nothing.

Fundamentally speaking, the concept of "possession" has not yet appeared in this world. At most, it is just a "reincarnation". As long as the siege of Anchun is lifted, Ji Zhao will not encounter such a fatal crisis for a while.

...Of course, if another Six Cavalrymen under the command of Duke Shengwu suddenly appeared, Ji Zhao would have no choice but to stay here and wait for death.

[“Wait until your injuries are better and then go to Luohe Pavilion. My family background is too low, so it is impossible for me to become an official. Under normal circumstances, I can’t even be an official. I can only start from the perspective of a warrior, and I can also stay away from these family members…”]

Volume 3: Taizong Luohe: Chapter 3: Recuperation

Just when Ji Zhao was thinking about how to improve his status so as to mobilize the masses to find Jing for himself, there was a not-so-strong and rhythmic knock on the door... Ji Tan had just gone out, and he never knocked on the door. The person who came was either Ji Bei or Wang An.

"who."

Ji Zhao asked.

"I." Ji Bei's voice sounded, "Can we chat for a while, or do you want to continue to rest?"

Obviously, there was no way to avoid it. Ji Zhao was a little worried, but not too afraid: "Sister, if you want to talk, I will be able to do it."

Ji Bei pushed the door open and walked in, then closed it. Compared to Ji Tan, her eyes were much more complicated.

Ji Tan is a heartless person who doesn't care about anything, but Ji Bei, as an elder sister who is used to worrying about her younger siblings, now...how to say it.

...Let me put it this way, because Ji Tan had little contact with people, most of the versions she heard were rumors, so even she herself didn't take them seriously. But on Ji Bei's side, most of what she heard was true - at least from her perspective, it sounded like the truth.

After the four of them were defeated by Liu Wei, Ji Zhao appeared with a spear and demonstrated his amazing spear skills, temporarily suppressing Liu Wei. At this time, a warrior raised his arm and shouted, saying that Ji Zhao was the reincarnation of Duke Wu'an... This shout made Liu Wei anxious, and he burst out with his internal energy to knock Ji Zhao away, then rushed up to chase him.

Up to this point, the people at the South City Gate could basically not see anything, and no one dared to go over to watch their fight. Everyone thought that Ji Zhao was gone... But within a few minutes, the two men came back.

Liu Wei was running and Ji Zhao was chasing him, neither fast nor slow (in fact, he could not run at all). He was holding a bone-cutting knife borrowed from an ordinary person's home and was pressing behind Liu Wei like a ghost.

It is said that Liu Wei was fine when he left, with only some injuries on his waist and abdomen left by Han Shou (in fact, his internal energy and physical strength were all drained out, but outsiders don’t understand). As a result, when he came back this time, his eyes were gouged out, his ears were pierced, his waist and abdomen were basically beaten to pieces, and he was frightened by Ji Zhao, who exuded an invincible aura all over his body, and fled in a panic... The impact of that scene directly shattered Liu Wei's invincible golden body, and instead transferred all the gold powder to Ji Zhao's body. The morale of both sides underwent a shocking reversal, which led to the subsequent great victory.

Ji Bei’s natural reaction was…Who?

Who do you think is chasing Liu Wei like a dog?

This hero actually has the same name as my brother. The world is so big that there are really all kinds of strange things.

What, he's my brother?!

This was the process, so much so that when Ji Bei returned home, she was still a little dazed. She knew that there must be some exaggeration in what those people said. The "chasing like a dog" was impossible. Another example was "one cut and the head flew off"————How could Ji Zhao have the strength to chop off Liu Wei's head with one cut? !

But, the overall situation is definitely similar. Ji Zhao did beat Liu Wei like that, and he was indeed chasing him from behind.

This is very terrifying, considering that she was still teaching Ji Zhao the basics of fighting a few days ago. As for the strength of Ji Zhao's internal energy, it can be seen at a glance... The only reasonable explanation for this incident seems to be that a mysterious person helped Ji Zhao, but the coroner performed an autopsy afterwards and found that all the subsequent wounds on Liu Wei's body were caused by Ji Zhao, and judging from the depth of the wounds, there is no possibility that a master had done it.

Therefore, Ji Bei had to accept the setting that his younger brother was 'suspected to be the reincarnation of Lord Wu'an'.

"How should I put it..." Ji Bei sat on the stool where Ji Tan had just sat and asked a seemingly stupid question, "Who... are you?"

"I am Ji Zhao." Ji Zhao said, "I am definitely not the reincarnation of Lord Wu'an."

This is the truth, both sentences are true, anyone who comes to Ji Zhao can say this, but...

"I think so..." Ji Bei was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly, "I have a lot of things that I can't figure out, but luckily these are all good things... For the next period of time, you should just focus on recuperating. When your injuries are almost healed, we will set off for Mount Daizong."

Luohe Pavilion was built on Mount Daizong.

Ji Zhao had been thinking about this matter, but he didn't expect Ji Bei to bring it up on his own initiative. However, one of the words made him feel a little concerned.

"us......?"

"Yes." Ji Bei nodded and exhaled lightly. "After this battle, I feel that I still have a lot of shortcomings in my practice, so I decided to return to Luohe Pavilion to continue my practice and improve my martial arts. Since both of us are going to Luohe Pavilion, your second sister naturally has no reason to stay here alone, so we will go together...except for Uncle Wang, who plans to guard this ancestral house."

【“…”】

Ji Zhao was speechless for a moment. To be honest, the reason why he wanted to go to Luohe Pavilion, in addition to improving his martial arts, was also because he wanted to leave his original family. He didn't expect... Well, since the fight had already begun, as for the rest, he could just deal with it as it came.

In the following days, Ji Zhao stayed in his room to recuperate...It is worth mentioning that he became famous in Anchun County. People were talking about him and praising his heroic performance that night. The news even reached the higher-ups.

Although Liu Wei could not be called a top master, he was still a well-known figure in the Qingzhou green forest. He was also one of the six cavalrymen under the command of Duke Shengwu Tang Cheng. It was actually quite outrageous that such a person died in a small place like Anchun.

Speaking of the situation in the Yan Dynasty, they actually wanted to create some war heroes to stabilize the people's hearts. After hearing Ji Zhao's detailed story about the reincarnation of Wei Huo, they became interested and wondered if they could make use of him. However, when they sent people to investigate, they found out that he was a prostitute's bastard. They instantly lost interest in the idea.

Therefore, in external propaganda, the emphasis was finally placed on the achievements of Ji Bei, the heroine Wu'an, in defending the country. After all, she was the main force, and Wu'an's identity was a plus, which was in line with the current mainstream values ​​of Yan State. As for Ji Zhao and the other three, they were basically glossed over... In the end, Ji Zhao's reputation was only spread in the small county of Anchun, which had a population of more than 10,000. Some believed it, and many did not. Ji Zhao did not care.

Half a month passed quickly, and Han Yi was sentenced to death for treason... Originally, the charge was intended to involve multiple people, but because it was Han Shou who reported the case, and he had made great efforts in defending the city, only people from Han Yi's faction were killed, and some of their property was confiscated.

Just when Ji Zhao's injury was almost healed, the reward from the court arrived along with the news from outside.

Volume 3: Taizong and Luohe: Chapter 4: Reward

The reward from the imperial court was mainly about money. After all, except for Ji Bei, all of these people were commoners, and Ji Bei's position as Wu An was not actually in the system, and she was a woman...

Except for Ji Bei, the others all had their own embarrassment.

Han Shou, my brothers have colluded with the enemy, and I'm glad you're not implicated as well.

Ji Zhao, your birth is too humble.

As for the warrior surnamed Liu and Lu Yushi, they were too old and did not contribute much, so it was difficult for them to overcome Ji Bei and Ji Zhao, the big C and the harvester to reward them with other things. In the end, all these people and the Anchun defenders got was some money.

But this reward was not much. In order to fight the war, the Yan Dynasty really tightened its belt to make ends meet. Everyone from top to bottom was extremely poor. Moreover, the money was allocated from the top, so it was inevitable that it would be touched by others along the way. In the end, only 350 strings of cash were left in the hands of Ji Zhao and Ji Bei... This amount of money was really not small. Many people could not earn so much money in their entire life. You must know that a top imperial soldier only made a dozen strings of cash a year. But who was Liu Wei? Even when he was a bandit, his head was worth more than this. What's more, now he is one of the Six Hussars under Duke Shengwu. There is no reason why his worth should not rise.

Ji Zhao was not very satisfied with this. His physical condition was too weak and he needed to take medicinal baths to improve it. Medicinal baths were always the most expensive. But even if he was very dissatisfied, he could not find anyone to say "this money is too little". Even if he went, he would probably only get a reply saying "too much for the country".

In addition, court officials also brought some news from the front line.

Duke Shengwu Tang Cheng led an army of 100,000 men and marched north...but was defeated by 3,000 cavalrymen who hurried south.

This army of 100,000 must be a bit exaggerated. In ancient times, when fighting, considering the logistical issues, two were usually used to support one. If there were many cavalry and the logistical tasks were heavy, it was common to use three to support one.

For example, Tang Cheng had 15,000 soldiers, and 30,000 of them were kept, which was 45,000. If we rounded it up to the nearest integer and then doubled it according to convention, it would be an army of 100,000. This has always been the case. It is not too much to just cut off a zero at the end of a claim of 600,000, 800,000, or 1 million.

That being said, there were at least 10,000 men, and Tang Cheng had intercepted a batch of military equipment, so his equipment was acceptable. How could he be defeated by 3,000 cavalry? The answer was that the huge difference in numbers led to underestimation of the enemy, and the rebels attacked at night, set fire to the enemy, and killed the generals in one go.

Ji Zhao didn't know the specific course of the battle, but the final result was that, except for Liu Wei, four out of the six cavalrymen died, and Tang Cheng, the Shengwu Duke, fled in a panic and disappeared. Most of the Black Cavalry collapsed, some died and some surrendered, and the rest hid in the Piaoyu Mountains and became bandits.

The Black Knights, who had once been a great force in the South and seemed to be able to change the world, were shattered overnight.

It can only be said that the Yan Dynasty was indeed going to be extremely poor. It was true that the emperor was squeezing the people to the point of making them suffer. Compared with previous years, it was indeed like a doomed Yan Dynasty... Then the question is, where did the money go? ⑦

Ji Zhao was actually a little curious about the life and death of the Dong Taoist.

[“It would be nice if he just died like this…”]④

As Ji Zhao was thinking this, there was a knock on the door. Before he could respond, Han Shou pushed the door open and walked in. This man had been very busy in the past half month, forced to clean up the mess caused by Han Yi's collusion with the enemy. It was only today that he came to see Ji Zhao for the first time. ⒋

"Are you feeling well?"⑧

Han Shou was nearly confiscated and his family was exterminated, but his face did not show any heavy expression, and when he opened his mouth, he still spoke in that slightly frivolous tone.

"I heard from your elder sister that you stayed in your room for half a month. You can never guess what rumors were spread about you during that time."

"Honestly, I'm not curious." 7

"But I really want to talk to you, especially to you, the person involved... Also, I want to ask, are you really the reincarnation of Wei Huo?"

"Han Shou."

"Ok?"

“We are a little bit alike.”

"what?"

"I hate idiots just like you."