The Legend of the Guardians of the East Gate
Ch. 29 - 118 Loyal followers.

A month had already passed, after bidding farewell to Elder Zhang, and the several Monks in the Sacred Temple, Zhi Yuan set out towards a military building in the center of Jingyang city, looking quite a lot to register, Zhi Yuan set out for a military building in the center of Jingyang city, but they were disciples from various sects who were forced to register, because each sect was required to give up 5 of their disciples to join the military, and further recruitment was carried out six months later.

That day Zhi Yuan was given a room in that military place, and two days later the young man, and his four thousand other enrolments began the journey towards the East Gate, which was to be found in the city, in that fortress they were given war training for four months, and they had different ranks according to the cultivation level.

And after getting enough training Zhi Yuan and his three thousand others were put down on the front line, right in the outermost layer old forest of the horseshoe-shaped fortress. In the forest they are divided and have hiding places, all necessities will be sent every 10 days, no one is allowed to return to the fort before winter arrives.

At the beginning everything looks messy, they make attacks blindly without a clear formation, although it can reduce the number of opposing soldiers but the number is not significant, he said, even more casualties from the Yuan Kingdom, in the first three thousand people were only 205 people.

It was during the three-month war that many of the 205 men were saved by Zhi Yuan, making them always try to get close to the young man for protection, and the longer those people became loyal followers of Zhi Yuan.

That day from the top of the tree Zhi Yuan was watching the Wei Kingdom troops that were about to attack, his eyes were observing the opposing forces that were forming formations in front of the old forest.

"it's no stranger, I've seen this formation form," Inner Zhi Yuan and his brain quickly recalled the formation in his book.

Using the qi energy Zhi Yuan took out an Aray that was exactly the same as the formation of the enemy troops in front of his face, the fingers began to play within that Aray, some numbers in the input, and the, making the Aray circuit vibrate and shatter instantly.

"I need 738 people in the realm of proficient warriors to finish off that army" Zhi Yuan muttered so confidently

"But we only have 205 people, and only a few people in that realm," muttered Zhi Yuan started to think about all the possibilities, and reopened a new Aray and entered the numbers into that Aray, he said, and slowly the Aray series began to come apart one by one.

"hemmm.. I don't need to finish him off, with this amount, we only have enough fatal damage to their formation," Inner Zhi Yuan.

Zhi Yuan shut down his Aray, and began organizing into 205 people who were already his loyal followers, and launched an attack on the key area, the, and the result was unexpected Zhi Yuan and his comrades were able to kill 1300 opposing soldiers, almost a quarter of the entire number of opposing forces, without any casualties from his side, although some people were quite badly injured.

The damage to the formation made the army like an egg hitting a stone fortress, and easily the entire army was destroyed before it managed to touch the walls of the fortress.

Everyone within the forest looked so satisfied with what Zhi Yuan had planned, and this had not only happened once, either, several times they managed to reduce the enemy forces by many times their numbers, this small army started to work so neatly, it was very simple, field mastery and timeliness in acting have always been the key to the success of every Zhi Yuan plan, even the young man always had a more deadly backup plan in every plan.

For the next three months Zhi Yuan's loyal army had only 118 men left and they had killed more than 9 thousand opponents, an achievement beyond reason, and it was this ability of Zhi Yuan that made him so valued, and they unhesitatingly raised Zhi Yuan as the leader in that small group.

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Day 20 of winter the year of the earth ape.

Three years had already passed Zhi Yuan was now 17 years old, just like his promise the young man always returned to the Holy Temple every winter, this was the third time the young man was in the Holy Temple, the Holy Temple, now that young man had already mastered the level 5 Blood Mist Sword Technique, and was already at the realm of a level 2 proficient swordsman, and had a final grade silver silk bone.

Elder Zhang shook his head, saw the abnormal cultivation development, and started to rack his brain to stop the young man's rapid ability, he said, those who were generally Zhi Yuan's age were only at the late intermediate realm, although even a 17-year-old genius wouldn't cross the realm of a level 4 swordsman.

"The battlefield has turned him into a terrible creature, the risk of losing his life requires that this boy fight to beat fatigue, to cross the line, and beyond my estimation, his body is able to adjust to the situation, this was something that could not be done to his other cultivators because they practiced without risk, and were limited by fatigue," Inner Elder Zhang.

The hooded figure shook his head again,

"This is the puberty age of the young man, if not do his now, then all will be too late," Inner Elder Zhang.

Elder Zhang approached Zhi Yuan who was practicing, made the young man stop his practice, and approached Elder Zhang who was walking slowly with the help of his wooden stick.

"Chairman, is there anything you need?" ask Zhi Yuan.

Elder Zhang who had never let go of his veil only nodded,

"Sit down Yuan'er, there's something I want to ask you" Elder Zhang said and the two sat on a stone bench under the old tree, the little bells tied to the big rope started clinking as the wind blew a little.

"Yuan'er, you've grown up if you don't have feelings for women, usually men your age are so curious about the opposite sex" Elder Zhang said.

Zhi Yuan was a little nervous, and thought if Wu Xiang Yu had already spread his perverted actions to the holy temple.

"We haven't met for three years, that woman must have married and forgotten me, there's no way Elder Zhang knows the stupid thing I did to that demonic woman," Zhi Yuan said.