As a low bell rang outside the house, Xia Xiaofei slowly woke up from his deep practice, and his performance was not affected.
This is the soothing bell of the recruit camp. It has the function of awakening the monks and cleansing the soul. It is also the morning bell for the recruits.
The recruit manual says that when the bell rings, it means the recruits are gathering.
Failure to do so by the time limit is a violation of military regulations and subject to whipping.
The so-called whipping means stripping down to your underwear in front of a large audience, and then whipping your back and buttocks with a whip of the highest quality.
It's not very harmful, but it's very insulting.
Especially for female monks, the whip does not recognize men and women.
Xia Xiaofei stood up with some nostalgia.
The training effect in this recruit barracks was beyond his imagination, almost twice as fast as his normal training speed.
This made him once think that the spirit gathering arrays burned in the quiet room before were all fake.
If combined with the spirit stone and elixir in his hand, Xia Xiaofei is sure to complete the accumulation of experience points and break through to the Nascent Soul realm within one year.
This second round of tasks was completely stress-free for him.
However, Xia Xiaofei didn't think he could stay in the recruit camp forever.
He cast a dust removal spell on himself, walked out of the barracks and walked towards the playground.
Other recruits also arrived one after another, about seven to eight hundred people.
The most indispensable thing in Qingxiao Road is monks. Even though it is known that the mortality rate in the pioneer camp is frighteningly high, there is still no shortage of monks who are attracted by moths.
Xia Xiaofei stood silently in the crowd, looking ordinary.
On the rostrum, a monk wearing silver leather armor held a whip and looked down at the many recruits.
Next to him was an iron pillar as thick as an adult, hanging on it was a monk who was looking tired.
The lute bones on his shoulders were locked with magical instruments, strung up with iron ropes, and hung in the air.
This person is the recruit who killed the leading sergeant yesterday.
Some people did not know this person, but they knew his identity after others discussed it, and then they understood the reason why the morning bell rang.
It was to be executed in public.
The monk holding the whip said casually:
"My name is Li Xin. I have the rank of captain. I used to serve in the Third Army Corps. I am now the captain of the law enforcement team of the new recruit camp of the Pioneer Battalion. I also serve as the deputy battalion commander of the new recruit camp.
Some people know me, some people don't know me.
But now, you should all know me."
He flicked the whip in his hand, and the whip with keel barbs hit the hanging monk hard.
A trace of blood appeared instantly, and the monk groaned, even biting the corner of his mouth to draw blood.
"This guy is a new recruit, and he also committed a crime. He killed someone, and he killed a sergeant in the recruit camp.
It is a taboo in the military to attack a comrade, and he should be put to death directly.
However, when he first came to the camp, something happened for a reason, so the death penalty was changed to thirty floggings. In addition, he had to take the Devil's Heart Pill and start the new recruit mission three days later.
I asked you to come here today to tell you that the army is not your original sect and will not tolerate your arrogance.
Since you have joined the pioneer camp, you must abide by the rules in the army.
Read the recruit manual in your hands thoroughly and don't make any mistakes, otherwise the dignified Jin Dan will be executed in public, and I think you don't like to see it either."
Hearing this, Xia Xiaofei's eyes twitched and he looked sympathetically at the new recruit who committed the crime.
He didn't know what the level of thirty floggings was. Just talking about the Devil's Heart Pill, it was a must-have for the legion's death camp.
It is said that the death camps are all composed of monks who have done the most evil, and they are all vicious. They are a place used by the legion to recycle waste, and are even lower than the cannon fodder camp.
In order to prevent these monks from the death camp from defecting while performing their missions, the Devil's Heart Pill is a must-have for them.
Legend has it that the Demon Heart Pill was a magic pill refined by Qingxiao Taoist Master in his early years, and made great contributions to the early development of Qingxiao Taoist City.
I don’t know how many demonic and evil monks were under the control of this demonic heart pill. They could not live or die, and finally burned themselves in death camps until they died.
As for the recruit tasks, although every recruit needs to do it, they do have three months to practice.
And this man had been whipped and had only three days to recuperate, but he had to go on a mission, almost escaping death.
But he took the Devil's Heart Pill again, killing even the possibility of becoming a deserter.
Snapped!!!
Li Xin didn't care about the recruit's reaction. He flicked the punishment whip in his hand, and a spiritual light penetrated the offending recruit's body. Just one whip seemed to tear the recruit's body apart.
"ah!!!"
The offending recruit couldn't bear it anymore and screamed in pain, but he was so awake that he couldn't even fall asleep.
And he would have to endure another twenty-nine lashes.
Bang bang bang!!!
Li Xin used extremely strong force, and each whip hit the offending recruit's endurance limit, but it would not let him die of pain.
When the thirty lashes were completed, the offending recruit's cassock had already burst open, revealing bright red whip marks on his skin that looked like brand marks.
No one present had weak hands, and they could tell at a glance that the whip marks were the key. There seemed to be some secret method on them that could continuously bring pain to the person being tortured.
Otherwise, based on the recovery power of the golden elixir cultivator, no matter how serious the injury is, as long as the golden elixir is not broken and the soul is not gone, it will still be a minor injury.
Under normal circumstances, he can slowly cultivate and use his own magic power to remove the whip marks, but this new soldier only has three days to cultivate.
This means that he must drag this body full of pain to perform the task.
Everyone's hearts trembled, and they were a little in awe of the rules in the camp.
But after they entered the pioneer camp, they could no longer escape from the truth.
"Okay, I hope you won't waste everyone's time with unnecessary things. After all, there isn't much time left for you."
As soon as Li Xin waved his hand, the hoisted recruit was thrown heavily to the ground, and then walked away without looking back.
Many new recruits dispersed accordingly.
Xia Xiaofei originally followed the crowd and left.
But something suddenly moved in his heart, and when he turned around, he saw the offending recruit struggling to hold himself up on the stage.
Everyone passing by ignored him.
Obviously in the eyes of everyone, this new soldier is no different from a dead person.
And for dead people who are worthless, they are not worthy of paying any more attention to them.
Xia Xiaofei stopped and walked onto the stage against the flow of people.
"Although we have never met each other, we can be considered as brothers."
Xia Xiaofei stretched out his hand and said.
"Let me help you."
The offending recruit glanced at Xia Xiaofei, ignored him, stood up unsteadily, and even sneered at him.
"roll!"
"Although I am temporarily down and out, you cannot buy me off."
Xia Xiaofei: "..."
He touched his nose in embarrassment, but in his heart he sent greetings to this person's family.
With such a personality, how could he cultivate to the golden elixir realm without being beaten to death?
He looked at the back of the offending recruit, wondering whether he should put a curse on this guy.
After all, he has learned a lot and is also involved in spells.
But after thinking about it, Xia Xiaofei gave up this dangerous idea, considering that there might be big bosses paying attention at this moment.
Anyway, the impression points have been earned.
…
After three months.
Xia Xiaofei ended his short but fulfilling career as a recruit. He looked at the formation center where spiritual energy was still flowing out, feeling extremely sad.
"No wonder the Qingxiao Legion is able to suppress the Qingxiao Dao town. Everyone aspires to it. With this kind of treatment, I will do it."
"It's a pity that March passed so quickly."
Xia Xiaofei saw that one-third of the experience bar on his panel was full, and he wished he could live here forever.
However, this idea is obviously unrealistic.
The other is that he spent most of the spiritual stone resources he had accumulated in the past three months during his career as a recruit - there are various military training resources specially provided by the military in the recruit camp, which are good things that the outside world cannot buy even if they have spiritual stones.
.
Xia Xiaofei was moved and placed an order impulsively.
The price is that he has less than one million spiritual stones left in his previous savings.
If not for this, his experience bar would not have increased so quickly.
Then he made a seal with his hand, and the flying sword that had been warming up in the center of the formation flew out.
It is a silver-white flying sword. It is made of iron essence as the main material, plus a little bit of Taiyi real gold. It has the advantage of being strong and wear-resistant. You don't have to worry about being cut off by others in a fight. The flying sword is very cost-effective, and it is poor.
Best choice.
"Not bad, not bad. In the past three months, I have at least saved hundreds of thousands of spirit stones in material costs and several years of warming and maintenance. If I save more materials, it will be much easier to upgrade to high-grade magic weapons in the future."
Xia Xiaofei couldn't help but smile as he looked at the aura overflowing from the flying sword.
He opened the door, and the sergeant who had led him the way was waiting.
In the past three months, Xia Xiaofei and he had become familiar with each other.
This sergeant's name is Zhou Guang. He is young, only in his forties. He is in the middle stage of foundation building. He has an uncle who is a centurion of the legion. He once fought with the Taoist Lord in the early days of Qingxiao Dao City. Although his cultivation level
Not high, but senior enough.
So he enlisted the help of his uncle to join the pioneer camp and was responsible for logistics.
A logistics soldier like him does not need to perform the same tasks as Xia Xiaofei. He is only responsible for reception, distribution of resources, and statistics of some simple matters. After two years in the development camp, his cultivation level has improved a little.
It can only be said that a camp that receives special attention like the Kaoru Camp is rich in profit and water.
"Brother Xia."
Zhou Guang greeted Xia Xiaofei and said:
"I have inquired, this time your recruit mission should be an outside exploration mission. It is a relatively simple mission and only requires fighting."
The tasks of recruits in the development camp are divided into outside development and outside development.
The former is to explore and conquer outside Qingxiao Road, while the latter is to fight in some small secret worlds that have been discovered.
Both of these are extremely dangerous, so the level requirements for new recruits are extremely high, starting with Jindan cultivation.
But relatively speaking, developing outside the borders is simpler.
Because the former needs to go outside Qingxiao Dao, where there are all kinds of powerful monks. They don't recognize Qingxiao Dao, and they will be destroyed by the group if they are not careful.
Since the latter is a small world in the secret realm, the upper limit of the small world has been determined. The highest is the realm of god transformation, and the number is still extremely rare.
In such a small world, Jindan cultivation is not considered a weak hand.
"Thank you very much."
Xia Xiaofei threw out a small bag of spirit stones, not many, only five or six middle-grade spirit stones.
Zhou Guang put the spirit stone in his pocket very naturally: "You're welcome, Brother Xia, you think highly of me, so naturally I can't live up to your trust."
"By the way, the battalion commander is still waiting for you."
"Um."
Xia Xiaofei followed Zhou Guang to the outside of a camp, where recruits from the same period as him were already waiting.
They didn't wait long and were quickly called in.
There were three officers waiting in the camp: Xu Liang, the battalion commander of the recruit camp, Li Xin, the captain and deputy battalion commander of the law enforcement team, and a bearded man whom he did not recognize.
"No further nonsense. This is your respective mission. Someone will take you away later."
Each recruit received a jade slip with their mission written on it, except Xia Xiaofei.
Xia Xiaofei looked longingly at the battalion commander who handed out the mission, and wanted to say something to him.
"Okay, you can go out, Xia Xiaofei stays."
"yes!"
As the group left the camp, Xia Xiaofei suddenly felt a pressure filling the space.
"Xia Xiaofei."
"My subordinate is here."
Xia Xiaofei stood up straight.
"Not bad, very energetic."
The battalion commander looked at Xia Xiaofei with a smile and said:
"After a unanimous inspection by Captain Li and I, we are very satisfied with your character and cultivation, so your task as a recruit is different from others.
Let me introduce you. This is Captain Zeng Yongquan. He was originally a member of the Tsing Yi Guards. He is now the leader of the Jingzhe Group of the 24th Section Group in the Pioneer Camp.
This time he specially came to the recruit camp to select new recruits, and we recommended you to him.
And your task as a new recruit is to work with Team Leader Zeng."
Xia Xiaofei's expression froze: "My subordinate has just joined the army, so I'm afraid he won't be able to handle such a heavy responsibility."
He just wants to complete the task step by step and then level up. He hates such surprises.
"Haha, so humble."
Battalion Commander Xu Liang nodded and said: "I saw you right. Before Li Huai was tortured, everyone was indifferent. Only you can lend a helping hand, which shows that you have good intentions in your heart.
In mid-March, everyone gathers privately, forms groups, and creates factions. Only you who are not impatient and can practice consistently and live the life of an ascetic monk without worrying about the next tasks.
It shows that you are calm and have firm faith when facing big events.
And you are still so young, less than a hundred years old, full of vigor and confidence, and have the confidence to start over.
So who else would I rather take on this mission than you?"
Xia Xiaofei: "..."
If you want me to die, just say so and don't flatter me in a roundabout way.
After all, when your boss praises you for no reason, it's probably not good.
The bearded team leader Zeng patted Xia Xiaofei on the shoulder and said:
"I won't let you suffer any disadvantages. After you follow me, you will become a formal member of the pioneering battalion, with the rank of deputy centurion. After completing the mission, you will be directly promoted to centurion, plus a Xuan-level military merit."
There are four levels of military merit in the legion, Xuanhuang and Heaven, Earth, Xuanhuang, and even the lowest yellow-level military merit is enough to exchange for a Infant Transformation Pill.
As for heaven-level military merit, no one has ever achieved it.
It is said that heaven-level military merit can even persuade the Taoist Master to make him agree to something.
Hearing this, Xia Xiaofei immediately felt no longer sleepy.
A Xuan-level military merit is enough for him to rise one or two levels in the Nascent Soul realm.
Anyway, the worst case scenario is death, and the military merit must be his.
"Please give me your orders, sir. My subordinates will not hesitate to die!"
