Chapter 27 Let me see your true skills

  "Third Uncle, be careful. If there isn't a ready-made medicine in our manor's pharmacy, when going out to buy medicine, don't just send one person. It's best to send several people, with each person responsible for buying one type of herb. And don't let anyone know what these herbs are being bought for! Although others may not necessarily know what these herbs can be used for when combined, we must still take precautions against any eventuality! Even if all the medicines are eventually gathered, I must carefully inspect them before they can be made into a finished medicine!"

  "Slowly, slowly," said the master. "At present, our family's situation is declining day by day, but if Third Uncle recovers, our family's prospects will be completely different from now! I believe that in this capital city, there are countless people who hope that Third Uncle will never stand up again, so this matter must be handled with caution! As long as Third Uncle stands up, then Third Uncle will be a secret trump card for our family! Third Uncle, my meaning, you should understand?"

  "Not bad!" Jun Wuyi looked at his nephew with great pleasure: "Mo Xie, you've really grown up! Even if I don't have the chance to stand up again, as long as your family has you, I believe your family won't fall!" These words Jun Wuyi naturally understood, but Mo Xie was able to say them out loud, and his consideration was so thorough that he even had a plan for the future. This was what made Jun Wuyi happiest!

  He smiled dryly and turned his head away. As the number one killer in his past life, he was now unexpectedly being praised by someone: You've grown up...

  It seems like I've made a big fool of myself!

  Jun Xie felt somewhat unbearable with such praise... and couldn't help but think to himself: Fortunately, he was praising 'Mo Xie, you've grown up', if it were really a sentence of 'Jun Xie, you've grown up'...... then where would his own face be placed?

  If someone from a past life knew that there was once a person who spoke like this to the evil ruler, I wonder if they would have choked on their own saliva and died on the spot?

  "Mo Ye, how's our guard training going?" Listening to the distant roars and looking at the robust bodies sweating profusely, Jun Wu felt a long-forgotten excitement.

  "It's just some fancy moves, that's all!" Jun Xie said without hesitation, his tone filled with disdain and not trying to hide it at all.

  "Are you saying that the training of these guards, who possess seventh or eighth grade Xuan Qi, is just fancy footwork? Mo Ye, your tone is quite bold, isn't it?"

  "This can also be considered training? What effect can it have?" Jun Xie's mouth twitched: "At most, this can only be said to be exercise, how can it be called training! At best, it's just a group of idle and boring people exercising together, even the effect of exercising is very poor. I completely don't see what they are training for on the battlefield, or what effective harm they can cause to the enemy when facing them! In my eyes, they are no different from a group of people who go to their deaths one after another! It's just a group of people who are idle and carefree, wasting time and effort, that's all!"

  "Sending them to their deaths? Are you blind and wasting our time?" The king's eyebrows shot up, and he barked: "Mo Xie, I know you don't like martial arts and don't understand the importance of these basic trainings, but you can't just belittle them like this! Ignorance is not scary, but using your ignorance to insult these soldiers is unforgivable! These guards, every single one of them, are elite warriors who have survived countless battles on the battlefield. Now that there's no war, they've come to my palace and become guards! Each and every one of them is a real man! I'll let it slide if you said that as a joke earlier, but if you dare insult them again, don't blame me for not being polite! This is not a laughing matter!"

  You unintentionally mentioned it in the end, and a sudden thought arose. Even with your calm and composed nature, you were shocked. Your own third uncle, although his body is disabled, his mind is not. If he were to recover one day, he would definitely be qualified to become your best cover!

  "Joke?! I'm telling you, Third Uncle, either you didn't hear me or you're not taking me seriously, but what I just said is the truth, and it's no joke!!" Jun Ye spread his hands out in a gesture of innocence. "I'm not saying they're useless, nor do I mean to insult them; any Iron Blood warrior who returns from the battlefield deserves respect; their training is indeed rigorous and meticulous, which anyone can see; but that doesn't mean that rigorous and meticulous training will guarantee victory on the battlefield! It's very common for people who have trained rigorously for years to go to the battlefield and get themselves killed. What I'm saying is that they're wasting their time because their training is going in the wrong direction!"

  "Training in the wrong direction?" Jun's face still had a hint of anger, but he had already begun to think that from the beginning, his nephew was completely different from before, every word hit the mark, without any careless mistakes, could it be...

  "Take the two people fighting in front of us as an example. Can you tell if they're sparring or actually fighting, Third Uncle? They're holding back everywhere and even managed to crack a smile - is this really training? Even a casual exchange wouldn't be so carefree! Isn't it just a fancy display of useless moves?

  Jun Xie pointed with his hand: "Look over there, several people are lifting logs, their faces drenched in sweat as they put them down. It looks like hard work, but in reality, it's completely ineffective! They haven't even reached the limits of what they can handle! They have that much strength to begin with, and when they get sweaty, they still have plenty of energy left over - but they put the logs down anyway. In other words, even if they trained like this for another ten years, their strength wouldn't improve at all. The only thing they'd achieve is becoming more familiar with certain movements, that's all! But the potential within themselves remains untapped, completely wasted - isn't that just a waste of time?"

  "It's already lucky enough for people like them to survive on the battlefield, let alone being called brave warriors and heroes!" Jun Xie looked at them coldly from a distance: "Such material is only suitable for ordinary families to guard their homes, as for greater uses, there aren't any! Am I insulting them by saying this, Third Uncle?"

  What you said is quite unpleasant, but unexpectedly, I didn't get angry and instead fell into deep thought.

  "You're smiling slyly, but if Grandfather really thought he could rely on these people to protect the Huang family, then the Huang family would have been destroyed hundreds or thousands of times already! So, I'm certain that Grandfather must have an even more elite force at his disposal, and those are the ones who truly make up the Huang family's strength. Although I haven't seen them and can't confirm it, I'm sure they exist! As for these people in front of us, they're just decoys. Third Uncle, don't tell me that you actually have a high opinion of these decoy people?"

  At this moment, Jun Wu unintentionally looked at Jun Xie's strange eyes and slowly said: "If these people are handed over to you for training, then what can be trained into an extraordinary strength?"

  "Hand it over to me for training? I don't have the leisure for that!" Jun Xie sneered, "Every day smelling the stench of sweat on these people's bodies is enough to suffocate me. The smell of soldiers is not equal to the stench of sweat! Military spirit is not shouted out, but is killed out!"

  "Push me past." Jun Wu Yi let out a low hum, his eyes narrowing slightly in thought. The determined look on his chiseled face was unmistakable. "Jun Mo Xie, let me see your true abilities!"