Chapter 79: Military Officer System

  He stood in the icy pond for a moment, and Liu Yu's legs soon felt a deep chill. His anger dissipated, he hastily left the pond. Although he was physically strong like Huang Jin Bimeng, he wasn't made of iron, and this kind of coldness from the completely frozen pond water was also somewhat unbearable for him.

  Liu Yu's legs were numb from just walking out of the icy pond, and his calves weakened, almost causing him to fall onto the snowy ground. Fortunately, he supported himself with his hands and avoided falling flat on his face.

  "Alas, it's really a case of bad luck following the departure of a person, nothing is going smoothly." Liu Yu sat cross-legged on the snowy ground with great difficulty and sighed. Then he put aside his distractions and began to meditate on "Breaking the Hu Doushen Qi". A minute later, layers of golden light converged from Liu Yu's upper body to his legs.

  To avoid the cold air entering his body too deeply and causing unnecessary trouble, Liu Yu chose to use his Qi to dispel the chill from his legs first. His mid-term Qi cultivation as a fifth-stage Dou General was still quite powerful, and in an instant, his pants that had been soaked by the pond water were steamed dry.

  After a while, the golden light on his legs gradually dissipated. When the golden light disappeared, Liu Yu slowly opened his eyes and patted his own calf. A faint smile appeared on his face.

  "Po Hu Dou Qi" is a terrestrial fire dual attribute Dou Qi, the powerful might of the fire system can easily dispel this bit of chilliness, and now Liu Yu feels that his legs have recovered as usual.

  Liu Yu took another glance at the dilapidated small pond and the increasingly large snow, shook his head and got up to walk towards the garrison. On his way back, he felt the cold winter while thinking about the reason for all this.

  Liu Yu was not surprised at his own violent behavior today, he had a premonition before trying to break through that if he failed again, he might really tear everything apart.

  In his past life, Liu Yu had always shown various unstable manifestations, such as being impatient and eager to succeed in everything, getting angry and irritable when things didn't go according to his wishes, lacking perseverance in doing things, easily giving up under external pressure, and often making excuses for himself.

  He realized these problems very early on, and at first Liu Yue thought it was just a flaw in his own personality. But as he grew older and gained more experience, he discovered that many people around him were also restless, and this seemed to be not just his own shortcoming but the restlessness of the entire social group.

  Liu Yu, who had read some Confucian classics, deeply identified with the phrase "from the Son of Heaven to the common people, all take self-cultivation as the foundation".

  He knew that to change all this, he had to start with himself and strive for self-perfection. Therefore, he has always tried to eliminate his own impetuous emotions through continuous self-change, learning, and introspection, allowing himself to reach perfection in character.

  That is Wang Yangming, a great Confucian scholar of the Ming Dynasty and a philosopher who influenced China for hundreds of years, whose lifelong pursuit was to become a sage.

  However, Liu Yu's previous life didn't last long before he inexplicably arrived at the Belong Continent, and his pursuit of "inner sage" was naturally interrupted.

  After crossing over for more than a decade, Liu Yu spent most of his time getting familiar with and adapting to this world. With his intelligence far surpassing that of his peers from both lifetimes, he avoided many of the troubles of growing up. Moreover, being part of the powerful Weili family meant that there were very few things that could displease him.

  So many of Liu Yu's shortcomings were covered up, and this bottleneck in his cultivation was one of the rare things since crossing over that left him helpless.

  Because Kero King wore the heirloom of the Bimon clan, this legendary treasure was forged by a super strong man from the Bimon clan and has been passed down within the Bimon clan since the Empire era in the central mainland. Before reaching the 7th rank of Dou Wang or Mo Dao Shi, it can greatly increase the wearer's cultivation speed, weaken the bottleneck and help the cultivator break through.

  Throughout the entire Beastman Kingdom, only direct descendants of the current Beastman King can wear it, so external forces have helped Liu Yu's cultivation to the extreme, and if he still can't break through, he can only blame his own incompetence.

  "He" thought of this, Liu Yu suddenly stopped in his tracks and stood still in the snowy ground. He closed his eyes and let the biting cold wind blow across his face without any reaction. Liu Yu silently felt the changes in the world around him.

  "Perhaps I was too impatient." Liu Yu thought to himself with his eyes still closed.

  "It's better to let things happen naturally, there's no need to rush." Liu Yu then opened his eyes and a hint of relaxation appeared on his face. He whispered something and headed towards the distant fortress that was barely visible.

  This time, Liu Yu was so eager to break through because his cultivation had not kept up with his military achievements. After the sneak attack on Sas Province, Liu Yu's total military achievements were one second-class merit and one third-class merit, which qualified him to become a Fire Guardian or even a Team Guardian.

  The officer system of the Beastman Kingdom is a complete and fluid system. Taking the Bimon tribe as an example, there are six levels of officers: Huo Wei, Tuan Wei, Lv Wei, Xiao Wei, Du Wei, and Da Du Wei. Among them, Huo Wei and Tuan Wei belong to low-level officers, Lv Wei and Xiao Wei belong to mid-level officers, and Du Wei and Da Du Wei belong to high-level officers.

  Junior officers such as Huo Wei and Tuan Wei were produced entirely based on their military achievements, with seniority given to those with the same achievements, and those with the same seniority being given priority based on their moral character.

  Of course, there are some unwritten rules in the military, such as not having a sixth-grade cultivation, no matter what level of officer, don't even think about it. This point, although the high-ranking Dàdūwèi and Dūwèi in the military did not explicitly state it, they would always compare the cultivations of competitors when appointing any officer.

  At the same time, mid-to-low-level military officers are also on a rotational system. The Huo Wei and Tuan Wei serve for three years, while the Lv Wei and Xiao Wei serve for five years. After their term is up, if they have not been promoted and do not have special permission from the high-ranking officials of the Wang Guo army to stay, they must leave their post and return home to become an ordinary Bi Meng in a Di Huo fortress.

  And every spring is the time for Mongolian military officers to rotate, when many officers who are not promoted due to insufficient military achievements have to roll up their bedding and go home, while new officers will be promoted.

  Liu Yu learned from Du Er that next spring, the fourth division would have a large number of Huo Wei and Tuan Wei replaced. Du Er also brought Liu Yu a message from Ji Lun, telling him to work hard on his cultivation.

  Liu Yu last time luckily killed a lieutenant of the Farnod Empire, it's like winning third or fourth prize in the lottery. Such great military merit is hard to come by even for many Mong warriors after four years of service, if he had the cultivation of a sixth-rank great demon commander, he would naturally become a team guard.

  The various big families within the Bimo tribe balance and supervise each other, and will not allow those powerful big families to use their power to help their own family members obtain official positions. Moreover, the Weiliu family, which has adhered to its family rules for thousands of years, would not stoop to doing such a thing.

  Whether Liu Yu could become the leader of the team, neither his father, Ga Ya, nor his uncle, Ji Lun, could or would help him in any way; everything depended on Liu Yu himself.

  Du Ru told Liu Yu that the two Bei Mo officers who were qualified to compete with him were both Lian Yan Bei Mo, their seniority was older than Liu Yu's military service but not higher than Liu Yu's, and their cultivation was one early sixth-order and one mid-sixth-order.

  Liu Yu only needs to break through the 6th rank of Demon Magic to directly defeat both of them. Otherwise, with Liu Yu's current cultivation, even if Fourth Master Wei Jiren strictly followed military regulations and appointed him as a team guard, it would be asking for trouble. In this world where strength is obeyed, low cultivation cannot command respect.

  Liu Yu naturally wanted to break through to the sixth rank of Grand Mage as soon as possible, he didn't want to disappoint his parents and had a strong desire to lead thousands of troops in battle.

  Furthermore, becoming a low-ranking officer like Tuan Wei is just one small step in his plan. What he wants to do is become the head of the kingdom's army, just like his father Gaiya. Now that everything has just begun, Liu Yu's heart is getting more and more anxious and his state of mind is increasingly difficult to balance.

  Moreover, Liu Yu also had some aversion to another kind of life, among the many Beimeng tribes who were naturally gifted, highly cultivated, but not high in military merit.

  Those who fail to make a name for themselves in the military can only return home and cultivate bitterly, hoping to break through to the Ninth Stage of the Dou Zun and become an elder. This is another way for members of the clan to stand out besides establishing military merit.

  Liu Yu was familiar with the Fourth Grandfather Aurelio, as well as several other Mongolian elders he had heard of before. On the battlefield, they might have been unlucky or unsuitable for desert warfare, and could only return to the Earthfire Fortress to cultivate bitterly for many years in order to have a chance to rise again.

  Liu Yu was naturally a bit disgusted with the crazy practice all day, and he really couldn't stand that kind of life sitting still every day, so he wanted to achieve something in the military and stay in the military as a professional soldier.

  "Alexander, the lieutenant colonel is calling for you." Liu Yu, who had been constantly relieving his negative emotions and reminding himself to stay calm, unknowingly returned to the barracks inside the fortress. As soon as he entered the door, Ivan conveyed the lieutenant colonel's order.

  "Oh, looking for me?" Liu Yu raised his head and looked at Ivan's smiling face in front of him with a hint of puzzlement.