Chapter 140 Who said that women were inferior to men? (1/2)
Hearing their shouts, Li Zhanwu immediately turned to look at the top of the mountain. It was at least a few hundred meters away, and the mountain top was covered with dust. He could not even see their figures; how did they figure it out? It seemed that the strength of these five was different from the past.
”Qin Hao is up there?” Li Zhanwu asked anxiously.
”Yes, General. Protect the General. I'll go up and take a look. ”Ou Ba ordered, turned into a shadow and rushed up like wind. Li Zhanwu opened his mouth wide in shock. He was very clear about Ou Ba's strength. Although Ou Ba was among the strongest in the special troop Eagle force, compared to captain Han Meng, the strongest one, his strength was still lacking by several levels. But now, let alone other things, just his speed alone was already far above Han Meng's.
Qin Hao was indeed extraordinary. It was worth to use up so many resources. In an in-stant, Li Zhanwu felt much better.
”Instructor, are you alright?” Ou Ba rushed to the top of the mountain and asked Qin Hao, who was rushing out of the dust cloud, with a bit of worry.
Qin Hao patted the dust on his body and said with a calm tone: ”I'm fine. Li Zhanwu is here?” Qin Hao's Spirit Sense had already reached the radius of a thousand meters. He was able to investigate the situation at the foot of the mountain. Li Zhanwu could not hide from his Spirit Sense.
”Err …” Ou Ba wiped the sweat off his shiny head. Li Zhanwu was the general they re-spected the most, only Qin Hao dared to call him by his name directly.
”Yes, yes, instructor.” Ou Ba replied after having wiped his sweat.
Qin Hao nodded his head. He did not look at Li Zhanwu, who was climbing up the moun-tain but instead stared at the pile of ruins as if he was thinking of something.
After a long while, he mumbled, ”The slope is high here, and the air is good, a pretty good place to build a cultivation tower, but you'll have to build it firmly.” These words seemed to be spoken to Ou Ba, but also himself.
”Qin Hao, what on earth are you doing?” Li Zhanwu finally came up. His legs were ach-ing, and his forehead was still dripping with sweat. However, he did not pant. Managing to climb such a steep slope at such a fast speed without panting, he could be consid-ered a true hero just like he used to be.
Actually, Li Zhanwu was holding back; otherwise, he would have already been gasping for breath. The few soldiers around him were not panting, neither were they sweating a single drop, as if climbing up here was like taking a walk. Seeing this, he was too shame-ful to pant.
Hearing Li Zhanwu's voice, Qin Hao turned and walked over with a smile, ”Ho-ho, Gen-eral, you are not young anymore. If you have any need, ask me to go down. You don't have to climb up here.”
”Don't worry; I'm not old yet. I still have plenty of strength.” Li Zhanwu was unconvinced, looking at Qin Hao's smiling face, feeling like he was ridiculing him for being old.
After having finished speaking, Li Zhanwu took a deep breath, calmed his breathing first, and then looked towards the pile of ruins, saying with dissatisfaction: ”You aren't properly training the members of Sky Group, and came here to collapse this tower, you…” For a moment, he didn't know what to say to Qin Hao.
However, Qin Hao crooked his nose and said disapprovingly: ”It's just a broken tower. Let it be. You came at the right time, I am planning on building a fifty-story tower for cul-tivation, but it must be a hundred times stronger than the previous one. ”
”A tower of fifty floors and a hundred times stronger than the previous one? Do you think you can get it done just by talking?” Li Zhanwu did not bother with Qin Hao's sug-gestion, ”We'll talk about the matter of the tower later. Today, I am here to verify your training results for the past month. You used up half of the storage room's cultivation resource, and I hope you can give me a satisfactory answer. ”
”Hmph.” Qin Hao snorted, his face suddenly darkened as he bellowed: ”Sky Group, line up!”
With a sound of ”phfft”, the five members lined up neatly in a speed of ”second.” This speed surprised Li Zhanwu yet again.
”General Li, how do you want to test their strength?” After they finished lining up, Qin Hao asked Li Zhanwu.
Li Zhanwu frowned, he was an ordinary person thus did not know how to test their strength, but he knew that there were different realms for Martial Cultivators, so he said: ”You should first tell me what realm they have cultivated to.”
”Realm?” Qin Hao shook his head, ”What I taught them was different from ancient mar-tial arts. Their ranks were 1, 2, 3, and up till 8. If you want to classify them by the realms of Ancient Martial Arts, then Rank Eight is equivalent to the eighth realm of Martial Culti-vators. However, should the numbers be equal, their fighting strength would be two or even three times stronger than Ancient Martial Arts. ”
Li Zhanwu didn't believe the last sentence of Qin Hao so much. As the saying went, every potter praised his pot, and no one would say that their things weren't compelling. Anyway, Li Zhanwu didn't understand it, but it was impossible to trick him. Whether they were powerful or not, it would be clear when they got a chance to fight.
”Then tell me what ranks they are at now.” Li Zhanwu bit his ”level” relentlessly, and he only knew how to evaluate a Martial Cultivator with this standard.
”Liu Yan, step forward.” Qin Hao shouted.
”Here!” Liu Yan's clear and melodious voice came out. This woman who was already outstanding before now looked even more exceptional, with a hint of ethereal elegance, like a fairy. She was even more lethal for men. Li Zhanwu hadn't noticed her earlier, but now that his attention focused on Liu Yan, he too stared blankly. After all, he was a man.
”Liu Yan, an early Second Stage Martial Cultivator, equivalent to an early Inner Stage of ancient martial art, with combat power that can contend against a middle Beginning Stage of ancient martial arts.” Qin Hao explained loudly.
He was delighted with Liu Yan. Amongst the five of them, she had the best aptitude and talent and was also the most hardworking one.
Of course, besides her talent and hard work, more importantly, she was able to do it with the help of the exclusive medicinal soup that Qin Hao had concocted. If it were a con-ventional cultivation method that she adopted, no matter how high her talent was, it would take at least a few years for her to reach this stage.
Li Zhanwu's complete set of cultivation resources also helped a lot. Otherwise, even if Qin Hao could concoct the best medicinal soup, without any resources, it would be use-less. Nobody can make a fist with no hand.
”Baldy, step out.” The baldy had already restored his name as Ou Ba, but Qin Hao had gotten used to calling him ”baldy”, ”Peak of the first rank, equivalent to the peak of Be-ginning Stage of ancient martial art.”
”Nie Jingshan, Wang Hanjiang, later stage of the first rank, equivalent to later Beginning Stage of ancient martial art, with a combat strength comparable to the peak of Beginning Stage. ”