650 Not Following Rules (1/2)

”You told me to teach her the Art of War because you wanted her to lead an army. I don't think this brat has such a talent!”

Zong Shou's heart leapt a little. The current Ruolan indeed did not show any potential to be an unparalleled general.

Apart from one's natural ability, one's skills were decided by the environment and by experience.

It was tough to say whether or not Shi Ruolan would become stronger under Hanfang's tutelage, or in that dog-eat-dog world of the past.

When one person gains something, another will definitely lose something else.

Zong Shou broke out into a laugh. If, a few years back, he had had a selfish reason for finding her, then at this moment he really treated her as his sister.

If she doesn't succeed, then he would forget his plan.

”Why does Senior Brother say that? No matter how unskilled she, is she will be better than normal people!” Zong Shou contested.

Hanfang frowned, not knowing what he should say. How would the an unparalleled talent be just a little above average in strength? A moment later he forced out a sentence, ”She doesn't follow rules!”

Zong Shou was totally lost. Doesn't follow rules? What kind of reason was that? What rules doesn't she follow? She doesn't listen to instructions?

”I told her about the Art of War, when I spoke about how 'If one rushes two hundred miles to fight, one's general might die. If one hundred miles, they would only be fighting with half their strength,' she asked me about what it meant with, 'When an army travels quickly they travel like a wind, when they travel slow they are spread out like a dense forest.' Was it definite that when one travelled two hundred miles to fight, that they would lose their general?”

He seemed to have opened up the floodgates as he continued speaking furiously, ”I taught her chess. That one infantry section can only travel one hundred and forty miles a day, but she wanted to travel one hundred and sixty. When I asked her the reason, she said that she would abandon the armour and heavy items, which was why she was able to travel one hundred and sixty miles. All in all...”

He stammered, like he was thinking of how to phrase his next words. In the end, he said, ”Anyways, she will not bother with you when you want to reason with her. When you use underhanded means to play, then she will reason with you. That brat is treating the Art of War like a joke.”

Zong Shou was stunned as he looked back at Shi Ruolan. This brat looked back at the two of them innocently. Like she was saying that she really didn't do it on purpose.

Zong Shou actually laughed out loud in the next moment, filled with joy. He touched her head, this brat really didn't disappoint him!

Hanfang was totally confused by that sudden laugh, not knowing what that fellow was happy about.

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He said that he wanted Zong Shou to directly take her away, but when they separated Hanfang was really unwilling.

Helplessly, Zong Shou could only stay for ten days within the Common People Vast Habitat to let the master and student spend more time together. He could also deal with some matters regarding Tanqiu. He wanted to let his senior and junior brothers and sisters have the chance to gain respect for him, and improve the relationship.

Hanfang had a really complicated expression as they were about to leave. He shoved a huge bundle over to Shi Ruolan.

… Pills, Magical Artifacts, mind stones, talismans. Some of the items within even tempted Zong Shou.

As for that Heaven and Earth Bag, it was seven times bigger than the one he was using!

After saying their goodbyes, he used the Teleportation Jade to return back to Gantian Mountain.

By now, Zhao Yanran had already returned with the wood and the Royal Demon God Shuttle two days prior.

Maybe due to her reputation, although the shuttle carried treasures, they were totally safe and nothing unexpected happened.

After Renbo heard about this he was happy for close to half a day.

All these ancient wood shards were enough to reduce the amount needed to modify the space ships by fifty percent.

Now, Zong Shou wasn't in much of a mood to think about this matter. He learnt that dozens of days ago, Zong Gang had already ordered four hundred thousand specially selected infantry to be sent over by the navy to Rainbow City Li Port, to head over to Huizhou. Zong Shou hurriedly summoned Zhang Huai to ask him a few questions, before once again turning the shuttle towards Lianyun Island.

Without the giant pieces of wood adding weight, the speed of the shuttle increased once more. In a just a day, Zong Shou arrived in the sky above the islands once more.

There wasn't much difference from ten days ago. Only that the stench had became a little thicker.

How many people did this Weihai behead over these ten days?

He lowered the flying shuttle as he headed towards the few islands that Weihai had designated for him.

As expected, there were thousands of cloud ships docked there.

Apart from various ships carrying resources and army ships carrying soldiers, there were five hundred Three Tooth Warships and close to a hundred Five Tooth Warships.

There were even dozens of Seven Tooth and Nine Tooth ones.

They were all spread out in an orderly manner. Numerous Six Arm and even Seven Arm Crossbows pointed outwards. The soldier's demeanour was firm, sending off a threatening aura.

There were already people on the island to organize the camp.

The moment Zong Shou landed the Royal Demon God Shuttle on the deck of one of the Nine Tooth Giant Ship, Zong Gang and the others who came to welcome him had dark expressions. Their faces were extremely ugly and their eyes were filled with rage.

Zong Shou's brow furrowed. After looking around, he roughly knew what had happened.

The giant crossbows arranged on the arrow platforms had all been all taken away.

It would have been okay if it was just that. However, the mind stones placed for the spiritual formations around were also gone.

One needed a long time to draw and set up these formations.