The town of Limburg.

Standing on the roof of the building in the center of the town, blowing a warm breeze, looking at a thriving town scene, Zhou Ming, who was full of a sense of accomplishment in his heart, did not have much joy on his face.

Instead, there was a slight frown, and a thick worry.

"How can this paradise-like prosperity be protected?"

Protect it for a long time.

This is a question that Zhou Ming has been thinking about recently.

Monk.

Cultivators who have reached the late stage of Qi refining and above can inflict a devastating blow on this border town.

Only if you offend one, Zhou Ming's years of hard work will be ruined.

If you make a figurative analogy: those cultivators who have become high-level monks, one by one, are like dragons in Western legends, who usually do not go out of the cave, but once they come out, they can destroy a city casually.

The difference is based on the level of cultivation, some are partially destroyed, and some are completely destroyed.

Of course, killing people and slaughtering cities at every turn is what the evil cultivators do, and most of the decent monks will not do this kind of thing on purpose, unless they are careless and unaware when they magnify their moves, and they fall into a big city.

That can only be said of the sound of Saorui.

What's more, some monks, if they want to deal with Zhou Ming, they will not necessarily destroy his inheritance, just kill Zhou Ming.

Zhou Ming hung up, and all his efforts were in vain.

Looking at Zhou Ming's current cultivation, he is not in the middle stage of qi refining, and in the face of the pursuit of high-strength monks, he can't run.

So no matter what, Zhou Ming has to improve his strength, and he has to improve the defense of Limburg Town.

To what extent?

It is enough to defend its own interests, and it is enough to kill the powerhouses in the late stage of Qi refining.

How can we get to this level?

Zhou Ming came up with three solutions.

The first is to recruit guest secretaries.

With spirit stones, spirit coins, herbs, and pills as rewards, recruit some monks with high cultivation to sit in the town and hire them as guest secretaries.

This method works quickly, and there are many people who are willing to be guests, and they are not afraid of not being able to recruit people.

The disadvantage is that it is more expensive, requires a lot of payment, and has to be well served.

Second, build an army.

Establish a regularized and disciplined army, supplemented by strict training, teach the method of battle formation, and everyone practices the "Dragon and Snake Martial Arts", this set of Jianghu exercises, refined to a high depth, can also fight head-on with the monks in the early stage of qi refining, although the odds of winning are not high.

But what about a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand?

Consumption of energy to die to repair to a lower monk.

In terms of weapons, if you develop plate armor to improve the defense of this army, and then develop crossbows or firearms to increase the attack power of this army, you can also resist if you cultivate to a higher level of monks.

The third is to train monks.

The first two methods have certain flaws, and neither can completely and fundamentally solve the problem of insufficient defense capacity in Limburg Town.

Some people say that the development of science and technology, the development of laser guns, nuclear weapons, crushing those monks, bulldozing this plane, of course Zhou Ming thought of this, and also tried it a long time ago, but found that it didn't work.

The laser gun is unusable, and the hard metal, when it reaches this plane, immediately becomes softer than mud, and the physical and chemical properties are reversed.

I tried to mix some black powder with sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter, but I couldn't burn, let alone explode.

Technology is almost impossible.

You can only establish a cultivation school by yourself, let the system check your physique, screen out some good seedlings, send them to the school, and then invite a few monk teachers to guide them to the path of cultivation, and provide spirit stones, pills and all kinds of materials to cultivate talents and cultivate monks.

Strengthen the defense of Limburg Town.

And this school, which was established two years ago, is called "Township Protection School".

There are 30 students, and Zhou Ming serves as the principal of this school, a teacher of cultural courses, a teacher of spiritual courses, and a teacher of miscellaneous courses...... Wearing many hats, he is very busy.

Today, among the 30 students, 16 have "perceived" the "qi", and 8 have completed the "foundation building", although the number is not very large, but it also makes Zhou Ming full of confidence in the future!

"At the speed of development of Limburg Town, the population is expanding at a rate of 10% per year, there is almost no limit to the economic growth space, and the primeval forest in the west also has hundreds of millions of square kilometers of land, waiting to be developed, and it may take about a hundred years to build this town into a huge empire......

"If this empire has a population of one billion, at a ratio of one in ten thousand, cultivating talented monks and cultivating them with the strength of the whole country, I believe that at that time, this empire can completely compete with those large sects. ”

Of course, it is impossible to build such a powerful empire in a hundred years or so, but it is still very possible to accumulate a force that large sects are afraid of and dare not act rashly.

But in this process, it is still necessary to ensure that nothing goes wrong and prevent accidents.

Therefore, Zhou Ming planned to take a three-pronged approach, in addition to cultivating monks, Keqing also had to recruit and form an army.

So Zhou Ming went to Jinyan City, and through some channels, released the news of "hiring a guest secretary with a high salary":

Number of hires: 2 people.

Cultivation requirements: mid to late stage of qi refining.

Treatment: 50,000 spirit coins per person per year (as well as year-end bonuses and other benefits).

Length of employment: 10 years.

After the news spread, because the salary was very attractive, people soon came to apply for interviews.

Zhou Ming interviewed three batches of people, and finally took a fancy to a couple.

This monk couple is in their early 30s, the male is named "Su Yuanlong", handsome, dressed in white, quite elegant, and the cultivation is in the middle stage of qi refining;

The couple also has a son and a daughter, because they have been walking for a long time, their jobs and incomes are not stable, and their children cannot be taken care of well.

Zhou Ming was even more pleasantly surprised, the combination of monks who started a family and dragged their children and daughters was the most ideal recruitment target, and they didn't have to be too guarded, and with the involvement of their children, they would not be half-hearted and leave if they wanted, which was more reassuring.

And the couple, after arriving in Limburg Town with their children, the town in front of them made them open their mouths in surprise.

"This ...... I've never seen such a lively town, it's ...... Very special. ”

Su Yuanlong can be regarded as having seen many people in the world, but the town in front of him still makes him feel refreshing and unique.

In other words, the first sense that this town brings to him is vitality and vitality.

"I've heard some people say before that Limburg Town is a very special place, but I can't say that it is particularly there, but when I see it today, it is really ......."

Wang Caifeng said with a smile, and with the smiles she observed on the faces of the townspeople who came and went, she felt that this town, everywhere, seemed to be ...... Happiness.

On top of the carriage, their children looked at the town in front of them with wide eyes, and their previous depression from moving from the bustling city to the remote and backward countryside had now turned into a full curiosity.

Zhou Ming laughed and said to them, "This town is still in the early stages of development...... In the future, you will love it too. ”

……

vacated a house with the best facilities in the center of the town, placed the Keqing family, and equipped with a cook and a nanny, all kinds of preferential treatment, the other party was very satisfied, and quickly settled down.

After a few more days, Su Yuanlong, Wang Caifeng and his wife even took the initiative to go to the "Township Protection School" and served as the teacher of the cultivation class, which effectively reduced Zhou Ming's burden.

Therefore, Zhou Ming had more time and put the focus of his work on the formation of the "Township Protection Army".

The purpose of the establishment of this army is naturally to protect the township and maintain the development and prosperity of Limburg Town.

Zhou Ming selected 150 young hunters from the young hunters in a ratio of one out of twenty, and after three months of devilish training, he formally formed a professional and regular army-the Township Protection Army.

Although this army is small in number, it is highly disciplined, has elite weapons, has advanced ideological consciousness, loves its hometown, and is an army with combat effectiveness and faith.

Most of them, in order to defend their homeland and defend against foreign enemies, are willing to swear to the death and bloody battles, even if they sacrifice their lives.

Of course, standing in front of these young and enthusiastic soldiers, as the supreme commander, Zhou Ming knew very well in his heart that once faced with the invasion of powerful monks, most of them would not be able to play any role, and perhaps the sacrifice of their individual individuals could only delay the strong enemy for a few tenths of a second, and the role was equivalent to cannon fodder.

Their greatest value is mainly to maintain law and order, crack down on illegal crimes, and maintain daily peace.

What happens when the real challenge comes?

Can they really only be used as cannon fodder?

I'm afraid that they themselves can't accept this positioning, so every time Zhou Ming talks about the threat of the monk, they hold their breath in their hearts, and then desperately forget about training.

To prove their worth!

So Zhou Ming thought about it, these soldiers of the Township Protector Army must not be able to improve their talents, so they can only strengthen them in weapons.

Advanced weapons can sometimes eliminate the "generation gap" in physical fitness.

Scientific and technological weapons can't be made for the time being, and Zhou Ming can only make a fuss about traditional weapons.

Divine Arm Crossbow - The full name is "Individual Super Powerful Ultimate Form Divine Arm Crossbow".

This kind of crossbow, Zhou Ming spent more than a year, searched countless materials, drew countless design drawings, and even carried out trillions of simulations in a supercomputer.

In the actual manufacturing process, the manufacturing process of this crossbow is complex, and the requirements for materials and processing accuracy are extremely high, and the craftsmanship of craftsmen is demanding.

In order to create a "divine arm crossbow" in a state of full power, Zhou Ming tried more than 300 kinds of wood, more than 500 kinds of animal tendon strings, and more than 10 kinds of metal materials, and it took several months to finally successfully create one.

During the test launch, the performance was amazing.

A person thousands of meters away hugs a thick tree trunk and a fine iron crossbow arrow, which can be directly pierced.

The initial velocity of fire is greater than the speed of sound, and its power is far greater than that of ordinary rifle bullets, and even comparable to medium-caliber sniper bullets.

With huge lethality, even Su Yuanlong, who was in the middle stage of qi refining, stood thousands of meters away, his face changed wildly, and he bluntly said that it was difficult to resist in a defenseless state.

"If all the arrows are fired at the same time, it is a strong person in the late stage of qi refining, and they don't dare to make a hard connection. Su Yuanlong commented.

Zhou Ming nodded, full of confidence.

Of course, the Divine Arm Crossbow is not without shortcomings, the cost is high (300 spirit coins a handful), and the use requirements are very high (the arm strength is more than 500 kilograms to be full, and less than one-third of the soldiers in the Township Protection Army can do it), but Zhou Ming still decided to establish a production line and strive to achieve mass production.

Because this is the first weapon, which can make "mortals" barely compete with monks.

Therefore, this divine arm crossbow, Zhou Ming also gave it a domineering alias: Anti-Heaven Slaughter Immortal Crossbow.