"Chapter 15: Advancing to the Sword Master"
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- Sophocles (one of the three great Athenian tragedies)
This picnic should be regarded as the most enjoyable picnic for the brothers and sisters of the Bai family, the kites made by Bai Feng made everyone very happy, and even the meals made by Bai Feng made everyone feast.
The only unfortunate thing may be Bai Feng himself, in the presence of Bai Sa, a guy who can't reach the speed of grabbing food, the other seven people are not happy to eat, not to mention Bai Feng, who has been in charge of cooking; if Bai Rou hadn't deliberately left a few slices of bread for Bai Feng, I'm afraid Bai Feng would be hungry at noon today, and after the meal, everyone directly condemned Bai Sa, saying that they would never take this guy to the picnic in the future.
However, whether everyone condemned Bai Sa because Bai Sa ate too much and almost made Bai Feng not have to eat, or condemned Bai Feng because Bai Sa ate too much and made others eat less, then everyone can only know in their own hearts, anyway, Bai Rou is sure that she is because of the latter.
This day's happy picnic will officially end after playing with a kite in the afternoon, and Bai Mingcheng will return to Baifu from the governor's residence in the evening; if the nine members of the Bai family don't return to Baifu before Bai Mingcheng returns to Baifu, then Bai Sa's whip may really not be able to run away, and the Bai family's methods of doing things have always been like this, simple and rude.
On the way back, the brothers and sisters of the Bai family naturally sang cheerful songs in the carriage, and finally rushed back to Baifu before the evening came, and the nine of them were tired from playing all day, so they each returned to their own small courtyards.
Today, Bai Feng didn't have the strength to cultivate during the day, so he naturally had to hurry up and cultivate at night; after simply filling his stomach, Bai Feng began to return to the room to cultivate, and it was a boring and boring source of spiritual power, but Bai Feng did it with relish.
After a night of sleepless efforts, finally the next morning, when the sun was rising, Bai Feng already had the eighth spiritual power pearl in his dantian; in addition to improving his spiritual power and sword skills, Bai Feng also had to think about how to summon the city of Rome.
For Bai Feng, his greatest capital is not a superior talent, the system of Roman all-out war is the most worthy thing for him in this world, but if he is trapped in the city of Llorente all the time, Bai Feng will not have such a chance at all!
With the two days of understanding from other people, consciously or unconsciously, Bai Feng already had a detailed understanding of the situation in the Bai family and the province of Llorente, and the so-called southern region was actually just the area newly occupied by the Heavenly Dragon Empire in the land of the barbarians in the past twenty years.
Because the border between the Celestial Dragon Empire and the barbarians is the southern part of the Celestial Dragon Empire, this newly occupied area is called the Southern Frontier, which in the simplest way means the area beyond the southern border.
There are five provinces in the south, except for the easternmost province of Llorente, which is close to the Sunset Mountains, and from east to west there are the provinces of Solsona, Labov, Jaca, and San Sebastian.
Compared with the strict control of the local nobles by the royal family in the empire, the five families in the southern region are outright soil emperors; it is not that the strength of these five families is so strong that the emperor of the Tianlong Empire can't control it, but the Tianlong Empire has no intention of investing time and energy in the southern region at all, and even the five major families are just turning a blind eye to the control of the five southern provinces in the empire itself.
Such a situation seems to be a good thing for Bai Feng, who is bent on summoning the Roman all-out war system, but in fact, it is not like this; the Bai family is indeed the supreme existence in the province of Llorente, but the forces that can threaten the Bai family have always existed.
Why was the powerful Celestial Dragon Empire unwilling to invest time and energy in the development of the southern region? Why did the Bai family suffer an almost devastating blow ten years ago? The barbarian forces south of the southern region were the enemies that threatened the survival of the entire southern region.
All members of the Bai family must follow the rule that they must serve in the army for two years before the age of sixteen, but only if their strength reaches the level of an intermediate sword master, otherwise, they will be temporarily postponed until they reach the strength of an intermediate sword master.
However, there is another problem here, that is, in order to achieve the goal of controlling the various noble families within the empire, all the children of the noble families of earls and above must enter the Imperial Academy at the age of eighteen for three years of study, that is, all the boys and girls of the third generation of the Bai family must go to the Imperial Academy in the imperial capital at the age of eighteen to study.
Although this is a means for the empire to control the nobility, it has to be admitted that this is a means that all aristocratic families are willing to accept, who makes the Imperial Academy indeed one of the best academies on the continent.
Studying in such a top-tier academy for three years is a good opportunity for the heirs of any minor noble family and ordinary commoners, but these people who are not from big noble families have to rely on their own qualifications and strength if they want to enter the Imperial Academy.
The rules from the Bai family and the rules of the empire forced Bai Feng to have the strength of an intermediate swordsman before the age of sixteen, as long as Bai Feng could take the opportunity of leaving the family to serve in the army, and summon the Roman total war system.
Two years may not allow Roman City to have the strength to protect itself, but under the protection of the Bai family, there should not be any major problems; if he can't make good use of this two-year time, then Bai Feng really can't develop Roman City as soon as possible.
If he really had to go to the imperial capital at the age of eighteen, then Bai Feng would be completely tragic; it was impossible not to go, the Bai family was a marquis family in the southern region of the empire, and all the descendants were registered in the empire, and there was no escape.
The only thing Bai Feng can do is to improve his strength as much as possible, since he came back from the picnic that day, Bai Feng has been practicing his swordsmanship desperately during the day every day, working hard to run the source of spiritual power in the first half of the night, and only in the second half of the night will he seize the time to sleep.
In order to improve his sword skill proficiency, Bai Feng often called Bai Kai to accompany him to practice, even if Bai Feng was always beaten badly, Bai Feng would not stop such high-intensity practice, because Bai Feng himself could feel that this kind of practice made him improve quickly.
After such a high-intensity cultivation lasted for seven days, and finally on the evening of the eighth day, when Bai Feng was running the source of spiritual power, the ten white spiritual power beads surrounding the spiritual power source were once again condensed together by the spiritual power source;