Time flies by like flowing water, and in the blink of an eye, three years have passed.

In the past three years, Yang Rui has spent half a day cultivating every day, and the remaining half day has been used to cultivate a thousand young boys and girls, and selected a hundred elites from them for key training.

At this time, although Yang Rui was only six years old, he had already cultivated the Nine Turns Forging Body Technique to the realm of Dacheng, possessing a strength of 25,600 kilograms, and successfully condensed his true qi and was promoted to an innate martial artist.

The cultivation of martial artists in the Martial Kingdom is divided into three major realms: the Quenching Body Realm, the Innate Realm, and the Grandmaster Realm.

The quenching realm is mainly to use various methods to exercise the body, strengthen the body, increase the strength of the body, and divide it into nine layers according to the strength of the body, the first layer is 200 kilograms, the second layer is 300 kilograms, and the ninth layer is 1,000 kilograms.

The innate realm is when the body is tempered to a certain extent, and the internal strength is cultivated, condensing the true qi in the dantian, opening up the meridians in the body, allowing the true qi to flow endlessly, and using the true qi to attack and fight.

The Grandmaster Realm is when all the meridians of the body are opened, and the true qi in the dantian is transformed into true yuan, and the acupuncture points in the body are opened, the power contained in the acupoints is released, and the storage amount of true yuan is increased.

Wuguo has thirty-six counties and a population of more than 50 million, more than half of them are just ordinary people, not even two hundred kilograms, not even the first layer of the quenching body, and the remaining half of the population, more than half of them are below the fourth layer of the quenching realm, and the ninth layer is below the ninth layer of the quenching realm.

And the innate martial artist is even more unique in the Martial Kingdom, and there are only three or four thousand people in the entire Martial Country, and as for the Grandmaster Martial Artist, there is no one in the hundred thousand, and there are only more than two hundred people in the entire Martial Country.

Yang Rui was only six years old, and he was promoted to an innate martial artist, and if it was spread out, it would definitely shock the entire martial country.

In addition to Yang Rui's own strength being improved to the innate realm, the thousand boys and girls trained by Yang Rui have all cultivated the body quenching techniques provided by Yang Rui, each of them has the power of 10,000 catties, and is proficient in various combat martial arts, and their combat effectiveness is extremely powerful, far surpassing those ordinary peak martial artists in the body quenching realm.

And the 100 boys and girls that Yang Rui focused on cultivating were directly promoted to innate martial artists, becoming the killer weapon in Yang Rui's hands, and they could launch deadly attacks on the enemy at any time.

When Yang Rui's strength improved, the Zhennan Royal Mansion had also undergone tremendous changes in the past three years.

With the appearance of a large number of pills such as quenching elixirs and quenching pills, the strength of the elite guards of the Zhen'an Wangfu has skyrocketed, and the strength of the 100,000 troops under his command has also been greatly improved.

Almost every soldier's cultivation has been directly upgraded to a level, and with the refined steel armor and weapons refined in large quantities by the Zhen'an Palace, although the number of the army has not changed, the comprehensive combat effectiveness has increased more than tenfold, which has greatly increased the pressure of the 100,000 barbarians in the southern part of the Wu Kingdom, and they are forced to move to the depths of the mountains.

With the improvement of the power of the Zhennan Palace, the royal family of the Wuguo Kingdom and the Wang family, the Sun family, and the Zhou family among the four major families have all felt the huge pressure and have begun to unite to suppress the power of the Zhennan Palace.

In the face of the joint suppression of the royal family, the Wang family, the Sun family, and the Zhou family, the Zhennan Royal Mansion felt pressure, and in order to maintain its own power and status, it began to recruit soldiers and horses on a large scale in the three southern counties, and directly formed a reserve army of 200,000.

Because of the promotion of blast furnace steelmaking, machine tool manufacturing, weapon casting and other methods, Zhennan Wangfu did not lack steel weapons, and after the formation of the 200,000 reserve army, it directly redressed the 200,000 reserve army, so that the combat effectiveness of the reserve was not weaker than that of the regular army of the military state.

The large-scale recruitment of soldiers and horses by the Zhennan Royal Mansion made the Wuguo royal family and the Wang family, the Sun family, and the Zhou family very angry, and directly accused the Zhennan Royal Mansion of expanding the army without authorization, and increased the pressure on the Zhennan Royal Mansion.

Regarding the accusations of the royal family of Wuguo, the Wang family, the Sun family, and the Zhou family, the Zhennan Wangfu directly replied that the reserve was not a regular legion, but only a legion to maintain law and order in the three southern counties of Wuguo, which did not need financial appropriations from Wuguo and would not pose a threat to Wuguo's finances.

At the same time, the Zhennan Royal Mansion began to use the quenching formula in its hands, the quenching pill, the Zhenyuan Dan and other pills, and a large number of steel weapons to win over the small and medium-sized families in the royal family, the Wang family, the Sun family, and the Zhou family's sphere of influence on a large scale, eroding the power territory of the royal family, the Wang family, the Sun family, and the Zhou family, and counterattacking the royal family, the Wang family, the Sun family, and the Zhou family.

In this way, the contradictions between the Zhennan royal palace and the royal family, the Wang family, the Sun family, and the Zhou family became deeper and deeper, and the conflict between the two sides became bigger and bigger, and they began to consciously gather heavy troops on the edge of the territory of the two sides, and they looked like they were ready to go to war.

However, because neither side was prepared and did not want to go to war on its own, both sides maintained restraint and limited the conflict to a certain range, and on the surface it was peaceful.

"Young Master, today is the day you return to the palace, the gift for Madame, I am ready, when will we leave?"

A girl in a red dress walked slowly outside Yang Rui's room and asked in a pleasant voice.

This red-clothed girl is named Xu Hong, one of the thousand young boys and girls sent by Yang Zhan, with outstanding talent, hard work, only sixteen years old, she has the strength of cultivation in the middle of the innate period, and is Yang Rui's most valued subordinate, and was appointed by Yang Rui as the housekeeper of Qingyun Villa, responsible for managing all matters of Qingyun Villa.

"You wait a while, let's go!" Yang Rui replied in a flat tone.

Soon, Yang Rui walked out of the room slowly with four beautiful girls with sexy figures, snow-white skin, full double peaks, pretty faces, wearing brocade clothes, and holding a sword.

"Let's go!" Yang Rui glanced at Xu Hong and commanded softly.

After speaking, Yang Rui took the lead and walked outside Qingyun Villa.

When Yang Rui and his party came to the outside of Qingyun Villa, a convoy composed of more than ten carriages and more than 100 elite cavalry was ready and waiting for Yang Rui to arrive.

After Yang Rui took Xu Hong and four sword-wielding beautiful girls to board a spacious carriage, the convoy slowly moved and walked in the direction of Qing'an City, which was more than thirty miles away.

When Yang Rui and his party came to a jungle more than 20 miles away from Qing'an City, Yang Rui, who was lying in Xu Hong's arms and enjoying the massage of four beautiful girls, frowned slightly and shouted loudly: "Stop!"

As soon as Yang Rui's voice fell, the slowly advancing convoy immediately stopped, wearing silver armor, holding a silver spear, handsome, about sixteen or seventeen-year-old cavalry commander Lin Yi, quickly ran to Yang Rui's carriage, and asked loudly: "Young master, what do you command?"

Lin Yi is one of the teenagers that Yang Rui focuses on cultivating, with outstanding talent, only sixteen years old, he has the cultivation strength of an innate martial artist, and was appointed by Yang Rui as the commander of the guard cavalry, specializing in guarding his own safety.

"There's an ambush ahead, you send someone to check it out!" Yang Rui said in a flat tone.

"Yes, young master!"

Lin Yi's face was straight, and in response, he took out a whistle from his arms and blew it vigorously.

Immediately afterwards, I saw more than 100 cavalrymen, half of them quickly pulled out the scimitar on their horses, and gathered to Lin Yi's very thick, half of the cavalry took off the shield on the horse, surrounded the carriage where Yang Rui was, and used the shield to protect the carriage and his body.

"Found, release the arrow!"

Seeing the movement of the convoy, the leader of the men in black hiding in the jungle flashed with anger in his eyes and roared loudly.

Suddenly, I saw sharp arrows pouring in the direction of the convoy like a tide.

Bang! Bang!

In the crisp sound of metal clashing, sharp arrows fell on the shield made of stainless steel, stirring up brilliant sparks, which fell weakly to the ground, unable to cause the slightest damage to the cavalry and carriage behind the shield.

"Military* crossbow arrows!"

Looking at the arrows that were frantically pouring on the stainless steel shield, Lin Yi's face changed slightly, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he couldn't help but exclaim loudly.

Military* crossbow arrows are special weapons for the army, except for the army, there are few civilian ones.

Judging from the density of arrows in front of him, the ambushed people have a lot of military* crossbow arrows, which are not at all something that can be taken out by civilian forces!

Obviously, the ambush person in front of him has a deep background, and this ambush is not a simple matter.