Yan Liqiang still remembers Xue Cao, a young man who was very serious and hardworking. He remembered that when Wang Jianbei came to the Kyudo Club for the first time to inspect, it was Xue Cao who was guarding the door of the Kyudo Club with several students. Even though Wang Jianbei's entourage had told Xue Cao about Wang Jianbei's identity as the county magistrate, Xue Cao still strictly abided by the rules of the Kyudo Club and did not let Wang Jianbei in. From then on, Yan Liqiang began to deliberately train Xue Cao.
In the past few years, Xue Cao participated in many important operations of the Kyudo Club, and he grew up slowly. Later, he stayed in the Kyudo Club and became Shi Changfeng's trusted assistant. Yan Liqiang also personally taught him the Five Animal Exercises. Just a month ago, Xue Cao had been promoted to a warrior and had a bright future.
Upon hearing that Xue Cao was missing, Yan Liqiang did not take it as a trivial matter. After arranging the affairs of the Inspectorate, he personally led a group of guards, rode on rhinoceros horses, and rode quickly all the way. When it was dark, he returned to the Kyudo Club.
"Hello..."
The guard in front showed his token, and the students on duty at the entrance of the Archery Club immediately opened the door of the Archery Club, and then stood aside. Yan Liqiang and his party rode on their rhinoceros horses and rushed in quickly through the gate of the Archery Club.
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Yan Liqiang had just jumped off his rhinoceros horse when Shi Changfeng hurriedly arrived in front of Yan Liqiang, "Greetings, Lord Supervisor..."
"I guessed that you must be here now!" Yan Liqiang handed the reins to a guard beside him, and then walked towards the distant courtyard with Shi Changfeng. At this moment, Shi Changfeng's identity, in addition to the Archery Club, is also the Chief of the Etiquette Office of the Qiyun Guardian's Mansion, which is equivalent to the Director of the Education Bureau under the Qiyun Guardian's Mansion. On weekdays, Shi Changfeng's work is no easier than Yan Liqiang. In addition to the Archery Club, there are many things to deal with.
Shi Changfeng nodded with a serious face, "I just found out about Xue Cao's situation yesterday, and I returned to the Kyudo Club!"
"Any clues now?"
"No clue yet!" Shi Changfeng shook his head.
"Come on, let's go inside and talk slowly..."
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After arriving at the room where they could talk and turning on the lights, the two of them sat down. Shi Changfeng then told Yan Liqiang what happened before and after Xue Cao's disappearance.
"Ten days ago, Xue Cao received a letter from home saying that his mother was ill and missed her son. They wanted him to go home to see her. After receiving the letter, he came to me to ask for leave to go home to visit his mother. Because Xue Cao has always been conscientious in the Archery Club, and he did not take his annual leave this year, I allowed him to take seven days off. After asking for leave, he left the Archery Club. At that time, I didn't expect that he would get into trouble!"
"Is that letter fake?" Yan Liqiang's eyes narrowed suddenly.
"Yes, it's fake!" Shi Changfeng nodded, his tone a little heavy, "A few days ago, Xue Cao didn't come back, I felt something was wrong, so I sent someone to his home to check, and found that his parents were healthy and fine, and they had never written any letters to Xue Cao!"
"Where is the letter Xue Cao received?"
"He has been taken away!"
"Who sent it?"
"He was a neighbor of Xue Cao's in the town. He was a traveling merchant who went from village to village in our county, beating rattles and doing small business. When he said he had a letter from home for Xue Cao, Xue Cao believed it, and I didn't doubt it at the time!" Shi Changfeng said, patting his thigh with a look of annoyance on his face. "It's my fault too. If I had been more careful at the time and sent someone to follow Xue Cao to his home to investigate, maybe Xue Cao wouldn't have gotten into trouble!"
"It's not your fault. The other party is so deliberate. How can we be prepared for everything without any loopholes for the other party to exploit? This kind of thing cannot be prevented. Even if it's not Xue Tao this time, it may be someone else next time!" Yan Liqiang shook his head and comforted Shi Changfeng, "Where is the traveling merchant who delivered the letter to Xue Cao? Have you found him now?"
"No, that person is missing too. After delivering the letter to Xue Cao, he never came back home. He is the only one at home, with no children!"
"The most important thing now is to find out who is behind this!"
"I'm also wondering who in Qiyun County and the Northwest is so bold as to dare to challenge the God of Fortune!" Shi Changfeng said. After a few seconds of silence, he continued, "I'm worried that the other party is not coming for Xue Tao, but for the Five Animal Play!"
"Oh, why would you think that?"
"There are too many advanced warriors in the Kyudo Club. Others didn't know about it before. But in the past few days, after the Qiyun Protectorate was opened, didn't you order each county to measure the land, count the number of military fields in each county and report it, and then distribute the military fields to the advanced warrior students? This is too much noise. If it falls into the eyes of interested people, they may find some clues and then target our people. Xue Cao's family has just been allocated military fields. It is possible that he was targeted because of this, and those people want to force something out of him!" Shi Changfeng looked at Yan Liqiang worriedly.
The Five Animal Exercises are the Kyudo Club's ultimate weapon and secret. The Five Animal Exercises are not some powerful martial arts secret book, and cannot even be used in combat, but they do have one function, which is to allow people to quickly improve their physical fitness and advance to become warriors. This function alone is enough to drive people crazy, because all the sects in the world do not have such a powerful method that can allow people to quickly advance to become warriors. From the perspective of training warriors, the value of the Five Animal Exercises is simply immeasurable.
Shi Changfeng was very clear about the significance of the Five Animal Exercises to Yan Liqiang and the Kyudo Club.
At this moment, among the students of the Kyudo Club, among the older batch of students, the number of students who have passed the test and practiced the Five Animal Exercises has exceeded one thousand. Among these one thousand people, as long as they have decent qualifications, 20% of them will be promoted to warriors within about a year of practicing the Five Animal Exercises, the remaining 60% will be promoted to warriors in the second year, and there is a high probability that 20% will be promoted to warriors in the third year.
What does this mean? This means that if Yan Liqiang is given enough time, he can use three years to train a large number of warriors. If a single warrior fights alone, he may not be very powerful, because there are too many practitioners who are more advanced than warriors. However, if these warriors form basic soldiers, for example, a bow cavalry unit of tens of thousands of people, then such a large army is invincible and can sweep across the entire Silver Continent, because no country or force on the Silver Continent can form a force that can rival such a large army.
Fundamentally speaking, what the Kyudo Club is doing is actually following Yan Liqiang's idea, step by step exploring and forming the prototype of an invincible army with samurai as the core force...
Except Shi Changfeng, no one could guess what Yan Liqiang was thinking.
If the Five Animal Exercises were leaked, the harm caused would be disastrous and might even ruin Yan Liqiang's plan.
"The Five Animal Play can't be leaked out!" Yan Liqiang was silent for a while, then looked at Shi Changfeng calmly.
"Ah, why? Although Xue Cao is not a coward and is loyal to you, if the other party uses all kinds of tricks, I am afraid he may not be able to withstand it. Once the secret method of the Five Animal Play is leaked..."
Yan Liqiang interrupted Shi Changfeng and said, "Because I have received the Heavenly Dao Initiation of the Five Animal Play!"
Although Yan Liqiang said this calmly, it was like a thunderclap to Shi Changfeng's ears. Shi Changfeng stood up from his chair with his eyes wide open, and his voice trembled. "Liqiang, you said... you are the founder of the Five Animals Play... you have been recognized by the Heavenly Dao... you have the power of the founder of the Five Animals Play..."
Previously, Shi Changfeng had always thought that the Five Animals Exercises were a secret technique that Yan Liqiang had learned from a "dream", but what he had not expected was that the Five Animals Exercises were actually "created" by Yan Liqiang himself. The so-called Heavenly Dao Initiation was definitely extraordinary, and it could not only strengthen and improve a person's abilities, but also had a greater effect - in this world, once a person received the Heavenly Dao Initiation, it meant that unless that person personally taught him, even if the thief had learned the secret technique created by that person, he could only get the form at most, but not the spirit. His cultivation realm would be limited by the Heavenly Dao and he would never be able to reach a higher level...
This is the power of the Patriarch brought by the Heavenly Dao Initiation. For this reason, in the Silver Continent, the word "Patriarch" has a transcendent status no matter where it is!
Of course, the prestige of the founder is not eternal, otherwise many secret techniques would not be passed down. If the founder of a secret technique dies, the prestige of the founder will no longer exist, and stealing the technique will become possible, which will lead to countless love, hate and vengeance...
But now, Yan Liqiang is still alive, so even if someone tied up Xue Cao and forced him to tell them how to practice the Five Animal Play, it would not have any effect...
(End of this chapter)