"I can also add the knight training thods passed down in my family, along with a knight’s martial technique: The Straight Slash!"
Count Bernier looked at Li Yang’s expression and knew he had to make a large sacrifice. If he didn’t show so real skill, it wouldn’t work, so he gritted his teeth and put forth his trump card.
"The knight training thods are such that you can continue to use and train with them, and you can even pass them on to many others. The sa goes for the knight’s martial techniques. However, my spirit tea and dicinal herbs can tangibly enhance one’s own strength. Once a portion is used, it’s gone."
Li Yang swirled the red wine in his glass, his expression remaining very calm.
Seeing his deanor, Count Bernier gritted his teeth, "I can offer a unicorn and a set of magic armor in exchange for the long-term right to exchange resources!"
The unicorn was originally a mutated group of wild horses that, after being tad, multiplied and beca a precious mount among the Western nobility.
There was no doubt about the magic armor. Engraved with magical power, the armor had exceptional performance. Even Li Yang, being the son of an earl, only possessed one set.
"These still aren’t enough."
Li Ming slowly sipped the red wine from his glass, leaned forward, and looked at Count Bernier seated before him, "I want you to work for for the first year without pay. After that year, for every sale you make, you keep two, and I take eight."
"One year of free labor, and then two for you, eight for after that? Isn’t that—"
Bernier was so angered by Li Yang’s conditions that his eyes bulged, thinking of the unicorn and the magic armor. He had offered all he could, yet it still wasn’t enough for satisfaction.
"What, you’re unwilling?"
Li Ming looked at him dispassionately.
"...Alright, deal."
Bernier’s voice choked up as he silently sat back down, sighing as he spoke.
"That’s more like it."
Li Ming chuckled lightly and clinked glasses with him.
"Have everything you’ve ntioned delivered first. Once I’ve inspected and received them, only then can you take the spirit tea leaves and dicinal herbs you want."
Li Yang spoke indifferently. Bernier gritted his teeth, "No matter what, I must see these two items with my own eyes, or I won’t agree to it."
"Oh, tomorrow morning then, looking forward to your visit."
Li Yang bead with a brilliant smile, raised his glass, and Bernier restrained his frustration, clinking glasses with him as well.
"..."
Two months passed, and both the spirit tea trees and the dicinal herbs received better care and expansion.
Ard soldiers guarded in formations all around. Surrounding the area was a hard iron wire electric net, which naturally didn’t worry about Bernier coming to inspect.
In fact, he rely strolled around, saw the finished tea leaves and pills made by Li Yang’s workers, and received a couple of spirit tea leaves and two dicinal pills as gifts. After personally experiencing their effects, he couldn’t wait to return to his domain and hasten the first transaction.
Li Yang naturally had no reason to refuse. He personally saw him off, and then lounged leisurely in his castle, waiting for a large shipnt of supplies to arrive.
Gathering resources and transportation took ti, and Li Yang wasn’t in a hurry. He leisurely started practicing Tai Chi on his domain.
This practice brought his Tai Chi to perfection within a week.
The perfection of Tai Chi resulted in a strong foundation for his body and surging qi and blood.
"Now, if I were to train in these knight and warrior training thods, it wouldn’t affect the vitality and vigor of my body anymore."
Li Ming felt satisfied with the changes in his body and then took out the knight training thods to begin pondering and practicing according to their contents.
Clearly, he intended to start with the knight training thod to get familiar with the Western world’s extraordinary physique system.
Not to ntion magic, even the re knight training thod could not stump Li Ming; in fact, it only took him half a day to fully grasp the essence of the knight training thod.
That very afternoon, he began his serious cultivation.
The knight’s training thod could be summarized in a simple phrase: develop, develop, develop!
The continuous developnt of the body’s potential, bringing forth greater strength, is the content of the knight’s training thod. Ultimately, taking this developnt further by channeling the life force and introducing the gentle force of the Five Elents from nature to enhance oneself—this is the knight training thod.
Put simply, it is an approach that integrates the power of the elents into one’s vitality.
The warrior training thod, just as straightforward and forceful: whereas the knight training thods are all about developnt, the warrior training thod is all about refining.
The body is treated as a piece of iron, honing the muscles and power through various ans, polishing the very essence of the body.
Until the end, when the gentle elental forces from nature flow into the body, directly compatible with the body without involving the life force.
In other words, it’s a pure body refinent that doesn’t rely on vitality.
As for which is stronger or weaker between the two, that remains to be seen. However, knights tend to be more flexible and mobile, whereas warriors are rough-skinned, aty, more cumberso, but their strength is purer.
Thus, the status between extraordinary knights and extraordinary warriors is equal.
Nonetheless, knights are more expensive, as they require mounts, so knights are considered more precious.
In fact, the knight training thod and the warrior training thod can be compatible and may even help one better endure the early stages of training because bodily refinent and developnt go hand in hand, potentially having a synergistic effect greater than the sum of its parts, accelerating one’s strength growth and solidifying it.
The famous knight-warrior families are an example of this.
So naturally, Li Ming also intended to follow this path.
Vitality was sothing hard to perceive for ordinary people, but not for Li Ming; he had no trouble drawing the half-life force of the Five Elents around him into his body, augnting his own vitality without needing the early stages of training.
He then absorbed this power while continuing to practice the warrior training thod, refining his body for better outcos.
In this way, in just one afternoon, Li Ming’s knightly cultivation had formally reached a higher level, and the next day he began the warrior training, quickly becoming proficient.
Following that, he started eating spirit grass buns and drinking chicken soup made from forest herbs, along with strong tea brewed from spirit tea leaves, comfortably satisfying his gastronomic desires while accumulating energy for himself.
Then, after a few days, Li Ming could feel his knightly power and warrior power robustly growing, and Count Bernier finally arrived with his belated resources.
"Food, machinery, oil, various materials, and two hundred 13-year-old youngsters, all brought into the estate’s large warehouse."
Li Yang instructed Butler Joel, who nodded in agreent before accompanying the governor to et the belated Count Bolaier.
"I need to inspect the things you ntioned first."
Li Yang said to Bolaier, who smiled at the corner of his mouth, stood up and handed over to the driver behind Li Yang, who had a cart half filled with thatched grass. Then, lifting the thatched grass on the cart, a bronze-colored magic armor appeared before their eyes.
After that, he leapt up and handed the reins of the white unicorn horse he was riding to Li Ming.
"The white unicorn horse and the magic armor are all here, Mr. Li Ming, please feel free to inspect them," Bolaier said with a playful grin. This smile was not for the trade, but because of what he had gradually heard from Li Ming’s territory.
For example, an incident where an interdiate-level warrior tried to assassinate soone in Li Ming’s lord’s city but got instantly beheaded. This naturally commanded his respect and attention.
If he could kill an interdiate-level warrior from the Gill family in an instant, then he could do the sa to Bolaier.
Therefore, as soon as he heard this news, Bolaier rushed over.
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