C3939 Meng Jun
These forty-five people had all completed the mission.
He brought back the heads of the fugitives and also killed those who failed in their assassination attempt.
Afterwards, Zhi Weiyi did not hesitate to lay down a large piece of land in Weiyang's palace. He named it the Meng manor, bestowed it to the forty-five people, and even provided them with a very high salary, large amounts of crystals, Pills s, and some profound techniques.
The missions were harsh and the rewards were generous.
Moreover, these 45 people would no longer be under anyone's control. They only needed to listen to the orders of 3 people: Meng Fan, Zhi Weiyi, and the Taoism Sail boat.
Next, these forty-five people would receive a high salary and would only need to do two things. The first was to concentrate on cultivation, and Zhi Weiyi had set a rule that after five years, no matter what realm they were in or what strength they had, they must be promoted to another realm. Otherwise, they would be expelled.
The other thing was that Zhi Weiyi would give them missions from time to time. Anyone who wanted to take a mission had to do it voluntarily. After completing the missions, they would receive higher rewards. Also, Zhi Weiyi would personally guide them in cultivation.
The forty-five of them began to train.
Zhi Weiyi started his third step plan.
The scope of the candidates for the third stage was much wider, including the caravan of camel bells established by Grand Central Emperor , the officials at the bottom level of the Wu Steel Palace, and the God Kings recruited from all over the Great Reef.
Amongst them, the Camel Bell Caravan was extremely strong.
More than half of the more than one hundred Divine Kings in the caravan were fugitives from Luotian Universe. Amongst these fugitives, the one with the highest realm was the Nine Tribulations Peak Celestial King!
The one with the lowest realm was Celestial King of Seven Turbulences, who was more than 20 times stronger.
There were both men and women, and each of them had a distinct personality. It could even be said that each and every one of them harbored malicious intentions.
Of course, the reason why they were able to follow Grand Central Emperor 's lead was because of Grand Central Emperor 's own strength, but more importantly, in order to obtain protection, the World of Meaning chased them too fiercely, so Grand Central Emperor did his best to get everyone a legal identity.
However, their loyalty was quite low, much lower than the officers that Weiyang Gong trained.
Therefore, after Zhi Weiyi saw each and every member of the Camel Bell, he immediately killed more than thirty of them!
The one and only Celestial King of Nine Tribulations was also killed.
After that, Zhi Weiyi started to give them missions.
However, the task that Zhi Weiyi gave this time was too cruel. It was much more cruel than before.
Furthermore, it was a secret that even the Taoism Sail boat did not know about.
Zhi Weiyi created an absolute domain and sealed them off. He specified that only after three days when the absolute domain opened would the remaining ten people be able to obtain the residency rights and various benefits in the Wu Steel Palace.
In other words, Zhi Weiyi wanted them to kill each other.
Grand Central Emperor couldn't do this kind of thing, and it was also unlikely that Meng Fan would do it, or it could be said that Meng Fan disdained doing it.
But Zhi Weiyi was completely unburdened.
After being stunned, these people immediately thought of resistance. They used to be prisoners of World of Meaning, how could they have the concept of loyalty, but after the one and only Nine Tribulations were killed by Zhi Weiyi, the remaining Divine Kings couldn't even cause a ripple.
The first person to resist was immediately beheaded by Zhi Weiyi. His soul was extracted and sealed in a stone.
There were also some people with a higher realm who wanted to resist, but were all killed by Zhi Weiyi before they could make a move.
Their attacks were swift and fierce, suppressing their strength. The remaining people knew that resistance was a dead end, and killing their way out was the only way out. Thus, they entered the absolute domain.
After Zhi Weiyi's elimination, there were only 50 plus God Kings left. The top few were all killed due to resistance. That was why their chances of survival were high.
Three days later, the results came out.
In the end, seventeen of them survived.
After Zhi Weiyi saw the remaining 17, he killed 7 of them at random. The requirement was 10, that was 10.
None of these ten had a high cultivation base, only eight tribulations. The rest were all seven tribulations.
However, Zhi Weiyi still doubted their loyalty.
Thus, Zhi Weiyi gave them one last mission.
Self-detonation.
The remaining ten people were already terrified of Zhi Weiyi and had no intention of resisting. After hearing Zhi Weiyi's order, they all looked at each other and pondered for a long time. In the end, they still chose to self-destruct.
Of course Zhi Weiyi wouldn't let them die.
None of these people had a high level of cultivation. Even if they self-destructed in front of Zhi Weiyi, as long as Zhi Weiyi was willing, he could still let them live.
As such, Zhi Weiyi saved the first five people to self-destruct.
Zhi Weiyi did not save the other five and allowed them to die.
The five survivors finally understood that their life and death were determined by Zhi Weiyi.
These five people also moved into the Meng manor to live with the people they had previously arranged to live with.
As for the other God Kings on the third step, Zhi Weiyi also gave them different missions and different tests, but compared to the other escapees from the camel bell business, Zhi Weiyi's attitude towards the other God Kings was much more gentle. There weren't any injuries or deaths, and those who didn't complete their missions or were deemed by Zhi Weiyi as lacking in loyalty were just eliminated.
In the end, only sixty or so Divine Kings remained. These Divine Kings' cultivation realms were generally lower, and most of them were below the fifth level of tribulation. They also moved into the Meng manor.
From the moment they had entered the Meng manor, their cultivation had started to increase by leaps and bounds.
Weiyang Palace provided too many resources, methods, and benefits.
Zhi Weiyi personally went to instruct each of them, creating clones and walking around the Meng manor day and night.
A few years later.
More than 20 of the Divine Kings that lived in the Meng manor had been eliminated. They had all failed to complete the mission that Zhi Weiyi had given them or failed to break through within the specified time limit.
Time was indeed short, but this was also a competition of talent and willpower. In Zhi Weiyi's eyes, those who did not break through their cultivation realm were people with insufficient willpower and talent.
Zhi Weiyi began to take over the eighth year of the Steel Palace.
Xiang Liang had stepped into the Tenth Tribulation!
He immediately left the Wind Hall and became Zhi Weiyi's right-hand man.
From this year onwards, Zhi Weiyi began to spread nets from all over the Great Reef, searching for cultivators with lower realms and younger ages within the eight Divine Kingdoms. Sometimes, he would even adopt orphans who were homeless, only slightly older than ten or so years old, and bring them to the Wu Steel Palace for nurturing.
After a few years of training, some of these idiots, who were either not hardworking or had bad personalities, were kicked out of the Meng manor. They were usually settled inside Weiyang Palace to find something to do.
As for the rest, he would continue to nurture them.
By the twelfth year, there were already more than a thousand people living in the Meng Village. Over ninety percent of them were orphans and young cultivators.
During the year, Zhi Weiyi adopted seventeen orphans as his adopted sons and changed their surnames.
Subsequently, Xiang Liang also adopted three young cultivators as his adopted sons.1
Then, Pei Chenglun, Hee Huaijiao, and Xie Liang adopted a few adopted children. There were also those with a higher cultivation level in the second and third stair all adopted children.
Even the Taoism Sail boat had adopted a child.
The rest were all named Meng.
Then, the Meng manor held more than ten wedding banquets.
The orphans who were over 20 years old and were recognized by Zhi Weiyi were married by Zhi Weiyi. In addition, on the second and third floors, those who were suitable in age were also arranged to find the other half to become husband and wife.
Among them, Zhi Weiyi requested for people with the same surname to become sworn brothers. Normally, they would become sworn brothers in twos or threes, but there were also three or four people who would become sworn brothers.
They have no choice but to obey orders.
Zhi Weiyi created a group of loyal Celestial Kings through layers of selections, eliminations, tests, and his upbringing from a young age. Then, he linked these Celestial Kings with each other through marriage and turned them into his in-laws.
In the short span of more than ten years, when Meng Fan was managing the Defense Department and refining the fourth level Immortal Crystal, Zhi Weiyi had established the prototype of a direct descendant army within the Meng manor.
As for the members of this legion, they called themselves the Meng Army.
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