13: Chapter 13 Old Li's Practical Lesson

Old Li sneered, "You guys think all-around development sounds good, so it must actually be good?"

Liu Cheng stiffened his neck and retorted, "At least it won't lead to uneven subjects, and the Divine Kingdom will be more stable."

Old Li placed his lesson plan by the edge of the sandbox, his tone turning cold and stern, "Fine, today I'll let you see with your own eyes what a half-baked all-around development looks like when it hits a pure Combat Path—how it will shatter into pieces."

Liu Cheng's face flushed red, but he didn't back down.

Several students behind him also stood up, clearly wanting to use this class to prove themselves.

Their thoughts were very clear.

Wang Pingan's high talent was the Wang family's business.

But they felt that as long as they managed things well, they wouldn't necessarily fail to catch up through all-around development.

Old Li raised his hand to activate the sandbox confrontation mode, and the entrances of both factions appeared on the light screen.

"Liu Cheng, don't you think all-around development is good? Call out your citizen projections."

Liu Cheng immediately connected his wristwatch, his consciousness accessing his Divine Kingdom, from which he drew the projections of thirty strong, able-bodied citizens.

The light gate on the left side of the sandbox lit up, and thirty citizens walked out.

These citizens wore coarse cloth clothes, holding hoes, wooden spears, and a few crude stone axes in their hands.

Some had Ore bags hanging from their waists, and others still had mud on their hands, obviously having just been transferred from the farmlands and mining sites.

Old Li looked at these projections without the slightest change in expression, "Is this what you call all-around development?"

Liu Cheng bit the bullet and explained, "They usually farm and mine, and also train when they have spare time. This is already pretty good for the early stage."

Old Li didn't evaluate it and instead pointed at a few other students, "You guys go up too, call out all your all-around development citizens."

Several light gates lit up one after another.

Another fifty or sixty citizen projections walked into the sandbox.

These people had messy equipment; some held wooden shields, some held harpoons, some held stone hammers, and a few carried grain bags. Their formation was a complete mess to look at.

As the classmates watched, they gradually lost their confidence.

When looking at them in the Divine Kingdom usually, these citizens were quite capable—farming, building houses, and hunting could all be done.

But once put into the practical combat sandbox, they appeared too scattered.

Old Li raised his hand to organize these citizens into a team, and data immediately appeared on the sandbox.

[Comprehensive Military Force: Eighty-six people.]

[Average Realm: Mortal.]

[Combat Evaluation: F-.]

Liu Cheng showed anxiety on his face, "Teacher, they haven't even started performing yet, data can't explain everything."

Old Li didn't even look at him and directly called out, "Wang Pingan, come out."

The entire class's gazes turned uniformly toward Wang Pingan.

Wang Pingan stood up and walked to the other side of the sandbox.

Old Li looked at him and instructed, "You practice Immortal-Martial Dual Cultivation and insist on the Combat Path. Now show them what true combat citizens are called."

Wang Pingan nodded in acknowledgment, "Understood."

He raised his hand and pressed it on the sandbox Formation Plate, connecting his consciousness to the Divine Kingdom.

Inside the Divine Kingdom, a batch of Martial Dao Citizens were practicing boxing beside the Mysterious Blood Pool, and Cultivation Citizens were breathing in and out at the foot of the Small Spirit Vein mountain.

Wang Pingan did not mobilize all his elites, only drawing the projections of ten citizens who had already stepped into Cultivate.

Five Martial Dao Citizens and five Cultivation Citizens.

The next moment, the light gate on the right side of the sandbox lit up.

Ten citizen projections walked into the battlefield.

They did not yet have armor or weapons on them, but as soon as they appeared, their Aura directly suppressed the more than eighty people on the opposite side.

The five Martial Dao Citizens were tall and sturdy, with abundant blood Qi and steady paces.

The five Cultivation Citizens were surrounded by Spiritual Qi with clear gazes, their positioning naturally standing towards the back.

The classroom was dead silent.

Old Li glanced at the data panel.

[Comprehensive Military Force: Ten people.]

[Average Realm: Layer 1 Body Refining, Layer 1 Body Forging.]

[Combat Evaluation: F+.]

Liu Cheng showed an incredulous expression, "How is that possible? It's only been a day, and your citizens have already entered the threshold?"

As soon as these words came out, the class immediately burst into an uproar.

Awakening only yesterday and already having ten initiated citizens today—this speed was simply too outrageous.

Many of their citizens were still learning how to build houses, while Wang Pingan's side could already pull out an extraordinary combat squad.

Zhao Yang looked at the sandbox and swallowed hard, "Pingan, you're rolling way too hard. Everyone else just booted up, and you've already entered the closed beta version."

Wang Pingan did not explain and only issued a divine decree to the citizens inside the sandbox.

"Form ranks."

The ten citizens acted immediately.

The five Martial Dao Citizens stood in the front row, their feet apart and arms slightly lowered.

The five Cultivation Citizens stood in the back row, raising their palms to begin running the basic Spiritual Qi guiding method within the Green Wood Breathing Technique.

Old Li looked at Liu Cheng and ordered, "Begin."

Liu Cheng couldn't hold face and immediately shouted, "Charge over together, crush them with numbers!"

The eighty-six semi-agricultural and semi-military citizen projections swarmed forward.

Their footsteps were messy, crowding together front and back, with wooden spears and hoes colliding against each other.

Wang Pingan's ten citizens did not retreat.

The five Martial Dao Citizens in the front row stepped forward simultaneously, unfolding the boxing stances of the Savage Bull Body-Forging Fist, and directly crashed into the crowd.

In the first round of contact, the front-row citizens on Liu Cheng's side were sent flying backward on the spot.

Wooden spears snapped, stone axes slipped from hands, and a few citizens holding hoes were knocked flat onto the ground.

The Cultivation Citizens in the back row raised their hands to release a basic Spiritual Qi shockwave; although its power wasn't large, it happened to disrupt the opponent's formation.

Before the eighty-six people could fully press forward, a gap was torn open in the front row.

Wang Pingan's Martial Dao Citizens seized the opportunity to cut in, the five of them protecting each other's flanks as punches, elbow strikes, and knee strikes landed consecutively.

Those semi-agricultural and semi-military citizens simply couldn't withstand it.

They usually had to farm and mine, had little time to Cultivate, and their combat training was also scattered. Meeting full-time combat citizens immediately exposed their shortcomings.

Inside the sandbox projection, Liu Cheng's citizens fell batch after batch.

All the students in the class were dumbfounded.

This was definitely not a narrow victory.

This was a solid crushing victory.

Ten people charged into the middle of more than eighty people, beating the opponent's team until they completely scattered.

In just a moment, the projected citizens on the left side of the sandbox collapsed in utter defeat.

Old Li waved his hand to pause the battle, pointing at the sandbox and reprimanding, "Did you see that? This is the gap between half-baked all-around development and a pure Combat Path."

Liu Cheng stood in place, his complexion ugly to the extreme.

The few students who had just supported all-around development couldn't say a single word either.

Wang Pingan's ten citizens stood quietly on the right side of the sandbox, without a single trace of disarray on their bodies.

Old Li looked at the entire class, his voice cold and stern, "Without sufficient resources, don't try to want everything. If you want everything, in the end, you won't be able to protect anything."

Wang Pingan stood beside the sandbox, neither showing off nor explaining.

He only looked at the projections of his ten citizens, becoming even clearer about one thing in his heart.

The Combat Path must be walked all the way to the end.