A month later, Wang Shuo was flying in the air. Due to being exposed to the cold wind for a long time, his face became extremely pale.

Not only that, due to the constant accumulation of snow and water, the clothes all over the body are extremely sticky, making people very uncomfortable.

Along the way, Wang Shuo passed by Yuhun City and asked the people in the city where the palace was. If he was right, Wang Shuo was about to see the palace.

Sure enough, after the snowstorm, a wall appeared in front of Wang Shuo. It was ten feet high and two feet thick, extending to the end of the field of vision.

There is a row of armored soldiers standing on the city wall, three feet apart from each other, and their cultivation level has reached the tenth level or above of the foundation construction stage.

The imperial palace is a city within a city, located in Tianshu City. The palace is magnificent and magnificent, giving it a prosperous and luxurious appearance.

When the people in the city saw Wang Shuo flying with his sword, they immediately pointed a trumpet-shaped weapon at Wang Shuo and said: "Flying in the sky above the palace is prohibited for non-palace residents!"

Hearing this, Wang Shuo raised his brows, turned around and flew towards the foot of the city wall, running along the wall for a long time before reaching the south gate.

The city gate was closed tightly, and dozens of armored guards surrounded it!

As soon as they got closer, these armored guards pointed towards Wang Shuo with their swords: "Who are you and what are you doing here?"

Wang Shuo cupped his hands and said, "I, Wang Shuo, want to join the palace and join the martial arts to gain some livelihood!"

The armored guard still did not put down his sword: "In a few days, someone will come to Tianshu City to recruit troops, just wait and go!"

Wang Shuo thanked the officers and soldiers before him and left, finding an inn in Tianshu City to stay temporarily!

At night, Wang Shuo took out the "Nine Yuan Xuanling Jue" and began to practice the fourth chapter: Charm. At the same time, he improved the other spells.

…

"Royal Recruitment——!"

When this sound sounded in Tianshu City, Wang Shuo opened his eyes.

More than a month had passed since he entered samadhi, and the conscripts had finally arrived. Fortunately, the fourth chapter of the illusion had been somewhat successful, otherwise Wang Shuo would have waited a whole month in vain.

He hurried out of the guest room, paid dozens of spirit stones to the innkeeper, and rushed towards the recruitment office.

On the side of the road, a soldier in iron and silver armor was shouting loudly about the recruitment. Many men in their twenties who were in the Qi Refining Stage immediately appeared on the side of the road.

Wang Shuo and these people rushed towards the silver-armored soldiers. The cultivation level of these silver-armored soldiers had reached the foundation level, and their status was one level higher than those of the iron-armored soldiers.

The silver-armored soldier said to the people in front of him: "For the palace recruitment, we only accept those who are above the tenth level of Qi refining stage. Those who are below will not be accepted."

"How much military pay per year?" someone asked at this time.

The silver-armored soldier waved his hand and signaled everyone to be quiet: "The annual military salary starts with one hundred spirit stones. Every time you fight a battle, if you win, you will get an extra hundred spirit stones. If you lose, you will only get twenty spirit stones. If you die, you will get two hundred spirit stones."

At home! I will accept twenty people here, and those who are not selected will go to other streets to find other silver-armored soldiers and recruit the best!"

After hearing that the military pay was so generous, many monks in the Qi Refining Stage immediately signed up, fearing that they would not be selected.

"I'm on the fourteenth floor!"

"I'm on the thirteenth floor!"

"I am also on the thirteenth floor!"

…

Suddenly, there was a commotion, Wang Shuo frowned, and the foundation-building spiritual pressure exploded on the spot, and the whole place fell silent, and everyone looked at Wang Shuo blankly.

Even the silver-armored soldier blinked and looked at Wang Shuo.

"Is this...the foundation building period?"

"It's really the foundation building period, why are you so young?"

"Young Master from a big family!"

Wang Shuo sighed, and everyone immediately made way for Wang Shuo.

Wang Shuo then bowed his hands to everyone, and took a few steps to the silver-armored soldiers: "How do you calculate whether you can accept those in the foundation building stage?"

The silver-armored soldier blinked and looked at Wang Shuo.

Seeing that Wang Shuo's face was pale and his cheeks were red, he seemed to be a little restrained in his actions because he was not used to the extremely cold weather.

The silver-armored soldier immediately discovered the problem and asked tentatively: "Fellow Taoist, foreigner!"

Wang Shuo nodded: "I am from Xia Liang!"

"People from the Liang Kingdom? Why did the people from the Liang Kingdom come to the Kingdom of Heavenly Lady?" the man in silver armor asked with an expression of disbelief.

Everyone around him also looked at Wang Shuo and wondered why Wang Shuo, a native of Liang, came to the Kingdom of Heavenly Lady.

Wang Shuo thought for a while and then said: "The Liang Kingdom is in turmoil and the battle between good and evil is in full swing. I want to find peace below before coming to the Kingdom of Heavenly Lady!"

"For peace? Then why did you join the army?"

"I originally thought so too, but I have no choice but to do it because I am short of money!"

The silver-armored soldier hesitated and looked at Wang Shuo again: "Fellow Taoist, please let these people in the Qi refining stage come first. As for fellow Taoist, please follow us into the palace first, and we will make other arrangements then!"

Wang Shuo nodded, retreated, and waited aside. In any case, let's enter the palace first.

Seeing these monks fighting over each other, Wang Shuo sighed again. Immortal cultivators from ordinary families are not as good as young men from big families. How can they care about their lives for a few hundred spiritual stones.

Seeing that they had no hope of joining the army, some monks left in a hurry and sought other silver-armored soldiers on less crowded streets.

When the twenty men were recruited, the silver-armored soldier stepped forward and said to Wang Shuo: "Fellow Taoist, just follow me into the palace!"

Wang Shuo cupped his hands and said, "Thank you!"

Then the silver-armored soldier turned to the twenty foundation-building monks behind him and shouted loudly: "You guys, follow along. Don't mess up the team when you enter the palace. I won't be found by then. The other silver-armored soldiers have no names on their hands, but they will."

Being kicked out of the palace!"

Everyone hurriedly formed a team, and upon hearing the order from the silver-armored soldier, the team moved forward with him, while Wang Shuo slowly followed the silver-armored soldier.

Soon we arrived at the south city gate. At this time, there were more than a dozen teams outside the city gate, all led by a silver-armored soldier.

After the silver-armored soldiers around Wang Shuo arranged the team, they stepped forward alone to talk to the other silver-armored soldiers and pointed at Wang Shuo.

The other silver-armored soldiers also looked at Wang Shuo a few times, but did not make any further reaction. Then the silver-armored soldiers came to the front of the team and waited for their team to arrive.

Suddenly, the silver-armored soldier gave Wang Shuo a simple and honest smile: "I'm under Tie Chengshan. If my fellow Taoist can join the palace as a soldier, we will be brothers in the future!"

Wang Shuo smiled: "I'm Wang Shuo! I hope to be able to join the palace and serve as a soldier."

After waiting until dusk, when all the silver-armored soldiers arrived, a horn sounded from the city wall, and the left and right pages of the south city gate slowly opened, accompanied by a "chichi" sound as the city gate rubbed against the ground.

Wang Shuo looked into the city gate and saw that it was wide and straight and reached the hazy end of the gate. The yellow bricks on the ground were intertwined, and the gaps between the bricks were filled with branches.

Unlike the snowy scene outside the city gate, not a single snowflake could be seen inside the palace, and everything was covered with golden light.

After Wang Shuo entered the palace, the extremely cold atmosphere in the Kingdom of Heavenly Lady immediately faded away and was instead enveloped by a warmth, which was somewhat similar to the climate without winter in Liang Kingdom all year round.

The team walked along the road in the palace all night and came out from the north gate.

Wang Shuo asked Tie Chengshan beside him in confusion: "Aren't we entering the palace?"

"The military camp is dozens of miles away from the north gate of the palace. New recruits need to go through the next step of screening, then be registered, and then undergo drills before they can enter the palace!"

Wang Shuo nodded: "Then with my cultivation level, I am at the level of Brother Tie!"

Tie Chengshan nodded: "Exactly! Monks in the Qi Refining Stage can only be regarded as ordinary soldiers. Logically speaking, in the Foundation Establishment Stage, they are just high-level soldiers. If you want to improve, you need military merit. Those with sufficient military merit can become centurions.

A captain of thousands, no matter how high he is, he is a general!"

Of course, if your military skills can reach the level of a centurion, a commander of thousands, or a general, let alone a low level of cultivation, otherwise you won’t be able to survive!”

Wang Shuo nodded and said: "The Royal Palace of the Heavenly Lady Kingdom is recruiting troops on a large scale, I'm afraid it's just for the sake of splitting!"

Tie Chengshan raised his eyebrows: "That's true. Both sides have stationed a large number of troops and a war may begin at any time!"

"I wonder what level of cultivation the general and the queen of the Heavenly Lady Kingdom have?"

"The queen's cultivation has reached the early stage of Yuanying. The general has also reached the early stage of Yuanying. As for the other generals, they are at the late stage of the Golden Core at best and at the middle stage of the Golden Core at the worst!"

Wang Shuo frowned: "With the capabilities of a country, Yuanying monks are so rare?"

Tie Chengshan sighed: "The Kingdom of Heavenly Lady is not as big as the outside countries. It just happened to be built on the black ice. Many medicinal herbs cannot survive, resulting in insufficient supply of elixirs. As a result, the cultivation level of the monks in Heavenly Lady Kingdom is much lower than that of foreign countries!"

Hearing this, Wang Shuo's lips slightly raised, and a bold idea suddenly came to his mind.

…

In the military camp, many soldiers were changing their formations according to the centurion's command.

This centurion also wore silver armor, but it covered his whole body and had a white cape behind him.

After entering the camp, everyone stood in formation, and the silver-armored soldiers formed a square formation under the command of the centurion.

The centurion said: "The number of soldiers recruited this time, the lowest and highest cultivation levels of each team will be reported one by one!"

Soon after arriving at Tiecheng Mountain, I saw him opening his mouth and saying loudly: "A total of twenty-one soldiers have been recruited, the highest is the foundation building stage, and the lowest is ten levels of Qi refining stage!"

"stop!"

As soon as the centurion raised his hand, no one spoke after Tie Chengshan. He pointed at Tie Chengshan and said: "Go out! Bring the foundation period over here!"

Tie Chengshan walked straight out of the formation and trotted to Wang Shuo: "Follow me!"

Wang Shuo then followed Tie Chengshan to the centurion.
To be continued...