Chapter 199: Creating a Warband, the King’s Path
“Oh?” Shen Xing became curious.
“The upper-year students have a battlefield merit ranking,” Lu Lan explained with a smile. “It only compares the merit points earned from completing battlefield missions, and it’s not a simple addition. Instead, it comprehensively considers the number of missions, their difficulty, and the environment. It’s more of a comprehensive ranking that showcases strength and the ability to develop new areas in other worlds. It’s also not as eye-catching as the freshman rankings, but it’s just as important.”
Listening to Lu Lan’s explanation, Shen Xing realized that the rankings from now on were no longer limited to the student level, but had reached a deeper level.
In the end, in the Human Federation, the battlefield is still the place where martial artists realize their self-worth.
This is also one of the main reasons why martial artists can maintain their lofty status.
The interdimensional battlefields not only represent endless benefits, but also concern the future of the entire human civilization. Even those anti-Federation organizations are rushing into the battlefields and into other worlds one after another, seeking their own development.
Even the entire interstellar society, with its various interest disputes and even internal wars, revolves around individual interdimensional battlefields.
Therefore, the upper-year rankings are more of a reflection of strength and status.
Looking at the entire Academy Home Planet, those who can rank at the top have influence that completely exceeds the scope of students.
Starting about seventy years ago, some people within the Academy Home Planet had already reached the Fourth Realm in just six years.
Those people, even if they are still students, are already well-known figures within the Human Federation.
Listening to this, Shen Xing felt quite envious.
“Speaking of which, you created that research institute. Are you planning to go the warband route?” Xue Yu suddenly interjected.
“Warband?” Shen Xing was taken aback.
“It’s about having strong individual strength combined with a powerful legion. This allows you to obtain more benefits in the interdimensional battlefields.” Xue Yu could see that Shen Xing really didn’t understand these things, and continued, “At higher levels, it’s difficult to obtain enough benefits from other worlds by relying solely on individuals. Some strong individuals are also unwilling to join the Federation army, so relatively independent warbands have emerged. You can think of them as development teams, except that their strength is no less than that of a legion. I see that you’ve created your own research institute, so you probably don’t plan to join the Federation army.”
“I see.” Shen Xing was slightly enlightened, but also quite surprised. “Does the Human Federation allow such warbands to grow stronger?”
“Why not?” Xue Yu smiled. “As long as they are not anti-Federation or anti-humanity, it’s fine. After all, there are too many interdimensional battlefields, and they are too vast. That’s the bigger goal right now. Moreover—if someone takes the lead and steps into the Ninth Realm, or even a higher level, then it won’t be difficult to establish a more centralized human civilization.”
Shen Xing understood.
In this martial arts environment, the importance of individual will is infinitely magnified. Especially at the Seventh and Eighth Realm levels, the dispersion of will is inevitable, and it can even easily lead to a situation where the will of a group submits to an individual.
For example, with Shen Xing’s research institute, even if he completely ignores it, he doesn’t have to worry about losing control of the institute.
Because the establishment and development of the entire research institute are entirely based on his individual strength.
In this situation, instead of pursuing the unification of power, it’s better to pursue greater strength under a unified goal and benefit.
Even if someone really takes the lead and breaks through to the Ninth Realm, able to rule all of humanity and establish a highly centralized social order, it would only be temporary. When the second, third, and even more Ninth Realm experts appear, things will return to the current situation.
Unless it’s really like what some novels from his past life say, where only one “Great Emperor” can appear in an era.
Otherwise, an absolutely centralized social structure is unlikely to appear in human civilization.
Allowing strong individuals to establish their own warbands is the best way.
Shen Xing finally had a deeper understanding of the current situation of this interstellar civilization.
However, a warband…
Shen Xing did seriously consider it.
To be honest, with the existence of other worlds, he has a huge advantage in establishing a warband. Not to mention anything else, just relying on the resources of other worlds, he could cultivate more strong individuals. In addition, with the collision of technologies between the two worlds, the future is simply limitless.
Unfortunately, this kind of warband is highly dependent on the strength of its owner. With his current strength, he can’t be too high-profile.
So Shen Xing thought for a moment and smiled: “We’ll see. If there’s a real opportunity, it wouldn’t be bad. Speaking of which, Xue Yu, you should be joining the Federation army, what about you guys?”
Shen Xing then looked at the other friends.
“I signed an agreement and joined Senior Wenren’s research institute,” Mi Fei said first. “I might be debuting as a celebrity next, starting from the Academy Home Planet. Please support me, big boss.”
“I haven’t really thought about it yet,” Nangong Jinyi said after a moment of thought, gently shaking her head. “The Nangong Family doesn’t have any mandatory requirements in this regard. Whether you want to join the family warband or go independent, it’s fine.”
“I’m naturally following you, we’ve already agreed,” Hu An said with a smile.
Seeing Shen Xing’s gaze on her, Gu Jiao hesitated a bit: “My family also has its own warband, but it’s not very big, and I don’t want to be separated from Hu An.”
“Then join my research institute as well,” Shen Xing said with a smile, seeing Gu Jiao’s hesitation. “Now that I’ve taken first place, the research institute should be able to grow rapidly. It’s worthy of Lao Hu and you.”
“It’s our opportunity,” Hu An shook his head, reaching out to hold Gu Jiao’s hand tightly.
Although they were all just freshmen, at this moment, they seemed to have a hint of the melancholy and loneliness of parting ways at graduation.
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But in reality, for true prodigies, after stepping into the Innate Realm, they should start considering their future.
Should they be a lone king, carving out their own world, or join a great family or powerful faction, relying on a truly strong individual? Or should they follow a sufficiently promising prodigy and fight for their future in an emerging force? They could even join the Federation Legion.
Ordinary students have no choice. Any path requires too much effort. But for them, there are too many choices, and they have their own worries.
“Don’t worry, there’s plenty of time to consider,” Shen Xing said with a smile. He was probably the most determined among these people.
Because only he had the qualifications to choose the “King’s Path”.
In the end, the few of them didn’t discuss the related matters any further. They all ate and drank well, enjoying the rare moment of relaxation.
Only after they were completely satisfied did they bid farewell and prepare to leave.
The reason why such moments are precious is because they are so rare.
For everyone, striving to become stronger is the main theme of life.
This is the path they have chosen, and no one will waver because of it.
Including Shen Xing.
He didn’t pay too much attention to the fame brought by victory, and didn’t even plan to return to the research institute. He just gave Xiaoling a few instructions and returned to the Lunar Battlefield.
From now on, there were no more opponents among his peers. His gaze should also jump out of the school, at least out of this year’s class, and turn to truly powerful areas.
First of all, there was the ranking that Lu Lan mentioned.
He had been fighting many times on the Lunar Battlefield during this period. The number of Third Realm giant beasts that he had personally killed was more than thirty. However, after finding the ranking that Lu Lan mentioned, he discovered that his merit points were calculated among all the students of the Academy Home Planet, and he was ranked outside of the top 100,000.
“A bit exaggerated,” Shen Xing said with some amazement.
His current strength was definitely no less than that of an ordinary Third Realm expert. Even if the students who had reached the Third Realm in school were a bit stronger, they wouldn’t be this much stronger!
There should also be the issue of time.
Even if the others also had to cultivate, they had spent more time on the battlefield than Shen Xing.
Moreover, for a battlefield like the Lunar Battlefield, which was already basically under control, there were not many opportunities left. The truly high-risk, high-reward areas were still in the Giant Beast World on the other side.
That was the real front line.
It didn’t belong to students or independent individuals, but to the Federation Legions and the major warbands.
“I wonder if the Giant Beast World has any connection with the other world I was in,” Shen Xing silently looked at the spatial rifts in the distance, behind which lay a seemingly endless forest.
Then, he returned to the other world.
And continued his cultivation.
At this time, the Imperial Capital of Lan Kingdom was already showing signs of chaos. This chaos didn’t originate from the Imperial Capital itself, but more from the outside.
After all, the assassination of the Emperor and the decline of the royal family were such major events that naturally couldn’t be easily quelled. Their impact had become increasingly far-reaching.
Some Spirit Realm experts even left Lan Kingdom directly, and the armies in various places also began to riot. Some places were unable to maintain the past order, and various conflicts intensified and erupted.
It was conceivable that if this continued, the only outcome for Lan Kingdom would be complete disintegration.
Of course, it wasn’t as if no one had thought of a solution. The eastern region was currently the most stable place. Yan Dong, the Eastern King, had maintained order. Everyone knew that he was on Young Master Shen’s side. This alone was enough to bring him great momentum.
In addition, the news that Shen Xing had sent out through several servants quickly attracted the attention of quite a few people.
He was recruiting attendants!
This news even spread rapidly throughout the vast Holy Lake Region. Not to mention prodigies, even some Spirit Realm experts were somewhat tempted. Of course, what tempted them wasn’t Shen Xing himself, but the powerful force behind him!
The news of a Sixth Realm family had spread throughout the Holy Lake Region.
However, the more this was the case, the more people would observe for the time being. There were already many people who had arrived at the Imperial Capital, but not many had actively approached Shen Xing.
But Shen Xing didn’t care.
He knew that his current power wasn’t enough. Perhaps it was enough to make most people in the Holy Lake Region not dare to act rashly, but it was still not enough to attract some sufficiently powerful people.
But he already had a general idea about the follow-up matters.
