High Martial: I Can Copy All Root Bones!

After verifying the brothers’ strength, the man was reasonably polite and began to explain.

The Jiangnan North Army established a Crossbow Camp with a total of thirty thousand crossbowmen at the Blood Forging Realm! It is the most important military force in the Jiangnan North Army!

A camp of thirty thousand Blood Forging Realm crossbowmen is further divided into thirty Crossbow Corps, each with a thousand crossbowmen.

If a thousand crossbowmen coordinate well, they can easily kill an expert at the Bone Refining Fifth Layer.

Multiple coordinated Crossbow Corps can even suppress someone in the Rebirth Realm.

Lu Changfeng thought this was the perfect opportunity to witness the strength of the enhanced Crossbow Army from Jiangnan Prefecture, the very force that had turned the tide of the war.

So, he nodded in agreement.

Their assignment was confirmed.

Before long, a Captain at the Jade Bone Realm came to collect Lu Changfeng and Clone Yang Jingtian.

"You’re the two, right? Follow me!"

This Captain’s name was Tian Feng, and he was the commander of the Jiangnan North Army’s Thirteenth Crossbow Corps.

He had ten Deputy Captains under his command, each of whom typically led a hundred-man squad.

Tian Feng led Lu Changfeng and his clone to the camp of the Thirteenth Crossbow Corps.

Along the way, he taught Lu Changfeng how to read the camp’s signal flags and distinguish between different tents and encampments.

After they arrived in Tian Feng’s tent, he first summoned the other eight Deputy Captains to get acquainted with Lu Changfeng and his "brother."

Afterward, he taught the two brothers how to recognize flag signals.

On the battlefield, the Crossbow Army had to follow flag signals instantly to hit their designated targets and engage powerful experts at the Bone Refining Fifth Layer or even the Rebirth Realm.

Lu Changfeng’s memory was quite good, and he memorized all the flag signals in short order.

Next, Tian Feng took the two brothers to their respective squad encampments.

Their encampments were adjacent. At Tian Feng’s command, their respective hundred-man squads assembled.

Tian Feng had the crossbowmen of the squads memorize the faces of their new Deputy Captains.

In actual combat, these crossbowmen would rely on their Deputy Captains to relay orders from Tian Feng.

Lu Changfeng used his clone’s Spiritual Sense to discreetly inspect the crossbowmen’s cultivation. Most were at the fourth or fifth layer of the Blood Forging Realm, with a very small number at the Third Layer.

There was no one with a lower cultivation.

’It seems you need a certain level of strength just to draw these enhanced crossbows.’

"Rest well. It won’t be long before it’s our turn. Go to your tents and see if the exclusive crossbows for Deputy Captains at the Tendon Transformation Realm suit you," Tian Feng said with a smile. He then turned and walked away toward his own tent.

Lu Changfeng then directed both himself and his clone toward their respective tents.

Pulling aside the tent flap, Lu Changfeng saw the crossbow that belonged to him.

The crossbows for ordinary Blood Forging Realm soldiers were about two meters long, with a prod of about one meter. Their bolts could be 1.2 to 1.3 meters long, with an effective range of four hundred meters.

However, Lu Changfeng’s exclusive crossbow for the Tendon Transformation Realm was a full three meters long, with a one-and-a-half-meter prod, and two-meter bolts. Its range was eight hundred meters.

The crossbow was impeccably maintained, clearly cared for by a specialist.

A few bolts lay on a table.

Given their length, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call them short spears.

Because the enhanced crossbow bolts were so massive, dedicated support soldiers were responsible for transporting them on small carts during battle.

Lu Changfeng picked up the crossbow. It was clearly expensive. The bowstring carried a faint aura, suggesting it was made from the sinew of some powerful Demon Beast.

The enhanced crossbows of the ordinary Blood Forging Realm crossbowmen were likely made the same way.

Based on the cost of these crossbows alone, the Saint Demon Sect could never hope to field a Crossbow Army of over one hundred thousand Blood Forging Realm cultivators.

Jiangnan Prefecture was truly wealthy!

The arrowhead on the bolt also emitted a faint glow. It was actually a Treasure Artifact-quality head!

Even though the arrowhead was just a small part of the weapon, using a Treasure Artifact for it was an unbelievable luxury, even for an exclusive crossbow meant for the Tendon Transformation Realm.

Ever since the spirit of his first Autumn Water Treasure Sword had been shattered, Lu Changfeng hadn’t possessed a decent weapon.

However, he had accumulated many Profound Iron longswords and long sabers in his Ba Snake Space for emergencies.

Otherwise, at his current Realm, a Profound Iron Saber would shatter from the force of a single strike.

Spiritual Artifacts were hard to find, so it was better to stock up on disposable weapons—use one, break one, and grab the next.

’The materials for these enhanced crossbows are so precious. No wonder they’re this expensive. Lin Erfeng mentioned this to me before.’

’With the Saint Demon Sect’s current strength, we could field a ten-thousand-man army at most.’

’The biggest limiting factor is the cost of these enhanced crossbows.’

’Why not take this opportunity to steal a batch of crossbows from the Jiangnan North Army?’

’After all, with my Ba Snake Space, I could do it without anyone being the wiser...’

’It’s feasible. But I can’t steal too many, or the situation in Jiangnan Prefecture could drastically change, allowing it to be quickly devoured by Daliang Country.’

Lu Changfeng had already secretly made his decision, but he would have to wait until after rescuing the three Hua Family brothers to act.

Lu Changfeng knew how to prioritize.

Outside his tent, Crossbow Corps were periodically dispatched to the battlefield to fight the Daliang Alien Race.

The fighting was constant.

Since it wasn’t the Thirteenth Corps’ turn yet, Lu Changfeng took the opportunity to build rapport with the crossbowmen under his command in his own encampment.

Before long, he learned the location of the dungeon.

It was in the northern part of Cyan Willow Town, inside the original town’s prison.

Lu Changfeng also found out that if they were defeated by the Daliang Army and lost the stronghold at Cyan Willow Town, they would kill every prisoner in the dungeon before retreating to eliminate any future threats.

Currently, most of the prisoners in the dungeon were captives from Daliang Country.

They were interrogated daily for information about the Daliang Martial Arts Army, and it was said that this occasionally yielded results.