Chapter 2302 2042: Failing to Recognize Gold-Inlaid Jade

Chen Xi really wanted to tell Chen Dao that his policy had always been to crush, crush, and crush again, and there had never been a situation where he was crushed by others. His military strategy is simple: bully the weak with strength. As for other strategies, his mind is dull and can't learn them, so let's stick to bullying the weak.

Especially when Chen Dao told Chen Xi that the effect of this talent has its limits, Chen Xi was even more disappointed with the White Spear Elite Soldiers, who are said to be the most capable fighters of Shu Han in the official history.

Chen Xi expressed that he couldn't understand why Chen Dao would develop the Back-to-Water Talent. Fighting the Northern Huns is a last stand, are you joking? Chen Xi wasn't even trying his hardest.

To be precise, at that time, except for the Northern Huns Guards being tough to chew, everything else was easy once prepared, yet Chen Dao managed to develop the Back-to-Water Talent.

But reality is so absurd, Chen Xi expressed that he had no other options, let it be. Even if a talent was born without much use, it still counts as achieving dual talents; even the weakest dual talent is better than the strongest one talent elite, it's slightly stronger in all aspects.

In fact, Chen Dao himself didn't quite understand why such a bizarre talent would emerge. He was quite upset, but as a master of drilling soldiers, he couldn't say this, he could only endure.

However, Chen Xi and Chen Dao didn't know that back then when Li Ling led the Danyang Elite, without this talent, they would have been beaten down by the Northern Huns Guards long ago; this is the real life-saving ability of the Ultimate Danyang.

Back then, five thousand fought against eighty thousand, and amongst them was the Chanyu's Bodyguards, a Military Spirit Legion. Other than the dual talents that deviated from the path of the Military Spirit Legion and went down the three talents' crooked road, the rest is all nonsense.

The so-called one talent elite, plainly speaking, is solidifying a certain combat attribute as its own attribute, and then continually enhancing it, strengthening it to its limit.

But regardless, elite talent has its limits. To develop into double talent, besides developing the first elite talent to its limit and condensing the second elite talent, it also requires overall surpassing the basic quality of the legion.

Frankly speaking, even without any talent reinforcement, the physique of dual talent elites is stronger than ordinary soldiers. More importantly, once the soldiers' physique crosses this limit, it will rebound the already capped elite talent.

Simply put, everyone is using Inner Qi as a portion of strength; Lyu Bu will always be stronger than miscellaneous soldiers. Although dual talent elites are impossible to be much stronger than normal elites, if truly compared, even without a second talent, it's an all-round enhancement, of course, this is under the condition that soldiers are entirely the same.

This is also the reason why the Legion Talent's maximum responsiveness from soldiers only equals a regular elite talent.

After all, under normal circumstances, the second talent of a dual talent legion cannot grow to the limit like the first talent, of course, this is assuming normal circumstances.

But the most shameless part of reality is that it always throws out some oddities for you.

For example, the current main force of Li Jue, both elite talents have grown to the limit.

Moreover, the Trajan Legion, back then, both major elite talents grew to the limit, and then under Trajan's leadership, they crushed the Parthian Soul Legion, developing a third elite talent.

And Li Ling's Danyang Elite fought the Chanyu's Guards plus Hunnic Elites for eight days and nights, successfully surpassing during the battle, achieving Three Talents Ultimate Danyang Elite.

If you think a mere dual talent super elite can crush the Hun Guards, what a joke, even with a restrictive reason, even if some attributes of the Dual Talent Legion surpassed the Military Spirit Legion, the shocking gap between the two, Hun Guards are not something a dual talent super elite can handle.

If dual talent super elites' awakening changed them into a Military Spirit Legion resisting death, that is the sublimation of will, then dual talent super elites transforming into an Ultimate Legion is entirely the sublimation of physique.

Each newly developed elite talent brings significant enhancement to the previous talent that has reached its limit, and the appearance of the third talent directly expands the talent of the Danyang Elite once more.

For the true Ultimate Danyang Elite, their cooperation is the combination of the White Spear Soldiers and Danyang Elite's Cooperation Talent, and their enhancement for legion command talent also integrates Cooperation Talent. For that level of the Ultimate Legion, their elite talent is no longer so clearly delineated.

This is also why Chen Dao worked so hard, and ultimately these two talents emerged; after all, back then, Li Ling's Ultimate Danyang Legion had four hundred people who forcibly fought across thousands of miles, returning to the Central Plains.

They may have lost their glory at most, but that doesn't mean they've lost their strength.

Just like the Flying Bear of yore, as long as the Flying Bear is not dead, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry will never walk down the path of a second Military Spirit Legion.

The Ultimate Danyang Legion of that year might have lost, but it wasn't really defeated. At most, the Chief General surrendered and lost the glory, but the legion still existed, it wasn't obliterated. Killing and returning four hundred men means the legacy still exists, it's just that no one knows how to restore it anymore.

This is also why the Elite of Danyang often transforms into Double Talents in battles. After all, even if they know nothing about that segment of history, their bones and blood are etched with deep traces of it. Like the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, trained in the usual way, their probability of becoming Double Talents far exceeds that of a normal legion.

For these legions, they are no longer a simple corps. They have become a complete system, one that evolves from Elites to Super Elites, and then to a Military Spirit Legion. One could say that even if they suffer a severe setback one day, they can still be trained step by step.

However, relatively speaking, the downside of this method is that it lacks creativity. Having a step-by-step rule means there's no chance for randomness, nor for miracles. Later generations, even if they inherit everything intact, basically cannot surpass the pioneers.

In any case, the currently distressed Chen Xi doesn't understand what the White Spear Soldiers trained by Chen Dao really signify.

As Chen Dao, who can create a Military Spirit Legion with Legion Talent, if he can perfectly replicate the Three Talents Ultimate Danyang of those days, then his White Spear Soldiers will be the most terrifying elites since the meteorite fell with "Ancestral Dragon's death and the division of the land" four hundred years ago.

The Three Talents Ultimate Legion is the sublimation of qualities, with fearful combat power. Even when fighting against a Military Spirit Legion, they can suppress the opponent for a short period, lacking only the characteristic of resisting death endowed by will and the Ultimate Move of Military Spirit power.

Similarly, a Military Spirit Legion's essence is the sublimation of the will. Saying that the power of Military Spirit is the Power of Will isn't wrong. In terms of physical quality, they differ from the Three Talents ultimately. To put it simply, the quality of the Three Talents under Cloud Qi is not inferior to Qi Refining to Gang.

However, the Military Spirit Legion's resistance to death and the continued accumulation of Military Spirit power is the most troublesome thing for the Three Talents Elites.

If both sides engage in a direct confrontation from the start, and if the Military Spirit Legion's amount of Military Spirit power is fairly ordinary, it's not impossible for a regular five thousand Qi Refining to Gang-qualified Three Talents Legion to defeat the Military Spirit Legion. But if the fight drags on, relying on Resistance to Death and wearing down the opponent, the Three Talents Elites will definitely fall in the end.

Overall, if you only look at the battle scenes, the Three Talents Elites are certainly more vicious. Compared to the Military Spirit Legion with explosive capabilities and Resistance to Death, the Three Talents Elites alone can brutally crush most opponents with sheer force.

And if Chen Dao indeed molds a complete version of the White Spear Elite Soldiers, fully developing its Legion Talent and directly forming a Military Spirit Legion, then the White Spear Soldiers would practically be the strongest legion ever, combining the advantages of both the Three Talents Elites and the Military Spirit Legion.

As for the duration, that's no longer important. At least during that period, unless the White Spear Soldiers face some purely idealistic legion, they are unlikely to be defeated.

Of course, Chen Xi is unaware of all this. All he sees now is that Chen Dao, after activating his Legion Talent and equipping the White Spear Elite Soldiers with Double Talents, can already engage with Hua Xiong's Divine Iron Cavalry.

Though both sides didn't exert themselves fully, in Hua Xiong's words, a Double Talent Elite with the Military Spirit is already enough to contend with a Military Spirit Legion. It's not just a casual fight but a truly ferocious type capable of drawing the opponent's blood all over their face.

Of course, Hua Xiong also feels that Chen Dao is being humorous. If not for having Back-to-Water as the second talent instead of another face-off Elite Talent, it wouldn't just be drawing blood from the opponent's face but genuinely competing. Although likely to be crushed by a Military Spirit Legion, as an elite relying purely on one-to-one strength with a 20% chance of crushing a Military Spirit Legion, it's already terrifying.

In Hua Xiong's words, Chen Dao's White Spear Soldiers, after being imbued with Chen Dao's Legion Talent, can no longer be measured as a conventional corps. Compared to a Quasi-Military Soul Legion, it is closer to a Military Spirit, with the only missing element being the ultimate move of the Military Spirit.

"Anyway, that's the situation. You can visit Uncle Shuzhi more often over there. As for Zilong, Zilong himself probably can't explain why the White Horse Soldiers are Double Talents," Chen Xi shrugged and said helplessly, highlighting the difference between a regular general and a master of training soldiers.

"I really don't know this." Seeing Chen Xi bring the topic to himself, Zhao Yun said rather helplessly, "Zijian did mention that it just happened in battle, but that's not how it was for me. I had hypothesized first, then achieved it."

"Therefore, if you wish for your trusted aide to achieve Double Talents, I virtually can't offer you any practical help here, though battles are necessary." Chen Xi said helplessly, accepting the reality that he had no alternative.

"Regarding the Double Talent Legion, I've now scouted a book from Gao Gongzheng, and one from Wen Ru, yet both plans are a bit too crude. As for the one from Uncle Shuzhi, he's still writing it, and I'm currently organizing its commonalities." Chen Xi possibly felt the difficulty too immense, unwilling to put Zhang Fei in a dilemma, so after a moment of thought, he said.