Chapter 2462: Once Upon a Time

Of course, this method also has its imperfections. For instance, if the Xiliang Iron Cavalry rebels, the Qiang Cavalry facing the Xiliang Iron Cavalry would feel like believers confronting a True God, with morale thoroughly shattered — those four words are not an exaggeration, but rather a genuine portrayal.

This is also why Li Jue was able to overturn tens of thousands of Qiang People with twenty thousand men when he departed, suffering losses in the four-digit range themselves, as the Qiang People hardly dared to engage with the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.

The power gained from fanaticism towards the opponent — how can one challenge the bestower of this power? To put it simply, wash up and go to sleep, don’t think too much; if God punishes believers, shouldn’t believers kneel and embrace divine punishment? Thunder and dew alike are blessings from heaven, nothing more.

What Hua Xiong is pondering now is why there is this effect, and why it didn’t get amplified when they transformed into the Military Spirit.

Naturally, with Hua Xiong’s intelligence, it is impossible to reason out, but that’s not important. What matters is that Hua Xiong can think of other things, such as, talent abilities can actually be faked, if we can fake one, we should be able to fake a second one.

Zhang Ji tricked the Qiang People back then, eventually everyone believed, and then we genuinely possessed this ability. Does this mean now as long as I deceive everyone, we can also have other talent abilities?

Let me think, what ability does the Divine Iron Cavalry lack?

Decided, it’s this — the ability to pierce through all obstacles ahead!

Apparently, this effect was once possessed by the Iron Cavalry, but no matter, it’s this one!

Hua Xiong eagerly mounted his horse, ready to convince his Divine Iron Cavalry — no, it’s not deception; it’s to make them faithfully believe, and turn belief into reality!

But what Hua Xiong doesn’t know is that his approach is entirely meaningless.

Back in Liangzhou during Dong Zhuo’s time, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was the real non-compliant product, firmly a Three Talents Super Elite in quality, but limited by cognition to only possess two talents.

Precisely because the previous Iron Cavalry was fully that kind of non-compliant, exceeding standard product, did Li Youu’s mere words bestow the miraculous Military Spirit upon them back then.

The logic goes like this: not because of Li Youu did the miracle exist, but because it had already reached the level, the subsequent results naturally followed — Li Youu was merely the trigger!

Similarly, due to possessing this quality, the strange effect of faith being true existed.

Accurately speaking, the state of the Iron Cavalry back then was entirely constrained by their minds, their vision, unable to comprehend the third talent, but because of their strong will, disposition, and quality, even without understanding the third talent, they could forcibly fabricate it.

Regardless, being so strong, logic is not needed, just like now with Lyu Bu, strong is simply strong, without reason, any problem solving naturally if you’re strong enough.

Without comprehending or recognizing, then I’ll forcibly create one — even though the latter is much harder to awaken normally for the third talent, no problem, strong enough to fabricate it is enough.

This also explains why back then, the Iron Cavalry’s attributes were often altered, seeming very bizarre; they fabricated several effects of the third talent based on different combat scenarios.

For instance, “Anyone directly confronting us will definitely be pierced through,” an effect unfettered by logic or reason.

Moreover, “On the plains, it doesn’t matter who you are; whoever fights us gets killed,” this non-compliant effect.

Additionally, “I don’t care who you are, how many people, if I decide to chop you today, I certainly will,” a completely overpowered effect akin to cheating.

And now stabilized, “Cavalry following me receive an incomprehensible blessing,” this effect.

Indeed, before Dong Zhuo’s downfall, the Iron Cavalry was truly non-compliant, fabricating the third talent barehanded, and casually creating it according to situations.

If it weren’t for Dong Zhuo’s subsequent downfall, along with the Iron Cavalry’s decline, with the way the Iron Cavalry fabricated talents, the likelihood of forcibly creating the first three is extremely high!

After Dong Zhuo’s fall, the Iron Cavalry also declined significantly during Dong Zhuo’s downfall, both in will and disposition, basically regressing from being capable of handling non-human engagements to the peak of humanity.

The former ability of resetting the third talent effect whenever needed on the battlefield also ceased as the will and disposition significantly declined.

Yet fundamentally, it still remains, possessing the essence of belief being truth; otherwise, it might not be possible to recreate the third talent.

Thus, for the Divine Iron Cavalry that has nearly exhausted its potential now, it is no longer possible to create new talents under the Military Spirit. After all, it is no longer the era when the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was undefeated, limited by cognition.

To be realistic, the moment Dong Zhuo fell also meant the collapse of legend, and the invincibility of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was shattered.

Although today’s Iron Cavalry Headquarters has inherited its former quality, there is ultimately some gap between their will and the past, which is a collective gap and the most essential gap.

From an essential perspective, the Third Talent has a subjective aspect, whether it’s the Back-to-Water of Ultimate Danyang, or the invincibility of the Trajan Legion, both have a subjective aspect. The strength of the Three Talents Legion is essentially the manifestation of its will.

I believe that in this battle, if I don’t win, then I shall die. Even if the opponent is a Military Spirit Legion leading tens of thousands of elite troops, I can stop them; this is the Third Talent of Ultimate Danyang’s Back-to-Water.

I believe this battle must be won; even if the opponent is a Parthia’s Military Spirit Legion, and even if my talent is worn down by two super elite, I can still destroy them. This is the invincibility of the Trajan Legion.

If the Military Spirit Legion turns will into resistance to death or other miracles, then the Three Talents Legion integrates will into its talents, turning it into the power itself.

Of course, this is the first way to achieve the Three Talents, the second way is represented by the current Xiliang Iron Cavalry under the command of Li Jue and the White Horse Soldiers once led by the late Gongsun Zan, as well as the Soldier Drilling Technique of Juo Yi currently used by Gao Lan.

As for the third way, it is a completely illegal method. The former Xiliang Iron Cavalry was considered an illegal operation, to put it simply, it was so powerful that it transcended normal descriptions of talent, powerful enough to directly create results, naming them was left to others.

Therefore, compared to the first and second ways, the latter is basically not considered.

The second method does not require cognition, it is more like mastery. However, the super heavy infantry training method left by Juo Yi is slightly different from the other two, but that does not matter.

The second way is called Two Sides of the Same Coin, its essence lies in perfecting the elite talents of one’s legion, but if truly discussed, it is an extremely difficult thing as well.

Gongsun Zan once fought the Hu People, who always fled when defeated, and once the Hu People spread out, Gongsun Zan couldn’t catch them all. Therefore, he desperately wanted extreme speed and eventually developed the first talent called Divine Speed Talent.

It’s a kind of maddening speed on a straight line, so fast that even the White Horse as light cavalry couldn’t handle it, so fast that accelerating to the limit might cause even the White Horse as light cavalry to break its neck due to inertia while turning.

After gaining the Wind Rider Talent, Gongsun’s White Horse Soldiers could barely perform some light cavalry techniques. However, such techniques somewhat limited the speed of the White Horse.

Having felt the speed like the wind-chasing White Horse, it was impossible to tolerate deceleration anymore. Naturally, the second talent became Gongsun Zan’s obsession, but by that time on the grassland, he had started a massacre where the Hu People visible on the map couldn’t escape his chase!

Incidentally, at that time, Gongsun’s White Horse was more than half as fast as Zhao Yun’s White Horse now. To put it simply, even if Zhao Yun’s White Horse appeared on the horizon and attempted to flee in a straight line at full speed, Gongsun’s White Horse would catch up in about five minutes. Yes, it was that fast.

But being too fast also became Gongsun Zan’s obsession. First, all light cavalry techniques were abolished, human reaction speeds couldn’t keep up, and conventional tactics were basically useless.

Once he had cut down the Northern Barbarians enough that they dared not appear under Gongsun Zan’s eyes, he finally had time to reorganize the White Horse Soldiers.

Of course, Gongsun Zan had no scruples at that time. As light cavalry created by him from scratch, the core of the White Horse Soldiers was to fulfill his inner thoughts.

Thus, as light cavalry, they not only had to be fast but also agile; what’s the use of running fast if you can’t even play the normal cavalry techniques? It’s a disgrace, so later Gongsun Zan started forcibly crafting talents, molding agility out of Divine Speed; this is agility…

Molding Wind Repelling out of Wind Rider; this is surrounding control.

Regarding Zhao Yun’s White Horse, the talents are agility and wind repelling. However, Zhao Yun’s agility talent stems from his own cognition, unlike Gongsun Zan’s, which first achieved Divine Speed and then diverted to agility, forming this outward manifestation of agility. Although it is a system of talents, there is a significant difference between the two.

Gongsun’s agility talent is an external manifestation, but not the essence; whereas Zhao Yun’s agility talent is essentially agility, this is the biggest difference between the White Horse Soldiers of both.

As for Gongsun Zan, after solving the dual talent issue, the last talent he desired was Moving with the Will. Of course, the battle of Jieqiao was the last opportunity for the awakening of this third talent of the White Horse Soldiers. Winning against the Vanguard, the White Horse Soldiers would awaken.

This talent has no meaning to most legions, but for the White Horse Soldiers who completed the first two talents, once awakened, they would face no restraint.

Matching the hundred meters per second of the White Horse with reactions sufficient to wield this speed, they can parry the rain of arrows with their curved sabres; in such high speed still able to perform techniques, close combat poses no problem for them.

The kind of extreme reaction allows them to parry all enemy attacks in close combat with weapons; thus, this third talent can also be termed as Zero-Time Dodge, Zero-Time Block.