Chapter 222 The Jinyiwei Are All Sinners!
“You don’t need to memorize it. You already understand everything written in it.”
For Cheng Yu, it was a good thing that the Jinyiwei under him were so eager to improve.
However, there was no need to pursue improvement in every single area.
He had the Jinyiwei of the Great Qian Capital memorize the rules and regulations in order to shape their spiritual qualities as Jinyiwei.
As for the Jinyiwei from Jiannan Circuit, those were things that did not need to be emphasized.
The moment they heard that they did not need to memorize it, the Jiangnan Jinyiwei revealed a trace of melancholy on their faces. They felt as if they had missed Lord Cheng’s teachings, and their hearts were somewhat saddened.
Clearly, they had come first!
They had followed behind Lord Cheng and swept through the Jianghu, raiding households and exterminating families!
As martial artists advanced in Martial Realm, their mental power and willpower would also improve.
The Jinyiwei already had a foundation of basic knowledge, so they memorized the booklets Cheng Yu had given them very quickly.
Xiao Qi, in particular, had already memorized most of it before long, and he looked toward Cheng Yu with great enthusiasm.
“Reporting to Lord Cheng, I’ve finished memorizing it!”
Although the others were also reciting aloud at this moment, they had not put their full hearts into it and had not memorized much.
The moment they heard that someone had finished, their hearts immediately grew tense.
That fellow Xiao Qi!
Was he going to surpass them at every step?
They hurriedly focused all their energy and began memorizing frantically. Very soon, they had memorized the Jinyiwei regulations until they knew them by heart.
Then they raised their heads and looked at Cheng Yu with burning eyes.
They had finished memorizing it!
What was the next step?
Seeing that everyone was so proactive and enthusiastic, Cheng Yu nodded in satisfaction. “Very good. You’ve all done well. Now, I’ll check how well you actually memorized it.”
He casually reached out and pointed at one fortunate Jinyiwei.
This person had already memorized it fluently, and he was full of confidence at this moment, waiting for Cheng Yu to test him.
“You. Answer me. What did you understand from this book of rules and regulations?”
“Huh?”
The Jinyiwei who had been picked out by Cheng Yu was instantly dumbfounded.
After memorizing a book, was he not supposed to be asked to recite from memory? Why had this turned into reading comprehension?
“This, this...”
The Jinyiwei’s face flushed red. Just now, all his attention had been on frantically memorizing the contents. He had not had the energy to think at all.
He did have some vague thoughts in his heart, but they were all too shallow. For a moment, he could not answer the question.
Seeing this, Cheng Yu shook his head in disappointment.
“This is precisely why I need to train you people. Many things may look like they have been done, but you have not grasped the key point at all.”
This was exactly how they served as Jinyiwei.
They only knew how to complete tasks on schedule every day, then drift along and wait for death. They did not exercise any initiative at all.
A team like this...
How could it establish achievements for Great Qian and provide Cheng Yu with an endless stream of rewards?
Hearing Cheng Yu’s evaluation, the expressions of the Jinyiwei immediately became rather strange.
Most of them had barely forced themselves to finish memorizing the contents and had no thoughts at all.
Cheng Yu had inexplicably told them to memorize a book, and after they finished memorizing it, he even asked them a reading-comprehension question.
They could not answer it.
Then he turned around and looked down on them for lacking ability.
No matter how they looked at it, this had nothing to do with training the Jinyiwei at all!
They increasingly felt that Cheng Yu was merely playing tricks and putting on an act. Their hearts immediately grew somewhat resentful.
“Is there anyone else who wants to answer this question?”
Cheng Yu’s question rang out once more. While everyone hesitated, the most ambitious Xiao Qi immediately stepped forward.
“Reporting to Lord Cheng, I have some thoughts!”
“Oh?” Cheng Yu had not expected that this grandson of Duke Zhongyi not only changed faces and knelt smoothly so quickly, but was also so proactive in doing things.
Perhaps he really was a talent.
“Tell me, then.”
Xiao Qi confidently clasped his hands behind his back and answered loudly:
“After reading these regulations from four hundred years ago, my greatest thought is this: apart from Lord Cheng, everyone in the entire Command Office is unworthy of the five words ‘Great Qian Jinyiwei’!”
The moment he opened his mouth, he fired a sweeping shot at everyone, even including himself, yet his face did not redden and his heart did not skip a beat.
The other Jinyiwei were instantly stunned when they heard this, then grew angry.
What nonsense was Xiao Qi spouting? He was actually slandering everyone!
A small number of people with sharper eyes, however, clicked their tongues in wonder.
“What Xiao Qi said is flattery toward Lord Cheng. He really is a talent!”
Xiao Qi ignored these people and continued:
“At its peak, the Jinyiwei easily crushed all under heaven. The Jianghu bowed its head in submission. They were a powerful force that made the entire world tremble in fear! What they valued most was precisely that tyrannical aura!”
“But now, the entire Jinyiwei, from top to bottom, is lifeless. When outsiders insult us as Imperial Hounds, we turn a blind eye. Instead, we exhaust all our thoughts on internal strife and infighting. We have nothing to do with the word ‘tyrannical’ at all.”
“If we followed the rules from that era, then all of us would be sinners who have ruined the Jinyiwei’s reputation!”
Hearing this, the other Jinyiwei felt their hearts tremble. Their original dissatisfaction immediately turned into embarrassment.
One after another, they lowered their heads.
The first page of the rules and regulations Cheng Yu had required them to memorize had a large line written on it—the prestige of the Jinyiwei must not be humiliated!
This rule.
One could put it this way: among all the Jinyiwei in the entire Great Qian, almost no one had achieved it.
Except for the Jiangnan Jinyiwei under Cheng Yu’s leadership.
If these people stood before the Jinyiwei of several hundred years ago, they would all be disgraceful and useless descendants.
“That understanding is quite good.”
Cheng Yu had not expected Xiao Qi to be rather thoughtful. What he had said satisfied him quite a bit.
The Jinyiwei of the Great Qian Capital, and even the entire Great Qian Jinyiwei, did not actually lack Martial Dao standards or Internal Energy training.
The real problem lay in their qualities as Jinyiwei.
If he wanted to change that, he had to start from their hearts.
Hearing Cheng Yu’s praise, Xiao Qi proudly raised his head.
He had merely chosen to slack off before. If he did not want to slack off, he could also do very well!
“Since you answered so well, I must reward you a little...”
Xiao Qi grew even more delighted, and he was filled with anticipation toward Cheng Yu’s reward.
“Then I will reward you with... standing in dead stance once. You are not allowed to fail!”
Dead stance!
The joy in Xiao Qi’s heart instantly vanished. Had Lord Cheng not promised a reward? Why was he making him stand in dead stance?
In Martial Dao cultivation, dead stance was an extremely harsh training method.
One had to disperse the support of Internal Energy and rely purely on willpower and the body to cultivate stance work. If one’s stance broke and ended early, the dead stance would be considered a failure.
Only by standing stubbornly until one lost consciousness and fainted, or even died, could it be considered a successful dead stance.
As a result, no small number of people had suffered severe injuries from it.
Even those hard-body lunatics rarely touched this thing, yet Cheng Yu was actually using this as a reward?
Xiao Qi had thought he could gain Cheng Yu’s appreciation and happily cling to his thigh.
He had not expected things to unfold like this!
He said hesitantly, “Lord Cheng, this...”
Cheng Yu raised an eyebrow. “I said from the very beginning that the content of the first training session is obeying orders! Did you hear me? If you’re afraid something will go wrong from standing it, I’ll invite a Divine Physician to heal you.”
Xiao Qi stretched his neck and stared blankly. In the end, he gritted his teeth.
Forget it. He would stop caring!
He immediately began standing in dead stance on the spot.
Seeing this, the others instantly revealed mocking smiles. They had told Xiao Qi to be so enthusiastic and make himself the one who stood out. Now look at him!
This Cheng Yu was no good person!
However, before they could laugh for long, a mysterious smile appeared on Cheng Yu’s face again.
“Are you all very idle? You even have time to observe others. You couldn’t answer the question just now, so I’ll punish you. All of you, stand in dead stance too!”
The Jinyiwei instantly widened their eyes. How was the reward dead stance, and the punishment dead stance too?
Yet they did not dare violate the order. Forced by helplessness, one after another, they all began dead-stance training.
Only Cheng Yu’s old subordinates nodded in satisfaction.
This was the flavor!
This was Lord Cheng’s training style. Do not ask about the future. Just train!