but in order to avoid arousing suspicion, both Song Jia and Ouyang Shuo consciously avoided the topic.
suspicion of what? that they have brains? Makes sense!
They are acting as if this was the real world and not an online game... Imagine if you go to an interview and say: I am a dark elf mage lv 120 in WoW but I had never had a job and didn't finish pre-school. And the interviewer says: forget the rest... a dark elf mage lv 120 you say? you are hired!
It's good that he's trying to train his army better. Now the only thing the military is missing is cultivation methods. He brought in the better aspects of modern society, but the important thing in the old society (in this novel) is cultivation methods. Combining the two would make an op army
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