"Uncle Three must be careful. If the medicinal stores in our manor do not have the necessary ingredients ready, then when going out to purchase medicine, do not send just one person. It is best to dispatch several people, with each person responsible for one specific herb. Furthermore, absolutely no one must know the ultimate purpose of buying these medicines! While others might not know what these specific herbs can create when combined, we must guard against the unexpected! Even after all the necessary drugs have been procured, they must be thoroughly inspected by me before being compounded into the finished medicine!" Jun Xie stated slowly.

"At this moment, our Jun family is in decline, fading into obscurity day by day. But if Uncle Three can recover, the situation for our Jun family will certainly be vastly different! I believe there are countless individuals in the capital who wish for Uncle Three to never rise again, so this matter must be handled with the utmost caution! As long as Uncle Three stands tall, he will be our Jun family's secret trump card! Uncle Three, you must understand my meaning?"

"Indeed!" Jun Wu Yi looked at his nephew with deep satisfaction. "Mo Xie, you have truly grown up! Even if Uncle Three never has a chance to stand again, as long as you are here for the Jun family, I believe the family will not collapse!" Jun Wu Yi naturally understood these principles, but the fact that Jun Xie could articulate them, and with such thorough consideration, even planning for the path ahead—this was what brought Jun Wu Yi the greatest joy!

Jun Xie let out a somewhat dry chuckle and turned his head. To be praised with such satisfaction by someone now, after being the world's foremost assassin in his previous life... it felt utterly humiliating!

Jun Xie found it somewhat difficult to bear such praise... He couldn't help but think: Thankfully, he praised 'Mo Xie, you have grown up.' If he had actually said, 'Jun Xie, you have grown up'... just where would I hide my face then?

If someone from his past life knew that someone had spoken to the 'Evil Lord' (Xie Jun) in this manner, would they choke on their own spit on the spot?

"Mo Xie, look at how our guards are training?" Listening to the guttural roars echoing from a distance, watching the strong bodies sweat profusely, Jun Wu Yi felt a long-lost restlessness stirring within him.

"It's nothing more than flashy posturing!" Jun Xie, lost in his reverie, replied without hesitation, his tone thick with undisguised disdain.

"Flashy posturing?" Jun Wu Yi shook his head and chuckled. "You say the training of these guards, each possessing the cultivation of a Seventh or Eighth Grade Xuan Qi level, is merely flashy posturing? Mo Xie, your words carry significant weight."

"Can this even be called training? What effect can it possibly achieve?!" Jun Xie curled his lip. "At best, this is just exercise. How can it be called training! At most, it’s a group of bored individuals working out to build physique, and even the effectiveness of that physique building is poor. I absolutely cannot see how anything they train here will be of much use on the battlefield, nor what effective damage it could inflict upon an enemy when facing one! In my eyes, they are no different from a group marching willingly to their deaths! They are simply a crowd, with nothing to do, wasting time and effort pointlessly—that's all!"

"Marching to their deaths? Wasting time pointlessly?" Jun Wu Yi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and barked, "Mo Xie, I know you dislike martial arts and do not grasp the importance of this foundational training, but you cannot belittle them like this! Ignorance is not a fault, but insulting these soldiers with your own ignorance is unforgivable! Every one of these guards is an elite warrior who survived countless battles. Now, with no war ongoing, they have come to the Jun family to serve as guards! Every single one is a reputable man! I will treat your previous words as a casual joke, but if you dare insult them again, do not blame me for being impolite! This is absolutely not a joke!"

As Jun Wu Yi finished, a chilling intent arose. Even with Jun Xie’s composed temperament, he was shaken. His Third Uncle, though physically crippled, his spirit remained unbroken. Once recovered, he would undoubtedly be qualified to serve as Jun Xie’s best cover!

"A joke?! What Uncle Three heard might not be pleasing, but what I said just now is absolutely the truth, and it is not a joke either!!" Jun Xie spread his hands in feigned innocence. "I am not saying they are useless, nor do I mean to insult them in the slightest. Every battle-hardened man returning from the battlefield deserves respect; their training is indeed arduous and conscientious, which anyone can see; but diligence and effort in training do not guarantee victory on the battlefield! It is commonplace for people who train diligently and meticulously for years to still meet their demise on the battlefield. The reason I say they are wasting time pointlessly is purely because they are training in the wrong direction!"

"Training in the wrong direction?" Jun Wu Yi's face still held anger, but he was beginning to ponder. Since that previous moment, his nephew had become vastly different from before, always hitting the mark with his words, never speaking without substance. Could it be...

"Take the current scene as an example. Look at those two sparring, Uncle Three. Can you tell if they are playing or genuinely engaging in combat? They are holding back at every move, even managing to smile while doing it—haha! Can this be called training? Even ordinary sparring isn't this childish; it's simply combat for sport! Isn't that flashy posturing?" Jun Xie pointed: "Look over there, several men are lifting heavy logs. They are covered in sweat as they put them down. They look strained, right? But in reality, it’s useless. They haven't reached the limit of what they can bear! They already possess considerable strength, and when they start sweating, they still have plenty of reserves left, yet they put the logs down; meaning, even if they train like this for another ten years, their strength won't improve in the slightest. The only result is that they become slightly more practiced in a few movements, nothing more. However, the potential they inherently possess, which could still be developed, is completely wasted. Isn't that wasting time pointlessly?!"

"It is pure luck that people like this survive on the battlefield! As for being called brave warriors or treated as heroes, that is merely an unexpected bonus!" Jun Xie looked ruthlessly at the men in the distance. "This kind of material, at best, is only suitable for guarding the premises of common households. For any greater purpose, they are utterly useless! Uncle Three, listen carefully, am I insulting them?!"

What Jun Xie said was undeniably harsh, yet Jun Wu Yi was surprisingly not enraged, instead falling into deep contemplation.

Jun Xie chuckled sinisterly: "If Grandfather truly intended to rely on these people to protect the Jun family, then the Jun family would have already been annihilated hundreds or thousands of times over! Therefore, I deduce that Grandfather must possess a more elite force. Those people are the true strength of the Jun family! Although I haven't seen them, I am certain they exist! As for the people here now, they are merely meant as a smokescreen. Uncle Three, don't tell me that you hold these decoy members in too high regard?"

At this moment, the look in Jun Wu Yi's eyes when gazing at Jun Xie was strange. After a long pause, he slowly said, "If all these people were handed to you for training, what then? Could you train them into any remarkable strength!?"

"Hand them over to me for training? I don't have the inclination for that!" Jun Xie pursed his lips. "Smelling the stench of sweat from these men every day would suffocate me! The scent of the army is definitely not equal to the stench of sweat! The soul of a soldier is not shouted into existence, but forged through slaughter!"

"Push me over," Jun Wu Yi grunted, deep in thought, a determined expression hardening his well-defined face. "Jun Mo Xie, show me your real capability!"