“Body-tempering martial arts already damage the body. For the past three years, you haven’t had good resources to replenish yourself, and instead you accumulated a body full of hidden injuries during hunting.”
“With your current condition, those hidden injuries will erupt within a year at most, and you’ll die from the exhaustion of your qi and blood.”
“That palm strike just now shattered your old, deep-seated ailments. Combined with this low-tier healing potion, it’ll be enough to completely cure your hidden injuries from the root.”
Zhou Ming took out a vial of low-tier potion and signaled Lin Hai to help feed it to him.
As soon as the potion entered his mouth, Qiu Tieyi immediately felt as if every cell in his body had come alive, no longer carrying that dead, stagnant sensation he used to feel.
With the help of the low-tier potion, Qiu Tieyi was barely able to stand up.
“Thank you, my lord.”
“Don’t be happy too soon. A low-tier healing potion is worth seven to eight hundred thousand. If your performance is poor, I’ll use your body to repay my losses.”
When everyone present heard this, a chill immediately rose in their hearts. They naturally understood what Zhou Ming meant.
If Qiu Tieyi’s value couldn’t compensate for the low-tier healing potion, then he would become an experimental subject.
“Please rest assured, my lord. If I don’t perform well enough, I’ll submit to any punishment you see fit.”
Originally, he had only a year left to live. Now that he had a chance to live longer, Qiu Tieyi didn’t find Zhou Ming’s words unreasonable.
After three years of Wildfolk life, he had gained a clearer understanding of this world. If he had been a Beast Tamer back then, the crime he committed wouldn’t even have been enough to warrant exile.
“Good that you understand. Here’s a copy of Mad Python Martial Way. It contains my detailed martial insights. I want you to master it as soon as possible and then start teaching the others.”
Cultivating Beast Tamers was too slow. Zhou Ming planned to cultivate a group of assassins and gunfighters through martial arts instead.
In the early stage, Qiu Tieyi and the others would first enhance their strength through martial arts. Later on, Zhou Ming planned for them to practice the Beast King Body.
By practicing gene martial arts using Ironthread Snake blood, Zhou Ming could not only help them suppress the flaws of gene martial arts, but also use the power of bloodlines to ensure the loyalty of his subordinates.
He could even carry out subsequent bloodline fusion experiments on them. This would both increase the strength of his subordinates and help him obtain more experimental data.
This was precisely why Zhou Ming was willing to expend a low-tier healing potion to save Qiu Tieyi.
Afterward, Lin Hai continued introducing the remaining people.
Once he had understood the camp’s “elite” combat strength, Zhou Ming issued some simple instructions.
With the Li brothers and Qiu Tieyi as the core, a Training Department would be established. It would mainly teach firearms skills, martial arts, various tactical maneuvers, wilderness survival, emergency treatment, and other skills within the camp.
Everyone else would be assigned to the External Affairs Department. Stronger camp members would be selected to form three external-duty squads, each with thirty people.
One squad would go out hunting to gather resources, one would be responsible for camp security, and one would rest while learning martial arts and shooting.
After roughly setting up the system, Zhou Ming became a hands-off leader and directly went to the underground lake for secluded cultivation.