I became the God Brother of the Regent King after Transmigration!-Chapter 111 - 84: The Benevolent Are Free From Worry (Part 2)

Chen Da’s face changed, and with a "thud," he knelt on the ground.

He panted heavily and begged for forgiveness: "Young Master Gu, I have lost, I am wrong! I have been blind!"

Gu Lan curled his lips and asked again, "Are you kowtowing to me?"

Chen Da felt as if he was locked by a cold and merciless gaze. Under that look, he had no doubt Young Master Gu would stab him to death without hesitation.

He was puzzled why Gu Lan, who was supposedly a good-for-nothing young man from the imperial city, could have such a terrifying gaze.

"Third Brother, I was wrong. I shouldn’t have spoken disrespectfully to you and the Xiao Family Army..." Chen Da trembled as he knelt on the ground, dragging his knees across the ground, inching toward Zhang San.

Only then did Gu Lan calmly look away.

Rong Shuo shook his head, disappointedly saying, "You are soldiers of the same camp, bound by camaraderie, once fighting side by side. If you are so heartless today, I wonder in the future if there will be any brothers willing to entrust their backs to each other."

Chen Da trembled all over, not daring to speak.

Immediately, Rong Shuo looked at Rong Heng with a complex expression, wanting to say something but not knowing how to start.

"I never imagined you, Fifth Young Master Rong, would be so formidable, passing the military formation with such ease." Zhang San’s words broke the silence, and beside him, a few comrades from the Xiao Family Army also looked at Rong Heng excitedly.

Rong Shuo heard these people praising his fifth brother and couldn’t help but soften his tiger eyes and ask, "Do you know who designed and invented this training ground’s obstacles?"

Rong Heng’s expression returned to indifference as if everything was unrelated to him, but upon hearing Rong Shuo’s words, a flicker of darkness passed his eyes.

"Wasn’t it you, Prince?"

"Yes, every blade of grass and tree in this camp was built three months ago after the Prince returned to the capital, copying from the training ground in Yinzhou."

"Besides the Prince, who else could design such a dreadful training ground for us to train?"

Rong Shuo shook his head: "I only replaced the injurious swords with wooden swords and knives during the construction. The real obstacles on the training ground were invented by the young Pingnan Marquis years ago and improved by the Princely Heir Xiao Lie and the former Emperor’s Fifth Prince, Rong Heng, personally a dozen years ago."

"And back then, Rong Heng was only five years old." As Rong Shuo spoke, pride tinged his voice.

He recalled being led by Xiao Lie to observe the Xiao Family’s soldiers on the training ground, and his little fifth brother, then, was fiddling with the blueprints beside him, explaining the training ground’s layout in great detail.

Over the past decade, despite no one to teach him, his fifth brother remains exceptionally intelligent.

He dared not imagine if nothing had happened to the Xiao Family and the fifth brother grew up under the guidance of his few elder brothers, what a remarkable figure he might be today.

The soldiers listened to Rong Shuo’s words, shocked, and looked at Rong Heng.

It’s hard to believe this fearsome yet proud training ground was invented by the Xiao Family members, and the Fifth Young Master Rong had improved it?

Rong Heng’s voice was cool and steady: "The mechanisms I designed back then weren’t meant for ordinary soldiers to train, so they did not seek to preserve life, only strength, violating natural harmony. It was the Prince who improved it to allow its widespread use."

Gu Lan listened to the two brothers exchanging compliments, suddenly understanding: "Brother Hang, was it you who designed this when you were five?"

"It was an improvement."

At that time, he was young and without notions of life and death, casually uttering words that garnered countless praises.

Back then, Xiao Lie was selecting Death Warriors and Hidden Guards for the Xiao Family, intending to upgrade the training ground. He simply let Rong Heng glance at the blueprints, who then designed several extremely brutal mechanisms and obstacles.

When the old Pingnan Marquis saw them, he was initially astounded by his grandson’s imaginative designs but then became serious, stating that some mechanisms violated harmony, lacking benevolence and righteousness. No matter how ingenious, the Xiao Family would not adapt them.

The old Marquis also said that some things aren’t right just because intelligent people do them. One needed not to be intelligent but to be benevolent.

Back then, Rong Heng didn’t understand. He believed he was very intelligent, so the old Marquis’s words must have been problematic.

Later, the Pingnan Marquis, who taught him that benevolence triumphs, died, seemingly proving that being benevolent was useless.

It wasn’t until now that Rong Heng grasped the meaning of the Pingnan Marquis’s words.

Had the old Marquis truly adopted his mechanisms and obstacles back then, both he and Gu Lan would have been injured just now.

Rong Shuo improved the mechanisms, reducing lethality while equally challenging soldiers, allowing this training to become widespread in the army, keeping them safe—this was benevolence.

"Thank you, Prince, for protecting the flag of the Xiao Family Army all these years." Rong Heng said, his gaze drifting to the flag flying in the sunset.