After Mianlu City began to be attacked, within the next year, it encountered several crises one after another, but they were all resolved with the joint efforts of Zhu Zonghu and many Xuanxiu cultivators.
A year later, the garrison sent a team of people to garrison near the fief.
Although the number of the garrison is not large, and the symbolic meaning is more than the actual, these people represent the will of King Xi after all, and have a certain deterrence. This has indeed made Mianlu City a lot more stable, although it still encounters attacks from time to time.
, but Zhu Zonghu was finally able to devote most of his energy to internal construction.
Amidst the many disturbances, time continued to pass, and more than twenty years passed in the blink of an eye.
The Mianlu Territory has changed a lot. The scale of the city has been expanded three times. Hao Clan-style creation ring halls have been built in the city, and it has its own creation weapons factory. It no longer has to rely on others, and the entire city protects
The Chengdu Formation was finally completed three years ago.
In fact, cities with both a creation defense system and a large protection formation are actually rare on the earth. In terms of creation, it is okay to say that the main difficulty lies in the monks. Such a large formation cannot be found just by finding a few monks.
Most of the methods that can be built are in the hands of large sects, and a large number of monks who understand the methods need to participate in the construction.
But Mianlu City is different. There are now more than 35,000 Xuan cultivators gathered here, and several of them are Xuan Zun who have transferred from Zhenfa to Hunzhang.
The method they used was based on the Tianxia Formation and was improved to fit the principles of this world. It can be said that, except for the lack of upper-level force to guard it, the formation is fundamentally no less inferior to the Shanmen Formation of some sects.
In the past twenty years, Chapter 4 monks have gradually recovered their cultivation level. After all, it is a path they have walked before. Now that they have walked it again, and with the help of the Heaven Training Dao Zhang, their progress will be faster than before.
Much more.
But it is not easy to go up higher. The level of Xuanzun is not so easy to break through, but most people are full of confidence.
Even though the Taoism in this world is different and we cannot completely copy all of Tianxia's Taoism methods, we still have the opportunity to do it again, and having the experience of going to the upper level in the past is completely different from having never been there.
As the reputation of "Heavenly Man" spread, all parties also knew that the development of Zhu Zonghu's fiefdom to its current level was mostly dependent on the help of "Heavenly Man".
Some clan members of the Hao clan were interested in hearing about the affairs of heaven and humans. Some of them were more open-minded and tried to send people to recruit them. However, with the precedent of Zhu Zonghu, those Xuanxiu disciples all had one condition.
, if you want to recruit them, you must first sign a reciprocal covenant.
This is naturally impossible. In the eyes of those Hao clan clan members, I recruited you to give you an opportunity, but you actually dare to negotiate terms with me? Therefore, this matter will not be settled in the end. On the contrary, it will make more Xuan
Xiu gathered at Mianlu.
In these years, Mianlu was not the only place that prospered due to the arrival of Xuanxiu. Apart from Mianlu, the place with the largest population gathering was the mountain plain where Ban Lan was located.
This place was originally a village with more than a hundred households, but now it has become an area with a population of nearly one million. It has also built its own manufacturing factories, but these factories are deep underground and not well known.
There are more than five thousand Xuanxiu disciples here, but it is in a remote place, far away from the disputes in the center of the earth, so the Xuanxiu here do not attract as much attention as the Xuanxiu in Mianlu City.
Relying on the Xuntian Daozhang, all Xuanxiu disciples had a tacit understanding to hide this place. In fact, they regarded this place as their own retreat when necessary. In case there was any problem in the Mianlu City area, it would be difficult to maintain it.
, then you can retreat here to regroup and plan later.
While tens of thousands of Xuan Xiu in the world are quietly accumulating their own strength, the disputes on the earth and the mainland are still continuing.
In the Guangdu Ring Hall, King Xi was looking at the Hao Clan territory map flashing on the light screen with his hands behind his hands, which was shrouded in three colors of red, blue and yellow.
The red side occupies a large area in the southwest and west. It is the area occupied by him and his clan allies, and it is also the largest piece of it.
The yellow light glowing in the center represents the current jurisdiction of the Elders, which includes the most elite city of Yangdu in the Central Region.
The narrow strip of land in the north and a large area in the northeast are all shrouded in blue light, which is where the power of Lie Wang lies.
The pro-allies led by King Xi have the largest population and city area. For more than 20 years, he has continuously attacked the jurisdiction of the Elders and tried to uproot and reduce the city areas outside the central region one by one. However, the progress has been very slow.
slow.
Although the Elder Group seems to be the smallest in area, it has the most upper-level power, which is very difficult to deal with. Moreover, there is also Lie Wang who comes out to help from time to time, so they are always unable to exert their full power.
But the biggest problem here in King Xi still comes from within. Even if you go through all the trouble to win a city, because the cost of siege is often several times that, the gains cannot make up for the losses.
But even so, he still has to try to take care of the Hao clan members who follow him. There is always a conflict of uneven distribution of interests among this generation. In order to maintain the overall consistency, he has always had to divide some of his own interests.
To satisfy the appetite of this generation.
He looked at the map for a long time, then turned around and looked down. In the ring hall, his clan members and dignitaries who held important positions under his command, as well as several of his important counselors were all here.
He slowly said: "My dear ministers, our army is making slow progress now. If we continue fighting like this, there will be no results for a hundred years. Although I will not back down, and I firmly believe that we will win, but really
The fight will last for a hundred years, regardless of victory or defeat, the blood of our Hao clan will inevitably be drained."
Mr. Chen thought for a while, stood up and saluted, and said: "Your Highness, we still have to wait. Our territory and population are better than those of the other side. As long as we build enough upper-level power, it will not be difficult to overwhelm the other side."
King Xi waved his hand and said: "I have heard this sentence many times, there is no need to say it again."
He looked at everyone, "Although my clan alliance has a large population and a vast territory, they all have different ideas. Everyone wants to preserve themselves and cannot move to one place. The Central Region has always been the essence of our Hao clan.
The number of creation factories is about the same as mine, and their skills are even higher. The group of elders even holds the 'Zhenji' and 'Yingyao' factories. If we continue to fight, it will only make things easier for King Lie and the various sects outside the world.
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Mr. Chen thought for a while and said: "Your Highness is unwilling to fight hard, so the only way is to weaken the opponent. I have a method here."
King Xi said: "Mr. Chen, please speak."
Mr. Chen said: "Your Highness, do you still remember the heavenly being who assisted Zhu Zonghu?"
King Xi said: "Heaven?" He nodded, "I certainly remember."
Over the years, he has been receiving some news about heavenly beings here. Although those heavenly beings show great potential, in his opinion, their power is too weak.
In his understanding, there will be no success without the upper-level power, but Zhu Zonghu's situation of relying on heaven and man is too small. How could he entrust his foundation to him in the future? Although he had no such intention in the beginning
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Mr. Chen said: "Your Highness, have you ever remembered that these heavenly beings can use the poison? Those cities that can withstand the army may not be able to withstand the poison..."
Before he finished speaking, someone immediately objected: "This strategy is inappropriate! The land contaminated by the poison is completely dead, and it is useless for us to occupy it. Besides, the poison will cause endless harm, and the other poisons may not be able to cure it for hundreds of thousands of years."
Smoothing, must not be used lightly!"
Someone echoed, looking filled with righteous indignation, and said: "Yes, the Central Region is full of people from the Hao tribe. How can we, our fellow tribesmen, do such a cruel thing? Just to gain temporary benefits, it also corrupts His Highness.
Reputation is undesirable, absolutely undesirable!"
All the clan members present also objected one after another. They followed King Xi in order to gain their own rights and status, but what supported these was population and land. In addition to their own, they had to seize it from the enemy and work hard. As a result,
In the end, all they got was ruins, which was not what they wanted to see.
King Xi also said: "This method is indeed inappropriate, but you have reminded me of something. Since those heavenly beings are not afraid of life and death, we can take advantage of it and send a summons to the Department of Industry and Commerce to let him fulfill the righteousness of the sect and recruit some of the heavenly beings."
Go to war with the army."
Somewhere in the mountains in the north, Ying Zhuan lives alone in a cottage. He sits cross-legged on the ground, and the black fire on his body is fluttering.
As early as two years ago, he restored his own cultivation, but unlike his original form, he no longer borrowed the methods of great chaos, but purely adopted the methods of chaos.
Next, he tried to break through to the upper realm. This time, he was no longer prepared to borrow the Great Chaos, but was prepared to abandon it and move forward purely relying on the uncontaminated Hun Zhang.
If he can do it and achieve the higher state in this life, then he can repeat the process after he returns.
It's just that although the seal created by Zhang Yu is useful, he always feels that it is not completely consistent with him. Even if he can enter the upper realm, it is almost mediocre.
This is not to say that Zhang Yu’s seal is inappropriate, but that the biggest purpose of this seal is to facilitate monks to enter Taoism. This only guarantees the lower limit. For people with higher expectations and higher pursuits, this method may not be suitable.
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He already had an idea about this, and then he started to try it.
Although there is a chance to start over in this world, he knows from Bai Guo that the higher the realm of a cultivator, the fewer opportunities there are to try again and again. Things like breaking through to the Xuanzun realm may only have one or two chances.
, and if you fail to do it once, your Yingshen cultivation will be completely lost, and you will have to practice again, so you must be cautious and not waste it at will.
At present, it seems that in order to achieve this step, some things need to be prepared to ensure success.
He stood up slowly, and black fire suddenly floated all over his body, like ink smeared in the atmosphere. He looked to the south, where Mianlu City is located, and it is also the largest gathering place of Xuanxiu at present. There should be
