The road to Shu is long and dangerous. Even in the words of the great poet Li Bai nearly a thousand years later, it is still a difficult road that is difficult to reach the sky. It is still the road to Shu after the development of the two Han Dynasties.
During the Pre-Qin and Warring States periods, the Shu Road would only be more difficult and difficult to navigate than Li Bai had seen.
"Being in the sword pavilion with Jia Meng, standing in Jialing and pillowing on the white water, you are truly a hero set by nature!"
Looking at the high mountains at his feet, Chi Yao sighed with emotion. Sometimes he couldn't figure out how the Qin State could swallow up the two countries of Bashu and Bashu in one go.
Obviously, judging from the geographical location, it is easier for the Chu State to achieve this goal. After all, they only need to follow the waterway to enter Shu. However, if the Qin State wants to invade, it must break through the two natural dangers of Jiameng Pass and Jiange.
That was the Jianmen Pass that later became known as the most dangerous pass in the world!
There are steep cliffs on both sides, reaching straight into the sky, with peaks leaning against the sky like swords; the cliffs are cut off, and the two walls face each other, shaped like a door, so it is called "Sword Gate".
Jianmen Pass is the throat of Shu, an important military town, and recognized as a battleground for military strategists.
It is a more dangerous pass than Hangu Pass.
You only need to look at how many times the Qin State has withstood the crisis of being besieged by Hezong with the help of Hangu Tianzhi? You can understand the value of Jianmen Pass.
If the Chu State had swallowed up the land of Bashu in advance and maintained the junction with the Qin State at the Jiameng Pass-Jiange area, then it would have been at least ten times more difficult for the Qin State to unify the world, and it might even have been lost forever.
this opportunity.
But there are no ifs in history. If Chu missed it, he missed it. This mistake allowed Qin to usher in a completely reborn take-off.
It was after swallowing the granary of Bashu that Qin truly became the number one among the seven kingdoms, possessing the ability to destroy any country one-on-one.
The second take-off of the Qin State was the completion of the Zhengguo Canal, which turned the originally barren Guanzhong land into the fertile wilderness of Guanzhong that was later praised.
After having the two major logistical supports of Guanzhong and Bashu, the Qin State truly had the power to unify the world. It was not afraid of wars and wars of attrition, and used hard power to crush the six countries.
But it's useless to say this now. History cannot go back on regrets. No matter how much Chu State regrets now, there is no way to make up for it.
The reason why Chi Yao left Dongting and came to Shu was because he received important information from Jing Salamander.
After Jing salamander escaped from the snare, he brought a small group of Chi family disciples to Shu under the dispatch of Chi Yao to secretly develop an intelligence network. Although this place already belonged to Qin, the road was too blocked, so there was no connection with Guanzhong.
Communication is not frequent, and Luo Wang doesn't have many manpower here, so Jing Salamander is quite good at what he does.
After the Bashu branch was simply set up, she quickly got an important piece of information.
"It is suspected that an important figure from the Yin Yang family has entered Shu, and the target is heading straight to Shu Mountain."
Investigating Shushan was the ultimate mission given to her by Chi Yao, and the Yin Yang family has always been known for its secrecy. After receiving this news, Jing Salamander thought for a moment and immediately decided to inform Chi Yao.
That was why he made this trip to Bashu.
At the foot of Shushan Mountain.
"Have they already gone up?"
"Yes, Master."
Jing Salaman wore a mask and reported in a low voice, "According to the intelligence, here are the two disciples of Donghuang Taiyi, the head of the Yin Yang family. They are both famous geniuses. There was no cover along the way, and they headed straight towards Shushan.
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"It's interesting. Is the Yin Yang family so anxious?"
Chi Yao whispered secretly.
Originally, because he had been copying the witch patterns on Chi You's body in the Hidden Witch Palace, Chi Yao was not anxious about these things. Anyway, according to the progress of the plot, they would eventually surface one by one.
But now that the Yin and Yang family has taken action, naturally he can no longer continue to do so.
"Let's go, let's go up the mountain and see what the Yin Yang family is doing this time."
For the people of Bashu, Shu Mountain is not only a huge and continuously moving inexhaustible resource pool, but also represents their spiritual beliefs.
Just like the people in Yue believe in Chi You and the art of witchcraft, most of the people in Shu believe in Shu Mountain, or in other words, the sacred tree on Shu Mountain.
Therefore, the existing form of Shushan in the past was different from that of sects, gangs, and schools. It was more like a sect.
Even the words of the Great Elder of Shushan are sometimes more effective than the King of Shu.
However, after Bashu fell and was incorporated into the territory of Qin, the original superior status of Shu Mountain was greatly weakened. The King of Qin would not allow such a sect that could override the royal power to exist in his own territory, even if its influence was only limited to
Not even a small area!
Therefore, compared with before, Shushan's popularity has declined greatly. Now, it has almost completely transformed into an ordinary sect built around the two important places of Sacred Tree and Yuyuan.
With Chi Yao's Frightening Salamander skills, it was not difficult to avoid the Shushan disciples patrolling the mountain road.
But they didn't do that today, because someone had already knocked down most of the mountain patrol disciples in advance.
That's right, along the way up the mountain, there were disciples lying on the ground or hanging on tree branches everywhere in the woods, wailing.
Chi Yao looked at them using the Heavenly Gu Qi Watching Technique, and saw that they all had a few wisps of very fiery and domineering flame aura on their bodies.
Jing Salaman explained beside him: "The Yin and Yang family is divided into two channels, Yin and Yang, from the leader down. The Yang channel is further divided into the upper three parts of sun, moon, and stars, and the lower five parts of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth; and the Yin channel
It is too secretive, even the net can only collect some unverified rumors about Mohu. It is said that there are mountain ghosts and ritual souls among them... Judging from these scars, the one who came this time should be the number one genius of the Yin Yang family's Japanese department.
, known as the youngest successor to Dongjun in hundreds of years, Concubine Yan!"
"As expected of the Yin Yang family, they have such a domineering style."
Chi Yao looked at the Shushan disciples on the ground. Although most of them were still alive, they had been invaded by such violent and hot alien energy and could not be removed in time. It could be said that they were useless in the future.
Concubine Yan is trying to force Shushan to go to war with her!
Sure enough, after a while, Chi Yao and the others just walked to the mountainside when they heard a violent explosion from the top of the mountain. Looking up, it seemed that there were huge waves of fire and dark mist competing with each other, rendering the sky of Shushan into a
Jingwei is clear.
At the same time, a vigorous and angry voice sounded in the distance: "Witch from the Yin and Yang family, don't go too far!"
"Excessive? I just want to use your sacred tree. If they don't come up to stop it, how can there be any casualties?"
Concubine Yan replied calmly, "It's all your own fault!"
"good!"
The Great Elder of Shushan was furious, "Then it's no wonder that I bully the young with my elder. Today I will teach you a lesson for Donghuang Taiyi!"