This god almost immediately appeared in Lu Bai's thoughts.
In the legend of the story, the God of War is the master of the Sword Immortal. This time he came down to earth to awaken the Sword Immortal. It was also because the Sword Immortal had been addicted to the world of mortals for too long, so the God of War had to go to this place next time.
In the famous play "The Whip of the God", after Lu Yiqiu was defeated by the God of War, he beat him three times with a whip, causing Lu Yiqiu to be enlightened, wake up, no longer care about the world, and then remember the past and become a swordsman.
Lu Bai didn't think so before, but now after Gu Qinghuan mentioned it, Lu Bai was thoughtful.
The God of War awakened Lu Yiqiu, the key lies in this defeat.
It would make sense to say that the God of War predicted that Lu Yiqiu would be defeated.
But if the water suddenly comes, and there is a series of lightning and thunder in the sky in the twelfth lunar month, it would be an insult to Lu Bai's IQ to say that the God of War did not do anything.
"Do you suspect that the God of War tampered with something and caused the entire Southern Dynasty army to be wiped out?" Lu Bai asked.
Gu Qinghuan nodded.
"This is the truth that the Lu family wants to hide, and it is also the truth that the Sword Immortal and the Martial God want to hide."
Therefore, Lu Yixing, the lord of Yongle City at that time, wanted to kill Gu Qinghuan.
Because although the people who fled south were aware of these anomalies, they could not make a sound, and they would not associate the defeat with the thunder and lightning. They would even think that this was a sign from God that the city would be destroyed.
Gu Qinghuan was different.
Gu Qinghuan was backed by the Gu family, one of the four major families, and Xiyanchi, one of the eight major spiritual sects behind the Gu family. It would be easy for her to spread these suspicions.
Sword Immortals are not allowed to have stains.
So Gu Qinghuan must die.
However, the result was beyond everyone's expectations.
Gu Qinghuan was not dead, and the Gu family did not spread the news - in order for the Gu family's nephew to ascend to the throne of the prince, the Gu family pretended that Gu Qinghuan was dead, and did not pursue the case in exchange for the Gu family's nephew to ascend to the throne of the prince.
A win-win situation for the Gu family and the Lu family.
No one cares about the thousands of officers and soldiers who died, and no one cares about Shuobei City that was looted, massacred into a dead city, or called a ghost town.
According to legend, Shuobei City is still very dark and haunted by demons and ghosts, and idle people dare not approach it.
"call!"
Lu Bai now knew why Yiqiu Villa wanted to kill Gu Qinghuan and silence him.
It turns out that everything originated from that battle that year.
Now that I think about it, a lot has changed in that battle.
Originally, by annihilating the Northern Barbarian Army, the Southern Dynasty's army would be expected to regain the old mountains and rivers. However, due to such a disturbance, the Southern Dynasty's vitality was severely damaged, and the stalemate turned from a stalemate to a defensive one.
What's even more ridiculous is that the late emperor also offered Yiqiu Villa as a gift, and now he is firmly on his side.
Lu Bai was thinking, has lard taken over your heart?
Lu Bai said: "According to this, I'm afraid Yiqiu Villa will not give up."
He had to prepare early.
Lu Bai decided to go to Yanshan.
He had to find out the nearby monsters in advance, so that if Yiqiu Villa sent another incredible master, Lu Bai and the others could just run away and hide in the wilderness.
Gu Qinghuan nodded.
She also felt that even if Yiqiu Villa got the news, it would be too late, so it would be better for Lu Bai to prepare his escape route in advance, and it was inevitable for Yanshan and his party. If the White Wolf Gang wanted to continue their private salt business, this trip was indispensable.
.
Just do it.
That night, Lu Bai quietly left the city with a jar of wine.
He arrived at the Human Spider Inn in the middle of the night, took a short rest, and led Lao Lao, the same team of black widows who had regained their strength due to Mrs. Bamboo, on the journey to Yanshan Mountain.
Coincidentally, they met Da Hei Niu's sister on the road.
They are going to Yanshan to buy salt.
After seeing Lu Bai, Sister Da Hei Niu first asked: "How is Da Hei Niu doing now?"
"It's okay. I've been careless all day." Lu Bai said.
Sister Da Hei Niu sighed leisurely, "Now I want to go to the city and become a human being. Being a cow is too tiring."
Lu Bai was surprised, where did he start talking about this?
"In the city, we have wine to drink and salt to eat, but it's not like us -" Sister Big Black Ox pointed to the team behind her. The bull demons pulling the cart were so weak that they couldn't walk even a few steps for a long time, "No.
If you eat too much salt, you won’t have enough energy to work!”
Lu Bai asked, "Why, have you stopped eating salt?"
Sister Dahei Niu nodded, "It's not because of you——"
Lu Bai was confused, "What does this have to do with me?"
"The Wolf King of Yanshan somehow found out that we were cooperating with you, so he turned his back and stopped selling the salt to us. We insisted on buying it, and we got double the money."
This back and forth delayed the purchase of salt and used up all the salt stored in the cattle grain.
Lu Bai felt that he had taken the blame for some reason.
"You can't blame me for this. I offended the Zhongshan Wolf, and it's because you offended him. I didn't offend him, the Wolf King. He wanted to cause trouble for me, and then he took over the Human Spider Inn, and finally brought the plague.
gone back."
Lu Bai never fought with him face to face.
This wolf king was unlucky and wanted to stand up for the Zhongshan wolf, but Lu Bai didn't see his face, so he got into trouble because the plague had decimated all the wolf monsters in Yanshan.
Lu Bai asked: "Before there was Yanshan, you didn't eat salt?"
"Eat!"
Sister Daheiniu said that they used to eat salt rocks by buying stones from Yanshan Mountain and grinding some crumbs to make salt, but that’s not possible anymore. Firstly, they are used to the refined salt produced in Yanshan Mountain, and secondly, in Wolf King
Under the control, Yanshan salt stones are no longer available for purchase.
As for the salt rocks elsewhere——
"It smells like urine, it's so damn unpalatable, it's not for humans to eat." Sister Da Hei Niu frowned with a look of disgust, obviously she had eaten it.
"You are a monster." Lu Bai reminded her.
Sister Da Hei Niu said shamelessly: "That's also a shemale!"
Lu Bai finally discovered that the two sisters were equally thick-skinned.
"By the way, I still don't know your name?" Lu Bai suddenly remembered that if he kept mentioning Sister Da Heiniu, it would be a bit——
"Just call me Niu Da." Sister Da Hei Niu said boldly.
Lu Bai shook his head, "Tell me your real name, you are so awesome - tell the truth, I have used it too."
It's still as big as a cracked egg monk.
This title used to be powerful, but now it has declined, because after Lu Bai became a member of a thousand households, he kept the face-shaking monk in check, giving Lu Bai few opportunities to crack his eggs.
So lonely.
Lu Baizheng was sighing with emotion when Sister Da Hei Niu said: "My real name is Niu Mudan."
"What the hell?" Lu Bai was surprised.
Sister Dahei Niu suspected that Lu Bai had done it on purpose. After scanning the tower suspiciously, she then said, "The cow chews the peony."
"hiss--"
Lu Bai thought about it and said, "Don't tell me, your name has a lot of meaning."
"Really?" Niu Mudan was stunned for a moment, then smiled brightly, "Of course, my father said that this idiom in your language refers to the longing for a better life."
Lu Bai believed her, "Your mother's name is Mudan, right?"
Niu Mudan was startled for a moment, then suddenly realized, "Oh, yes, you and my mother were neighbors once, so of course you know her name."
Lu Bai knew something.
Neighbors call her aunt and aunt, so who knows her name?
However, Da Hei Niu's father is very thoughtful, and he is showing off his affection here - if this is considered a show of affection.
"By the way, what's the name of the big black cow?" Lu Bai suddenly asked.
Niu Mudan didn't understand, "No way, you and her are childhood sweethearts, and you don't even know his name?"
Lu Bai shook his head.
He kept calling her Da Hei Niu, and Da Hei Niu also kept calling himself Da Hei Niu. Even Da Hei Niu's mother kept calling her Da Hei Niu when she was alive.
After Niu Mudan looked down upon Lu Bai, she thought for a moment, "I don't know either."
Lu Bai gave her a middle finger.
Niu Mudan scratched her head in embarrassment and changed the subject, "Oh, by the way, do you have salt in the city? If so, we would have saved ourselves from going to Yanshan to buy it."
"No!"
The salt affairs of Yongle City are now controlled by the West Factory. Last year’s approach will not work. Even if it works, considering Lu Bai’s current popularity and his hatred with the Lu family, Lord Lu of Yongle City will never take the salt into his hands.
Sell it to him.
He told Niu Mudan that he was going to Yanshan this time just to take over Yanshan.
"Snatch it?"
Niu Mudan looked Lu Bai up and down, "Can you do it? The Wolf King has two hundred years of experience."
If it was really that easy to snatch, someone would have snatched it long ago.
After all, mastering Yanshan is equivalent to mastering the right of nearby monsters to eat salt. With the ability to restrict and punish disobedient monsters, it is almost equivalent to a little monster king.
That's why the Wolf King came forward, preparing to kill Lu Bai and clear away the shame that the absurdity of that night in the middle valley had brought to the monsters.
And Niu Mudan and the others are now powerless, which is the result of being sanctioned.
They could only use the hard-earned money from Niu Ji to buy salt at double the price, not to mention how miserable it was.
"Absolutely." Lu Bai was confident.
Two hundred years of Taoism have been in the moving mountain realm.
Lu Bai's Pokong Realm is more than enough to deal with him, not to mention he also has a magic weapon - the Demon-Slaying Sword.
He recently discovered the true strength of the Demon Slayer Sword.
Its true strength is not fixed, but is equal to the realm of its master, Lu Bai. Whatever realm Lu Bai is in, this demon-slaying sword that can exert its own power is in that realm.
Speaking of which, after Lu Bai solved the case of the fake eunuch, he also got a lottery opportunity to win a weapon.
An umbrella.
This umbrella has no name, but its description is interesting: a fucking fan.
The word "fuck" is a dialect word, which means bad.
Lu Bai did find that this fan was not good, because its realm was quite fixed, in the Qi training realm. In other words, although this weapon could be used freely like a sword, it could only deal with enemies whose realms were at the Qi training realm and below.
Can beat it.
From this comparison, you can see how powerful the demon-slaying sword is with room for growth. It is worthy of being an orange weapon.
Seeing Lu Bai's confidence, Niu Mudan didn't believe it, "It's immoral to brag, especially in front of a bull demon."
"Yeah?"
Lu Bai wondered, he was not bragging*, bragging was immoral?
Niu Mudan nodded.
Lu Bai didn't explain any more, "But I'm not bragging. Just wait and see when you get to Yanshan."
After walking some distance, Lu Bai suddenly realized, "Wait a minute, what did you just say, Yanshan produces refined salt?"
Niu Mudan stopped, "Yeah, what's wrong?"
He looked at Lu Bai pitifully.
This reflection arc is long enough.
They haven't eaten salt recently, so even if their reaction is slow, Lu Bai's reflex arc is actually so slow?
"That's not right, a wolf demon occupied Yanshan Mountain and actually produced refined salt——" Lu Bai thought it was incredible.
Niu Mudan rolled her eyes, thinking that this was nothing to make a fuss about, "We monsters can also learn, okay?"
As for this wolf king——
"I heard that this group of wolf demons comes from the Yongle City area. They once lurked in the salt mines of Yongle City and stole their skills, so they know how to refine refined salt." Niu Mudan said.
Lu Bai nodded.
He had to change his strategy. If Yanshan was captured, those technical wizards would have to find a way to stay.
Seeing that Lu Bai stopped talking, Niu Mudan called the brothers to continue on their way.
Suddenly, she stopped again.
"Hey, by the way, do you have any salt on your body? Let us taste it." When she said this, her eyes lit up.
Lu Bai has salt.
But it was still used for barbecue in the wild. It was not enough for the big black cow to swallow it in one bite. It was a drop in the bucket for the bull demon. It was better for Lu Bai to keep it for himself. At least he would not have to eat salt.
So Lu Bai shook his head, "I have wine."
"Wine is fine too."
Niu Mudan is not picky at all now.
So Lu Bai poured her a bowl of wine, Niu Mudan took it and drank it all in one gulp, then wiped her mouth and said, "Well, I'm feeling excited."
She looked at Lu Bai's wine gourd curiously, "What kind of wine is this? It's so exciting!"
Lu Bai was stunned.
This person is full of energy, just like a hungry person who got a Snickers bar.
Does his medicinal wine still have this effect?
Lu Bai was immediately relieved. It's no wonder that as a wine that allows people to practice martial arts, it's not surprising that medicinal wine is a functional drink for those who don't know the "Drunk" technique.
However, this did make Lu Bai think of a way to make money.
If other businesses cannot continue in the future, Lu Baida can rely on this secret wine-making recipe to sell wine.
Niu Mudan wanted to take a sip, but Lu Bai refused, "My wine is of great use, so I can't let you drink it all."
However, seeing their listless appearance, Lu Bai had no idea, so he came up with an idea, "Well, let's go to the Zhongshan Valley!"
There must be salt in the middle valley.
Niu Mudan was surprised, "You still dare to go to Zhongshan Valley?"
The monsters in the upper reaches of the middle valley wanted to skin Lu Bai and eat his flesh, and then do unspeakable things to the body.
"Well--"
From Niu Mudan's description, Lu Bai could feel that the orientation of monsters in Zhongshan Valley had changed, making it even more difficult to like them.
No wonder.
After Nao Lao drank tea with the love potion and had a romantic night with Mrs. Zhu, she became devoted to Mrs. Zhu and even went so far as to build three palaces, six courtyards and seventy-two concubines for him.
Now that those monsters have all drunk the love potion, and then they have had terrible things happen to each other, how can they still love each other to the death?
Lu Bai let out a long sigh, this medicine must not make the demons in the middle valley dance wildly and show their hatred for Lu Bai?
Even so, Zhongshan Valley still has to go.
If not for anything else, it was because Lu Bai wanted to take down Zhongshan Wolf, occupy the middle valley, and make it a place for him and Gu Qinghuan to retreat.
Yanshan Mountain is a salt mine and may not be suitable for living. Lu Bai has seen the Zhongshan Valley before, so it would be good to seize it and continue to build the Zhongshan Valley into a famous monster market.
Thinking of this, Lu Bai made a quick decision and went to Zhongshan Valley.
Niu Mudan followed Lu Bai. Now as long as there is salt to eat, they will go to the volcano to use charcoal to roast beef.
"Hey, by the way, you don't have any salt on your body. Do you have dry food that contains salt?" Niu Mudan still did not give up her efforts to squeeze Lu Bai.
"Yes!" Lu Bai nodded.
"What?"
"Beef jerky."
Niu Mudan said angrily: "Damn it, you dare to mention beef jerky in front of the bull demon, you are so awesome. But later, you can use the beef jerky to soak it in a bowl of water?"
This is equivalent to tasting salt indirectly.
Lu Bai reminded him, "That's still indirectly eating beef."