Ximen Changqing was able to kill his enemies easily. In addition to his own strength, there was also a more important reason. These opponents had already exhausted their potential.
Facing an opponent who is exhausted, Ximen Changqing only needs to use all his strength to kill him with one blow.
And these Red Bamboo Gang monks didn't know that their potential had been exhausted until the moment they died. Their murderous aura confused their minds and senses, making them mistakenly think that they could still fight.
After killing two Red Bamboo Gang Xu Lian monks, no monks attacked him anymore.
At this moment, both sides of the fighting had suffered heavy losses. Most of the powerful Void Refiners had perished, and few survived.
"The murderous intention seems to have weakened."
"Heavenly Eyes and Spiritual Eyes!"
Ximen Changqing felt that the murderous aura was weakening, so he used his heavenly eyes to observe. Sure enough, the murderous aura over the endless sea had been weakened by most of it.
As the murderous intent weakened, the fighting parties gradually calmed down.
Without the support of murderous intent, a huge sense of fatigue came over, which shocked both parties in the fight. They quickly stopped fighting and retreated a certain distance.
"Everyone, return to Black Bamboo Island."
Li Pingsong, who regained his clarity, ordered the surviving monks to return to Black Bamboo Island quickly. They must regain their strength as soon as possible.
Similarly, Wang Xiaotian also gathered his monks and quickly retreated a long distance.
After returning to Black Bamboo Island, Ximen Changqing counted and found that there were only fifteen Void Refining monks left in the Black Bamboo Gang.
Of course, the Red Bamboo Gang suffered equally heavy losses, and the remaining Void Refining monks were almost the same as the Black Bamboo Gang.
"Deputy Gang Leader Li Ziming has fallen, Guardian Guard Huairou has fallen, Liu Yunfeng has fallen, Deacon Hall Elder Yin Zhifeng has fallen..."
Ximen Changqing took a look and saw that the Black Bamboo Gang had suffered heavy losses. Three of the six monks in the late stage of Lianxu had died.
Even the great master Li Ziming has fallen.
However, his death was not unjust. Wang Xiaoshan of the Red Bamboo Gang also died. The two of them died together.
In the lobby of the Black Bamboo Gang's headquarters, gang leader Li Pingsong had a dark look on his face. This battle severely damaged the gang's vitality, and it would take hundreds of years for the gang to recover.
He didn't understand what had just happened and why everyone was acting like crazy and fighting to the death with their opponents.
"Gang leader, our strength has been severely damaged in this battle, and the losses have been too heavy."
Protector Ke Wenli pulled his hair with a look of pain on his face.
"Gang Leader, it seemed like we were out of control just now. We seemed to be controlled by some invisible force."
Lu Chutong spoke doubtfully.
"We feel that way too."
Several ordinary elders also expressed the same view.
"Invisible force controls us?"
Li Pingsong murmured to himself, thinking constantly in his mind.
"Are you Elder Li Qing?"
Li Pingsong sat cross-legged and was recovering his strength. He looked sideways at Ximen Changqing.
"Gang leader, I am."
Ximen Changqing replied calmly.
"What a rare hero. It's all thanks to you this time."
Li Pingsong nodded with satisfaction, closed his eyes and tried his best to regain his strength.
He just saw Ximen Changqing killing two consecutive monks from the Red Bamboo Gang, and one was in the middle stage of Void Refining.
Although both of them have exhausted their potential and are in a situation where they are exhausted, Ximen Changqing can defeat the enemy with one move, which is enough to show his strength.
In addition, the top-grade heaven-reaching spiritual treasures of the deputy gang leaders and guardians were also refined by Ximen Changqing, which greatly enhanced the strength of the six of them.
If it were not for the blessing of the high-grade Tongtian Spiritual Treasure, the losses of the Black Bamboo Gang would have been even greater, and this credit would naturally be attributed to Ximen Changqing.
Of course, the biggest contribution is the Jade Saint Lotus Pill in his body. Without this pill, the Black Bamboo Gang would completely fail.
In short, it was the arrival of Ximen Changqing that reversed the unfavorable situation of the Black Bamboo Gang and prevented the Black Bamboo Gang from suffering too many losses in the fight between the Black Bamboo Gang and the Red Bamboo Gang.
At present, the top management of the Black Bamboo Gang has suffered heavy losses. It is the time to hire people. Li Pingsong said this, and he also means to reuse Ximen Changqing.
In his opinion, if Ximen Changqing can be a guest elder, he can also be a real elder. As long as he reuses him, Ximen Changqing can stay.
Of course, Li Pingsong underestimated Ximen Changqing. His importance was not worth mentioning. When it was time to leave, Ximen Changqing would not stay for a moment longer.
At this moment, except for a few elders who did not participate in the battle, the remaining Void Refining experts were recovering their strength. Ximen Changqing also withdrew from the Tang Dynasty and returned to his temporary cave.
The Red Bamboo Gang on the other side, after retreating a million miles, temporarily repaired on an abandoned island.
Looking at the few Lianxu Gang members around him, Wang Xiaotian's face looked very ugly.
This battle also caused heavy losses to the Red Bamboo Gang. Most of the powerful men in the gang died, and even his brother Wang Xiaoshan died.
"Gang leader, we suffered heavy losses in this battle. The deputy gang leaders have all fallen. I am the only one left as the protector, and there are less than twenty elders."
Qiu Xinghuo was about to cry. There were six guardians in total. Not long after, he was the only one left, and the deputy leader also died.
In other words, Qiu Xinghuo is the only cultivator left in the late stage of Void Refining of the Red Bamboo Gang, and this loss is much greater than that of the Black Bamboo Gang.
The only consolation is that there are more elders in the middle stage of Void Refining, eight more than the Black Bamboo Gang, which can make up for the lack of top-level combat power.
"I made a miscalculation in this battle, and it's all my responsibility."
Wang Xiaotian frowned and sighed, looking very sad.
This was originally his responsibility. If he hadn't insisted on killing him, he wouldn't have caused such huge losses to the gang.
Of course, it's not all his fault. It's the higher-ups below who couldn't stand the humiliation and encouraged him to fight. The higher-ups are all responsible.
"Gang Leader, what should we do next?"
Qiu Xinghuo didn't know what to do next, so he frowned and asked.
"Return to Hongzhu Island first, and let's plan the future matters in the long term!"
With most of the sect's top leaders suffering losses, Wang Xiaotian was no longer in the mood to stay in the Black Bamboo Gang's territory and quickly returned to Red Bamboo Island with the survivors.
In this battle, in addition to the senior officials of Lianxu, the Huashen Gang and Yuanying Gang suffered greater losses.
At least, the two sides will not conflict again for a long time.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After all, so many monks have fallen, and it is difficult for both sides to control the spiritual islands in their territory, and both need to shrink their strength.
Although this is the territory of two major gangs, there are still many powerful casual cultivators. If there are not enough monks in the gangs, even the rogue cultivators cannot be guarded, and some remote spiritual islands are destined to be abandoned.
Both sides gave up part of the existing spiritual islands, so naturally they had no intention of continuing to expand, and peace came naturally.
It took a full month for the leader of the Black Bamboo Gang to fully regain his strength, and the other gang leaders had almost recovered as well.
Gang leader Li Pingsong summoned Ximen Changqing again and offered to let him join the Black Bamboo Gang, and offered him generous terms, but Ximen Changqing refused.
He can't stay with the Black Bamboo Gang forever. Once the limelight is over, he will return to Xianjifang City to help the family take care of the family business.
Seeing that Ximen Changqing could not be persuaded, Li Pingsong had no choice but to give up and just asked Ximen Changqing to refine more weapons and armor.
The top brass of the Black Bamboo Gang simply can't equip all these weapons and armors, so the extra parts can be sold.
The tribute paid by the Black Bamboo Gang to Ximen Changqing is very low, but the price of the Tongtian Lingbao sold is very high, which allows the Black Bamboo Gang to earn a lot of money.
In this way, Ximen Changqing became a coolie, dedicated to earning spiritual stones for the Black Bamboo Gang.
Originally, Li Pingsong was worried that Ximen Changqing would have objections and choose to leave. Unexpectedly, Ximen Changqing enjoyed it and kept refining weapons in the underground fire room.
It's not that he wants to be taken advantage of, but he wants to use the past few years to further improve his weapon refining level. At the same time, his fighting skills and cultivation are also steadily improving.
Others thought that Ximen Changqing was refining weapons every day, but they didn't know that refining weapons only took up a very small amount of time, and most of the time was used to improve his own strength.
Without the Black Bamboo Gang, Ximen Changqing would have to buy high-level spiritual materials to practice, which would easily expose his whereabouts.
With the Black Bamboo Gang, he could stay in seclusion all the time. If he lacked any weapon refining materials, the Black Bamboo Gang would prepare them.
The speed at which an entire gang can collect high-level spiritual materials is naturally far faster than that of Ximen Changqing alone. This can ensure the efficiency of his weapon refining, thereby maximizing his weapon refining level.
In other words, Li Pingsong's purpose is to earn spiritual stones, while Ximen Changqing's purpose is to improve the level of weapon refining and at the same time have more time to improve his own strength.
This is completely a win-win situation. In addition, although the tribute given by the Black Bamboo Gang is not much, the tribute can be exchanged for many resources of the Black Bamboo Gang.
Especially the techniques that I have never heard of, elixirs that are not available in space, etc. These cannot be bought with spiritual stones, so Ximen Changqing does not feel that he is at a loss.
Of course, if Li Pingsong knew that the high-level spiritual materials provided by the Black Bamboo Gang, Ximen Changqing could refine three times the heavenly spiritual treasure, but only produced the worst one, he would probably faint!
After all, Ximen Changqing's weapon refining level is very high, and with the help of Xiao Jin, the success rate of weapon refining is extremely high, and he saves more materials. His weapon refining ability is unmatched by other weapon refiners.
Three years have passed by in a flash, and Ximen Changqing has been able to easily refine the perfect top-grade Tongtian Lingbao, refine the top-grade Tongtian Lingbao, and even use a large amount of fifth-level spiritual materials, thus greatly reducing the cost.
In the past three years, the Black Bamboo Gang has also earned a lot of spiritual stones by selling Tongtian Lingbao, which has made the Black Bamboo Gang grow a lot.
It's just that it's extremely difficult for a Void Refining monk to advance to a small realm, so the top experts have not changed, and there are still only three Void Refining late-stage ones.
Without hundreds of years of accumulation, it would be difficult for the Black Bamboo Gang to restore its previous glory.
The Red Bamboo Gang was even worse. They suffered greater losses and did not have a talent like Ximen Changqing. Therefore, the gang began to decline.
In order to regain his glory and to guard against attacks from the Black Bamboo Gang, Wang Xiaotian took out his own small treasury and prepared to directly recruit Void Refining cultivators to serve as the guest elders of the Red Bamboo Gang.
This news quickly spread back to the Black Bamboo Gang, making Li Pingsong, the leader of the Black Bamboo Gang, very nervous.
If the Red Bamboo Gang recruits many casual cultivators, they might launch an attack on the Black Bamboo Gang to avenge their revenge three years ago.
"No, our Black Bamboo Gang also wants to recruit Void Refining casual cultivators, and we must not be overpowered by the Red Bamboo Gang."
In the lobby of the Black Bamboo Gang, Ke Wenli expressed his opinions loudly.
Nowadays, the Black Bamboo Gang has three late-stage Void Refining monks. In terms of top-level combat power, they crush the Red Bamboo Gang. He even wants to take the initiative and take the opportunity to destroy the Red Bamboo Gang.
However, Li Pingsong objected. Both gangs suffered heavy losses and there was no need to continue the fight.
But if the Red Bamboo Gang is unwilling to fail and recruits experts to prepare for war, then the situation will be different. The Black Bamboo Gang must be prepared to fight.
"Gang leader, the Red Bamboo Gang suddenly openly recruits casual cultivators for cultivating the void. It is clearly aimed at us. If we just wait for them to grow in power, we will be in trouble. We must take decisive measures.
Either we also recruit the Void Refining cultivators, or we attack Hongzhu Island now and destroy them before they can recruit enough Void Refining cultivators."
Lu Chutong also believed that the Red Bamboo Gang had bad intentions and wanted to attack the Black Bamboo Gang.
This is the Thusdides Trap. Both sides are worried that the other party will attack them, so they must develop stronger forces to deal with possible threats.
In this way, as both sides continue to increase their strength, the situation will become increasingly tense, until the moment a conflict breaks out.
At present, no matter which society you are in, this trap cannot be broken. After all, no one is willing to base their safety on the conscience of the enemy.
Only by mastering stronger power than the enemy can you feel safe, and the enemy thinks so too, so this matter will continue endlessly.
Li Pingsong did not express his position. He looked at Ximen Changqing who looked indifferent and asked: "Elder Li Qing, what do you think?"
"It's up to the gang leader to decide. This is an endless trap and I don't have any good ideas."
Ximen Changqing said lightly.
"Endless traps, what can I say?"
Li Pingsong frowned in confusion, and the other senior executives also listened attentively.
"Gang leader, if my guess is correct, the leader of the Hongzhu Gang is worried that we will attack, so he is eager to recruit more strength to make himself invincible.
In order to prevent the Red Bamboo Gang from attacking us as it grows stronger, we need to recruit more forces to deal with it.
In this way, the Red Bamboo Gang will be afraid and continue to recruit strong people. By analogy, both parties will continue to consume resources to recruit more strong people, thereby draining the gang's foundation. Isn't this a trap? "
Ximen Changqing spread his hands with a helpless expression.
"Fellow Daoist Li Qing is right, this is really an endless trap, and there is only one solution to it, which is to completely eliminate the Red Bamboo Gang."
Ke Wenli expressed his views loudly.
Lu Chutong and Guo Lengshuang nodded, feeling that what Ke Wenli said was very reasonable.
"If you want to eliminate the Red Bamboo Gang, you have to recruit more strong people. It's impossible if you don't jump this trap.
Fortunately, in the past few years, I have made a lot of money by selling Tongtian Lingbao, and I should be able to consume more money than the Red Bamboo Gang."
Li Pingsong smiled bitterly and made his decision.
At this point, the two major gangs are locked in a competition to recruit strong men, and the conditions they offer are constantly changing, becoming more and more attractive.
However, the recruitment effect was not good. The casual cultivators knew their purpose of recruiting strong people and were unwilling to be cannon fodder. Both sides failed to recruit a strong person for half a year.