Zhao Shu did not enter the Nine Nether Snow Valley in the end. The descendants of these extraterrestrial races are somewhat wary of the outside world, not to mention that the Nine Nether Snow Valley is even further away from the world than the Evergreen Sacred Tree.
In addition to confirming the situation of Jiuyou Snow Valley with his own eyes during this trip, Zhao Shui has now confirmed it. With an extra reminder, he will naturally not force the other party to do anything.
As for teaching the secrets, it is not only for enlightenment, but also to make it easier to pay attention to Jiuyou Snow Valley in the future. It is difficult to say what consequences these snow descendants will have if they try to revive their ancestors and what changes they will cause to Kunlun Continent.
Zhao Shu taught the "Purple Book of True Essence" that he summarized and created to Jiuyou Snow Valley. In the future, if they meditate and practice, they will be able to sense it themselves.
This kind of induction passed down through the dharma lineage is also the work of the immortal family. It is not limited to whether you are familiar with the other person, and there is no need to call the other person to induce induction. As long as you have some enlightenment in cultivation, you will form a subtle connection with Zhao Shu.
Just like the three elders of Chiyun, even if they claim to despise the Immortal Family, they are the descendants of Dongdan Yuanjun, and the connection based on the inheritance of the dharma lineage is difficult to sever.
The "Purple Book of True Essence" is the result of Zhao Shu's combing through all the past practice testimonies over the years and combining the insights of various immortal schools. It can be said to be profound, rigorous and complete.
There is no doubt that this immortal method is based on the teachings of Lingxiao and integrates the subtleties of "Shuyu Wuzang Chapter", "Nine Heavens Ziwen Danzhang", "Sumai Danxin Jue" and other methods.
At the same time, we should eliminate the unnecessary and retain the essential, abandon the use of complicated magic techniques, and only strive to achieve the achievement of ascending to immortality and opening up the cave.
Zhao Shu himself did not intend to establish a sect. To him now, the "Zhenyuan Purple Book" is more like his creation in memory of Goddess Yuqing and Lingxiao.
Zhao Shui was gradually able to understand the state of mind of using his body to mend the sky and protect all living beings in Kunlun Continent. For him, there is no distinction between high and low in the world, so he does not intend to open a separate door, and he will teach it whenever he has the chance.
After leaving northern Xinjiang, Zhao Shu and Lu Wangji turned southwest and headed towards the west.
The terrain of western Kunlun is undulating, and there are many high mountains. There are many majestic and majestic ones, and there are even many mountains that often stretch for thousands of miles.
However, compared with the southern land, which has broken terrain and dense miasma, the western land has many vast and flat lands, which are nourished by rivers and are as rich in products as those in the central land.
However, the Western Territory is close to the river source mountains and thousands of miles of quicksand. There are hundreds of large and small Rong and Di tribes scattered there. They often plunder merchants and travelers. Long before the Tianxia Dynasty, they captured city walls, massacred the city, and cannibalized people.
After the Tianxia Dynasty established Ding, it sent large armies several times to conquer, and finally forced the Rongdi tribes to retreat into the mountains and flee into the quicksand. As a result, the Western Land was stable for many years, and gradually became densely populated and prosperous business travel.
Later, there was unrest in all directions, and the Tianxia court sent generals out of the town. Among them, General Zhenxi opened a mansion and built a palace. The one who was in power had conflicts with local wealthy families, causing indiscriminate killings, which made the chaos even worse.
In order to suppress the wealthy and powerful families in the west, General Zhenxi at that time had begun to recruit Rongdi troops with gold, silk, and food. Unexpectedly, this move became the source of great disasters in the future.
The King of Baixiang rose up during this process. His origins are not very clear. It is said that he has Rongdi blood and is not from a wealthy family. Apart from being an expert from the Xian family, the outside world does not know who he is as a monk.
After knowing that General Zhenxi established the Yaochi Kingdom, the young King Baixiang joined his command and accumulated military exploits, and he gradually rose to a high position.
Later, the old drama of brothers, uncles and nephews fighting against each other occurred in Yaochi Kingdom. King Baixiang relied on his strong cultivation and was favored by all parties at the same time. He also took the opportunity to accumulate power, and after some exorcism, he finally succeeded in usurping the throne.
Power and position, dominance.
However, the Yaochi Kingdom was also seriously injured in this civil strife. At that time, Xuanju sent his troops southward, and the Yaochi Kingdom was also affected. It lost many cities and lost a lot of land. King Baixiang himself was busy running around and fighting in various places.
He had no time to participate in the subsequent battle of slaying the dragon, and was only responsible for containing some of the Xuanming Kingdom's troops in the west.
King Baixiang himself was very brave and powerful, and it was in this process that he gradually gained a reputation. He was not good at governing the country, and he was not well versed in strategy when leading troops in battles. However, if he encountered an enemy army, he would often take the lead and charge forward.
In the past, relying on personal bravery to kill enemies and behead generals, there were often stories of a single man and a horse tearing the enemy formation to pieces. Many monks with superb swordsmanship were unable to do this, making them powerful in Kunlun.
After the battle of Slaying the Dragon, King Baixiang began to take action on the inheritance of immortality in the Western Land, which was somewhat similar to Liang Tao on the other side of Kunlun Continent.
However, Liang Tao borrowed the name of the pavilion system and at the same time allowed Chongxuan Pavilion to continue to grow and become somewhat eclectic, making Difeishan Chongxuan Pavilion a master of Taoism and immortality.
However, King Baixiang's approach was more of murder and aggression. The reason was that he was dissatisfied with the very prosperous belief in Our Lady of Yaochi in the Western Region, and openly ordered the destruction of statues and shrines of Our Lady of Yaochi in various places.
It is a long tradition for the people of the West to believe in Our Lady of Yaochi, not to mention that many sects that cultivate immortality respect the Immortal Mother of Guishan in Yaochi as their ancestor.
However, in Zhao Shui's view, King Baixiang's move was more aimed at targeting the wealthy and powerful families in the West. He is known as the most brave and brave in Kunlun Island, but governing the country does not rely solely on bravery.
The king could only reuse Rong Di.
However, the customs of the Rong and Di were different from those of the Western Lands, which had long been under the rule of kings. As a result, frequent conflicts were unavoidable, ranging from weak laws and regulations to difficult collection of taxes, to serious civil commotions.
In addition, since the Tianxia Dynasty, immortality has flourished, and various sects cultivating immortals in the Western Lands have interacted with the common people. There have been deep entanglements inside and outside the world of mortals. The powerful and powerful families are not only sticking to Wubao Manor, they are also protected by immortal cultivators, and they have formed a confrontation with the King of Baixiang, both openly and secretly.
momentum.
In the end, the conflict between the two sides was difficult to resolve, and it reached the point of fighting each other. The various sects of the Western Land Immortal Way also joined forces. However, the King of Baixiang was so powerful that he could be said to be invincible and invincible. No sect in the Western Land was his opponent.
Now that the two sides were at odds with each other, King Baixiang was no longer afraid, and simply overthrew the various sects of the Immortal Dao in the West, leading Rong Di to kill the monks and capture the monastery.
As a result, all the Immortal Dao sects in the West were in a state of collapse, and some sects were simply destroyed. Even the Immortal Dao sects that were not directly hostile to King Baixiang, such as Fengming Valley, were also affected.
King Baixiang's actions caused many monks to flee the Yaochi Kingdom directly, or they turned light into darkness and used the crowded market as a cover to engage in guerrilla attacks with powerful families from all over the country.
Although no one dared to question the brave authority of King Baixiang, after the Yaochi Kingdom experienced several turmoils, its national power declined greatly. Although King Baixiang was strong, he was still unable to do anything during the melee of the five kingdoms. Even for the sake of
Facing various battlefields, we have no choice but to work hard, and domestic governance is in a mess.
Although King Baixiang was unwilling to admit it, he finally had to obey the general trend and recognize the local power of the powerful Western tribes in exchange for their loyalty and taxes.
Later, King Baixiang chose marriage and married women from several wealthy families to roughly control the Yaochi Kingdom. However, his most trusted subordinates were still the Rong from the mountains and quicksand land of the Western Wilderness.
Before the drastic changes in Dongsheng Capital, King Baixiang had already begun to make arrangements for himself to replace the Holy Mother of Yaochi. He asked the people of the Western Land to worship him as a god, offer incense to him, and build temples and palaces on a large scale.
Consecrating living people as gods and enshrining them is extremely absurd, but King Baixiang may have done this to better gather manpower and material resources and consolidate his authority.
However, in the battle of Difei Mountain, King Baixiang had his right arm cut off by Zhao Shui. This incident was later known to the people of Yaochi Kingdom. Maybe He Qingchen deliberately sent people to spread the news, just to shake people's hearts.
The impression that the King of Hundreds of Signs is brave and invincible.
King Baixiang had one of his arms cut off and had to recuperate for many years. At his level of cultivation, having his arm cut off not only damaged his body, but also severely damaged his foundation.
In order to concentrate on self-cultivation, King Baixiang left many government affairs to a few lucky ministers he promoted. These lucky ministers were not very capable of governing the country, but they were quite capable of taking advantage of opportunities to make money.
As a result, the state affairs were increasingly neglected, and Yaochi's national taxes were extremely heavy, forcing powerful families from all over the country to once again raise armies and rebel.
When He Qingchen was still alive, he also secretly sent people to contact these powerful Western tribes, which caused the Yaochi Kingdom to fall into civil strife, thus successfully containing this powerful neighbor in the west.
Now that the Xiong Kingdom has destroyed Jiuli and conquered Dongtu, everyone can see clearly that the next one will deal with the Yaochi Kingdom.
However, in the past few years, King Baixiang often stayed in seclusion, which gave the Xiong Kingdom a good opportunity to gradually encroach westward. Some wealthy families in the West simply changed their banners, and even took the initiative to send their nephews to the imperial capital.
Three years after conquering the Eastern Territory, the Xiong Kingdom officially began to recruit large armies to march westward to attack the Yaochi Kingdom, and took up the righteous cause of "killing the violent and pacifying the Rong", which immediately gained the response of the people from all over the Yaochi Kingdom.
In addition to this, there are also many Western monks who fled to the Xiong Kingdom in the early years. They are either seeking revenge, or they have received great rewards after seeing Chi Yundu surrender, and want to revive the sect's inheritance. Seeing Yaochi
The country's defeat was imminent, so they took advantage of this opportunity and joined the army one after another.
As a result, the Xiong Kingdom's offensive was as devastating as any other, and some of the Western rebels even charged faster than the Xiong Kingdom's army.
Faced with this situation, the Rong and Di tribes who were loyal to King Baixiang also wanted to retreat. They had no feelings for the Yaochi Kingdom. Since this territory could not be defended, the worst they could do was to retreat to the Western Wilderness Mountains or
The land of quicksand.
However, there are also many Rong and Di tribes who are used to enjoying themselves and are unwilling to abandon their wealth and flee back to the bitter cold land. After some debate, the Rong and Di tribes simply looted and took away all the property and people they could take away. Before leaving, they had to
Set fire to the city, leaving only a scorched white land occupied by the bear country.
But in this way, the Rong and Di tribes completely aroused public anger. Those Western tribes and civil and military officials who had taken refuge with King Baixiang in the early years even became the first targets to be plundered, attacked and killed.
As a result, before the soldiers and horses of the Xiong Kingdom invaded the hinterland of the Yaochi Kingdom, internal fighting broke out in the Yaochi Kingdom's court, and it was completely chaotic.
But at this time, there were still people in Yaochi who took the initiative to come forward, namely the two sons of King Baixiang.
King Baixiang had many wives and concubines, but he liked the new and hated the old. When his wives gave birth to children, they had no intention of raising and disciplining them, and turned around to find new loves. Therefore, the children of King Baixiang often relied on the power of their mother's clan, and those who chose to seek refuge with King Baixiang
The great Western tribes.
To most people in the Yaochi Kingdom, these wealthy families who chose to take refuge with King Baixiang were no different than traitors, and their power and status were completely dependent on King Baixiang.
King Baixiang has been in seclusion for many years, which has made their status shaky. Now that the country is about to be destroyed, they are not even allowed to transfer to the Bear Country, because the Bear Country has already mentioned them as traitors in the crusade, and they are destined to die.
Since death is inevitable, these big clans must make a last-ditch effort. They introduce the two sons of King Baixiang, win over some of the hesitant Rongdi tribe with generous gifts, mobilize the men who can give orders at the moment, carry out the move of strengthening the wall and clearing the country, and hold on to the pass.
The city fortress relied on deep ditches and high fortifications to resist the soldiers and horses of the Xiong Kingdom.
This move was indeed effective. Because the Xiong Kingdom advanced rapidly at the beginning and encountered almost no decent resistance, it was inevitable that they would underestimate the enemy. When the forward troops and horses hit the fortified city of the Yaochi Kingdom, they were immediately severely damaged and even encountered a fierce counterattack.
Many horses and horses were lost.
It was precisely with this victory that the chaotic and turbulent people in Yaochi became somewhat more settled. The Rong and Di tribes who were originally clamoring to flee westward felt that the situation had improved and there was no need to leave in a hurry.
King Baixiang himself did not have great talent in governing the country, but his two sons were somewhat talented. They successfully persuaded several powerful armies and led the light cavalry warriors to detour and attack several cities.
Boost the morale of the troops.
But even so, it cannot change the strength and weakness of the two countries. The Xiong Kingdom is now extremely powerful, with many soldiers and generals, abundant food and grass, and many immortal cultivators who are helping them. A slight loss cannot shake its foundation.
On the other hand, in the Yaochi Kingdom, because of King Baixiang's actions back then, no immortal cultivators are willing to help. At best, there are some heretics who take shelter here, and most of them cannot be counted on.
In the early years, King Baixiang subdued several big monsters in the mountains of the Western Wilderness for his own control. However, without King Baixiang himself coming forward, these big monsters would not listen to other people's orders at all, and even deliberately wanted to see the Yaochi Kingdom fall.
They all watched from the sidelines.
Therefore, after holding on for a few months, the Yaochi Kingdom, which had shown some improvement, took a turn for the worse again. No matter how talented the two sons of King Baixiang were, they were now unable to save themselves.
After several city fortresses were breached, the last resistance of the Yaochi Kingdom collapsed. The tribes of Rong and Di no longer believed that the two sons of King Baixiang could reverse the situation and decided to retreat westward.
But even so, these Rong Di did not forget to loot and plunder, and the capital city of Yaochi fell into the final madness. There was only killing everywhere. There were no ordinary pedestrians on the road, and the doors and windows of the houses were closed, and they were blocked with heavy objects. The corpses were blocked.
They lie on each other's backs and accumulate in the corners with no one to clean them, attracting wild dogs and crows to eat them. Blood stains the roads red, and a strong stench fills the streets and alleys.
This is the scene that Zhao Shu saw. In the distance, there were bursts of fighting and screaming, flames were raging everywhere, the evil spirit lingered, and the resentment of the dead echoed in every corner.
Zhao Shu did not stop the chaos in the city, he just watched it indifferently, and at the same time silently used his great magic power to transcend countless dead souls, making them gradually calm down.