After the two escaped, they came to a dilapidated Taoist temple.
"Lu Bu deserves to be known as the best general in the world. Even if you and I join forces, we may not be able to match him."
Hearing what Wang Yue said, Xu Yin felt slightly curious.
Asked: "What state has he reached? No matter direct attack or mental erosion, it seems that it can't work on him."
Wang Yue shook his head and said: "Martial Saint is already a title used to evaluate a warrior's highest achievement. The title of Martial Saint has only appeared in recent decades, so no one has named it yet."
Xu Yin asked in surprise: "Was there no one above the Martial Saint before?"
Wang Yue looked at the sword in his hand, "I'm afraid it can be traced back to the Mangxin Rebellion and the Great Chaos at the end of Qin Dynasty. The more troubled the times, the more powerful warriors appeared.
Just like the founder of Fengming Sword, he heard about it in the troubled times of the late Qin Dynasty. Since then, no one has practiced the true meaning of Nirvana beyond the martial arts saint.
In the peaceful and prosperous age, there were many immortal monks and Confucian and Taoist sages, including Dong Zhongshu and Gongsun Hong in the distance, and Ban Gu and Zhang Heng in the near future."
Xu Yin pondered: "I think Lu Bu's realm may be higher than that of a martial saint, and his power does not even belong to this realm."
Xu Yin couldn't help but think of the Ghost King Sect's Four Spirit Blood Formation, and the illusion that Lu Bu's spiritual sea of consciousness erupted was too similar to the Shura Realm.
"This is the first time I have encountered the reality projected by the sea of consciousness." Wang Yue looked solemn, but he seemed to have gained a lot of martial arts inspiration from it. "If his projection finally turns into a real scene, what kind of power will it have?"
"Perhaps that is his own domain, and all laws are beneficial to him and harmful to the enemy."
Xu Yin made his own guess, and then said: "Isn't this just like an earthly immortal who has initially comprehended the power of the law?"
In other words, Lu Bu's current strength is not as strong as the Earth Immortal, but it is very close.
The two of them couldn't come up with a discussion at this level, so they simply stopped discussing it and instead talked about the Nine Heavens.
At the end of the discussion, in order to accumulate wealth, the two of them headed west together, all the way to the ancient capital Chang'an.
Although the ancient tombs near Chang'an were all protected by large formations, it was not a problem for Xu Yin, who had mastered a variety of magical arts. He could always break through the formation quietly and take out the gold and silver from the antiques inside.
In less than a year, ten ancient tombs have been robbed! A huge amount of money has been made!
But both of them are detached people, and they have never been greedy for such a huge sum of money.
After teaching each other swordsmanship, the two divided the east and west, and each began their journey to expand the Nine Heavens.
Xu Yin disguised himself for the second time and headed east. Starting from Jianghuai and Shandong, he gathered small private salt tea gangs and established a tea and salt gang with excellent salt and tea making technology.
Although the salt industry is owned by the state, in today's troubled times, where etiquette and music have collapsed, who can control the many private salt dealers? Besides, the world is full of strong martial artists.
Chivalrous people often use force to violate the forbidden. It is definitely not like a world without demons that can be suppressed by force. After all, the army that relies on power needs to be concentrated in formation to fight, but chivalrous people and private salt dealers always act dispersedly.
In peaceful and prosperous times, the centralized power can still do its best to suppress such knights, but in troubled times, local governments are divided and their own affairs are divided. How can they do it?
Therefore, although Xu Yin, who controlled the huge profits from tea and salt, was not involved in the overall struggle for world hegemony, he became a force that the princes of all parties needed to win over.
The tea and salt group that sells all over the world is his eyes and ears, and can help him understand the intelligence of the princes in various places. Half of Jiutian has been formed in his hands.
Wang Yue, who went west, also disguised himself. He did not have the vision and skills of Xu Yin's later generations, so he recruited many disciples in Yongliang and Shu in his own way.
At the same time, he connected with the Wu Dou Rice Sect, which had great momentum among the people, and expanded its influence among the people through the form of a boxing sect club. He then led his disciples to Jingzhou, established a canal gang along the Yangtze River, and changed his job to water transport and fishery, winning over thousands of hardworking disciples.
As an ally of the Five Dou Rice Cult and the leader of the Cao Gang, Wang Yue was a person who responded to all requests. Even nobles from all over the country had to make every effort to make friends with him.
The methods of the two are different, but the purpose is the same, which is to try to gather the scattered forces of workers, peasants, and merchants among the people, and collect intelligence from all the princes, so as to gradually control the success or failure of all the forces.
It was several years before these were accomplished. During this period, the two of them experienced countless dangers and killed countless souls under the sword, and finally the power of the Nine Heavens gradually spread throughout the world.
The situation in the world has also changed drastically. Dong Zhuo first wanted to make Yuan Shu the governor of Jizhou to win over him, but Yuan Shu sternly refused.
At the same time, the Guandong nobles, with Yuan Shu as their leader, gathered troops from several states to fight against Dong Zhuo.
At Hulao Pass, Lu Bu led the army to victory first and then defeat.
One victory caused the alliance to fight against Dong to fall apart. At the critical moment, Sun Jian led his troops to counterattack. At the time when Lu Bu was at odds with Hu Zhen, and the Bingzhou Army was at odds with the Xiliang Army, the two warlord systems restricted each other. Sun Jian seized the opportunity and was defeated.
Lu Bu broke through Hulao Pass.
Seeing the fall of Hulao Pass, Dong Zhuo led Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty to move the capital to Chang'an and burned Luoyang.
Sun Jian failed to save the emperor and returned with the He clan's jade.
The Yuan family was stranded in the capital. Because Yuan Shu took the lead in the crusade against Dong Zhuo, they were all executed.
From then on, Yuan Shu and Dong Zhuo were at odds with each other.
Before Yuan Shu could take revenge, Wang Yun used a alienation and beauty trap to make Lü Bu and Dong Zhuo turn against each other. Dong Zhuo died at the hands of Lü Bu.
After Dong Zhuo's death, Li Jue and Guo Fan of the Xiliang Army counterattacked Chang'an under the advice of Jia Xu, who wanted to protect themselves. Chang'an was in chaos and Lu Bu was defeated. Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty returned eastward, and Wang Yun died in the rebellion.
In Guandong, Yuan Shu followed Xun Chen's plan and seized Jizhou from Han Fu. He went all the way north to compete with Sun Zan, the shepherd of Youzhou, for the hegemony of Hebei.
After years of fighting, Yuan Shu was finally unable to compete with Yuan Shao, and was mostly defeated by Gongsun Zan.
Many Jizhou nobles under Yuan Shu were very dissatisfied, but Gongsun Zan not only had a deep hatred for the Jizhou nobles, but also feared them like wolves, tigers and leopards, so he still gritted his teeth and supported Yuan Shu in his battles.
At this time, Lu Bu led the elite troops from Bingzhou to join Yuan Shu to jointly fight against Gongsun Zan and the Black Mountain Army, which greatly increased Yuan Shu's strength.
Cao Cao occupied Dongjun, and Yuan Shu originally guarded the south. Later, he suppressed the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Qingzhou, collected 300,000 soldiers, and selected the best of them to form the Qingzhou Army. He occupied the Central Plains of Henan and was eventually tabooed by Yuan Shu.
Therefore, Sun Jian followed Yuan Shu's orders to occupy Nanyang and go north to Yuzhou to restrain Cao Cao, who was getting stronger and stronger.
Cao Cao regarded Yuzhou as his confidant and led his army south to confront Sun Jian.
Due to the sudden change in Chang'an at this time and the emperor's return to the east, Yuan Shu followed Jushu's suggestion and sent people to take Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty to the Jizhou governorate, holding the emperor under his command to order the princes!
But in history, Cao Cao could do this, but Yuan Shao couldn't. There were reasons. Yuan Shu had unknowingly dug a big hole for himself, and also laid the groundwork for his future defeat.
This is the overall pattern of today's separatism among heroes. In troubled times, as warlords from various places and noble families compete with each other for hegemony, it will become more and more chaotic.
At this time, Xu Yin went north to Xuchang.
This troubled world has undergone tremendous changes because of him, so he must also turn it back to its original track.