Chapter 87 Preparations Before the Tutu War (Seeking to Read)
Since the beginning of time, war has always been fought before the soldiers and horses have used food and grass.
The news of the Tutu War has not yet spread, but the prices of elixirs, talismans, magic tools, magic formations and other resources in several major cities in southern Xinjiang have already increased to varying degrees.
Thanks to their marriage to the Ge family, the Zhao family became the second family to know the inside story.
Zhao Sheng knew very well that the news could not be kept secret for long.
It can take as long as one month and as little as seven or eight days.
The news that Patriarch Yuye plans to launch a land expansion war will inevitably spread throughout southern Xinjiang.
Southern Xinjiang has not launched a territorial expansion war for nearly five hundred years.
Zhao Sheng could imagine that if a big, fragrant cake was suddenly placed in front of countless immortal cultivators in southern Xinjiang, it would definitely attract countless participants eager to eat the war dividends.
This is a carnival feast shared by sects, cultivating families and casual cultivators.
By then, many immortal-cultivating families will surely rise up, and some forces will suffer heavy casualties and then languish or even disappear.
War is always cruel, and war in the world of immortality is especially so.
The territorial consciousness of monster beasts is particularly strong. If cultivators want to open up a new fertile land for humanity in southern Xinjiang, they must start a protracted, life-and-death war with thousands of monster beasts.
For the Zhao family, the land expansion war was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Because there is a recognized tradition in the war of territorial expansion, that is, whoever conquers it will occupy it! Whoever develops it will own it.
To put it simply, if you can occupy a piece of spiritual land and successfully open it up.
Then, this spiritual land belongs to you.
The reason for this tradition is that "a single tree cannot make a forest".
Developing an area is never something that one or two people or even one or two forces can easily accomplish.
Even if the Danding Sect is strong enough to do it, if they choose to eat alone, they will still cause public outrage.
After the ancestors of Yulin cut off the largest piece of cake, they would often release the remaining corners for other forces to snatch.
It's just that there are countless immortal cultivating families and sects in southern Xinjiang. Which forces will be chosen to participate will depend on the personal opinions of Yulin Patriarch.
And this is the opportunity for the Zhao family.
Long before he came back, Zhao Xuanan took his wife Ge Feng'er back to the Ge family to visit relatives.
It was obviously to visit relatives, but in fact it was to inquire about news.
Once any useful information is obtained, it will be immediately transmitted back to Taiwu Mountain.
The Zhao family has three foundation-building monks. Zhao Sheng sits in Taiwu Mountain and is responsible for summarizing and analyzing intelligence, mobilizing and issuing various instructions to the clan members at any time.
Zhao Jinjian, who has reached the third level of foundation building, is the strongest. He is currently in Jiudingfang City, purchasing elixirs and other materials for his family while protecting the safety of his people and materials.
In order to secretly collect supplies, most of the more than thirty immortal cultivators from the Zhao family have dispersed to Jiudingfang City.
Zhao Keru plunged into the alchemy room and began to refine various elixirs such as Miasma-Breaking Pills and Rejuvenation Pills day and night.
There are many deep mountains and old forests in the wilderness of the southern border, and they are full of miasma poisonous insects. The Miasma-Breaking Pill is a must-have pill.
Rejuvenation Pill is a healing elixir, needless to say.
In order to obtain ownership of a piece of spiritual land, the Zhao family used all their strength and resources this time.
Time passed day by day, and countless expired information was ruthlessly torn off the wall in front of Zhao Sheng, but more notes would be posted.
On the day when the Tutu War broke out across southern Xinjiang, the Zhao family had only completed half of its material reserve work.
Zhao Sheng was very worried, not because of lack of supplies, but because he discovered that the family had a weakness that was difficult to make up for.
Most importantly, this weakness is likely to determine the family's final success or failure.
In the early morning of the next day, smoke curled up from cooking fires in Zhao'an City, and everything was quiet and peaceful.
But in the city lord's palace in the center of the inner city, the atmosphere became extremely tense, and the servants and maids in the palace did not dare to take a breath.
Zhao Sheng sat at the top of the hall, silently watching the seven Zhao clan members below.
Nearly thirty years have passed since Zhao'an City was built, and the Zhao family has multiplied from more than 3,000 people to nearly 10,000 people.
But among these nearly ten thousand people, there were only seven innate warriors in total.
For the Zhao family, who started out as a martial artist, the number of people was a bit small.
You must know that the Zhao family gives out a lot of essence pills every year, plus many experience notes left by the innate warriors of the Zhao family in the past generations.
The Zhao family should not only have seven innates. In Zhao Sheng's opinion, there should be at least more than ten.
It is said that one is born in sorrow and dies in happiness!
"Alas, it seems that Mr. Zhao has become slack again over the years!"
After Zhao Sheng sighed secretly, his face became extremely cold.
He turned to look at the anxious current patriarch of the Zhao Mortal Clan beside him, and ordered in a cold voice: "I don't care what method you use. Within one year, we must gather twenty innates, one less. Your clan leader's
Just give your seat to someone else!"
Hearing this strict request, the Zhao clan leader, who is known for his shrewdness and hard work, almost cried.
The Xiantian Grandmaster is not a cabbage, so it can be grown just as long as it takes.
He was about to open his mouth to beg for mercy, but after seeing Zhao Sheng's serious expression, he swallowed back the words that came to his lips and could only nod silently.
The Zhao family now has a very difficult weakness.
In a normal immortal cultivating family, the strength of the clan members from top to bottom is often in the shape of a pyramid.
However, the Zhao family is in the shape of a dumbbell with high sides and a low middle. The backbone of Qi refining in the middle and late stages is seriously scarce.
As the older generations of the Zhao family, such as Zhao Jinding and others, passed away one after another, the total number of the Zhao family's Kezi and Chongzhi generations was only twelve. There were only two in the late stage of Qi refining, six in the middle stage, and the remaining four were in the early stage of Qi refining.
Of great use.
When it comes to the Xuan generation, the number of people is almost thirty, but Zhao Xuanjing, who has the highest level of cultivation, cannot reach the eighth level of Qi refining, the second highest, Zhao Xuanan, can only reach the sixth level of Qi refining, and most of the others can only reach the first or second level of Qi refining.
Zhao Sheng had secretly estimated that the strongest among the three foundation-building monks in his family was only at the third level of foundation-building, and Zhao Keru was not good at fighting.
It is not impossible to conquer a spiritual land with the strength of the three of them, but it is very difficult.
This is nothing.
What's even more difficult is how to keep one's soul intact under the prying eyes of outsiders and monsters.
However, the most troublesome thing for the Zhao family now is the serious shortage of available manpower.
You must know that in opening up new spiritual lands in the southern wilderness, ordinary people will not be able to use them at all, and at least they must be innate warriors.
Because it is extremely difficult for ordinary people to adapt to the extremely harsh environment in the wilderness. Sometimes a bit of miasma can take away a person's life, not to mention those ferocious monsters and insects.
Unfortunately, the Zhao family's financial resources are too thin, far less rich than other established foundation-building families, and they cannot afford to hire casual cultivators to help them.
Join forces with other families?
Zhao Sheng would not choose to do this unless he had to.
Because mutual trust is a big issue.
You can never underestimate the desire of a cultivating family for their own spiritual land.
Similarly, you can't trust any family's promise, even if you sign a blood contract.
In the hierarchical world of immortality cultivation in Zhongzhou, if a family of immortality cultivation does not have its own spiritual land, it will always be at the bottom of the world.
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