Jiang Sibai quickly put the matter of the body's automatic 'cultivation' into the back of his mind, because it was indeed a serious practice, although it required maintaining a special state of yin and yang connection.
However, the two souls no longer care about what the body is doing. They have been comprehending the Yin and Yang Dao together, and the body is the concrete verification and embodiment of these Dao. It can be said that the division of labor is clear.
Look, this is indeed serious cultivation.
If not, who can maintain the yin and yang connection for a month?
Can the things done by practitioners be called unruly?
During this period, both Jiang Sibai's Yang and Yuan Ling's Yin were improving rapidly.
This is the result of mutual promotion between the two parties.
Even from the very beginning, the two sides supported each other in their cultivation in a way that yin and yang complemented each other, and their yang way and yin way had a very high degree of completion and breadth from the very beginning.
This is to prepare for the future of the Heavenly Emperor and Heavenly Empress, and we must not be careless at all.
During this month, the situation in northern Shu also made progress.
That is, almost every city in northern Shu will be moved to fight hard after seeing Zhe Heng who "fights to the death to escape", and then his morale will drop drastically.
Zheheng, who was praised as an unparalleled general in Shu and was only slightly worse than the champion general, suffered a "consecutive defeat", which greatly damaged the morale of the defenders everywhere.
So that almost every time Zhe Heng went to a city, all he saw were officials from wealthy families whose eyes flickered as if they wanted to catch him and sacrifice him.
This is too shameful.
Shu now has almost half of the wealthy families in the world.
These wealthy families may be confused by bragging, but they are always relatively clear-headed when facing their own interests and inheritance.
They have realized that the unification of the world is inevitable. If they continue to fight, they will lose their lives and wealth. Surrendering can at least save part of their family wealth, but they will have to give up the land and population that their own family has concealed.
This used to be the most hated thing by wealthy families, but now it seems to have become less important.
After all, now that the general trend of the world has been established, and the country of Shu has been completely opened, they must make a decision.
Are you abandoning your homeland and moving out of the Zhou territory?
Or should I just obey the decrees of the Zhou Dynasty and become a rich man?
There is no need to choose, and there is no choice.
Is there any difference between relocating a family and taking out land and people?
Even if they relocate, they won't be able to bring all their followers with them, and they will have to be left abroad and suffer all kinds of uncontrollable risks.
So what else can be done?
Just accept your fate honestly.
In this way, the wealthy families in northern Shu had clearly realized their fate, and chose to surrender on a large scale when they knew that resistance was meaningless.
Zheheng, on the other hand, was driven away by this wave of surrender. Surprisingly, during this period of time, he actually practiced good equestrian skills and also raised an army of tens of thousands of people.
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These are all defeated armies. Being able to gather so many defeated armies in a great rout shows that Zhe Heng is really capable.
Unfortunately, he had no way to retreat, and in the end he could only lead his army to retreat into Duanxia Pass where there were still 3,000 defenders.
Duanxia Pass is an important mountain pass connecting northern Sichuan and central Sichuan, and it is also the last pass blocking the plain in central Sichuan.
If this barrier is broken again, then the Zhou army will be able to defeat it in one fell swoop and bring the entire central Sichuan area under its attack.
The name Duanxia Pass comes from the fact that when you look towards this pass from the Sichuan side, even the clouds on the horizon seem to be cut off by this pass.
It can be seen that this pass is really as steep as any other pass in Shu.
When Zhe Heng came to this level, it was as if he saw an opportunity to start a new life.
He made up his mind to block the Zhou Dynasty's advance through this pass, and then worked hard to train his troops and prepare to defend the pass, waiting for the Zhou army to arrive.
However, what he couldn't understand was why Zhou Jun's march suddenly stopped?
This stop lasted for a month.
Because Yao Ji finally gave birth to a child, Gongsun Zhi temporarily stopped his march, and even personally accompanied his beloved Yao Ji during the confinement period.
Gongsun Zhi's Zhou Dynasty had an orthodox heir. This was a thing that made the kings and ministers of Zhou Dynasty full of joy.
This child had unlimited expectations since he was born, and was given to Jiang Sibai to choose a name.
Jiang Sibai thought about it and felt that he had limited ink in his stomach. After some searching, he gave the child a name with a very good meaning: Zen.
Yes, Gongsun Chan is the name of this child.
Gongsun Zhi and his officials were very satisfied.
Gongsun Zhi's name means "stopping wars and ending chaos", while Gongsun Chan means "the sage king conferred Zen".
This is quite a sense of inheritance.
"Ya Fu is a great talent. I really like this name."
Gongsun Zhi was extremely happy.
Yao Ji, who had just given birth and was already bouncing around but was asked to confine herself, smiled and said, "Husband, my father has already chosen a good name. Why don't you give this child another nickname?"
Hearing this, Gongsun Zhi immediately laughed and said, "Yes, I, as a father, have to think carefully about choosing a nickname."
He pondered for a moment, and then suddenly asked: "Yao'er, didn't you say before that when you were pregnant with this child, you dreamed of Xing Dou falling into your arms?"
Jiang Sibai was stunned at that time, what a coincidence.
Gongsun Zhi continued:
"How about just calling me Ah Xing?"
Jiang Sibai breathed a sigh of relief, ‘A Xing’ was not bad, at least he wasn’t called ‘A Dou’.
If he was really called Adou, wouldn't he have to find a "Zhao Yun" to ride on and kill seven in and seven out of the enemy army?
But as if he knew what he was thinking, Gongsun Zhi already denied it himself: "No, no, it's a little too big to use a star as a nickname. The nickname should be a bit cheap. It's better to call it 'Adou'."
"After all, 'dou' is a carrier, which means to hope for its completion, and it is also said to be a star fight."
Jiang Sibai narrowed his eyes slightly, he didn't expect that such a Gongsun Adou would actually come out.
Although he was involved here, I always felt that this situation was full of a subtle sense of déjà vu.
Forget it, just be Adou. If you train him well, he might be able to become a 'Dou Emperor'.
Jiang Sibai was thinking wildly, but Gongsun Adou's nicknames had already been chosen, and their meanings were very good. This was a very exciting thing for the officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
After a month's pause, Gongsun Zhi took his wife and children and continued to march.
Because the war has been stalled for more than a month due to the birth of this child, it is time to knock down the Duanxia Pass, which can be regarded as a gift to the birth of this young Dou Emperor.
The Zhou army's forwards set out again.
They left the military camp in front of Duanxia Pass and began to attack the pass from the mountain road.
However……
They once again won without a fight, because Duanxia Pass had been deserted before they marched, turning it into an empty city.
The unparalleled general Zhe Heng performed another extraordinary feat, and the door to Shu was completely opened.