Even though the monks in Taicheng County were good at concealment, they could not hide the large-scale deployment of manpower and supplies from others.
Although the Duanyun Mountain Range towers into the clouds, it does not prevent monks from the north and south of the mountain range from traveling to and fro. Especially some accomplished monks often enter Qidafang City, a vassal of the Qingxuan Sect, to purchase some specialties from the Southern Wilderness.
Soon, news of the large-scale development of Chaoyin Mountain by the Qingxuan Sect and Taicheng County monks spread to the northern part of the Duanyun Mountains and even reached the ears of the Hongshan Sect monks.
In the past hundred years or so, because there is no longer the suppression of Xuan Su Palace, the order of the Yu Kingdom's immortal world has become a little chaotic.
Even though each of the four major sects has its own sphere of influence, small-scale conflicts and temptations still arise one after another.
The Hongshan Sect is located in the northern part of the Duanyun Mountains. Compared to the Qingxuan Sect, the area they control is already considered the hinterland of mankind. Except for the Duanyun Mountains, which are connected to the Southern Wilderness, the three counties they control have not been plagued by monsters or monsters.
Although the Hongshan Sect only has eleven Zifu monks, they do not need to guard against large-scale monster invasions, and relatively speaking they can mobilize more masters.
Qingliang Mountain is located in the north of the Duanyun Mountains. The straight-line distance from Chaoyin Mountain is only more than 8,000 miles, which is closer than the Zhang family, Wu family, Liu family and other Taicheng County Xiuxian families.
However, due to the barrier of the Duanyun Mountain Range, it is difficult for the two places to contact and communicate with each other. Except for accomplished monks, even those in the Qi-training stage would break their muscles and bones once they cross the Duanyun Mountain Range, and they may lose their lives if they are not careful.
The Xiao family in Qingliang Mountain is also a family that has been inherited for more than 500 years. There is only one monk in the foundation building period in the family. The size of his family is less than half that of the Zhang family, with less than fifty monks.
At this time, in the living room of the Xiao family in Qingliang Mountain, Xiao Hongxuan, the head of the Xiao family on the third floor of the Foundation Building, was accompanying the last person. There were more than a dozen monks in the foundation building period sitting above him. The leader of the group had a deep cultivation base, and was faintly exuding a
There is a faint pressure, and it seems that the Zi Mansion has been opened.
The man glanced at everyone and said, "What is going on in Chaoyin Mountain?"
Zhao Qingnian, the head of the Zhao family in Qingwutan, seems to have a good relationship with this Zifu monk. Qingwutan is also located at the northern foot of Duanyun Mountain. There are three foundation-building monks in the Zhao family. They often pass through Taicheng County and enter Black Mountain. For
The families in Taicheng County also knew very well that the Zhao family's foundation-building monks were the first to discover the abnormality about Chaoyin Mountain, so Zhao Qingnian was the first to speak.
"Senior Mu, according to our understanding, Chaoyin Mountain was just a barren mountain in the past. The Ma family, a foundation-building family in Taicheng County, mined echo stones on this mountain, and nothing too precious was produced.
However, a year ago, the spiritual energy near this mountain began to become more and more abundant. In a short period of time, Qingxuan Sect cooperated with the five major families in Taicheng County to cultivate spiritual veins on the mountain, and also set up powerful formations to
The whole mountain is wrapped in thick fog.
In addition, the five foundation-building families in Taicheng County also deployed a large number of manpower to build cities on Chaoyin Mountain, and now five towns have been built and hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland have been reclaimed."
Hearing Zhao Qingnian's words, Zifu monk Mu Huaishan frowned and said, "So, Qingxuanzong has found great benefits in Chaoyin Mountain?"
"According to our estimation, judging from the manpower they mobilized and the layout they made, I am afraid they have discovered the Lingshi mine. As for the scale of the Lingshi mine, it should not be considered very large. If the scale of the Lingshi mine is large, Qing
I'm afraid Xuanzong will not allow the Taicheng County Zhuji family to interfere." Zhao Qingnian nodded and said with certainty.
These monks gathered in the Xiao family in Qingliang Mountain are all monks from Jiangkou County of Yu State. Jiangkou County has been developed for more than three thousand years and has a stronger population and farmland than Taicheng County. There are eleven of them in one county.
The number of Ji-building families is almost twice that of Taicheng County.
However, there are only eighteen foundation-building monks in Jiangkou County, only five more than Taicheng County. However, the Taicheng County monks often fight against monsters, and their experience is far greater than that of Jiangkou County, which has been stable for many years. If the family monks in the two counties are larger
In a large-scale battle, without the intervention of the sect behind the scenes, the monks in Jiangkou County may not be the opponents of Zhang Zhixuan and others.
Moreover, the family in Taicheng County has successively produced two Zifu-level monks, leaving some powerful back-up players. Even though the Zhang family has exhausted the fourth-level spiritual talismans, their foundation-building monks are all powerful in terms of vision and skills.
It is more powerful than ordinary foundation-building families.
Mu Huaishan is the elder of the Zifu of the Hongshan Sect. He has opened the Zifu for less than a year, and his cultivation level is only the second level of the Zifu. Although he is not a local monk in Jiangkou County, his early wife was from the Zhao family.
The monks of the Zhao family were quite helpful to him in his early years. So after Zhao Qingnian noticed the anomaly in Chaoyin Mountain, he immediately wrote a letter and invited Mu Huaishan to Qingliang Mountain to discuss this important matter.
"The Lingshi mine has been discovered in Chaoyin Mountain, what are your plans?" Mu Huaishan asked with a frown.
Zhao Qingnian was related to Mu Huaishan and said directly without any politeness: "Chaoyin Mountain belongs to the Duanyun Mountains and is not the territory of the Qingxuan Sect. This place where the two sides meet is not owned by the Qingxuan Sect. We would like to invite you
Senior Mu, on behalf of the Hongshan Sect, makes decisions for our monks in Jiangkou County and takes the lead in fighting against the monks of the Qingxuan Sect."
The monks in Jiangkou County have a large number of people, but the resources they produce may not be as good as those in Taicheng County, which is close to the southern wilderness. When they heard that the Lingshi mine was discovered in Chaoyin Mountain, they all wanted the Hongshan Sect to take the lead in fighting for it.
Mu Huaishan himself was not satisfied with the fact that the Lingshi Mine in Chaoyin Mountain was occupied by the Qingxuan Sect monks. However, he could not make the decision alone on such a major matter as the conflict with the Qingxuan Sect. This required a joint decision by the senior monks of the sect.
If Qingxuanzong is not prepared, they can still provoke a small-scale conflict, but Qingxuanzong has deployed a fourth-level formation, which will have no effect unless there is a large-scale siege.
Mu Huaishan looked at the dozen or so foundation-building monks who looked hopeful, and said cautiously: "I am willing to fight for you. But for such a big matter, you still have to report it to the sect and ask Patriarch Yang to take it.
idea.
You should make some preparations first, prepare enough food, grass and spiritual rice, and then send people to Taicheng County to find out information. It is best to find out the situation in Chaoyin Mountain. Wait until I go back to report to Old Ancestor Yang and see what Old Ancestor Yang means.
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Mu Huaishan made arrangements that day, and then hurriedly flew back to Hongshan Sect to ask Patriarch Yang for instructions.
Hongshan Sect is located in the east of Yu State, on the fifth-level spiritual vein of Dahong Mountain. It controls three counties in the east of Yu State. These three counties are all well-developed mature lands, and their population and farmland far exceed those of the three southeastern counties.
county.
With a sufficient population base, more monks can be born, so in terms of the number of monks alone, the Hongshan Sect is almost twice as many as the Qingxuan Sect.
However, in the past few hundred years, the development of Hongshan Sect has been far inferior to that of Qingxuan Sect.
Since a hundred years ago, Qingxuan Sect's Zifu monks have surpassed Hongshan Castle. In the past hundred years, Qingxuan Sect has successively had three foundation-building monks, Hu Peiyu, Wu Siheng, and Han Wangpeng, who have successfully opened up Zifu, while Hongshan Sect has recently succeeded in opening up Zifu.
In more than a hundred years, only Mu Huaishan became a monk in the Zifu Stage.
The Qingxuan Sect became more and more prosperous, and the Hongshan Sect, which bordered them, became more and more worried.
As Mu Huaishan brought back the news that the Qingxuan Sect had discovered another Lingshi mine, it made Hongshan Sect Yang Patriarch even more worried. Once the Lingshi mine is on the right track, it will provide more resources for the Qingxuan Sect and provide more resources to the Qingxuan Sect.
They train more monks. If the power of Qingxuan Sect becomes stronger and stronger, it will gradually encroach on the sphere of influence of Hongshan Sect.
In the past thousand years, Qingxuan Sect has not only pioneered in the southern wilderness, but has also vigorously supported the foundation-building families under its command in the north, close to the Hongshan Sect.
This is how foundation-building families such as the Ma family in Jiufengshan and the Zhu family in Liucheng developed.
In order to suppress the development of Qingxuanzong, Patriarch Yang made up his mind to fight against Qingxuanzong and suppress Qingxuanzong after careful consideration.
After all, Qingxuanzong had just captured Shuangjiao Mountain and controlled six fourth-level spiritual veins in the Southern Wilderness. These six fourth-level spiritual veins were inseparable from the guarding of the Zifu monks.
Although they have thirteen Zifu monks, they cannot mobilize too many manpower. Compared with the Hongshan Sect, they are probably at a disadvantage.