Chapter 212: Stirring the Wind and Clouds (Part 1)
Chapter 212
stir up the storm
Chapter 212 Stirring up the storm
Hearing that the Southern Demonic Cult announced the closure of the mountains, the Song State reacted the fastest. All the factions in the world were shocked by the news. When they urgently studied countermeasures, the Song State had already mobilized the troops of the Southern Expedition, appointed by Zhao Kuangyin.
Marshal Liu Wu led an army of 100,000 to conquer Houchu in the south.
Since Nanping had been incorporated into the Song Dynasty and became a province, the government not only did not stop the army from going south, but also provided food, grass, and clothing to the army. Abundant logistics gave the army no worries. The army was accompanied by the Holy Fire Gate, Yuping Gate, and Tianjian Gate.
There are about a thousand elders and disciples from the Chongyang Gate, Daming Temple, Jade Buddha Temple and other sects. Among them, ten masters in the Return to Void Stage and thirty masters in the Transformation Stage are considered an extremely powerful force.
Therefore, when the Song army entered the territory of Hou Shu, both the military cities and the cultivation sects along the way were as if they were faced with a powerful enemy and could not hold out. It was not until the army arrived in Chengdu that the Shushan faction could not bear it anymore and sent an elder to ask the Song army about their intention.
"Li Jun, the poor elder of the inner sect of Shushan, has met with all my Taoist friends. What do you want to do with the heavy troops in our country? Do you want to fight an undeclared war with me in Shushan?" This lean elder of Shushan also returned to the void.
At the middle stage of cultivation, he can be considered a strong man in the world. His beard is as white as middle age, his face is as white as middle age, and his eyes are sharp. He stepped on a snake-shaped sword light and flew straight into the camp. He shouted loudly outside the tent where the cultivators accompanying the army were resting.
When they heard that Shushan was coming, the cultivators in the tent did not dare to neglect the cultivators in the Returning Void Stage, led by Fairy Taiyan and Han'e. They immediately stopped what they were doing and went out of the tent to greet them.
"Hahahaha, it's disrespectful to welcome our distinguished guests from afar. I'm disrespectful. Your sect, don't misunderstand me. The Great Song Dynasty came here to be an enemy of Shushan. It's just that not long ago, our country's Imperial Master You Longzi was attacked by the Southern Demon Cult in Hou Chu.
Although there were no injuries, the Southern Demonic Cult's brazen attack on our Imperial Guard without declaring war with our country was a provocation in the eyes of the Song Dynasty! That's why His Majesty the Emperor ordered the use of troops against Hou Chu to avenge the Imperial Division and the Southern Demonic Cult.
A lesson; secondly, after defeating and occupying Chu, you can fulfill your majesty’s wish to unify the world. It’s just destiny. I hope your faction understands the direction of heaven.” Taiyan laughed boldly and dismissed the other party’s accusations in a few words.
Everything was clean.
"Yes, the Southern Demon Cult deceives people too much." "The people of Later Chu are in dire straits under the oppressive rule of the Demon Cult, and we need to wait for the Heavenly Master to come and rescue them." "That's right, the demon sect in the world has been around for a long time, I, Song Hengkong
I was born to clear away the evil atmosphere and restore peace to the world." "It's really not difficult for the Southern Demon Cult to come to provoke us first." As soon as Tai Yanren finished speaking, the other masters of the Return to Void Stage agreed one after another.
"Oh? So you are here just to attack Houchu Chu and have no other intention?" Li Jun's face softened slightly and he seemed to be relieved, but then he straightened his face and said: "If you want to attack Houchu Chu, why did you join me?"
The border of Hou Shu?"
"Ah, fellow Taoist, I don't know." Fairy Han'e's voice sounded like a clear spring, making people feel relieved. "Since we, the Song Dynasty, are going to defeat and occupy Houchu this time, we naturally cannot rely solely on us cultivators, but the main thing is
Do we have to rely on these ordinary soldiers and fellow Taoists to say yes or no?"
Fairy Han'e is as beautiful as a fairy. Although she is covered with a veil, her sweet voice still makes people fall in love with her. Li Jun is no exception. She moves her hands lightly and shrinks the "Han Jade Cold Light Screen" to the size of half a palm, like a ball of ice crystals.
She couldn't help rolling her palms, exuding waves of cold air. Her beautiful eyes looked at Li Jun with a hint of coldness and said calmly.
The peaceful world of cultivation is actually cruel and full of killings, conspiracies, and disasters. If a cultivator can stand out and become a master in the return stage, he has to go through many hardships and adventures; especially women, who are naturally weaker than men, are at a disadvantage.
The difficulty of cultivation for female cultivators is ten times more difficult than that for male cultivators.
Therefore, there are very few female cultivators who can stand out in the world of cultivation and become masters of the Returning Void Stage. They all have well-known names and most of them are the wives of the head teachers of a certain sect. Like Fairy Hanyue, she is still single and controls the rapid development of a family.
, the masters of sects who have a faint tendency to become large sects are simply rare.
Although people in the world of cultivators are busy cultivating human relationships and are relatively indifferent, it does not mean that they have annihilated their passions. Female cultivators like Fairy Han'e who value both beauty and strength in wisdom and wealth can be regarded as "stars" among cultivators.
Many practitioners pursue her out of greed, admiration, or sincere cultivators. Even in various sects, there are many such pursuers of Fairy Han'e.
It's just that the skills practiced by Fairy Han'e are biased toward the cold attribute, so she is cold-hearted and never treats her suitors with words like icebergs, which makes many suitors sigh with regret. But as the saying goes, the best is the good that is not available. Han
Fairy E'e's singleness and indifference gave her a strange charm, so those cultivators were even more eager to give up. All kinds of entanglements made her secretly annoyed. (I don't know whether she was annoyed by the fly-like suitors or by the pursuers.
He does not have a "someone" whom he expresses affectionately.) However, in terms of influence alone, Fairy Han'e can be regarded as the first person in the Song Dynasty since Yunlong.
Although Li Jun devoted himself to practicing Qingxin, he did not dare to neglect Fairy Han'e. Moreover, what the other party said was right. He nodded quickly and said: "Yes, although we cultivators can interfere in the affairs of the mortal world at certain times, we must not.
If the entanglement of cause and effect is too deep, the Taoist heart will be corrupted. This matter of mortal war must mainly be accomplished by mortals themselves."
"That's it." Fairy Han'e continued, "But the road between the Song Dynasty and the Later Chu Dynasty is far away. These soldiers are all mortals. If they only find their way within our country, it will take several years. In this way, not only the saddle horses will be tired
Moreover, it will consume countless grains and fodder and only consume the national strength. Therefore, we decided to take a shortcut from Hou Shu to attack Hou Chu. This can not only reduce consumption, but also have an unexpected effect."
After hearing this, Li Jun's face twitched slightly and he resisted the urge to roll his eyes. He snorted coldly. The other party was obviously talking nonsense. Indeed, if the Song Dynasty bypassed Hou Shu and attacked Hou Chu from the original southern Tang Dynasty, the distance would be greatly increased and it would cost a lot of money.
Food and physical strength; but although it is relatively close to reach Houchu from Houshu, one key factor cannot be ignored—the terrain!
"The road to Shu is as difficult as the blue sky." This poem talks about the difficulty of the road to Shu. If ordinary people want to pass through Shu, it will be difficult for ordinary people to climb to the sky unless they are locals who are familiar with the terrain. Most of the soldiers in the Song Dynasty were from the north for a long time.
In the flat and vast northern land, you may not even see hills. If you want to easily pass through the mountains, rivers, valleys and high mountains in Houchu, it is simply a dream.
Even if they can finally get out of Shu after going through all kinds of hardships, the time it will take will definitely be much longer than the detour from the Southern Tang Dynasty. "Fellow Taoist, I belong to the righteous sect and it is my duty to eliminate demons and defend the Tao, but don't treat us as fools.
The purpose is to tell the truth." Li Jun pointed at the soldiers standing guard around him and said: "Although these soldiers are strong, their physical strength is far from reaching the point where they can still be vigorous and vigorous after crossing the Shu Road."
"Fellow Taoist, you are too worried. My soldiers of the Song Dynasty can do anything different. Please take a closer look here." After hearing Li Jun's words, Fairy Han'e's eyes flashed with a hint of understanding. Her veiled face smiled silently, and her slender jade fingers pointed at that place.
Several soldiers.
Li Jun followed the direction of Fairy Han'e's fingers and finally discovered that the soldiers were different from the Houshu soldiers he had seen before: there were talismans on both sides of their legs with some simple talismans drawn on them. There were also some simple talismans in the middle.
There is an image of a horse outlined in cinnabar.
"Magic Talisman! You actually equip every ordinary soldier with a Divine Talisman? This... this is really too..." Li Jun swallowed the "prodigal" in his mouth. He finally discovered this
The difference among the 100,000 Song soldiers was that they actually had two "divine walking talismans" affixed to both sides of their legs!
The Divine Walking Talisman is one of the most basic talismans in Taoism, along with the evil-avoiding talisman and the ghost-expelling talisman. It can be activated only by blood energy, and even ordinary people can use it. If it is attached to the side of the leg, it can speed up the tutorial to walk 800 times a day.
Li, traveling five hundred miles at night, as light as a swallow and as fast as a galloping horse.
Since it requires very little spiritual energy and the materials are very simple, even a newbie who has just entered the Qi training period can refine it. The specific method is to find a piece of yellow paper, grind it with cinnabar, and then write down the divine lines on the yellow paper.
Fu Yan then inputs a trace of spiritual energy into it, which is approximately equivalent to a day's practice for a cultivator in the early stage of Qi training. After inputting the spiritual energy, he can complete the last stroke of the talisman at the same time.
Since yellow paper and cinnabar are the most basic materials in the world of cultivation, even if they are sold in the secular world, almost every cultivator who has practiced how to refine talisman paper has refined the popular talisman such as the Divine Walking Talisman.
Law. However, as the saying goes, a little makes a lot. Even if the poorest materials are collected by 100,000 people, they can be piled as high as a hill.
The amount of yellow paper and cinnabar consumed by the same 100,000-person magical talisman should not be underestimated. The cumulative value of the huge amount is almost equivalent to that of a magic weapon. This does not take into account the scrap rate and time consumed. In order to
It's no wonder that walking faster has paid such a big price. It's no wonder that Li Jun feels that this is a wasteful behavior. You must know that he didn't receive the best magic weapon from the sect until he became a master in the Return to Void Stage. He won't repeat it, only one.
The dilemma of the high-grade magic weapon. This is still the case when a top sect like the Shushan Sect is replaced by an ordinary small sect, even if it is the treasure of the sect, it may not be as good as the high-grade magic weapon.
"Now, fellow Taoist, I understand. With the help of the magic talisman, crossing the Shu road will no longer be difficult and will become like walking on flat ground. If the local people in Hou Shu cooperate with me, the Song army will be able to march into Hou Chu in less than a month."
The troops are coming to Changsha!" Fairy Han'e saw the dumbfounded look of Li Jun, an elder of the inner sect who was considered to be a high-ranking person in Shushan. In addition to being amused, she felt a sigh of relief in her heart.
When Yunlong took out the mountain of magical talismans from the ring space and placed them in front of her and Tai Yanren, the strong impact was simply more shocking than the shock of a first-class magic weapon being completely destroyed in front of their eyes - not to mention a hundred thousand divine talismans.
The value of the talisman is more than one piece of magic weapon, but the visual impact caused by too many.
She was very curious about where Yunlong got so many magical talismans? One hundred thousand in total. Even Maoshan and Dunjia Sect, who are good at talismans, couldn't come up with such a big deal. It's not that they don't have enough wealth, but they are completely
You can't use so many magical talismans. After all, apart from making your body as light as a swallow and speeding up walking, the magical talismans have no use. Only low-level cultivators and cautious cultivators will carry some with them to save energy when they are on the road.
Therefore, usually these sects do not reserve so many magical talismans. Even if they have enough cinnabar and yellow paper, they are used to refine other talisman papers. It is impossible to "waste" these lowest-level talisman papers.
In response to her question, Yunlong just smiled mysteriously and said: "It was a gift from a friend." He didn't say anything more. In fact, Yunlong didn't lie to her. These 100,000 magical talismans were actually sent by Yun Canghai's clone.
The Yin-Yang Sect in Haizhou produced the Yin-Yang Sect and the Vinaya Sect, which monopolized the entire cultivation world in Haizhou. There are many disciples. After hundreds of years of development, except for the core disciples who are still carefully selected, the remaining outer disciples, disciples and grandsons are all over the place.
There are tens of thousands of disciples and believers in Beppu, Fentan, temples and other places. Although the quality of them varies, they have all received basic cultivation education and are still within their ability to make these lowest level magic talismans.
As for the materials, Haizhou has many volcanoes and earthquakes. Cinnabar is originally a sulfide ore. It can be said to be everywhere in Haizhou. As for yellow paper, it is easier to make. Papermaking technology has been very developed in this era. The paper is soaked in lime water and then dried.
The paper is yellow. With the support of huge manpower and material resources, one hundred thousand magical talismans were made in just two days and then sent to the Song Dynasty via Yunlong.
But the relationship between the Yin Yang Sect and him was still a secret, and it was not the time to reveal it yet, so Yun Long did not tell anyone else. As a result, Fairy Han'e became even more curious about Yun Long. She felt that this man seemed to be shrouded in a mist.
It was so mysterious that it was impossible for people to see clearly. It also aroused his huge curiosity. Yunlong didn't tell her, but she wanted to know the secret. But what she didn't know was that when a woman becomes curious about another man,
It often means that being "interested" in this man is not far away from being captured by one's heart.
After shaking off the thoughts in her mind, Fairy Han'e felt her heart beating a little too fast. She suddenly lost interest in talking and nodded apologetically to Li Jun before returning to the tent.
Although he was a little puzzled by Fairy Han'e's sudden departure, Tai Yanren reacted quickly and quickly raised his hands and said to Li Jun: "Haha, fellow Taoist Han'e may be feeling a little uncomfortable today. Don't take it personally. We have also explained the reason for entering Houshu."
Elder Li should explain it to the master and the real person after he returns to the mission."
What can Li Jun say now? The other party has made it clear that he would rather be a prodigal than pass through Houshu. The two of them are not hostile now, and they are here to "eliminate demons and defend the Tao". Of course, it is difficult to stop them, although they know that the other party must have a "conspiracy".
"But there is no excuse to stop it, so I can only say depressedly: "It turns out that I am so poor, I will definitely report this to the headmaster after I return. I wish you all a quick success in eliminating the demons and say goodbye!" Said Ran and everyone returned to the virtual world.
Grandmaster Qi said goodbye one by one, and then with a flash of sword light, he left with his sword.
After reaching an understanding with the Shushan sect, the Song Dynasty army continued to advance all the way through mountains and rivers. Because of the blessing of the divine talisman, the army moved very fast. At that time, the land of Shu was still mostly high mountains. The overlapping mountains were like natural walls that bound Sichuan and Shu.
The earth is isolated from the outside world. Except for birds, no matter whether humans or animals want to get out of the complex and steep terrain, they have no other way to get out of the outside world except by walking on a few ancient roads that have been explored since ancient times. Due to the inconvenience of transportation, most people are trapped in one place and separated from each other.
There was little communication between them. Fortunately, the land of Sichuan had outstanding people and good weather conditions, and it was able to produce enough food for the people to eat and drink, which meant that it was a "small country with few people".
However, inconvenient transportation not only hinders travel, but also hinders the circulation of culture and economy. Because the mountain roads are difficult to walk, even the locals who have been climbing mountains and ridges here since childhood can only travel far away during the holidays for production and exchange purposes.
Return some clothes, money and goods. Moreover, the politics of Later Shu was corrupt, corrupt officials were rampant and exploited the people. Thanks to the good weather, there was no large-scale famine. Therefore, although the people's lives were barely enough for food and clothing, they were definitely not wealthy.
Faced with such a situation, the "righteous and benevolent" Song army naturally could not "sit idly by". So the Song army immediately dispatched a group of special troops. They looked serious, were polite and wore standard clothes, but "righteously" destroyed those troops.
The tax cards set up by corrupt officials entered the villages and towns to listen to the complaints of the people, and they were like a master in the blue sky who adjudicated and avenged the grievances of the people. After the ruling, they formed a team and broke into the county government office to confront the corrupt officials with "righteous words"
Court.
Since corrupt officials can do unscrupulous things, their consciences will naturally be eaten by dogs. How can they care about these outsiders? Naturally, they sent government officials to drive them away. When they saw that "persuasion and education" were ineffective, these originally polite soldiers immediately transformed into martial arts heroes.
With three punches and two kicks, these lackeys were beaten until they were completely pissed and fled.