Just when Lin Xiao was out of seclusion, a conflict broke out in the Shuiyuan Sect in Zhongzhou. Civil strife broke out in the Shuiyuan Sect. Starting from decades ago, the Qin family began to weaken its support for the Shuiyuan Sect and often withheld resources.
Ji Changming did not dare to fall out with the Qin family, and even secretly complained to the Yi family without any results.
So Ji Changming re-developed his own financial resources, but the financial resources of each sect have not developed slowly over thousands of years. Talents like Lin Xiao are rare, so Ji Changming's plan did not go smoothly. He even
You need to go out to the East China Sea to hunt monsters to subsidize the sect.
But the East China Sea Monster Tribe is not a vegetarian either. After Ji Changming succeeded a few times, they became wary and even almost left Ji Changming on the sea, so that he would never dare to go deep into the East China Sea again.
Therefore, Ji Changming chose to focus on cultivating his own troops. There are about 100,000 people in Shuiyuan Sect. Ji Changming's core troops are more than 20,000 people. The resources of more than 20,000 people can be guaranteed, but the treatment of other people is reduced.
Reduce again.
The disciples were naturally dissatisfied because the sect could not provide benefits. However, Yi Meier had been the one who took care of the situation before. In order to win over people, Yi Meier made great sacrifices. Not only did she make money in public, but she also sold a lot of high-end resources.
But Yi Meier's strength was also limited and she couldn't tell the whole Shuiyuan Sect. So when the war in Dongzhou happened, Yi Meier found a way out and chose to settle down in Dongzhou.
At this time, Haoyang Sect had been established for almost 30 years. After Yi Meier's construction, it had formed its own power, and Yi Meier had been attracting Shuiyuan Sect disciples, and there were almost 20,000 more disciples in these years.
He left the Shuiyuan Sect and joined the Haoyang Sect.
Ji Changming was very anxious about this, but he could not stop these disciples from leaving, because if they stayed, their hearts would be broken, unless he could devote a lot of resources to subsidize the disciples.
The dispersion of disciples has also made the senior leaders of Ji Changming's faction extremely worried. The reason why a second-rate force is a second-rate force is that in addition to having the ancestors of the eighth realm to take charge, it also needs a huge body, otherwise it will not be able to take advantage of its own interests.
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Therefore, under the advice of his disciples, Ji Changming made a stupid move, which was to enslave low-level disciples with high-priced disciples. Under Ji Changming's guidance, the monks under his command began to recruit disciples one after another, and tied up those who had no experience in the relationship between master and disciple.
For disciples who have no power backers, the master needs constant offerings from his disciples, so that they can give them some pointers on their practice, or give them some inferior martial arts skills.
This approach is tantamount to drinking a dove to quench thirst. Although a large amount of wealth can be gathered in a short time, the wealth of low-level disciples is limited. When their pockets are empty and they can no longer make offerings to the master, the master will dislike them.
, treating them as dirt.
Over the years, ordinary low-level disciples have been exploited terribly. Not only have their savings been wiped out, but their cultivation has not made much progress. This makes them dissatisfied. Coupled with the Haoyang Sect's wooing, more and more disciples are leaving.
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This time, a group of thousands of disciples wanted to leave secretly, but their affairs were discovered by Ji Changming's lineage. The monks of Ji Changming's lineage made a lot of money by exploiting their disciples, and they also had a taste of power.
, can arbitrarily instruct the disciples to do some things voluntarily, and the price paid is extremely high, how can they be willing to let them leave, in their hearts, they already regard these disciples as slaves.
Therefore, without informing Ji Changming, hundreds of disciples intervened to intercept, and the conflict broke out. Although there were many disciples who wanted to leave, they were no match for Ji Changming's disciples. More than two hundred people were killed on the spot, and the rest
More than 700 people were all punished by them.
The sect's rules punish them to do hard labor in the mines under the control of the Shuiyuan Sect. This does not cost any wages, just give them food to eat. It is much more cost-effective than simply recruiting miners, and even more cost-effective than recruiting ordinary youths.
It's a good deal to be strong, because the work efficiency of monks is far higher than that of ordinary people.
After Ji Changming found out about this, he wanted to stop it, because he was still unconscious and knew that this move would have endless consequences, but he failed to stop it, because the senior officials in his line of people turned around to stop Ji Changming, on the grounds that doing so would bring him a lot of money.
Gain a lot of benefits, save countless costs, and scare other disciples.
Although Ji Changming has a high status, his power must be supported by his disciples. Without support, he is just a mere commander and is useless.
Wherever there is oppression, there is resistance. After this incident, a large number of disciples fled. Although most of them were arrested and sent to hard labor, the Shuiyuan Sect's strength was greatly reduced because of this, and the sect's number continued to decrease.
, and internal crises began to emerge.
The internal crisis of Shuiyuan Sect comes from forces other than Ji Changming's lineage. Shuiyuan Sect has been inherited for a long time. In addition to Ji Changming, there are many branches. These branches are originally the targets of Ji Changming. They can
No matter how hard you exploited, it didn't happen to them.
But doing so does not mean that they will return. They see that Ji Changming is so stupid, and their lineage is arrogant and domineering. When the lower-level disciples cannot exploit the benefits, they will sooner or later attack them, so these people secretly linked up and went to find them.
Yi Meier, I want to find Yi Meier to come back and take charge of the overall situation.
Yi Meier has settled in Dongzhou for thirty years, and the number of Haoyang Sect disciples has exceeded 80,000. Many of them have participated in the Dongzhou War. Yi Meier is even more aware of the fighting power of these people, so she has been letting them train.
They also go to the wild front lines to hunt monsters, obtain resources, and maintain high combat effectiveness. This group of people is about ten thousand, all of whom are elites of the Haoyang Sect.
Yi Meier received the request for help from the Shuiyuan Sect monks and felt that the opportunity had come to completely solve the Shuiyuan Sect. She immediately summoned 10,000 elites, plus many senior members of the sect, a total of 15,000 people, and prepared to go to Central Continent.
Shuiyuanmen's territory has a part of the sea, which was something she specifically considered when she wanted the site. From the western coast of Dongzhou, you can fly directly to Zhongzhou without having to detour to Wanghai City, and Haoyang Sect and Shuiyuanmen are almost in the same place.
In terms of latitude, we are only separated by the East China Sea.
Yi Meier gathered 300 flying boats in her sect, borrowed 500 more from the five colleges, and then secretly crossed the East China Sea and approached Central Continent.
With Shuiyuanmen disciples acting as internal agents, Yi Meier easily avoided Ji Changming's eyes and ears. Then Yi Meier's troops were divided into two, and 5,000 people, under the guidance of some of the internal agents, went to attack the Shuiyuanmen.
property, especially places like mines, to rescue the disciples who were sentenced to hard labor, while the other ten thousand people went to Shuiyuanmen Mountain Gate.
Shuiyuanmen Mountain Gate is Ji Changming's most heavily defended place. The appearance of Yi Meier's army was quickly discovered by Ji Changming's troops, and they activated the mountain protection formation to block Yi Meier from the mountain gate.
A camp was set up outside the mountain gate.
That night, the disciples from other branches of Shuiyuan Sect suddenly launched a surprise attack, cutting down Ji Changming's disciples, and helped Yi Meier enter. Yi Meier's 10,000 horses rushed into the gate of Shuiyuan Sect.
Ji Changming's power is actually not weak. He has more than 20,000 core disciples and has attracted more than 10,000 people. In recent years, he has been recruiting troops and recruiting new disciples. He has a total of almost 60,000 people under his command, and Yi Meier
There are less than 30,000 people there including internal agents.
But Ji Changming had too many new disciples, and he did not have the money to train his disciples on a large scale, so he had no experience in large-scale battles and was no match for Yi Meier's ten thousand tigers and wolves.
Yi Meier's 10,000 people formed two battle formations. They cooperated with each other and rushed left and right on the battlefield, beating Ji Changming's troops to pieces. Ji Changming and other senior officials also included Yi Meier and his guardians.
High-priced monks restrained.
After a night of fighting, Ji Changming led the remaining 10,000 people to retreat to the three peaks near the main peak of Shuiyuan Gate. The remaining people were either killed or captured. Of course, there were also many who surrendered. By the time
After daybreak, Yi Meier's men and horses fought more and more, and the number of men and horses exceeded 30,000.
Yi Meier surrounded Ji Changming and others and did not attack, because Yi Meier's other troops also achieved great success. Ji Changming sent out only more than 2,000 troops, which were not the opponents of Yi Meier at all. The industries in various places
They were defeated one after another and more than 10,000 disciples who were sentenced to hard labor were rescued.
These people were re-armed by Yi Meier, and they were extremely hostile to the monks of Ji Changming's lineage. They all demanded revenge and gathered inside the Shuiyuan Gate Mountain Gate. Yi Meier's troops increased to more than 50,000.
"Send an order and give Ji Changming an ultimatum. Let him consider it for three days. If he surrenders, spare his life. But if he refuses to surrender, he will break through the formation in three days and leave no chickens or dogs behind."
Yi Meier showed her iron-blooded side, and soon the ultimatum was sent to the mountain. At the same time, Yi Meier found thousands of Shuiyuanmen monks and asked them to shout at the foot of the mountain to ask the monks on the mountain to surrender.
Although there were more than 10,000 monks on the mountain at this time, Ji Changming's core staff actually only had more than 3,000 people, and the rest were all monks who were held hostage.
As soon as the ultimatum came out, some people secretly went down the mountain and surrendered to Yi Meier, including many of Ji Changming's core people, who also felt desperate for Ji Changming.
Ji Changming's diehard loyalists discovered the monks who had fled and surrendered. They were furious and attacked them. Before Yi Meier could launch a general attack, the mountain was already in chaos, so Yi Meier took advantage of the chaos to launch a sect attack. Countless formations formed in the core area of Shuiyuan Gate.
Most of the legal restrictions were unattended, and the power was not used at 30%. Yi Meier successfully attacked the mountain.
After a desperate fight, most of Ji Changming's diehard loyalists were killed. Ji Changming and more than 30 senior officials looted all the treasury on the mountain, including the treasures collected by countless generations of Shuiyuanmen in the secret vault and the scriptures in the Sutra Pavilion.
Kung Fu and martial arts, and before he left, he frantically ordered to blow up the spiritual veins and pollute the spiritual field.
Although there was no success in the end, the spiritual veins on the main peak of Shuiyuan Gate also dropped from the seventh-level low-grade to the sixth-order mid-grade. The high-level spiritual fields were polluted for thousands of acres, which was almost half of all the high-level spiritual fields in the mountain gate. The entire water