The two Zhao family golden elixirs wanted to go to Emperor Zhao, but they also knew that Hanjiang was a very important matter and had to be guarded by trustworthy people.
As for the monks from the two sects who had just surrendered, not to mention that they were worried, Wang Daoyuan did not dare to be completely relieved.
Everyone stayed at Hanjiang Pass for two days, during which time they went out of the city several times to tease Wei Jindan.
The forces of Wei State quickly withdrew. They could not figure out what was going on with Zhao State now, and they should not attack Hanjiang Pass again in the short term.
Now that something has happened, Wang Daoyuan left all the Zhao family's Jindan and below monks at Hanjiang Pass. The Jindan monks were still the two from the Zhao family and Yuyang Zhenren.
The others left Hanjiang Pass and returned to Sunset Valley.
The monks who stayed behind in Sunset Valley were not idle either, and now they had found out the situation in Sanhefang City.
After the Netherworld Sect surrendered, the defeat of the three sects was determined.
The defensive value of Sanhefang City was almost gone. All the people withdrew from Sanhefang City, taking away all the local products and even destroying the defensive formation.
Without a defensive formation, it would not be very interesting to capture Sanhefang City.
The monks from the Netherworld Sect also reported the battle situation south of the river.
Emperor Zhao led a group of Zhao family golden elixirs and swept all the way westward from Linchuan County in the east.
The Wanling Sect monks no longer dared to guard the Lingshi Mine and directly abandoned Linchuan and Longpan counties.
To the west of Longpan County is Zhennan County, and to the west of Zhennan County is Wanling County where the gate of Wanling Sect is located.
Wanlingzong Mountain Gate is still located in the southeast of Wanling County, not far from Zhennan County.
Therefore, Zhennan County Wanling Sect will never give up.
Zhennan County has a lot of fourth-level spiritual veins. Wanling Sect can rely on the fourth-level defensive formation to deal with the Zhao family.
Now, Emperor Zhao has led his men to capture half of Zhennan County, and the two sides are fighting in the middle of Zhennan County.
Wang Daoyuan was appointed as Shannan's envoy to attack the Netherworld Sect and Canyang Palace.
Now that the two sects have been captured, before receiving new orders, Wang Daoyuan can only temporarily stay in Canyang Palace and send a message to Emperor Zhao for instructions on the next step.
During this period, Wang Daoyuan could not be idle.
Under the leadership of Qian Yang, he came to the secret realm of Setting Sun Palace.
The three major sects can hide so many golden elixir monks mainly because of the secret realm.
Otherwise, there would be so much noise during the Golden Pill Heavenly Tribulation that it would be impossible to hide it from anyone.
Wang Daoyuan had also entered the Netherworld Sect's secret realm before. It was a relatively small secret realm, only more than twenty miles in diameter.
There is only one fourth-order low-grade non-attribute spiritual vein and one third-order high-grade Yin vein. They are both very small in size and can barely support a Golden Core cultivator to survive the tribulation.
Because it is a special place for overcoming tribulations, there are no souvenirs.
The secret realm of Setting Sun Palace is much larger, with a diameter of hundreds of miles.
The middle of this secret realm is a huge lava lake, and the edges are rocks formed after the lava solidified.
The spiritual power in the lava is also extremely rich, reaching the level of the fourth-order mid-grade.
In the lava lake, there is also a fourth-level low-grade earth fire. This earth fire is the core of the lava secret realm.
Once taken away, the lava realm will collapse.
Earth fire is the most common among spiritual fires, with fire attributes as the main element and earth attributes as the supplement.
Wang Daoyuan just looked at it and did not touch it.
After all, Can Yang Palace has surrendered, so this is Emperor Zhao's property.
No one said anything about getting some souvenirs, but if a secret place was destroyed, it would be a big deal.
Besides, he doesn't lack such a fire.
Qian Yang took out a Qiankun Ring from the cave, raised his hand to Wang Daoyuan and said: "Your Majesty, although I don't have the blood of the Zhao family on my hands, I was born in the Setting Sun Palace after all.
In the future, I will most likely be oppressed in the Zhao Kingdom, so I want to beg for food under the command of the prince.
When your majesty puts down the rebellion and rewards the heroes, please ask the prince to give me a few words of kindness, if he can fix my fiefdom in Qingli County, even if it is in the bitter cold land in the north of the mountain."
Wang Daoyuan smiled and said: "This is easy to say, but I can only say a few good words. I can't make the final decision on how your Majesty decides."
Qian Yang's face was full of excitement: "It would be great if the prince can help me. There are some local specialties from Canyang Palace here. I hope the prince will accept them."
Wang Daoyuan's favorite thing was local specialties, so he naturally would not refuse and accepted the Qiankun Ring.
The space is not small, thirty feet square.
Inside were several third- and fourth-level weapon refining materials commonly found in lava, as well as a small amount of animal skin books and jade slips, which should be the inheritance of Can Yang Palace. Wang Daoyuan was very satisfied with this local product.
After leaving the secret realm, I quickly received a message from Zhou Luan.
The Wanling Sect sent people to Wuchengguan to contact the Song State, and most of them had the intention of surrendering to the Song State.
Wang Daoyuan had already expected this. Song Yan was a guy who took advantage of everything he saw.
When they captured Wucheng Pass before, the Song Dynasty suffered a lot of losses, but those who died were all Jindan from affiliated forces, and the Song family members were not harmed.
Although the fierce battle with Zhao Guo for many years has consumed a lot of materials, it is much better than Zhao Guo being washed away by the flames of war.
Therefore, the possibility of Song State's involvement is not small now.
With the current strength of the Zhao family, even if the Song Dynasty invaded, they would not be able to swallow up the entire Zhao country.
There were Qi, Chu and Wu in the rear waiting to take advantage, and the Song Dynasty did not dare to play such a big game again.
The most that can be done is to recruit the Wanling Sect and capture the entire Wucheng County.
The entry of the Song Dynasty would actually be beneficial to the Wang family.
Song Yan was doing mischief in the south to relieve the Zhao family's boredom, and most of the Zhao family's golden elixirs were already old.
In the next two hundred years, the number of Jindan monks in the Zhao family will become smaller and smaller, and Emperor Zhao will have to rely more on Jindan monks with a foreign surname.
As the Wang family is the leader of foreign forces, the Zhao family dare not make any move.
However, Song could not be allowed to enter the hinterland of Zhao.
Now Wanling Sect still holds the entire Wanling County, almost the complete Wucheng County, and half of Zhennan County.
The original territory of Song State was roughly equivalent to the five counties of Zhao State.
If the Wanling Sect now seeks refuge with the Song State, then the Song State will have two and a half more counties for nothing.
As one goes and the other goes, Zhao's territorial advantage over Song is no longer great.
The State of Zhao will decline in the future, while the State of Song will prosper in the future.
In a hundred or two hundred years, it’s hard to say who will be stronger and who will be weaker.
Wang Daoyuan hoped that Zhao Jiateng would not take action, but he did not want Song to invade.
After learning the news, Wang Daoyuan planned to go south immediately to attack Wanling County.
To the south of Sunset County is Wanling County. He has no intention of taking over the gate of Wanling Sect. He only hopes to capture more territory in Wanling County.
In order to prevent Song State from becoming too strong in the future and threatening the stability of northern Zhao State.
On the Sunset Valley side, only one Gu Wangzong and a few monks below the Golden Core level were left to guard the area.
Wang Daoyuan took six Jindan and most of the monks below Jindan and headed south.
He didn't care about the logistics in this battle, he just used fast to fight slow.
Most of the Jindan monks of Wanling Sect were restrained by Emperor Zhao in Zhennan County, and the rest had to guard the mountain gate and important industries.
When dealing with the Song Dynasty, it is also necessary to send high-ranking and powerful late Jindan monks.
Now there is no way to spare manpower to guard against Wang Daoyuan and others.
As long as they march fast enough, they can capture most of Wanling County.
None of the properties or spiritual veins encountered along the way were guarded by Golden Core monks.
With spiritual veins of level 4 or below, Zhong Yaoting and Gu Shenghai can easily capture them with a few level 3 flying warships.
A place with fourth-level spiritual veins cannot withstand the late-stage combat power of Wang Daoyuan and several other golden elixirs.
In just five days, Wang Daoyuan captured 70% of the Wanling Sect's territory and advanced to Fulong Mountain, more than three thousand miles north of the Wanling Sect Mountain.
Fulong Mountain stretches for more than five thousand miles from west to east. There are fourth-level low-grade large-scale spiritual veins and fourth-level defensive formations on the mountain. This is also the last barrier to the Wanling Sect's mountain gate.
As long as Fulong Mountain is captured and used as a springboard, the gate of Wanling Sect can be threatened at any time.
Wang Daoyuan stationed his army five hundred miles north of Fulong Mountain on a hill with a third-level high-grade spiritual vein, while he led the Jindan monks to spy on Fulong Mountain.
As soon as I arrived within a hundred miles north of Fulong Mountain, I heard a voice full of hatred: "Prince Qingli, are you okay?"
Wang Daoyuan was shocked. The person who spoke was no stranger to him. He was Song Yan, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty.