btnovel Chapter 152
Chapter 152
The search for a pure water ox is much more difficult than expected.
Yuanluo Mountain is too big, even if Lu Yuan has divided this mountain into four parts, and then look for it one by one according to the four areas of southeast, northeast, southwest, and northwest, but each area is divided, there is still a range of ten miles.
With such a large area, so many mountains and trees, and even cliff caves, there are too many places to hide.
Although a cow is a little bigger, compared to these hiding places, it is still a needle in a haystack and difficult to find.
Lu Yuan led people to search for three days in the southeast area of Yuanluo Mountain, turning over the entire area, but after three days, he still found nothing.
Helplessly, he could only continue to take people to the northeast region, but after looking for another three days, he still didn’t gain anything. Later, I took people to the southwest and northwest to look for it, but after searching them all, there were no results either.
After searching for it like this, Lu Yuan understood that there was no result so early.
“Yuanluoshan caves are all over the ground, and there are many underground dark rivers, maybe that Qiao Xiuyuan of the Seven Star Gate used these natural cave dark rivers to repair some kind of mechanism and hide the Xuanniu somewhere underground.”
Lu Yuan remembered the screen theft novel he had read.
In those tomb robbery novels, those princes and nobles, imperial generals, like to build all kinds of mysterious and ingenious mausoleums for themselves, hiding their coffins after death.
Now he has turned over the entire area on the bright side of Yuanluo Mountain, but he still has nothing to gain. The pure water Xuanniu can’t leave Yuanluo Mountain, so the only explanation is this.
Although the Seven Star Gate is not an imperial general, as a large faction sitting in a place, the manpower and financial resources that can be used are not necessarily inferior to those imperial generals.
After hundreds of years, it is not difficult for the other party to build a treasure hiding place for himself and build a secret road backway.
“It seems that in a short period of time, it will be difficult to achieve anything.”
After confirming this, Lu Yuan sighed, and then he could only helplessly withdraw the troops.
At present, the army is out on the road, and as the commander, even if many military affairs are let go as much as possible, it is impossible to be out all the time.
Just like two days ago, Zhou Qing sent back news from outside Luyang Mansion, saying that in the past few days, through his family’s strategy to shake the defenders in the city, he has now achieved good results.
Although those traitors in the city did not surrender like Linwu County, many traitors whose families were controlled could not help but secretly go out of the city in the middle of the night to surrender.
Although those high-ranking people of the Seven Star Gate were furious because of this, they fiercely killed a group of deserters. And arrange for his disciples to strictly guard the city wall and watch at night, so as not to let those deserters succeed.
But even so, it could not stop the atmosphere of surrender in Yuecheng.
The reason is simple.
Those disciples of the Seven Star Gate who were in charge of supervising, and the families of many of them were actually in Linwu County, and now they were also controlled by the imperial court.
In this way, how do you let them supervise deserters?
Aren’t they afraid that after the news reaches outside the city, their own family members will be deliberately targeted and retaliated against by those who escape?
Although these disciples of the Seven Star Gate, although limited to the great grace of the division gate, could not be like the deserters, they crossed the city and surrendered.
But they are also unable to do it, risking the lives of their own families and doing things to the end.
So in a dilemma, he could only let those deserters go out of the city, hoping that through this action, he could convey a trace of his goodwill, so as to win some benefits for his family outside the city.
And some other disciples of the Seven Star Gate whose families were not outside the city were also limited to the feelings of those disciples whose families were controlled, as well as the feelings of those deserters who fled from Yuecheng, and they were also ruthless.
In the end, he also opened one eye, closed the other, and let people escape.
As a result of this, almost every night, hundreds of rebels would escape from the city and surrender to the imperial court.
And such a whole battalion of the atmosphere of fleeing and surrendering, after the word spread, it inevitably affected other rebel soldiers of the Seven Star Gate who were not in Linwu County.
As a result, morale in the entire rebel army fell off a cliff visible to the naked eye.
No way.
The people of Linwu County, who are the most loyal to your Seven Star Gate and who have benefited the most on weekdays, have begun to go out of the city and surrender continuously.
Then we originally just belong to the people who are entrapped, or belong to other counties on the periphery, why should we stay and work for you?
So the rebels of Linwu County took the lead, and some rebels from other counties also followed out of the city and surrendered.
But for the disciples of the Seven Star Gate, these people are not as close as the people of Linwu County.
So in order to give an explanation to the division, they did not go to catch the deserters in Linwu County, but began to lead people to arrest these deserters from other counties.
It’s hard to manage fellow countrymen, but you, outsiders, also dare to kick your nose on your face?
After these deserters from other counties were caught, the disciples of the Seven Star Gate who were in charge of supervising were not merciful in the slightest, and they were cut on the spot.
The corpse was hung on the city wall, deterring the army.
Almost every night, dozens of deserters from other counties were caught and then beheaded in public.
Such outrageous and unfair differential treatment naturally caused the dissatisfaction of many people in other counties.
So after such an operation, there are many people who are discriminated against on weekdays, and even they are simply traitors from other counties who were forcibly captured, and the Seven Star Gate is even more divorced.
Get it to the end.
These deserters from outsiders simply did not abscond in small groups of one or two, or a dozen or so people.
Instead, it developed into a group of out-of-town pawns who absconded en masse when they took turns on the city walls.
Dozens of people crossed the city and landed.
Because there were too many such collective defections, the high-level of the Qixingmen forced behind had to scatter and mix the soldiers of Linwu County and these soldiers from other places, and let their basic plate supervise those soldiers from other counties.
Then appoint the core disciples of the sect to serve as junior officers to supervise the leader.
But with such an arrangement, it is still useless.
Because the soldiers of Linwu County are still on the run. And as soon as they fled from the soldiers in the county, they naturally fled with them. The officers of those core disciples wanted to stop it, and they were faced with the anger of dozens and hundreds of people who wanted to live.
How could those third-rate disciples who basically did not practice one or two meridians, or even those disciples of the Seven Star Sect, be the opponents of so many soldiers?
So the brains were stupid, stood up and blocked, and they were cut into mashed meat on the spot.
If you know a little, you will think that you don’t see it, but this can save a life.
And originally some soldiers who were still loyal to the Seven Star Gate and were not prepared to escape, after mixing, saw so many people absconding, and their original hearts were shaken.
Slowly, he was also affected by the herd mentality and fled with him.
In this way, a larger absconding was staged in Luyang Fucheng.
“Master, in recent days, the number of rebels in the city who cross the city every night has increased to five or six hundred.
And from the beginning to the present a total of eleven days, the rebels who came out of the city to surrender added up to more than 5,000 people.
There were not only traitors from Linwu County, but also a large number of traitors from other counties in Luyang Prefecture, all of whom were shaken by the army’s heart and followed out of the city to surrender.
According to the latest people who escaped last night, the rebels in the city are now panicked, and a large number of people have fled, which has greatly shaken their morale.
Nowadays, many people want to escape with them, but they can’t find a way and have no chance for the time being. ”
In the military camp outside Luyang Mansion, Lu Yuan, who had just returned with his army, listened to his disciple Zhou Qing’s report at this time, and his face could not help but show a little surprise.
Although the plan implemented by his family was set by him, it was beyond his expectations to achieve such a miraculous effect.
After thinking about it, Lu Yuan asked: “So, five thousand people escaped, then there should only be more than four thousand rebels left in the city?” ”
Originally, there were only nearly 10,000 rebels in Luyang Fucheng, and at this time, more than 5,000 fled, and more than half of them were lost at once, and the remaining people did not necessarily have 4,000.
Zhou Qing nodded and said with a hint of excitement: “Indeed, according to those rebels who went out of the city to surrender, there should only be about four thousand people left in the city thief army. Moreover, most of these 4,000 people were locals in the city.
These people’s families are all in the city, controlled by the Seven Star Gate, and they dare not go out of the city to surrender.
Now there are only more than a thousand rebels from other counties left in the city, and the diehard loyalists of the Seven Star Gate here are only a few hundred.
If it is surrounded like this for a few more days, the Seven Star Gate will be defeated. ”
The current situation is indeed very good.
Originally, Lu Yuan’s plan was to besiege the city for several months and wait for the rebels of the Seven Star Gate to run out of food and collapse.
But now it seems that there is no need to wait another two months.
The current Seven Star Gate traitors are almost finished.
“Very good, Xiaoqing, you did a good job.”
After listening to Zhou Qing’s report, Lu Yuan was greatly relieved in his heart, and he did not hesitate to praise at this time.
“Where, the disciple just follows Master’s orders and acts according to orders. In terms of merit, it has to be Master’s. ”
Zhou Qing touched his head, and he really knew his bottom and did not float.
“It’s nice to be able to do my bidding.”
Lu Yuan knows that a perfect plan often requires qualified executors. He set a strategy, and it was extremely rare for Zhou Qing to be able to implement it all.
Thinking this in his heart, he took out a jade bottle from his arms and handed it to his disciple: “If you make merit, you must be rewarded.” This trip to Linwu County for the master, he got some divine blood elixirs.
This is the Water Purification Xuandan inherited by the Seven Star Gate, and one grain can refine a meridian.
Now that you are practicing, you are about to practice the seventh meridian, right?
It’s not bad, but it’s slower.
Here are three Xuandan pills, which are given to you. ”
The water purification Xuandan that Lu Yuan obtained had a total of nine grains. In addition to the two veins related to the innate Rendu, there are only three strange scriptures that he has not yet practiced.
It is much more difficult to cultivate the Qi Sutra than the True Sutra. But even if it is difficult, two Xuandan pills are enough to practice one.
Therefore, for Lu Yuan, he only needed to leave six Xuandan to ensure that he would break through to the realm of first-class peaks.
The remaining three grains can be taken out and rewarded to others.
Zhou Qing was now the highest cultivator under him, and he was also the closest disciple, and it was reasonable that three Xuandan pills had been given to him.
“Master.”
Zhou Qing looked at the Xuandan delivered to his hand, and his face was both happy and moved. Finally, he said emphatically: “Please rest assured Master, the disciple will definitely practice hard, break through the first-class as soon as possible, and serve the Master.” ”
Lu Yuan bowed his head slightly, and encouraged: “In the future, practice well, break through the first-class as soon as possible, and the teacher is still waiting for you to grow up and share the heavy responsibility for me.”
After giving Xuandan, he asked Zhou Qing about some confusion in his cultivation, and then after answering for the other party, he waved his hand to let this disciple retreat.
After Zhou Qing left, Lu Yuan dealt with the military affairs again, and when he was done, he began to practice again.
These days, as he has been insisting on transferring, now the internal force of the third meridian has also been transformed by half, almost all of it has been replaced by Chiyang internal force, according to the current progress, roughly within these two days, the transformation of the last meridian can be completed.
At such a critical moment, Lu Yuan naturally put down many foreign objects first and concentrated on cultivation.
Time passes.
After returning to the army for two days of penance, Lu Yuan officially completed the transfer of all the internal forces in his body, and all his strength was replaced by Chiyang Divine Skill.
At this point, he could finally start to practice, this first-class exercise.
And I have been getting this exercise for more than half a year.
In the past half a year, in addition to being busy with the transfer of exercises, Lu Yuan has not studied the Chiyang Divine Skill. With his experience realm, comprehending this skill is naturally not a problem.
Practicing the remaining three meridians, there would be no problems at all.
In that case, there is nothing to say.
He directly began to take the Water Purification Xuandan and began to break through the next meridian.
With the help of this Dan, I believe that in less than half a month, I can break through to the first-class peak.
At that time, under the innate, Lu Yuan can be called invincible.
His side was busy practicing ascetic exercises, and the Luyang Mansion City, which was surrounded outside, continued to have people fleeing.
However, as most of the people who could escape fled, gradually, the number of people who fled from the city gradually decreased.
From the original peak, five or six hundred people a night, slowly changed to one or two hundred, and even dozens of people now.
And the number of defenders in the city also fell further, from just over 4,000 to 3,000. And most of the remaining 3,000 people are still city residents with low combat effectiveness and low morale.
According to the calculations of Zhou Qing and other disciples, today’s Luyang City, I am afraid that as long as he leads his army to attack, he will be able to capture it in one fell swoop.
But this proposal was rejected by Lu Yuan.
The reason is simple, it may not be difficult to capture Luyang City.
But if you want to ensure that when you fall into the city, it is difficult to catch the high-level of those Seven Star Gates, so that Qiao Xiuyuan and others, including the leader, cannot escape.
No matter what people say, they are all a group of first-class second-rate martial arts masters.
These people are facing the army head-on, perhaps not opponents.
But if you don’t fight hard, but avoid its edge, choose to dodge, this is no problem.
After all, most of the martial arts masters are strong, and many of them are powerful and light, and if this kind of person wants to escape, it is still difficult for the army that is extremely dependent on the power of the military formation.
So don’t look at the fact that Luyang City is surrounded by groups now.
But Lu Yuan wanted to catch Qiao Xiuyuan and these people, but the probability of success was not large, and it was more likely that he could not catch them at all.
This is unacceptable to him.
Lu Yuan was still counting on being able to catch these high-level Qiao Xiuyuan, and then from their mouths, force out the treasures of the other two veins of the Seven Star Gate, as well as the whereabouts of the Pure Water Xuanniu.
Feng Zhijie, who surrendered before, was only the principal of the three ancestors of the Seven Star Gate, and he only knew the treasure land of the three veins, and he didn’t know where the treasure land of the other two veins was.
That’s a water purification pill with a guaranteed bottom of twenty grains.
There is also a water purification ox.
If he could get this treasure, Lu Yuan could directly cultivate Zhou Qing into a first-class peak master like himself.
Even his disciples were able to cultivate three or five second-rate disciples.
Such a big benefit is in front of you, if you let Qiao Xiuyuan and the others run, it will really be a cooked duck flying.
Therefore, for the proposal to attack the city at this time, Lu Yuan naturally would not agree.
Of course, this is not to say that he wants to spend time here.
Lu Yuan was ready to wait until he broke through to the first-class peak and his strength reached the limit that he could improve now, and then he went to attack the city.
The gap between first-class and first-class is also very large.
Just like Fang Tianying at the beginning, in the face of the Iron Sword Gate Mo Baichuan, as well as the chief capture of Luling Mansion, the siege of two first-class masters, people can still severely damage Mo Baichuan on the spot, and then leave abruptly.
Mo Baichuan, on the other hand, died of illness on the bed after struggling for two years.
It can be seen that the same first-class, the strength gap is also huge.
How strong is Fang Tianying?
Lu Yuan had not met this person, so he could not confirm it.
But he could conclude that this Eagle King’s strength was the extent that he had practiced three or four meridians, and it was absolutely impossible to be a first-class peak who had practiced five or six meridians.
Because of the strength of the first-class peak, it is already at the pinnacle of the innate nature of the rivers and lakes.
Such figures, even if they are innate grandmasters, cannot be driven as pawns.
Therefore, as a martial arts pawn in Nanhai County, Fang Tianying, who set off the chaos of black wind thieves, his strength will not be a first-class peak.
And how strong is Qiao Xiuyuan?
According to the news circulating in the rivers and lakes in the past, this person has roughly practiced the strength of the two strange scriptures and belongs to the first-class early stage.
But now that the other party has set off a rebellion, it is not ruled out that this person will use the treasures of his sect to take the Water Purification Xuandan to forcibly improve his strength.
But the inheritance of the exercises of the Seven Star Gate, the limit is there, and the highest is to practice the third strange scripture.
Even if Qiao Xiuyuan had reached the peak of his training, his strength was far from enough compared to Lu Yuan, who had already practiced the six strange scriptures.
It’s a bit of an exaggeration to say that he has two hands.
But letting one hand take this person, Lu Yuan felt that it was still not a big problem.
Because he felt at this time that with his current strength of practicing the three strange scriptures, it was no problem to win the self who had just refined one meridian before and entered the innate self.
And the further back the cultivation goes, the greater the gap.
The gap between the six odd scriptures and the three odd scriptures should logically be greater than the three-to-one.
With such a vision, Lu Yuan naturally would not be in a hurry.
Anyway, it’s only half a month at most.
Instead of rushing now, at the risk of ducks flying away, storming the city. It is better to wait for everything to be prepared, with absolute strength, crush the past, and personally capture these traitors.
Wouldn’t that be more beautiful?
As long as there are tangible benefits, Lu Yuan’s patience is still sufficient.
Don’t mind waiting a little before enjoying the food.
Seven Star Gate, these fish in the net, cannot escape.