Chapter 913 The Formation of Five Elements (Part 2)
"So that's what you had in mind!" After seeing Monk Jin's actions, the fourth elder showed a look of understanding on his face.
Immediately, the fourth elder's face showed an anxious look, and then he turned his claws and attacked Monk Jin.
At this time, Jie Jin was studying how to break the formation. Facing the four elders' all-out attack, he naturally had no way to resist, and he had no intention of resisting at all.
Buddhism and Taoism are different, but good and evil are not mutually exclusive. Although Zhang Xuanqing, an old Taoist priest, is old and confused, he can trust him with his back.
At almost the same time as the fourth elder took out his claws, lightning flashed, and Zhang Xuanqing came first, blocking the way of the fourth elder.
The lightning god walks and sprints for short distances, unparalleled in the world.
Facing the four elders who were blessed by the power of the Five Elements, Zhang Xuanqing also raised 120% of his skills.
The universe is in harmony, the five thunders are in Heaven!
Thunder is the cardinal of yin and yang, the root of commanding all things. It explodes due to the intersection of yin and yang. This is also the purpose of thunder.
The universe gathers, the thunder gathers!
The thunder in Zhang Xuanqing's palm was more powerful than ever before.
"Don't leave in a hurry! The old master still has some methods to use!"
The method of the Five Thunders condenses one spirit and all spirits are condensed; gathers one energy and all spirits are gathered; one thought causes all thoughts to arise; one orifice opens and all nine orifices open.
There seemed to be a spiritual light in Zhang Xuanqing's eyes, and his aura was three points stronger than when he took action with all his strength.
"As expected of the old Heavenly Master of the Heavenly Master's Mansion, these backhands are coming one after another. It's a pity that before absolute power, no matter how hard you struggle, there will be no result. I..."
Before the Fourth Elder finished speaking, Zhang Xuanqing's offensive had already arrived!
His body movements are like wind and lightning, and his fists and palms are like thunder.
Five Thunder Tiangang, Tianlong Thunder!
A light dragon composed of thunder surrounded Zhang Xuanqing. If ordinary people saw this scene, they would definitely shout that the immortal god has come to the world.
In the eyes of the fourth elder, although this kind of scene is bluffing, it is nothing more than mediocre.
If Zhang Xuanqing really still had the strength, he wouldn’t have been beaten by him just now!
As soon as the two of them fought, the fourth elder's thoughts were completely thrown away by him.
Zhang Xuanqing's skill is more than a little stronger than before. It feels like this old man is cheating!
Of course, the fourth elder did not give up. Even the skill Zhang Xuanqing showed now could only temporarily resist his offensive.
A prosperous dragon has regrets, and its profits cannot last long.
A move that stimulates skill like this cannot be used all the time.
The strong blood evil aura that filled the Blood River Sect hall was constantly being absorbed by him under the guidance of the fourth elder.
Holding the sky with one claw, tearing the sky apart!
Facing Zhang Xuanqing's Thunder Dragon, the fourth elder struck out with a claw. Behind the simple claw, there seemed to be all kinds of changes hidden. It seems that there is only this claw.
The blood-colored claw shadow faced the sky dragon with flashing lightning.
For a moment, it was hard to tell the difference.
On the side, Jie Jin was trying his best to find the Jinxing Formation Base mentioned by Zhang Xuanqing.
The realm of the Five Elements is the gathering of chills, but it is also the most unstable of the Five Elements.
The best is like water, the tree of vitality is like a tree, and the immovable is like a mountain. These three are obviously not suitable as the first choice for breaking the formation.
Metal fire has strong explosive power, but lacks toughness. It is the first choice to break the formation. Since Zhang Xuanqing had previously set the tone of using gold to break wood and water to extinguish fire, it was natural to look for the gold formation base first.
Although Zhang Xuanqing bought time and opportunity for Jiu Jin, things were not that simple. Ji Jin followed the cicada to the stone pit sunk into the ground in eight steps, but he had no idea what the stone tablet in the pit meant.
There are countless things engraved on the stone tablet that look like Taoist talismans, but non-professionals cannot understand these things at all.
Chanting sutras to achieve salvation, sitting in meditation to debate difficulties, everything is a good skill.
Drawing symbols? ! Don't say it's all done, even most of the Taoist priests in Taoist sects can't draw talismans. For example, the Zhenwu lineage represented by Zhang Sanfeng and the Kunlun Yuxu lineage can't draw talismans. This is the talisman represented by Taiping Dao and Tianshi Mansion. Pie business.
For example, the Yunzhuan script in the "Lingbao Wumeiren Miaojing" ranks first among the talismans. It is said to be a celestial book from the appearance of the gods. The talismans are made by integrating the changing shapes of the sky and clouds into the ancient seal script.
But no matter which talisman the Blood River Sect used, monk Jue Jin could not understand it.
Originally, it was up to Jie Jin to stop the fourth elder, and Zhang Xuanqing came to break the formation. Although Mr. Zhang is not good at formations, he is still much better than this monk.
However, nothing can stop the fourth elder!
The gap between Jie Jin, Zhang Xuanqing and the Fourth Elder is obvious.
Previously, Ling Jin and Yan Jing'an teamed up to keep Shi Fei Xuan, but their defeat was revealed after a thousand moves in Zhang Xuanqing's hands. Although Ling Jin did not use his full strength, Zhang Xuanqing did the same.
Before the Five Elements took shape, the Fourth Elder was basically in a 50-50 situation with Zhang Xuanqing, with a maximum of 46. At this time, Jie Jin was no longer a match for the fourth elder, even if he used his magical power of Wei Tuo to protect him at the bottom of the box.
Facing the Fourth Elder who borrows the power of the Five Elements, whether he can survive a hundred moves is a problem.
Luo Jin looked at the huge ghost-painted talisman, and then he remembered what Zhang Xuanqing said about the five poisons replenishing the five elements.
It makes sense that the inscriptions on the five-element talisman cannot be recognized at all. Could it be that the characteristics of the five poisons cannot be recognized? !
Ling Jin jumped into the stone pit and observed the stone tablet. The color of the stone tablet was very consistent with the style of the Blood River Sect. The whole stone tablet was soaked in red. This red looked very much like human blood, but with Ling Jin's knowledge It seems but not.
The stone tablets are all filled with Taoist talisman inscriptions that have nothing to do with the Five Poisons.
Just when Lie Jin was circling the stone tablet, he discovered a small hole on the stone tablet, but the moment he hesitated, a red shadow suddenly jumped out of the small hole and rushed straight towards Lie Jin.
There is no shame in being unable to defeat Zhang Xuanqing and the Fourth Elder. This does not affect the fact that they are all genuine masters of the Heavenly, Elephant and Earth Realm.
Although this red shadow was fast, it didn't affect Ji's ability to clearly see its true face - a small snake with red scales all over its body.
His speed was even faster than that of a Qinggong master in the Dongxuan Realm, and he almost failed to react.
The figure moved a foot sideways, avoiding the bite of the red-scaled snake, and then struck a hundred-step divine fist with his backhand.
The Hundred-Step Divine Fist is known as one of the unique skills of Buddhism, but in fact it is just that. When practiced to the highest level, it can hit an enemy a hundred steps away.
But Guo Jing's palm power can reach fifty feet away, a hundred steps or something, it's almost impossible to see.
However, many Buddhist disciples still choose to practice this martial arts because it is easy to get started and powerful.
In the hands of an expert like this, this ordinary boxing technique is naturally very powerful. It only takes one punch to knock the red-scaled snake away.
The punch was so strong that it was embedded in the stone wall on one side.
It's just that the venom from the little snake's mouth also sprayed out. Although the real essence of the body was supported by the end of the body, the red poison seemed not to be affected by the true essence at all, and directly penetrated the body of the end of the body. It fell on Luo Ji's arm.
At first, I didn’t think it was all that serious. The venom of snakes in the world is mostly divided into two categories, blood venom or stomach venom.
Blood poison, as the name suggests, is a poison that only works when it enters the blood.
Stomach poison only takes effect after being eaten.
Whether it is blood poison or stomach poison, if the skin is contaminated, as long as there are no wounds, there will be no problem.
But the poison from the red-scaled snake landed on Jin's arm and penetrated directly into it.
A fierce and overbearing poison suddenly erupted in the meridians of Ling Jie's arm.
Although Ling Jin was surprised by the intensity of the poison, he immediately tapped his fingers and temporarily sealed the meridians of his right arm to prevent the poison from spreading.
Zhang Tianshi is still working hard!
If he couldn't break the power of the Five Elements in time, they would both be beaten to death by the Fourth Elder without waiting for the snake venom to take effect! Very cruel!
"The hot desert lizard, among the five poisons, snake belongs to fire, so this place should belong to fire!"
Although this is the base of the fire element formation and there is a possibility of breaking it, Jie Jin still feels that he should trust the words of professionals.
He immediately flew up and determined the fire, so he also determined the direction. Fire belongs to the south, so its corresponding direction is north, and the remaining two positions are east and west.
Luo Jin once again used the eight steps to drive away cicadas and arrived at the edge of the stone pit that represented the gold industry.
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Central Plains, Youzhou, Yancheng.
Youzhou is not the first state in the North, but Yancheng is truly the first city in the North.
Although it cannot be compared with the capital city of Gyeonggi, it is majestic and majestic and has its own royal aura. This is also the base camp of King Zhao.
King Zhao was in Yancheng, and his ambitions were not small, and he might be disobedient. This was the consensus of the senior officials of the imperial court.
But although King Zhao's behavior showed such signs, he never acted directly in rebellion. He is also the emperor's uncle. He has been guarding the frontier for a long time, protecting the country and the people, and his hard work has made great achievements.
Without a suitable opportunity, even the emperor would not be able to attack him easily.
Previously, Emperor Xizongli unjustly killed Yu Yanyi, a scholar of Wuyingdian. Prince Zhao ignored Emperor Xizongli's blame, set up a spirit for Yu Yanyi, and paid homage to him personally.
This operation alone attracted the hearts of people in the north and the admiration of scholars all over the world.
He has always had prestige among the frontier troops, and combined with these factors, he has become a powerful force that cannot be lost.
The center of the cabinet, the Sixth Army Governor's Office, has raised the potential threat of King Zhao more than once, but there has been no good solution.
In the second year of Linde's reign, Thirteen once summoned King Zhao to Beijing with a handwritten edict to talk about the family ties between uncle and nephew. However, King Zhao refused to go to Beijing because of inconvenience in his legs. Then Thirteen sent an imperial physician to the capital for treatment, and the head of the six gates at that time was arrested. Two masters, Liu Dufeng, the God Catcher, and Ye Jianhan, the Chief of the Prison Department of Dali Temple, accompanied him.
If the imperial doctor proves that King Zhao is lying, it will be a crime of deceiving the king, and the court can directly force him into the capital.
However, Prince Zhao's courage was unexpected. After learning that Ye and Liu were accompanying him, he actually broke his legs. Now even the imperial doctor could not say anything, and the emperor could not forcefully summon him to the capital.
During this period, various probing methods emerged one after another, but they were all resolved by King Zhao. In his territory, even the most resourceful people in the court had no good solution.
When King Zhao did not clearly display the banner of rebellion, they had no reason to deal with him and could only weaken his strength from the side.
But this King Zhao was also extraordinary. In the previous battle to destroy Houjin, he sent out his cavalry and kidnapped countless young men from the tribe.
The tribes of the Hou Jin Dynasty were fishermen and hunters who were brave and good at fighting. They recruited these young men, and King Zhao mixed them into his own cavalry, which made the original cavalry of King Zhao even more powerful.
The mixed cavalry army of the Hu and Han Dynasties was a method of military training that existed since the Later Han Dynasty.
Emperor Guangwu of the Later Han Dynasty once said: "I have heard that Tuqi has the best soldiers in the world, and now I see them fighting, and I am very happy!"
After that, the Wuhuan cavalry was mixed into the Royal Cavalry, strengthening the original Later Han assault cavalry.
Emperor Wu of Wei in the late Han Dynasty also did this. In the formation of Bailang Mountain, Zhang Wenyuan killed Wuhuan and Tadun Shanyu, defeating Wuhuan.
After that, Emperor Wu of Wei gathered all the Wuhuan elites from the three counties and led them to conquer all directions, and they were known as "the famous cavalry in the world".
King Zhao took this path. The cavalry under his command had reached a bottleneck. If he wanted to deal with the invincible cavalry of Tiance Army, he would naturally need other ideas.
He thought that he was not as good as Li Chengen in military training, so he thought of the method of mixing Hu and Han.
Hou Jin's cavalry was originally very powerful. Although they were suppressed by him on the Youzhou front line, it was not because Hou Jin's cavalry was incompetent. Coupled with the experiments of his predecessors, King Zhao took advantage of the opportunity to rob a large number of Houjin Qingzhuang and train his cavalry.
Now that this cavalry has become a complete force, he is confident of fighting even the Tiance Army.
In the palace of King Zhao, King Zhao Zhu Kai was listening to his long history report on the financial situation.
"Your Majesty, the government's finances are not optimistic in the first ten months of this year. There is a gap of nearly two million taels between revenue and expenditure."
King Zhao is rich, not just ordinary rich. Yang Qingyuan can be regarded as one of the richest people in the world, but there is still a big gap compared to King Zhao's Mansion.
The salary and military pay allocated by the imperial court to Prince Zhao's Mansion were enough to raise up to 80,000 troops for Prince Zhao in case of emergencies at the border.
After Houjin was destroyed, Youzhou's border defense pressure was greatly reduced, and the military salary allocated to King Zhao was also greatly reduced, which could support him at most 50,000 soldiers and horses.
But King Zhao had at least 300,000 troops under his command, and the cost was astronomical, almost unimaginable.
The King of Zhao dominated the land of Yanzhao, and Youzhou and part of Jizhou were actually controlled by him. The finance and taxation of these areas had always been beyond the income of the imperial court.
The central government naturally knew that King Zhao was behind this, and had tried to solve this problem many times, but this taxation issue could not be solved by changing the chief official.
It involves local subordinate officials and powerful and famous families.
Just changing the chief officer would be nothing more than a puppet.
However, the taxes from these areas combined are not enough to cover the expenses of Prince Zhao's Mansion.
Rebellion is not only a mental activity, but also an economic activity.
Especially when the vassal king rebels and has no money, why would you rebel? Without some real money, who would follow you to do such a stupid job!
The biggest income of the Zhao Palace came from the Yanzhao Trading Company of the Zhao Palace. They purchased furs, mink hair, ginseng, Dongzhu and other goods from Hou Jin, and then sold them to the Central Plains; they also sold salt, tea, silk, and ironware to Hou Jin. This type of business in the state is almost monopolized by the Zhao Palace, and the profits are an unimaginable astronomical figure.
It was precisely because of this money that King Zhao was able to raise troops and accumulate strength for rebellion.
Now that he heard that there was such a big gap in the finances of Prince Zhao's Mansion, Prince Zhao couldn't help but frown, "What's going on?!"
(End of chapter)
