Chapter 126 Return to the Cave
Chapter 126 Return to the Cave
Zhao Kuangyin also benefited a lot from this battle. He made military exploits as the vanguard of a hundred thousand troops who first broke through Kaifeng City. Although he had to withdraw later due to a battle between cultivators in the city and the opening of the "Ghost Eating Soul Array", his contribution cannot be denied. The Northern Han army had strict military discipline and clear distinctions between rewards and punishments. Therefore, on the third day after the battle in the city ended and the occupation of Kaifeng City, Liu He issued a reward and promoted Zhao Kuangyin to the commander-in-chief of the East Road, General Jinwuwei, in charge of an army of 100,000 men.
This reward is not ungenerous. In fact, according to Zhao Kuangyin's contribution, it is still too reluctant to receive this reward. There were many complaints among the Northern Han Dynasty. They had worked so hard for the Northern Han Dynasty for so many years to get their current official position. How could a kid like Zhao Kuangyin rise to the top in one fell swoop? However, Liu He had commanded the Northern Han Dynasty for many years and had a high prestige. He insisted on implementing it and even sent his two sons to join the Eastern Route Army to assist Zhao Kuangyin. These dissatisfactions and complaints were suppressed by him.
Why did Liu He do this? Part of the reason is that Zhao Kuangyin has indeed made great contributions and must be rewarded; part of the reason is because Yunlong once personally transformed into You Longzi and told him face to face that in addition to being his disciple, Zhao Kuangyin was also the emperor of destiny. In the future, he would change dynasties and ascend the throne. It belongs to the emperor; therefore, Liu He should go along with the sky and provide more assistance.
Liu He has known Yunlong for many years and has always been convinced by his instructions. In addition, he is already quite old and has little energy and ambition. He is not as enthusiastic about power as he was when he was young. He only wants to restore peace to the people and enjoy his old age. And his two children Liu and Liu Wu were also obsessed with martial arts and Taoism. They didn't care much about worldly power and didn't care about the Northern Han Dynasty's foundation, so he had no objection to supporting Zhao Kuangyin.
In addition, Yunlong also mentioned that assisting the Human Emperor will gain a lot of merit, enough to ensure that he will be rich and powerful when he comes, and even become a god after his death. In this way, it is not difficult to understand that Liu He fully supported Zhao Kuangyin. Zhao Kuangyin lived up to expectations. In addition to practicing martial arts under the Yunlong sect, he also learned a lot of military books and history, and was very knowledgeable in the art of war. In addition, he was extremely talented and could draw inferences from one instance and use troops in an eclectic way. If he didn't understand something, he could humbly teach experienced generals. and my subordinates, so it was quite rewarding.
Under his command, the Eastern Route Army swept through the Later Jin Dynasty. He opened roads across mountains and built bridges across rivers. The Lianjie troops were so powerful that no one dared to defeat them. In just one year, they defeated the remaining dozens of large and small armies of the Later Jin Dynasty. He also opened warehouses to store grain, measured land, arranged officials, and restored production, so that the place quickly settled down and the Northern Han Dynasty annexed all the territory of the Later Jin Dynasty at the minimum cost. This kind of achievements and achievements made those who doubted and envied his official position shut up and recognized his abilities.
Of course, there are also some people who will sourly say such gossip and slanderous things as "the self-respect of the troops is suspected of having evil intentions", "the style is rough and the use of military power to govern local areas is very disturbing to the people", "colluding with the local government may lead to a big loss", etc. But Liu He smiled and didn't care at all. A sea that embraces hundreds of rivers is great when it is tolerant; a thousand people standing on the wall are strong; his only wish is to stabilize the world, preserve the family, and have a happy ending, so he does not taboo Zhao Kuangyin's contribution at all. On the contrary, the greater the contribution Zhao Kuangyin made, the more credit he had on the front line. The happier he was, the more convenient it was for him to abdicate Zhao Kuangyin as the leader of the Northern Han Dynasty in the future.
Two flowers bloomed, one on each branch. Let’s not talk about how Zhao Kuangyin acted in the world here, but Yunlong over there finally used his unique skills to defeat the powerful enemy after a battle with the Eastern Demon Cult and returned with the treasure.
Because Yunlong suffered some injuries along the way, he was unable to use the "Yuyou" technique, so he had to use the Dragon Clan's natural Soaring Cloud magical power to fly back to the cave, so it took him half a month. This also shows how vast the Middle-earth continent at this time was, far beyond what it would be in later generations.
Yunlong stood up and entered the formation channel of "Dayan Naxu Pure Sky" with skillful and extreme spell casting. I saw that the land in the cave was vast, with green grass, small rivers, and towering ancient trees; there were also rare and exotic animals, flowers and plants. There was a spirit animal guarding each of the exotic flowers and fruits. These exotic flowers and fruits spread out one after another. The petals of the branches absorb the thick spiritual energy in the cave, exhale and transform it in the body, and then emit streams of fresh or elegant vegetation spiritual energy. The guardian spirit beast next to it absorbs these spiritual energy to improve its cultivation; the spiritual beast guards the strange flowers and fruits. The exotic flowers and fruits that are not damaged by foreign objects spit out the spiritual energy of vegetation for the spiritual beasts to practice. The two complement each other and bring out the best in each other.
The sky is blue, with a few floating white clouds, and a red sun hangs in the sky, emitting bursts of the power of the sun's true fire to nourish all things in the sky. In addition to absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, most plants and trees also need to absorb the power of the sun and yin to grow. Therefore, as early as the period of the Holy Spirit Tree, the former owner of "Dayana Naxu Pure Sky", the Holy Spirit Tree poured the power of the true fire of the sun and the essence of the lunar yin that it had absorbed all year round into the "Dayana Naxu Pure Sky" bit by bit. There was even a line in the cave sky specially designed to absorb the power of the sun and the yin and condense it into two spiritual stars through water grinding.
One is the sun that appears during the day and disappears at night to illuminate all things. On the contrary, the moon appears at night and disappears during the day, spreading its moonlight to nourish everything. Every move he makes seems to be like the outside world, making this cave sky more and more like a small world. But compared with the real world, it still lacks the power of stars and is not perfect. There is nothing we can do about it. The stars in the sky are as numerous as the sands of the Ganges. Among them, 365 ancient stars are the most huge and full of star power. When ordinary monks build a cave, they just arrange a star array to attract the sun and the moon and pour the power of these 365 stars into the cave to complete the preliminary cycle of the sky.
Once the cycle of heaven and earth is formed, the power of the sun, moon and stars can be continuously generated and the level of the cave can be improved. It's just that it's far behind the celestial cycle composed of the spiritual energy stars condensed by the Holy Spirit Tree, which is the power of its own condensed sun and moon essence. But there is nothing we can do about it. Human cultivators have a limited lifespan and really don’t have time to spend too much time on these things.
As far as human cultivators are concerned, those who introduce Qi into the body can live for two hundred years, those who practice Qi to transform into gods, those who practice Qi to transform into gods, can live for five hundred years, and those who refine gods and return to void can live for one thousand five hundred years. Only by surviving the great tribulation, can they develop the immortal body and become immortals. Only then can you live forever and live happily for tens of thousands of years.
(I, the author, am really too lazy to update this so late. I apologize to everyone.)
