The battle at Anping River determines the situation in the city. Despite the lively fighting now, since the last war, the factions have not really fought hard.
However, with the lengthening of the battle line and the participation of cultivators from other cities, the situation in Anping River has become more and more complicated. Now it is no longer controllable by a certain sect, or even by a certain camp.
Although the real war has not yet begun, it is not easy for all parties to stop it.
In addition, various mysteries made Zhou Yang fall into deep thought.
First of all, if Tongzhou Commercial Bank wants to invite foreign aid, it should also invite branches of commercial banks in other cities, or directly request the merchant alliance to send people over. But why should we go further and ask him to help us fight?
Secondly, why did Qiangxian return to Wanjianmen when the war was in full swing? Was it because he was unwilling to play a supporting role and returned in anger? It won't be that simple.
Thirdly, the cultivators from Dingbei and Yinshan traveled thousands of miles to fight here. Is it possible that they just helped their allies and had no other intentions?
Fourth, if the war escalates, Anping City will also fall into chaos, and even Tu Yan will not be immune. What will he do then?
If he was alone, he could go anywhere, but now he had many concerns around him, including his brothers, sisters, his beloved, and his uncle, and he couldn't let go of any of them.
All the above thoughts were strung together, and suddenly an idea flashed in Zhou Yang's mind. The whole incident seemed to be connected by a thread. Using this thread as a vein, he could analyze it roughly by peeling off the cocoons.
First, the purpose of Tongzhou Commercial Bank.
Tongzhou Commercial Bank was the first to support Wanjianmen in attacking the four factions. It is estimated that Wanjianmen will agree to some conditions of the commercial bank. But even he could think that there might be someone behind the four factions, could Tongzhou Commercial Bank not think of it?
The answer is yes, Tongzhou Commercial Bank not only thought of it, but also made complete preparations.
But their initial preparation was not to strongly support Wanjianmen's unification of the Anping River Basin. In that case, its power will definitely increase greatly, and it is unclear whether it can be controlled.
Therefore, they knew that the four factions of Anpinghe had strong support, but they did not take action in the early stage. The purpose was to weaken the strength of Wanjianmen and the four factions first, creating a situation where Wanjianmen would be unable to move without the support of the trading house, and finally make it completely fall to the them.
The trading bank then concentrated its superior strength, even borrowing the power of the Yinshan City Lord's Mansion, to quickly cripple or eliminate the four coalition forces and their supporters, and directly control the Anping River Basin.
At that time, Tongzhou Commercial Bank will truly become the boss in the Anping area and finally take sole control of Anping City.
But things went against expectations. Unexpectedly, Xuanfu Sect and Sansheng Sect not only intervened with strong force, but also contacted the two major sects in Dingbeicheng. In addition, there were so many people among the four sects in Anping River who dared to die. As a result, the trading company was able to get all the strength. The plan to capture Jinling Island completely failed.
Now that multiple parties are involved, the war has once again reached a stalemate.
2. The situation of Qiangxian and Wanjianmen.
Qiang Xian is not a confused person, and he also knows that Tongzhou Trading Company must have a plan. But the arrow was on the string and had to be fired. We could only defeat the four coalition forces first and capture the Anping River Basin.
He didn't expect this bone to be so difficult to chew, and several of his teeth were chipped.
Wanjianmen suffered heavy losses in this battle, with more than 20,000 casualties. This number accounted for more than half of Wanjianmen’s elite. Their vitality was severely damaged. If the battle continued, the foundation would be shaken. There was no need for other factions to invade. Wanjianmen The door will soon weaken!
He was afraid because he knew that even if he won this battle, it would be a tragic victory and the strength of the sect would be greatly damaged. If he still wants to unify Anping River, just dream! It’s good if you don’t get eaten with skin and flesh by other big pies.
From this point of view, it makes sense for him to return to Wanjian Island. If he doesn't go back, Wanjian Island will definitely change hands!
3. The plots of Xuanfu Sect and Sansheng Sect.
Zhou Yang could also make a rough guess about this.
Firstly, it should be to prevent Wanjianmen from becoming powerful, and secondly, to take the opportunity to control the four factions and even the entire Anping River. The third purpose is even greater. Once the Anping River is controlled, coupled with the mining of refined copper mines, and the strength of the two factions increases, they can openly challenge Tongzhou Commercial Bank and even squeeze it out of the four major factions.
4. The motives of the two major factions, Yinshan City Lord’s Mansion and Dingbei.
Of course they will not send troops in vain, and their plans will not be small. If it can really help Tongzhou Commercial Bank control Anping City, if nothing else, after seizing the refined copper mine, it will be a great temptation just to get some shares in the mine.
The two factions in Dingbei probably have similar ideas. Even if the Sansheng Sect and Xuanfu Sect will not give up part of their shares in the copper mine, they will offer conditions that make them happy.
With the increase in experience and improvement in strength, Zhou Yang's horizons have also broadened a lot. After a little analysis, he figured out the above four points. This is enough to prove that his overall view has taken shape, and he will gradually jump out of this circle and enter a broader world.
Now Anping is in chaos, various factions are hostile to each other, signs of melee have emerged, and people in the city are even more panic-stricken. There are not many stalls left in Free Square Market, and the stall owners are too scared to come out anymore.
Zhou Yang shook his head and put aside the idea of going a little further. It was extremely difficult to reach Tu Yancheng through the teleportation array in Beicheng. Moreover, he had offended the people of Xuanfu Sect, making it even more difficult to teleport.
In a few days, the Three Tigers of the Song Family would send people to deliver the goods. The teleportation array of Tongzhou Commercial Bank was not a big problem, but how to deliver it to Tu Yan became the most troublesome problem.
After thinking about it for a long time, I still couldn't figure it out. I suddenly felt a tingling sensation in my consciousness, but it wasn't too serious. Zhou Yang felt that it was because he was thinking too much, so he stopped thinking and tried to calm himself down.
But for some reason, the less he wanted to think about the problem, the more images flashed through his mind, as if his consciousness had lost control, like a wild horse running wild that he couldn't stop even if he wanted to.
Zhou Yang was horrified. This kind of phenomenon had never happened before. What was going on!
He tried his best to calm down, trying to force himself to calm down, but one consciousness wanted to pull the other consciousness back. The two consciousnesses competed fiercely in Zhou Yang's mind, as if two contradictory bodies were in the same space, interacting with each other. Incompatible and hostile to each other.
He hurriedly swallowed a nourishing pill, but it was useless. I swallowed two more, still no use!
"Ah..." Zhou Yang held his head in his hands and screamed in pain.
After a while, the tingling sensation at the altar became several times stronger. Zhou Yang couldn't bear it anymore. From the painful groan at first, to roaring, and finally howling like a wild beast, his eyes were red, and his whole body seemed to be... Like crazy.
The incident happened too suddenly and too fast. Lin Cheng, Tiehu and others were shocked. Everything was fine just now. Why did this situation happen now?
Xing'er's face turned pale, she held Zhou Yang's arm tightly and called out repeatedly.
She had never seen Zhou Yang in such a state. Usually, the impression he gave her was that he had a plan in mind and everything was under control. But at this time, he was completely different, like a wounded monster. How could she not be frightened? .
The other half of Zhou Yang's consciousness is gradually failing and has been eroded by the other half's crazy consciousness. He is already frightened to the extreme. If this continues, he will have to lose all consciousness and become completely crazy.
He forcibly ran the Xuan Gang Jue to make a great celestial movement, and tried his best to empty his mind, discarding all distracting thoughts and looking inside his body.
But the more empty the mind, the more unstable the soul becomes, and the more intense the confrontation between the two consciousnesses becomes.
This didn't work, Zhou Yang gritted his teeth, and while running the Xuangang Jue, he also began to silently run the Ten Thousand Miles Chasing Wind Jue.
It is very dangerous to operate the main technique and another Taoist technique at the same time. It is very easy to cause conflicts and damage the meridians. But something happened suddenly. Only by letting these things occupy his consciousness and forcibly suppressing the negative emotions could he calm down the madness of the altar.
When everyone saw Zhou Yang closing his eyes and adjusting his breathing, they did not dare to disturb him. Li Tong pulled Xing'er back from Zhou Yang, and several people sat down cross-legged within a few feet of Zhou Yang, surrounding him to prevent accidents.
At this time, Zhou Yang began to concentrate on practicing Qigong and Taoism, trying to concentrate. This method did have some effects, and the pain of spiritual consciousness was slightly relieved.
Zhou Yang let out a sigh of relief and felt a little at ease.
He felt that what happened today was very strange, and he was just overthinking things. No matter how big the trouble was, there was no way to solve it, but how could it be like this? The damage to his consciousness was aggravated again?
As soon as I was distracted, the tingling sensation at the altar became a little stronger, and I suddenly felt a sense of irritability in my heart. The key is that this irritability is also very worrying, and it comes without any warning, making it difficult to guard against. , making the already fragile chaotic consciousness even worse.
All the past events suddenly flashed through his mind, and these pictures appeared one after another uncontrollably, starting from returning to the spiritual field and going back to his childhood scenes.
At first, there were just various memories, including the previous conflicts in the street, the trip to Cangshou Mountain, the trip to Dingbeicheng, practicing the body tempering technique in the earth fire magma, and the scenes when he was an outer disciple of Ziyuan Sect, and then to the death of both parents, interesting things about the Li family as a child, etc.
Later, the picture began to distort, showing only bloody scenes. When he was a child, he was bullied and injured. His father appeared in front of him covered in blood. He passed away to heaven before he could say a few words.
After that, he was chased by He Dongcang. He Dongluo raised his butcher knife and struck at him. He fell down Chuanyun Peak, Xuanya, etc. The picture is getting faster and faster, but Zhou Yang's consciousness is getting blurry.
The remaining bit of clarity made him suddenly realize that this was the inner demon! Terrible inner demon!
The inner demon that only appears when you break through the Tianyuan Realm or the Golden Core Realm actually appears at this time. Is there any fucking reason for this?
I am in the late stage of Lingtai. Could it be that God is blind!
If he can't control it, he will go crazy and even die violently! No, it can't go on like this!
He forcibly stopped the picture in his mind, but he couldn't stop it no matter how hard he tried. The negative emotions became more and more serious, gradually occupying most of his consciousness. But the waking consciousness was swallowed up and dissolved bit by bit.
No, no, no!
Zhou Yang was horrified and struggled hard. From the resistance of his consciousness to the strong reaction of his body, he began to go berserk!
