The next day, in Linwu County.
An inconspicuous house in Xing'anfang, Xicheng.
A large number of soldiers surrounded this place, the surrounding residents were driven out, and this place was enclosed as a forbidden area.
"General, when the founder of the Seven Star Sect accepted three disciples, these three disciples later accepted apprentices and passed on their own lineage, thus becoming the direct descendants of the three lines within the Seven Star Sect.
These three direct descendants all have the highest spiritual inheritance in the sect, as well as the annual quota of the Pure Water Mysterious Pill. "
Feng Zhijie, the old man who knelt down to beg for help last night, was standing in front of the house and said to Lu Yuan in front of him with a flattering look on his face: "It has been passed down for hundreds of years. Each of the three branches has set up a place to hide treasures. .
Therefore, there are three treasure hiding places in this sect.
In each of these three places, the martial arts passed down by the sect, a large amount of money, and some divine blood elixirs were placed for the purpose of reviving the sect after its collapse.
I am an elder of the three ancestral lines in the sect, and the place where my lineage’s treasures are hidden is in this house.
In the backyard of this courtyard, there is a dry well. At the bottom of the dry well, a secret room is dug, and the treasure is stored in it. "
After listening to his story, Lu Yuan nodded slightly, and then winked at one of his disciples next to him.
The latter understood immediately, ordered two soldiers, and walked to the backyard.
The rest of the people waited at the entrance of the courtyard.
After a while, the disciple who left earlier came over quickly.
"Master, there is indeed a dry well in the backyard. I went down to the dry well and found a secret room there. There were two boxes of gold and silver hidden in it, which contained about thirty thousand taels of silver.
In addition, this secret book of exercises and this elixir were also discovered. "The disciple held a book and a box of pills and offered them to them with both hands.
Lu Yuan took it and flipped through the book. It did contain the techniques and moves of the Seven Star Fist, but it was at a low level and could only be practiced up to the third magical sutra.
So after he rolled his eyes twice, he stopped looking at it and took it into his arms.
Then he opened the box of elixirs. It was covered with a layer of soft brocade silk, and there were three jade bottles on it. Through the pure white bottle, you can see the shape of the cyan pill inside.
The man next to him, Feng Zhijie, actively introduced: "General, there are three bottles of elixirs in this jade box, and each bottle of elixir contains three xuan dan of water purification. Each of the xuan dan can help the warrior to open a meridians."
When Lu Yuan heard this, he couldn't help but ask: "Why only nine pills?"
According to the effect of one pill on each meridian of the nine water purification pills, taking them all will only allow the warrior to open up nine meridians at most.
What are the nine meridians enough for?
In the world of martial arts, a warrior who has mastered the nine meridians is at best a second-rate and mid-level warrior.
Although this level of strength is considered acceptable, it is really far from the first-class realm.
Feng Zhijie smiled bitterly and said: "Back to General. Our Qixing Sect is in Dongting County. Although it is considered a top sect, it has only been inherited for more than 700 years. In terms of accumulated heritage, it is far inferior to other thousand-year-old sects in the world.
Moreover, there is only one Pure Water Black Ox in our sect, and the amount of spiritual blood it can produce each year is limited. This limited share must be divided among our three channels.
The existence of these mysterious pills here is already the result of saving and saving in this vein. "
Lu Yuan was slightly disappointed after hearing this explanation.
Also, he had too high expectations for the treasures of the Seven Star Sect.
After all, it is a sect from a poor place and cannot compare to those top sects that are famous all over the world. With hundreds of years of accumulation, it is already very good.
"Okay, if you can get the treasure this time, I will credit you with it." Lu Yuan put away the elixir, then looked at Feng Zhijie, with a gentle smile on his face.
Regardless of whether the Seven Star Sect has more or less knowledge, it is a big gain to get nine water purification pills and a first-rate technique this time.
At least with these nine water purifying pills, he no longer had any bottlenecks in practicing the remaining three meridians of the Chiyang Divine Art.
The top-notch strength is within reach.
"Then...general..."
Seeing that Lu Yuan was in a good mood, Feng Zhijie also breathed a sigh of relief and said hesitantly: "My family..."
"Don't worry, I will order you and your family to be released later, and all your property that was seized will be returned at this time." Lu Yuan waved his hand and did not continue to embarrass the other party.
In terms of keeping integrity, he still has a good bottom line.
As long as the other party fulfills its own requirements, it will naturally be fulfilled.
"Thank you, general, thank you, general." Hearing that his family had escaped the disaster, Feng Zhijie was so excited that he almost shed tears. He knelt on the ground and cried bitterly.
"Okay, don't thank me yet."
Lu Yuan glanced at Feng Zhijie, spoke to stop his crying, and then asked: "You said that there is only one Jingshui black bull in your sect, so where is this black bull now?"
The Purifying Water Mysterious Pill and so on are actually just scratches on the surface, and they will be gone after eating them.
When it comes to the real treasure of the Seven Star Sect, it has to be the Pure Water Mysterious Ox that continuously produces Pure Water Mysterious Pills.
Feng Zhijie stopped crying, and when he heard this question, there was a trace of embarrassment on his face: "Back to the general, I don't know the whereabouts of the Pure Water Black Bull. This cow was originally raised in the sect's forbidden area, and has always been there. The head of the family will oversee and take care of me. Only when the spiritual blood is taken out will we be allowed close to the supervisor.
But since the sect leader rebelled, the black bull disappeared from the sect. When asked about it, he only said that he had found a safe place to hide it, and refused to give out the details of his whereabouts.
So for us, we don’t know the whereabouts of Black Bull. "
At this point, Feng Zhijie saw that Lu Yuan's face looked a little ugly, and he quickly added: "But the Pure Water Black Bull can only survive in Yuanluo Mountain. If this cow leaves Yuanluo Mountain, it will not adapt to the acclimatization and will get sick and die."
Therefore, even if the leader wants to hide it, he can only make plans in the Yuanluo Mountain area, and cannot get the cow too far away.
The general only needs to send people to search Yuanluoshan extensively to find this cow. "
"Can we only survive in Yuanluo Mountain?"
Lu Yuan couldn't help being slightly surprised when he heard Feng Zhijie's words, and then asked: "What's the point of this?"
Feng Zhijie hesitated and said: "As for the specific situation of the Pure Water Black Bull being unable to leave Yuanluo Mountain, the sect has actually been studying it, and finally got a clear answer from the Dao sect.
It is said that the Pure Water Black Bull is a strange species with divine blood and a strange beast in the world.
Most of these alien species live long lives and possess various mysterious abilities that are comparable to powerful warriors.
In order to maintain this mysterious bloodline, the divine blood mutants need to swallow the essence of the sun and the moon from the sky and the earth, and absorb the energy of the heaven and earth fairy spirits into their bodies to maintain their own consumption.
But now that the spirit of heaven and earth has faded, the essence of the sun and moon has become increasingly scarce, making it increasingly difficult to swallow.
Therefore, if mortal beings want to absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, they must use this kind of special place in the cave heaven paradise where the immortal energy is still relatively active.
Yuanluo Mountain is among the Taoist sects and is also one of the seventy-two heavenly blessed places. Although it is ranked lower, it can also help Black Bull swallow the essence of the sun and moon.
Therefore, Black Bull can survive in Yuanluo Mountain and can continuously produce spiritual blood by swallowing the essence of the sun and moon.
But once it leaves Yuanluo Mountain and loses the supply of sun and moon essence, the black bull will gradually lose its spirituality, and then its bloodline will degenerate and it will die of old age.
The above are the answers that the third-generation sect master received after personally going to Ziyun Dao in Tianluo Mountain and asking for advice from the contemporary Taoist master. "
"Ziyundao?"
Hearing this, Lu Yuan was stunned. He didn't expect that Qixing Sect had ever interacted with Ziyundao.
But think about it, Qixing Sect is also a top sect in the world, and Ziyun Dao is the leader of Yueguo Dao Sect. It is not surprising that there is an intersection between the two.
'It's just that the theory that the spirit of heaven and earth has faded away is not something that has been said in recent years, but someone has already realized it hundreds of years ago? '
Lu Yuan thought of the Dharma-ending disaster that Taoist Qi Yun told him a few days ago.
There were waves in his heart, and Feng Zhijie next to him continued: "According to what Taoist Master Ziyun said at that time, there are fewer and fewer immortal spirits on earth, and there are fewer and fewer monks who can support them.
Yuanluo Mountain ranks low among the Cave Heaven Blessed Lands, and should be the first group of Cave Heaven Blessed Lands to be depleted in this spiritual energy decline.
In the future, the number of pure water black cattle that can be supported should become less and less, until they can no longer support the consumption of black cattle, and this alien species will be completely eliminated.
Later, this statement came true.
A hundred years ago, one of the only two black bulls in the gate suddenly died of illness, leaving only the ready-made one.
In the past few years, the remaining black bull has been able to produce less and less spiritual blood.
In the past, the spiritual blood produced by Black Bull every year could be used to refine five spiritual pills. But in the past few years, the coagulation output has been greatly reduced, and only one or two mysterious pills can be produced every year.
Moreover, Xuan Niu is getting older and can only live another thirty or forty years at most.
If this situation continues, I am afraid that when Xuan Niu dies, our Seven Star Sect will also decline. "
Speaking of this, Feng Zhijie said with a hint of helplessness and sadness: "The reason why our Seven Star Sect rebelled this time is actually because the leader was unwilling to accept the decline of the sect after decades, so he wanted to take advantage of this rare troubled time to raise troops to plunder other sects. The sect’s divine blood variant can maintain the sect’s inheritance.
But now it seems that this is false after all.
The leader wanted to lead the sect to revival and maintain the sect's inheritance, but in the end he led the sect to the point of no return.
The seven-hundred-year-old tradition of the Seven Star Sect has been cut off today! "
Although this old man was afraid of death, he grew up in the sect after all. Thinking of the ending of the Seven Star Sect, he couldn't help but shed tears.
Lu Yuan glanced at him, ignored the other person's feelings, turned around and led his troops away.
Now that he has gotten what he wants and knows the information he wants, this old man doesn't have much value anymore.
The other party has betrayed the Seven Star Sect this time and has broken with the original sect. It is impossible for the two parties to join forces again.
Even if this guy wants to avoid being retaliated by the Seven Star Sect and save his life and wealth, he has to take the initiative to cooperate with the government and the court to help suppress the rebels of the Seven Star Sect.
This Feng Zhijie had already boarded the imperial ship and could not get off again.
…
Withdrew the troops and returned to the military camp outside the city. At this time, the last remaining rebels and remnants in the city had been cleared away.
All the men over the age of twelve in the entire city were basically arrested and purged. The only ones who were effective were the old, weak, women and children, who were basically unable to make a difference.
Seeing this situation, Lu Yuan singled out a captain named Song Miao among his disciples and asked him to temporarily garrison the county town with two battalions of one thousand soldiers and horses.
At the same time, another disciple was arranged to lead two thousand soldiers to escort the families of the rebels in Luyang City, as well as the prisoners who had first entered the camp, back to Luyang City.
And he took the last two thousand troops to Yuanluo Mountain, preparing to search for the whereabouts of Qingshui Black Bull.
Yuanluo Mountain is not a small mountain, it is a large mountain range that stretches for dozens of miles. Nearly half of the entire Linwu County is covered by this mountain.
In such a large area, in the vast mountains and seas, even if there are two thousand soldiers and horses, it is not an easy task to find a black bull.
Not to mention, the Seven Star Sect deliberately hid this cow, so it would be even harder to find it.
Lu Yuan is already prepared to fight a protracted war here.
Fortunately, all aspects of affairs are now being carried out in an orderly manner.
Linwu County has been sent down, and the family papers of the rebels in Luyang City have also been sent over. Even if this time it cannot be successfully captured like Linwu County, it can still greatly shake the morale of the defenders in the city.
Maybe they could even get the defenders to flee across the city and surrender outside the city.
These are all very possible things.
As for the Miao people in the direction of Yangshan Mansion and Jiuyi Mansion, Lu Yuan also arranged sentinels to keep an eye on them. However, according to the current news reports, the Miao people in these two places showed no signs of moving towards Luyang Mansion.
There shouldn't be any calls in a short time.
I don't know if the Seven Star Sect didn't send anyone to ask for help from the Miao people, or if the people they sent to ask for help didn't convince them, but either way, it was a good thing for Lu Yuan.
Of course, the quieter the Miao people are, the more it may indicate that the other party is brewing some big conspiracy?
It's just that it is still being prepared at this time and did not explode immediately.
However, Lu Yuan didn't have much to do about this except to be more vigilant.
If the Miao people don't come to attack him, he should turn around and lead his troops to attack the Miao people.
That's one hundred thousand Miao soldiers.
With Lu Yuan's 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers and horses, if they really fight, it's not certain who will hit whom?
So even if he knew that the Miao people had a conspiracy, he could only passively accept the move, wait for the other party to make a move, and then slowly deal with it and resolve it.
It's very frustrating and helpless, but this is the reality.
Fortunately, Lu Yuan can't just wait now.
At this time, he took people to find the Pure Water Black Bull.
Even if you find this cow, you won't be able to conjure tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, but you can conjure a few dozen or so mysterious pills, which is still no problem.
Lu Yuan didn't need much. If he could get seven Xuan Dan, he could help his disciple Zhou Qing break through to the top level.
If I could get a few more pills, it wouldn't be a problem to train a few second-rate masters among my disciples.
If you can add one more first-class and a few second-class soldiers, and then break through to the top of the first-class, then the benefits brought by these top-level combat capabilities can also close the gap of thousands of troops.
In this era of great strife, the Seven Star Sect is seeking survival, the Five Poison Sect is brewing a conspiracy, and the imperial court is struggling to support it.
Even he, Lu Yuan, is trying every means to improve his strength.
