Finding the Pure Water Black Ox is much more difficult than imagined.
Yuanluo Mountain is really too big. Even if Lu Yuan has divided the mountain into four parts and then searched them one by one according to the four areas of southeast, northeast, southwest and northwest, each area is still divided into ten miles. .
In such a large area, with so many mountains and trees, and even cliffs and caves, there are too many places to hide.
Although a cow is a bit bigger, compared to these hiding places, it is still a needle in a haystack and difficult to find.
Lu Yuan led his people to search in the southeastern area of Yuanluo Mountain for three days and searched the entire area, but after three days, they still found nothing.
He had no choice but to continue taking people to the Northeast region, but after searching for three more days, he still found nothing. Later, I took people to search in the southwest and northwest directions, but after searching them all, there was no result.
After searching like this, Lu Yuan finally understood that there would be no results so early.
"Yuanluo Mountain is full of caves and there are many underground rivers. Maybe Qiao Xiuyuan of the Seven Star Sect took advantage of these natural caves and built some mechanism to hide the black bull somewhere underground."
Lu Yuan thought of the tomb robberies he had seen.
Among those tomb robbers, those princes, nobles, emperors and generals like to build all kinds of mysterious and ingenious tombs for themselves, and hide the coffins after their death.
Now he has looked through the entire area on the surface of Yuanluo Mountain, but still has gained nothing. Qingshui Xuanniu cannot leave Yuanluo Mountain, so the only explanation is this.
Although the Seven Star Sect is not composed of emperors and generals, as a large sect with a single government, the manpower, financial and material resources it can use are not necessarily inferior to those of emperors and generals.
After hundreds of years, it is not difficult for the other party to build a treasure hiding place for himself and a secret escape route.
"It seems that it is difficult to achieve any results in a short period of time."
After confirming this, Lu Yuan sighed, and then had no choice but to withdraw his troops.
The army is currently out on an expedition. As the commander-in-chief, even if he has let go of many military affairs as much as possible, he cannot stay out all the time.
Just like two days ago, Zhou Qing sent news back from outside Luyang City, saying that these days, the strategy of using family scrolls to shake the defenders in the city has achieved good results.
Although the rebels in the city did not surrender like in Linwu County, many of the rebels whose families were controlled could not help but sneak out of the city to surrender in the middle of the night.
Although the senior officials of the Seven Star Sect were furious about this, they brutally killed a group of deserters. He also arranged for his disciples to strictly guard the city wall and keep an eye on it at night to prevent those deserters from succeeding.
But even so, it could not stop the trend of Yuecheng surrendering.
the reason is simple.
The family records of many of the disciples of the Seven Star Sect who are responsible for supervision are actually in Linwu County, and are now also controlled by the imperial court.
In this case, how do you ask them to supervise deserters?
Aren't you afraid that after the news spreads outside the city, your family will be deliberately targeted and retaliated by those who escaped?
Although these Seven Star Sect disciples were limited to the great favor of their master sect, they could not escape from the city and surrender like the deserters.
But they are also unable to do it, disregarding the lives of their own families and getting things done.
So under the dilemma, he could only let the deserters leave the city, hoping that through this action, he could convey a bit of goodwill and gain some benefits for his family outside the city.
As for other Seven Star Sect disciples whose family records were not outside the city, they were also limited by their affection for those disciples whose families were under control, and their feelings for the deserters who fled across the city, so they were equally reluctant to attack.
In the end, he turned a blind eye, closed one eye, and let people escape.
After such an operation, hundreds of rebels would escape from the city and surrender to the court almost every night.
And this trend of entire troops and battalions escaping and surrendering, once word spread, inevitably affected other Qixingmen rebel soldiers who were not from Linwu County.
As a result, the morale of the entire rebel army dropped off a cliff that was visible to the naked eye.
no way.
The people in Linwu County who are the most loyal to your Qixing Sect and who usually benefit the most are starting to leave the city and surrender.
Then we were originally just people who were being held hostage, or from other peripheral counties, so why should we stay and work for you?
So starting from the rebels in Linwu County, some rebels from other counties also followed and surrendered out of the city.
But for the disciples of Qixing Sect, these people are not as close as the people from Linwu County.
So in order to give the division an explanation, they did not catch the deserters from Linwu County, but instead began to lead people to catch the deserters from other counties.
It's not easy to manage people from the same family, but you, an outsider, dare to get in trouble?
After these deserters from other counties were caught, the disciples of the Seven Star Sect who were responsible for supervising them were not merciful at all and killed them on the spot.
The corpse's head was hung on the city wall, shocking the army.
Almost every night, dozens of deserters from other counties were caught and their heads were displayed in public.
Such outrageous and unfair differential treatment naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of many people from other counties.
As a result, after such operations, there were many rebels from other counties who were discriminated against, or even forcibly captured, and became even more alienated from the Seven Star Sect.
Get it to the end.
These deserters from outside the country were simply not absconding in small groups of one or two, or perhaps more than a dozen people.
Instead, it developed into a group of foreign soldiers who took turns taking turns on the city wall and fled collectively.
Dozens or hundreds of people fled across the city.
Because there were too many collective defections, the Qixingmen senior officials who were forced from behind had to break up the soldiers from Linwu County and these soldiers from other places, and let their own base supervise the soldiers from other counties.
Then the core disciples of the sect are appointed as grassroots officers to supervise the leadership.
But this arrangement is still useless.
Because the soldiers from Linwu County are still on the run. And as soon as they escaped, the soldiers from other counties naturally followed them. Those officers who were core disciples tried to stop them, but they faced the anger of dozens or hundreds of people who wanted to survive.
How could those third-rate or even inferior Seven Star Sect disciples who had only mastered one or two meridians be a match for so many soldiers?
So if you were stupid and stood up to stop him, you were chopped into pieces on the spot.
If you are more knowledgeable, just pretend you didn't see it. This can save a life.
Some soldiers who were still loyal to the Seven Star Sect and were not prepared to escape were shaken after seeing so many people absconding after being mixed together.
Slowly, influenced by the herd mentality, they fled together.
As a result, a larger-scale escape was staged in Luyang Fucheng.
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"Master, in recent days, the number of rebels in the city who have crossed the city and surrendered every night has increased to five to six hundred.
Counting from the beginning to now, in the eleven days since then, the total number of rebels who have come out to surrender in the city has exceeded 5,000.
There were not only rebels from Linwu County, but also a large number of rebels from other counties in Luyang Prefecture. All of them had their military morale shaken and followed them out of the city to surrender.
According to the latest person who escaped last night, the rebels in the city are now in panic, and a large number of people have fled, which has greatly shaken their morale.
Nowadays, many people want to escape with them, but they just can't find a way and have no chance for the time being. "
In the military camp outside Luyang City, Lu Yuan, who had just returned with his army, was listening to the report of his disciple Zhou Qing, with a slightly surprised look on his face.
Although the heart-attacking strategy implemented by Ia Juan was planned by him, it was beyond his expectation that it could achieve such a miraculous effect.
After thinking for a while, Lu Yuan asked: "So, if 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, but now more than 5,000 escaped, more than half of them were lost at once, and there may not even be 4,000 left.
Zhou Qing nodded and said with excitement: "It is true. According to the rebels who surrendered out of the city, there should be only about 4,000 rebels left in the city. And among these 4,000 people, most of them are from the city. native.
These people are all in the city, controlled by the Seven Star Gate, and they dare not leave the city to surrender.
Now there are only a thousand rebels from other counties left in the city, and there are probably only a few hundred die-hard Seven Star Sect loyalists here.
If the siege continues for a few more days, the Seven Star Gate will be defeated without attack. "
The current situation is indeed great.
Lu Yuan's original plan was to lay siege to the city for several months, waiting for the rebels from the Seven Star Gate to collapse without food.
But now it seems that there is no need to wait another two months.
The current Seven Star Sect traitors are almost finished.
"Very good, Xiaoqing, you did a good job."
After listening to Zhou Qing's report, Lu Yuan was greatly relieved and began to praise him without hesitation.
"No, the disciple just followed the master's instructions and acted according to the order. In terms of credit, it must belong to the master." Zhou Qing touched his head and knew that he knew his true identity and was not wrong.
"It's good to be able to do my bidding well."
Lu Yuan knew that perfect plans often require qualified executors. He made a strategy and it was extremely rare for Zhou Qing to implement it all.
With this in mind, he took out a jade bottle from his arms and gave it to his disciple: "If you make great contributions, you will be rewarded. I went to Linwu County as a teacher and got some divine blood elixirs."
This is the Pure Water Mysterious Pill inherited from the Seven Star Sect. One pill can refine a meridians.
Now that you are practicing cultivation, you are almost ready to master the seventh meridian, right?
Although this speed is not bad, it is still a bit slow.
There are three mysterious pills here, and they will be given to you. "
Lu Yuan got a total of nine Pure Water Mysterious Pills. In addition to the two innate meridians of Ren and Du, there are only three other strange meridians that he has not mastered yet.
It is much more difficult to practice the Qijing than the regular Jing. But no matter how difficult it is, two mysterious pills are enough to master one.
Therefore, for Lu Yuan, he only needed to keep six mysterious pills to ensure that he would break through to the top of the first-class realm.
The remaining three grains can be taken out to reward others.
Zhou Qing is now the person with the highest cultivation level under him, and he is also the disciple with the closest relationship. It is reasonable and reasonable to give him three mysterious pills.
"Master."
Zhou Qing looked at the Xuandan delivered to his hand, his face full of joy and emotion. Finally, he nodded heavily and said, "Master, please rest assured. This disciple will practice hard and break through to the top as soon as possible to serve the master."
Lu Yuan nodded slightly and encouraged: "Practice well in the future and break through to the top level as soon as possible. As my teacher, I am waiting for you to grow up and share the heavy responsibilities for me."
After giving the Xuan Dan, he asked Zhou Qing some confusion about his practice, and after answering the question, he waved the disciple away.
After Zhou Qing left, Lu Yuan took care of the military affairs. After finishing his work, he started practicing again.
Over the past few days, as he has continued to practice cultivation, now most of the internal energy in the third meridian has been transformed, almost all of it has been replaced by Chiyang internal energy.
According to the current progress, the transformation of the last meridian can be completed within one or two days.
At this critical moment, Lu Yuan naturally put down many foreign objects and concentrated on cultivation.
…
time flies.
After returning to the army and practicing hard for two days, Lu Yuan officially completed the transformation of all the internal forces in his body, and all his skills were replaced by the Chiyang Divine Art.
At this point, he could finally start practicing this first-rate technique.
It has been more than half a year since I got this skill.
In the past six months, Lu Yuan has been busy studying the Chiyang Magic Technique in addition to being busy converting it. With his level of experience, it is easy to understand this skill.
There will be no problems at all in cultivating the remaining three meridians.
In this case, there is nothing to say.
He immediately started taking the Pure Water Mysterious Pill and started to break through the next meridian.
With the help of this elixir, I believe that I will be able to break through to the top of the world in less than half a month.
By then, Lu Yuan could be said to be invincible.
He was busy practicing his martial arts, while people in Luyang City, which was surrounded outside, continued to flee.
However, as most of the people who could escape fled, the number of people fleeing across the city gradually decreased.
From the original peak of five to six hundred people a night, it gradually became one or two hundred people, and even now there are dozens of people.
The number of defenders in the city also dropped further, from just over 4,000 to just over 3,000. Most of the remaining three thousand people were city residents with low combat effectiveness and low morale.
According to the calculations of Zhou Qing and other disciples, today's Luyang City may be captured in one fell swoop as long as they lead an army to attack.
But this proposal was rejected by Lu Yuan.
The reason is simple. It may not be difficult to capture Luyang City.
But it is very difficult to ensure that when the city falls, it is difficult to capture the senior officials of the Seven Star Sect so that Qiao Xiuyuan and others, including the leader, cannot escape.
No matter what people say, they are still a group of first-rate and second-rate martial arts masters.
These people are facing the army head-on and may not be their opponents.
But if you don't fight head-on, but avoid its edge and choose to dodge, there is no problem.
After all, most martial arts masters are very strong, and many are also good at light kung fu. If such people want to escape, it will be difficult for an army that relies heavily on the power of military formations to do anything.
So don't look at Luyang City being surrounded by people now.
But if Lu Yuan wants to catch people like Qiao Xiuyuan, the probability of success is low, and it is even more likely that he will not be able to catch them at all.
This was something he couldn't accept.
Lu Yuan still hoped that he could capture Qiao Xiuyuan and other senior officials, and then extract from their mouths the treasures of the other two branches of the Seven Star Sect, as well as the whereabouts of the Pure Water Black Bull.
Feng Zhijie, who had surrendered before, was only the person in charge of the three ancestors of the Seven Star Sect. He only knew about the treasures of the third line. He had no idea where the treasures of the other two lines were.
That's a guarantee of twenty pills of water purification pill.
There is also a pure water black bull.
If he could get this treasure, Lu Yuan could directly train Zhou Qing to become a top-notch master like himself.
Even his disciples can produce three or five second-rate people.
With such great benefits right in front of us, if Qiao Xiuyuan and others were allowed to run away, it would be like a cooked duck flying away.
Therefore, Lu Yuan would naturally not agree to the proposal to attack the city at this time.
Of course, this doesn't mean that he will spend time here forever.
Lu Yuan was prepared to wait until he had reached the peak of the first-class level and his strength reached the limit that could be improved now, before attacking the city.
The gap between first-class and first-class is also huge.
Just like Fang Tianying back then, when faced with the siege of Mo Baichuan of Iron Sword Sect and the chief arrester of Luling Mansion, two first-rate masters, he was still able to severely injure Mo Baichuan on the spot and then leave gracefully.
Mo Baichuan, on the other hand, died on the bed after two years of hard work.
It can be seen from this that even if they are both first-class, the gap in strength is also huge.
How strong is Fang Tianying?
Lu Yuan has never met this person, so he cannot confirm it.
But he can conclude that this Eagle King is extremely powerful, that is, he has mastered three or four meridians, and he can never be a top-notch person who has mastered five or six meridians.
Because at the peak of his strength, he is already at the pinnacle of the world.
This kind of person, even an innate master, cannot be used as a chess piece to control.
Therefore, Fang Tianying, who started the Black Wind Pirates Rebellion as a chess piece in Nanhai County's martial arts world, would not be at the top of his game.
And how strong is Qiao Xiuyuan?
According to the news that has been circulated in the world in the past, this person has roughly mastered the strength of two strange scriptures and belongs to the early stage of the first-class.
But now that the other party has launched a rebellion, it does not rule out that this person will use his sect's treasures and take the Water Purification Mysterious Pill to forcibly increase his strength.
However, the inheritance of Qixing Sect’s skills is limited to that, and the highest level can only reach the third magical sutra.
Even if Qiao Xiuyuan reached the peak of his training, his strength would still be far inferior to that of Lu Yuan, who had mastered the six extraordinary scriptures.
To say it gave him two hands would be an exaggeration.
But Lu Yuan felt that it would not be a big problem to capture this person with one hand.
Because at this time, he felt that with his current strength of mastering the three magical meridians, it would be no problem to defeat himself who had just mastered one meridian and entered the innate world for the first time.
And the farther you go in cultivation, the bigger the gap becomes.
Logically speaking, the gap between the Six Wonderful Sutras and the Three Wonderful Sutras should be greater than three versus one.
With such a vision, Lu Yuan would naturally not be in a hurry.
Anyway, it will only take half a month at most.
Rather than rush now and risk the duck flying away to attack the city. It would be better to wait for complete preparations, crush them with absolute strength, and capture these traitors with your own hands.
Isn't that more beautiful?
As long as there are visible and tangible benefits, Lu Yuan's patience is still sufficient.
Don't mind waiting a little while before enjoying your food.
Fish in the net like the Seven Star Sect cannot escape.
