After supervising the military training for several days, he also wrote an official document requesting various counties and localities to assist in recruiting troops and distributed it to the disciples to take with them to recruit troops.
After taking care of these important military tasks, Lu Yuan finally had some free time to do his own things.
His self-disciplined character prevents him from wasting time.
Therefore, after just resting for a day, Lu Yuan began to think about how he could break through Xiantian.
He actually already had some ideas about breaking through Xiantian.
The innate person trains the outer body of martial arts and controls it with his true intention. When the two are combined, the true meaning of martial arts comes out, which is the state of a master.
Regarding the outer body of martial arts, after listening to Master Ziyun's words last time, Lu Yuan already knew that the other body's direction has no fixed number and can be transformed into everything.
Just like the Five Poison Sect that is currently causing trouble in Dongting County, this sect has always admired the body of ten thousand poisons and has the theory of ten thousand poisons and true energy. According to the information obtained by the imperial court from the encounter with the Saint of the Five Poison Sect, .
Yang Jing once deduced that the martial arts outer body condensed by Lan Cai'er should be the Ten Thousand Poison Qi she used when she assassinated Wuyang Marquis Li Gui.
When Wuyang Marquis Li Gui died that day, the area around his mansion and within a radius of a hundred feet turned into a poisonous area. Residents hundreds of feet away were affected, and thousands of people died.
When Baling City was breached previously, hundreds of defenders at the city gate were directly poisoned by Lan Cai'er's poisonous gas. As a result, the city gate was opened and the county fell.
Both times, survivors escaped.
Therefore, Lan Cai'er's specific methods are also known to the outside world.
The Ten Thousand Poison Qi should be the outer body of the other party's martial arts.
Similarly, the most famous person in the imperial court in recent years, Bai Mengyang, the Marquis of Wu'an, is said to have a martial arts aura that is unique to the military.
The outer body is condensed with the fierce intent of thousands of soldiers. If you are in the army, you can get the blessing of military energy, and your strength will be several times better than normal.
Therefore, every time he led a large army on an expedition, Bai Mengyang was almost invincible and invincible, and he was known as the God of the Vietnamese Army.
Even in the past few years, although when he was in Xichuan County, Bai Mengyang suffered heavy setbacks and suffered defeats one after another.
However, facing an enemy that was nearly three times as powerful as him and four times as powerful as his innate master, Bai Mengyang was still able to use the strong city to hold on and still block the Zhou and Shu coalition forces in Yuzhong Mansion, preventing the opponent's army of more than 200,000 from advancing even an inch.
There is another Yin Huixuan of Liuyang Sect who can be called the number one master in the world of Yue Kingdom.
What this person practices is the Six Yang Qi of the Six Yang Sect.
The weather is yang and the earth's qi is yin. From November to April next year, the yang qi rises, collectively called the six-yang month.
During these six months, Yang Qi is at its peak.
The Liuyang Sect then refined the monthly Yang Qi of heaven and earth according to the monthly changes in Yang Qi, and then combined it with the three Yang Qi of its own hands and feet, using the Yang Qi of heaven and earth as the outer body of martial arts.
And because the martial arts outer body is consistent with one's own physical body, people who practice this method do not need to send their own souls out of the body. They can directly combine with the six yang qi in the body to form the true meaning of martial arts.
In this way, with the double-layer protection of the outer body, the safety of the true meaning of martial arts is greatly increased, and it can even be turned into a bridge of communication, so that the physical body and the outer body can further fit together, making it truly look like one's own body.
Relying on this new method of condensing the outer body of martial arts, the Liuyang Sect was able to rise to the top of the country's martial arts world. Strong men in the second level of martial arts in the sect emerged one after another, and they continued to prosper for thousands of years.
Even Yang Jing himself practiced the "Clear Water Lotus Technique" of his clan, which was derived from the cleanliness of the clear water lotus. It can form the outer body of the lotus, which is a first-class defensive magical skill in the world.
Even more than these four people, the five outer bodies and the five true meanings condensed by other major innate sects or aristocratic families in the world are all different, and there is no fixed number.
From the above many examples, we can see that it is true to the words of Taoist Master Ziyun that the external image of martial arts can be transformed into all things in the world.
But among many examples, there is actually one example to follow. That is the martial arts appearance of each master, most of which are formulated based on the martial arts of each school.
Just like the Five Poison Sect's inheritance of the Ten Thousand Saints Kung Fu, the outer body of the martial arts practice is the Ten Thousand Poisons True Qi.
The Liuyang Sect inherits the Six Yang Divine Skills, and what is practiced is the Qi of the Six Yangs.
The Bai family inherited the method of transforming weapons, and what they practiced was the aura of military evil.
The Yang family inherited the Pure Water Lotus Technique, and what they practiced was the outer body of the lotus flower, the cleansing energy.
In these many sects and families, the masters of the past generations may be different, but the appearance of the masters is generally the same.
Taking Kung Fu as the core to form the martial arts appearance is a choice made by each school unanimously.
Although Lu Yuan still doesn't know the principle behind it.
But it can be chosen by so many families and can be maintained for thousands of years. Even from an empirical point of view, even if this path is not the optimal solution, it is definitely the most trouble-free, popular and best solution.
So after knowing this, Lu Yuan actually had only one choice left to condense his martial arts body.
With the Chiyang Divine Skill as the core, he condenses his own martial arts outer body.
The image of the red sun magic skill is taken from the meaning of the red sun above the head, and it is the vast and blazing energy that is cultivated.
In fact, the external form of zhenqi that Lu Yuan has now condensed is also the fire of the red sun, mainly burning.
"So according to this derivation, I condense the martial arts outer body. It is best to start from this aspect. Use the fire of the red sun as the appearance of the outer body, and then control it with the true meaning of the martial arts to form the red sun outer body, so as to break through the innate ." Lu Yuan thought like this as he looked through the secret book of Chiyang Magic and looked at the conjectures and deductions about innateness in the last few volumes.
In fact, over thousands of years, the Yuzhong Guo family has its own deductions and conjectures about how to break through the innate.
Although they don't know the secret of martial arts, the journey of martial arts is a progressive process.
There are also other innate masters from foreign tribes who have been used as examples to refer to. Some conjectures and secrets about the outer body of martial arts can be roughly deduced by the Guo family in Yuzhong.
Therefore, according to this deduced goal, the Yuzhong Guo family has been slowly improving the Chiyang magic technique inherited by them since three hundred years ago.
Among them, the inner force and outer appearance, which are increasingly closer to the outer body of martial arts, are one of the results of this improvement.
The results of this improvement, and even various improvement ideas, were naturally inherited by Lu Yuan at this time.
With hundreds of years of accumulation from the Yuzhong Guo family, plus some secret information Lu Yuan got from Yang Jing and Taoist Master Ziyun, as well as the satisfaction of his own conditions, he summed up a system of martial arts outer body. , is no longer a problem.
Even following the deductions made by the Yuzhong Guo family, Lu Yuan could now build a prototype of the outer body of martial arts and try to start to break through the innate.
However, this prototype is still a bit crude and rough, and is not completely perfect.
Moreover, this prototype of the outer body is adapted to the original pure Chiyang Divine Art.
Lu Yuan's current internal strength has been transformed three times and tempered by the spirit of the fairy.
With this property, most of the internal force has been changed to adapt to the prototype deduced by the Guo family in Yuzhong based on his own internal force. The degree of adaptability is destined not to be too high.
Therefore, in order to integrate oneself more closely with the outer body of martial arts and exert the power of one's outer body to a greater extent, it is essential to make some necessary modifications and optimizations to make it more suitable for oneself.
Therefore, after deciding to use Chiyang Divine Art as the symbol of martial arts' outer body, Lu Yuan began his own journey of transforming and optimizing his outer body.
Stay in the camp every day, follow Yuzhong Guo's ideas, and then use your own internal strength as the driving force to slowly optimize and adapt, improving the martial arts body bit by bit.
This process is bound to be lengthy.
According to Yang Jing, even if there is a suitable reference, it will take as short as one year and as long as three to five years to condense the outer body that suits one's own desires.
The saint of the Five Poison Sect had spent three years condensing the Ten Thousand Poison Qi.
And the Emperor of Western Shu, Li Xiong, was even more talented, but it took him more than a year to break through his innate talent.
Although Lu Yuan had the accumulated help from the Yuzhong Guo family at this time, if he wanted to condense the martial arts outer body, according to his own estimation, it would take him a year or two to perfect the martial arts outer body and break through the innate realm.
This time also coincides with the court's plan.
The Ten Grand Masters plan formulated by the princes in the court could not be realized overnight. It was originally planned to take three years to implement this matter.
Only one year has passed, and there are still two years left, which is plenty.
"And two years later, these armies under my command are almost complete. If I break through the innateness again, I will be like a fish turning into a dragon, and I will no longer be restrained."
Now, Lu Yuan only has the original 15,000 soldiers and horses that can be used.
Even among the 15,000 people, the 10,000 people who were brought to Shaoyang Mansion by Zhou Qing have lost thousands of people due to the continuous consumption of the Five Poison Sect.
In other words, the only soldiers Lu Yuan could really use were tens of thousands of soldiers.
With this level of strength, even if he became an innate master, it would be futile to segregate a county.
Although pure personal force can bring status and wealth, it is impossible to build a country by oneself.
Just like an eagle, no matter how majestic it is, it cannot fly without the help of its wings.
At this moment, Lu Yuan was the eagle that was about to grow into an eagle, and the soldiers and horses under his command were his wings.
Now not only does he need to progress and grow, but his wings also need to become fuller.
It took two years to train an army of 50,000 people and weave them into wings.
Once you ride on the wind, you will be able to soar to the sky.
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While Lu Yuan was working hard to perfect the outer body of martial arts, the outside world was slowly developing according to its own trajectory.
On the sixth day of the tenth month of the fifth year of Hongdao, Zhou Qing, who had been fighting against the Miao people in Shaoyang Prefecture for half a year, sent people back to report to the army under the orders of Lu Yuan.
It is said that after half a year of attacking Shaoyang Mansion, the Miao people have gradually exhausted their strength. Now the Miao soldiers surrounding Fucheng have retreated and the siege of Fucheng has been lifted.
But in the southern part of Shaoyang Prefecture, Zizian and Suining counties have also been trapped by thieves. Thousands of thieves gathered in these two counties. In the south of Shaoyang Mansion, he refused to leave.
At the same time, the three counties to the north of Shaoyang Prefecture were occupied and were still controlled by the Miao people. Tens of thousands of troops were stationed in the three cities, making it extremely difficult to regain them.
Of the ten counties in Shaoyang Prefecture, five have been lost.
The prefectural and county soldiers and militia groups, which originally numbered 30,000, were reduced to less than 20,000 after half a year of losses. Of the tens of thousands of soldiers led by Zhou Qing, only about 7,000 were left.
All the troops and horses added up, there were only 25,000 people left. There is more than enough to defend the city, but not enough to make progress.
As for the Miao thieves in the mansion, they suffered great losses due to the continuous siege battles, with 20,000 to 30,000 casualties. But there are still 40,000 people left, and the situation is still very difficult to cure.
In this regard, Lu Yuan continued to adhere to the approval given.
There is no way, he only has 20,000 soldiers on hand, most of them are new soldiers, and there is no way to draw them out to fight.
Even if you want to rescue, you are completely powerless.
Fortunately, with Zhou Qing's strength, although they still couldn't defeat the Miao thieves, they were able to defend the city.
Twenty-five thousand soldiers and horses were divided into five cities, each of which could have 5,000 men, enough to defend the city.
Zhou Qing also mentioned this in the battle report.
The disciple also said considerately: The disciple is enough to defend the territory, so the master does not need to worry, he can look for opportunities outside to defeat the bandits.
What can Lu Yuan say about this?
He could only study the outer body of martial arts and spend more time supervising Li Liang to train. I hope to build up an army as soon as possible and then lead people to assist the thieves.
When the situation in Shaoyang Mansion became increasingly stable, it was October 16th of the fifth year of Hongdao.
Under Baling City in the north, the imperial army and the Zhou and Miao allied forces, which had been facing each other for several months, finally broke out into a big battle.
Nearly 100,000 people from both sides lined up to fight outside the city.
Wu Chenghou Shangguan Ming personally risked an arrow miss and led his elite troops to break into the formation and broke through three formations of the Miao people on the left flank. The general of Zhou State Zuozhu was forced to come out to stop them in person. The two men dueled in the midst of thousands of troops.
Similarly, Lan Cai'er, the saint of the Five Poison Sect, also led the defenders out of the city to help in the battle. However, they were stopped by the soldiers led by the Holy Monk Ji Hui. At the city gate, the two innate masters also started a duel.
Later, although Shangguan Ming tried his best, he was still a new grandmaster and could not compare with the general of Zuozhu Kingdom.
Therefore, after fighting for half an hour, he was still seriously injured and fled in defeat.
But taking this opportunity, the elite troops of the imperial court had defeated the Miao people.
Even if the Miao soldiers, who are composed of mountain people, have been trained for several years, they still cannot change the nature of the militia. At this time, facing the elite army of the imperial court, they simply could not hold it back.
After only holding on for half an hour, the enemy's entire right wing, consisting of tens of thousands of Miao soldiers, was defeated.
Implicated in this, the elite Zhou people who crossed the river and headed south were also coerced by the Miao soldiers and retreated in defeat.
Although the general of Zuo Zhuguo of Zhou State won the duel and defeated Shangguan Ming. But in the face of the defeat of this army, there was no way to recover.
They would be surrounded by a large army and had no choice but to retreat.
At the same time, the Holy Lady of the Five Poison Sect was also defeated by the Holy Monk Ji Hui and retreated to the city in defeat.
However, the army outside the city was defeated miserably, and his own saint was defeated. The morale of the Miao defenders in the city was greatly reduced. The holy monk Ji Hui seized the opportunity, used the magic of Buddha's Light to break open the city gate, and led the troops into the city.
Lan Cai'er had no choice but to come out to stop him again.
But after fighting for dozens of times, he was defeated again. If not for the desperate efforts of the church members in the city to stop him, he would have almost lost his life.
At this point, Lan Cai'er no longer dared to stay in the city.
Before the imperial army completely surrounded the city, some people were left behind, and they led more than 10,000 remaining soldiers to escape from the city and headed towards the direction where the defeated coalition forces fled.
The holy monk Ji Hui took the opportunity to recover Baling City, and Dongting County was recovered.
In this battle, the imperial army killed 20,000 thieves and captured 20,000, but its own losses were less than 10,000. It was a great victory.
The most important thing is to regain the county seat, which is undoubtedly a great boost to the morale of the entire county court camp.
For the Pingshu army whose retreat to the west was cut off, it also meant that the passage of life was unblocked.
With Baling City in hand, the imperial court could now try to transport troops and food to the north of the Yangtze River to restore supplies to the Pingshu army.
However, it is still a bit difficult to do this.
Because after the defeat of the Zhou and Miao coalition forces, they did not completely evacuate Yueyang Mansion. Instead, they gathered 80,000 remaining soldiers and still entrenched themselves in Shiyang and Anxiang, threatening the Yangtze River waterway and the county.
Unless this bandit army is completely driven out, the Pingshu army's retreat will not be safe at all.
However, after this battle, the Zhou and Miao coalition forces completely gave up the idea of fighting in the field with the imperial army.
After retreating to Shiyang and Anxiang counties, they set up camps and built cities to defend themselves, and they no longer faced a direct confrontation with the imperial army.
With their strength and the remaining 90,000 soldiers and horses of the imperial court, they were unable to seek peace.
The situation in Yueyang Mansion has once again fallen into a long-term confrontation, and there is still no hope of victory for either side.
In this torturous and long confrontation.
In early November of the fifth year of Hongdao, the disciples sent by Lu Yuan to recruit troops from Jian'an County and Nanhai County finally returned one after another.
After the last person returned, there were 30,000 more recruits in the military camp outside Luyang Mansion.
Yes.
After receiving Lu Yuan's instructions, his disciples who went to recruit troops did not strictly recruit troops according to the quota of 20,000, but recruited all as long as they met the requirements.
As a result, the number of newly recruited soldiers exceeded 20,000, reaching a total of 32,000.
At the same time, the autumn rice in Yuzhang County next door was ripe again, and grain prices fell.
Sun Siwen followed Lu Yuan's original instructions and sent people to buy grain again. He spent 600,000 taels of silver and bought back 700,000 shi of rice.
Taking into account the autumn harvest in Luyang Mansion, the rations for the newly recruited army can barely be considered settled.
On December 17, the fifth year of Hongdao's reign, Lu Yuan heard the news that Yan Wangqiu, the head of the Nanhai Sect in Nanhai County, accepted the invitation of the imperial court and took up the position of national master.
After Baifeng Temple, Nanhai Sect became the second master in the world to form an alliance with the imperial court.
There is one more person in the Ten Grandmasters plan.
At this point, there are seven Xiantian Grandmasters in the imperial camp. If you include Lu Yuan and Yang Jing, there are nine people.
The ten great masters are complete only by one person.
At the end of the same month, Lu Yuan received news from Jinling.
It is said that the imperial court has sent envoys north to the Liang Kingdom, and seems to have the intention of making peace and forming an alliance with the country.
Facing the pressure of annihilation from the Zhou Kingdom, the two sworn enemies of Liang and Yue gradually began to cooperate.
In order to protect Guozuo, the court also worked hard.
The entire five years of Hongdao came to an end amidst all the chaos.
Lu Yuan also spent the New Year at Sun Siwen's house as he did in previous years. This year he was even more happy because the Sun family had a fat boy.
After all the joy, the sixth year of Hongdao came.
