Five days later, Zhou Qing received the letter and hurried to Xiangyang County.
"I met the master."
After meeting, Zhou Qing quickly saluted Lu Yuan.
"Get up."
Lu Yuan helped his disciple up, then looked him up and down. Looking at Zhou Qing's frosty face, he couldn't help but said with relief, "Are you tired from traveling all the way?"
Zhou Qing shook his head hurriedly: "It's not hard work. The disciples went down the river. They didn't rush, they just took a boat."
There is a Han River connecting Hanzhong County and Xiangyang County.
The two counties communicate with each other, carry out business trips, and even travel by army, mostly by boat.
If Lu Yuan really wanted to attack Xichuan this time, he would probably have to go through this waterway.
"Even if we travel by boat, the weather is very cold now. Coming from the water, it is cold and humid, which is quite hard."
Lu Yuan shook his head, and then said with a smile: "Let's not talk about this, let's get back to business. This time you played well in Xixiang Mansion, and I am very satisfied as a teacher."
When he sent the message this time, Zhou Qing was leading 10,000 soldiers and horses to capture the city and territory in Xixiang Mansion, Hanzhong County.
Not only did they conquer the five eastern counties of the prefecture, but they also surrounded the city. It took less than ten and a half days to capture it.
Leading a partial army can achieve this.
To be honest, this has been done very well without the leadership of an innate master.
Zhou Qing felt a little ashamed and said: "Master was able to defeat two palaces in six days. The disciple has been busy for half a month, but no one has captured even one palace. I dare not praise this kind of achievement."
Lu Yuan smiled and said: "I was able to conquer two houses in six days because of the two innate masters who took the lead and defeated the enemy with one blow. But you don't have the conditions like me. You can only rely on steady attacks and purely military skills. This innate There are many more disadvantages.
But this time I called you here precisely for this reason. "
When he said this, he couldn't help but look at his disciple carefully, and then said: "Looking at your aura, you have gradually become calm and restrained. You should be able to fully master the surge of internal power after breaking through the second strange sutra, right?"
"For more than a year now, apart from leading troops, my disciple has been studying the Taoist scriptures every day."
Zhou Qing nodded and said: Now that I have studied it, I am used to seeing life and death on the battlefield, and I have already understood some of the mysteries of life and death. My conscious state of mind has improved again, and I should be able to improve one or two more extraordinary sutras. "
Between life and death, it is still very effective in tempering and improving the state of mind.
As long as you experience more life and death, you may not be able to immediately improve your mood at that time.
But if you take some time to settle down and read more Taoist scriptures, you will naturally be able to understand certain realms that you could not experience before through the insights between life and death.
In the cultivation of the state of mind, there is also the theory of training the mind in the world of mortals.
Being involved in the mortal world, holding power, and being used to seeing all kinds of people's hearts, as long as you can experience it without being obsessed with it, your state of mind will naturally improve accordingly.
Now, as the general of the Changsha Kingdom, Zhou Qing leads tens of thousands of troops in battles on weekdays, although he rarely goes to dangerous places.
But watching the fighting on the battlefield, watching millions of people fighting for their lives, and watching lives disappearing in batches, it is natural to have many emotions.
Moreover, as the number one person in the military position, with his power, he is indispensable for the people he usually comes to curry favor with, and the people he is used to seeing in life.
Adding the two together, and Zhou Qing himself working hard and not letting go of Taoist scriptures to cultivate his mind, this state of mind naturally grew rapidly.
Just like Lu Yuan back then.
While working as an official, I can understand people's hearts. While fighting on the battlefield, experience life and death.
The two were combined, and after all the elements were complete, in just sixteen years, he achieved a breakthrough in innateness.
Now Zhou Qing has been practicing martial arts for thirteen years. In thirteen years, he has improved to the point where he can control the four strange scriptures. He is not slower than Lu Yuan.
The only difference between him and his master is that his internal strength is not yet condensed enough. Maybe even if he reaches the top of the first-class level, it will not be enough to break through the innate requirements.
At the same time, there may be some shortcomings in the soul. His soul may not be able to support the five outer bodies that communicate with the outer world.
There is also the aspect of mood.
It's easy to say in this regard. With Zhou Qing's current state of mind, it may be five or six years before he can meet the requirements for breakthrough innateness.
The main thing that hinders him from breaking through the innateness is the first two points, internal strength and soul.
To put it bluntly, under normal circumstances, given the conditions here today, it is basically impossible for an ordinary warrior to cultivate his inner strength and soul to the point where he can break through his innate abilities purely by himself.
Because breaking through the innate requires extremely pure internal strength.
How accurate is it?
For example, for an ordinary first-class peak warrior, the purity of his internal energy is one. If he wants to meet the requirement of breaking through the innate, his purity must reach three, or even four and five.
At least three times the purity of the internal energy essence, Lu Yuan achieved this requirement by relying on the fairy spirit energy in the jade piece. Lan Cai'er relied on the Five Poison Sect's hundreds of years of accumulation. Li Xiong relied on slaughtering the entire Xichuan martial arts world and plundering the thousand-year accumulation of those martial arts families.
The path for the three of them is here.
Think for yourself.
Can an ordinary warrior, who has practiced for hundreds of years, refine this kind of pure internal power by himself before he dies?
To construct the outer body of martial arts, it is necessary to turn the soul into the true meaning of martial arts, which can be used to control the aura of the outer phase and turn it into the outer body of martial arts.
Therefore, this step also has extremely high requirements for the soul.
But for a normal person, generally speaking, after reaching the age of fifty, or at most sixty, his energy and spirit will begin to decline.
In short, when ordinary people reach the age of sixty at most, their souls will begin to gradually weaken and move toward death.
And how can a soul that has begun to decline and die be able to support the martial arts body?
Therefore, if you want to break through innateness, you must first be no more than sixty years old.
Otherwise, once you pass sixty, although theoretically speaking, it is not impossible to break through the innate probability.
But it becomes clear when you actually think about it.
It is so difficult for those who are under sixty to break through their innate abilities.
If you are over sixty years old, and you still want to break through your innate abilities, your chances are no less than winning in the lottery.
If you are confident that you are the chosen one, then you can give it a try. Anyway, just don’t cry over the result in the end.
And in fact, it is difficult for ordinary people to support the martial arts outer body with the strength of their souls.
Normally, if you want to break through your innate abilities, you have to practice some secret techniques that can enhance your soul, take those divine blood mutants, and rely on the power of those spiritual pills to strengthen your soul.
Those divine blood alien species swallow the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and coupled with their own bloodline superpowers, they can more or less nourish the divine soul.
Therefore, taking the divine blood elixir also has the effect of strengthening the divine soul.
Or like Lu Yuan. He came directly through time and swallowed another soul in his body. The strength of the soul immediately increased to nearly twice that of others.
As long as you meet any of the above two points, you can achieve the breakthrough of innate soul requirements.
Therefore, based on the above conditions, if you want to break through the innateness, you must not be older than sixty, your soul must be strong enough, and your internal strength must be pure to the limit.
With regard to these conditions, how can a normal warrior possibly satisfy them by relying solely on his own practice?
Anyway, with Zhou Qing's current conditions, even in five or six years, he can break through to the top of the first-class level. But in this life, reaching this point is almost the limit.
Want to go further.
Either learn from Lu Yuan and use the spirit of the immortal spirit to purify your inner strength. Either learn the conventional method and swallow a large amount of divine blood elixir.
At present, the latter path seems to be quite easy to follow.
After all, Lu Yuan now controls one county and ten prefectures. This Northern Expedition will probably expand the territory of six more prefectures.
With the territory of the Sixteenth Mansion, if we forcibly conquer it, we can barely scrape together the divine blood elixir that a warrior needs to break through the innate world.
However, if this happens, the territory under Lu Yuan's rule will inevitably be subject to a new turmoil.
If you don't learn what Li Xiong did and kill all the martial arts warriors below, and spend a year and a half to kill one to two hundred thousand, or even two to three hundred thousand people, then you can't even think about peace.
Even after the killing, you may have to endure a security war for two to three years, or even five or ten years.
This price, although compared to cultivating an innate warrior, is actually quite cost-effective and even profitable.
But for Lu Yuan, it was a bit unacceptable.
Population and territory, for him, means destiny and people's hearts. And local tranquility, for him, is an accelerator that gathers people's destiny.
These two points are related to the progress of his Taiping Daoshu cultivation.
As for the power of Taiping Taoism, Lu Yuan can be said to have a deep understanding of the power of Taiping Taoism after experiencing the Northern Expedition and killing the Xiantian Queen twice.
Immortal magic and Taoism, for ordinary innate masters, are really equivalent to dimensionality reduction strikes.
If used properly, it would be easy to kill an innate master with just one spell.
How could Lu Yuan give up such a powerful method?
For him, even enduring the slowdown in his immortal cultivation was a sin.
Therefore, it is basically unfeasible in Changsha to rely on massacres of warriors in the martial arts world to plunder the resources needed to break through the innate resources.
And seriously.
Because of his background, Lu Yuan was considered part of the imperial court system.
In Changsha under his leadership, many people, whether in the army or in the local government, have inextricable relationships with those Jianghu sects and aristocratic families.
Lu Yuan's actions against those Jianghu warriors were essentially shaking the foundation of his rule. This was a disguised attempt to weaken his own strength.
This way.
Even though Zhou Qing was finally introduced, this disciple had a breakthrough in his innate ability.
But the people under his command are disorganized, the army is in panic, and there is no one else available. Is this really a good thing?
Therefore, at the beginning, Lu Yuan did not think about killing those martial arts warriors to help Zhou Qing break through the innate.
What he really wanted was to let Zhou Qing follow his own path.
Use the spirit of the fairy to purify the inner force, and then use the pure inner force and the spirit of the fairy imbued in the inner force to replenish the soul and make it stronger.
This is also the purpose of Lu Yuan coming to Zhou Qing this time.
He wanted to help this disciple purify and temper his inner strength with the spirit of the immortal spirit.
And to do this, naturally this disciple must come over.
With this thought in his mind, Lu Yuan looked at Zhou Qing and said with a smile: "To be able to raise your state of mind to this level within one year, your talent is no less than that of a teacher. But if you want to break through your innate talent, you just need to It’s not enough to get through the Qijing.
Even if you open up the Ren and Du channels, it won't be enough.
The secret of innateness lies in the purity of the inner energy and the strength of the soul, and for these two points, pure hard work is not enough.
Other innate masters broke this shackles by taking large amounts of divine blood elixirs. But this road is doomed to be bloody and bloody, and a teacher can't help you.
Fortunately, as a teacher, there is another way that can also help you break through the innate..."
At that moment, Lu Yuan told his disciple about the Immortal Yuan Jade Piece in his hand and the fact that he had cultivated the Five Thunder Book.
He naturally trusts Zhou Qing and Sun Siwen very much and is willing to share some secrets.
And these things do not involve core secrets.
After some time, when the relationship with Dan Ding Dao is broken, it will be made public.
At this time, it was just a matter of telling his disciples in advance.
However, after hearing this, Zhou Qing was both shocked and extremely moved.
He did not expect that his master would have such a destiny and become a legendary cultivator of immortality.
What moved him even more was that his master was willing to talk to him about this kind of thing that he should keep to himself and enjoy the benefits privately.
Not only did he say that, in order to break through his innate nature, Master actually planned to share with him the now extremely precious and rare spirit of the immortal spirit.
Master's love and care for me are simply, simply...
Zhou Qing no longer knows how to describe it.
So after he recovered from the shock, he knelt down and prostrated, saying: "It is a kindness that I cannot repay for having my master teach me martial arts and adopt me as my disciple.
Now that the master is destined to be immortal and can explore the hope of immortality, how can the disciple dare to ruin the master's path to immortality because of his own personal affairs?
Please ask Master to take back this matter, but disciples don’t dare to hope so much. "
This eldest disciple is still as filial as ever. At this time, even though the Xiantian Dao was in front of him, he was not tempted at all. Instead, he considered Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan was both pleased and distressed by this, and finally he could only forcefully say: "Since I plan to pass on the spirit of immortality to you, I naturally have to think carefully about it. And my path to immortality naturally has my own considerations.
Now that the Changsha Kingdom has just been established, surrounded by tigers and wolves, all countries regard me as a thorn in their side.
Since the Northern Expedition, I have been expanding my territory continuously. The territory is so vast that it is really difficult to cover it with just the strength of me and your wife.
You and Brother Sun are the people I trust most in the world, even more than my wife and children.
Today, I will help you break through the innate world. In the future, my national unification will also depend on Xiaoqing to help, protect and support me.
So this is not just for you, but also for me, for the country of Changsha.
There is no need to say any more about this matter, just do it as a teacher. "
When it came to this point, Zhou Qing could no longer refuse. He could only say: "Disciple must practice hard, break through the innateness as soon as possible, and share the state affairs for the master."
Lu Yuan showed his face and said, "That's right. Come, come here, I will take a look at your cultivation first, and then I will determine how to formulate a plan for you to refine your inner strength."
"yes."
Zhou Qing nodded and stepped forward as instructed.
Lu Yuan stretched out his hand and began to check his internal strength, frowning in deep thought.
…
After a while.
Zhou Qing left the tent and finished the inspection.
'Xiaoqing's internal strength is still a bit mixed now, and it is not as good as when I started practicing, I have been using fairy jade pieces to temper my internal strength.
So when you first start to purify your internal strength, don't move too much, otherwise you will easily lose control and damage your foundation.
Therefore, it needs to be done step by step, and it will take a month or two to complete this matter.
All I need to do is to complete the guidance for him in the first few days, and then I can hand over the jade pieces to him and let Xiaoqing purify it on his own as before.
It's not difficult and doesn't take much effort.
Moreover, the test on Xiao Qing's mood just now showed that the progress was even more gratifying than what he said.
It feels like he can now break through to the fourth meridian and master these internal forces more solidly.
In this case, with Xiaoqing's talent and the help of me, a cultivator of immortality, he may be able to achieve a breakthrough in his innate ability within six or seven years. '
Lu Yuan thought this in his heart and was very satisfied with this plan.
Sixty-seven years later, Zhou Qing had been practicing martial arts for almost twenty years. This speed exceeded the Xiantian level and was considered to be the upper-middle level among all Xiantian masters.
And after the Northern Expedition, it is foreseeable that there will be a long and peaceful day between Zhou and Yue.
The country of Yue has been in chaos for almost eight years. During this period, the territory of four counties was lost, five to six million soldiers and horses were lost, and an innate man was also killed.
Such a huge loss would not take more than ten or twenty years to recover, and it would be hard to breathe.
The same is true for Zhou State.
If Marquis Wu'an's surprise attack plan is followed, the best outcome for Zhou after the Northern Expedition is to lose most of Xiangyang County and a small half of Hanzhong County.
All of this adds up to almost an entire county.
Coupled with the more than 200,000 soldiers and horses lost before, and the more than 100,000 soldiers and horses that may be lost in the future, the loss of these soldiers and horses alone is close to 400,000, which is not small.
Not to mention that they also lost two innates, and I don’t know if they will continue to die in the future.
Taking these losses into account, apart from losing too much territory, they are not necessarily any better than Yue Kingdom.
Therefore, for these two countries, after fighting this war, it will take at least ten years of training before they can continue to use troops.
But these two behemoths did not move, and underneath them were the five newly enfeoffed countries of the Yue Kingdom.
Although the two countries of Ninghai and Ninghai in the South China Sea have recovered a lot of their strength from the previous invasion of Jinghai Kingdom.
But when the two countries were first established, they didn't even have a strong army in the country. Even if they wanted to take action, they were powerless.
And to train a strong army, if there is no war and no bloodshed, it will take at least four to five years.
Therefore, these two countries cannot do anything evil in a short period of time.
Not to mention that at Yan Wangqiu's age, most likely he would not be able to do anything in this country.
It was Su Xuange. I heard that he had gathered 20,000 Zhou captives by besieging Dangyang City.
These are all elite soldiers. It seems that Ninghai State has some ideas in forming such elite troops, so some attention should be paid to them.
However, with Ninghai's national strength, it cannot afford to raise many soldiers and horses. Thirty to fifty thousand people will be enough to support the army, so there is no need to worry too much.
There are also the holy monks Ji Hui and Qiao Kangquan who are preparing to establish the country in Xichuan County.
In fact, these two people don't need to worry too much.
After all, what Xichuan County is like has been explained clearly before.
The population was less than one million. Even including the three southern prefectures of Hanzhong County that Lu Yuan planned to exchange with them, the population was only two million at most. Moreover, it is a population that has gone through war and is extremely poor.
With this current situation, it will be impossible for these two countries to restore local production every ten years.
And ten years later, with a population of two million, we can only raise 50,000 soldiers at most. And these troops and horses had to be divided between the two countries, and they even had to guard against Zhou.
With all these restrictions in place, even if the two countries join forces, they will only be able to mobilize only 10,000 to 20,000 troops for the war.
What can these people do?
honestly.
If it weren't for the two innate masters nestled in Xichuan County, Lu Yuan would really not look at them seriously.
A guy who is not even as good as Ninghai State is just a ball.
Therefore, to sum up, after the Northern Expedition, the two countries of Zhou and Yue, the three countries of Changsha, Ninghai, and Nanhai, and the two countries of Xichuan.
There will basically be no war between these seven countries within ten years.
After Lu Yuan completed the Northern Expedition, he had enough time to wait for Zhou Qing to grow into a genius.
Counting Zhou Qing at that time, there would be three innate masters in his country. With such strength, let alone guarding the sixteenth mansion today.
Even if the territory of Changsha Kingdom were doubled, it wouldn't be a problem.
