When the wedding envoy returned to Baling, Lu Yuan first issued an order to reward everyone in the envoy, with various promotions and titles.
Then he personally summoned Wenyuan, the Minister of Rites, who was the head of the mission and went to welcome the bride.
"Ai Qing went to the snowfield this time. The journey was windy and frosty, and she looked very haggard."
In a study room in the palace, Lu Yuan looked at the minister sitting upright in front of him and couldn't help but smile.
"I don't dare to say how hard it is to serve the king." Wen Yuan said seriously.
Lu Yuan nodded and did not hold on, but asked: "This time we went to the snowfield, what did Wen Qing think when he saw the many tribes in the snowfield?"
This time, going to the snowy field to welcome the bride and welcome the spirit girl back to the country is naturally the top priority and the first priority.
But in addition to welcoming the bride, the mission took the opportunity to spy on the Xueyuan Fan people and check their true identity, which was also the top priority of the trip.
In fact, in the past, the Imperial City Foreign Affairs Bureau also sent many spies to the snowy fields to investigate the truth.
But there are many natural dangers between Xueyuan and Chu State, making it difficult for ordinary people to pass through, and the transmission of traffic information is inconvenient.
Secondly, the tribes in the snow plains live together and know each other well, with almost no outsiders.
It is not the least difficult for the spies sent out to infiltrate the Snowfield Tribe.
Third, the snowfield is vast, and the various tribes are only thousands of miles apart.
If a spy wants to go to a tribe, the journey will take a year and a half, which is really inefficient.
For various reasons, in addition to sending many spies to the river valley area that has now become the river valley county, the Imperial City Foreign Affairs Bureau did not go any deeper into the main land of the snowfield after exploring it for a while.
There is no other reason.
If you want to penetrate the snowfield, the cost is too high, the efficiency is too low, and the risks are too many.
Moreover, after investing so much, the information finally obtained has lost any value because of the area of hundreds of thousands of miles.
Instead of fighting against the snowy plains, it would be better to put more energy into the Helong County of Zhou State.
This is now the center of the storm between the Tibetan people and the Zhou Kingdom, and Tibetan people from various tribes are constantly gathering here. If you explore what is happening in the entire snowfield, you can gain a lot of useful information.
No matter in terms of cost, time, or efficiency, it is far better than foolishly sending people to penetrate the snowfield deeply.
It's just that it's convenient, but on the battlefield, the information that can be harvested is also incomplete.
It is difficult to have a deeper understanding of the Xueyuan Fan tribe.
Therefore, Wen Yuan, as the chief envoy, not only had to bring back the spirit girl this time, but also took the opportunity to observe the information of the snowfield during the wedding ceremony and complete the last missing piece of the snowfield puzzle for Chu State.
The snowy plain is related to the Chu State's strategy for the future, and it is a great help for the Chu State to check and balance the Zhou State. It cannot be ignored at all.
So after picking up the spirit girl, Lu Yuan summoned Wen Yuan and asked him about the details of his trip.
"Your Majesty."
Wen Yuan saluted Lu Yuan, and then said: "This time I went to the snow field, I traveled 20,000 miles, and finally arrived at Qingmu, a border tribe in the snow field, and took the spirit girl back.
Along the way, the vastness of the snowfield makes people feel boundless.
The desolation of the snowfield is also impressive.
The Aoki clan where the bride is being welcomed this time only has a small tribe of 10,000 people.
However, such a small tribe actually covers an area of 3,000 miles, which is almost equivalent to the territory of a county in Da Chu.
But even with such a huge territory, the thousands of people in the Aoki tribe still live a difficult life. They often don't have enough to eat, and a large number of people die of cold and hunger every year.
The reason is that more than 90% of the three thousand miles of snowfield are frozen soil without any vegetation.
Although there are some pastures and river valleys in the remaining areas, the land is also barren, making it difficult to cultivate and feed cattle and sheep.
Moreover, these grassland valleys can support thousands of people at most, hundreds or thousands of miles apart.
A tribe of ten thousand people was actually divided into more than ten tribes, scattered over three thousand miles of snowfield.
If you want to assemble once, it will take more than a month.
If there is any outward movement, it will take several months just to travel.
It is difficult to achieve anything if they are so scattered.
Therefore, although the snowfield is vast, it is a completely restricted area for all living things.
Although there are many tribes, they are scattered all over the place like stars, making it difficult to gather people.
From my perspective, although the various tribes in the Snowy Plains claim to have hundreds of thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, their real usable territory is only tens of thousands of miles away.
Moreover, this land of tens of thousands of miles has many grasslands and few river valleys, making it difficult to feed more people.
Tens of millions is its limit.
Even because of the severe cold in recent years, the living environment in the snowfield has become increasingly harsh.
I have asked many people in the Xueyuan tribe.
They all said that many snowfield valleys that were originally used for grazing have turned into frozen soil due to wind and snow, becoming barren of grass, and the rivers have frozen, making them difficult to use.
Nowadays, the area of grassland valleys in the snowfield is shrinking day by day. On the contrary, the snowfield is expanding day by day, gradually shrinking the living place of these Tibetan people.
The Qingmu tribe was said to have tens of thousands of people at its peak.
But when I went to welcome the bride, I took a closer look and explored everywhere, and found that there were only 7,000 people left in this department.
The three thousand people who disappeared either died in Helong County of Zhou State, or they died of cold and starvation due to wind and snow attacks.
At this time, the wind and snow had only lasted a few years, and the Aoki tribe had lost three thousand people.
The implementation will continue for more than ten or dozens of years, and the grassland and river valleys will become increasingly withered. I am afraid that this department will drop from a large number of ten thousand people to a small number of thousands, or even die. This is normal.
From this point of view, as long as the world continues to be cold, the tribes in the snow plains will eventually be unable to escape the disaster of annihilation if they lose their river valleys and grasslands. "
Wen Yuan finished a long discussion and finally made a judgment on the future of the Xueyuan people.
However, after the judgment was made, a smile appeared on his face: "We are just Xueyuan Fan people, and they cannot escape the disaster of annihilation, but this matter is a good thing for me, Da Chu.
The cold disaster is getting more and more pressing, and the valley pastures of the snowy people are shrinking day by day. In order to survive and feed the tribe, they have no choice but to migrate outward.
Driven by the cold, no matter how unwilling or fearful they were, they had no choice but to send troops abroad year after year.
As long as the cold disaster continues and the livelihood of tens of millions of Tibetan people is not solved, the chaos in Helong and Fan in the Zhou Kingdom will not stop.
This is not something they can solve by killing hundreds of thousands or millions of Tibetan people.
Unless Zhou Guo can kill all the tens of millions of Tibetan people in one go, or kill most of them, leaving only the population that Xueyuan can support.
Otherwise, as long as the Tibetan people still exist and each tribe has a surplus population that is difficult to feed, they will continue to attack Helong of Zhou.
This battle is not a battle that can be decided in a few years or ten years, but a battle for the survival of the race that lasts for decades or hundreds of years.
Either the Tibetan people will perish, or the Zhou Kingdom will fall.
Otherwise this battle will never end.
However, there are Tibetan people dragging the Zhou State, and I have no worries in the northwest territory of Chu. "
Having said this, Wen Yuan stood up and saluted Lu Yuan to congratulate him.
There is a saying that goes, "My enemy is my hero."
Replacing these words, the misfortune of others and the blessing of mine are also the same.
As Chu captured Hanzhong, Zhou and Chu became enemies.
If the state of Zhou is not doing well, then the state of Chu will naturally be fine.
The State of Zhou was held back by the Tibetan people for a long time, and Hanzhong of the State of Chu was naturally safe.
This is a very simple and popular truth.
Therefore, even if you think this way, it is a bit immoral and righteous, and even cruel to the tens of millions of people in the Zhou Kingdom.
But for Chu State, for Lu Yuan and others, I have to say that this is actually a great thing.
Therefore, after hearing Wen Yuan's congratulations, Lu Yuan couldn't help but smile on his face, waved his hands and said: "Zhou Nai is a hegemonic country with a territory of thousands of miles and millions of soldiers. With its inherent strength, even though there are many people in Xueyuan, There is a lot of power, but it is difficult to say whether it can hold back Zhou State.
We can use those Tibetan people, but we cannot rely on them. To make iron, we need to be strong ourselves.
As long as the Chu State is strong, even if the Zhou people attack with all their strength, what's the point? "
Wen Yuan was very understanding of human nature. Hearing this, he bowed in admiration and said: "Your Majesty is a wise man, I will accept your instruction."
When Lu Yuan saw this, he couldn't help laughing and felt comfortable.
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After learning about the reality of the Tibetan people through Wen Yuan, Lu Yuan no longer had any doubts about the Xueyuan and felt relieved.
The cold disasters in recent years have had a more serious impact on the snowfield than he originally thought.
Originally, Lu Yuan only thought that the cold disaster only made the winter in the snowy fields longer.
But now it seems.
Not only are winters longer, but pasture valleys are shrinking and living areas are being destroyed.
Under the erosion of the cold disaster, the Snowfield people had no way out.
Their only way to survive is to defeat the Zhou Kingdom and seize a living place like Helong before the snowfield completely turns into frozen soil.
No, the land of Helong is not completely stable.
As the three states and three regions of the North have turned into a land of ice and snow, the four poles of heaven and earth have become unbalanced. The land of Yongzhou in the West Pole will also experience continuous earthquakes in the future, with broken mountains and rivers and canyons everywhere, making it no longer suitable for survival.
Therefore, even if Helong is captured, when the earthquake comes, if those Tibetan people want to survive, they will have to continue to migrate eastward, all the way to Nanyang County in Henan Province in the Zhou Kingdom, the original homeland of Zhongzhou, so that they can be completely stable.
But this migration process may take a long time.
We have to wait for the cold soil in the Arctic to fall, the poisonous fire to break out in the Antarctic, and the imbalance between the north and the south to affect the east and west poles.
When the earthquake comes, it will probably be more than a hundred years later, or even two hundred years later.
Therefore, for the Tibetan people, they can still live a stable life for more than a hundred years if they take over Helong.
It's just that these more than a hundred years of stable life may be accompanied by many natural disasters, and Helong will become increasingly barren, with less and less output, making it difficult to survive.
"They just don't know about this matter. Are those Tibetan people clear about it?"
With this idea in mind, Lu Yuan couldn't help but ask the spirit girl.
It turned out that he actually had many questions in his mind, especially about the secrets from ancient times, and wanted to get answers.
However, due to certain scruples, which are also cherished by each immortal sect, it is impossible to tell Lu Yuan a lot of key information.
Therefore, no matter how many doubts he had in his mind, it was difficult to get answers.
The Damo religion of the Xueyuan people has been inherited from ancient times. According to legend, it even competed with Emperor Huaguang for the position of human emperor. It can be said that it has an extraordinary origin.
Perhaps through the other party, we can learn some ancient secrets.
However, after asking the spirit girl, he was quite disappointed.
“A thousand years ago in the Damo Sect, a civil strife broke out.
At that time, there were rebels vying for the position of the spiritual master, so the two masters in the religion stood side by side, and each supported a spiritual girl. They called each other orthodox, and each had the support of many tribes in the snow field.
At that time, the snowy area was divided into two parts, and the river valleys were not unified. They attacked and killed each other, and the hatred was difficult to resolve.
In the end, after hundreds of years of fighting, the ancestors of the Holy Spirit Lord and the Spirit Girl finally defeated the rebels and smoothed the religious chaos.
However, hundreds of years of wars, withered snowfields and broken tribes, also resulted in the loss of many classics and secrets in the religion.
Regarding ancient events, only some poems and murals were left, which were passed down as ballads.
The king asked about the Northern Underworld Capital. I have never heard of it, so I don’t know what it is? "
On the fragrant couch, facing Lu Yuan's inquiry, the spirit girl's eyes showed curiosity.
"So that's it. It seems that the inheritance of Damo Cult is much less."
After hearing this, Lu Yuan couldn't help but shook his head and sighed, then lowered his head to look down at the style, feeling the warm fragrance and warm jade, his heart was burning, and said with a smile: "This matter is irrelevant, just a casual question, just forget it if my beloved concubine doesn't know. .
Compared with this, let’s discuss the way of dual spiritual cultivation.
I want to give birth to a spiritual son with my beloved concubine as soon as possible! "
After saying that, Lu Yuan leaned down, and there was a cry of tenderness in the room.
have to say.
The spirit girl of the Damo Sect gave Lu Yuan many surprises.
As a symbol of the Tibetan people's faith, the spirit girl of the Damo Sect practices some strange techniques, called "The Secret Method of Cultivating Sex by Mo Ling's Life".
To put it simply, there is a statue of Damo worshiped in the Damo Sect in the snowy plains.
And this statue of the great devil, after thousands of years of worship by believers, gradually gave birth to a trace of spirituality, which can also be called divinity, which is roughly equivalent to belief in becoming a god. However, this god has no consciousness and is just an irregular concept.
Of course, the so-called God of irregular concepts actually has great drawbacks.
Its essence is just a ball of energy, and it is bound in the statue. As long as you don't get close, there is no threat at all.
The Damo Cult took advantage of this and selected qualified spirit masters and women throughout the ages so that they could be recognized by the Damo God and comply with the rules of the gods.
Then the recognized spirit master and spirit girl can obtain a little bit of the spirit of the god image and merge with the essence of their own life.
Later, relying on the life essence that is integrated with spirituality, the spirit master and spirit girl can borrow the divine power stored in it for countless years from the statue of Damo to temper herself and become stronger.
Because the divine power of the statue of Damo is almost equal to the life of the god.
Therefore, this step is also called borrowing life.
After borrowing the divine power, the spirit master and spirit girl can use the divine power to strengthen their own life roots, and then realize the transcendence of body and soul, break the shackles of innate nature, and enter the realm of the master of heaven and man.
After reaching this state, you can use the power of heaven and earth to feed your own life roots, and the spiritual power within your roots can be strengthened to strengthen the divine power in your body.
This is the cultivation of nature.
At this point, "Mo Ling's secret method of cultivating one's nature by borrowing one's life" has been completed.
Later, when the spirit master and spirit girl reaches the end of their life, they will return to the statue of Damo. After cultivating themselves for a lifetime, they have strengthened countless spiritual powers and return them to the statue again.
This completes a cycle.
The statue gives a little spiritual power to help the spirit master and spirit girl break through transcendence. After the death of the spirit master and spirit girl, it returns its powerful spiritual power to the statue.
After such a round, it not only ensures the orderly inheritance of Damo Sect, but also ensures that each generation can have two innates. It also ensures that the statue of the god remains strong and does not lose its power and perish.
A parasitic relationship of mutual benefit and coexistence has been formed between the idols and the Damo Cult. It is unclear who is parasitic on whom.
Perhaps it would be okay to say that the two are parasitic to each other.
But no matter what, the spirit girl who has obtained the power of God Damo through spirituality is, in essence, a true goddess as Lu Yuan thought before.
This difference can be seen from the holy and pure power emanating from the opponent's body that is different from martial arts and immortality.
This is a power that belongs to another system besides the two paths of immortality and martial arts.
That is Shinto.
The so-called spirit lady and spirit master is more like a container for spiritual practice to borrow the power of God and carry divine power.
That is, the statue of Lord Damo has no consciousness.
Otherwise, with the help of the borrowed spiritual power, the other party can directly possess the two of them and completely possess everything about the other party.
Therefore, it is not a bad idea to regard them as avatars of gods.
A spiritual woman and goddess with the body of a god.
How could Lu Yuan not be excited when he thought of this?
So after taking back the spirit girl, canonizing her as a spirit concubine, and joining her in the palace.
After knowing the other party's nature, he was completely addicted.
For more than ten days a year, he lived in Ling Fei's palace, receiving constant favors every day.
This kind of behavior made Lan Cai'er, who finally felt better through traveling, suddenly explode again.
Even during the New Year celebrations in the palace and family gatherings, Lu Yuan didn't look good on him.
However, in this regard, besides saying more nice things to his queen, Lu Yuan still went his own way and continued to hold Concubine Ling.
All right.
In a sense, regardless of his status as an emperor, he is indeed a bit of a scumbag.
But Lu Yuan also had his own ideas in mind.
He hangs out with the spirit girl, not only because he is really addicted to her aloof divinity, but also because of the path to immortality.
Well, it’s the Avenue of Immortals.
Although it was a bit ridiculous, after understanding the nature of God Damo, Lu Yuan discovered a huge treasure from this god that no one had ever mined.
That is the divine power that countless spirit masters and spirit girls have poured into the statue over thousands of years, one after another.
When did the legend of Lord Damo begin?
In ancient times, the era of Emperor Huaguang.
How many years ago was that?
As time goes by, it will be difficult for future generations to figure out the specific time.
But the approximate time can still be estimated.
That is, the beginning of ancient times is about 100,000 years ago.
Nowadays, the spirit master spirit girl of Damo Sect has a longer lifespan than the average martial arts master due to her divine power. Similar to the Immortal Dao, she can live for two hundred years.
This is the reason why the spiritual energy of the world is silent now.
The great demon statue was also affected. In order to preserve its divine power, most of its divine power fell into silence and was rarely lent out.
If we go back to ancient times, those spirit masters and spirit girls would have lived longer.
It is not surprising to even directly cultivate to become a god comparable to immortals, human beings, and earthly immortals.
Accumulated over 100,000 years, this statue has stored so much divine power that it is simply uncountable!
Even if we abandon those lord spirit girls in ancient times who borrowed divine power and directly broke through the realm and ascended, we can say that it started thousands of years ago, after the civil strife in the Damo Sect, when they lost the inheritance of Beiming Youdu and lost the way to ascension.
Over the course of a thousand years, five generations of spirit masters and women returned their divine power to the statue.
This alone is a considerable amount of divine power.
If only these divine powers could be taken out of the statues and utilized.
Then in addition to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, Lu Yuan will have another source of energy and one more retreat option.
Therefore, in order to open this treasure mine, even if he has not yet obtained it, he naturally needs to learn more about the so-called divine power in order to prepare for his future plans for the idol.
And the channel for this understanding is naturally through the spirit girl.
