After understanding the truth and falsehood of Yuchan Dao and discussing it with Mo Li, Lu Yuan returned to Baling City with some reluctance.
As the leader of a tao, although Li Qiu's cultivation level is only concentrated, it is not even as good as Lu Yuan's.
After all, Lu Yuan practices Taiping Taoism and can attract the spiritual energy of the sky.
Coupled with the speed of improvement of the Qi Luck method, in fact, just in terms of cultivation, Lu Yuan is far stronger than Mo Li, and he is not far away from condensing two Qi.
But the cultivation level is the cultivation level, and the realm is the realm. Mana is mana and spells are spells.
Although Lu Yuan's cultivation level is high, in terms of realm, he is obviously not as good as Mo Li, who has been practicing for hundreds of years.
The opponent's cultivation level is just lower, but he has studied Taoism intensively for hundreds of years and read various Taoist books, and the state of mind he has gained through practice is much better than Lu Yuan.
Moreover, Feishuang Dao is a major sect, and the various magical powers collected within the sect are as vast as a vast sea of stars, and are innumerable.
The magic powers in Lu Yuan's hands were only a few dozen types recorded in the Taiping Taoist Book and the Five Thunders Book.
Although many of them are powerful, in some respects, they are still somewhat partial and not comprehensive.
For example, celestial spells.
In the Taoist Book of Taiping, when one reaches the realm of three qi, there is the technique of summoning wind, which can attract strong winds.
When you reach the realm of the Four Qi, you have the art of summoning rain, which can make it rain from the sky.
When the five qi are in the realm of the Yuan Dynasty, the combination of calling the wind and rain can create magical powers. A single thought can cause the sky and the earth to change color, causing strong winds and rains.
In the Book of Five Thunders, there is also the art of heavenly thunder, which can call upon the heavenly thunder to help and help the caster defend against the enemy.
However, the above magical powers only cover the three celestial phenomena of wind, rain and thunder. Although they are powerful, they are not comprehensive.
Ru Feishuang Dao also has similar celestial phenomena spells, including not only wind, rain and thunder, but also derived celestial phenomena such as snow, ice, light, fog... etc.
Almost all celestial phenomena in nature have corresponding spells in Feishuang Dao, but the power is different.
Tens of thousands of years of inheritance, the efforts of hundreds of generations of disciples, and generations of research and perfection have already made the inheritance of Feishuang Dao perfect, with no obvious disadvantages.
When Lu Yuan encounters certain dangerous situations, he may be limited by his own Taoist practices, find it difficult to break through, and be trapped in dangerous situations.
But if it were someone from a big sect such as Mo Li who faced any dangerous situation, there would be similar ways to deal with it in the inheritance left by his ancestors.
They can completely follow the method and use corresponding magic powers to solve the problems one by one and get out of danger.
This is the foundation of the big sect, and it is also what Lu Yuan, who comes from a small family of casual cultivators, lacks.
He and Li Qiye talked about Tao and Dharma, and they also talked about these things.
During the ten-day chat, Master Feishuang talked about a lot of his insights and experiences in practicing magic. Lu Yuan felt that he had benefited a lot. He also made a lot of progress in understanding some of the Taoist methods in the Taiping Taoist Book.
When he practices again in the future, he will be confident and can do it much more easily and simply.
That's why.
Lu Yuan was quite obsessed with this argument and couldn't bear to end it.
But he was forced by worldly affairs and was surrounded by many mundane things. He didn't have much free time to devote to his own hobbies, so he had to reluctantly leave.
However, after this Dharma discussion at Tianshu Mountain and the previous Dharma discussion in Baling, Lu Yuan deeply realized the gap between himself and those disciples of the major sects.
This kind of accumulation of foundation is indeed not something that can be smoothed away by cheating on Taiping Taoism and simply improving one's cultivation.
This made him determined that after the major immortal sects ascended and he unified the nine states in the future, he must order the collection of classics and magical powers from each sect for the royal family to read.
By then, having studied all over the Nine Provinces and become familiar with countless Taoist and magical powers passed down from ancient times by each family, and with the foundation of the Immortal Sect of One World, Lu Yuan's own cultivation level will reach an unimaginable level.
It can definitely reach a level that has never been seen before, and it will be difficult for others to come in the future.
If he really ascends to the fairy world in the future, relying on these foundations, he will be able to elevate his realm to a wonderful realm that is difficult for ordinary people to understand in a short period of time.
certainly.
All of the above are just ideas, and it is far from time to take action.
At this time, starting to collect Taoism books from various immortal sects is tantamount to coveting other people's Taoism. This is forcing those Kyushu monks to go to war with Lu Yuan.
Even after those Jiuzhou monks ascended, it was not the time to collect these Taoist and magical powers for a long time.
Because at that time, although there were no monks in each immortal sect, there were still many innate masters relying on their past experience.
With some of these innate masters around, Lu Yuan would not be able to forcefully take advantage of the opponent's background.
The time to truly collect these Taoist and magical powers is to wait until the end of the Dharma has completely come, the day when all the strange beasts in China are extinct, it is no longer possible to produce divine blood pills, and the innate masters are completely extinct.
This day is not far away.
Soon the Jiuzhou monks will activate the Northern Underworld Capital. At that time, the formation will extract the last remaining active spiritual energy between heaven and earth to maintain the formation.
At that time, the active spiritual energy that the monks can still use will completely dissipate, and the remaining divine blood alien species in the world will also completely lose the spiritual energy that they finally relied on for survival.
Without the breath of spiritual energy and the environment for survival, the remaining divine blood mutants will also die of hunger due to lack of spiritual energy.
That is to say.
Those divine blood mutants that are still alive in the world today may slowly die of illness and old age within a few decades.
People in the world, you will completely lose the divine blood elixir, the source of martial arts medicine, and be completely insulated from the innate.
At that time, it will become extinct and become a legend.
If there is no magical power in this world, the mortals below can only reach the first-class level of the day after tomorrow.
Although this situation is powerful, it can only resist a thousand armies at most. Under the siege of a large army and powerful bows and crossbows, it can only secretly harbor hatred.
Even because of the end of the Dharma, it may be difficult to achieve the first-class state in future generations.
Because there is no magic pill to help, even a genius with excellent talent will take at least two years to master a meridian.
To break through to the top level, you need to clear the twelve sects, which adds up to twenty-four years.
This was still the case when the warrior practiced hard day and night and never slackened off.
If you are running around, slacking on your martial arts, you will be burdened by foreign affairs.
This minimum period of twenty-four years has to be expanded infinitely, and it may be difficult to break through to the top level even in thirty or forty years.
By that time, the first-class masters may be like the current Xiantian Grandmasters, who are at the top of the world and few can match them.
Under such circumstances, the so-called cultivating immortality and refining qi will naturally be considered false by the world.
The immortals and gods recorded in various classics will also be considered to be fictitious myths, and they will be misrepresented and are not worthy of trust at all.
Those descendants of the Immortal Sect may also secretly wonder whether their ancestors really have Taoism and Immortality, or whether they are just whitewashed and touted "immortals" by their descendants from generation to generation.
At that time, it was also the time for Lu Yuan to collect these Taoist techniques.
At that time, with his strength, he was enough to cause a dimension-reducing blow to those top-notch warriors.
Sweeping the world, it is difficult to have an opponent.
At that time, regardless of whether it is in the name of the emperor of the dynasty, let the Taoists all over the world contribute Taoism and magical powers. Or just take it by force, it will be very easy.
This is undoubtedly an easy shortcut.
The only drawback is that it may take hundreds of years for this kind of apocalypse to come, and it requires a long wait.
Lu Yuan lacked everything, but he did not lack life and time.
He has enough patience to wait.
After collecting Taoist books, you will have enough time to study and master them slowly.
Time is on your side.
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After returning to Baling, Lu Yuan continued to pay close attention to Zhou's changes.
Over in Zhou Kingdom, the newly recruited soldiers in Guannei County are still training in full swing.
In Lantian Camp, not far from Chang'an, the sound of golden drums can be heard every day, and the shouts and shouts of those athletes in Guan Nei make the surrounding valleys tremble.
This big country has always been known for its martial arts and belligerence. As rumored, the country is full of tigers and wolves, war-loving and extremely brave.
However, except for the continuous training of soldiers and horses, there was no movement at all in the Zhou Dynasty.
There was no sign of them sending troops, nor was there any intention of calling off their troops and calling a truce.
The spies deployed by the Imperial City Division and Honglu Temple could not find out any information at all.
The people of Zhou seemed to have forgotten this matter, and did not reveal any attitude towards the Chu State. Everything seemed foggy.
Lu Yuan discussed with the ministers for a long time, but could not guess what the Zhou people were thinking.
After guessing for a long time, he became a little irritated.
Finally, after thinking about it seriously, I stopped guessing and didn't wait for Zhou Ren to make any move.
Blindly waiting passively will always appear passive.
Qingyunzi and the tens of thousands of imperial troops from the Northern Expedition cannot remain in Hanzhong forever.
The southern expedition plan that was already being planned still required the participation of this clone and this group of elites. Chu State did not have time to play guessing games with the Zhou people.
Therefore, Lu Yuan directly ordered Huang Xuan to implement the Helong strategy determined last year according to the plan.
Send troops to contact the Xueyuan people and ask them to cooperate in sending troops.
Then Hanzhong sent tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to attack Longxi County of Zhou State. While supporting the Tibetan people, they also plundered the local population and brought them back to enrich the country.
Aren’t the people of Zhou immobile?
Isn't it just a matter of suspicion?
Then if you don’t move, I will move.
Lu Yuan didn't believe it. He sent out his army and pointed directly at Helong. Facing the threat of heavy troops, the Zhou people could still train their troops as peacefully as now, pretending that nothing happened?
As for the defense issues of Hanzhong after Huang Xuan's expedition, he could only temporarily leave it to Qingyunzi.
There is a Xiegu Pass on the Xiegu Pass bordering Hanzhong County and Zhou Guannai County. As long as tens of thousands of troops are stationed at this dangerous pass, Qingyunzi will guard it.
Even if all the newly trained 200,000-strong army of the Zhou people went south, they could only waste time outside the pass, looking at the danger and sighing, with no choice.
At that time, whether the Zhou people sent troops to assist Helong or sent troops south to recapture Hanzhong. Lu Yuan can even try to find out the other party's details and plans, and let them reveal their flaws.
As long as the other party reveals a flaw, the Chu State will naturally be able to use every move to resolve it one by one.
He wanted to see it too.
Is what Li Li said before about the subtle relationship between Yu Chan Dao and Zhou State true?
It all depends on this time.
So on the third day of April in the tenth year of Shenwu, Huang Xuan, the general manager of the three western counties of the Chu Kingdom and the real protector of the country, officially swore an oath to worship heaven in Nanzheng, Hanzhong County, and then sent 60,000 troops, set off along Yangping Pass, passed through the Longshan Trail, and attacked Longxi.
The Chu army's move once again caught the Zhou people off guard.
No one expected that there would be 200,000 Zhou troops operating in the pass, training day and night, waiting for danger, and eyeing Hanzhong.
Faced with the threat of heavy troops, the Chu army in Hanzhong County dared to ignore the risks and still sent troops to Longxi.
Even more deadly.
At the end of March this year, the Tibetan people on the snowy plains once again gathered 400,000 troops and launched another spring raid this year.
At this time, the main energy of the 400,000 Zhou soldiers in the two counties of Helong was focused on these invading Tibetans.
For the hinterland in the rear, which is only connected by a trail to Hanzhong County, there is not much defense.
Just at the other end of the Yangguan Mountain Road, at a place called Linguan Fortress, 10,000 elite soldiers were stationed to guard against threats from Hanzhong.
But how could this mere 10,000 troops be the 60,000 elite opponents led by Huang Xuan himself?
In just one day, under Huang Xuan's personal charge, the military fortress was breached. Thousands of Zhou people in the city were killed in battle, and the rest were captured.
Then the Chu army used Linguan Fortress as its base, leaving 10,000 people to garrison. The remaining 50,000 troops were divided into five groups, and they roughly visited the surrounding prefectures and counties to seize the opportunity to occupy the territory.
In just a few days, five groups of soldiers and horses broke through 13 county towns and two prefectural cities, directly occupying the two prefectures in the hinterland of Longxi County, which was located in the rear and was extremely empty.
The news spread, and Helong was shaken instantly.
He Basheng, who was commanding troops and horses to resist the encirclement and suppression of the invading Tibetans, was so frightened that he almost fell off his horse.
At this time, hundreds of thousands of his troops were pressing on the front line, fighting wits and courage with the Tibetan people. Countless soldiers and horses were dragged along the front line hundreds of miles away from the rear. In such a hurry, there were not many soldiers and horses available to stabilize the rear.
More importantly.
If you are in your own rear, the news that the Chu people are sending troops reaches the Fan people.
The barbarians on the snowfields will be greatly encouraged. This time, it will not be so easy to give the opponent a head-on blow and then let the Tibetan people retreat obediently like before.
Maybe the Tibetan people on the snowfield will continue to increase their troops and hold back the army on the front line to cooperate with the Chu people's actions.
After all, the current Chu State has married a Tibetan spirit girl. The two parties are allies, and it is normal for allies to cooperate with each other.
Therefore, the Chu army went to contact the Tibetan people, and the two sides responded back and forth. It was already a certainty.
As a veteran on the battlefield, He Basheng had no luck with this.
Therefore, he urgently mobilized 50,000 troops and horses, and asked his deputy, General Sima Zhengde of the Xizhu Kingdom, to lead the troops and rush to the rear to curb the Chu army's actions and prevent them from spreading further in Longxi County.
In addition, additional messengers were urgently sent to convey the news of the Chu people's departure from the fortress back to Chang'an on flying horses, so that the monarchs and ministers in the DPRK could prepare as soon as possible and formulate countermeasures.
He Basheng himself seized the time and led his troops to attack quickly, hoping to defeat the Tibetan people as soon as possible, and then return to fight back the Chu people.
However, his idea is good, but how can everything go as he wishes?
Just as He Basheng guessed, the Xueyuan Fan people received a messenger from the Chu people and learned that the Chu State had sent troops to the rear of Longxi and invaded the empty land of the Zhou people.
All the tribes on the snowfield cheered immediately.
At the same time, everyone felt that their decision to marry a spiritual daughter was worth it and they were extremely happy.
Take a look.
The spirit girl had just married, and the Chu State responded instantly, sending out "a hundred thousand troops" to help them attack the Zhou people's rear areas, cutting off the other party's retreat.
How sincere and what kind of friendship is this?
Needless to say, when faced with Chu's request for cooperation, the Tibetan people did not hesitate at all and agreed instantly.
In order to respond to allies, and to seize this golden opportunity.
On the basis of the 400,000 troops that had already been sent, all the troops on the snowy plains once again joined forces and gathered another 300,000 troops, as well as three innate warriors, to form the second wave of invasion army, which headed towards the mighty Helong two places.
As a result, including the original troops and horses, the number of Tibetan invaders on the Helong front has reached 700,000, including seven innate warriors.
With such a powerful force, even He Basheng can't even hope to win in friendship.
Even if one is not careful, the entire Helong war situation may collapse, and the two counties of Helong that have been maintained for several years will also completely fall and be lost to the Chu State of the Tibetan people.
All of a sudden.
With Huang Xuan's sudden intervention, Zhou's war situation in the Helong area instantly faced the risk of collapse, and the situation had reached an extremely critical moment.
See this situation.
After the news came back to Zhou State, the kings and ministers of Zhou State, who had been playing tricks on them, finally couldn't sit still anymore.
On April 13th, Emperor Zhou personally consecrated a Taoist priest who came down from Yuhua Mountain as the general of Nanzhu Kingdom, especially taking over the position of Dongfang Wuyun who had died.
Then he urgently ordered the general of the Qianzhu Kingdom stationed in Shuofang to take the 150,000 northern border elites from Shuofang County and go south to Longxi to repel and suppress the invasion of the Chu people.
As for the vacancies left after the elites from northern Xinjiang were transferred, only the newly conferred general of the Nanzhu Kingdom led the 150,000 recruits who had just been recruited and had not been trained for several months to go north to Shuofang to defend the country and guard the border.
After some mobilization, Zhou Guo’s true identity was completely exposed to everyone.
Everything was just as Mo Li said. The complicated situation at the location of Yuhua Mountain made Yuchan Dao dare not place all its bets on Zhou Guo.
The other party's assistance to Zhou State turned out to be just a divine general protecting the law.
It is naturally impossible for a mere innate to defeat the combination of Huang Xuan and Qing Yunzi and lead the troops to retake Hanzhong.
The other party also knew this.
Therefore, apart from recruiting a large army and training at the Lantian Camp, there was no action at all.
On the contrary, in order to cover up his own weakness, he has been spreading suspicions and deceiving the eyes of the people in the world, hoping to maintain Zhou's appearance of being powerful.
At this time, the Chu State suddenly made a surprise attack, instantly breaking the situation in Helong, but it completely tore off this fig leaf, and clearly displayed the weakness of the Zhou State in front of the people of the world.
The so-called top three hegemonic countries in the world have declined to the point where they can only maintain ten innates. Although they have many soldiers and horses under their command, due to the constraints of various battlefields, they can mobilize fewer and fewer mobile soldiers and horses.
The state of Zhou was already in such embarrassment that even the state of Ning could not compare.
After all, Ning Guo, with the full help of Ziyundao, also has fourteen innates and more than 600,000 troops at any time.
From this point alone, it has become stronger than Zhou State.
