Back house, in the garden.
Following the guidance of the attendant, Xuanchengzi came here. After seeing a young man in blue who was good at flowers, he bowed and said, "Xuanchengzi, a poor Taoist, has met the King of Chu."
Lu Yuan heard the voice behind him, sniffed the plum blossom in his hand, then put it down, slowly turned around, and looked at the middle-aged Taoist priest in front of him.
I saw that the other party had a handsome appearance, a purple robe, a smile at the corner of his mouth, and an extraordinary temperament. He looked like a fairy.
With Lu Yuan's eyes, he could instantly see that the other party had definitely practiced a profound Taoist technique and had reached an extremely advanced level. He had already broken through the second realm of Xiantian and was at the pinnacle of martial arts in the world.
With such strength, it is no wonder that this person is so calm in front of him.
"There is nothing more important in this world than the word fate."
Lu Yuan glanced at Xuanchengzi, then withdrew his gaze, continued to look at the plum blossoms in the garden, and said indifferently: "Sixteen years ago, I went to Tianluo Mountain alone to attend the Tianluo Dharma Assembly. Guidance, Fang Xiao's innate wisdom, knowing the key to the master, will rely on it to become innate in the future.
Because of this, Gu has always had some respect for Ziyundao.
Now sixteen years have passed, Taoist Master Ziyun has crossed the sea to find the secluded world, and plans to ascend to the immortal world.
However, Ziyundao and Gu no longer have the same goodwill as before.
This time, people and money were sent to help Ni Ning, and to be enemies of Gu, and to hinder my great cause of unification.
Good deeds bear evil consequences. Is this Ziyundao's answer to Gu? "
Lu Yuan's tone was emotionless, and there was no hint of happiness or anger, but a huge pressure stretched out of thin air and swept towards Xuan Chengzi.
As the pinnacle of Immortal Dao's condensed Qi and the pinnacle of the second level of martial arts master, even if he doesn't make any moves, the momentum he emits is beyond what ordinary people can bear.
Even though Xuanchengzi was a second-level master, feeling this pressure at this moment, his heart still trembled, and he was horrified by the terrifying strength of this King of Chu.
Even his former Taoist master had never given him such an experience.
But after all, as the number one person in the Jiangnan Dao Sect, Xuan Chenzi was a little shocked in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face at all.
Feeling the pressure of Lu Yuan's aura, he also moved slightly, and a breath of the second innate realm was revealed, which directly blocked the outside aura, and the whole person suddenly regained his composure.
"Previously, the king's strength was not shown, and outsiders thought he was weaker than Ning State. Chu State is also located in Xizhou, far away from our Tianluo Mountain, but Ning State is close to me.
Under such circumstances, good birds choose trees to roost, and it is common sense for me, Ziyundao, to choose Ningguo, which is geographically similar and stronger, to cooperate and help it unify Yangzhou.
Whether to help Ning or Chu is not a matter of personal preference, it is just a matter of strength and situation. "
After eliminating the influence of Lu Yuan's aura, could it be that Xuan Chengzi's attitude remained indifferent. When faced with the accusation, he replied unhurriedly: "At this time, Chu won the Ning Kingdom and entered Yuzhang. Tianluo Mountain was in the Chu Kingdom. Under the rule.
Therefore, seeing the prosperity of Chu State, Pindao came here specially to cooperate with Chu State. This is called following the general trend.
What does the king think? "
Xuan Chengzi looked at Lu Yuan leisurely, showing no sign of panicking for apology.
It seems that for him, helping Ning and becoming the enemy of Chu was really a choice between strength and situation.
Now that the strength and situation have changed, he followed Abandoning Ning into Chu and followed the general trend.
This indifferent and natural appearance really vividly demonstrates the Taoist's free and easy artistic conception.
"cooperate?"
Lu Yuan heard Xuanchengzi's words and looked at the fearless look on the other side. He snorted in his heart, but said with a joking expression on his face: "Now Guda has defeated Ningguo. Listening to my reputation, everyone in Jiangdong will be frightened.
Now we have hundreds of thousands of troops from Chu, stationed in Yuzhang. With just one order, we can cut off rivers, destroy mountains, massacre cities and defeat enemies, all in a matter of seconds.
You have offended me in a small way, so you don't have to worry about asking for forgiveness, and you try your best to beg for forgiveness.
At this time, he was brazen and wanted to cooperate with Gu.
The little Ziyun Dao, does he really think that he was leading the Immortal Sect in Yangzhou last year?
What ability do you have to dare to say this to me? "
If before September last year, Ziyun Dao's former Taoist master Zhenxuan and many monks in the sect had not left, then this strength would indeed be comparable to or even exceed that of a hegemonic country.
In the face of such forces, even if Lu Yuan offended him, as long as he extended an olive branch, he would really have to hold his nose and admit it.
But now Master Zhenxuan and others have gone to sea with the Jiuzhou monks, and I still don’t know which sea area they are floating in?
According to the original plan, it is basically impossible for these people to come back after ascending to the fairy world.
Without the strongest force in the sect, Ziyun Dao, now only a few innate warriors, has naturally lost its original ability to intimidate a state.
At this time, Lu Yuan had already unified most of Yangzhou, and it was only a matter of time before he could wipe out the remaining forces in Yangzhou.
Facing a state overlord like himself, Xuan Chengzi dared to be so conceited, which must be said to be arrogant.
"Now our way is in the Ning Kingdom, there are still four innate masters. And in the mountain gate, there are also three innate elders.
Then there is Pindao, the Taoist master of the second innate realm. There are eight innate masters in our Ziyun Taoist sect.
At the same time, within Yuzhang, the four northern prefectures are all believers in our way.
As long as Pindao gives an order, two million religious people will rise up in an instant, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers can be gathered in an instant.
With such strength, I wonder if I am qualified to cooperate with the king. "
Xuan Chengzi smiled brightly, showing off his bargaining chip.
When Lu Yuan heard this, he couldn't help but feel secretly surprised and fearful.
It turned out that Ziyun Dao supported the four innates of Ning State. He had known about it for a long time and had no feeling about it.
But in Ziyun Dao, in addition to these four innates, there are actually four innates, and among them is Xuan Chengzi, who is in the second level. This has to be surprising.
This innate master is not a cabbage.
Just like his Chu Kingdom, excluding a few clones, the innate masters truly trained by the Chu Kingdom themselves were actually Zhou Qing, Sun Siwen, and his two sons who had not yet grown up.
There are five remaining true disciples who have only achieved innate breakthroughs this year. Most of the divine blood elixirs they consumed came from funding from Baifeng Temple, the Tibetan people, and Feishuang Dao.
But even so, after plundering the whole country and getting the help of so many powerful forces, excluding Feishuang Dao, Liuyang Sect and other joining forces, as well as clones, there are only ten innate grandmasters in Chu State.
But here at Ziyundao, they did not rely on plunder or help from others, but relied solely on their own foundation to cultivate eight innate masters.
This does not include the fact that the other party helped Ning Guo to cultivate four spiritual elixirs with innate mental states.
If included, Ziyun Dao's actual strength would be even more terrifying.
With the power of one sect, there are twelve innates.
I'm afraid not many of the hegemons in Kyushu have such strength, right?
No wonder.
With this strength, even if the monks in the sect left, Xuan Chengzi could still have such confidence and not worry about Lu Yuan's revenge at all, and had an attitude of wanting to be on equal terms with the Chu State.
Faced with this strength, Lu Yuan really didn't dare to act rashly.
It's not that he can't defeat the eight innates.
With Chu's current strength, it would be easy to defeat the eight innates.
Even after waiting for some time, he broke through the realm of condensing two qi of immortality and the realm of martial arts grandmaster, and suppressed these eight innates by himself, without any difficulty.
But it is easy to defeat Xiantian, but difficult to kill Xiantian.
With the number of eight innates, if only one or two innates escape, the other party will retaliate crazily, which will be a huge disaster for the Chu State.
If Lu Yuan really dares to raise troops to surround Tianluo Mountain, Ziyun Dao will certainly not be able to resist, and the mountain gate will inevitably be destroyed.
But Xuanchengzi and other eight innate masters could also be broken into pieces and scattered to various parts of the Chu Kingdom, slaughtering cities and villages, and returning to the Chu Kingdom for revenge.
By then, even if the Chu State can quell this disaster, millions of people will probably die and their vitality will be severely damaged.
At that time, not only will there be changes in the unification of Jiangdong, but also the hope of advancing in the Central Plains in the future may be directly cut off.
'What a shame, the spiritual energy of the world is so thin now that it's hard for me to use all my magic power. Otherwise, even if the eight innates dispersed and fled, it would only be a matter of dozens of my spells, so how could they have the courage to act arrogantly in front of me. '
Lu Yuan couldn't help but feel angry when he thought of this.
With his current strength, let alone an ordinary grandmaster, even a second-level grandmaster like Xuan Chengzi in front of him would have no power to resist even if he attacks with all his strength.
The other party's threat to him with eight innate masters was just a joke in the normal world of immortality.
But now that the spiritual energy of the world is thin and even almost extinct, the monks feel uncomfortable.
With Lu Yuan's level of cultivation, he could indeed kill these innate masters easily, but if he wanted to kill eight innate masters who were scattered and fleeing for their lives, he would be afraid that all his magic power would be exhausted before they were all killed.
The lack of spiritual energy has become his biggest shortcoming.
As for using the cultivation level of a great martial arts master to hunt down those ordinary masters.
This is not impossible, but the time efficiency is much worse than using spells.
In the end, it was still inevitable that these masters would succeed and wreak havoc in the Chu Kingdom.
Thinking of this, Lu Yuan calmed down his depression and looked at the indifferent Xuanchengzi in front of him, with a smile on his face: "If Guidao really has such strength, he is indeed qualified to cooperate with Gu."
Although I am a little unhappy, I have to admit that with my current strength, it is really difficult to solve Ziyundao at a small cost.
Therefore, in order to reduce losses, we can only endure this tone for the time being.
Moreover, Ziyundao came here not because he wanted to be an enemy of Chu State, but because he wanted to cooperate with him.
The two sides do not have to be mortal enemies.
Even at this time, I changed my mind and thought about it. There are eight innates in Ziyundao. If Chu State can transform this power into its own, or let them become the power of its own camp.
Then his own strength will undoubtedly increase instantly.
Not to mention anything else, the number of innate masters that Chu State can mobilize has exceeded twenty.
Of course, there was no need for Lu Yuan to refuse such a thing that could bring immediate benefits.
'Isn't it just a loss of face?
After I eat Ziyundao first, I will use his power to unify Jiangnan faster and increase my strength at a greater speed.
Then he would raise his troops for the Northern Expedition and unify Kyushu.
At that time, the world will be unified, my luck will increase greatly, and when I make great progress in cultivation...
Hey, there are eight innates. Let’s see if you, Ziyun Dao, still have innates two hundred years from now. '
As an immortal, Lu Yuan's greatest advantage is his lifespan.
Now Ziyundao is in trouble and Xuan Chengzi is arrogant.
But after two hundred years, no, even one hundred years, he doesn't know how many of the eight innates in Ziyun Dao will be left.
On the contrary, Chu State.
At that time, Jiangnan had already been unified, and even Zhongzhou had been unified.
Lu Yuan's strength is estimated to have reached the level where Immortal Dao can condense three qi, or even four or five qi.
When the time comes, if I want to solve Ziyundao, it will only be a matter of thought.
Let's look at his arrogance today, and then look at his desolation today.
It is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge.
Lu Yuan thought so bitterly in his heart.
The Xuanchengzi in front of him, after seeing him give in, did not continue his arrogant posture, but softened a lot eagerly: "Your Majesty can realize this, which is really a blessing for you and my family.
Don't worry, Your Majesty, as long as Chu State is willing to accept Ziyun Dao, in Ning State, the four guardian generals supported by our Dao, and with a decree from our Dao Master, can make them turn against each other and lead their troops to sacrifice the city to Chu State.
In addition, we are also willing to send two additional Xiantian elders to the court to serve the Chu Kingdom.
In addition, in order to apologize for the previous misunderstanding between our Tao and the Chu State, our Tao is also willing to offer five hundred spiritual pills to the king as an apology. "
Xuan Chengzi had no intention of offending Lu Yuan, and Ziyundao had no intention of fighting with the Chu State.
The reason why he put on a tough attitude before was just to show Lu Yuan that although he surrendered, he was not at the mercy of others.
Although your Chu State is big and powerful, don't try to manipulate Ziyun Dao at will.
At this time, seeing that Lu Yuan had realized this and expressed his attitude of reconciliation with Ziyundao, Xuan Chengzi naturally stopped being tough and began to show goodwill.
The many concessions and apology mentioned above are the sincerity of Ziyundao.
"Oh, fellow Taoist Xuanchengzi is so polite."
When Lu Yuan heard the conditions offered by Xuan Chengzi, especially the five hundred elixirs he agreed to give away, his eyes instantly lit up and his tone became a little more eager: "Don't worry, fellow Taoist, our Da Chu has always been recruiting wise men from all over the world. Heroes everywhere.
Although there were some conflicts between Ziyundao and Chu State before, that has passed.
Taoist friends are now willing to lead the mountain gate to seek refuge, and I welcome you.
From now on, your family and our family are one, regardless of each other. "
In order to train the five true disciples, Lu Yuan used almost all the elixirs he had reserved for their use.
The State of Chu originally had 2,700 divine blood pills. To train five disciples, 2,500 of them were used, and in the end, 200 were left.
These two hundred elixirs have been consumed rapidly in the past two years as Lu Yuan's two sons, Lu He and Lu Hao, have grown up.
The two brothers, Lu Hao and Lu He, have both experienced Lu Yuan's spiritual energy training, and they have achieved innate bodies and innate souls early on, which can be said to be innate Tao bodies.
They break through their innate abilities without any obstacles.
Just take the elixir slowly as you grow older and accumulate enough knowledge.
And now the eldest son Lu He is eleven years old. Thanks to Lu Yuan's efforts in cultivating him, his cultivation has reached the pinnacle of first-class cultivation and he can already begin to prepare for his innate breakthrough.
This is also true.
Starting last year, when Lu He turned ten, Lu Yuan asked him to take a spiritual pill every ten days to improve his cultivation base.
This is because Lu He's body has not yet grown up and he is still young, so it would hurt the opponent's foundation, so he deliberately slowed down.
But even so, with thirty-six elixirs a year, it would only take six or seven years. After taking two hundred and fifty elixirs, Lu He would be able to complete the accumulation and successfully achieve the innate breakthrough.
The same goes for the second son Lu Hao.
The younger son also turned ten this year. Lu Yuan asked him to slowly accumulate knowledge at the same rate as his elder son Lu Hao, at the same rate of one elixir every ten days.
Together, the two brothers need more than seventy elixirs a year.
The remaining two hundred elixirs in Lu Yuan's hand would be gone after three years.
In order to ensure that the two brothers could successfully break through Xiantian, he had to find at least three hundred more elixirs, which was not a small sum of money.
Therefore, for the sake of his two sons, he has also begun to work hard to search for elixirs in the past two years.
After destroying the Su Kingdom, they captured Yulin City. The Chu army raided the Su Kingdom's treasury and obtained more than twenty elixirs.
Based on the background of Jiuchuan Sword Sect, the predecessor of Su State, this is obviously not the other party's real inventory.
Later, when he interrogated the captured generals of the Su Kingdom, Lu Yuan learned from these former disciples of the Jiuchuan Sword Sect that before the siege of Yulin City, Su Xuange had arranged in advance for his youngest son to flee by boat with a large amount of his country's knowledge. Heading to the South China Sea, I don’t know where I ended up.
Obviously, the divine blood elixir and a large amount of wealth in the Su country were taken away by Su Xuange, his youngest son.
Lu Yuan was naturally unwilling to accept this.
After learning about the situation, he sent people to search. They must find Su Xuange's youngest son and recover these hidden treasures.
But the sea is vast, and it’s not easy to find someone?
Lu Yuan didn't have high hopes, he just asked people to do their best.
Su Guo’s heritage is gone, which is heartbreaking.
Later, when they attacked Nanhai Kingdom and destroyed Nanhai City, the Chu army did not gain much in terms of wealth such as divine blood pills.
The divine blood elixir stored in the Nanhai Sect was taken away with the Nanhai royal family when the Ning army withdrew.
Later, due to internal intelligence reports, Qingyunzi led his troops to pursue and intercept them and recaptured part of them.
But the number of these elixirs is not that big, just over a hundred.
The bulk of the information was still taken away by the Yan clan and taken back to Ningguo.
Therefore, after destroying the Su Kingdom and the Nanhai Kingdom, although Lu Yuan gained a large amount of territory and population, he really did not gain much in terms of cultivation resources.
As for the resources required for the two sons to achieve their innate abilities, they are still short of about a hundred elixirs.
At this time, Ziyundao offered five hundred elixirs, which undoubtedly relieved Lu Yuan's worries.
'The cultivation resources of He'er and Hao'er are now complete. In another five or six years, they will become innates, and our country of Chu will have two more grandmasters that we can rely on.
Even if they use the remaining elixirs, our country of Chu will gather them together in the past few years and harvest some from here and there, and we should be able to cultivate another innate.
With three more innates like this, the foundation of Da Chu's hegemony will become deeper and deeper. '
Lu Yuan thought so in his heart, looking at Xuan Chengzi's stinky face, he didn't seem so disgusted anymore.
