After discussing with several clones, we have almost reached an agreement on Taipingdao's position after the war.
After determining the main attitude, Lu Yuan handed over these matters to Qing Guanzi and Yi Dancheng and asked them to handle the matter.
He is still in hiding, and no one in the outside world is aware of his existence.
The people in charge of Taiping Daoming are still those clones.
As his true self, Lu Yuan is an invisible person and does not need to show his face at all.
But he was also thinking about whether he should choose the right moment to stand up and walk to the stage.
Now in the Evergreen Territory, the Jiuzhou Immortal Sect and the Evergreen Immortal Sect, after experiencing this tragic war, their strength has been greatly reduced, and they are far less than their former peaks.
Now these two immortal sects, despite their obvious strength, are still much stronger than Taiping Dao, with two or three times the size.
But this small gap was no longer enough to make Taipingdao feel crushed and suffocated when facing them.
At the beginning, the two factions each had a great monk in the late Earth Immortal stage, several Earth Immortals, and more than a dozen human immortals. If they randomly sent some of their forces, they could crush Taiping Dao.
At that time, in this kind of environment, Lu Yuan was very busy and had trouble sleeping and eating.
But now.
In a great battle, three earth immortals fell, more than thirty human immortals died, and tens of thousands of monks died.
This huge loss can be said to have wiped out the essence of the Immortal Sect in the Evergreen Domain.
It was also because of their deaths that the huge mountain pressing on Taiping Road finally began to collapse.
The shrouded shadow gradually dissipated, revealing some sunlight.
There was a time when the existence of Taipingdao could be crushed to death with just a move of hands.
Now, even with all our efforts, there is nothing we can do about Taiping Dao.
On the bright surface of Taiping Dao, there is an earth immortal and three human immortals. There are also five human immortals in the vassal sect under his command. At the same time, there is also a ghost emperor in the Yin world of Yichuan.
Counting these, there is one Earth Immortal and nine Human Immortals.
When Meng Jianshan of Jiuzhou Immortal Sect dies, without this strongest fighting force, Taiping Dao Ming's strength will even surpass that of Jiuzhou Immortal Sect.
Even compared to the Evergreen Immortal Sect, Taiping Dao is one less than the other party at the Earth Immortal level.
However, in terms of numbers of other human immortals and ordinary disciples, they are not weaker than each other and are evenly matched.
Under such a situation, unless these two rivals join forces, no one of them can get any advantage if they attack Taipingdao.
Even if you are not careful, you may stumble and be defeated miserably.
Don't doubt this.
Without Meng Jianshan's Jiuzhou Immortal Sect, its strength is already weaker than that of Taiping Dao.
Not only are they unable to defeat the Evergreen Immortal Sect, but they are already in a weak position even when facing the rising star of Taiping Dao.
Jiuzhou Immortal Sect is like the Shu Han who experienced the disastrous defeat of Jingzhou and the defeat of Yiling. It no longer has the momentum of the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains across two states.
It has been reduced to the point where they have to beg for peace when facing Soochow.
But then again, the Kyushu Immortal Sect does look a lot like Shu Han.
Previously, they not only occupied the entire western part of the territory, but also inserted their hands into the southern part of the territory. How similar it is to the Shu Han who occupied part of Yizhou and Jingzhou.
The Evergreen Immortal Sect is also very similar to Cao Wei, occupying three areas of the Evergreen Territory and owning most of the territory.
The only difference from the Three Kingdoms is that it is somewhat like the Taiping Road of Soochow, without backstabbing the Kyushu Immortal Sect.
Even to a certain extent, he helped them, played his role in the south, and restrained the energy of many Evergreen Immortal Sect.
Let the Jiuzhou Immortal Sect work hard on the Northern Expedition, and then fight with the Evergreen Immortal Sect on the two battlefields of Hanzhong and Xiangyang, and both sides will suffer losses.
In the end, both sides suffered heavy casualties and the national strength was greatly depleted.
However, the Evergreen Immortal Sect has a deeper foundation. It relied on its physical strength to survive to the final victory, and then swallowed Jingzhou and Hanzhong.
The Nine Provinces Immortal Sect was left alone, huddled in Shu, and began to work hard to protect itself, asking for help from all directions.
Yes.
After returning from the disastrous defeat, the Jiuzhou Immortal Sect began to send envoys to all parties to request external assistance.
The surrounding forces also reacted very quickly.
The first is naturally the Tianhe Sect.
Although Huang Yuanxiu was still trapped in his hometown, confronting the enemy and unable to escape.
But at this critical moment, he still managed to mobilize two human immortals and a thousand disciples, and urgently sent them to the west of the region to assist the Nine Provinces Immortal Sect.
On the other side of Yu Chan Dao and Fenglei Dao, after seeing that the Nine Provinces Immortal Sect was about to be destroyed, they finally stopped watching and thought of helping their fellow villagers.
These two immortal sects each sent two human immortals and five hundred disciples to support the fellow villagers.
And all this took only three days.
Taiping Dao and Evergreen Immortal Sect, just for a blink of an eye, looked back and saw the Kyushu Immortal Sect, which had been beaten extremely miserably and precariously.
At this time, he was stunned again.
The Jiuzhou Immortal Sect gained four more Immortals and two thousand monks. It suddenly became more powerful and regained its momentum.
Although it is still much worse than before.
But it has also changed from being inferior to Taiping Road to being able to compete with others.
Just like Zhuge Liang's rule in Shu, it went from being on the verge of subjugation after a great defeat to having strong troops and horses ready for the Northern Expedition. The time was so fast.
It's just that Zhuge Liang relied on his own ability and hard work to rebuild a foundation.
As for the Jiuzhou Immortal Sect, it was much simpler, just call for reinforcements.
This is really...
After Lu Yuan learned about the assistance Jiuzhou had received, he immediately felt like a lemon and was filled with envy.
They all had the idea of announcing their origins in Kyushu to see if they could recruit some reinforcements from other immortal sects.
Then he would bring reinforcements to beat the Evergreen Immortal Sect to death and unify the Evergreen Territory.
In this way, taking advantage of the weak state of the Evergreen Immortal Sect after the battle, it might be possible to destroy the opponent in one fell swoop and capture the entire Evergreen Domain.
However, Lu Yuan just thought about this idea and quickly gave up.
Because there are big problems inside.
First, there is identity.
You said you are from Kyushu, do others believe it?
Okay, even if you can prove that you are indeed from Kyushu. At most, this can only prove that you are from the same world as them and are fellow villagers.
However, when a fellow villager meets a fellow villager, they may not necessarily burst into tears.
The ones who stab you in the back and deceive you the most are often fellow countrymen.
Nowadays, the Nine Provinces Immortal Sects can help each other because of the friendship established during the tens of thousands of years before when they jointly faced the oppression of the Evergreen Immortal Sect and continued to fight and hide.
People truly share joys and sorrows, and a foundation of mutual trust has been established through repeated trials and tribulations.
Even looking at the five Jiuzhou Immortal Sects in the west of the region, there is even a trend of the five meridians converging and transforming into one Immortal Sect.
And other immortal sects that are wandering outside, Fenglei Dao and Yu Chan Dao can also lend a helping hand in times of crisis.
The Tianhe Sect is even showing signs of actively joining this converging trend.
The reason why these situations occur cannot be explained clearly by just one sentence.
The trust built up through tens of thousands of years of helping each other and overcoming difficulties together is the most important thing.
And Taiping Road.
It only appeared more than a hundred years ago, and it took less than a hundred years to establish contact with Kyushu.
There was even a conflict of interest before and there was almost a war.
Under this background, under this situation, Taipingdao wants to be as close to the other party as a family by relying on his status as a fellow villager. How is that possible?
Say it cruelly.
Even if the Jiuzhou Immortal Sect is willing to accept Taiping Dao, a fellow villager, and says it is willing to treat him as a brother, can Taiping Dao dare to believe it?
Trust is mutual.
Jiuzhou Immortal Sect did not believe in Taiping Dao, but Lu Yuan also did not dare to believe in these fellow villagers.
He had already experienced the nature of those Kyushu Taoists when he was in the Kyushu Realm.
Feishuang Dao, for example, even dared to poach the Chu State when they openly allied themselves with the Chu State.
Although it is the fairyland now, not Kyushu.
But the environment here in the Immortal Realm, or the environment in the Evergreen Domain, is even worse than that in Kyushu.
In this environment, the Jiuzhou Immortal Sect has grown and grown stronger. If you say that all of them are loyal and honest, no one will believe it.
A trust issue is a major difficulty in cooperation between the two parties.
In addition to trust, the issue of interests cannot be ignored.
Cooperating with Kyushu to destroy the Evergreen Immortal Sect is certainly a good idea and is very feasible.
But what happens after it is destroyed?
Who is in charge of such a large evergreen domain?
How will the more than twenty countries controlled by the Evergreen Immortal Sect be distributed in the end?
Relying on the power of Kyushu to achieve this goal is ultimately just an external force.
Compared with its opponent, Taipingdao is in a weak position.
In the final distribution of benefits, the other party will naturally take the lion's share.
Even taking a step back.
Jiuzhou regards Taipingdao as its own family, but within its own family, the brothers also clearly settle the scores.
Previously, the nine kingdoms in the west of the territory, plus the Qingyu Kingdom in the south of the territory, and the five immortal sects in the nine states were also divided from each other and reached an almost even balance.
But here comes the problem.
Lu Yuan worked so hard and led the Taiping Dao to destroy the Evergreen Immortal Sect. In the end, was it just to share the Evergreen Domain with those Jiuzhou Immortal Sects?
If this is really the case, it would be better not to fight at all.
If he didn't fight, he would still be the master of the southern region. At this time, he could take advantage of the Evergreen Immortal Sect's weakness to cut off a few pieces of flesh from the opponent's body and take advantage of it.
After this series, if it is done properly, the territory controlled by Taipingdao, including vassals, may exceed the ten countries.
But this Evergreen Region only has thirty-nine countries in total.
If you average it out, if several immortal sects share the same score, it would be better not to cooperate.
And if you don't be equal to the other party, why should they cooperate with you and destroy the Evergreen Immortal Sect?
If there is no balance, after cooperating to destroy the Evergreen Immortal Sect, why should the Jiuzhou Immortal Sect, which is in a dominant position, share the Evergreen Domain with you, a fellow who is coming up from behind, and let you take the majority?
Just such an issue of trust and interests made Lu Yuan give up the idea of cooperating with Jiuzhou Immortal Sect immediately.
But he didn't give up the idea completely.
Cooperation with Jiuzhou Immortal Sect is still necessary.
Otherwise, even if Taiping Dao eliminates the Evergreen Immortal Sect in the future, those Jiuzhou Immortal Sects will not be convinced, and Taiping Bird will not be able to give up the fruits of its victory.
In the end, it evolved into the current situation of Evergreen Immortal Sect and Jiuzhou Immortal Sect. The two families have been entangled and fighting for tens of thousands of years.
For Lu Yuan, this was naturally not in his own interests.
Therefore, in order to avoid this, he naturally has to take the initiative to make changes.
That is to say, let yourself change from an outsider to one of your own with the same status as the Jiuzhou Immortal Sect.
Use your Kyushu origin to establish relationships with other Kyushu immortal sects and become one of their own.
In this way, everyone is one of their own, and the Evergreen Territory will naturally become Kyushu's own territory.
To be shameless, Lu Yuan could even change his name to Jiuling Sect and shoulder the banner of reviving the Taoism himself.
Faced with this situation, those Jiuzhou Immortal Sects had no reason to attack Taiping Dao.
If they insist on attacking, they will lose their righteousness.
Without the rightful name, it would be impossible to call on all the Kyushu Taoist orthodoxy to target Taiping Dao together.
The only ones who really have trouble with Taiping Dao are the five immortal sects in the west of the region, plus at most the Tianhe Sect.
As for other immortal sects such as Yuchan Dao, Fenglei Dao, and Huaguang Immortal Dynasty, they were not very interested in reviving the Jiuling Sect.
In their eyes, I am afraid that the Taiping Dao of Jiuling Sect has been revived. This later fellow villager may not be much more pleasing to their eyes than the fellow villagers who have known each other for tens of thousands of years but ask for money, food and soldiers from them every year.
Who is the orthodox on both sides and who is the careerist in this name? This judgment is worth pondering.
Perhaps in order to resolve this burden as soon as possible and free themselves from the matter of reviving the Jiuling Sect, Fenglei Dao and other Jiuzhou orthodoxy may also help Taiping Dao to suppress unwilling losers like Ziyun Sect.
This sounds a bit fanciful.
However, it is not impossible to analyze the positions and interests of both parties carefully and operate carefully.
It's not even just these, it's a sect that doesn't care much about the revival of Jiuling Sect.
Even within the current five sects in the western region.
As long as Taiping Dao can really prove that it is the Kyushu Taoist tradition, it is its own people, and it can carry the banner of Jiuling Sect.
Then maybe Lu Yuan can absorb them in turn and increase his own strength in disguise.
Even if it cannot be absorbed, after mastering the right name, it can still form an advantage over the five sects in the western region.
Just like the emperor cutting down his vassal vassal, he took the initiative.
Use strength and righteousness as a basis, and then throw out a few bones, such as the ownership of the western region, or use some areas as bait.
Under such circumstances, are you still afraid that you cannot divide the Nine Provinces Immortal Sect and disintegrate each other?
So cooperation is possible.
It's just that this cooperation must be led by Taiping Dao and supported by other immortal sects in Kyushu before it can be implemented.
To occupy this dominant position, Taiping Dao must be stronger than the Jiuzhou Immortal Sect, or better than any Immortal Sect in Kyushu, and it must also have a great say in the entire Jiuzhou Immortal Sect Alliance.
Only in this way will the situation be that Kyushu is begging Taiping Dao to recognize their ancestors and return to their clan, and they are begging to cooperate with Taiping Dao.
After mastering the strength and initiative, coupled with the identity of the same Kyushu origin, Taipingdao can also prevent the entire Kyushu Immortal Sect from attacking after taking control of the Evergreen Territory.
Or even, conversely, differentiation weakens them.
It was precisely because of these long-term plans for the future that Lu Yuan thought, could he stand in front of the stage appropriately?
Because right now, he actually has a pretty good opportunity to prove his background.
"Meng Jianshan left the customs today and released news that he will hold an alliance meeting in ten days to pass the seal of the leader of the Nine Provinces Immortal Sect to Ding Wanxuan of Haiyun Pavilion.
At the same time, together with the alliance, a succession meeting will be held to pass on the position of headmaster to the last remaining true person in Ziyun Sect, Zhenxuan Taoist? "
Fifteen days after the decisive battle, Lu Yuan couldn't help but look shocked after listening to Yidan City who had hurriedly arrived and told them about the sudden changes in Kyushu.
"Yes, it is said that after Meng Jianshan was released from confinement, although his injuries were stabilized and his broken body was repaired, most of his magic power was lost.
The second flower of the Dao Fruit on the head was broken directly, with only a few roots remaining, and it almost fell below the ground flower cultivation level.
Moreover, his appearance has also changed from the original black hair and blue hair to wrinkles on the temples, giving him an old look.
Outsiders are spreading rumors that he has damaged his basic vitality and his lifespan has been greatly reduced. He may not live for more than a few years.
And Meng Jianshan's actions all confirm this. "
Yidancheng is worthy of being the person in charge of Jiuzhou intelligence affairs in Taiping Dao. At this time, he opened his mouth to talk about some less important inside information and various intelligence analyses: "I can't wait to get out of the customs this time." , want to hand over power.
Whether he gives up the alliance leader's order or inherits the position of leader, it shows that his condition is very bad and he will not survive long at all.
That's why I want to pass on the power as much as possible while I am still alive and capable.
This is explaining the aftermath. "
Yidancheng couldn't help but sigh with emotion at the end.
Meng Jianshan and Yao Baojuan were previously known as the Evergreen Immortals.
Three thousand years ago, the two were regarded as beings with the potential to become immortals.
However, three thousand years have passed, and none of the two original immortals can truly become an immortal, and they can still only wander around in the realm of earthly flowers.
Now a great battle has brought the two immortals to an end together.
This scene of a hero in his old age and losing his vitality is really sad.
"Meng Jianshan won't live long. There was a conclusion before, but now it's just a prediction that has come true, and it's not worth mentioning."
After listening to the story, Lu Yuan shook his head slightly. He didn't say anything more, but his attention was focused on another place: "But you said that the position of Ziyun Sect's headmaster will soon be passed to Zhenxuan?"
Zhenxuan, this is a very old but familiar name.
More than a thousand years ago, when he was in the Kyushu Realm, when he attended the Tianluo Dharma Meeting for the first time, Lu Yuan was among the people attending the meeting, looking up to this person.
But now more than a thousand years have passed, and the two of them have ascended one after another.
I originally thought there would be no intersection.
But Lu Yuan discovered the existence of this old friend when he came to the Evergreen Territory and came into contact with the force of Jiuzhou Immortal Sect.
This Taoist Master Ziyun did not die after he ascended.
Instead, in these thousand years, he climbed up step by step, successfully ascended to the position of true immortal, survived the previous war, and lived until now.
