After being distracted and settling into his new body, Meng Zhang had a very strange feeling.
It was as if he was suddenly divided into two people, especially his true self, who had two different perspectives at the same time.
Meng Zhang tried to control the external avatar. With a thought, the external avatar could act independently.
This external incarnation has been initially successfully refined.
The next step is to slowly improve and make up for some defects.
Meng Zhang's true self took out the golden stone egg.
This stone egg is the condensation of the divine power of the innate ghosts and gods, and it contains all kinds of mysteries of the innate ghosts and gods.
Meng Zhang casually threw the stone egg to his own incarnation.
The avatar outside took the golden stone egg and placed it carefully.
After the external incarnation has completely adapted to the body, it will slowly begin to refine the stone egg and obtain the divine power of the innate ghosts and gods.
Meng Zhang's soul split into a distracted body, which was very depleted. Even if he absorbed and refined the lotus seeds of the Thunderous Blue Lotus, it would still take a long time to slowly recover.
In the following time, Meng Zhang began to slowly warm up his soul.
While Meng Zhang was in retreat, nothing major happened in Jiuqu Province.
Since the last time Ziyang Holy Sect took action with its great power of returning to the void, Ziyang Holy Sect has not made any new moves, as if it has forgotten the place Jiuquxing Province.
However, some rumors began to circulate, saying that in the mainland of the Dali Dynasty, the Ziyang Holy Sect and the Dali Dynasty were fighting fiercely.
For most cultivators, they don't like large-scale turmoil.
In particular, local cultivation forces such as Jiuqu Province are eager for a stable development environment.
Of course, there are also a small number of outliers who feel that they have extraordinary strength and can obtain more benefits in the turmoil.
The Shangguan family had this idea.
They are not afraid of turmoil, but they are eager for Jiuqu Province to be in chaos so that they can take advantage of the chaos.
However, the Shangguan family is also encountering big problems now.
All along, the Shangguan family had wanted to secretly contact the Purple Sun Sect and secretly seek refuge there.
However, not only did the Ziyang Holy Sect not continue to take action around Jiuqu Province, its monks were even more like a dragon, and could not be contacted at all.
Wanting to be a leader, but unable to find a way, this made the senior officials of the Shangguan family very worried.
It happened that at this time, Zhang Weineng, the governor of Jiuqu Province, finally took action to deal with the province's internal affairs after making peace with the invaders from outside the territory.
Zhang Weineng has the most powerful force in Jiuqu Province and can easily stabilize the situation in the province.
Some time ago, the Shangguan family thought that the rule of the Dali Dynasty in Jiuqu Province was about to collapse due to the Ziyang Holy Sect's intervention, so they not only tried to contact the Ziyang Holy Sect secretly, but also treated the Governor's Mansion with insufficient respect.
Last time, Meng Zhang was ordered by Zhang Weineng to organize an army of monks to prepare for war with the barbarians outside the territory.
On the other side of Wurift Valley, there was a back-and-forth. On the surface, they promised well, but when the trouble came, they did not send troops.
As for the Shangguan family, they had no intention of sending troops from the beginning to the end.
Disobeying military orders was a serious crime in the Dali Dynasty, but because there was a layer of separation this time, the matter could be big or small. How to deal with it depends on Meng Zhang's attitude.
Since the Ziyang Holy Sect cannot be contacted and the Dali Dynasty continues to rule Jiuqu Province, the Shangguan family will have to consider how to deal with these things.
The Shangguan family sent envoys to visit Meng Zhang several times. The senior officials of the Taiyi Sect, who had received instructions from Meng Zhang in advance, sent these envoys away on the grounds that Meng Zhang was in retreat.
The Shangguan family has never been able to see Meng Zhang and cannot communicate with him, which made the family's senior officials uneasy.
Since Meng Zhang successfully refined his external incarnation, although he has not left isolation, he has taken the initiative to restore contact with the outside world.
Everything that happens in the door will be reported to him regularly.
He was very disdainful of the Shangguan family, and he was not willing to have too much involvement with them.
What he is really worried about now is Zhang Weineng's next move.
The current situation in Jiuqu Province is relatively calm. If Zhang Wei can hold on to the idea that he must first settle the internal affairs in order to fight against external forces, he is likely to first clean up the internal affairs and sweep away those cultivation forces that show disloyal intentions.
What Meng Zhang did some time ago seemed to be fine on the surface.
But in fact, he still had very selfish motives and did not take into account the interests of the Dali Dynasty.
In Zhang Weineng's eyes, Meng Zhangke was definitely not the kind of truly loyal minister.
Of course, with the current strength of Etheryi Sect, even if Zhang Weineng is really desperate and wants to take action against Taiyi Sect, he must think carefully before taking action.
The Taiyi Sect has strengthened its ties with allies such as the Huanglian Sect. After the last time they broke through the barbarian camp together, the relationship between the several forces has become closer.
True Lord Changchun, True Lord Jiqiao and others successfully entered the Heavenly Palace with the help of Meng Zhang.
Soon, they got rid of the excitement of contacting the Heavenly Palace and began to worry.
Living in the Heavenly Palace is not easy, let alone staying here for a long time. Even if they go to the Heavenly Palace every time, the teleportation talismans used and the cost of stay and accommodation are a huge burden for them.
Lord Huolie of Huolie Mountain is a little better. After all, he is an old Yuanshen sect that has been handed down from the Jiuqu Alliance era to this day, and he has more or less foundation and savings.
However, Changchun Guan and Jiqiao Sect are actually not much stronger than Jindan Sect. Changchun True Lord and Jiqiao True Lord basically have no way to obtain Yuqing's spiritual power.
Everything in the Heavenly Palace makes them jealous. Entering the treasure mountain and returning empty-handed will make them crazy.
But just two monks in the early stage of Yuan Shen are not much better than Chen Mo in a place like Tiangong.
Especially those who come from small sects like them, who have no background, no connections, no ability, and no abilities, will simply not be able to gain a foothold in the Heavenly Palace.
When they were in distress, fortunately Niu Dawei from Taiyimen came to them.
Niu Dawei only spent a little Yuqing's inspiration and provided some small help, and successfully hired them.
From then on, when they were in the Heavenly Palace, True Lord Changchun and True Lord Jiqiao were the workers employed by Taiyi Sect.
With the help of two relatively reliable Yuanshen Lords, Niu Dawei was freed from the heavy chores.
Things that are not very important and do not involve confidentiality can be left to them.
Niu Dawei has more time to deal with more important matters.
Through this method, Niu Dawei got assistants, and Taiyi Sect deepened its ties with Changchun Temple and Jiqiao Sect, so that it would be easier to slowly bring these two sects under control in the future.
All along, Meng Zhang has been sparing no effort to expand the Hanhai Dao League.
Through this organization, Taiyi Sect controls a large number of cultivation forces.
The Hanhai Dao League, headed by Taiyi Sect, stands in the north of Jiuqu Province, and its momentum is getting stronger.
