Since two months ago, the atmosphere in Wusi City has been very wrong. And it was a change in an unfavorable direction for the Jing Dynasty.
First, someone brought up what happened two years ago about the failure of Fenghong Villa's special skill, the Blood Armor Technique, and wantonly ridiculed that the old Jing Dynasty was now like a waste that had lost both hands.
Then someone started talking about the fact that the sects in the Jingjiu Dynasty are now undergoing huge changes over the past thousands of years. Especially the destruction of the two super sects in the Jingjiu Dynasty two years ago has formed a force. The vacancies, as well as the massive vacant cultivation resources, etc., were discussed by many people in taverns and teahouses, and it even became more and more popular.
Compared with the weakness of the old Jing Dynasty, those vacant cultivation resources and blessed places and caves are undoubtedly more topical and desirable.
You want to know who are the people in Wusi City? Evil monks, thugs, thugs, villains...even some hidden sects who were expelled from the sect circles of the Jingjiu Dynasty and had to come here to survive. Even the three leaders were slowly formed by these desperadoes as the underlying structure. They have a natural gap and even vague hostility towards the Jingjiu Dynasty.
Digging a little deeper, there are actually two main reasons that keep the City of Death standing.
One is the seemingly endless treasures and opportunities in the underground palace of Wusi City. Here you can get the opportunity to explore the underground palace. Being bound by interests, we can naturally work together to do our best externally.
Another reason is the "sanctuary" nature of Wusi City. It has given countless people with nowhere to go a shelter, and they can fight to the death to protect this shelter, because they have almost no other escape route except here.
These two reasons are actually conditions that can only be established if you put yourself in a passive defensive position. It is also the core of the city that has been unable to shrink for thousands of years.
These things have been repeatedly reviewed and summarized when Blackwater first started to pay attention to the City of Wasteland. This has always been the basic positioning that Blackwater has given to all the forces in the City of Wasteland: passive defenders.
But now this "passive defense" has become fundamentally unnecessary.
It can be seen from the above two rumors that the Jingjiu Dynasty has become chaotic on the ground. Although a new pattern has been formed, the overall strength has been greatly reduced. Some say only 50% is left, others say 60%.
In fact, this happened more than two years ago, so why did it suddenly come out and become so popular?
Blackwater's spies in Waishi City quickly noticed this suspicion, and quickly found out the origin of the matter. It was the Xueyi Sect, one of the three leaders in Waishi City, who was secretly fanning the flames, and the Immortality Sect followed suit. Only the Coffin Sect, which has always been lifeless, did not participate as always.
According to Heishui's analysis, the reason why they waited for two full years before starting to stir things up again was not because it was only at this time that the City of Death reacted in vain, but that after more than two years, their original scruples had become weak. This is an act of temptation.
What are you worried about? Heishui concluded that he was concerned about the peerless strongman, Potian, who single-handedly destroyed the masters of Wanjuan Shushan and Mingshan Sect.
The origin of breaking the sky is also recorded in Heishui. Part of it was analyzed by Heishui himself, and part of it was dictated by Commander Shen.
According to Potian's origin, it can be seen that this super strong man's cultivation has most likely transcended the Xuanhai realm and reached the legendary Creation realm. He also has a good relationship with the Jingjiu Dynasty, otherwise he would not help. The Jingjiu Dynasty eliminated two super sects.
Therefore, Waishicheng was worried about the strong Po Tian two years ago, so he remained silent when faced with the weakness of the old Jing Dynasty and the sect circle, fearing that it would bring disaster to himself. After all, no one was sure whether the strong man would obey Jing Jiuchao's request and come to the City of Wasteful Death to kill him, so the City of Wasteful Death kept its head low and did not want to cause trouble.
But now two years have passed, and the news about Potian has been hovering between "guess" and "possibility". Even if some scattered news about this peerless powerhouse has leaked out, there has never been any information that can be obtained. Confirmed. They all fall into the category of "rumors".
It's just a matter of paying it off once or twice. A peerless master who wants to hide himself naturally has the ability to avoid being found, but another explanation is: is he so secluded from the world, maybe he is really ready to focus on practicing cultivation without worrying about worldly affairs?
With this idea in mind, all the forces in Wusi City could not suppress the restlessness in their hearts and began to test the bottom line and confidence of the Jing Jiu Dynasty bit by bit. At the same time, they were also testing the reaction of that peerless strong man.
The first test was for the chariot and horse shop in Wusheng City. For the first time, Wusi City has begun to impose taxes on the carriage and horse racing business, and the taxes are still high. Then he went out of the city and forcibly brought the largest weak-water dock outside Wusi City under the jurisdiction of Wusi City, and also began to tax all ships traveling in and out of the city.
You must know that the carriage and horse shops along the route of Wai Si City are all large carriage and horse shops, and even the royal family is involved. They belong to a highly closed business circle. At the same time, the Jingjiu Dynasty deliberately suppressed the existence of Wai Si City, so it was deliberately planned and formed. .
The forced taxation and wharves imposed on the city were in vain, which naturally harmed the interests of large merchants and even imperial merchants, and fed back an "unfriendly" signal to the Jing Dynasty.
It's not over yet. Immediately afterwards, the city of Fusi began to increase the city gate tax for monks entering the city from the old Jing Dynasty during the opening of the underground palace, which was more than doubled.
After several actions, they only saw "protests" but no substantial counterattacks, which immediately gave Wushiteng City more courage. Directly begin to reduce the share of the dead city order that has been negotiated with the Jingjiu Dynasty and the sect circles for many years. First it was reduced by 10%, then this time it was 30%, and they threatened to continue reducing it to 50% next time.
If the previous behavior was a test and provocation, then Wusi City is now suppressing the Jingjiu Dynasty and the various sects within the Jingjiu Dynasty in disguise. I thought of lighting a fire first and trying it out to see the reaction.
It was under such circumstances that Shen Hao, who was the commander of the Xuanqing Guard and also the deacon of foreign affairs at Fenghong Villa, wrote to the emperor and asked for a warrant to allow him to personally visit the City of Fusi. At the same time, there is also the power to mobilize the navy in weak water areas to block the Helin first-line waterway at any time.
And the emperor also personally approved this sentence on the warrant: Give me a good lesson and teach those ungrateful people in the city to death in vain!
The emperor's confidence was surprisingly high, and he was far from being as "anxious" as the city officials thought. The reason is that the emperor knows that Shen Hao, who is setting off for the City of Fusi at this time, is already a figure who can be called the new king of the Jing Dynasty...
