Chapter 24 Concession(1/2)
(Two chapters in one…)
In the next ten days, Chen Xun and his team organized hundreds of people to participate in the tug-of-war in the Thousand Demons Sand Sea on a small scale, saying that they also fulfilled their corresponding responsibilities, but their main energy was placed on the western foot of Tianzhu Peak, and three defensive magic arrays were re-arranged according to the spiritual veins.
Previously, Ce Tianfu only gave Shenxiao Haoran Sect two mountain and river ban arrays. One was destroyed by the green flames when the sea of flames collapsed, and the other was located on the southern foot of Tianzhu Peak.
The monsters surged like a black tide, and the 64 pillars of mountains and rivers sealed magic circles could only effectively protect the range of 2,000 feet in a radius. The previous fierce battles had long proved that once they were forced to retreat to such a narrow range, the spiritual energy that the spiritual veins and the spiritual gathering magic circle could gather from a radius of 100 miles was far from enough to supply the consumption of thousands of disciples.
The three spiritual veins on the western foot of Tianzhu Peak and the southwest foot of Tianzhu Peak must be used to set up magic circles to resist the more fierce attacks of the demons.
The forbidden-level magic array cannot be refined on Wushan, but the Xuanyin heavy water array is no similar to the low-level mountain and river banned magic array in terms of defense; and the water situation can also interpret many magic changes and kill monsters.
With twelve Xuanlei chariots, Chi Songzi, Hu Taiyan and Zhao Chengen, we can lead the disciples of Shenxiao Haoran Sect to guard the Tianzhu Peak as solid as a golden soup, making Shenxiao Haoran Sect truly become the giant pillar of the sky that blocks the monsters from advancing north.
This place is already the deepest part of Tushan Jue Ridge. The surrounding mountains are seven or eight thousand feet high, and more than ten thousand feet high. Compared with the surrounding mountains, Tianzhu Peak has to be pulled out three or four thousand feet high.
In addition to the necessary practice every day, Chen Xun will climb to Jue Ridge with Ji Lie, Chi Songzi, Chang Xi, Zhao Chengen and others every day. Here you can clearly see the Thousand Demons Sand Sea in the south. The war between the Protectorate of the Northwest Territory and the Demons is in a stalemate.
In addition to obtaining two hundred spirit gathering bans from Wushan, Ce Tian Mansion also transferred a large number of weapon refiners into the Northwest Region Protectorate, among which several weapon refining masters have long cracked the two spirit gathering bans and imitated them with the Yuanwu Hou Mansion.
Over the years, the Northwest Region Protectorate has refined a total of three or four hundred mountain and river chariots.
In addition, disciples from the six sects including Longmen, Xuantian, Tiandu, and other disciples collected from the sects of the Northwest Territory. The Northwest Territory Protectorate gathered a total of 20,000 cultivators above the Restoration Realm.
The strength of the Protectorate at this time is not even weaker than that of the Shenxiao Sect when it was in its prime. Although it is impossible to break through the evil formations set up by the demon clan at the mouth of the demon ruins, it can gain the upper hand in the tug-of-war of the Thousand Demons Sand Sea, and it can kill thousands of monsters every day.
Jiang Bin led more than a hundred black-armored generals to form a battle formation in the mountains and rivers, entering and leaving the demon tide, as if entering a nobody's land.
For a time, the morale of the Northwest Region Protectorate was greatly enhanced and its reputation increased sharply; at the same time, more monks flocked to the Northwest Region and participated in this battle to kill demons with great hope of victory.
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Chen Xun knew that the potential of the demon's physical body tempering was one level higher than that of human martial arts.
The area of the Demon Ruins is actually tens of times larger than that of Yunzhou. These low-level monsters are so huge in the Demon Ruins, ranging from tens of billions or hundreds of billions.
The Northwest Region Protectorate's House has killed thousands of low-level monsters, and even if the remains of these low-level monsters are covered with the sea of thousands of demons, it is meaningless.
The only thing that makes people feel at ease at this time is that the demon clan cannot refine a stronger magic array of heaven and earth, and there is no way to further open the space channel and allow powerful demon generals above the Heavenly Demon level to enter Yunzhou.
The war was in a stalemate, and it seemed that the Northwest Region Protectorate still had a strong advantage and was extremely strong. It was also the last time for the four sects to join together to adjust their lasting strategy.
On this day, Gu Wentian rushed to Tianzhu Peak again to discuss the relocation of the sect. Chen Xun invited everyone to climb Tianzhu Peak again and told everyone about his considerations over the past ten days:
"I want Dongze to take over me, take over the position of Canglan Marquis, and carry the burden."
"Ah..." Ji Lie, Chi Songzi and others were quite surprised. Tens of millions of barbarian tribes in Wushan and 100,000 barbarian martial artists were all gathered under Chen Xun's banner. Wushan also gathered 400 cultivators in the fetal realm. Chen Xun was fully qualified to become a overlord. I wonder why he suddenly made such a decision?
"The people in the south regard me as a thorn in their eyes and know that as long as I can kill me, Wushan will immediately become a mess, which is not worth worrying. At that time, the 30 million people of Canglan have no other choice than to rely on them. If I continue to guard the position of Canglan Marquis, Yuanwu Hou, Chimei Zhenjun, and Gu Yangzi, I will continue to find ways to kill me. I will hand over the burden of Canglan Marquis now. Even if they hate me to the core, they will not be anxious to ambush me again..." Chen Xun said.
"This reason is too forced, right?" Ji Lie said with a smile.
"How can I say forceful? Otherwise, I have to consider the overall situation in everything and be patient with these people. It is also difficult for me to deal with these people. And I must also focus on practicing and refining magic arrays and magic weapons. I don't have much time to deal with secular affairs. I have actually been a false name in recent years," said Chen Xun. "The safety of 30 million people depends on me alone. In recent years, I have actually made me breathless. Thousand Sword Sect and Mengshan Sect have moved to Tushan. I naturally have to put such heavy responsibility on Master Ji, Master Gu. I believe that Master Ji and Master Gu are all people who can think of the people of the world..."
Chi Songzi, Ji Lie, and Hu Taiyan are all people who are determined to seek the truth. They will not be reluctant to leave the world's power. If they had not suffered a great disaster in the Northwest Region, they would not have entered the world this time. Seeing Chen Xun, he was determined to practice and pursue a higher level of cultivation, he could understand his fear of being plagued by worldly affairs.
"Dongze is not virtuous and incompetent, how can he take on this important task?" Ji Lie said, thinking that since Chen Xun wanted to abdicate the position of Canglan Marquis, Su Shousi, the leader of the Su clan, and Zongya, the descendant of the black python, were all on Tianzhu Peak, and even Zhao Chengen was more suitable to sit in this seat than his only son Ji Dongze. He said to Chen Xun, "You must be lazy. I think Chengen is more suitable to take this burden over."
"Shen Xiao Haoran Tao adheres to the great way of heaven, and can help the kings and princes protect the people, but not kings and princes. Ji Sect Master, don't break my heart." Zhao Chengen said with a smile.
Chen Xun originally wanted Zhao Chengen to succeed Marquis Canglan, but Zhao Chengen's theory of "can be a general and a minister, not a king and a prince" made him confused.
In addition to Zhao Chengen, he could only take Ji Dongze out and do this chore at this time.
In the current situation, if they want to gather casual cultivators from the Northwest Territory to participate in Tushan Defense, only Ji Lie has this reputation.
When Chi Songzi realized the truth, he saw the secret of heaven and said that his chance was not in the Shenxiao Haoran Sect.
He refined Xuanyuan Holy Blood and wanted to break through the bottleneck of the Yuandan realm. When the situation on this side stabilized slightly, he had to find a way to leave Yunzhou, which was inconsistent with the secret of the heaven that Chi Songzi saw.
He had no way to lead Canglan and others here for hundreds of years to defend against the demons.
This burden must be handed over.
It is better to have early than to have late friends.
Chen Xun said: "The four of us support Dongze, so Dongze has this qualification. Uncle Gu, what do you think?"
Gu Wentian nodded and said, "Chen Xun abdicated the position of Canglan Marquis to Dongze, and I think Dongze is suitable."
He knew that Chen Xun could abandon the power of Canglan Marquis at such a critical moment and abdicate to Ji Lie's only son Du Dongze, which not only had his transcendent spirit, but also his mature considerations.
No matter how fast Wushan rises and Chen Xun has the talent for cultivation, he will never be able to form a force to confront Yuanwu Hou Mansion within a hundred years.
But when the four sects are combined together, the situation will be completely different. At least they can compete with the Yuanwu Hou Mansion.
But it doesn’t matter whether the four sects are connected with Wushan as the core or with Thousand Swords as the core, but the mentality of the disciples below and other Northwest Territory cultivators who want to join the four sects is different.
Ji Lieyuan Dan Realm has been completed, and it is only ten or twenty years away from being able to officially enter the Dharma Realm.
Even if he had not entered the Dharma Realm at this time, with a great Xiaoyao sword, his combat power might not be inferior to Chi Songzi, Cang Yazi and others.
Ji Lie was only 150 years old at this time, and all the sects regarded him as the person with the most hope of entering the Heavenly Realm in a thousand years.
With such reputation, Ji Lie was able to respond in the Northwest Territories and compete with Yuanwuhou Jiang Xu.
According to the rules that have been agreed upon for thousands of years in Yunzhou, if Chen Xun had no intention of secular power, then Canglan's secular power should be inherited by the descendants of Ji Lie, the first person of the four sects.
Therefore, Ji Dongze, the son of Ji Lie, replaced Chen Xun as Canglan Marquis, and the disciples of the four sects would be convinced, which would be more conducive to joining the power of the four sects together.
In addition, Ji Dongze had limited talent in cultivation, but he had limited talent in cultivation. In the next hundred years, he could devote all his energy to secular affairs.
Thirty million wild tribesmen must move from the southern foot of Wushan to the northern foot of Tushan to settle down to support the huge consumption of people and materials on the four defense lines; one person must be able to get the common recognition of the four schools and completely sacrifice personal practice to have the energy to deal with such complicated secular affairs.
Chen Xun's prestige was mainly concentrated among the members of the Barbarian Clan, but the members of the Barbarian Clan lacked cultivators with profound cultivation and strong combat power.
The situation in the Northwest Region will really be as they predicted, and the collapse will be uncontrollable. I don’t know how many sects in the Northwest Region will suffer the disaster of the destruction of the sects. At that time, only Ji Lie has the prestige and can allow displaced cultivators from the Northwest Region to gather in Beiling to strengthen the power of the four sects and the Canglan Marquis’ Mansion.
The secrets of the Xuyuan Palace cannot be made public, and Chen Xun did not have this reputation before he entered the Dharma Realm.
There has never been a reason why Yuandan Zhenren leads his disciples to join Tianyuan monks.
Seeing Gu Wentian, Chi Songzi, Hu Taiyan, and Zhao Chengen all agreed with Chen Xun's opinions, Ji Lie no longer refused, and it was definitely a chore to succeed as Marquis of Canglan at the moment.
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The four sects jointly established Canglan Marquis.
In addition to the four sects of Shenxiao Haoran Sect, Qianjian Sect, Mengshan Sect, and Wushan, which were stuck on the defense line like nails, the four sects will also set up eight-pillar generals based on the Canglan Marquis' Mansion with Zhao Chengen, Su Shousi, Gu Chengzhuo, Tie Xintong, Gu Jianfeng and others to select thousands of returning disciples with the ability to command generals from the four sects, and mix them with the 100,000 barbarians to formally form the Canglan Army.
One hundred thousand barbarian martial artists look quite powerful, but in fact, even if they are pulled into the battlefield, they may not be able to withstand the crazy attack of 100,000 low-level monsters.
But if there are thousands of cultivators who return to the realm of the realm, the combat power of 100,000 barbarian martial arts may be greatly improved in a short period of time.
At the same time, in the name of the four sects, we will recruit scattered cultivators from the Northwest Territory to join the Canglan Marquis Mansion.
Mengshan Sect rebuilt the mountain gate at a Xiongling ridge where four peaks gathered 500 miles northwest of Tianzhu Peak.
The four peaks gathered, and there were nine spiritual veins within a radius of a hundred miles. This terrain was extremely good at defending. In addition to Gu Wentian, he led nine Tianyuan and three hundred disciples in the fetal realm, Gu Chengzhuo also led 10,000 barbarian martial arts to defend.
In the past few decades, five disciples of Qianjian Sect also cultivated into Lingyuan, entered the Tianyuan Realm, and rebuilt the mountain gate in a river valley basin 600 miles north of Yanxia Ridge.
Chen Xun used the Xuyuan Pearl to move the stone statue of the ancestor of Qianjian Sect to the Xinshan Gate north of Yanxia Mountain.
The four sects also rebuilt Canglan City and Canglan Marquis’ Mansion north of the Qianjian Sect’s mountain gate.
Ji Dongze only refined eight spiritual veins when he entered the late stage of the Return of the Bodhi Realm.
All the mysterious techniques of spiritual cultivation in Yunzhou need to go through more than nine spiritual veins to operate. Although Ji Dongze is young and in his thirties, he has no hope of becoming Tianyuan.
Ji Dongze was worried that his personal reputation would be low and could not bear the heavy responsibility of Canglan Marquis, so he refused in every way, but Chen Xun, Gu Wentian, Chi Songzi, Hu Taiyan, and Zhao Chengen all recognized him, so he could only drive the duck to put it on the shelves and take on the labour.
After performing the abdication ceremony at Tianzhu Peak, Ji Dongze hurriedly followed Chen Xun to Wushan to take over the authority of Canglan Marquis.
Chen Xun stopped taking the lead and wanted to abdicate the title of Marquis Canglan to Ji Dongze, the son of Ji Lie. Under the current situation, Ce Tianfu could only pinch his nose and recognize him first.
In addition, Chen Xun also advocated the establishment of the Canglan Academy under the Canglan Marquis' Mansion, which is responsible for recruiting young people with cultivation qualifications from tens of millions of wilderness clans to cultivate the basic cultivation; including the 20,000 Canglan Academy disciples gathered in Wushan at this time, all of which were transferred to Canglan New City for resettlement.
When the disciples of the school practice to the late stage of the True Yang realm, they will refer to their qualifications for sword cultivation, Taoism cultivation or weapon cultivation and will be sent to the four sects for deeper level of practice.
Those who have achieved success in their cultivation and are expected to practice at a higher level will continue to stay in the sect to practice, and the rest will be incorporated into the Marquis of Canglan Mansion and Canglan Army.
This will completely free the four sects from secular affairs.
The Qianjian Sect Mountain Gate and the newly built land of Canglan City, the strange shapes of spiritual veins gathering are even better than Canglong Ridge, but a large number of people and materials gathered in Canglan New City, and Canglan New City is more prominent in the terrain, and the defense situation is extremely dangerous.
If the defense line of the Northwest Territory Protector collapses, it will be difficult to withstand the invasion of hundreds of thousands of monsters by relying on the mountain gate defense of the Thousand Swords Sect.
In addition to Su Shousi, Tie Xintong led 40,000 barbarians to enter the new site of Canglan City, the four sects also squeezed out 200 cultivators in the return of the fetus realm, and ten Xuan Lei chariots were incorporated into the Canglan Marquis' Mansion.
Zhou Yang led more than a hundred weapon refiners and more than a thousand Kuilong Pavilion disciples to be incorporated into the Canglan Marquis Mansion, specializing in the mining of mine veins and the refining of low-level Xuan soldiers and the green flame lotus arrows.
Su Lingyin, Qianlan, Su Tang and others have achieved success in practicing swords in the Qianjian Sect over the years, and Su Lingyin has successfully entered the Tianyuan Realm.
Qianlan also cultivated spiritual consciousness, and she could cultivate spiritual essence by one step. Her blood talent of spiritual sword heart is just as suitable for sword cultivation. She officially joined Ji Lie's sect and changed the Daxiaoyao Sword Technique.
Su Tang and Chang Xi are both staying in the Qianjian Sect for the time being to defend Canglan New City.
Su Lingyin and Zuo Qingmu fell in love with each other sixty years ago, but before that, the two had different cultivation levels and status, and they had been together for decades.
The Su family had long fallen apart. Su Lingyin officially joined Wushan with Chen Xun this time, in order to get together with Zuo Qingmu.
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Chen Xun returned to Wushan but still couldn't get down easily.
To be continued...