Chapter 429: Surprise, Accident

Seeing Wei Yuan unmoved, the Kong Que Monk said: "This poor monk used a little trick, but it's just a method that allows the benefactor to see his true heart and clearly see himself. What you see is mainly determined by the benefactor's true heart."

It would have been fine not to mention the true heart, but when it came to the true heart, Wei Yuan firmly didn't believe it.

The Kong Que Monk sighed and said: "Since Benefactor Wei cannot reason, then this poor monk..."

He suddenly stopped halfway through this sentence, surprised: "Why did the benefactor develop killing intent?"

Wei Yuan, while holding down the restless girl Su Ruyu, said: "I didn't!"

The Kong Que Monk said again: "In the secret realm that day, the benefactor didn't develop killing intent, so why is the killing intent so thick today? This poor monk came with sincerity, is there any misunderstanding?"

Wei Yuan said: "At that time, it was because I didn't want to fight internally and let the alien races take advantage for nothing; now... hehe, if I don't develop killing intent, my combat power won't be fully unleashed."

The Kong Que Monk suddenly realized and said: "So that's how it is. It seems that what Benefactor Wei awakened first is the Wrathful Aspect. However, the Buddha has various aspects; which aspect is awakened first doesn't matter, in the end, all aspects will be complete, and then all aspects will become empty, attaining the fruit position."

"Thank you, Master, for your guidance. However, I have no intention of entering the Pure Heshan for the time being. Master, please return."

"Then this poor monk will go back and diligently cultivate the Buddha Dharma, and will come again in the future." The Kong Que Monk bowed and left.

The monk left, and the girl Su Ruyu calmed down.

Li Zhi didn't delay, summoned a flying boat, and went to the Four Sages Academy. Before leaving, he handed one-third of the Zhenshan boundary's authority to Wei Yuan; Wei Yuan was now equivalent to half a Wei Wei Jiezhu, and besides not being able to remove the boundary stone, he could do anything else.

The Zhenshan boundary stone was buried under the City Lord's Mansion, with strict defenses. Before leaving, Li Zhi had already explained, so Wei Yuan went unimpeded all the way to the door of the secret room.

Over a dozen guards pulled the mechanism together, opening the steel door weighing over ten thousand catties; behind the door was an underground hall, and the Zhenshan boundary stone was revealed.

This was the first time Wei Yuan had come into contact with another boundary stone. This boundary stone looked like the head of a giant ape, three zhang in size, looking lifelike.

Wei Yuan came to the boundary stone, placed his hand on it, and immediately felt a weak consciousness in the boundary stone, which was both fearful and somewhat close to him.

This boundary stone actually already had weak spirituality; it was indeed Li Zhi's family heirloom. If the spirituality were a little stronger, it could be classified as an unusual-rank boundary stone.

For all things, it is hardest for spirituality to go from nothing to something, and easier to go from something to strong; most of the time, it can be improved through nourishment and accumulation over time.

Wei Yuan's spiritual sense scanned, checking the basic status of the boundary stone and the current situation of the Zhenshan boundary.

The Zhenshan boundary stone belonged to the upper-rank boundary stone, and its spirituality had already formed, currently having advanced to the second rank, with a limit of covering 180 li of the boundary, and currently it was over 120 li.

This boundary stone had two characteristics.

One was "Suppressing Mountains," which could enhance the defense of the human race within the boundary.

Two was "Mountains Without Borders," the boundary range increased by eighty percent compared to ordinary upper-rank boundary stones.

The third item was a functional ability, named "Mountains Have Spirit," where the concentration of spiritual energy within the boundary would increase slightly.

Boundary stone functions are divided according to strength, called function, characteristic, and miraculous, increasing in order. The Zhenshan boundary stone had two characteristics plus one function, which was quite outstanding, especially "Mountains Without Borders"; this kind of ability to expand the boundary range was a divine skill.

But compared to Azure Void's three miraculous and one characteristic, Zhenshan was indeed somewhat lacking. It was just that Azure Void's last miraculous item was still in a blank state, not knowing how to activate it. However, even without the last miraculous item, Azure Void was worthy of the name "Immortal Stone."

Now the Zhenshan boundary had reached the upper limit of the current boundary stone's nourishment level, and the boundary could only expand by one li every thirty days. It would have to wait for the passage of time and the improvement of the nourishment level to enter the next stage.

Wei Yuan tried to manifest the ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers, and the spirituality in the Zhenshan boundary stone suddenly became extremely excited, and the entire boundary land was shaking slightly!

Wei Yuan immediately shouted "bad" in his heart; he forgot that this boundary stone already had spirituality. He originally just wanted to see if the manifestation of the ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers could improve the boundary stone's ability, but now Zhenshan wanted to recognize its master!

Wei Yuan hurriedly transferred a wisp of Azure Void's aura, pressing down Zhenshan's spirituality, which prevented the process of Azure Void's recognition of its master from repeating. Zhenshan's newly born spirituality seemed very aggrieved, but didn't dare not to obey, and settled down.

After suppressing Zhenshan, Wei Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. If he had accidentally let Zhenshan recognize its master, he wouldn't know how to explain it to Li Zhi when he returned.

However, with the blessing of the ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the Zhenshan boundary appeared, the nourishment progress of the boundary stone improved significantly, and the boundary began to expand again, becoming one li per day, equivalent to Azure Void now.

After figuring out the situation of the boundary stone, Wei Yuan left the secret room, locked the steel door again, and then summoned all the civil and military officials of Zhenshan to understand the situation of the boundary and the surrounding area. Zhao Guo specially permitted Zhenshan Military Governor Li Zhi to organize and train twenty town troops, totaling one hundred thousand people. The Military Governor led the Dingxi General himself, with two miscellaneous generals and ten regional commanders set up below. Zhao Guo allocated two million taels of immortal silver for military expenses every year, and the rest was self-raised.

Hearing this, Wei Yuan was somewhat envious. In comparison, Western Jin not only didn't have a single bit of military pay, but even the establishment was given stingily; until now, there were only four towns.

Wei Yuan also didn't understand why those people in the imperial court were so stingy with the establishment; did they think that if they didn't give the establishment, he wouldn't organize an army?

There were currently forty thousand elites in the Zhenshan boundary, mostly from Southern Qi, all transformed from Li family retainers.

At this point, Wei Yuan was envious again; Li Zhi had forty thousand elites at the start, and three or four Dharma Forms protecting him. At Wei Yuan's start, he only had a bowl in his hand... oh no, it was the array disk given by the Immortal Lord.

Wei Yuan put away the jealousy in his heart and continued to listen to the generals' report. After Li Zhi set up the boundary stone, he successively recruited sixty thousand civilian braves from the local Zhao Guo; these civilian braves already had a certain foundation in Body Forging, and could go to the battlefield after a little training and familiarity with military orders.

Needless to say, these tens of thousands of skilled civilian braves didn't fall from the sky either; they basically had the level of the Xu family's private army. Azure Void currently had about three hundred thousand civilian braves of the same level, all caught by Wei Yuan one by one.

In terms of civilians, Li Zhi had already recruited one hundred thousand refugees, who had opened one hundred thousand acres of fields and had just harvested one season.

The Zhenshan boundary didn't have the Lesser Wood Lesser Year Pill, so one season of grain was three months, the same as other places in the human domain, while Azure Void was two months for one harvest.

Subsequently, Wei Yuan went to the military camp and looked at the entire army in detail.

During the last rescue of Li Zhi, many of Zhenshan's old soldiers were present at the time, watching Wei Yuan repel the mountain people's army with the momentum of crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood. This time, Wei Yuan temporarily took charge of Zhenshan, and from top to bottom, naturally, no one was unconvinced.

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After looking at the elites, he looked at the civilian braves, and then Wei Yuan tried the "Heaven and Earth Madman," finding that it could still be effective on the soldiers in the Zhenshan boundary, but the effect was far less obvious than on the Azure Void soldiers.

Wei Yuan was thoughtful; it seemed that people living in different boundaries for a long time would inevitably be marked by the boundary stone.

After looking at the civilian braves, cities, farmland, and mines, the troops transferred from Azure Void also arrived.

Besides the ten thousand Long Xiang and Long Yi elites specially for external warfare, Wei Yuan also brought four thousand Heavenly Machine Hall Dao soldiers.

Originally, the five thousand Dao soldiers given by True Lord Yanshi had trained nearly a thousand Dao Foundations. After Wei Yuan sent the Dao Foundations back, he always felt that the remaining Dao soldiers still had potential that hadn't been tapped, so he kept those who hadn't become Dao Foundations and started a three-month special training.

Currently leading these Dao soldiers was Xu Wenwu.

Xu Wenwu was suddenly promoted to such a big official, excited to the point of being unable to control himself, and after being bluffed by Wei Yuan, he was determined to embark on the path of a famous general from then on. And a famous general should share joys and sorrows with the soldiers, eating and sleeping together, so he had been living in the military camp for a month now.

For this expedition, all matters of organizing the army and marching were naturally handled by specialized military officers, and Xu Wenwu only needed to give orders. However, Xu Wenwu didn't want to be a famous general who just lay down and won, so he studied seriously with these officers, and his leadership level rose in a straight line, it was just that his strength was a bit weak.

Wei Yuan ordered the Azure Void army to rest for one night and go to battle tomorrow.

At night, Wei Yuan was sitting in Li Zhi's study, flipping through the official documents between Li Zhi and Zhao Guo, when a small figure suddenly appeared on the windowsill; it was the flying sable.

The flying sable indicated that now that Wei Yuan had the Wei Wei Jiezhu's authority, he should share a little with it. With authority, even if it was only a little, its movement underground in the boundary would be several times faster.

The flying sable only had this hobby, so Wei Yuan pondered for a moment and agreed, but let it know that no matter what it found underground in the boundary, it had to bring it over for him to take a look. If the flying sable really wanted it, Wei Yuan would compensate Li Zhi at a discounted price.

Things found outside the boundary would all belong to the flying sable.

The flying sable agreed immediately, and just as it was preparing to leave, a fragrant wind suddenly enveloped the study, and a graceful woman jumped in, shouting: "Brother Zhi, I'm here! Is it a surprise, is it an accident?"

The one who rushed in was a sweet-looking, somewhat elfin, willful and mischievous girl with a hot and full figure.

The fatal thing was, she was holding all her clothes in her hands, without a single thread on her body, and just jumped into the study like this!

Wei Yuan looked at her quietly, the sable looked at her quietly, the cat on the windowsill looked at her quietly, and a big snake on the beam also poked its head out, looking at her quietly.

The girl was dumbfounded, and the clothes in her hands fell to the ground.

At this time, a Buddha name sounded, and the green-robed monk walked past the girl, left the study, and disappeared into the night, indicating that he really was just passing by.

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