Chapter 495

The sky in the Northern Shanyue was foggy. Li Xijun was dyed with snow light, wearing a sword at his waist, his eyes rotating with white light, looking down at the Brother Dili family's troops entering the city at his feet. "Pine Snow" made a snow cloud appear under his feet, drifting and dusty. "Minghuang is intelligent, he has already changed to the Shanyue title, let's test that Northern Shanyue master first."

Li Xijun naturally had similar arrangements, just testing this child first, so he didn't speak. Now seeing that he had arranged it properly, he nodded, and his heart was much more at ease.

Li Ximing watched intently, as if envious, and as if satisfied with some kind of wish. His expression was confused. Hearing his words, he took out a jade bottle from his bosom and said:

"He is also at the fifth level of Taixi. If he takes that elixir, he will be at the sixth level... I have a 【Bright Spirit Powder】 here, give it to him together, Qi Refining is right in front of his eyes."

Li Xijun nodded, put it into his bosom, raised his eyebrows to look, and saw two groups of troops leaving the city in the night. He laughed:

"I heard that the one in the Northern Shanyue is not a mediocre master, leave him for Minghuang to use as a whetstone."

Li Ximing nodded and suddenly said:

"Xijun, have you carefully read that 《Minghua Huangyuan Scripture》?"

Li Xijun shook his head and said:

"I don't cultivate this path, I only studied it a little for reference. What's the matter?"

Li Ximing was silent, organized his language, and said softly: "I read the nine secret methods for breaking through to Zifu. The difficulty is very high. If you practice three of them, you have a 15% probability. If all nine are completed, it's less than 50%. This doesn't even count the environment itself."

The Li family naturally didn't have any good environment for breaking through to Zifu. Li Xijun calculated in his heart and said in a low voice: "If you can really practice these nine, then you truly have a quite high chance of success."

"How could it be that simple!"

Li Ximing smiled bitterly and replied:

"Every secret method is very difficult. You can't take it down without ten or twenty years!"

"So difficult!"

Li Xijun's complexion changed, and he suddenly realized something, secretly saying:

'No wonder Ning Wan and the others dragged on for so long in the late Foundation Establishment stage... she might not even have nine to practice!'

Li Ximing paused and said:

"It's just that the scroll also recorded a few spirit objects that can assist in breaking through to Zifu..."

"Such as 【Bright Square Heaven Stone】, 【Qilin Crow Spirit Molt】, 【Bai Du Blood】."

Li Ximing said the names of some spirit objects, and at a glance, they were all rare treasures. Only then did he explain:

"They are all at the Zifu level..."

Li Xijun nodded gently and replied:

"You take the name list and give it to me, I will let Zhi Ge'er check it, and also inquire everywhere. It would be best if we can get clues."

……

Chan Pass.

"Two passes and six towns."

Li Zhouwei took the map and looked at it carefully. Behind Chan Pass was a plain, with many stockades standing, and a large town. After passing this plain was Moonlight Valley, which was also a heavy pass, and behind it were the other five towns and the King's Court.

In the past, the ancestor Li Xiangping could come and go freely here. First, there were few people and it was hidden. Second, there was a great drought at that time, and the Shanyue lands had just been smashed by Gani Xi, leaving a mess.

Now that his own family had thousands of troops and had controlled Chan Pass, which had trapped Lord Xiangping in the north at that time, naturally it was a different way of fighting. Li Zhouwei pondered for two breaths and secretly said: 'Go in one breath.'

Li Zhouwei came down from the pass, turned onto his horse without stopping, let the Shanyue general Du Dou gather a group of troops and slaves, stood on the platform holding a halberd, and his armor was shining with cold light.

A group of Shanyue, some wearing armor, some were slaves with bare upper bodies. It could be seen that Du Dou usually trained the army, at least they wouldn't stand together in a mess, but in the end, it wasn't much better.

One by one, the Shanyue looked around blankly. It seemed that to them, it made no difference which general they changed to, only some looked greedily at the weapons piled on the platform.

Li Zhouwei's gaze swept across the wretched and dirty faces of the group of Shanyue. A strange red light slowly appeared on the long halberd, as if it could take away people's souls, causing the group of Shanyue to look up one after another.

The Shanyue who were reduced to guarding the pass were naturally not noble seeds, and they were mostly slaves. They looked up listlessly, watching batches of grain and grass being lifted onto the platform, and some began to discuss in whispers.

"Everyone."

Li Zhouwei's voice echoed in the pass, deep and low, but it resounded through the air, carrying a bewitching taste: "I am the Great He Ming Fang, receiving the mandate of heaven to conquer the Northern Court. For the towns captured by the two armies, first slaughter the nobles, distribute wealth and fields, and when the Northern Court is conquered, all lowly slaves will be removed from their slave status."

"Distribute wealth and fields?"

"Remove slave status? Can this general keep his word..."

Li Zhouwei paused and repeated it again. The voice became more and more ethereal, as if it had the power to bewitch people's hearts, causing the suspicion and doubt in the eyes of the group of Shanyue to gradually disappear, and surging with fiery greed.

Red light slowly lit up in their eyes. They looked at each other, stepped forward one by one to pick up the weapons piled in front, and were as quiet as a pack of hungry wolves.

Chen Yang listened from the side with dull eyes. This voice drilled into his ears without any holes. Even he, a fourth-level Taixi cultivator, had a moment of surging heart.

Chen Yang had a firm will, soon came back to his senses, raised his head, looked at Li Zhouwei's eyes that were faintly shining, hurriedly lowered his head, and his heart palpitated:

'In those years Gani Xi... was probably just like this!'

Brother Dili Youjie had already divided the troops and inserted the manpower. He came forward to report. Li Zhouwei's spirit horse soon began to move, and the troops behind him were like an orderly tide, heading toward the towns in the night.

The large town didn't have many guards to begin with, and hadn't even reacted yet. Several arrows flew across the sky, shooting down the guards. Several sorcerers quickly climbed over the city wall, and the gate opened with a bang.

Li Zhouwei rode on his horse, the gold in his eyes flashing bit by bit, feeling the group of troops following him as if obsessed, as if the instincts originally buried in their bodies were constantly emerging.

He soon reined in his horse, looking at the stone tower at the stockade entrance. The troops under his command were silently rushing into the town, like a tide separating the reefs, silently and crazily rolling into the stockade.

A noisy sound rose in Li Zhouwei's ears. Looking at that stone tower, he suddenly had a strange thought: "I should sit in the temple, sit on the ancestral hall..."

He stood quietly. A sound passed among the Shanyue like Buddhist sounds, whispering low, murmuring: "For the towns captured, first slaughter the nobles, distribute wealth and fields."

"And when the Northern Court is conquered, all lowly slaves will be removed from their slave status."

The running Shanyue murmured in their mouths. The towns in the night ignited little by little smoke and fire. The sound of killing became louder and louder, slowly gathering into one voice: "Great He Ming Fang!"

This sound made the group of Shanyue blush. Kongheng behind Li Zhouwei had already turned the simple wooden beads in his hand until they creaked, still unable to cover up the shock on his face, muttering: "Victorious Name Exhaustive Bright... Great He Ming Fang..."

Gray smoke gathered and stopped beside Kongheng, coming with Li Wushao's gloomy voice: "Master... what are you thinking about?"

Kongheng just shook his head and smiled bitterly, replying:

"Wushao is too careful..."

The two Foundation Establishment cultivators talked silently. Li Zhouwei had already driven his horse forward, soon crossed the crowd, settled the manpower in the town, and ran to the surrounding stockades. The troops behind him increased by two or three hundred, walked out of the stockade quickly, leaving a place of bloodstains.

He sent Chen Yang and Brother Dili Youjie out to lead troops to gather troops, drove his horse forward in one breath, no longer lingering in these stockades, and ran toward the next pass quickly.

Li Zhouwei hadn't arrived yet, a gray wind galloped over, leaving two jade bottles in his hand, one green and one white, very exquisite.

Li Zhouwei checked with his spirit sense and soon put them away. The valley in front was narrow, both mountains were stationed with troops, and the pass appeared somewhat dilapidated, wedged between two valleys.

After stopping in front of the valley for a while, the group of troops lined up. Li Zhouwei lowered his head and asked a Shanyue soldier on the side: "Is this Moonlight Valley?"

This Shanyue nodded and bowed, saying respectfully:

"Reporting to the Great King, this place was once the territory of the Moonlight tribe, named after the rumored priest Moon Pearl. During the great drought, it was killed by the Easterners, but it is still called Moonlight Valley."

Li Zhouwei squinted slightly, thinking:

'So it's this place, it was killed by the ancestor.'

He planted his long halberd, looked at the narrow valley in front, and muttered:

"Capture this pass, find an opportunity to break through."

……

Northern Shanyue King's Court.

The fire in the palace court was burning quietly in the stone basin. A lean man was sitting on the Northern Shanyue throne, his hair disheveled, holding a stone slab in his hand, gently rubbing the characters on it.

The Northern Shanyue King 【Xiandu】 didn't look very imposing, and his name was just an ordinary Shanyue name, but he could sit firmly on the throne in the Northern Shanyue where nobles were everywhere, undoubtedly his methods were extraordinary, just looking at the stone slab in his hand quietly.

What was drawn on this stone slab was a vast situation. People with feathers and animal bones all over their bodies stood on the altar, the wind and clouds in the sky changed, and a demon was standing in the air.

The Great Priest with animal bones and feathers beside him knelt on the ground. Xiandu stared for a long time and asked: "Has Wushan not replied yet!"

"Reporting to the Great King, we have already tried the eighth time, no matter how we contact, there is no feedback message."

The Great Priest shook his head silently, without much panic, even a little lucky, replying: "Great King, this is also good... after the children break through to human sorcerers, they don't have to go up the mountain... those who go up the mountain every year, which one has ever come back... I fear they were all refined by the adults."

"Now that Wushan has no reply, perhaps Lord Jiao Zhongzi and Lord Mu Mili have gone to the East Sea. Wouldn't we be much more relaxed?"

Xiandu's lean face was full of anxiety, shaking his head heavily, gently putting down the stone slab in his hand, and saying in a low voice:

"Where are you looking? If Lord Jiao Zhongzi has a problem, the Li family's running dog Li Jiman in the Eastern Shanyue is eyeing us covetously. Great Jueting to Chan Pass is only a hundred miles, two passes and six cities, in front of Foundation Establishment, it is just destroyed in a snap of a finger."

The Great Priest was submissive, muttering in his heart:

'If something happened to Wushan... how many people could run... it would be better to surrender to Li Jiman, we could naturally save a life...'

Xiandu was thinking when he saw a Shanyue man come up below, shouting: "Great King! Something happened to Chan Pass!"

'Jiao Zhongzi really had a problem!'

Xiandu jumped up from his seat as if struck by lightning, gritting his teeth:

"Is it Li Jiman who came? Or which branch of the Li family's troops!"

This big man was stunned and replied: "Great King! The Li family entered Great Jueting, the surrounding tribes had no way to live, so they deceived Chan Pass open... The defending general Du Dou was captured, surrendered to his troops, and now has transferred troops north, killing into the pass!"

"So it's a rebellion!"

Xiandu suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and said in a low voice:

"Which tribe is leading? Who is the leader? How many troops and how many cultivators?!"

The Shanyue big man bowed:

"The thief king is called 【Great He Ming Fang】... perhaps it is the 【Great He Tribe】, I don't know how many troops, I heard that there is also secret support from the Brother Dili tribe outside the pass."

"【Great He Tribe】? Never heard of it! What is it!"

As the master of the Northern Shanyue, which tribes had many subordinates and great power, which tribes had pure noble bloodlines and strong strength, Xiandu kept them all in mind. Even if there were small and medium-sized tribes, most of them had a name. He just thought about it in his mind and found that there was no such tribe name at all.

Xiandu frowned suddenly. He was not afraid of these few thousand people, just afraid that the Brother Dili tribe was mostly under the Li family's rule, and he didn't know if they had received hints from Li Jiman.

'This bitch is making trouble for me day by day!'

Xiandu and Li Jiman were not mediocre masters. The Northern Shanyue and Eastern Shanyue had also secretly wrestled, but one or two were dependents and didn't dare to start a fight without orders.

Xiandu immediately realized that it was just a rebellion, and his heart suddenly lost a lot of pressure. At least it meant that Wushan had not had any problems yet, otherwise it would be the Li family who came over. He just said:

"What are you panicking about? At most he only has three or four thousand troops, a few sorcerers, what can they do!"

But he saw this Shanyue big man sweating profusely, saying in a low voice: "That Great He Ming Fang... claims to have received Wushan's instruction... lied that the Great King has lost contact with Wushan... please Great King... please Great King"

Xiandu was suddenly terrified. Wushan had indeed not sent anyone down for too long. Looking at the man's stuttering appearance, Xiandu naturally understood his meaning, but he didn't speak.

'Wushan hasn't sent anyone down for too long, the nobles in the country have already started to be restless... this is to borrow his mouth to ask about Wushan's situation!'

Xiandu soon realized that this was a hint from the nobles, but he still tried to remain calm, saying in a deep voice: "It's just a small riot, why alarm Wushan? If we get into trouble, is it something you and I can bear! Just wait for this King to quell the rebellion!"

"Your subordinate spoke out of turn!"

This Shanyue was scolded by him, sweating profusely, kowtowing again and again, replying: "It's just said that this person is like Gani Xi, the Great King must be careful!"

"I naturally know!"

Hearing that the other party easily deceived Chan Pass open, Xiandu already understood that the other party was not a simple character. He looked back at the map, abandoned the towns behind the pass silently, and his gaze stayed on Moonlight Valley on the map, saying in a low voice:

"Transfer troops immediately, I will personally conquer, go to Moonlight Valley, and block him outside the hinterland first."

He walked down quickly, kicked the big man, and the Shanyue general hurriedly climbed up from the ground. Xiandu had Taixi peak cultivation, and had suppressed not breaking through for a long time. His strength was truly quite good among Taixi. This kick made his chest tight and short of breath, and he was terrified.

Xiandu put on armor and held a spear, quickly went down from the King's Court, thought quickly in his mind, and said in a deep voice:

"Order Xian Zhunfu to lead five thousand subordinates, go down along the lake from the east road, try to enter the pass from the side of the valley, I will lead five thousand subordinates of the main force, and go to Moonlight Valley first to hold this place, then it won't be considered any great harm!"

Thanks to Qianlong Wuyong 3 for the silver! The big boss is also my first alliance leader! Very grateful, thank you big boss.