One day later, Crossing Peak Stronghold.
Yi Yang led Pacification Guard team back to the rented compound in the town.
In the main house in the center, the doors and windows are closed.
In the room, Yi Yang sat cross-legged on Prayer Mat, running True Qi in his body. As the two luck weeks passed, he put away his posture and opened his eyes.
There was no charcoal pot in the room, and Yi Yang's body was just a little weathered. He exhaled a white breath and his thoughts drifted back to yesterday.
Yesterday I followed Jiang Zhongtian into the city, and the atmosphere on the streets in the city was really depressing.
The remnants of the army that went out to Tooth-Copper City fled back to the important town one after another. The city was full of wounded people missing arms and legs. There were long lines in front of the medical centers in the city. Blood mixed with mud and snow dyed the bluestone road black, and the wails of wounded soldiers were everywhere.
According to rumors, the two Hidden Dragon Ranking masters who accompanied the army, Chu Tiankuo, Heavenly Heart Sect, were covered in blood when they were carried into the city. They were hanging on for half their lives relying on the secret medicine of the sect. Lu Zui, the other Profound Transformation Realm master, had simply disappeared and was living outside with unknown fate.
After settling his subordinates, Yi Yang was directly called by Jiang Zhongtian to the residence of Deputy Garrison Commissioner yesterday, which is City Lord's Residence.
In the study, Jiang Zhongtian did not chat. Knowing what Yi Yang wanted to know most, he told the whole truth about the army's defeat without hiding anything.
He recalled Jiang Zhongtian's original words in the study room yesterday.
"Qingzhou City's big guys are not bad. Since they know that Shang Yu instigated Tooth-Copper City's Shaman Kingdom people to do it, they naturally know that the two sides are connected."
"They are just not sure whether Shang Yu's true master is Tooth-Copper City. Of course, even if the other party is really there, they will not take action easily. After all, the other party is scary."
"When Crossing Peak Stronghold's army went out to fight, they were secretly followed by a Martial Grandmaster."
When Yi Yang heard this yesterday, he raised his eyebrows and asked:
"With Grandmaster holding the battle, can Shang Yu shoot through the camp with five arrows?"
Jiang Zhongtian stood behind the desk, wiped Silver Spear in his hand, and replied coldly without raising his eyelids:
"If any Grandmaster takes action, he will naturally be able to block those five arrows without causing so many casualties, but who knows that the Grandmaster who is following the team this time, his surname is Lu, and he comes from the Lu Family, one of the four great families of Qing Province."
"When Shang Yu was setting up his bow and shooting an arrow, this Lu Family Grandmaster did not intercept it."
"The explanation given by this Grandmaster after he came back was that he was studying an important Cultivation Art at the time. When he reached a fork in the road, he accidentally lost sight and allowed Shang Yu to take the lead."
"It wasn't until the army was completely dispersed by the Shaman Kingdom cavalry, and Lu Zui was bitten by two Profound Mystery Fifth Stage masters from the Shaman Kingdom, and they were chased all the way deep into the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains, that this Lu Family Grandmaster slowly appeared."
"He took action to force the enemy back and easily retrieved the half-dead Chu Tiankuo. As for the others, he didn't care at all."
Upon hearing these words, Yi Yang knocked the tea lid in his hand hard against the rim of the bowl, making a crisp sound.
"Cultivation Cultivation Art has reached a critical juncture?"
On the front line of the battle between the two armies, a Martial Grandmaster was in seclusion next to the military camp. He couldn't even notice the enemy Grandmaster firing his bow and arrows?
This kind of nonsense is just as good as using it to deceive an unweaned baby.
Yi Yang put down the tea bowl at that time, looked at Jiang Zhongtian and asked directly to point out the matter:
"He did it on purpose."
Jiang Zhongtian stopped cleaning the gun, threw the white cloth on the table, and nodded angrily:
"That's right, it was intentional."
"Lu Zui had a deadly feud with the main line of the Qing Province Lu Family in his early years, and later broke away from Lineage and became Rogue Cultivator."
"This time Lu Qinglan made a name for himself in Qingzhou City, and the grandfather and grandson got together again. Lu Family and Grandmaster had no intention of letting them come back alive."
"By borrowing Shang Yu's knife, I forced Lu Zui and Lu Qinglan into a dead end. I got rid of the family thieves and didn't have to bear the infamy of killing my own people. I made a very good abacus."
Yi Yang sat on the chair and tapped his index finger on the table.
"Thousands of the Qingzhou Army elites, as well as dozens of Heroes Ranking masters, were they all used as his pawns?"
"Qingzhou City won't hold you accountable?"
Jiang Zhongtian stood Silver Spear in the corner, walked to the window and looked at the yard outside, and replied calmly as if he was used to such things:
"Pursuing responsibility? Who is going to hold Grandmaster accountable?"
"Lu Zui is quite famous, and his combat power is enough to reach the end of Hidden Dragon Ranking, but he is too old, and his energy and blood have already passed its peak. There is no hope in this life that he can reach Three Divine Powers and step into the Grandmaster Realm."
"An old man with no future and no big power behind him died in the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains without even being able to make a splash."
"As for those Qingzhou Army soldiers who died outside Tooth-Copper City, in the eyes of the four major aristocratic families, they are just a series of numbers that need to be crossed out. Even if they are given some compensation money, they are the most benevolent and righteous. How can they be compared with a living Martial Grandmaster?"
"Except for Chu Tiankuo, who has Heavenly Heart Sect as his back, and there is an old monster in the sect, Lu Family Grandmaster didn't dare to see him die on the spot, so he had to take action to save it, the lives of the rest of them are all extras that can be easily wiped out."
"This is the current Qing Province, and this is also the current Great Yu."
The conversation in the study room yesterday went over in my mind. Yi Yang sat on Prayer Mat and let out a long breath.
The current order in the world has long been rotten. Without the suppression of an absolutely strong person, the forces from all sides refuse to obey anyone and all rely on their strength to speak for themselves.
In the past, I was in Three Trees Village, Yi Yang and thought I could live a stable life by joining Qi-Blood Realm.
When it came to Yunlin County and Suining Prefecture, I thought I could control my own life by mixing in the True Astral Realm.
Now that I have reached Profound Connection Realm, I have become a master in others' mouths. Sitting in the position of Chief Inspector, I look back and see Grandmaster above my head, as well as the ancestor of the family who has taken thousands of human lives as a joke.
There is no absolute guarantee of force. Even if you climb to the Profound Connection Realm, in the eyes of higher-level chess players, it is still a bargaining chip that can be discarded at any time.
Lu Zui is a living example.
The cultivation levels of Profound Mystery Fifth Stage and Profound Transformation are only one step away from Grandmaster. They were still sold out and their lives are still uncertain.
"If you don't want to be treated as a chess piece, you have to sit in the chess player's seat."
Yi Yang stretched out his rough right hand and made a fist, the joints crackling.
Only by accumulating strength to the point where no one dares to offend can your words have weight, and you can protect Yuexin and your three-thirds of an acre of land.
Other rules, righteousness, and camaraderie are all nonsense.
Putting away his distracting thoughts, Yi Yang put his hand into his arms and took out a thin booklet.
This booklet is neither paper nor silk. It is made of some unknown animal skin and has some wear and tear on the edges. There are five large characters engraved on the cover in ancient script.
"Nine Heavens Thunderclap Seal".
This is what Jiang Zhongtian personally gave to Yi Yang before leaving the mansion yesterday.
According to Jiang Zhongtian, this was Yi Yang's reward for killing Shen Biluo and three other Nine Evil Sect Profound Connection Realm in Qinggang County, and it was also a deposit for the two of them to join forces to explore the secret realm.
This animal skin booklet has a great origin. It is not an ordinary True Art, nor is it a Mystic Art learned by the Profound Connection Realm warriors, but a genuine Divine Art.
True Art refining the Gang, Mystic Art cultivating the phase.
At the Divine Art level, what matters is taking advantage of the general trend of heaven and earth to achieve boundless divine power.
Jiang Zhongtian found this booklet in an ancient sect ruins in the early years, and underneath that ruins was the secret realm that they were going to enter next, which was restricted to those under the Dharma Body Realm.
Yi Yang lowered his head and opened the first page of the animal skin booklet, recalling Jiang Zhongtian's expression when he handed over the booklet yesterday.
The always cold-hearted Deputy Garrison Commissioner rarely showed a trace of helplessness and said:
"This "Nine Heavens Thunderclap Seal" has extremely powerful killing power. Once you master it, your every move will have the power of thunder."
"I have been meditating on it for eight years. The qi circulation route and Divine Sense resonance method are too tricky, and the requirements for physical strength and Divine Sense precision are ridiculously high. I have tried countless times, but I have not even touched the threshold of the first level of sealing."
"You are more talented at Divine Sense than me and Lord Lu, and you have a strong physical foundation. It would be a waste of money to keep this thing in my hands. Maybe you can become something famous."
"If we can really understand it and enter the secret realm after a while, our chances of winning will be increased by 20%."
Thinking of this, Yi Yang rubbed his fingers over the uneven writing on the animal skin, and his eyes fell on the first line of the general outline.
"Thunder is the cardinal mechanism of heaven and earth, the agitation of yin and yang; sound is the tremor of Divine Soul, the resonance of all things. Jiuxiao is the extremely high place in the sky; thunder sound is the angry sound of heaven and earth."
This seal uses its own True Qi as a guide to communicate with the thunder energy of the nine heavens, turning thunder into a seal and sound into a blade.
As soon as the seal comes out, it is like thunder coming to the world, like the anger of the sky - thousands of thunders add to the body when attacking, and the sound of thunder protects the body when it attacks."
The words are obscure, and the True Qi's operation route recorded in it not only requires the normal Meridians, but also forcibly opens several Hidden Meridians, causing the energy and blood in the body to collide with the True Qi, causing thunderous sounds.
For anyone else, just this first step of Meridians collision would have shaken his internal organs into a pulp.
Without a tyrannical and perverted physique, coupled with the real-time guidance of Divine Sense, who is at the micro level, practicing forcefully is just courting death.
No wonder Jiang Zhongtian was stuck for eight years and couldn't get in.
But these troublesome thresholds are nothing to Yi Yang's eyes.
He has "Martial Extreme Dragon Elephant Body" in the Perfection realm, Iron Bone tempered by "Divine Bone Blood Refining", and "Wood True Yang Scripture" with a steady stream of vitality to repair his injuries.
What's more important is that as long as he practices this set of seals completely and triggers Heavenly Mandate Panel in his mind, the rest of the proficiency will be accumulated through sweat and time.
Sixty times the speed of cultivation, no Bottleneck, no threshold.
It doesn't matter what ancient sect it is, don't pass it on to Divine Art, as long as it is included in Panel, sooner or later it will be promoted to Perfection!
Yi Yang laid the animal skin book flat on his knees and read it word by word. Following the records on the map with his hands and fingers, he began to form strange and complicated seals on his chest.