Overwhelming Calamity

"King Tiansong, didn't I tell you that there is a Heavenly Gate True Person named Mu Quanbi in our Great Rong Mountain?"

It is said that Mu Quanbi at Mulberry Shaman Peak in Great Rong Mountain, and he also established a sect called Mulberry Shaman Monastery.

There must be over a hundred shamans in Mulberry Shaman Monastery, and I've heard there are even four or five with Foundation Establishment cultivation.

"I think the cultivators who suddenly appeared beside Gu Husha must be from Mulberry Shaman Monastery," Yang Yue'ao analyzed logically.

To help Yang Yue'ao, the spy, do his job better, Tang Tiansong specially assigned a learned scholar to accompany him and teach him military strategy, history, geography, agriculture, and humanities.

Now, Tang Miao Tang Household has gone to Emptiness and Form Temple and no longer participates in the conflicts of the martial arts world.

Apart from the Tang Household siblings, who are quite capable, among the other twenty-two newly recruited cultivators, only one has reached the Meridian Opening Second Layer Realm, while most of the others haven't even reached the Meridian Opening First Layer Conception Vessel Opening Realm.

Even if there are only two Meridian Opening Late Stage Refining cultivators in Northern Mystic City, Tang Tiansong's rash attack would be tantamount to suicide.

Damn it, is this Gu Husha sent by heaven specifically to oppose my Tang Household?

Tang Tiansong rubbed his forehead, feeling somewhat annoyed.

Seeing his elder brother looking troubled, Tang Tiandong frowned and asked, "Yang Yue'ao,

According to you, the Guishi Clan lived by the Gui River, a place known as a land of plenty.

The Guishi Clan was not fond of fighting, and their royal family was relatively enlightened, so how could they have encountered a situation of lacking food and clothing?

I don't think it's because of a natural disaster, because if the Guishi Clan royal family was relatively enlightened, they would definitely have some measures to deal with natural disasters such as drought, floods, cold, and insects.

"Tiandong Master Tiandong is wise. The cannibalism that has occurred in the Guishi Clan is indeed not due to natural disasters, but rather to human error." Yang Yue'ao said with righteous indignation.

"It was all because of the vicious Gu Husha that people in the Guishi Clan starved to death."

As Yang Yue'ao recounted what Gu Husha had done, Tang Tiansong felt even more that Gu Husha was difficult to deal with, and he wanted to kill Gu Husha right now.

Forced by the tyranny of Gu Husha, the Guishi Clan symbolically dispatched its soldiers and handed over some money and grain.

But in Gu Husha's eyes, this was clearly not enough.

Driven by his ambitions, Gu Husha only wanted to leave the Western Rong people with enough money and food to eat one meal and three meals a day.

The Guishi Clan, unwilling to participate in the conflict, did not agree to the Gu Husha's exorbitant taxes and levies.

Despite being a matrilineal Guishi Clan led by a woman, the Guishi Clan now numbers nearly 30,000 people and is the oldest tribe in the entire Guishi Clan Great Rong Mountain.

While most of the Western Rong tribes living in the Great Rong Mountain led a primitive life of eating raw meat and drinking blood, with little clothing, the Guishi Clan had long been cultivating rice, raising silkworms, making pottery, and smelting iron.

While other Western Rong people were still living in natural caves, the Guishi Clan had already begun building city walls.

Because of abundant food, advanced medicine, and strong ability to cope with natural disasters, the Guishi Clan was the most powerful tribe in the Great Rong Mountain a thousand years ago.

It was thanks to the aid and assistance of the Guishi Clan that most of the Western Rong tribes did not perish.

Because most of the Western Rong tribes had received favors from the Guishi Clan to varying degrees, the vast majority of Western Rong people held the Guishi Clan in high esteem.

The words and actions of the Guishi Clan also influenced the entire Western Rong people.

Seeing that the Guishi Clan had not handed over most of their money and grain as ordered by Gu Husha, other Western Rong tribes gradually began to form an alliance to resist Gu Husha's aggressive military policies.

To make an example of them and to force the Guishi Clan to submit, the vicious Gu Husha transformed into a giant ape and, more than a month ago, deliberately destroyed cliffs or moved giant rocks at three dangerous locations upstream of the Gui River, blocking the Gui River.

Where the Gui River was blocked by huge rocks, it gradually became a barrier lake.

Gu Husha had also calculated the time and distance; when the three landslide dams on the Gui River, it was still barely dawn.

When the Gui River, breached and carrying mudslides, reached the territory of the Guishi Clan like a thousand horses, the Guishi Clan people were just getting up.

The Guishi Clan had no time to escape; their houses, cattle, sheep, money, food, and supplies were all buried by the mudslide.

"Gone, all gone."

In less than an hour, several thousand Guishi Clan went missing, and the ancient Moonlight City was destroyed by the mudslide.

The Guishi Clan saved every penny, and all their money, grain, cattle, and sheep were lost as the Gui River flowed eastward.

Because the body was under the mud and rocks, it was difficult to dig it out.

Now that the weather is getting warmer, the body under the mud and rocks began to decompose in less than seven days.

Half a month after the Gu Husha blocked the Gui River, a plague broke out throughout the Guishi Clan, causing countless deaths and injuries.

The Guishi royal family has now moved all its citizens into Moonlight City.

"I've heard that the Guishi Clan now numbers less than five thousand." Yang Yue'ao, as if feeling the same way, was also in tears, cupping his hands in a respectful greeting.

"King Tiansong, the Guishi Clan is the oldest tribe among our Great Rong Mountain."

All the Western Rong people have some degree of the Guishi Clan blood in them.

The Guishi Clan are the roots of our Western Rong people.

Yang Yue'ao earnestly pleaded with the king to extend a helping hand and provide some money and provisions so that the Guishi Clan could overcome their difficulties.

The herdsmen of the entire Great Rong Mountain will surely remember your kindness.

Tang Tiansong nodded slightly: If we provide some money and provisions this time, we might be able to form an alliance with the oldest tribe of the Western Rong.

Even if Gu Husha powerful, he is still just one person.

Where the people's hearts are, nothing can stand in its way.

By saving the Guishi Clan, some of the Western Rong tribes might defect during Western Rong battles with them.

"Very well, my Tang Household agrees to support the Guishi Clan." Tang Tiansong's lips twitched slightly, he cleared his throat, and said loudly.

"Issue my military order: this afternoon, after a period of rest, mobilize the ten most powerful Tang Household cultivators and one thousand elite cavalrymen from the clan's army to converge at Tiger Prison Pass."

At 7 PM tonight, the entire army will Tiger Prison Pass and attack the Western Rong!

"Yes, sir." Four messengers received the order and rushed out of the clan affairs office.

Yang Yue'ao's lips twitched, unsure whether to laugh or cry: The Tang Household had agreed to go to the Guishi Clan, but it seemed they weren't going to rescue them, but rather to plunder and attack...

... Tang Tiansong delivered money and provisions to the Guishi Clan, and on the day when the Guishi Clan learned that Gu Husha was forced into seclusion, he launched a surprise attack on Gu Husha's grain storage site in just over a month, rendering Gu Husha incapable of invading the east for at least three years...

... On the sixth day of the sixth month of the year 4042 in the new Celestial Calendar, the Ye Household in Iron Bridge Village was brightly decorated and bustling with activity.

Tang Tiansong officiated Tang Jincan's wedding ceremony with a smile on his face. Finally, he had some free time and chatted with Tang Miao for a few minutes.

Tang Miao is now at the Meridian Opening Sixth Layer stage, a cultivation level Lower Yang Stage.

I don't know if all so-called Buddhist Cultivation who have seen through the illusions of the world are like this, but no matter what Tang Tiansong said all night, Tang Miao always had a calm and unperturbed expression.

"Brother Miao, I think you shouldn't stay at Emptiness and Form Temple in Ji Household Village anymore. Otherwise, you might really see through the illusions of the world and never marry or have children again. What's the point of living if you just eat vegetarian food and chant scriptures every day?"

"That would make us all sad." Tang Tiansong struggled to find the right words.

"A person is just a shell, going through a journey."

"What is interesting is also meaningless, and what is meaningless is also interesting." Tang Miao smiled faintly.

"Hey, if I'd known you were coming today, I would have brought Tianlan too." Tang Tiansong pursed his lips, he really didn't know how to respond to Tang Miao's words.

Upon hearing the name "Tianlan," Tang Miao's brow twitched slightly. He then took out a string of prayer beads, closed his eyes, and began chanting scriptures. "Forgive me, forgive me... Let me recite some of the ' Mundane Sorrow Incantation ' to pray for the Tang Household's well-being."

"You..." Tang Tiansong smiled wryly and shook his head.

Suddenly, Tang Miao broke out in a cold sweat and became uneasy.

"Brother Miao, what's wrong?" Tang Tiansong, somewhat puzzled.

"Tian... Tiansong..." Tang Miao's face was flushed and his breathing was rapid. "Oh no, the Tang Household is facing a catastrophic disaster today."

"... one person must be sacrificed... only then can the problem be resolved..."