Dayin, Nanmanzhou, deep in the Million Gods and Demons Mountain, somewhere unknown.

A huge volcano stood thousands of feet high, with a crater over a thousand feet in diameter. Bright red magma was boiling, and from time to time, waves more than ten feet high rushed up, making a dull sound.

Dozens of red chains as thick as water tanks extend from the crater to the center. A lotus platform made entirely of red metal is tied to these chains and floats steadily above the volcanic magma.

A girl who looked exactly like the wooden statues worshipped in the villages and towns outside Anping Pass, about eight feet tall, tall and slender, dignified and beautiful, wearing a red robe and covered with jewels, was sitting cross-legged quietly on a lotus platform.

In Anping Prefecture, outside Anping Prefecture, and in countless counties and towns, there are disciples of the Great Vajra Temple running around.

Show off your supernatural powers, demonstrate your military might, set up an altar, and worship the Red Lotus Goddess.

When officials entered, the disciples of the Great Vajra Temple immediately mobilized the people to attack them, beheaded them all, and burned them all to ashes, calling it "the Red Lotus Fire has come to the world to cleanse the filth of the world"!

The more brutal the means, the more devout the people's faith becomes.

Vaguely, above the girl's head, in the very high sky, wisps of faint ripples flickered and swayed, and tiny strands of mist as thin as hair descended from the sky and continuously sank into the girl's head.

Relying on this giant volcano, majestic and ancient temples and halls stretch for hundreds of miles in all directions.

In the palaces and pavilions, old monks in red robes were sitting quietly, chanting scriptures or practicing qigong.

As a red sun rose slowly in the east, in this ancient temple, a red copper bell of extremely ancient shape, hundreds of feet high and weighing unknown tens of millions of pounds was struck by a few monks who were over ten feet tall using huge pestles.

The bell rang and turned into red ripples, rolling around.

The red sound pattern rushed out for more than two hundred miles, and the void suddenly twisted. In the void that was originally normal, a pitch-black barrier covered with countless cracks appeared out of thin air.

The void barrier and the red ripples collided violently, making a loud "hissing" sound and splashing countless sparks of electricity.

In the huge meditation rooms, groups of bald monks in red robes or long-haired female nuns in red robes came out one after another. They either went to clean the halls and light incense and candles, or gathered in huge squares, holding various heavy weapons and practicing martial arts with grunting sounds.

When the bell rang, the dense mist that had been hanging down from the sky suddenly increased a hundredfold.

The girl sitting cross-legged on the lotus platform opened her eyes slightly and smiled brightly: "Thank you for the hard work of the wandering disciples."

She smiled, and the boiling magma below suddenly calmed down.

The magma became as smooth as a mirror, and then red lotus flowers rose from the magma, exuding an intoxicating fragrance, just like the floral scent of aged wine turning into visible red mist swirling in the crater.

Thousands of red lotus flowers slowly blossomed, and then with a "puff" sound, tens of thousands of lotus seeds burst out from the lotus pods, swirling in the red mist, constantly flashing strange lights.

A team of hundreds of red-robed female cultivators came running up with huge medicine bags on their backs. They stood on the edge of the crater, opened the medicine bags, and waved their hands. A gust of wind rolled up, and countless herbs flew out.

The girl on the lotus platform made seals with her hands and chanted mantras.

Red flames gushed out from her seven orifices, quickly rolling up tens of thousands of lotus seeds and countless spiritual medicines into a ball.

A bright rain cloud floated across the sky, sprinkling a large amount of sweet rain on the crater.

The flames rolled up the sweet rain, which mixed with the lotus seeds and elixirs, and then began to spin madly.

A quarter of an hour later, tens of millions of sesame-sized pills, completely red in color, emitting a strong and strange fragrance, fell from the sky like a rainstorm.

Hundreds of female cultivators raised the medicine bags in their hands at the same time and shouted "Collect" in unison!

Millions of pills turned into hundreds of red streams and quickly sank into the medicine bag.

A 15-foot-tall, burly young monk with a solemn aura appeared out of thin air beside the crater. He took a deep look at the girl sitting cross-legged on the lotus platform, and then shouted, "Hurry up and send these 'Red Lotus Solid Pills' to Anping Prefecture for Vajra Temple to use as planned."

Hundreds of female practitioners put their hands together in greeting, and then one by one they descended from the sky like a cloud of fire, dropping dozens of feet in a step, and slowly and quickly landed towards the Zen temple under the volcano.

The young monk put his hands together and bowed to the girl on the lotus platform: "Junior sister, what level of cultivation have you reached now?"

The girl opened her eyes slightly and smiled faintly.

She didn't say anything, but a large flame rolled above her head and quickly turned into a fire cloud several acres in size.

A high-pitched long roar was heard, and in the fire cloud, a phantom of a god or Buddha who was a hundred feet tall, with three heads and eight arms, holding various weapons, slowly rose up. The mighty and unstoppable spiritual pressure spread in all directions. The young monk was caught off guard, and was knocked off balance by the spiritual pressure, and almost fell headfirst into the boiling magma below.

"I have planted the Fiery Golden Lotus, and I am only waiting for it to bloom and the Buddha to appear!" The girl stood up slowly and looked at the space barrier that was slowly disappearing in the distance: "I don't know when we can leave the mountain gate and go out to the big world to take a look."

The young monk stood up in a somewhat embarrassed manner and laughed dryly, "It's only a matter of time. In this world, we are a hidden dragon. The mountain gate is barely a small pond, but the outside world is a desert. If we go there, we won't be able to breathe."

"It's only a matter of time." The young monk murmured to himself with great longing: "I just hope that the efficiency of the Great Vajra Temple can be faster."
For several consecutive days, Zhuge Li's army passed through Anping Pass slowly.

Lu Yi's troops were blocked outside Anping Pass and could not move.

Wang Pu's military order also came.

Lu Fu was too lazy to argue with Zhuge Li, Wang Pu and others. Since they had tried their best to keep Lu Fu where he was, Lu Fu would stay where he was. Could it be that Lu Fu was going to seize Anping Pass and then fight against the rebellious army led by Xiong Taidou?

If it was just Mr. Xiong, Lu Yi would really be in the mood to do so.

But he was not interested in those chaotic armies.

During these few days, news continued to come back from all directions, and the counties around Anping Prefecture seemed to become restless.

Lu Fu's information came from the imperial guards stationed in counties and prefectures across the country, but the imperial guards were obviously not as well-informed as the local officials.

Those cultural and educational officials seemed to have intentionally blocked the news.

However, according to intelligence reports from the imperial guards in various places, the nearby counties had suffered heavy casualties, and the city defense forces had also suffered heavy losses. In particular, in several counties, the city defense forces' garrison camps had been completely emptied, while outside the city, groups of rioters wearing the armor of the city defense forces appeared.

It is very likely that the city defense forces in those counties have been completely wiped out.

There was a commotion outside, and several strong men appeared in the southern mountains with a group of fully armed civilians.

In the past few days, none of the Imperial Guards, Yulin Army, and Palace Guards in the army under Lu Yi were mobilized, and those sent out for patrol and scout were all the Canglang Cavalry under Lu Jun and Lu Yi.

When the strong men saw the Canglang Cavalry, they immediately led the team of more than a thousand civilians and turned west towards Zhuge Li's camp.

The Gray Wolf Riders did not chase after them. They slowly retreated and returned directly to the camp, passing the intelligence back.

Lu Yi brought his men and climbed up the small mound behind the camp, looking in the direction of Zhuge Li's army camp.

From the southeast side of Zhuge Li's camp, there was a roar of killing. Two cavalry scouts totaling a hundred people were killed. Those big men rushed out of the mountains and forests with more than a thousand helmeted and armored civilians, drew their longbows, and shot a volley of arrows.

In Zhuge Li's camp, hundreds of soldiers were unable to dodge and fell to the ground.

A loud trumpet sounded, and a cavalry force of three thousand men rushed out of the camp and charged towards the chaotic army of civilians.

The rebel army had no desire to fight, and when they saw the cavalry leaving the camp, they immediately turned around and went into the woods.

Three thousand cavalrymen arrived in front of the forest and were hesitating whether to chase in. At that moment, a barrage of arrows shot out from the forest, knocking dozens of cavalrymen off their horses.

Amid the noise, I saw the cavalrymen lighting torches and throwing them into the forest.

Lu Yu's eyes twitched as he watched.

If you don't dare to go into the forest to chase, just set fire to the mountain?

What a talent!

Fortunately, it was nearly March and there was plenty of rain, so there was no need to worry about the wildfires spreading out of control.

If it was autumn, and you set such a fire in the mountains and forests, Lu Yi would have wanted to pull over the commander of that cavalry team, accuse him of a crime and behead him in public.

An eagle's cry was heard in the sky.

A falcon fell down. Lu Jun raised his right hand, caught the falcon, and took out the small copper tube tied to its claws.

After taking a look at the information brought by the hawk, Lu Jun winked at Lu Yu and said in a deep voice: "Yu, 500 miles east of here, there is a 'Yu County'. The governor is my uncle Lu Yu who was recommended by the Gongfu as a filial and honest official."

Seeing Lu Jun's expression, Lu Yu hurriedly said, "But Uncle Lu is in trouble?"

Lu Jun nodded slowly. "There are 70,000 to 80,000 rioters roaming around the county town. The military power of the county is in the hands of the county lieutenant. My uncle said that he knew our army was here and asked us for reinforcements."

As he spoke, Lu Jun blinked again.

Lu Yu's eyes widened and he shouted, "So, he is my uncle, and we must save him. I hold the emperor's staff and have the power to make decisions on the spot. Come on, break camp and go to rescue Lu County."

At Lu Yi's command, tens of thousands of soldiers under his command immediately broke camp. After just half an hour, the large group of troops left the valley outside Anping Pass and headed towards the Lu County in the east at full speed.

Lu Yi left with his troops. Although Zhuge Li was confused, he felt inexplicably relieved.

He felt inexplicably happy and immediately found Bai Xi guilty of not copying the official document carefully, leaving a spot of ink stain on the document. He then ordered Bai Xi to be dragged out and beaten with thirty military sticks.

Lu Yi left with his army in the morning. Before the afternoon 3:00 p.m. (15:00-17:00), a vast ocean of human heads swept in. The main force of the army led by Wang Pu to quell the rebellion finally arrived.