Chapter 133 New Superpowers, Young Li Shimin
After leaving Changping, Ni Kun was getting familiar with his newly acquired golden spirit bloodline.
With the experience of controlling the bloodlines of fire spirit, wood spirit and water spirit, he quickly became familiar with and mastered the new bloodline abilities flexibly.
Like the three bloodlines of fire, wood and water, the gold bloodline also comes with some "super powers".
The entire body's skin can be metalized, as if covered with a layer of plate armor with no blind spots, without affecting flexibility.
The defensive power of his body surface far exceeded that of the wooden man state. Even when Zhu Yuyan wielded the Sky Demon Blade and slashed at him with all her strength, she was able to barely break his defense.
This level of defense is estimated to be able to withstand ordinary rifle bullets and small-caliber sniper bullets.
But because the internal organs are still flesh and blood, they are not as vulnerable as when they were transformed into wooden figures.
And its defensive effect against penetrating force is somewhat average.
Zhu Yuyan only needs to use 50% of her strength and the palm force will be able to penetrate the steel defense and injure his internal organs.
Of course, with Zhu Yuyan's current level of cultivation, few people in the martial arts world could withstand a palm strike from her at 50% of her strength .
Ni Kun can also turn his hair into steel wire, which is as sharp as the double blades of the devil.
Small volumes of metal that are directly touched can be made as soft as plasticine and shaped as desired.
He can also control metal within a certain range. Of course, he is not as powerful as Magneto and can only control it slightly.
It can also clearly sense metal veins and distinguish the composition of the metal.
In short, the superpowers of the Golden Spirit bloodline can be considered practical, but they are not that powerful.
But Ni Kun was not disappointed.
To him, "superpowers" are just a byproduct, as he has enough means at his disposal anyway.
The spiritual bloodline itself is the most important.
What's more, bloodline abilities can also continue to "evolve".
It can temper the blood and make it evolve by constantly absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth with the same attributes.
You can also achieve a leap forward after breaking through a certain realm in your physical training.
Of course, in order to perfect the five elements, Ni Kun took the initiative to suppress the breakthrough of the body refining realm. He would not make another attempt to break through to the realm of Martial Saint until he possessed the five elements bloodline.
On this day, Ni Kun and his party entered Linfen.
Linfen had been occupied by the Li clan. When Ni Kun and his party went to Linfen County to replenish supplies, they happened to meet a baggage transport unit of the Li clan, which was transporting a large amount of food, fodder and military equipment heading north.
The Turks invaded, and the Others drove the wights southward, so Ni Kun stopped using the Li clan's weapons.
That baggage troop was transporting food and fodder northwards, obviously in preparation for the war on the northern front.
And to the north of the Li family’s territory, aren’t the only enemies the Turks, or even the White Walkers and the Ghouls?
Although Ni Kun calls himself a "bad guy", it is impossible for him to hold the Li family back on such matters.
Going north along the Fen River from Linfen County, we encountered many baggage trains on the way, all of which were transporting food, fodder and military equipment north to Taiyuan.
There were also good families from the north who brought their own dry food, weapons and even horses, and went in groups of three or five towards Taiyuan.
During this era, the Chinese people were still generous and heroic, martial arts were popular among the people, the disaster of the Five Barbarians was a recent lesson, and the north suffered the most from the attacks of the Turks.
Upon hearing that the Turks had invaded and occupied Mayi and Yanmen, and were even planning to settle down there and eye the Central Plains from the south, the passionate men of the north responded to the call of Li Yuan, Duke of Tang, to prepare for war and resist the Turks, and they rode on horses, carrying bows and swords, and headed north to join the army.
Ni Kun knew it very well.
Before unifying the world, Li Yuan absolutely did not want to make enemies with the Turks.
However, no matter how much they did not want to provoke the Turks, or how much they feared their strength, the Li family would never tolerate the Turks once they showed signs of taking root in Mayi and Yanmen.
Because Yanmen was the gateway to Taiyuan, once the Turks took root in Yanmen, the Li family's current base in Taiyuan County would be directly under the threat of the Turkish cavalry.
Perhaps one morning when Li Yuan woke up, the Turkic cavalry would already be at the gates of the city.
But to be honest, the Turks don't actually want to be enemies with the Li family now.
In the past, the Turks were able to break through the passes and plunder in the north at will because when they invaded, all of their troops were cavalry, so they could fight when they wanted and leave when they wanted.
Even if the Central Plains court mobilized a large army to fight, they could calmly withdraw from the border and return to the north of the Great Wall.
But now the Turks have brought with them the old and the young, women and children, as well as jars and pots, and have lost the mobility advantage they once had.
If they really fell out with the Central Plains forces and started a war, the Central Plains army could just go straight to the Turkic tribes. The Turkic tribes had old and young people, cattle and sheep, and they were not as fast as cavalry. The Turkic army would have to fight the Central Plains army head-on.
The Turks cannot afford to deploy large formations and fight tough battles.
Even if they could barely win one or two battles, the Turkic population would be bled out sooner or later.
The Turks went south to avoid the "living dead" and preserve the vitality of the tribe, not to fight a desperate battle with the princes in the Central Plains.
Since they were able to send envoys to negotiate peace with Luo Yi, the governor of Youzhou, they would naturally send envoys to negotiate peace with Li Yuan.
However, Li Yuan's territory bordered the Turks, and Yanmen County, the gateway to Taiyuan, was occupied by the Turks. If Yanmen County was not taken back, Li Yuan's family would not be able to sleep well. How could he easily make peace with the Turks?
Besides, the Li family has had dealings with the Turks for a long time.
Li Yuan's father-in-law was Chang Sun Sheng, a member of the "Thunder Hall", who had been dealing with the Turks all his life.
Li Yuan certainly knew that the Turks could not be trusted, so how could he easily believe what they said?
Even after seeing the "living dead" brought by the Turkic delegation, Li Yuan did not believe it - he also had "divine beasts" on his side, who knew whether the "living dead" were created by Turkish wizards in an attempt to paralyze him, Li Yuan?
Anyway, although Li Yuan accepted the gifts from the Turkic delegation and vowed on the surface to maintain friendly relations with the Turks, he was still privately raising food and fodder, recruiting soldiers, and building military equipment at his own pace, and he stepped up the deployment of defense lines in Yangzhi County [Yangqu in later generations].
Commanding the Yangzhi front was Li Yuan's most warlike son, the 19-year-old Li Shimin.
He also secretly used death row prisoners to create "divine beasts", intending to form a "divine beast army" that could compete with the Qin Terracotta Army and the "living dead" of the Turks.
Well, Li Yuan did not believe the Turks’ “nonsense”.
Instead, he believed that the so-called "living dead" was a secret weapon created by the Turks using witchcraft, just like the mythical beast created by Mr. Xu using the magic beast pill.
In Li Yuan's view, the "living dead" might be the killer weapon that allowed the Turks to take root in Mayi and Yanmen and spy on the Central Plains.
Li Yuan felt a chill in his heart when he thought of the horrible performance of the living dead who were almost impossible to kill.
I feel that this world is so absurd. Why do all kinds of monsters and demons keep popping up one after another?
Even his cousin Yang Guang had become an immortal after his corpse was transformed, which made him feel very nervous when he wanted to fight for the world...
The Li clan is making intensive preparations for war.
The Turks are not at peace either.
Although the Turkic upper class was not happy to see the conflict with the Li clan, and even took the initiative to send envoys to make friends with the Li clan, the lower class cavalry and herdsmen did not care so much.
The strategic advantages over the years have made the Turks feel extremely superior to the people of the Central Plains. Even the lowest-level Turkic herdsmen look down on the people of the Central Plains from the bottom of their hearts.
After occupying the Xinzhou Basin, the Turks not only invaded the land of the Han people and captured them as slaves, but also killed people for fun without reason, causing the Han people in the Xinzhou Basin to flee to the Li family's territory.
In times of chaos, population is of course extremely important.
Li Shimin, who was stationed in Yangzhi County, the northern gate of Taiyuan and controlled the throat of the northern part of Jin, naturally accepted these Han people who fled.
Li Shimin accepted as many as possible who escaped.
The Sui Dynasty did not perish due to financial problems.
After the Kaihuang reign of Emperor Wen Yang Jian, the Sui Dynasty was actually very wealthy. Even though Yang Guang was a rare spendthrift and a hedonist, the wealth left by the Sui Dynasty was still extremely strong.
If Li Mi captured Xingluo Granary, he could provide relief to one million refugees, recruit 200,000 soldiers, and solve the food and grass problem of Wagang in one fell swoop.
Before Li Yuan started the rebellion, he counted the food and supplies in Taiyuan and said proudly, "Taiyuan's food and supplies can last for ten years."
Therefore, the Li family’s territory is really not short of money and food now.
Not to mention the tens of thousands of people who escaped, even if the number increased tenfold, the Li family could fully afford to support them.
Li Shimin not only accepted refugees fleeing south, he also repeatedly sent cavalry into the Xinzhou Basin that had been occupied by the Turks to protect the people fleeing south.
Sometimes he even led the team himself to fight against the Turkic cavalry.
Young Li Shimin, like all young people who crave excitement, is very adventurous.
He really liked charging into the battlefield, enjoying the thrill of .
Li Shimin, who was keen on adventure, was also very proud of his abilities - although his martial arts were not first-rate, his riding and archery skills were extremely good.
He boasted that as long as he had a good horse and a strong bow, he could easily defeat a hundred enemies alone.
Of course, the prerequisite is to have a powerful tank to help him intercept the enemy when he gets close, giving him the opportunity to shoot arrows.
And just after the Turks conquered Mayi and occupied Yanmen, Li Shimin got two best partners who worked well with him.
One of them was Yuchi Jingde, a young master who was well-known in the border county.
When fighting on foot, he used a 23-foot-long "Gui Zang whip", and when fighting on horseback, he used a 18-foot-long horse lance. Regardless of whether he was fighting on horseback or on foot, he was extremely brave.
Yuchi Jingde originally worked under Liu Wuzhou in Mayi County, and was highly regarded by Liu Wuzhou for his bravery.
After the Turks suddenly attacked Mayi and killed Liu Wuzhou, Yuchi Jingde broke out of the encirclement and went south to join Li Shimin.
The other one was called Ding Xiu, who claimed to be an orphan from the border area and was originally a killer in Yanmen County.
After the Turks occupied Yanmen, Ding Xiu also went south to join Li Shimin. He was good at using a strange long sword that was nearly six feet long and had a curved blade. Its shape was very different from the current straight sword with a ring handle.
This sword can be used in both foot and horse combat. Its usage is like a sword but not a sword, and like a spear but not a spear. It is quite strange.
Ding Xiu was also very brave, and his martial arts skills were not inferior to Yuchi Jingde. His only shortcoming was that he was a little greedy for money. However, Li Shimin was very wealthy, and in his view, greed was not a shortcoming, but rather a very simple and lovely thing.
In short, with Yuchi Jingde and Ding Xiu as his protectors, Li Shimin felt like he was even more powerful and took risks without restraint. He would often charge at hundreds of Turkic cavalry with just three people.
Of course, Li Shimin was not mindless. He just rushed forward and shot arrows from a distance. After killing a few people, he rode away.
If the Turkic soldiers pursued him, Yuchi Jingde and Ding Xiu would help him deflect arrows and intercept the approaching enemies. He would then shoot calmly and display his superb archery skills.
Anyway, Li Shimin enjoyed fighting very much during this period.
They were in high spirits of killing that day, chasing a group of fleeing Turkic soldiers deep into enemy territory for dozens of miles. Then, unfortunately, they ran into an obstacle and were surrounded by hundreds of Turkic cavalry in a deserted village. Not only were their bows and arrows running out, but even their horses were shot to death. They were forced to hide in an earthen house to avoid the rain of arrows from the Turks.
The village had not been abandoned for long, and occasionally one could see corpses in disarray, covered with scars from swords and spears. It was obvious that they had been ravaged and abandoned by the Turks recently.
Li Shimin was still a teenager. Although his birth as a son of a wealthy and powerful family inevitably made him a bit scheming, his adventurous nature kept him passionate.
Looking at the horrific corpses in the village and listening to the arrogant howls of the Turks outside, Li Shimin became so excited that he wanted to rush out to fight the Turks.
"Sir, don't be impulsive. There are too many Turks. It's not a good idea to rush out like this!"
Yuchi Jingde stopped Li Shimin and tried to persuade him.
Li Shimin said angrily: "Then is there any solution if we just wait here?"
Yuchi Jingde said calmly: "Of course we are not just waiting here. We should wait until dark and then seize the horses to break out."
Ding Xiu, holding a long knife in his arms and a grass stem in his mouth, lazily leaned against the door frame and interrupted:
"It's very hard to break through at night, so we need to increase the reward..."
The corner of Li Shimin's mouth twitched. He wanted to laugh, but he couldn't. He could only sigh:
"Alas, this time I got carried away and took too much risk, causing you to be trapped with me."
Ding Xiu smiled and said, "Actually, I quite like this kind of adventure. It's very exciting and fun. Especially after each adventure, I can get a lot of rewards. Anyway, I don't think there is anything wrong with it."
Yuchi Jingde glared at him and said to Li Shimin:
"My Lord, you should learn from this lesson and never take risks again..."
As he was speaking, the wolf-like howls of the Turks outside suddenly became louder, as if they were suddenly excited.
Li Shimin's face changed slightly, he took out the last three long arrows and held them between his fingers, and said in a deep voice:
"The Turks are coming!"
Before he finished speaking, a shrill scream was heard.
The Turks' excited and loud howls suddenly changed into cries of surprise, screams, shouts, scolding, the sound of horse hooves, the sound of bowstrings, and the sound of swords and spears clashing.
Li Shimin and the other two looked at each other for a while, with excitement in their eyes:
"Rescue is coming!"
"What a great opportunity! We don't have to wait until dark. Let's rush out now while the chaos is going on!"
The three of them rushed out of the earthen house and headed towards the direction where the screams were the loudest. When they saw the situation outside, they were stunned.
A young man in brocade clothes and jade belt was seen walking in the deserted village with his hands behind his back, followed by four graceful women in white with their faces covered by veils.
Around the young man and his entourage were corpses of Turks lying in all directions and hundreds of ownerless war horses scattered around.
The surviving Turks were fleeing in all directions, howling like ghosts and wolves, leaving behind the smoke and dust raised by their horses' hooves that filled the deserted village.
Li Shimin and the other two stared at the young man and his entourage in amazement, their eyes full of disbelief.
A young man dressed in fine clothes and jade belt, handsome and elegant, who looks younger than Li Shimin.
Four graceful women dressed in white as white as snow, looking as weak as willows.
Just such a group of people who were not wearing armor, were unarmed, elegant and leisurely, as if they were not of this world, were able to kill hundreds of Turkic wolf riders and force the remaining Turks to flee in panic, leaving behind corpses and horses all over the ground?
Who exactly are they?
