Chapter 137 Borrowing a Knife
For the next few days, Lu Yi and Lu Jun stayed in the city of Lu County, busy taking medicine and practicing martial arts to make up for the deficiencies in their bodies.
Time flies and it is March 2, the 19th year of Jiayou.
Wang Pu's central army was defeated, but the front and rear armies were safe and sound.
Over the course of several days, Wang Pu, who was seriously injured and had lost an arm, commanded the army to gather troops, established a defense line based at Anping Pass, and fought continuous battles with the rebel army.
After all, they were the elite city defense forces that Wenjiao had spent a lot of effort to divide Dayin's military power. Even if the rioters had cheating devices like the Red Lotus Solid Pill, the chaotic rioters were no match for the well-organized and well-trained riot suppression army.
For several days in a row, the intelligence sent back by the cavalry patrols showed that the casualties between the rioters and the peaceful rebels were basically one to one.
In the battlefield with a radius of two to three hundred miles, the rioters and the rebel army were in chaos, with tens of thousands of casualties every day.
March 2nd, night.
A few days ago, he forcibly activated the small windmill, and all the essence, immortal energy, and spiritual light that had been consumed were replenished completely. With the help of the power of 100,000 Red Lotus Solid Pills and swallowing a drop of Xuanyuan Divine Water, Lu Yi's cultivation level has improved further.
Several new acupoints were opened in the body, making the power greater, the speed faster, the five senses more acute, and the life level improved again. These are all the natural results of practicing in the 'Furnace Realm'.
The infinite Guixu body is mysterious and infinite. Lu Yi looked inside with his spiritual light and found that the internal space of his Danzhong acupoint was already ten feet in radius. There was only a goose egg-sized Guixu immortal essence quietly rotating inside. The huge Danzhong acupoint gave people a feeling of "emptiness, void, spirituality, and illusion". It was like a black hole, releasing a faint swallowing suction force all the time.
In the small courtyard of the governor's mansion in Lu County, Lu Yi was walking around the small garden, protecting Ah Hu and the five masters who had taken the Xuanyuan divine water.
As he walked around in circles, he silently pondered the profound meaning of the Wuliang Guixu body's skills.
The Supreme Beiming Immortal Sect, the Infinite Guixu Body, this is an extremely domineering martial art.
Transform the mortal body into the 'Boundless Return', embrace all things, swallow all things, use overbearing means to plunder the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for your own use, and forge the most solid and powerful 'foundation of immortality' in the world.
Forge the strongest 'furnace', take in the most 'new firewood', ignite the wildest 'fire', and plant the most mysterious 'Golden Lotus of Fire'.
The golden lotus of fire blooms and you ascend to heaven.
In this world, 'Ji Sheng Tian', regardless of the three religions of Buddhism, Taoism, and Demonism, the fundamental way of cultivation is like this.
It's nothing more than the difference in the strength of the furnace's foundation, the difference in the mysterious level of the raging fire, the difference in the mysteries of the golden lotus seeds, and the final results in different Taoist fruits, magical powers, and immortal paths.
As for the Supreme Beiming Immortal Sect, if the wisp of consciousness in the Beiming Ring that Lu Qi obtained was not exaggerating, it is undoubtedly the most powerful top sect in Jishengtian and can be called the leader of the immortal world.
"Moreover, he is quite shameless." Lu Yu chewed on the essence of the Wuliang Guixu Body and secretly complained in his heart.
The Infinite Guixu Body is said to contain all things, so naturally it can also contain all the laws of the world and simulate all the merits of the world. When the Infinite Guixu Body is cultivated to perfection, the Guixu Immortal Yuan can change into thousands of forms and can transform into the magical powers and secret techniques of the three religions of Buddhism, Taoism, and Demon at will.
'Guixu embraces the four seas, and all things eventually return to one'!
Lu Yi walked slowly, and the void in the Danzhong acupoint shrank quietly. Wisps of misty air continued to seep out from the surrounding air and were forcibly absorbed by the Danzhong acupoint.
Lu Fu did not activate the Wuliang Guixu body.
However, the technique operated automatically in his body, day and night. No matter whether he was walking, sitting, lying down, eating, or resting, the Danzhong point was spontaneously absorbing spiritual energy from the surrounding heaven and earth.
Just as the legend goes, all rivers flow into the sea and the sea returns to the abyss. Everything is created by nature and everything is natural.
Inspiration enters the body, Qi is absorbed and returns to its origin, the Guixu Immortal Essence in the Danzhong point slowly grows stronger, and then releases spiritual light to cleanse the whole body, tapping into the innate essence in the twelve main meridians, eight extraordinary meridians, and various acupoints, strengthening oneself bit by bit.
Every time the spiritual light swept across his body, Lu Yi could notice that traces of wind and water ripples quietly merged into his body.
The whole body feels itchy as if thousands of ants are crawling, and the itch goes straight into the bone marrow, but it makes people feel inexplicably very enjoyable.
Lu Yi clearly felt that with every breath he took, his physical strength would increase by three to five kilograms.
In one day and one night, if he just walked and lived, Lu Yi's breath was much longer than that of ordinary people, and he only breathed about 2,880 times. In one day and one night, just by tempering the Wuliang Guixu body, his physical strength could increase by more than 10,000 pounds.
Such an increase is so terrifying!
The immortal arts are indeed many times more powerful than the secular martial arts techniques.
More than ten thousand pounds of strength, how many years would it take for an ordinary martial arts practitioner to achieve this?
To Lu Yi, it was just an ordinary income for one day and one night in this environment where the spiritual power of heaven and earth collapsed.
"Boom boom!"
Someone knocked on the back door where Lu Yi lived.
Yu Dianhu's deep and powerful voice sounded at the door: "My Lord, Wang Hu, the prefect of Lu County, requests to see you, my Lord."
"Wang Hu?" Lu Yi raised his eyebrows. "Ah Hu is in a trance. It's not convenient for people to enter the yard. I'll come right away!"
Lu Yi walked to the door and opened the courtyard gate.
At the gate of the yard, Yu Dianhu, along with a group of personal guards, stood in a line and stopped a middle-aged man who was wearing a Taoist robe of Shuiyun style. He had an elegant and calm demeanor, and was handsome and elegant, looking like a typical gentleman of culture and education.
Wang Hu, the prefect of Lu County, was a member of the Wang family, a family of six sages of literature and education, and a distant cousin of Wang Pu.
Wang Hu in front of Lu Yi was dressed like a handsome scholar, but it was this guy who easily sidelined Lu Hu, the governor of Lu County, and completely controlled the administrative power of Lu County. The entire city defense army and most of the imperial guards garrison of Lu County were also firmly in his hands.
According to the information provided by Lu?, Wang Hu relied on his power to impose heavy taxes in Lu County. Under his leadership, all kinds of taxes in Lu County were received in advance for thirty years!
Wang Hu quickly accumulated astronomical personal wealth. He purchased various real estate in Ling County. In the southeast of Ling County alone, there were more than one million acres of fertile land that were Wang Hu's private property.
In particular, Wang Hu was fond of women, especially young girls. Because of their pretty daughters, he made the people poor and even dead. Lu? alone knew about the number of people who were no less than three hundred families.
Late at night, the courtyard where Lu Yi lived was located in the backyard of the county magistrate's mansion. Wang Hu, who had always been at odds with Lu Yi, came to the gate of Lu Yi's courtyard alone and easily.
"Sir Wang, are all the guards in the county magistrate's mansion your people?" Lu Yi opened the door and spoke rudely.
Wang Hu smiled and bowed to Lu Yi: "What are you talking about, Lord Tianyang? A few days ago, I was leading the army outside to hunt down the rioters and was unable to welcome Lord Tianyang in the city. It was my fault."
With a flip of his right hand, Wang Hu took out an iron and wooden box from his sleeve and gently handed it to Lu Yi.
"It's just a small token of my appreciation, not a token of respect."
Lu Yi took the ironwood box without any hesitation and opened it casually. Inside was a neatly stacked stack of white deer coins. On the top white deer coin, it was clearly marked "worth 10 million coins".
Lu Yu counted them and found that there were twenty white deer coins in the box.
"Two hundred million dollars? This token of my gratitude is more than just a little!" Lu Yi looked at Wang Hu with a half-smile.
"This is what my brother, General Wang Pu, meant." Wang Hu put his hands in his sleeves and said leisurely, "Duke Tianyang, as the military supervisor, has been standing by and watching the general's fierce battles. Doesn't this seem to be a bit of a letdown to the Queen Mother and the Emperor?"
Lu Yi shook the white deer money in his hand and said righteously, "Nonsense, I have been guarding the county for a certain county lieutenant who has left his post without permission, and I am here to maintain peace in the county."
After stuffing the White Deer Coin into his sleeve, Lu Yi pointed at Wang Hu and said with a smile: "Believe it or not, if this lawsuit comes before His Majesty, you and the others will definitely lose!"
Wang Hu's face twitched, and he looked at Lu Yi's sleeves - this guy did take the money, but why was he still so rude in his words?
Where does the face come from?
Wang Hu straightened his face and said in a deep voice: "What Lord Tianyang brought are all the elites of the Imperial Guards, Yulin Army, and the Palace Guards, especially the 10,000 Imperial Guards heavy cavalry, which can be regarded as the strongest elite troops in the country."
Lu Yi looked at Wang Hu and said, "You want me to send troops to help the general fight? Tsk, just for these small things? Two hundred million yuan? Haha, I brought 20,000 Yulin Army, 10,000 Imperial Guards, 10,000 Palace Guards, and 3,000 Canglang Riders. If they lose 80,000 or 10,000 of them, do you know how much their pension will be?"
Wang Hu said in a deep voice: "The little bit of kindness I just showed you is only for you, Lord Tianyang. If Lord Tianyang leads his troops to join the war, all losses will be borne by the whole of Anping Prefecture, and double the amount."
Lu Yu drooped his eyelids and said nothing.
Next to the courtyard where Lu Yi lived, the gate opened, and the brothers Lu Jun and Lu Yi came out with their arms folded.
Wang Hu looked at Lu Jun and Lu Yi, then took out a black jade gourd more than half a foot high from his sleeve. He shook the jade gourd, and a dull "splashing" sound of water came out from it.
"Moreover, the casualties of the soldiers under your command may not be as exaggerated as you think."
"Here is a dose of ancient miraculous medicine that the general got by chance. Don't underestimate this small gourd. As long as we mix it with water and let the soldiers drink it, it will be enough for 100,000 soldiers to drink. It is enough to increase the strength of the soldiers by thousands of pounds. Moreover, they will not fear death, feel no pain, and be invincible on the battlefield!"
Wang Hu shook the gourd and said with a smile: "The stronger the soldiers are, the more effective this magic medicine will be. With the strength of 10,000 imperial cavalry under Lord Tianyang, after taking the magic medicine, they can definitely reach the sixth level of Tuomai Realm within one day and one night!"
Wang Hu laughed and said, "With such strength, it is enough to sweep away the rioters around Anping Pass!"
Lu Yi snatched the gourd, shook it, and sneered, "Such a good thing, you let me use it? And, you add such a 'small' amount of money?"
Wang Hu said calmly: "This is the only gourd you can find. Good steel should be used on the blade, right?"
Lu Yi handed the gourd to Yu Dianhu, took out the white deer money from his sleeve, and shook it towards Lu Jun and Lu Yi: "I agree to this. But you have to pay more. There are three of us brothers, and you only give me money. Isn't this alienating our brotherhood?"
Shaking his head, Lu Yi said in a deep voice: "Besides, I don't want the compensation afterwards. If you want me to send troops, you should give me enough compensation first."
"We follow the rules of the Great Yin Dynasty. The pension for a heavy cavalryman of the Imperial Guard who died in battle is 200 strings of cash, or 240,000 coins. Assuming that all my 10,000 brothers died in battle, you have to give me 2.4 billion coins."
"What about the Yulin Army? They are the emperor's personal guards. Their pensions are slightly higher than those of the Imperial Guards..."
"Where is the palace guard..."
"Where are the Canglang Cavalry..."
As Lu Yi kept on talking on about the bill, Wang Hu's face turned bluer and greener. Finally, he nodded deeply and agreed.