Chapter 172 Jiuling Mountain City
It was late at night, but the hall at the foot of Linlang Peak was brightly lit.
Luo Menghong, Zhang Shixin, the old fox fairy, Luo Li, Zhang Qian, Yu Qi and so on, all the important figures from Chen Jiu's faction gathered together.
Everyone was staring at the map on the table, frowning and thinking.
Now their territory is too large and too chaotic, especially the territory of the Qinglian Sect. The areas controlled by the Qinglian Sect and the imperial court in Dongchang Prefecture and Jinan Prefecture are very intertwined and chaotic.
In the past, it was no big deal that the imperial court didn’t dare to break off relations with them, and everyone just turned a blind eye.
It’s no longer possible now. Jiajing has become a little unscrupulous, and the Crown Prince Zhu Yijun is even more arrogant. The imperial army may attack at any time!
Luo Menghong frowned and pondered for a while, still somewhat helplessly said: "It seems that we can only temporarily withdraw from Dongchang Prefecture and Jinan Prefecture. It is too close to the capital and there is no strategic location to defend. Even if we send all our troops there, we probably won't be able to withstand the imperial army."
Upon hearing this, Chen Jiu couldn't help but ask solemnly: "How many troops do you think the Imperial Court can mobilize, and how many troops can the Qinglian Sect gather?"
Luo Menghong sighed slightly and said, "The imperial court can actually mobilize a lot of troops. Although there are only a few hundred thousand elite troops like the Shenwu Camp and the Shenji Camp that can set up magic arrays, there are two to three million garrison guards. If they go crazy, it won't be a problem to mobilize one million elite garrison guards.
Therefore, we cannot compete with the Imperial Court in terms of mortal soldiers. Our Qinglian Sect has gathered a lot of troops in Qingzhou Prefecture, Laizhou Prefecture, and Dengzhou Prefecture during this period, but the number of troops we can gather is only 200,000 to 300,000 at most, and the only ones who can set up the talisman formation are the original 100,000 veterans. "
It seems that there is really no comparison. The elite troops of the Imperial Court's Shenwu Camp and Shenji Camp are still quite terrifying. He didn't dare to break in before when there was no true god in charge. Now that there is a true god in charge, it is probably even more terrifying.
A true god must have some magical powers. He can even give birth to demons and fairies. I wonder what kind of terrifying magical powers Jiajing and the Crown Prince Zhu Yijun have.
Chen Jiu thought about it, and nodded slightly, "Well, it seems that we can only avoid their attack first, or retreat. To the north of Qingzhou and Xinyu are Yishan, Lushan and Taishan, which stretch for thousands of miles, just right to stop the imperial army."
Luo Menghong nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, it is easy to set up talisman formations in the mountains and forests. We can set up a talisman formation covering thousands of miles and trap the imperial army. Then we can run in and surprise attack them. I believe that as long as we consume most of their troops, they will not be able to hold on and will have to retreat."
If you run in and try to launch a surprise attack on them, that would be too dangerous. Even a god cannot withstand fire. If they engulf you in a sea of fire, you would probably be roasted to death!
Chen Jiu pondered for a moment, and said decisively: "It seems that we have to ask the Honghuang Divine Cauldron to refine some ordinary artifacts. Although ordinary artifacts do not have any special effects, they can still be used to defend against or break ordinary magical powers."
Hearing this, Luo Menghong couldn't help but ask with interest: "Can the Great Desolate Divine Cauldron continue to refine divine weapons?"
The feeling of wearing this artifact is really different. Both the attack power and defense power are doubled!
Chen Jiu sighed slightly and said, "He can refine artifacts continuously, but he doesn't have that much time to do so, because we still need immortal pills and artifacts. He can only refine one artifact a month at most, otherwise it will delay a lot of things."
One per month is not a big deal.
Luo Menghong said with hope on his face: "How about asking him to refine a set of divine armor for me first?"
Then of course I'll come to your side first.
Chen Jiu nodded slightly and said, "Okay, let him refine a set of ordinary divine armor for you this month, and let him refine a . In this way, you should be able to fight in and out of the outer perimeter of the imperial army."
That's great.
Luo Menghong couldn't help but said excitedly: "With the divine armor and divine sword, I don't have to be afraid of any real gods. Two months should be enough. After all, the imperial court still has to deal with the aristocratic families first. We should withdraw all the people from Dongchang Prefecture and Jinan Prefecture first, and then we can set up the talisman formation in time ."
Chen Jiu nodded and asked, "How many people do you have in Dongchang Prefecture and Jinan Prefecture? Where are you going to retreat to?"
Luo Menghong estimated: "If all the followers are counted, there are at least millions of people. With so many people, it is definitely not possible to retreat to Qingzhou Prefecture, Laizhou Prefecture, and Dengzhou Prefecture. If so many people suddenly squeezed in, the three prefectures would probably be in chaos.
Besides, the farmland over there is limited and cannot support so many people. We can only think of ways to build a city in the new area and cultivate the land.”
No, I plan to use the new territory to cultivate the demon race. If you have millions of people going in to open up wasteland and cultivate the land, how much space will it take up?
Chen Jiu stared at the map and thought for a while, then said decisively: "Let's move them to the banks of the Wei River. We can build a large city with a radius of 100 miles around Jiuling Mountain, and then cut down the trees on the left bank of the Wei River into timber or transplant them to the new area. In this way, they can open up wasteland and cultivate land on the left bank of the Wei River. Moreover, the Yin-Yang Realm is on the right bank of the Wei River, and the people of the Underworld Cult can also protect them."
This method is indeed good. At least there is no need to worry about the water source when reclaiming land and cultivating crops on the left bank of the Wei River.
Question: Why did you build such a big city?
Luo Menghong was a little puzzled and said: "Ajiu, there is no need to build such a big city. Most of us in the Qinglian Sect are farmers. They must go to the left bank of the Wei River to open up wasteland and cultivate land. In fact, not many people can live in the city.
Besides, the only city in the entire Ming Dynasty that is hundreds of miles in radius is Jinling. Jinling was expanded on the basis of the original old city. It took decades to complete the expansion. Do we have to spend so much time to build a city?"
You don’t understand this.
Chen Jiu explained in detail: "We definitely cannot let ordinary people live in the area of Jiuling Mountain within a radius of dozens of miles. Ordinary people can only live in the outer city. Moreover, not only the people of the Qinglian Sect, but also the people of the Zhang family and the people of the Ming Sect who were reincarnated will have to move here. If we don't build a bigger place, we will definitely not be able to accommodate them."
Hearing this, Luo Menghong couldn't help but be surprised and asked, "You still want to build the inner and outer cities? How long will that take?"
Chen Jiu smiled slightly and said, "It won't take much time. We can mobilize the demon tribe, bat soldiers and golden body gods to build it quickly."
Uh, so you don’t need mortals to build cities.
Luo Menghong nodded slightly and said, "That's about right."
Chen Jiu then asked, "Uncle Zhang, how about it? How many golden spirits do you have? How many can you lend to us to build the city?"
Zhang Shixin estimated: "There are about 30,000 golden body gods. If you are in a hurry, I can transfer 20,000 to help you."
That's about enough.
Chen Jiu nodded slightly and said, "Okay, let's hurry up and build the city. Old Seven, you are most familiar with this, so I'll leave it to you. Try to build the outer city wall within two months."
Two months!
Yu Qi was quite surprised and asked, "How high are you going to build the wall? Also, how many bat soldiers and demon tribes can you mobilize?"
Chen Jiu estimated, "The city wall should at least be the same as the inner city of the capital, and it should be built ten feet high. It shouldn't be a problem to mobilize 20,000 bat soldiers now. I only have more than 2,000 monkey demon kings and more than 3,000 bean soldiers in the demon tribe. Is that enough?"
My God, twenty thousand bat soldiers and five or six thousand demon kings!
Yu Qi nodded repeatedly and said, "That's enough, that's enough."
In fact, these bat soldiers and demon kings are nothing. The more than 3,000 bean soldiers who cannot be killed are not even his trump cards. His trump cards are hundreds of monkey demon fairies!
However, most of these monkey demon fairies are tasked with collecting and training demons, and are too busy.
The next morning, he did not return to Japan, but went directly to the new territory.
He hadn't been to this new area for a long time, and it felt a little unfamiliar because the trees here were much denser than before. Almost all places were covered with lush trees, and there were birds and beasts everywhere. It was completely different from the original place.
He flew slowly in the sky for a while, and nodded slightly, "Well, second brother, it seems that you didn't slack off, and you did a pretty good job."
The second wolf demon king said proudly, "Of course not. I come here every morning and I have almost run through the entire New Domain."
Da Qing couldn't help but tease, "Yeah, you're having fun. Xiao Qing and I, along with the little pig and the little dog, are working hard there to plant all kinds of fruit trees, exotic flowers and herbs, and magical herbs."
Wolf Demon King II said awkwardly: "Well, I saw that you worked hard, so I went to find some fruit for you to eat."
This guy, all he does is eat and play, just like a second-generation rich kid!
Chen Jiu led everyone to fly for a while and finally found a way to confirm the place.
He can judge which areas should be transformed first and which areas should be transformed later based on the growth of magical herbs and fruit trees.
Then he spread his golden wings and flew quickly around the new area.
After a while, he found an area where magical herbs and fruit trees grew better than other places.
He swept his spiritual sense and quickly found a monkey demon fairy.
At this moment, the monkey fairy was teaching a wild boar a lesson. Perhaps the wild boar had some bad habits that were hard to change, and it was always digging around everywhere, destroying many rare flowers and plants.
The monkey fairy was quite annoyed and said, "How many times have I told you to eat as much as you can? Why are you still digging around after you've finished eating? I'm telling you, if you dig around again, I'll kill you and make soup with you!"
The pig demon was so scared that he trembled and said, "Goddess, I won't dare to do it again. I won't dare to do it again. Please don't kill me!"
The monkey demon fairy couldn't help but snorted coldly: "Get lost!"
The pig demon quickly ran away.
Seeing that the Monkey Demon Immortal had finished his work, Chen Jiu led everyone to descend from the sky and land in front of this guy.
He said rather awkwardly: "Uh, um, what's your name?"
There was no way, these monkey monsters all looked the same, and he really couldn't tell who was who.
The monkey demon fairy was shocked. He was just teaching the pig demon a lesson and didn't pay any attention to the sky at all. Who knew that a bunch of people would suddenly fall from the sky.
He was stunned for a moment, then quickly bowed and said, "Disciple Sun Xuanwu pays homage to Grandmaster, and to all the Grandmasters."
Chen Jiu nodded slightly and said, "Xuan Wu, how many demons have you trained?"
Sun Xuanwu said without hesitation: "Grandmaster, I have twelve big demons and twenty-five small demons in my demon power space. They are all very well-behaved and obedient. Grandmaster, do you want to take the big demons away to train them?"
Very good, very good. He was so busy that he forgot to capture the monsters. These monkey monster fairies are still constantly cultivating the monster clan.
Chen Jiu nodded slightly, thought about it for a while, and then said decisively : "How about this, you leave a big demon here to help you watch, and then you take the other big demons and small demons to the Wei River to help build the city. Let these big demons and small demons work for a few months, and then I will take them in to train them."
Sun Xuanwu quickly summoned a tiger that was two or three feet tall and gave detailed instructions: "Xuanyi, I have something to do for a while, you stay here and watch over it. Don't let those guys mess up the rare flowers and herbs."
The tiger nodded repeatedly and said, "I understand, Immortal, don't worry."
At this time, there were dozens of monkey fairy demons and thousands of big and small demons in the city-building army. These monkey fairy demons were extremely powerful. No matter how big a tree was, they could chop it down to bare poles with just a few slashes of their hands, and then pull it up by the roots with a single yank. After a few more slashes, the tree trunks would become logs of uniform length.
Moreover, they have big and small demons under their command who are responsible for carrying wood, no matter how far the distance is, and their speed in clearing the forest is terrifying.
Seeing this, Yu Qi simply asked them to be responsible for clearing the forest, while he focused on building the city wall. This way, he worked faster, and the outer city wall of Jiuling Mountain City was taking shape at a speed visible to the naked eye.
