Chapter 277 The Arrival of the Mulan Army
After counting the treasures obtained from the jade box, Ye Changsheng put them away.
He got four of the six jade boxes, and the other two probably contained things related to the safe route into the Demon Valley and unlocking the ancient demon seal.
No matter whether these two jade boxes fall into the hands of Nanlong Hou or the Guiling Sect, they will probably cause some waves, and finally develop into the situation in the original book, with hundreds of Nascent Soul and Core Forming cultivators entering the Demon Valley.
No matter which party gets the remaining two jade boxes, the others will not let it go.
Especially the Ghost Spirit Sect, they once had a Nascent Soul elder who returned alive from the Demon Valley.
And the person who survived by chance also discovered the whereabouts of the Lingzhu Fruit in the Demon Valley.
This Lingzhu Fruit is also one of Ye Changsheng's main goals for entering the Demon Valley in the future. The Creation Pill made from the Lingzhu Fruit can allow cultivators below the God Transformation stage to realize how to break through bottlenecks.
After Han Li entered the Demon Valley, he broke through the bottleneck of the middle Nascent Soul stage with the help of the Creation Pill made from the Spirit Candle Fruit and the Crimson Cloud Pill made from tens of thousands of years of spiritual herbs.
Ye Changsheng also planned to use the Creation Pill, the Crimson Cloud Pill and Wen Siyue's Dianfeng Peiyuan Gong to break through the bottleneck of the late Nascent Soul stage.
Based on Wen Siyue's words alone, he was not completely sure that he could successfully break through.
After all, the Dianfeng Peiyuan Gong was only created by the Six Paths Supreme Saint in the late Nascent Soul stage. It is hard to say whether this method can really break through the bottleneck in the late stage.
All I can say is that there is a certain probability of success.
Therefore, Ye Changsheng made preparations in many ways and combined several methods to enable himself to enter the late Nascent Soul stage in one fell swoop and become a true great cultivator.
"Next, after defeating the Mulan people, the Ghost Spirit Sect should be planning to enter the Fallen Demon Valley!"
"And Nan Longhou and his people will probably find a way to leak the news, muddy the waters, and destroy the Ghost Spirit Sect's plan!"
"I don't have to care what they do, but there is one thing that must be guaranteed, and that is that Han Li must also enter the Falling Demon Valley!"
"If he doesn't go in, where can I find Lingmiao Garden?" Ye Changsheng thought to himself.
In the Demon Valley, there may be countless space cracks in the tens of millions .
There is simply no way to find the Lingmiao Garden hidden behind the space crack.
It just depends on luck!
But Ye Changsheng didn't think that his luck was good enough to find Lingmiao Garden by just bumping into a space crack.
Taking a chance on such a matter is undoubtedly a suicidal act.
When Ye Changsheng and the other two were flying in the air on the wind chariot, various tribal armies of the Mulan people gradually appeared on the grassland below.
Among them are monks, but more are mortals.
Every time the Mulan people invaded, they would bring a large number of mortals into the territory of Tiannan.
The mission of these mortals is to cooperate with the monks to rob the Nine-Nation Alliance of various resources such as spirit stone mines and spirit material mines.
These young and strong men would always rush into the various raw material mines and quickly seize and mine some resources when the Tiannan monks had no time to pay attention.
In this way, even if the Mulan people were defeated in the end, they would not return empty-handed.
This act of robbery made the monks of the Nine-Nation Alliance curse endlessly, but every time a war came, they often had no time to take care of these things.
After all, if there are not enough monks sent to garrison these places, they may be wiped out by the Mulan mages.
If too many were sent, it would affect the battle on the main battlefield. In short, the Nine-Nation Alliance was indeed very passive in this matter.
This is probably the disadvantage of the defense.
Although the Tiannan side could first let the Mulan people's mages occupy the raw material production areas, and then send monks to retake them according to the other party's manpower, and kill these Mulan mortals.
But unfortunately, the Mulan people never care about the deaths and injuries of mortals. Once a group is wiped out, they will immediately reorganize a new group.
They were literally exchanging human lives for these precious resources, and they would occasionally set up ambushes, inflicting heavy damage on the Tiannan monks who came to seize the mines and raw material production sites.
As a result, after losing a lot of monks, the Nine-Nation Alliance simply turned a blind eye. After all, in such a short time, no matter how frantically the Mulan people mined, they couldn't take away much.
As long as we defeat the army of mages head-on, these mortals will retreat obediently.
Therefore, every invasion of the Mulan people created such a strange scene. It was clearly a battle between monks, but a large number of mortals gathered on the grassland.
This situation makes people wonder whether the Mulan people started a war every once in a while to consume a group of people because the grassland could not support such a large population.
The wind chariot of Ye Changsheng and the other two sped through the air, naturally attracting the attention of many Mulan monks below.
However, these low-level monks could not see anything wrong with the Wind-Controlling Wheel. Often, just when they noticed it, it had disappeared.
However, some cultivators in the Jindan stage seemed to have learned some news. After seeing the wind wheel, they immediately began to spread the message to the distance.
But their speed still seemed too slow. By the time their senior management received the information, Ye Changsheng and the other two had already flown to who knows where.
At such a fast speed, they quickly covered a distance of a hundred miles. Ye Changsheng and his companions left the Mulan grassland and returned to the loess area. When they arrived here, they could vaguely see a large number of Mulan tribes gathering and stationing there.
Soon, this will become a war zone.
After arriving here, the Wind Wheel finally attracted the attention of Mulan's Nascent Soul, and several beams of light chased after it.
But Ye Changsheng was too lazy to get entangled with these people, so he asked Yuan Yao to speed up, shake off these pursuers, and quickly rush to Tiantian City.
Along the way, Yuan Yao was talking with Yin Yue as the wind carriage sped along.
"Yin Yue, you seem to know a lot about the purple axe bag just now. Have you seen it before?" Yuan Yao asked.
After hearing this, Yin Yue was silent for a while. After a while, she smiled bitterly and said, "Now that you mentioned it, I remember that in my remaining memories, before I was refined into a weapon spirit, I seemed to have such an ancient treasure, the Purple Axe!"
When Yuan Yao heard this, curiosity immediately showed on her face, and she said, "Isn't this purple axe magic weapon of Master Cang Kun yours?"
“After all, we have never heard of him using this magic weapon when he became famous. This shows that this magic weapon is very likely obtained from the Demon Valley!” Yuan Yao said.
A few days ago, before going to Mulan Grassland, because Nanlong Hou brought up the matter of Master Cangkun, she also went out of her way to learn about Master Cangkun and became somewhat familiar with his life experiences and deeds.
"I think your previous life might be related to the ancient monk who fought with the ancient demon!" Yuan Yao said with curiosity in his eyes.
"If that's the case, it's possible. But I really can't remember these things at all!" Yin Yue shook her head and said.
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As the two women were talking, the wind carriage flew to the front of Tiantian City. Ye Changsheng put Yin Yue into the spirit beast bag, and then got off the carriage with Yuan Yao and headed towards Tiantian City.
After arriving here, they immediately received news that the Nine-Nation Alliance already knew about the massive attack by the Mulan people and was already making responses.
All the Tiannan Yuanying cultivators who had come to Tiantian City for the trade conference were detained and not allowed to leave.
According to the agreement between the Nine-Nation Alliance and the Righteous Alliance, the Heavenly Alliance and the Six Demonic Sects a hundred years ago, the Nascent Souls of these three major forces also have the responsibility to resist the Mulan people.
Now, most of the Nascent Soul cultivators in Tiantian City belong to these three forces. Therefore, even if they are reluctant, they have to stay and fight against the Mulan people together with the Nine-Nation Alliance.
At the same time, the top leaders of the Nine-Nation Alliance were sending letters for help to the Tiandao Alliance and other three major forces, asking them to send more support forces.
This time, the Mulan people came with a much more aggressive force than before. If the Tiannan people did not unite, they would most likely be defeated one by one.
If the Nine-Nation Alliance is broken, the remaining three forces will not be able to resist the Mulan people alone.
The top leaders of Tiannan all understood this principle, so almost every sect under the three major forces was required to allocate at least one-third of their forces to support Tiantian City.
Even a few countries that did not belong to the three major forces, as well as some independent cultivators, were forced and lured to come here.
"Tiannan's response is still very passive. The Mulan people have been preparing for many years and mobilized so many mortals here. As a result, you waited until the army was about to arrive before you started to dispatch troops to other forces!" After entering Tiantian City, Ye Changsheng shook his head and thought secretly while looking at the situation in front of him.
The Mulan people were very well prepared, while the Tiannan people were quite slow.
There wasn't even any reliable information , and Wei Wuya had only consulted Ye Changsheng a few days ago.
Although he had looked for Zhiyang and the others earlier, it was no more than a month later.
In other words, the Mulan people had basically assembled their army , and the Nine-Nation Alliance only then remembered to seek support.
This kind of operation would be understandable if the Nine-Nation Alliance did not have any spies or informants inside the Mulan Grassland.
If there were intelligence personnel, they should be able to find out the other party's plans from the various tribal movements of the Mulan people.
After all, the scale of the war to be fought can be calculated from the mobilization of personnel and materials.
This time, the Mulan people planned to fight a war to destroy the country. Unlike before when they just grabbed a piece of land and ran away, they planned to occupy the land in Tiannan and truly take root there.
This strategic goal means that the Mulan people will definitely have to mobilize more resources and manpower.
At the very least, from the mobilization of mortals, the top leaders of the Nine-Nation Alliance should be able to infer the strategic goals of the Mulan people.
But now, the Nine-Nation Alliance only reacted after the enemy's army was approaching.
There are only two explanations for this. Either the top leaders of the Nine-Nation Alliance are completely brainless, or the Nine-Nation Alliance has basically no intelligence personnel on the Mulan Grassland.
Judging from all aspects, probably only the latter can explain it.
After all, Tiannan didn’t even know about the war between the Mulan people and their arch-enemies, the Tuwu people.
There was no news about such a massive war in Tiannan, and we had no idea about it at all.
From this we can see that Tiannan really has no intelligence capabilities on the grassland.
This is, I have to say, quite outrageous. You have to know that the spies from the Mulan people have infiltrated the Demonic Yuling Sect.
They have all become Yuanying elders!
On the other hand, Tiannan had no intention of infiltrating the Mulan people at all.
No wonder the Nine-Nation Alliance reacted so slowly. In the original novel, the Nine-Nation Alliance suffered a series of defeats in the following battles, and even the city of Tiantian was captured later.
Looking at the monks who were hurrying in the Tiantian City, Ye Changsheng shook his head secretly.
He took Yuan Yao back to the attic where they lived. Logically speaking, the transaction had not yet been completed.
But it is obviously impossible to continue.
Ye Changsheng returned quietly, and no one came to disturb him in the following days.
Three days later, Ye Changsheng saw Han Li in the residential area of the Nascent Soul cultivators.
For a moment, he was a little curious about what kind of battle Han Li and his group experienced in Master Cangkun's cave after he left.
Who got the two jade boxes in the end?
However, although he was curious, Ye Changsheng did not take the initiative to find Han Li to ask.
Because, what the result is is not very important to him.
Two days later, Ye Changsheng received news that the Mulan army had entered one of the nine countries closest to the Mulan grassland.
The country was called Fengyuan. It only took the Mulan army a few days to occupy the country.
The Nine-Nation Alliance suffered heavy losses, with two or three Nascent Soul cultivators dying in succession.
Now, most of the Yuanying in Tiantian City gathered in the meeting hall to discuss how to deal with the aggressive Mulan people.
The meeting hall was built under a huge platform in the center of Tiantian City. It was an extremely eye-catching hall with many restrictions nearby.
On weekdays, except for major events concerning the life and death of the Nine-Nation Alliance, this building is generally just a symbolic place.
Few people come here.
However, a hundred years later, when the news of the Mulan people's invasion spread, the top leaders of the Nine-Nation Alliance opened the hall without hesitation.
He also summoned cultivators from other forces to discuss the matter together. In recent days, almost all the Nascent Soul cultivators in Tiantian City gathered in that place.
After Ye Changsheng came back, no one invited him to attend such a meeting, so he was happy to have some peace and quiet.
After all, the meeting in the conference hall was just a discussion among some ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators. Important figures like Wei Wuya did not appear there at all.
The meeting was chaired by Madam Qi of Huayi Sect and Wu Peng, the leader of Beiye Sect, another sect in the Nine-Nation Alliance second only to Huayi Sect.
This level of meeting was a bit too low for a person of Ye Changsheng's rank, so in the past two days all the Nascent Soul cultivators in the several attics around him were invited to the meeting hall for discussion, but there was no movement on his side.
