The well-equipped and terrifying warriors surrounded the Dadaofang.
In addition to the three thousand armored soldiers that Lu Yi could see at the main gate, torches and lanterns were lit in the other three directions of the Big Knife Workshop. In the brightly lit areas, elite armored soldiers could be seen, and in the dimly lit areas, countless human figures were swaying.
Even on the Qing River to the east and south of Dadaofang, there were more than a dozen warships more than 20 feet long that came downstream from upstream and stopped in the nearby river, forming a tight network that was impossible to get through.
Lu Yi raised the wine jar and drank a few more mouthfuls. Then he threw down the empty jar and muttered, "Horse urine!"
The taste of Luoyi's wine is really not good.
Zhou Laodao was already carrying a cape sword, striding onto the city wall above the main gate of the Great Sword Workshop. He pressed his left hand on the battlement of the city wall, glanced at the street outside, and shouted in a trembling voice: "Elder Luobo, have I, Zhou Laodao, offended you in any way?"
Outside the city, Luo Bao, the elder of the martial arts hall of the Luo family in Luoyi, who was in charge of fighting and attacking, had white hair and beard, but his back was straight, and he looked much more energetic than an ordinary 18-year-old boy. He raised his head and slammed the Panlong machete, which was two feet taller than him, into the ground with his right hand.
"Buzz!"
The paving stones within an area of ​​about ten feet in radius were all shattered, and spider-web-like fine cracks extended along the stone slabs for seven or eight feet in all directions.
Luo Bo narrowed his eyes and said sternly: "Zhou Laodao, you have not offended my Luo family... Well, my Luo family is so magnanimous that even a small offense would not warrant such a high-profile attack!"
Zhou Laodao's voice became much more stable: "If that's the case, why is it so?"
Luo Bo waved his left hand behind him.
A group of men wearing soft armor, obviously "auxiliary soldiers", strode up, and with a few "bangs", they threw the bloody, chopped bodies with at least twenty or thirty horrific wounds on their bodies at the end of the suspension bridge of the "moat" of Dadaofang, as if throwing away garbage.
"Look, Ma Shangfeng, his three sons, Ma Dian, Ma Chi, and Ma Feng, are all here... and the direct male descendants of Ma Shangfeng, Ma Shangfeng's three younger brothers, and a dozen nephews are all here." Luo Bo said coldly: "In Luoyi, death is not uncommon. It would be strange if three or five prominent people didn't die every month."
With a sigh, Luo Fu stared at the stunned Zhou Laodao with flickering eyes.
"But, Zhou Laodao, Zhou Laodao, your Zhou family's work is a bit too rough. I know that Ma Dian and Ma Shangfeng have offended your Zhou family, they deserve to die... But when you took action, could you have done it more cleanly? You left someone alive!"
Luo Bo's voice became extremely sharp: "There is a survivor who can testify that your Zhou family is the murderer! This matter can only be handled according to the rules!"
As mentioned before, the rule in Luoyi is that if you attack someone, you can do anything, even if it means killing the entire family or taking away their property.
As long as you do it quietly in the middle of the night, with no witnesses or eyewitnesses, and you take over silently, then the spoils are safe and you can enjoy all the spoils to your heart's content.
But once there are witnesses and eyewitnesses, and they report it to the Luoyi City Elders' Association!
I'm sorry.
The official rules of Luoyi are about to be activated.
The reputation of the city elders' association needs to be maintained.
Generally, people with such advanced skills, who do not do things cleanly and neatly, will be treated as chickens to scare the monkeys by the city elders, and killed in front of all the restless people in the city.
This time, Zhou Laodao and the Zhou family have undoubtedly become the most fat chicken in Luoyi's history!
Zhou Laodao looked in horror at Ma Shangfeng, who was still alive and kicking during the day, and even dared to block his way at the city gate to "provoke" him - yes, in Zhou Laodao's mind, Ma Shangfeng, who knew that his strength was far inferior to his, but dared to block the road, his behavior was a provocation!
But now, Ma Shangfeng, who was also a well-known figure in Luoyi and had entered the Tao, has turned into a pool of rotten meat.
His body was covered with at least forty extremely thin, deep, and long knife wounds... Those knife wounds looked so familiar, exactly the same as the wounds caused by his cloak knife.
In the huge city of Luoyi, as far as Zhou Laodao knew, the only custom-made long sword like the cloak sword was the one in his hand.
There are many swordsmen in Luoyi, and there are also many masters who have entered the Dao and practiced swordsmanship, but their swords are all "heavy" and "violent", and one strike of the sword can easily cut a person in two ... But only Zhou Laodao has such a thin, deep and long sword, with an extremely fast insertion and withdrawal speed.
Only the paper-thin cloak knife custom-made by Zhou Laodao could inflict such a wound.
There were several other wounds on Ma Shangfeng's body.
Among them were three serrated wolf-tooth arrows, which pierced straight into Ma Shangfeng's chest and pierced through him.
Ma Shangfeng's clothes were torn, revealing a heart guard with a wolf head relief on his chest.
The half-inch thick breastplate was also pierced by an arrow... The metal of the mirror, which was polished to a mirror-like finish, changed color slightly, and there were traces of high-temperature burning on the edge. It can be seen how strong the force of the arrow that penetrated the breastplate was... Ordinary archers could not shoot such an arrow at all. Only those who have truly practiced Taoism can have such force.
There are many archers in Luoyi.
However, the total number of archers who have entered the true cultivation level in Luoyi does not exceed twenty.
Among them, there is an archery master who has entered the realm of true cultivation and is related to the Cloaked Blade... Anyone who is slightly familiar with the masters in Luoyi will only think of Zhou Laodao’s second brother Zhou Changgong!
The sawtooth wolf tooth arrow was a half-foot armor-piercing arrowhead forged with spirit gold, and its tail feathers were carefully selected wind-breaking eagle feathers. It was extremely powerful, but also extremely expensive. Just looking at the workmanship of this arrow, in the huge Luoyi, there were few archers willing to spend such a cost on arrows.
There are three brothers in the Zhou family. Zhou Laodao has been doing business outside for many years and has a good income.
Zhou Changgong is the garrison commander of the South Gate of the Old City. He holds a high position of power and has a considerable salary...
Ordinary people cannot afford arrows forged with this kind of spiritual gold, but as for Zhou Changgong, it is well known that when he goes out, he carries two quivers with him. Each quiver is filled with thirty-six eagle-feather, armor-piercing wolf-tooth arrows. The workmanship and shape of those arrows are exactly the same as the three arrows found on Ma Shangfeng's body!
Under the light of lanterns and torches, what made Zhou Laodao so angry that he almost burst into curses was that he clearly saw that Ma Shangfeng's face was densely packed with more than twenty bone-penetrating steel needles as thin as cow hair!
The extremely thin steel needle is three inches long and shaped like a three-sided bone-penetrating cone.
The extremely sharp steel needle had a faint green glow, and was obviously poisoned - and it was also something that almost everyone in Luoyi knew that Zhou Tiejiao, the third master of the Zhou family, did not like to wield swords and guns, but preferred to be gentle and polite.
Therefore, Mr. Zhou San never carried a sword when he went out, but he always carried a lot of life-threatening items with him.
Poison needles, poison powders, poison gas, poison smoke and the like... God knows how Zhou Tiejiao developed this bad habit, but if someone is pricked in the face by a poison needle and the entire face is turned dark green by the poison... there is no way to escape, just find Zhou Ye Zhou, it was definitely him who did it.
In such a huge city like Luoyi, he is the only one who uses poison needles!
Others who are practicing the Tao would rather fight with swords and knives to see who is better, or whether they live or die. Who would play with this stuff like a woman doing embroidery?
Okay.
The blade of the cloak knife.
The wound caused by an armor-piercing arrow.
Plus this unique and highly identifiable poison needle.
If they say that Ma Shangfeng was not killed by the three brothers working together...someone has to believe it!
Even looking at the marks on Ma Shangfeng's body, Zhou Laodao was a little suspicious. Did his brothers get drunk last night and run to Ma Shangfeng's house drunk and really kill him?
But, at the welcoming banquet last night, my second and third brothers and I didn’t get drunk!
Zhou Laodao remained silent, his eyes moving between Ma Shangfeng and the other male members of the Ma family.
Luo Bo sighed and said, "Zhou Laodao, you are a good man... You, your second brother and your third brother have also worked diligently over the years and made a lot of contributions to Luoyi."
"But rules are rules."
"You guys weren't careful enough, you left some clues and got caught... Now!"
Luo Bo looked at Zhou Laodao and said softly, "You, still want to fight me? Come on, drop your weapons, and go out with your whole family, surrender. For the sake of our past friendship, I'll give you a chance... Your Zhou family will be convicted, but at least you have a way to survive!"
"Crime?" Zhou Laodao suddenly raised his voice and said in a hoarse voice, "Are you dreaming? I, I would rather die!"
Gritting his teeth and stamping his feet, Zhou Laodao yelled in exasperation: "Bullshit, bullshit, I didn't do this at all... Luo Bo, where is the witness you mentioned? Pull him out for me!"
In a rage, Zhou Laodao was too lazy to address him as "Elder Luo" and just shouted Luo Bo's name.
Luo Fu pursed his lips and waved his hand gently.
Twenty or so frightened little girls, who looked to be about eight or nine years old, or twelve or thirteen years old, were dragged up by a group of elite soldiers who were as fierce as wolves and tigers.
The first thing these little girls saw was Ma Shangfeng and others lying on the ground with a miserable death.
They screamed in unison, and some even collapsed on the ground in fear, with large patches of water oozing out from their bodies, obviously incontinent. Two older girls suddenly looked up at Zhou Laodao, pointed at him randomly and screamed: "It's him, it's him, that's right, it's him... He stabbed, stabbed, stabbed, so fiercely, he killed the master, killed the young master..."
A little girl even screamed, "They, they also kidnapped, kidnapped the young lady!"
Zhou Laodao's face twitched.
Luo Bo sighed, "Zhou Laodao, what's the matter? The evidence is irrefutable, what else do you have to say? Do you really want me to order an attack on the Big Knife Shop? Just give up your sword and surrender... It's a hardship to be a criminal, but at least it's a way to survive!"
Zhou Laodao didn't say anything.
The old man of the Zhou family sat in a wheelchair and was carried onto the city wall by several family members.
Although he is not a true cultivator and although he is a disabled person, Grandpa Zhou really came from the bottom of the wilderness, starting out from a desperate fight on the streets, and he also raised three sons who were able to enter the realm of true cultivators!
When it comes to the ways of the world, Mr. Zhou may not know much - in the entire wilderness, there are probably not many people who study these things.
But when it comes to survival philosophy, Grandpa Zhou's experience is obviously much better than that of the three Zhou Laodao brothers who have not suffered much hardship.
After coughing heavily a few times, Grandpa Zhou placed one hand on the battlement of the city wall, grinning, and overlooking the "moat" several feet wide outside the gate, where Luo Bo was holding a big knife and countless armored soldiers stood behind him.
"Convict labor... seems like a way to survive." Grandpa Zhou murmured, "But for so many years, I have lived in Luoyi for so many years, and every year there are unlucky people who are made convicts. Generally speaking, when there are 10,000 people, they will disappear silently from the camp outside the city... and then, I will never see them again!"
Grandpa Zhou's voice was very loud: "Over the years, when I was a kid, there were people who fought on the streets, who were hit by my knife, and who were stabbed in the back by me... People who fought for their lives together in the wilderness, and who fell out with me because of some good things... In addition, after our Zhou family became rich, we built a big knife shop. Over the years, the neighbors on this street and in this area..."
"Those who were sentenced to imprisonment, as far as I can remember, numbered several thousand people and dozens of families."
“Not one has returned.”
Old Master Zhou shouted loudly: "The Zhou family is not strong enough, so we are not qualified to know many things in Luoyi... Where were the criminals sent to, what did they do... Was they used as bait to hunt exotic beasts, or were simply boiled into a soup pot to make tonic medicine? Who knows?"
"But criminal service is a dead end, it's a sure death!"
Grandpa Zhou supported himself on the wheelchair with one arm and stood up tremblingly. He shouted hoarsely: "Luo Bo, I know what kind of person you are... Hey, you are not a thing... I still remember that year when you led the troops to encircle and suppress the passing bandit 'Black Teeth', but you were defeated and 20,000 elite Luoyi cavalry were slaughtered!"
Luo Bo smiled calmly: "Who can avoid defeat in his life? Who would have thought that the great bandit 'Black Tooth' has reached the level of 'Heavenly School'? A master like that, haha... Can you withstand a punch from him? Or can you block a sword from him?"
Old Master Zhou sneered: "Everyone has been defeated. In my life, I have been beaten and forced to flee at least a hundred or eighty times... But it doesn't matter if you are defeated. Stand up straight and get up again. You are still a hero."
Luo Bo looked at Mr. Zhou in confusion, not knowing what his intention was in saying these things.
"But, you were defeated by Black Tooth and fled back alone... In order to save your shame and to vent your anger, you massacred the entire Qian family outside the city. You slaughtered 4,675 people by yourself, and then put the blame on Black Tooth."
"You chopped off the heads of more than a hundred able-bodied men of the Qian family, saying they were the heads of bandits under Black Tooth's command, and left them hanging outside the Luoyi Gate for more than half a year. You, the Luo family, have been bragging about these hundred or so innocent deaths as your achievements in suppressing bandits for several years!"
"That would be fine, but you massacred the Qian family and kidnapped more than 20 boys from the Qian family. You imprisoned them in your Luo family's manor outside the city and abused them wantonly for several months... Those ignorant kids are pitiful, tut tut!"
Luo Bo's face changed.
Old Master Zhou turned around and sneered at the many Zhou family soldiers and able-bodied men standing on the city wall: "Did you understand? Did you hear it clearly? Back then, the Qian family's farm was massacred and the boys were abducted. I saw it with my own eyes... Hehe, it's just that at that time, I didn't have the courage to expose this matter. I was afraid of death. Isn't it shameful... I didn't dare to expose this old ghost Luo Bo. Isn't it shameful... In the whole Luoyi, how many people dare to directly expose the evil things he has done?"
"However, there are many other unlucky families like the Qian family."
"Today, we can't be soft!"
"If we give in, we will all be sent to serve as prisoners, and we won't even know how we died."
"We old bones are serving as slaves, and we'll be dead if we die... Think about those lively babies in your family... Hey, boys, this old Luo Bo loves them!"
"It's my own baby, I love it!"
Old Master Zhou screamed in a stern voice: "So, don't be afraid of the Luo family's power... They dare to frame and put the blame on our Zhou family... There is no way to distinguish them, so there is no need to distinguish them. In short, they want our Zhou family to die, so we will fight them to the death!"
"The Zhou family has more than 10,000 able-bodied men. It's not too much, but killing a thousand of them is okay, right?"
"Then, you can protect Lao Dao and escape, right?"
"We're willing to use our tens of thousands of lives to exchange for the thousands of men of the Luo family... Hehe, the Luo family doesn't have many elite soldiers like this... If we exchange more than a thousand of their elite soldiers today, the Luo family might have an enemy and run out of soldiers. If they don't have enough soldiers, they'll make a big mistake and suffer a huge loss!"
"Our second and third sons will die with you!"
"Just protect Lao Dao, the boss, and let him escape... Leave a bloodline for our Zhou family, and also leave a chance for revenge for our Zhou family!"
"Lao Dao has the best talent and the most ruthless means. If he escapes, he will kill a few people from the Luo family today and a few more from the Luo family tomorrow. As long as Lao Dao survives, we can kill a hundred or eighty more people from the Luo family by killing them piecemeal, right?"
"Hehe, there are more than just Black Tooth, the bandits in the wasteland!"
"If Lao Dao joins the gang, he might be able to make a name for himself. In the future, he can lead the bandits to counterattack Luoyi and avenge our Zhou family!"
Mr. Zhou's words were dark and dirty, even full of meanness and filthiness.
So naked, so cold, full of the ruthless jungle law in the wilderness!
But as soon as he said this, the momentum of the Luo family members surrounding the Big Knife Workshop suddenly stagnated. Luo Bo's face also became extremely ugly, and he subconsciously looked at Zhou Laodao who was standing next to Grandpa Zhou.
Everyone in the Zhou family, regardless of gender, age or status, suddenly became more courageous.
I heard before that the Luo family’s army had surrounded their own sword workshop, and many members of the Zhou family were inexplicably nervous and timid.
But after Mr. Zhou said this and many members of the Zhou family recounted and explained it, everyone understood it and figured out the twists and turns in it!
Becoming a criminal, there is only death and no life, and you don’t even know how you died!
The Luo family has very dark and dirty hands... Especially the old guy Luo Bo, who is actually a pervert!
I dare not let my lively and lovely baby fall into Luo Bo’s hands.
In that case, let’s fight hard!
Risk it all and cause more casualties to the Luo family. As long as you dare to fight, who is tougher in the wilderness? We are all flesh and blood, so let's fight for our lives!
Moreover, as long as Zhou Laodao can escape, he will be able to avenge the Zhou family sooner or later!
Everyone in the Zhou family, young and old, admires and respects Zhou Laodao's talent for cultivation, his methods and strength.
The momentum of the Zhou family suddenly increased!
Lu Yi clasped his hands together and chanted scriptures in a low voice - Buddha have mercy on me, this old man of the Zhou family is truly extraordinary!
Lu Yi dared to guarantee that Ma Shangfeng's family was definitely not killed by Zhou Laodao and his men. That night, Zhou Laodao and his brothers were eating meat and drinking in the Big Knife Shop and dividing the profits of this trip. They wanted to go in and out of the Big Knife Shop, but they could not hide it from Lu Yi's eyes and ears!
That being the case, things are getting very interesting.
Look at the wounds on Ma Shangfeng's body, this is clearly a frame-up!
This Luo family!
Lu Yu muttered in a low voice: "Replace him? It seems that it is not impossible!"
Lu Yi looked at a barricade not far away - the brothers Zhou Dalong and Zhou Dahu, wearing full sets of heavy metal armor and with dozens of private soldiers, were stationed in this heavy barricade.
This barricade leads to the ancestral hall behind and is an extremely important stronghold.
The streets here are narrow and surrounded by high walls. There are hidden holes everywhere for spears to pierce and crossbows to be designed. There are also various other vicious city defense designs, and enough able-bodied men are ambushed... If foreign enemies force their way into this barricade, one can imagine the heavy casualties.
In Lu Yi's mind, the seal of the deputy governor of Loulan shook slightly.
The Taimi Emperor's Axe rotated gently, and the seal of the Loulan Deputy Governor shone brightly - Lu Yi felt the ultimate power that the seal could possess after being blessed by the Taimi Emperor's Axe - he could use the power of the seal to 'awaken the spirits' of a hundred people!
'Awaken the spirit'!
For the people in this world, it means removing the shackles of heaven and earth from their bodies, and opening the "eye between the eyebrows" that they were born with but was forcibly imprisoned in the body by the mysterious will of heaven and earth and cannot be used. From then on, they have the authority to mobilize the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and possess magical powers comparable to those of true cultivation!
As long as Lu Yi is willing, he can now awaken the spirits of a hundred members of the Zhou family!
"No hurry, no hurry!"
Lu Yi shook his head slightly.
He pointed his finger, and his weak divine consciousness barely communicated with the Red Dust Heaven. In the core Buddhist kingdom, the Merit Pond that had been integrated with the Jade Well lit up with a faint light, and about a jar of Merit Pond water slowly rose into the air, barely drilling out of the Red Dust Heaven, and hovering beside Lu Yi.
Lu Yi took a deep breath.
The seal of the deputy governor of Loulan vibrated slightly, and the mana in his body was activated. Around Lu Yi, wisps of thin mist rose into the air, and then a light breeze was set off. The pool of merit water, which contained great vitality and had a strange power to bring back the dead, merged into the mist, and when the breeze blew, it turned into an extremely thin mist, covering the entire Dadaofang.
Lu Yu wanted to wait and see - with the defense of the Big Knife Shop, the entire Zhou family only had one passage at the main gate for entry and exit. Outside the wall, there was a "moat" that was not wide, but it was difficult for ordinary soldiers to cross it. In addition, the several-meter-high wall made it impossible for ordinary soldiers to jump over it.
With the instigation of Mr. Zhou, everyone in the Zhou family has decided to fight to the death.
Unless Luo Fu is crazy, would he really dare to lead a large army to attack Dadaofang?
Even though the elite private army of the Luo family were wearing spiritual gold armor of the half-step heavenly soldier level, which was difficult to break with ordinary swords and axes, hot oil, raging fire, crossbows and other objects could still cause fatal damage to these soldiers.
Not to mention, there are people like Zhou Laodao who are truly practicing Taoism.
With such defensive strength, Grandpa Zhou said that it was just an understatement to say that they could defeat thousands of Luo family soldiers.
If they really started a fight, haha!
Lu Yi had already heard the sound of armor rubbing against each other in the neighborhoods near and far, and the reflections of swords and axes of various colors constantly appearing in the streets and courtyards far and near. The neighbors of the Big Knife Shop were also ready for battle!
In this situation, is Luo Bo really willing to launch a head-on attack?
But Lu Yi remembered that Zhou Laodao said that in Luoyi, there were three major families that owned the emperor's money deeds.
The Luo family, the Qin family, the Lin family... If the Luo family loses too much strength in the Big Knife Shop, will the two families just sit back and do nothing? Maybe they will stab them in the back and do something bad.
Just as Lu Yi was thinking about it, suddenly, there was a loud bang that shook the earth. A section of the city wall on the southeast side of Dadaofang, about 20 to 30 feet long, collapsed directly into the sky in flames.
The city wall was shattered, and a team of young and strong men from the Zhou family who were originally stationed there were also killed and wounded, suffering heavy casualties.
Before Zhou Laodao and others could recover from this sudden change, they saw a large number of torches suddenly light up in the darkness opposite to the section of the city wall, illuminating a large area.
With a clang, more than a dozen wooden bridges that had been prepared long ago, six feet wide and more than ten feet long, were pushed out by a large group of people and directly spanned across the moat outside the Big Knife Workshop.
Mr. Zhou's roar rang out: "Who was guarding that section? Who?"
Then, in the dark corners inside the city wall, several lanterns were lit, and a group of young and strong men from the Zhou family, carrying their families and waving weapons, rushed out in a hurry under the leadership of a chubby old man, and rushed to the other side along the wooden bridge.
A large group of Luo family soldiers rushed up and surrounded the group of people.
Old Master Zhou spat out a mouthful of blood.
Zhou Laodao hissed, "Second Uncle..."
Old Master Zhou pounded the battlements of the city wall with his right hand frantically, and yelled at the top of his lungs: "Second Brother, how have I ever let you down? You, you, you, how did you break through the city wall? You, you, you, you are going to kill all of our clan members!"
Grandpa Zhou's biological brother and the second uncle of Zhou Laodao and his two brothers was panting, wiping the sweat from his forehead, and surrounded by many soldiers, he jumped and shouted and cursed towards this side.
"Boss, you have nothing to be sorry for me...you are sorry for my son and grandson!"
"Why should your children and grandchildren become true practitioners? They are so powerful and show off in front of others... Which of my sons and grandchildren is worse than them? Why should they live in humiliation, eating and drinking like beggars, picking up the melons and dates that slip through the fingers of your children and grandchildren?"
"I don't accept it!"
Mr. Zhou Er spat heavily on the ground.
Someone in the crowd coughed softly.
Mr. Zhou Er shuddered and immediately yelled at the top of his voice: "Boss, don't say I'm sorry for you... The truth is, I can't stand what you did, I can't stand it!"
"We, the Zhou family, have been good people for generations, and we have never done anything so unscrupulous!"
"You and your sons killed all the male members of Ma Shangfeng's family, that would be fine... but you kidnapped the girls from the Ma family. Tsk tsk, these beautiful girls are pitiful, you have ruined them like this!"
Just now when Mr. Zhou Er led his men to escape, there were clearly several men in the crowd carrying rolls of white cloth on their backs.
At this moment, they threw the white cloth roll to the ground, revealing several naked bodies of young girls with broken skin, blue and green all over, and covered with unknown sticky substances. They were obviously tortured!
Several girls died in miserable ways, their eyes were wide open, and their faces were distorted, obviously they had been subjected to extremely cruel torture and inhuman humiliation before death!
Mr. Zhou Er yelled at the top of his voice, "You have done such a thing that is worse than pigs and dogs... Alas, such a good girl was ruined by you... I still have some conscience. Don't even think about dragging me and my children and grandchildren to be buried with you for the shitty things you and your son have done!"
"Elder Luo, Elder Luo, today is Tuesday and I am separating from the eldest brother's family. It's official! From today on, my family and they will never coexist and will never be compatible... You have to make the decision for us!"
"The crimes they committed cannot be implicated in my family!"
Luo Bo smiled and nodded: "Of course, you have made great contributions. When Zhou Laodao and others are demoted to criminals...their property should still be inherited by the Zhou family. The Big Knife Shop still belongs to the Zhou family. This is what I said, and no one can change a word!"
Mr. Zhou was stunned.
Zhou Laodao suddenly looked at Luo Bo, who was standing outside the gate, stroking his beard and smiling.
There is no need to ask, no matter what the reason, the people from the second master's side of the Zhou family had been bribed long ago.
Moreover, people have been plotting against his Zhou family for more than a day or two!
With Mr. Zhou Er's "surrender", the evidence of Zhou family's guilt has been confirmed without a doubt... No one in Luoyi, big or small, can say anything wrong, and the prestige of the Luo family will not be damaged in any way.
Especially, Zhou Erye's backstabbing move, wow, such a long gap was blown open in the city wall, and there was even a wooden bridge across the moat, well... Luo family's private army already had an absolute advantage in armaments, and once the city wall was broken, the fate of the Zhou family was obvious.
Even if everyone worked together and fought hard, there was a flaw in the city defense. Facing an enemy with an absolute advantage in numbers and equipment, how much damage could the Zhou family cause?
Zhou Laodao gritted his teeth and said in a hissing voice: "Come on, Dad, you guys stay and fight to the death, I, your son... am leaving first!"
Zhou Laodao stomped his feet and was ready to find an opportunity to leave.
There is no such thing as sentimental love or hesitation... The men in the wilderness are used to life and death. At this critical moment, when it is time to leave and preserve a little bit of vitality, they will naturally leave decisively.
Old Master Zhou laughed bitterly, "It's my fault... A few years ago, when I found out that the second son had embezzled the family property, I should have ruthlessly cleaned him up... What a pity, otherwise, I would have made the Luo family lose a few more teeth today."
Taking a deep breath, Mr. Zhou drew out a sword with one arm and chopped it hard on the battlement of the city wall in front of him.
"Children, prepare to fight!"
Before he finished speaking, earth-shattering explosions were heard again at a section of the city wall to the north and west of the Zhou family's sword workshop. Two sections of the city wall were blown open, leaving gaps of 70 to 80 feet in length. On the other side of the moat, the Luo family's soldiers pushed out a wooden bridge that had been prepared long ago and quickly crossed the moat. Then, a large number of soldiers carrying heavy shields rushed into the sword workshop quickly while the Zhou family's private army was dizzy from the shock.
The Zhou family had limited manpower deployed in those two directions.
The Luo family's soldiers have an absolute advantage in terms of numbers, equipment, and even the skills of the generals leading them!
At each of the two gaps in the city wall, there were three true practitioners from the Luo family leading the troops to attack.
The Zhou family members who were responsible for the defense in those two directions barely organized a small team to respond, but they were attacked by a Taoist who pounced into the crowd like a tiger and knocked down dozens of people with the stick in his hand in just a few strokes. They were killed so badly that they lost their balance and almost collapsed!
But, but, but…
Lu Yu could see that this true practitioner of the Luo family had no intention of stopping the killing.
The weapons in their hands only knocked down the Zhou family's soldiers, making them temporarily lose their fighting power, but they did not rely on their advantage in cultivation to kill people on the spot - it can be seen that making people, especially the members of the Zhou family, criminals, seems to be more important?
Compared to killing all the members of the Zhou family, eradicating their roots and eliminating their possibility of revenge in the future... making everyone in the Zhou family a criminal is more in line with the interests of the Luo family?
Guilty!
Interesting!
Lu Yi looked at the two places where the battles broke out, pointed his finger, and small drops of water seeped out from the thin mist and fell on the Zhou family members who were knocked to the ground and unable to move for a while.
A tremendous amount of vitality surged into the body. The bones that were broken by the stick healed in an instant, and the internal organs that were shaken calmed down in an instant... The strength returned to the body, and the strength seemed to become even stronger than before - several times stronger!
Lu Fu’s Red Dust World is the most precious treasure refined by the old monk in the Red Dust World.
The pool of merit in the core Buddhist kingdom has the powerful effect of cleansing mortals and transforming ordinary people into gods and demons.
After being integrated into the body of Yujingzi, the strange pet of Emperor Taimi, and absorbing its powerful vitality, strong recovery ability and other characteristics, the water in the pool of merit has added unfathomable power.
Just a little bit of water mist merged into their bodies, and these Zhou family's private army soldiers and able-bodied men actually had traces of the flow of spiritual energy from heaven and earth in their bodies - in other words, they were "awakened" on the path of cultivation, and they had stepped into the ranks of true cultivation, possessing a strength far greater than that of ordinary soldiers!
"Hmm... Interesting." Lu Yi noticed that although the spiritual energy of the Zhou family members who were injured and recovered was injected from the outside world, it did leave traces of the strange power in their bodies similar to that in Zhou Laodao's body...
Therefore, it is feasible to artificially "awaken the spirit" and allow ordinary people to "enter the true practice of Taoism."
All that is needed is enough power... and this power requires enough authority...
Zhou Laodao and his team should have completed this step with a sufficient amount of imperial money.
The water from the Merit Pool that had merged with Yujingzi's body apparently possessed similar effects to the Emperor's Coins... or even greater power.
At the same time, Lu Yi also felt a hint of crisis coming - the water from the merit pool in the core Buddhist kingdom in the Red Dust Heaven could allow people to embark on the right path of cultivation, and such things would not be tolerated by this world.
If you perform it on a very small scale once or twice, it won't be noticed and it's not a big deal.
However, if too many people knew about it, and knew that Lu Fu used the water from the Merit Pond instead of the power of the Emperor's Coin... then Lu Fu would encounter an unpredictable crisis, a crisis that he could not bear now.
"I understand!" Lu Yi murmured to himself, "We need to master a legal and trustworthy channel for obtaining imperial money."
Lu Yi looked at Luo Bo who was laughing loudly outside the city gate.
He noticed that Zhou Laodao was retreating, while the brothers Zhou Changgong and Zhou Tiejiao, with fierce and deadly looks on their faces, stood on the left and right of Grandpa Zhou - Zhou Laodao was ready to escape as planned, while his second and third brothers were ready to be buried with him for the huge Zhou family!
Lu Yu nodded slightly.
No more, right?
No more, right?
No new explosions?
Well, the traitors within the Zhou family have already jumped out on their own initiative, and now the only ones left are all reliable and trustworthy people!
Too.
In such a desert with such folk customs, it is already a wonder that the Zhou family has such a Zhou Ye and such a family of white-eyed wolves. According to the survival rules and laws of the desert, ordinary large families would fight to the death like the Hu family, leaving only women and children... How could an ordinary family produce so many traitors?
Lu Yi opened his mouth slightly.
A gentle breeze blew by, carrying his words to Zhou Laodao's ears.
Zhou Laodao's body suddenly stiffened, then he turned back abruptly and looked at Lu Yi in horror. His twisted and stiff face suddenly relaxed - the incident just happened suddenly, and Luo Yu brought too much psychological pressure to Zhou Laodao, so he actually forgot about the great god Lu Yi!
Perhaps, with Lu Yi's help, it is not his Zhou family who needs to escape today, but the seemingly invincible Luo family!
Although there was only one Lu Yi.
Even if Lu Yi can't hold on to the Luo family, at least the Zhou family can have a few more men escape, and can retain a little more vitality, which is also good... or even, it can cause more casualties to the Luo family, so that the Luo family's family power will be more damaged, allowing the Qin family and the Lin family to cause greater damage to the Luo family...
What a great thing!
Zhou Laodao was thinking about the good things with a happy heart. He stopped and walked back to the section of the city wall that was brightly lit by lanterns and torches, and reappeared in front of Luo Bo.
Zhou Laodao looked at Luo Bo with an unfathomable smile.
Luo Bo's smile suddenly faded, and he hissed, "You, don't run away?"
Zhou Laodao inexplicably felt that his brain was particularly useful at this moment. He smiled at Luo Bo and said, "Guess? Haha, you are so anxious for me to escape, right? You specially arranged experts to wait for me outside? Just waiting to kill me? Oh, maybe you are reluctant to kill me, and want to capture me alive and demote me to a criminal?"
"But who did you arrange? You have so many masters in your family... It can't be that Patriarch Rama is waiting for me personally, right? That would be an honor!"
Zhou Laodao smiled brightly.
He stretched out his left hand and pressed gently, signaling Grandpa Zhou, Zhou Changgong and Zhou Tiejiao, whose faces suddenly changed, to stay calm.
He waved at Luo Bo outside the city and said, "Come, attack. I will bring all the clan members to wait for you in the ancestral hall... Hey, Second Uncle, you are not going to make all the arrangements in the ancestral hall and even blow up the wall, right?"
"You disturbed our ancestors, you... hehe!"
Zhou Laodao picked up Old Man Zhou and whistled. Although the private soldiers and able-bodied men on the city wall were confused , they were very obedient and completely carried out Zhou Laodao's orders.
Teams of private soldiers and teams of Zhou family men extinguished almost all the lanterns and torches, and relying on their familiarity with the geography of Dadaofang, they quickly escaped into the darkness.
Luo Bo and the Luo family’s private army outside the city went crazy!
Who could have thought that Zhou Laodao would do such a thing?
In the middle of the night, in pitch darkness, you run into a nest that has been run by a big family for many years and engage in a street fight with this big family?
Ugh!
Even if you cut off your head and put a butt on your neck to pretend to be a skull, you would never do such a stupid thing!
The Luo family's private army soldiers are so valuable. It would be so painful to lose one or two more!
The Zhou family had limited foundation. The private soldiers the Zhou family raised were all warriors recruited from outside, or simply slaves bought from the slave market and trained since childhood. The entire Zhou family, the real direct descendants, the real blood relatives with the surname Zhou, only had about a thousand people in total.
But the Luo family is different.
The Luo family has been thriving in Luoyi for countless tens of thousands of years, and there are tens of thousands of clansmen. These private soldiers wearing heavy armor all have the surname Luo, and they are all blood relatives left by the same ancestor!
If too many private soldiers were killed in the Big Knife Shop... Even if Luo Bo is the elder of the Martial Hall, believe it or not, there will be an old lady with enough seniority who will carry a toilet and spill countless unspeakable dry treasures all over their yard?
"No, why didn't Zhou Laodao run away?" Luo Bo and a group of Luo family backbones around him felt a sharp pain in their brains, and their heads seemed to have swelled several times.
Zhou Laodao doesn't play by the rules!
None of them was willing to fight Zhou Laodao in the unfamiliar terrain of Dadaofang!
Zhou Laodao is one of the most powerful cultivators in the wilderness, and his own strength is enough to rank among the top three thousand in the wilderness... Although the Luo family has several cultivators who are ranked above Zhou Laodao, everyone's cultivation level is similar, and the gap in strength is not as big as imagined!
Especially, these masters of Luo family live a happy life and have no intention of dying!
But Zhou Laodao was forced into a desperate situation and was ready to fight to the death!
If Zhou Laodao escaped, Rama and several Luo family masters would wait outside. In the wilderness, the masters would surround him, and with the help of various bows, crossbows and traps, they would be able to capture Zhou Laodao alive.
But in the Big Sword Workshop, facing a master who is ranked among the top 3,000 in the wilderness... and a master who is fighting hard with all his might... even Luo Bo has no interest in doing so, and his scalp tingles at the thought of it!
"This, this..." Luo Bo hissed, " Are we pushing them too hard?"
Mr. Zhou Er, who was standing by, came up to him without knowing what was good for him, nodded and smiled, "Elder Luo, you must quickly catch them all... Uh, when you attack, you must be careful not to break our yard and the pots and pans!"
Luo Bo's face changed slightly, and he kicked Zhou Erye away. Blood spurted out of his mouth like free spring water.
"idiot!"
Luo Bo gritted his teeth and hissed, "Charge in... Well, we can't let our own people charge first... Go to the West Gate Ranger Camp and ask Xu Damabang to mobilize the Rangers into the city."
"Tell Xu Damabang to let his cavalry charge a few times first...Afterwards, the Zhou family's farm outside the city will be his 30% share!"