The sound of whistles rang out one after another in various places in the Big Knife Workshop.
Near the other two places where the city walls of Dadaofang were blown up, the members of the Zhou family who were risking their lives to resist the powerful enemy immediately abandoned the enemy and retreated at full speed towards the direction of the ancestral hall.
On the ground, there were only thirty or forty Luo family private soldiers left, some of whom had internal injuries or broken arms and legs.
The few Luo family practitioners who led the team were gasping for breath and looking at each other in horror. They felt that what had happened in just a short period of time was like a nightmare and was beyond the limits of ordinary people's imagination!
Everything went smoothly when they led their troops into Dadaofang.
These private soldiers of the Zhou family, as well as the young and strong men of the Zhou family, only knew how to build up their strength and practiced some basic swordsmanship, boxing, etc. Although they were strong and powerful, when faced with true cultivation, they were as fragile as lambs to be slaughtered.
It went very smoothly. The six true practitioners of the Luo family easily defeated a group of people from the Zhou family.
But then something incredible happened.
Those Zhou family members who were knocked unconscious, knocked to the ground, whose internal organs were severely impacted and who were unable to get up for a while, actually jumped out one by one as if they were injected with chicken blood - that would have been fine, but these Zhou family members who jumped up actually had traces of the operation of the spiritual power of heaven and earth in their bodies.
Their strength, speed, reaction, and vitality all increased several times in the blink of an eye.
They suddenly jumped up and launched a counterattack.
Several Luo family soldiers were too late to react and were beaten by them at close range.
Although these Luo family private soldiers are wearing sophisticated spiritual gold armor, which is difficult to penetrate with ordinary swords and spears - but you can't withstand the sudden outburst of these Zhou family members. They rely on brute force to pin you to the ground, and then grab your arms and legs and break them like breaking sugarcane!
Armor can effectively prevent attacks from weapons.
But facing this kind of pure violent crushing... the armor will also cry and tell everyone - it's not that I don't work hard, it's just that my profession is not suitable for me!
There were also members of the Zhou family who were extremely brutal and barbaric, like bandits in the wilderness, who directly removed the armor from the members of the Luo family who were pinned to the ground in a few moves - of course, these armors could be removed, but the Zhou family members were a little faster in removing the armor.
The important armor plates between the chest and abdomen were forcibly stripped away, and the men of the Zhou family beat them with a few punches and kicks, causing these unlucky guys from the Luo family to vomit blood, and their internal organs were injured. Some of them even fell into a near-death state.
Of course, the hard power of these rising members of the Zhou family is still not as good as that of the six true cultivators led by the Luo family.
When these six true cultivators started to take their fight seriously and began to treat them as strong enemies, the hundreds of Zhou family members who suddenly rose up were no match for them.
Some were beaten to the point of vomiting blood, some had their arms and legs broken, and some had their armor shattered by violence. The besieging Luo family private army attacked them with swords and guns, piercing their bodies.
But no matter how badly injured they were, after these Zhou family members fell to the ground, all their injuries healed instantly within a breath of time. They jumped up again with vigor and vitality, and launched a counterattack again while howling.
And every time they get up after a heavy blow, the strength, speed, etc. of these Zhou family members will double again!
The collision did not last long. In a short period of time, the two Zhou family members who led the team were beaten and injured seven times in a row by the Luo family's true practitioners. They jumped up and counterattacked frantically seven times in a row.
When they stood up from the ground for the seventh time, although they were still only proficient in boxing and kicking, their physical strength, speed, and reactions were no worse than those of the six true practitioners of the Luo family!
There were two true practitioners of the Luo family who were caught off guard and had their arms broken by two members of the Zhou family.
One of them even had a member of the Zhou family dig his claw into his eye socket, directly digging out one of his eyeballs. He was now groaning in pain.
The Zhou family is invincible!
The six Luo family cultivators watched the Zhou family retreat quickly into the darkness, and for a moment they had no courage to pursue them. The large group of Luo family soldiers behind them looked at the family members lying on the ground with pale faces, and some of them even had their legs trembling slightly.
"Uncle, I just shot that guy in the stomach!"
"My knife was so strong that a large piece of meat flew off!"
"Look, look, look at this piece of tendon meat on the arm... I just chopped it off with my knife..."
"But when they retreated just now, I saw clearly... the wound on that guy's arm..."
"I hit that guy's knee with a hammer. I saw it clearly. His calf was bent over. It must be broken... But how could he run so fast?"
"Uncle, this is not right!"
Outside the Big Knife Workshop, a low bone horn sound was heard.
As the rhythm of the trumpet sounds changed, the two teams of Luo family's private army that had attacked the Big Knife Shop felt as if they had been pardoned. They busied themselves with rescuing the wounded, carrying their seriously injured companions and running out of the Big Knife Shop happily.
The leader, Elder Luo Bo, ordered all members of the Luo family to retreat and prepared to transfer the cavalry from the cavalry camp outside the city into the city.
This is a good thing, great!
These two teams of Luo family's private army had lost all desire to fight and had no courage to continue fighting with the Zhou family.
Lanterns and torches lit up the streets around the Big Knife Shop, and the Luo family's large group of people surrounded the Big Knife Shop. Deep shouts came from all directions, and many of the big families in the old city of Luoyi sent out scouts to come here to inquire about the "truth" of the matter.
Luo Bo sent several family stewards to receive these curious guys.
At the same time, they also brought Luo Bo's orders.
There were some large families that were close to the Luo family and were considered as vassals of the Luo family. They were ordered to send out a certain number of private armies to cooperate with the Luo family's attack - the number of ordinary private army soldiers could be less, but every household had to send out at least one true cultivator to cooperate in the battle!
In this regard, the Luo family's explanation was very noble and glorious - we, the Luo family, are also working for the long-term stability of Luoyi and for justice for the Ma family... If "ambitious people" and "executioners" like the Zhou family are not eradicated as soon as possible, you, the neighbors living in the Zhou family, won't you feel a chill on the back of your neck?
Under the instruction, or coercion, of the Luo family, people from large families began to practice Taoism one after another, and gathered from all directions with teams of private soldiers, all with a look of reluctance on their faces.
On average, every person who entered the Dao to truly practice cultivation brought with him at least fifty and at most a hundred soldiers.
Gradually, more than fifty true practitioners gathered together, and thousands of elite private soldiers appeared around the Big Sword Workshop.
Amid the low sound of drums and trumpets, accompanied by the creaking sound of axles rubbing against each other, specially made chariots were pushed to the vicinity of the Big Knife Workshop - the bases of these chariots were several feet long and wide, with ten-foot-high wooden arrow towers on top. Elite archers were stationed on the arrow towers, giving them a commanding advantage in attacking the walls of the Big Knife Workshop.
However, the Zhou family had already retreated into the middle area of ​​Dadaofang. Although these arrow towers were sharp and powerful, they could only stand outside and watch. Where on the walls of Dadaofang were there any targets for them to shoot at?
Lu Yi jumped off the watchtower and stood at the gate of the courtyard where Zhou Laodao lived.
When Zhou Laodao and his two brothers retreated with a large group of clansmen, Lu Yi waved to Zhou Laodao.
Zhou Laodao quickly issued orders, asking everyone behind him to retreat into the ancestral hall, or to station at several important barricades in front of the ancestral hall. Then, he thought for a moment and quickly called out several names.
Zhou Laodao, Zhou Changgong, Zhou Tiejiao.
Zhou Dalong has six brothers...then, there are a dozen or so brothers from other branches of the Zhou family who are close to Zhou Laodao and his brothers and follow their lead.
The Zhou family has limited resources, and all the members of the family, young and old, men, women, and children, add up to no more than a thousand people.
In Zhou Laodao's mind, among these tribesmen, leaving aside the old and young, and the women who are naturally physically deficient and not suitable for fighting and killing in the wilderness's survival cognition, there are only about ten people who are reliable, have sufficient talents, and have the right character and means.
They are all strong men who dare to fight and kill, and are loyal and passionate. They usually help Zhou Changgong and Zhou Tiejiao and support all aspects of the Zhou family's affairs inside and outside.
Apart from these dozen people, the remaining seventy or eighty people were all from the Zhou family's private army.
These private armies were all slaves bought from the slave market when the Zhou family became wealthy, and raised from childhood. They were instilled with absolute loyalty to the Zhou family, especially to Zhou Laodao, from childhood.
If it weren't for the blood relationship... Zhou Laodao would value these private soldiers who almost regard him as their 'biological father'!
Including Zhou Laodao himself, a total of one hundred people stood in front of Lu Yi.
Lu Fu was not long-winded and did not try to be mysterious.
He pointed his finger, and a faint light lingered on his fingertips. Blurry bits of starlight flew out like fireflies, carrying the special authority of the seal of the deputy governor of Loulan, and sank into the brows of Zhou Laodao and others.
It really is an immediate effect!
If Zhou Laodao and others were placed in the lower world, they would be genuine 'celestial beings' with pure blood!
As for the 'celestial beings', generally speaking, they have vertical eyes between their eyebrows and are born with all kinds of incredible magical powers. However, in this world, there is a supreme authority in the void that completely seals the natural bloodline magical powers of all the 'celestial beings' and imprisons this magical power in their bodies.
Unless there is some magical treasure, such as the fruit from the strange tree in the tiger and leopard secret room in the Tiger family enclosure.
Or, get permission from Lu Yi, who has special authority.
Otherwise, these sealed celestial beings will never be able to unlock the power that they should have possessed in their entire lives.
The process of breaking the seal and unlocking talent is called "awakening the spirit"!
The invisible shackles were gone, and the blood instinct surged up - the talents of these "celestial beings" were far superior to those of the human race in the lower realm. When the shackles that imprisoned their innate power were suddenly lost, Zhou Laodao and a hundred other people suddenly had fine lines between their eyebrows cracked, and their bright eyes opened, releasing a faint pressure at the same time.
"Brother Fahai!" Zhou Laodao was so excited that his whole body was shaking.
Lu Yi waved his hand, and wisps of fine water mist fell from the sky... These virtuous pool waters from the core Buddhist kingdom cleansed the bodies of Zhou Laodao and others in an instant.
All hidden injuries and chronic illnesses disappeared, and everyone's physical functions reached their peak.
Their eyebrows were erected and their eyes slightly opened and closed, and the faint power of authority and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth that flowed into their bodies flowed through their bodies again and again. The smarter ones began to follow the crude "cultivation method" that Zhou Laodao had mastered, and began to breathe in the spiritual energy and mobilize blood and qi!
This skill is not some unreachable secret within the Zhou family.
Members of the Zhou family and private army soldiers have all come into contact with this technique... but they lack imperial money, not enough imperial money. Although they know how to practice, they simply do not have the resources to support them to cross this threshold.
Zhou Laodao braved the wind and rain in the wilderness, Zhou Changgong and Zhou Tiejiao worked hard in Luoyi, and the three brothers tried their best to maintain the business, but they could only allow three of their brothers to become true practitioners. Their six sons also had only one foot in the threshold, and if they really wanted to become true practitioners, they would probably need some time to accumulate experience.
But now, it's different.
Lu Yi mobilized the authority of the seal of the deputy governor of Loulan and slowly gathered the spiritual inspiration from the heaven and earth in all directions.
The power of Lu Yu's seal is limited, and the amount of spiritual energy of heaven and earth that he can mobilize per unit time is not much...but this is not much, only for Lu Yu. For ordinary people who have never come into contact with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth surging from all directions is as vast as the ocean, and is inexhaustible.
Zhou Laodao was ecstatic. As the one with the highest cultivation and the greatest talent among the three brothers, he roared in a low voice, opened his hands, and his eyes between his brows shone slightly. A vortex as big as a water tank suddenly appeared near his chest, swallowing the spiritual energy of the surrounding world in big gulps.
Zhou Changgong and Zhou Tiejiao also had strange spiritual power appearing on their bodies, almost turning into mist.
Lu Yi shook his head.
It's still too crude!
In his chaotic mind, the spiritual light flickered slightly. Lu Yu wanted to tailor an upgraded version of the skills for Zhou Laodao and his brothers based on the basic skills they were practicing.
But his mind was in a mess. When Lu Yi used his brain a little, he felt a sharp pain in his head and was unable to deduce or calculate anything.
With no other options, Lu Yi found a ready-made copy of the Diamond Sutra from the memory fragments that churned out of his mind, and directly passed it to Zhou Laodao and a hundred other people using a secret technique.
This "Indestructible Vajra Sutra" is the fundamental law created by a great Bodhisattva of Liangyi Tian Buddhism, who is affiliated with Baoguang Gongde Buddhism and specializes in practicing "Vajra Dharma". It follows the purest path of Vajra Indestructibility and Vajra Power in Buddhism.
This technique is a bit too ordinary among the secret techniques of supernatural powers, but it has an extremely outstanding effect in refining the golden body of Buddhism - otherwise, with the cultivation level of a mere great bodhisattva, how could this person be accepted as a disciple by the Buddha of Precious Light and Merit?
The efficiency of "Indestructible Diamond Sutra" in breathing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, its retention of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and its wonderful use of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, its comprehensive attributes are at least a hundred times better than the unnamed technique that Zhou Laodao and others are currently practicing!
This nameless martial art is so crude...what the hell is this?
The skills were internalized, and under the guidance of Lu Yi's magic power, the crude skills trajectory of Zhou Laodao and his companions was directly tampered with. The "Indestructible Diamond Sutra" was like a prehistoric giant beast that crashed into a "virgin land", and began to rush around with a "grunting" sound, leaving clear, deep, and indelible marks in the bodies of Zhou Laodao and others in just a few seconds.
The shallow and weak power in their bodies began to operate along the trajectory of the new technique. Wisps of spiritual energy from heaven and earth were stimulated by Lu Yi, half of which was absorbed by them and half was forced into their bodies.
From far away, there was a faint sound of armor rubbing against each other and weapons colliding.
There was also a bow mechanism hidden in the big knife workshop that was suddenly triggered. The dull sound of the bowstring and the sound of the arrow breaking through the air could be clearly heard, followed by a piercing and shrill scream.
It is conceivable that the bow-shaped structure that the Zhou family decorated in their home is not a good thing.
Now that they have been invaded by the enemy, they will naturally fight desperately... These arrows are shot in a swarm, and the arrows are obviously poisoned. They are sure to kill instantly and there is basically no antidote. Or even if there is an antidote, there is no time to take it and the victim will die within three to five breaths.
The scream only lasted for a short while before disappearing completely.
Lu Yi smiled and looked into the distance.
A light mist enveloped the entire Dadaofang. His spiritual thoughts were attached to the mist and could barely cover the entire market and observe the movements inside.
The trap set up by Zhou Laodao and his men was extremely vicious and insidious.
The Luo family's private soldiers did not break into the Big Knife Shop... Those who came in at this moment were all the unlucky ones from the big and powerful families who came later... Even, they were not the elite private soldiers of these big and powerful families, but some "house servants"!
These people, at most holding a shield made of animal skin and iron plates, holding a small machete, and not even wearing armor, were forced to break in through three broken places in the city wall, trembling.
Luo Bo and others were outside the Big Knife Shop, listening to the shrill cries of the unfortunate fellow inside. Luo Bo nodded gently: "Sure enough, this Zhou family is harboring evil intentions... To make such a vicious arrangement in their own market, hey, they are really not a kind family!"
The leaders of the wealthy families who had gathered on the side looked at each other, lowered their heads, and remained silent.
Setting traps and ambushes in one's own house...isn't this a normal operation?
Time passes by little by little.
Suddenly, there was a slight sound of a blade breaking through the air from Zhou Laodao's body. A cold white light seeped out from the surface of his skin. The white light gradually became thicker, from being as thin as a piece of paper to as thick as a palm.
The sharp acquired Xin Metal energy silently swirled around Zhou Laodao, cutting through the air and making a 'chi' sound.
Not long after, strange sounds of breakthrough in cultivation were heard from Zhou Changgong and Zhou Tiejiao's bodies, and abnormalities also appeared on their body surface.
About half an hour later, Zhou Dalong and his brothers began to feel a dull whistling sound in their bodies, and they officially entered the ranks of true practitioners... Then more and more members of the Zhou family and private army soldiers broke through the bottleneck and advanced successfully.
In this way, time passed little by little.
When Zhou Laodao and the others all broke through and their cultivation was stabilized, they began to practice punching and kicking with each other, getting familiar with the soaring power... and Lu Yi even asked Zhou Laodao to take out the spiritual gold materials he had stored and forged hundreds of Heavenly Soldiers-level weapons for them...
I have to say that the weapon refining methods in the wilderness are also fucked up.
Take the cloak knife in Zhou Laodao's hand for example. Although this knife could hurt Lu Yu's flesh, it was mainly because Lu Yu was seriously injured at that time and his body functions were extremely weak. Another reason was that the spiritual gold material used was of excellent grade and had various magical effects. Under the blessing of the laws of heaven and earth, it had incredible lethality.
But to be honest, the weapon refining techniques in this world, taking the cloak knife in Zhou Laodao's hand as an example, are extremely crude and have no highlights at all!
Lu Yu's own weapon-refining skills were also 100% standard "parallel imports".
Even so, Lu Yu couldn't stand Zhou Laodao's cloaked sword. After being influenced by Liangyitian and receiving a lot of knowledge from the old monk Hongchen, Lu Yu's vision and background were still quite high.
In addition, Lu Yi held power - although it was not great, his power and status were quite high.
With the blessing of the seal of the deputy governor of Loulan, Lu Yi ignited the Buddha's flame and burned the spiritual gold materials stored by the Zhou family, easily increasing the purity of the spiritual gold by several grades!
The spiritual gold materials stored in the Zhou family had been refined in advance. According to Zhou Laodao, they hired a famous "casting master" in Luoyi City as their "true disciple" who was responsible for "fire control" and "refining". They spent a lot of money to hire this person to do the work.
This kind of spiritual gold material is small in size, high in value, and easy to transport and store. Although it cannot be used for cultivation, it is real hard currency and is much more valuable than gold, silver and copper coins.
Therefore, the wealthy families in Luoyi all have a special warehouse to store these valuable rare metals.
However, even though these spiritual gold ingots that Zhou Laodao took out were said to be refined by "experts", Lu Yi's attitude was "scornful" - it was not known whether it was intentional or the other party's strength and means were limited. The metal impurities in these spiritual gold ingots, as well as some inexplicable messy auras, actually accounted for seven or eight percent!
With so many impurities used to cast weapons, one can imagine their quality.
In Liangyi Heaven, the former Baoyan Thousand-Handed Buddha cast Buddhist weapons. With the assistance of Buddhist magical powers and powerful divine thoughts, the purity of the materials he used to cast the Buddhist weapons reached a level of at least eighteen to nineteen nines.
Lu Yi had just arrived and was not familiar with the laws of the world, and his ability to influence and control them was minimal. Even so , with the blessing of the Loulan Deputy Town Seal, he used the Buddha's Flame to refine the spiritual gold materials, and the purity reached nine to ten nines.
It doesn't require any advanced refining techniques.
The spiritual gold produced in this world was far superior in status and grade to any casting material that Lu Yi had ever seen. Simply by randomly mixing two or three kinds of molten metals together, without the need for a mature formula or advanced smelting techniques, these metals naturally underwent extremely miraculous changes, forming a new alloy with extremely amazing comprehensive properties.
Strength, toughness, various additional attributes, degree of conformity with the basic Five Elements, all the standards are simply sensational.
Lu Yi then shaped the molten alloy at random, engraved some restrictions on refining equipment that he knew into it, and then cooled it with a secret method - Lu Yi even forgot the quenching step!
Even so, the weapon that Lu Yi had refined almost as a joke, as soon as it was formed, emitted an exclamation from the depths of Zhou Laodao and others, as if they were "bumpkins entering the city"!
That shape, that sharpness, that fierce aura!
The shapes of these weapons... Lu Yi plagiarized them... He had seen countless powerful monks and their disciples' magical weapons in Liangyi Heaven. Many of the weapons were made by those monks, especially young monks who loved beauty, according to their own aesthetic tastes. Each one had its own unique ingenuity and was beautiful.
Relying on some fragmentary impressions, Lu Yi plagiarized the appearance of these weapons and directly passed them off as his own original works, bringing these weapons to life.
To Zhou Laodao and his companions, these weapons with strange shapes and extremely beautiful lines were like their dream lovers, breathtakingly beautiful, insanely beautiful, and so beautiful that they almost made people cry .
As for the restrictions that Lu Yi built into these weapons... they were really not that smart.
Even so, it was already beyond the imagination of Zhou Laodao and others.
When Zhou Laodao picked up the seven-foot-long wolf-fang wind-breaking sword and easily split the cloak sword that he had loved so much in his life into two pieces with one stroke, and there was not even any sound of metal collision, only a slight "hiss" sound, Zhou Laodao and the Zhou family members who knew the origin of Zhou Laodao's cloak sword and the price it cost, all cursed.
They cursed a certain unscrupulous "master foundry" in Luoyi, and swore that if they had the chance, they would knock him out, tie up his fat sheep, and drain all the dirty money he had earned in his life.
Lu Yi just smiled and said nothing.
The master forger may have tried his best, but the external conditions and overall environment are like this. Even if he wants to cast a real masterpiece for you, he is probably powerless, right?
You can’t blame them. You really can’t blame them!
Lu Yi forged hundreds of swords, spears, halberds and other sharp weapons, and forged a strong bow for Zhou Changgong, with 1,800 palm-length three-edged armor-piercing arrowheads. In the Zhou family's warehouse, there are excellent arrow shafts and feathers. With these arrows, with a little processing, they can be a sharp arrow with amazing lethality, enough to easily penetrate the spiritual gold armor on the soldiers of the Luo family's private army!
With weapons of sufficient power, and a large amount of spiritual gold in the Zhou family's warehouse, Lu Yi thought about it and forged them more than a dozen sets of half-body plate armor with the simplest manufacturing process. These armors covered the vital parts of the chest and back, which greatly enhanced the survivability of Zhou Laodao and others on the battlefield...
According to what Lu Yi saw, the so-called heavenly soldiers in Luoyi City were simply unable to break the armor refined by Lu Yi.
Finally, the dull sound of horse hooves was heard outside.
The army stationed outside the west gate of Luoyi, the West Gate Cavalry Camp, finally entered the city under the command of Xu Damabang, and hurried all the way to the outside of the Big Knife Workshop.
Luo Bo's face looked a little unhappy.
From the time he sent people to greet Xu Damabang, to the time Xu Damabang led nearly 10,000 cavalrymen into the city, the time it took was several times longer than he expected!
After asking a few questions to the tribesmen who were sent to do the job, Luo Bo snorted coldly and stomped his feet hard.
Sure enough, someone intervened.
Although according to the rules, the city gates of Luoyi must not be opened after nightfall, but with the power of the Luo family in Luoyi, opening the city gates and sending the army into the city is as easy as pie.
But tonight, there are obstacles everywhere.
Xu Damabang showed no cooperation and dragged his feet for a long time. At the two city gates of the new city and the old city, the city gate officers also tried their best to delay.
"Qin family, Lin family!" Luo Bo sneered a few times.
During the day, Xu Damabang, who had just met Zhou Laodao, slowly got off his mount, walked slowly in front of Luo Bo, and bowed to Luo Bo: "Elder Luo...hiss..."
Xu Damabang saw Ma Shangfeng lying on the ground.
Looking at the wounds on Ma Shangfeng's body, Xu Damabang couldn't help but look at Luo Bo: "Is this really Zhou Laodao's doing?"