Chapter 63 Proxy War
After throwing Peng Xingtian, who was like a disabled man, was like a dog, the people from Lingjun Palace quickly withdrew from the western foot of Hengyun Mountain.
Chen Xun did not rush to return to Canglan and temporarily stayed in Hengyun Mountain as a guest.
Chen Xun claimed that he would not interfere in the affairs of the sect in the Northwest Territory, but it did not mean that he could not stay in Hengyun Mountain as a guest.
The Kaiyang Yu family did not react at all on the east bank of Xizehai. The Northwest Region Protectorate also pretended to be deaf and dumb, but the Lingjun Palace occupied the Qiyun Gate's troops and quickly retreated to retreat to the important area of the mountain gate.
They were obviously afraid that Chen Xun would not play as usual, so they directly led three thousand Wushan disciples to destroy Lingjun Palace.
The mountain protection array in Lingjun Palace is at the ban level. It is arranged according to the spiritual veins and can withstand the strong attack of the True Lord of Heaven. Even if Chen Xun can attack it, the price will be very high. Moreover, he cannot fall into Wushan in the chaotic sect war in the northwest region.
Fighting agent war is the best choice in Wushan.
Chen Xun saw more than a hundred disciples who escaped after Qiyun Sect was wiped out. Those with the highest cultivation level were only in the late stage of the fetal realm. Unless there was a demonic figure like Ji Lie among them, the Qiyun Sect, which had been passed down for thousands of years, would probably not see the hope of revitalization.
The situation in Hengyun Sect is better, at least most of the disciples can be preserved, but even if Gu Xuanzhen set up a ban-level magic array in Wangji Peak, which he had been practicing in seclusion on weekdays, was not broken at the last moment, but the spiritual vein rock layer deep in the mountain was seriously damaged.
The pavilions, palaces and pavilions within a radius of hundreds of miles and the cities and villages where mortal relatives live in scattered places were all destroyed without exception.
Hengyun Mountain, close to the West Cliff of Xizehai, is traversed by three thousand miles. In addition to the cliffs and abundant spiritual energy, it is suitable for first-class sects to establish a foundation here to inherit the Taoist tradition, and its geographical location is also extremely important.
To the west of Hengyun Mountain is the main granary in the Northwest Region and the ten most densely populated counties in Hengyun. The Shenjin River, which originates from Shenxiao Mountain, merges from the northern foot of Hengyun Mountain into the Xize Sea.
Through the Lingjun Hall, the Yu family in Kaiyang can control the fertile land of more than ten counties downstream of the Shenjin River and the 200 to 300 million people living and thirty million people living and thirty million people living and thirty million people on this land.
Population is always the most important resource.
The four Wushan sects had more than 6,000 disciples above the Immortal Realm at this time, and were all selected and cultivated from Canglan's hundreds of millions of people.
At the peak of the Northwest Region, there were as many as 200,000 cultivators in the Restoration Realm, and as many as 200,000 cultivators in the Tianyuan Realm.
Although the number of middle and high-level Xuan Cultivators in the Northwest Region has dropped sharply after the magic disaster, perhaps less than one-third of the time it was at its peak, as long as the Northwest Region sects do not continue to wither, as long as the 200 to 30 billion people in the Northwest Region continues to thrive on this land, and the number of cultivators in the Tianyuan Realm is likely to restore the old view within one or two hundred years.
As long as the Kaiyang Yu family controls Hengyun Mountain, although the number of advanced mystic cultivators above the Yuandan realm will be difficult to increase sharply, the number of low-level mystic cultivators in the Tianyuan realm that can be controlled by the commander may increase exponentially in one or two hundred years.
The three sects of Hengyun are in the southeast corner of Lingjun Hall. Hengyun Sect is located at the western foot, directly facing the Hengyun Plain. Qiyun Gate, located at the northeast foot, directly controls the downstream of the Shenjin River. Kaiyang Yu Family controls Hengyun Mountain through Lingjun Hall. Qiyun Gate and Hengyun Sect are two nails that must be pulled out.
Chen Xun stood in the clouds and looked at Qiyun City destroyed by Lingjun Hall on the northern foot of Hengyun Mountain.
Qiyun City was once the largest city controlled by Qiyunmen in the lower reaches of the Chenjin River. Together with the Qiyunmen Sect on the northern foot of Hengyun Mountain, it was destroyed by Lingjun Hall a month ago.
Large areas of houses were destroyed, and a large number of refugees were scattered in the wilderness on the south bank of the Jinjiang River, and they didn't know where to go.
More than a hundred disciples who escaped from Qiyun Sect all volunteered to join Hengyun Sect.
This means that the land on both sides of the northern foot of Hengyun Mountain and the lower reaches of the Shenjin River will automatically become the territory of Hengyun Sect, but the strength of Hengyun Sect at this time will be a problem to resist the attack of Lingjun Hall, let alone effectively control such a large area.
On this land, in addition to the three larger sects of Qiyun Sect, Lingjun Hall, and Hengyun Sect, there are dozens of other small and medium-sized sects and aristocratic clans with uneven strength.
Lingjun Palace has secretly supported Kaiyang Yu clan and is in full swing. These small and medium-sized sects and aristocratic clans obviously dare not tie them to Hengyun Sect anymore.
Chen Xun led three thousand Wushan disciples to stay in Hengyun Sect as a guest. Kaiyang Yu clan did not react at all. Lingjun Palace did not dare to poke out his fierce claws for the time being, but it did not mean that after Chen Xun left Hengyun Sect, Yu clan and Lingjun Palace would not move.
The disciples of Hengyun Sect who temporarily escaped the catastrophe still remained worried and were in a lifeless manner to deal with the mess left by the sect war.
Many disciples of Hengyun Sect have participated in the Demon Battle of the Thousand Demons and Sand Sea. They have a relationship with Chen Xun. In the past few days, they frequently look for Chen Xun, Zong Ya, Su Tang, Qingxuan and others to reminisce about the past few days. They reveal the idea of some of the disciples of Hengyun Sect, which is to move westward with the sect.
To the west of Tushan, although the western wasteland is extremely large, the environment is much worse than that of the northwest.
Even though there are some more majestic and steeper mountains in the Western Wilderness than Tushan, most of them are places with extreme evil spirits and are not suitable for sects to gain a foothold, let alone the wild tribes struggling to survive in the Western Wilderness, which are extremely rare in population.
If it weren't for this, Tushan alone wouldn't have stopped the Yunzhou Sect's expansion westward.
If it weren't for this, Ce Tianfu wouldn't have acquiesced to the four sects of Wushan to expand westward without limit.
In a vicious and wild place with evil spirits, no one can survive except for poisonous insects and beasts. It is meaningless to expand westward without restrictions on Wushan.
The areas where the human race is suitable for reproduction and habitation are mainly concentrated in the eight regions of Yunzhou controlled by the Jiang family and the six sects, and are also the essence of Yunzhou.
Just like the reason why everyone entered the Tianlu Secret Realm and tried desperately to strive for a foothold in the Tianhuo Mountains.
The Tianhuo Mountains are the only place in the Tianlu Secret Realm that is worthy of everyone's investment in resource development; other places are hundreds or thousands of times larger, and there is no meaning to occupy at this time.
Tushan was only after the disappearance of Tianyan, and became a Lingshan suitable for the sect to establish a foothold and inherit the Taoist tradition.
Before this, except for the desperate ancestor of the Su family, who led his clan members to move westward, only a few small and medium-sized sects such as Xuanhanmen and Yishan Sect gained footholds in the wasteland west of Tushan. Most of the situation was similar to the remnants of the Su family, and they moved westward after they were desperate.
Of course, no matter how barren the Western Wilderness is, there will be no place to settle the Hengyun Sect. However, after the Hengyun Sect moves out, thousands of sects of all sizes in the Northwest Region, and what choices will the aristocratic clans make, and the situation in the Northwest Region will develop in this way, is not something Chen Xun can predict at this time.
Of course, if Hengyun Sect really wants to re-enter the sect and move westward, Chen Xun will not refuse.
Even if he could not interfere in the affairs of the sects in the Northwest Domain at this time, sects such as Hengyun Sect moved westward, Cetian Mansion and the Northwest Domain would not stop them, and at the same time, they could greatly enhance the power of the Xuanxiu Sect west of Tushan.
It is impossible for Chen Xun and Wushan disciples to stay in Hengyun Mountain for a long time. Whether to leave or stay, the disciples of Hengyun Sect must make a decision immediately.
On the sixth day when Chen Xun stayed at Yashan on the northern foot of Hengyun Mountain, Gu Xuanzhen visited and directly talked about this matter:
"Wushan has really obtained the Taoist throne of the Shenxiao Sect. Is Chen Zhenren really unwilling to interfere in the affairs of the sect in the Northwest Territory?"
Chen Xun smiled and said, "Wushan can inherit the Taoist tradition of Shenxiao Sect, but Wushan has no choice but to say that even Qianjian Sect cannot return to Gushan, so it doesn't make much sense to say anything else."
Gu Xuan really thought it was true. No matter which company in Cetian Mansion finally decided to fill in the northwest territory, it was most likely to have a foothold in Gushan and encircle Xinmeng Mountain, Wuteng Shahai, Yuanwu County and other places, and it actually sealed the possibility of Wushan's influence in penetration east of Tushan, which was even more out of reach for Xizehai and Hengyun Mountain.
The Kaiyang Yu family had no response at all. To put it bluntly, it was also predicted that such a situation was so that they could have the intention of responding to changes in the same way as constant and calmly.
Gu Xuanzhen said: "Hengyun Sect has been passed down to me, and it is already the sixth generation. I will never abandon the tomb of the ancestors and leave, but I cannot force everyone to stay and burn with the jade stones of Lingjun Palace..."
Chen Xun understood Gu Xuanzhen's meaning. Most people from the Hengyun Sect would choose to stay and fight against the Lingjun Palace, but would arrange for young disciples to move westward and find one or two spiritual veins to temporarily settle down. Depending on the future situation, and make other plans, so as not to cut off the Hengyun Sect's Taoist tradition.
The arrangement of Hengyun Sect is most in line with Chen Xun's wishes, and he smiled:
"There is no clear statement from Cetian Mansion, but I know in my heart that they do not want the four sects of Wushan to develop east of Tushan; as for us, we must also clarify our position on not developing east of Tushan, and we will not even expand the sect to the ridges on the eastern foot of Tushan. In this way, the ridges on the eastern foot of Tushan will be empty. Hengyun Sect must arrange for some disciples to move westward, and we can lend one or two mountains..."
After Tushan, all the territory of the four sects of Wushan were located, but it was impossible for the four sects to develop and occupy all the spiritual resources in Tushan in just three to five hundred years.
Chen Xun is now picking one or two mountains from the eastern foot of the Yangtze River Sect to lend it to Hengyun Sect as a base. One is to strengthen contact with Hengyun Sect, and the other is to encourage Hengyun Sect and others to work with the Yu clan and other ambition forces, so there is no need to worry about not having a retreat.
Gu Xuanzhen was also very happy when he heard this. He was sure that Wushan could not really abandon the Northwest Region and ignored it. He just lacked the excuse of being able to directly intervene, and at the same time he did not want to have a handle to be captured by Ce Tianfu.
After hearing Chen Xun's words, Gu Xuan was confident and asked again: "Wushan weapon refining is famous all over the world. I wonder if Hengyun Sect can get one or two?"
Wushan was not convenient to directly interfere in the affairs of the sects in the Northwest Region, but he traded with Hengyun Sect with war equipment, magic weapons, etc. Chen Xun was not afraid of the Yu family, the Northwest Region Protectorate, and Ce Tianfu could bite him.
There are only five Yuandan real people in Hengyun Sect. Without a group of powerful weapons such as the Qingyan Lotus Arrow, it is impossible to fight against Lingjun Palace, which is strongly supported by Kaiyang Yu family.
Since we are going to fight an agent war, we must first be an arms dealer. While supporting the Hengyun Sect, we also ensure that a large amount of cultivation resources flow into Wushan in the northwest region.
As long as Hengyun Sect is indeed reliable, Chen Xun can even arrange for Hengyun Sect’s disciples to enter the Tianlu Secret Realm to practice.
Chapter completed!