Starting as a clan leader: My rules are a bit wild.

win?

It was indeed a victory.

But our side was also littered with corpses.

From the perspective of proportion, it may not be a big deal, but if we analyze it from the perspective of the number of casualties... it is equally extremely tragic!

silence.

No one cheered, and no one jumped for joy.

Everyone fell silent, and then quietly dealt with the battlefield or healed their wounds. Some people also cried silently, grieving for their friends, companions, fellow disciples, and relatives who had fallen in the battle.

People often say that when a country prospers, the people suffer, and when a country perishes, the people suffer.

In fact, it is almost the same for cultivators.

However, what they are facing is not rise and fall, but a war like this, which, regardless of victory or defeat, will eventually leave many wounds, and these wounds will take time to heal.

And this kind of war has to be fought.

If we retreat, it will only cause more trouble later.

The nine holy places decided to continue sending people to hunt and kill!

Led by the Holy Mother of All Flowers, Gu Xinglian, they use the power of the Sky-Viewing Mirror to kill as many as possible until the enemy flees madly and dares not show their heads again!

“In this battle, we must hurt and scare the overseas barbarians! Even if we cannot wipe them out in one fell swoop, we must make sure that they will never cause any trouble again.” The Lord of Wuji Palace spoke in a cold voice.

Gu Xinglian nodded and responded: "Of course."

"Otherwise, with their wolfish ambitions, they will definitely not give up. Maybe they will come again in a few years, over and over again, endlessly. Wouldn't that cause endless troubles?"

"When we are still here, we can suppress them, but who knows what the situation will be like in a few years? We must destroy them if we need to! Even if it is more difficult, even if people think we are being devoured, it doesn't matter."

"Hunt!"

"···"

They reacted very quickly.

Less than half an incense stick of time after the war stopped, the elite troops set out immediately. Under the leadership and guidance of Gu Xinglian, they broke into the boundless ocean to hunt down and clear out the overseas monks.

After the overseas monks in the Northwestern Region were defeated, the monks on the mainland immediately set about reinforcing the Northern and Western Regions after cleaning up the battlefield.

only···

Overseas monks are not fools either.

After learning that the Northwest Territory had suffered a crushing defeat and had no chance of winning, they had no desire to fight anymore and immediately threw away their weapons and fled madly.

Therefore, most of the monks from the mainland who went to provide support came back empty-handed.

Afterwards, they left some people to guard against the overseas monks' counterattack before they died, while the rest began to disperse, returning to their homes while clearing out the overseas monks who had sneaked into the inland, as well as...

To deal with those forces that were infiltrated by overseas monks in previous years.

Since you are going to do it, you naturally have to do it to the best of your ability.

Everything that could be cleaned was cleaned for him.

Thoroughly hurt and scare the overseas monks, and cut off their retreat!

This is a fight for ourselves and for future generations. Not many people will hesitate or be afraid. Even if there are dangers, we will not be afraid and will face the challenges head-on.

At this point, Lu Ming was free.

He took Wen Ruyan and Lai Wu, who had turned into an ordinary turtle, on his journey home.

At the same time, overseas, in a special place.

A group of powerful people gathered here using secret projection techniques.

Everyone seemed to be made up of colorful light, which should have made them look sacred. But at this moment, each of them looked lifeless, without any joy, and their expressions were uglier than if their parents had died.

There were even a few people who were left with only half of their bodies, or with broken arms and legs...

"How could this happen?!"

Finally, someone spoke, but it was only a roar and a hiss.

"Didn't the Taoist astrologer say that only after a thousand years of action would there be a 100% chance of survival? Why is it that even though we took action immediately and gave it our all, we are still in this situation?"

As soon as he opened his mouth, he also opened up other people's mouths.

They were burning with anger, and their rage seemed to have found an outlet, so they started cursing.

"More than that!"

"This is not a sure death. This battle has directly destroyed our overseas base. I'm afraid we won't be able to develop for tens of thousands of years! And that's even if we don't kill them all in the inland areas."

"If they kill us all, even if we are not killed completely, we will completely withdraw from the historical stage of Xianwu Continent and will no longer have the strength to fight!!!"

"Unless... unless there is an internal conflict on the mainland, and the internal conflict is so severe that only one tenth of the combat power remains, then maybe if we can develop quietly for another ten million years, we will still have a chance to compete with them again???"

“It’s just…”

"Astrology Taoist!!!"

"Damn you, Taoist astrologer, you have caused us so much trouble!"

"The future of countless monks and lives overseas was ruined in his hands. He is absolutely to blame!"

"That's right! He said at the beginning that he would kill us all after a thousand years, and he also said that we should fight right now. Ha, what a good fight right now! It's not that we will die all the time, but that we will die all the time for tens of thousands of years, or even be exterminated!!!"

"He deserves to die!"

"It's damn true!"

"···"

Everyone is scolding.

Crazy criticism of the astrologer.

"Just wait, I'm not far from his burial place. I'll rush over immediately, dig out his body and whip it!"

"I will skin him alive, pull out his tendons, and burn him to death. I will make sure he doesn't even rest in peace. I will also refine his skin into an evil magic weapon. I want..."

When others heard this, not only did no one try to stop him, they even cheered!

"Yes, that's it!"

"Many of my fellow Taoists have died without a trace, but he died comfortably? You wish!"

"He must pay for what he has done."

"In my opinion, he is a traitor!!!"

Seeing that everyone was getting more and more excited, someone became a little more rational and couldn't help but say, "Fellow Taoists, everyone, please listen to me, how about that?"

"What do you want to say?!"

"Do you want to plead for him?"

"Are you a traitor too?"

The man was helpless and sighed, "It's easy to find a pretext to accuse someone. I know that everyone is upset after this defeat and continues to vent their anger, but this may not be the fault of the Taoist fortune teller, nor is it necessarily that he deliberately harmed us."

"I was one of the people who went to force the Taoist astrologer to do divination. At that time, we all believed that there was no chance of survival after a thousand years, so we should take action immediately."

"But now that I think about it carefully, the scene is still vivid in my mind."

"What's going on?!"

Although anxious and angry, they will not bite anyone they see.

After all, he is a person of strength and status, so they are willing to give him a chance to explain.

"then···"

The man smiled bitterly and said, "After the divination was over, the Taoist priest was punished by heaven and almost died. After he said the words 'If you attack in a thousand years, you will die without a chance of survival', he was struck by lightning and was on the verge of death."

"So, in fact, he didn't say what the chances of winning are if he takes action now."

"Just said: 'And now strike . . . '"

"Before he finished speaking, he had already died and his soul dissipated."

"But we naturally think that if he attacked a thousand years later, he would have revealed the secret of heaven, so he was killed by the backlash of heaven. But if he attacks now, since it is 'but', combined with the context, it means that he has a chance to attack now, and he can even win a great victory."

"But in the end, these are all our speculations, there is no evidence..."

"Just now, everyone was blaming the Taoist astrologer. Suddenly, I thought, could it be that we misunderstood what the Taoist astrologer meant?"

"In fact, the reason why the Taoist priest was killed by the backlash was not because he leaked the secret that there would be a 1000-year war in which there would be no survivors?"

"Or, in other words, the real 'secret of heaven' is 'a battle at this moment', and he wanted to reveal the real secret of heaven, so he suffered a violent backlash in an instant, and then his soul was shattered and died?"

"And, is there a possibility that what the Taoist astrologer wanted to say was something like, 'If we act now, it will be even worse'?"

"So, is there a possibility that his deduction result is: if he attacks a thousand years later, he will die with no chance of survival, and if he attacks now, the situation will be even worse."

"Or if we act now, our foundation will be completely destroyed and we will have no chance at all?"

Everyone: "!!!"

"···"

These words silenced all the overseas bigwigs.

They had all heard that if someone attacked in a thousand years, there would be no chance of survival. They also knew that this was the result of the astrologers' deductions.

Therefore, everyone took it for granted that they should act now, without any hesitation at all, and just bet everything and go all out.

Even though they vaguely felt that something was wrong and knew that their own fighting power was actually a little insufficient, but considering that they had the astrologer's deduction as a basis, there shouldn't be anything wrong, right?

result! ! !

You're telling us now that the astrologer only told half of it.

It didn't even make it clear what would happen if we acted immediately???

Hey!

Isn’t this a fucking scam?

If what the astrologer really wants to say is "it's even worse now", then aren't we digging our own graves???

Damn it! ! !

Outrageous!

"Is this true?" Some people were confused and a little bit unbelieving.

The man sighed, "The fellow Taoists who went with me at the beginning are not all dead. If you don't believe me, you can find a way to contact other people and ask them."

Everyone: "..."

silence!

Silence is Cambridge tonight.

But this secret place is deathly silent at this moment.

Everyone was numb.

mainly···

What the hell is this?

He acted with great enthusiasm, gambled everything, and didn't even hold back on anything. He just risked everything and fought a desperate battle!

The reason for this is that the astrologer has given us all strength and confidence.

And now you tell me that the Taoist astrologer never said that, and what he meant might be that the consequences of taking action now would be even worse?

What a rip off!!!

No, how could this be called cheating? This is clearly cheating on the master!

It's still not right. My whole f*cking family and our ancestors have all been killed by you!

What the hell, what a fuss!!

"I do not care!"

Finally, someone spoke up again. The evil cultivator roared, "No matter how wrong you are, it's all his fault. If that's what you said, why would he waste his energy saying that there's no chance of survival after a thousand years? Wouldn't he have just said that he couldn't take action?!"

"If he said he couldn't do it, how could we have ended up like this?"

"Even if he deserves to die, I will make him die with regret. I will make a human skin drum out of his skin to control the poisonous insect..."

Everyone: "..."

"Ugh."

The monk who explained it before sighed, "He can indeed say that, but who would believe it when the people are so eager to fight?"