The Taoist ancestor is Cthulhu

Daozu is Cthulhu Chapter 378 Jingbian Gang

Li Fan quickly checked the dead people on the boat. These people were killed by a magic weapon similar to a steel needle that penetrated the heart veins at the top of their skulls. They were all killed in one blow and silenced. The flying boat was also tampered with and would soon deviate from the route and crash.

So Li Fan stayed soon, sent the Mingguang talisman to leave a signal, and sent a talisman to report the news to Nanzhen, not far away. He picked up the basket and fled south immediately with Li Tangyuan.

Li Fan felt something was wrong.

At first glance, it seemed as if Nangong Wushuang and Yuanying who attacked Feizhou were working together, one to restrain and the other to arrest, and they came to target Li Tangyuan, but this didn't make sense.

The first is the problem of Li Tangyuan.

If the other party has been tracking Li Tangyuan's whereabouts and can even ask Nangong Wushuang to take action directly, why not intercept him directly in Taohua Mountain? Wouldn't it be much easier with Nangong's army to encircle and suppress it?

Even if we don't deal with him on the Nangong family's territory, there were many opportunities in the past two days for Li Tangyuan not to be in Li Fan's sight, so he could sneak away from Lou Guan Road, right?

And if they really came for Li Tangyuan, wouldn’t it be over just after carrying the basket? Why is there any need to do this extra thing? After attacking the flying boat, we have to kill innocent people indiscriminately and eradicate the living, and fake it to cause a crash?

Therefore, Li Fan felt that this was more like an accident than a carefully planned trap.

Yes, it was accidental. Because it was accidental, the other party had to sort out the beginning and the end subconsciously.

And this accident was caused by Li Qingyue.

After all, with the current turmoil in Liqiu Palace and the impending collapse of the king, the moment the name 'Li Qingyue' appears on the ultimatum of Lou Guandao in Nanzhen, it will inevitably attract the attention of a large number of people.

Wei Hu could have a lot of thoughts to persuade him to join, and Wang Lang could rush to him and ask him what he thought. Naturally, there were a lot of eyes in the shadow, staring at Li Fan from behind, and even falling on him. It's on a girl whose eyebrows are somewhat similar.

So could it be that by chance, someone saw some kind of ‘opportunity’?

Finally, there is the problem of Nangong Wushuang.

Seriously, what is wrong with Nangong Wushuang? Of course, Li Fan is not belittling his talent, it is an irrefutable fact, but if a person can be talented, at least he must not be stupid, but what about Nangong Wushuang's performance?

Dressed up in a flashy and domineering manner, he looked like a vindictive rooster at first glance. He made no attempt to 'contain' or 'communicate' at all. He didn't even mention legitimate requests such as "bring my girl back" throughout the whole process. He just came up directly. One sentence, "Marquis Guannei! I'm going to beat you up!"... Are you a bad high school student somewhere...

Therefore, Li Fan subconsciously suspected that Nangong Wushuang might be true and did not know that Li Fan had kidnapped anyone from the Nangong family.

Of course, this is probably not the first time that the Nangong family has been used as a weapon.

In fact, Li Fan now very much doubts that the meaning of the Nangong family's existence so far is to be used as a gunman.

If there is anything more useful than a brainless person who does all kinds of evil, it can only be a family of idiots who do all kinds of evil, right?

After all, it is understandable that Mo Zhushan wants to sign a no-fight agreement with the Nangong family to avoid a multi-front war, but why should the Nangong family agree? Why should we miss this great opportunity to attack Mozhu Mountain? Do those mentally retarded people really have the same forbearance and overall perspective as Mo Zhushan?

We passed by the foot of Peach Blossom Mountain and saw that Nangong on the ground floor was intent on walking alone. He was sharpening his sword with a mere golden elixir and wanted to attack the city! But the staff generals at the top were very restrained. Wei Hu was so forced that they just gave in and had no intention of breaking up with Mo Zhushan.

Therefore, Li Fan speculated that there must be some people among the Nangong family's allies or backers who do not want to start a direct war with Mo Zhushan now.

Is it Hengshan? Or a theistic religion?

Li Fan was not sure, but the reality was that under their pressure, the Nangong family really stopped fighting.

Therefore, this group of people must have a reason to maintain the "no war". Li Fan does not need to know what the reason is, but he also knows that the enemies of this group of people must have a reason to destroy the "no war".

Xuantian, "So what do you think happened?"

Li Fan thought about it and said, "Nangong Wushuang didn't leave the camp recently, someone arranged for him to block me a long time ago.

Well, I think their goal is 'Li Qingyue'. Most likely, they want to prevent 'Li Qingyue' from interfering with the change of Li Guo's leadership. But 'Li Qingyue' is a disciple of Mozhu Mountain and a disciple of Xuanmen, so ordinary people cannot take action.

But because of the relationship between 'Li Yi' and Prince Guangling, and because of the enmity between Prince Guangling and Nangong Wushuang, Nangong Wushuang has the qualifications to personally deal with 'Li Qingyue'.

Maybe someone wants to fish in troubled waters and kill 'Li Qingyue' in the chaos, sparking a fight between the Nangong family and Mo Zhushan. Or maybe Nangong Wushuang will actually make three moves to save 'Li Qingyue''s life and avoid disputes between the two families.

In short, even if someone really died, it was 'Li Qingyue' who was looking for revenge on Nangong Wushuang. His skills were inferior to others, he did not know his own abilities, and it had nothing to do with his master's sect.

But the other party didn't expect that 'Li Qingyue' didn't come back with Yao Supervisor's silk boat, and she also carried one more person on her back.

Tangyuan's identity should not be in the opponent's calculations, so they wanted to rob someone just in case, or on a temporary basis. To find out what happened, they naturally had to clean up and kill everyone on the flying boat.

but……"

Xuantian, "But Nangong Wushuang lost."

Yes, Nangong Wushuang lost, and that was the end of it.

In the final analysis, this world still respects the strong, and there are a lot of calculations, and it's useless if you can't win.

Probably, even if Li Fan really beat Nangong Wushuang to death on the spot, he could also play a trick of "Li Yi avenges his father". After all, blood revenge in this world belongs to human justice, which is very consistent with the world's three views, and may not necessarily be the case. This led to the breakdown of the no-war agreement between Nangong and Mo Zhushan. Maybe it can even be sung and become famous all over the world.

But Li Fan didn't want to avenge the Guangling Crown Prince.

That's not a good thing either.

In short, this disaster is over, temporarily.

But considering that as soon as he left the country, there would be such a murderous plot waiting ahead, Li Fan was also upset.

He simply didn't go to Changsi City, lest some smart guy set a trap for him and cause trouble to the division by killing people, so he simply took a detour. Anyway, you won't get lost when you arrive in Liguo. After all, you just need to follow the grain team transporting the baggage, find the Li River, and then fly westward until you reach Lou Guan Pagoda.

Li Fan had no intuitive idea of ​​Li Guo's wealth before, but when he passed by the clouds in the sky and looked at the endless and busy business roads on the ground, he couldn't help but be surprised.

Population, too much population.

On the way south, there are villages and towns everywhere. Between the adjacent fields, there are cattle and sheep everywhere. Farmers and caravans are wandering around. You can see people wherever you fly. The smoke from the kitchen was formed into flakes, and when viewed from a high position, it looked like a swarm of ants.

This is actually nothing abnormal, because although Liguo is fine, the world has long been in chaos. Thousands of refugees from the Kun and Xun Kingdoms are turbulent in the world, and the turbulent waves finally convey the voice of the troubled times. When they arrived at Liguo in southern Xinjiang, there was an endless stream of people pouring into the border areas.

Of course, the Taiwei Wang E did not allow these refugees to stay in Nanzhen and disrupt the military planes, and the Liguo clan could not afford so many slaves, so the destination of these people was actually the same as Li Fan, Mozhu Mountain.

When there are too many people, there will be chaos. Li Fan followed the large group of refugees for a while and found that... the situation was actually not bad?

After all, the refugee groups that have been able to make it all the way out of the country have generally formed a non-governmental organization that sticks together, with a refugee commander as the leader to deal with the government. It is unlikely that there will be conflicts with local residents.

There are endless bastards in the Li Kingdom court, but it cannot be denied that there are also some advantages, because this is the forefront of the Immortal Palace's southward reclamation, and there has always been a policy of attracting refugees to open up new lands, so there will be no expulsions. Things like fighting against refugees.

Moreover, after actually seeing Li Guo with their own eyes, people in the Central Plains could intuitively see the difference between the ‘Southern Barbarians’ and the Central Plains.

There are many boats.

On the waterways of rivers and waterways, there are dense fleets of ships going back and forth. From time to time, mechanical airships fly by in the air. There are ships everywhere!

Ahem, after all, there is not much livestock power in southern Xinjiang, and cattle and horses are valuable resources for farming and warfare, so Li Guo usually uses various mechanical boats and vehicles improved by Tiangong Peak...

Of course, there is another reason. These ships are transporting food to the army in Bianzhou.

A conservative estimate is that 200,000 soldiers and horses will eat 150,000 stone rice and 200,000 stone beans a month. This does not include meat and game, as well as the loss of bows, horse armor, stomach banners, and various materials for the fort. In addition to spells, spells, and magic Utensils and other items were transported by flying boat, and other supplies, food and wages had to be transported by the imperial court.

Considering that Wang E's army had been out for several years and almost killed Li You, this huge financial burden would probably be unsustainable for any vassal state.

But I got support from Li Guo, and there seemed to be no problem.

Li Fan saw the thousand-stone large-cabin ship on the Li River, which was reinforced with magic spells, driven by mechanisms, and loaded and unloaded by wooden hands. The train seemed to be a long train, going back and forth on the river, and driving into the newly dug canal, transporting the entire country. The food was continuously transported to Bianzhou, and then loaded on mechanical vehicles such as wooden oxen and flowing horses. There was an endless stream of food, and it was transported to the Nanzhen camp day and night.

Li Fan also specifically asked the boatman and said that this is called "Jingbian Gang", that is, a fleet of thirty ships is called a gang to support the army in Jingbian. Tiangong Peak of Mozhu Mountain helped supervise the twenty gangs. The new thousand-stone ship can travel between the north and the south day and night to transport military supplies. The monthly transport capacity can be 2.4 million stone, which is actually far more than the current needs of the 200,000-stone army in Nanzhen.

But there was nothing that could be done about it. After all, the original plan was for a seven-way crusade, and a considerable part of the supplies for the Immortal Palace army would have to be transported by Li Guo. Therefore, in order to take care of the "Jingbian Gang" matter, Mozhushan exempted Li Guo from paying tribute for many years, and incidentally used part of its income to subsidize the court. In addition, coupled with tribute donations from powerful families and military expenditures allocated by the national treasury, shipbuilding and It opened the river, and finally maintained this supply line that ran through the Li River basin and reached Bianzhou.

In the end, who knew that Kun Country could actually lose this battle...

In short, the situation in the north is getting worse now. The Nangong family and Mo Zhushan have begun to confront each other again, so the 'Jingbian Gang' has maintained combat readiness. For almost five years, the military arsenal has piled up like a mountain. The army has built four new warehouses to store military supplies. , and Lieutenant Wang is also arranging rotational training for various armies, and training and farming. He has collected military camps several times, and he plans to retire here.

It was not cost-effective to transport a warehouse full of things back by empty boat, so a considerable number of refugees took the boat directly to the southern border of Mozhu Mountain for resettlement.

There are old grains in stock that can be eaten, and there are even boats to ride on. For a period of time, you can even work for relief, helping Nanzhen dig trenches and build city walls, and earn a little money. The refugees in the Central Plains said they were greatly shocked by Li Guo's national power. . It's all quite stable. There was no idiot who dared to gather a crowd to grab food from an army of 200,000 people.

It stands to reason that such a large-scale supply must be used to enrich one's own pockets. Li Fan sneaked in randomly to check, and did not see any major quality problems with the military supplies. On the contrary... it seemed a bit too good...

Well, mainly in terms of armaments, there are a lot of armor pieces, very many. It can be seen that they are mass-produced armor pieces. The quality is not as good as that of the Immortal Palace, but armor is armor after all. Each class ships thousands of armor pieces. The loss is not that severe, so the armor coverage rate is a bit exaggerated...

There are also crossbows, all kinds of crossbows, big and small, and bundles of arrows are lost. Well, Li Fan remembers that he was also the one who defeated the Immortal Party with a crossbow. He was very happy to see Wang Taiwei in this regard. The same thing as his hero. After all, the proportion of cultivators in Liguo’s army is too small. It’s useless to fight in the field, so it’s better to defend the city and shoot arrows...

But having said that, isn’t it a bit too much to prepare on this scale just to attack Nangong...

Xuantian said, "Mozhu Mountain probably does have plans to swallow up the Kun Kingdom."

This can’t be true... Isn’t the viewer a pacifist...

Xuantian, "With this kind of strength, it doesn't matter what you think in your heart. People around you will naturally push you to move. But it's strange that the group of illiterate people in Moshan are just that. This Lou Guandao Feng Qing Niu, he practices Taoism, uses talismans to refine elixirs, and actually knows how to govern a country... Why have I never heard of such a versatile person..."

Li Fan, "...Hey, Xuantian is going too far! Remember that jellyfish head! As big as the world is, there are always wise men hiding in the countryside. You need to visit the thatched cottage three times to invite them out, you know!"

Xuan Tian, ​​"Where did I mention the jellyfish head... You better keep a close eye on yourself, as the viewer doesn't think something is right."

Li Fan was stunned. Something was wrong with the viewer? Are you kidding me? What's wrong with such a nice person?

Xuantian, "Of course something is wrong. Do you really believe that there are good people in this world?"

Li Fan, "..."

Xuantian, "I am not saying that he is not a good person, maybe that Feng Qingniu is indeed soft-hearted. It is not impossible to be rare. But such a rare person should be famous.

If you want to know the three major sects who have been fighting and killing each other for many years, the sects will definitely ask about who has what kind of characters. When the juniors grow up, they have been in contact with each other to some extent, so there are famous and talented people, and everyone knows each other. Everyone knows the basics.

But that Feng Qingniu looked like it was popping out of a stone. How could a Taoist with astonishing qualifications be hidden in a place like Southern Xinjiang? If it's just the realm of divine transformation, that's fine, but the seeds of enlightenment... can't be hidden so well... Only this kind of person is willing to tolerate it, and staying in such a remote place is the problem..."

It’s not a remote country now, okay... although it must have been wild before...

Li Fan couldn't help but frown, it had to be said that it was a little strange, but maybe the master of the temple had been practicing in seclusion and had no desires or pursuits?

Xuantian, "Haha, look at the things he did in Liguo. Are they from the Yinxian sect? He has no desires and no pursuits. Haha, there are no saints in this world. Some people have selfish hearts, and some people have selfish desires. , it seems that he is not fighting against the world, but he can't fight for what he wants to fight for now, so he can only endure it.

Do you know that Yao Xuanzhou only respects me as his senior, but has never accepted me as his teacher? "

Li Fan had guessed it, and was not surprised. When Lou Guandao became the next head, there was no need to take over such a big cause and effect of the Sword Sect.

Xuantian, "After he promised to take charge of Mozhu Mountain, he could arrange a dojo for my Sword Sect to pass on the Taoist tradition. He would treat you as an ally with the remnants of casual cultivators in Zhushan. He also promised to try his best to protect you in exchange for the sword-making skills of our Sword Sect." technique.

Hey, my majestic Beichen Sword Sect, he actually regards me as a remnant of the extermination of the sect like those casual cultivators, and only cares about my sword-making skills?

Hey hey hey, it’s just that you didn’t know how powerful my Sword Sect was at the beginning, but he knew everything about it, and he was actually able to guard Lou Guan Dao Daozang, and he didn’t even care about my Sword Sect’s secret manual?

Hehehehe, do you really think that I don’t know the details about Lou Guandao? If he has any amazing magical skills, how could he be forced to come to Nanman?

Hehehehehe... Yao Xuanzhou is not an arrogant person. He only learned the art of sword control and the art of making swords because he really didn't like the others. UU read www.uukanshu． net

So you understand, a mediocre, unknown, indifferent person cannot teach such an arrogant disciple. "

...However, maybe it was the Thousand-Faced Immortal who passed down the special technique to Lou Guandao...

Xuantian, "Forget it, is there anyone in the world who can practice Taisu Dao faster than you? That Thousand-Faced Immortal is already stalking you!"

Well, this is true...

Xuantian, "I only know that those who are extremely courteous and courteous to others must have other things to ask for. Those who are generously rewarded may have to pay with their lives."

He doesn't need your help to reshape his true body and create a sect. You are not the direct disciple of Lou Guandao's head, so why do you keep saving you like this?

If I knew what he had done before and what his reputation was, I could give him a few words of warning, but I don't know his details. Alas, you should be more careful. "

Well, this guy Xuantian has the character of a lonely star. He guesses people and does evil. No one easily believes him, so it's not surprising.

Sometimes, Xuantian's experience is valuable, but he has been slapped in the face a lot, so he can only serve as a reference.

Li Fan is not careless. He is indeed not particularly worried. After all, if a person can pretend occasionally, can he pretend all the time? That fake thing is also real. Even if the master of the temple really turns dark, he can't be more sinister than the old thief of manifestation, right?

But now that Xuantian has mentioned this, Li Fan is indeed a little curious as to what the audience expects from him.

Is it enough to protect Mozhu Mountain and inherit a human heart?

Although this is what he is doing now, and he has even taken down a cruiser, but maybe there is something else that needs his help?

Just like Xuantian said, if the temple owner is so mysterious... then he must have an epic mission in hand, right?

Anyway, wait until you get back and ask in person.