Chen Hai, Qi Hanjiang, and Du Linan rushed back to Lukaixia, and Ge Xuanqiao was already waiting in Lukaixia. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"I've seen Ge Lao Zu ......" Du Linan didn't expect that Ge Xuanqiao, the first elder of the Patriarch Hall, would wait for them directly in Lukaixia, Ge Xuanqiao was Du Linan's ancestor in the sect, and he respectfully stepped forward to salute at this time.

The matter of Ge Xuanqiao's presence in Montenegro at this time, Taiwei Sect will not disclose it to the public, but Du Linan also knows about it, but he doesn't know why Ge Xuanqiao's ancestor suddenly rushed to Lucheng, and happened to be waiting for them in Lukaixia.

After Dong Ning's divine soul aura was also refined into the snake bracelet, no matter if it was thousands of miles away, Chen Hai only needed to pull Dong Ning's mind and mind into the Blood Cloud Wasteland together, and he could communicate directly, and the transmission efficiency was so high and accurate, I don't know how much higher it was than the spirit bird transmission.

Of course, if Dong Ning is not with Chen Hai, if the two of them want to enter the Blood Cloud Wasteland at the same time, they need Dong Ning's people to do it in Black Mountain - the entrance to the Blood Cloud Wasteland is actually in Black Mountain, and Chen Hai's Divine Soul Mind also re-enters the Blood Cloud Wasteland through Black Mountain, but the snake bracelet breaks the limitation of spatial distance.

Not only did Ge Xuanqiao rush to Lukaixia to meet Chen Hai directly, but after the merger of the Elite Army and the Royal Army, the 25,000 soldiers and horses had also started from Montenegro at this time, crossed the vast sand sea, and came directly from Lucheng.

Chen Hai told Ge Xuanqiao about the ambush of the demon god temple in the deep mountains in the south of Lukai Gorge.

"I haven't seen Miao Mingcheng for many years, this time I went to Lucheng to see him, he probably had the intention of devouring me alive......" Ge Xuanqiao thought of the Western Expedition twenty years ago, and he was also full of emotion.

Although Ge Xuanqiao had vigorously opposed the Tiger Ben's westward expedition twenty years ago, he alone was really insignificant and could not go against the overall will of the Taiwei Sect, and at that time, even if both the Taiwei Sect and the Dong clan opposed the westward expedition, they could not go against the strong will of the Ying clan, the lord of Yanzhou, to expand his territory.

Of course, Ge Xuanqiao also knew that the blood feud he had back then was not so easy to unravel.

Before the Western Expedition, the population of the Great Oasis of Pinglu exceeded 10 million, which was once sharply reduced to less than 3 million, and more than 60 cities in Pinglu were destroyed, and more than 40 cities were rebuilt in the past 20 years after the war.

This was only the loss of the Pinglu Oasis, when the real decisive battle took place in the Tahe Oasis where the Tibetan and Qiang states were located.

The Demon God Temple was once a sect several times more powerful than the Taiwei Sect, and the elite disciples and spirit beasts that had been raised for thousands of years were almost lost, and Miao Mingcheng's master, uncle, and more than a dozen brothers of the same generation and nearly 10,000 apprentices and grandchildren all fell in that battle.

"What, Old Ancestor Ge wants to enter Lucheng to see Miao Mingcheng?" Du Linan asked in shock.

Du Linan presided over the Taiwei Guild Hall, and he was also a standout figure in the sect, but why did Chen Hai say that this was the basis for Du Linan to be ignored in the Du family?

This is because of the blood feud twenty years ago, and several directors of the Taiwei Sect sent to Lucheng and Xiqiang Wangcheng were all assassinated in office.

The only thing left by the Taiwei Sect in the Pinglu Oasis is hatred, even if the Ye family intends to make friends with the Dong family and the Taiwei Sect, but every time they make an assassination, it will not be done in the end; the strength of the Taiwei Sect and the Dong Clan is useless in the Pinglu Great Oasis.

Knowing that Miao Mingcheng had the intention of devouring them alive, the manpower they deployed in Lucheng was far less than that of the Demon God Temple, and once Miao Mingcheng made trouble, the problem would be troublesome.

"If I don't come forward, how can I persuade the disciples of the Demon God Temple to withdraw from Pinglu?" said Ge Xuanqiao with a wave of his sleeves.

Hundreds of elite disciples of the Demon God Temple were lying in the deep mountains before the Lukai Gorge, if they were not discovered, it would definitely be a wonderful plan beyond the imagination of everyone in Hexi.

If Hexi intervenes in the civil strife in the Xiqiang Kingdom, it is unrealistic to transfer more than 100,000 troops from Tieliuling to the west in a short period of time.

The 13,400-mile journey from Tieliuling to Lucheng is a vast sea of sand, even if there are nearly 100 large and small oases that can be used as a springboard, but tens of thousands of soldiers and horses have entered more than 10,000 miles of grain and grass westward, how to solve it?

Hexi did not have long-term and sufficient preparations, and suddenly wanted to intervene in the civil strife of the Xiqiang Kingdom, and the most straightforward way was to dispatch one to twenty thousand of the most elite Dao soldiers to attack Lucheng with lightning speed, and control the entire Pinglu Oasis after converging the remnants of the Ye clan and defeating the rebels.

Hundreds of elite disciples of the Demon God Temple were ambushed in the deep mountains before Lukai Gorge, which was a trap laid for Hexi's surprise attack strategy, and they wanted to swallow Hexi's most elite 1 to 20,000 Dao soldiers in Lucheng at once, making Hexi bitter and unspeakable.

The soldiers and horses in Hexi are the most elite Taoist soldiers, but in Hexi, the most elite Taoist soldiers are less than 40,000 in total. If a quarter or even nearly half of the elite is lost all at once, it will be a painful blow to the Taiwei Sect, the Dong family, and Hexi.

At this time, Hexi was at odds with the Hexiang army in the south, the Musashi army was suspicious, and the demon barbarian tribes in the north were ready to move, and after such a heavy blow, Hexi would not have the ability to send troops west to retaliate against the demon temple in a short period of time.

Only by achieving such an effect can the Demon God Temple be called a big victory.

However, the ambush of the Demon God Temple in the south of Lukai Gorge has been exposed, and there is no possibility of sneaking up on the elite soldiers of Hexi Province in Lucheng.

After being reminded by Chen Hai, Du Linan swept away his frustration and thought that this possibility was extremely low.

Twenty years ago, during the Western Expedition, the Demon God Temple was so badly injured that it was far from recovering now, and it couldn't afford to bear too heavy casualties in a short period of time.

Otherwise, the Demon God Temple could completely interfere in the political affairs of the Xiqiang Kingdom openly, and even directly come forward to stop the Ye clan and the Hexi Dong clan of the Xiqiang royal family, instead of joining forces with the Zhang clan of Tianai Mountain to subvert the Ye clan under the pretense of the horse thief Kong Peng.

In this case, how could the Demon God Temple, which was far from recovering its vitality, dare to use one-third of its elite combat power to start a big battle with the Taiwei Sect on the edge of the Pinglu Great Oasis?

You must know that at this time, even if the Taiwei Sect was restrained by the Musashi Army and the Hexiang Army, even if it only drew out 10,000 elite soldiers to advance westward, even if it finally fought with the elite disciples of the Demon God Temple who were ambushed on the outskirts of Lucheng.

With such a defeat of both sides, the Taiwei Sect may only need three or five years to recover, while the Demon God Temple may take twenty or thirty years to recover, but the strength from regaining its peak time has become even slimmer......

Therefore, after confirming the traces of the ambush soldiers in the Demon God Temple, Chen Hai's strategy was very simple, that is, to directly find Miao Mingcheng, the elder of the Demon God Temple, and Su Chonghu, the eldest disciple of the Demon God Temple, who were lurking in Lucheng, to have a showdown and force the Demon God Temple to withdraw from the civil war in the Xiqiang Kingdom.

If the Demon God Temple does not retreat, then Hexi can only be forced to respond to sending troops to Pinglu Oasis, and the two sides will have a big battle in Lucheng or somewhere else in the Xiqiang Kingdom.

Hexi didn't directly send troops before, because he didn't want to get involved in a larger-scale war, but the Demon God Temple had directly sent hundreds of elite disciples, so Hexi's reaction couldn't be weak.

Therefore, Du Linan thought that it was still possible for the Demon God Temple to withdraw after the conspiracy was exposed, but he did not expect that Ge Laozu would personally enter Lucheng this time to find Miao Mingcheng, the elder of the Demon God Temple, for a showdown.

In case something goes wrong, Old Ancestor Ge died in Lucheng, and Du Linan really has no way to explain to the sect.

Du Linan hoped that Chen Hai would persuade Ge Laozu to act cautiously, but looking at Chen Hai sideways, Chen Hai frowned and looked into the distance, without the intention of persuading Ge Laozu at all, Du Linan sighed slightly in his heart, thinking that Chen Hai and Ge Laozu made a decision, and it was not something he could persuade each other.

Soon, more than 100 horsemen galloped towards this side, led by a sixty-year-old blue-robed sword cultivator, with a black giant sword behind him, and the whole person revealed a sharp edge.

This person is Zhao Jin, the head of the Zhao family in Lucheng, who cultivated in the late stage of the Ming Realm.

In addition to Zhao Jin, the Lucheng Zhao clan also has a Ming Realm powerhouse who is not yet thirty years old, and he is the leader of the younger generation in the Eastern Regions of Jinzhou, but because of Lucheng's position in the Pinglu Oasis, it is quite important.

The Zhao clan has two Insight Realm powerhouses, and there is no way to control the power of Lucheng alone.

Zhao Jin and more than 100 Zhao disciples behind him reined in their horses on the stone hill of more than 1,000 steps, and did not continue to move forward, but they did not suspect that Lu Kaixia was hiding an ambush, Zhao Jin's eyes swirled on the faces of Chen Hai and Ge Xuanqiao, he did not recognize Ge Xuanqiao, but he could feel Ge Xuanqiao's unfathomable cultivation more than 1,000 steps away.

Zhao Jin hesitated for a while before letting more than 100 disciples behind him stay where he was, and he rode alone to gallop towards Shitan.

"The Zhao clan, although it is not a big clan, still has two bones, and will never take refuge in foreign thieves," Zhao Jin said loudly, "I came here this time to persuade you not to waste your efforts, and not to think anything about Lucheng." Even if you detain me now, it won't work!"

"Taiwei Sect has no intention of interfering in Lucheng, let alone directly involved in the rebellion and counterinsurgency war of the Xiqiang Kingdom, and Ge Xuanqiao Ancestor and I are also guests invited by the Ye Clan," Chen Hai said, "But can Lucheng and the Zhao Clan stay out of the matter, Sect Master Zhao can send people to the deep gorge six hundred miles southwest to see how many ambush soldiers are hidden in the Demon God Temple, and then consider making a trade-off between the Zhang Clan's traitors and the Ye Clan's royal family!"

Lucheng agriculture, animal husbandry and handicraft industry are quite developed, with a population of nearly 300,000, farming, pasture and handicraft workshops, all accounting for almost one-third of the labor force, in addition, there are considerable caravans.

However, the distribution of the five surnames and clan industries in Lucheng between agriculture and animal husbandry, handicrafts and commerce is not absolutely balanced.

The Zhao clan attaches great importance to the skills of craftsmen, and the core industries are several large-scale workshops and caravans in the city.

Once the business path is cut off, the losses of the other four surnames are not so great, but the foundation of the Zhao family will be shaken immediately.

Therefore, between the Zhou family and the Zhao family, Chen Hai finally chose to meet Zhao Jin, the head of the Zhao family, not because he had much confidence in Zhao Jin, but because he knew that the foundation of the Zhao family was there.

Chen Hai didn't believe that the Zhao clan was really willing to see Lucheng's status weakened after being controlled by the Demon God Temple, and it became a small border city in the Xiqiang Kingdom that was as insignificant as Xuanfeng City.