(The fourth update is completed, and it is the first battle of the monthly ticket list to the last minute...... ）

Although it was only a matter of time before Chen Lie became the deputy envoy of the Yulong Battalion and gave him the title of Marquis of Fengting, it also required the official writing of the imperial dynasty to settle down. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Canonized as the Pavilion Marquis, Chen Lie officially squeezed into the ranks of the high-level of the Wuwei Army, and there will also be a formal fief to raise tribes and house slaves, and will also become one of the four main branches of the Chen clan from the side branch of the Chen family;

Previously, whether it was Chen Zhang or Chen Qing, they all officially entered the inner gate of the Taiwei Sect to practice after opening up the Linghai Secret Palace.

Zhou Jun and Ge Tong were also very happy, they followed Chen Hai and were already regarded as Chen Lie's descendants; Chen Lie was awarded the title of Pavilion Marquis, and their status in the army or in the sect was naturally rising.

"The New Year is approaching, will Senior Brother Chen go down the mountain in two days to celebrate this matter to Uncle Chen?" Zhou Jun asked with a smile.

Chen Hai grabbed the lacquer-sealed wooden box containing the four Tongmai Pills and said, "Three days later, we will go down the mountain together to celebrate the gift to my uncle......

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Three days later, the sky was just showing the white of the fish's belly, and the surrounding mountains were still shrouded in snow.

After Chen Hai finished his morning class and asceticism, he led the green cunning horse and slowly walked down the Xiling Mountains of the Snake Valley, Wu Meng, Ge Tong, and Zhou Jun had already packed their bags and waited for Chen Hai to come down in front of Xiling Mountain......

They had to arrive at the Jade Dragon Mansion City before nightfall, and they had to set off from the Medicine Master Garden before dawn.

Seeing that Chen Hai's scarred face was covered with a faint layer of porcelain white luster, and only Wu Meng's cultivation in the middle stage of the Spirit Realm could clearly see what kind of sign this was, his expression perked up, and he said: "The young master has already stepped into the late stage of the Tongxuan Realm, congratulations......"

Chen Hai smiled slightly and said, "The main qi veins of Zu Mingyang and Hand Mingyang are relatively good for cultivation, but I have used four Tongmai Pills, which may not be something worth celebrating in the eyes of others." ”

Wu Meng, Zhou Jun, and Ge Tong all smiled awkwardly, and they didn't know how to comfort Chen Hai.

Chen Hai stepped into the late stage of the Tongxuan Realm, and shared five Tongmai Pills before and after, plus the consumption of other pills, the total consumption of pills alone was no less than 40,000 sect merits, and he only cultivated four spiritual veins.

In comparison, Zhou Jun successfully opened up the Spirit Sea Secret Palace on the basis of the six spiritual veins, and the total consumption of pills over the years was less than 10,000 sect merits, and the comparison between the two can be imagined.

What's more, Chen Hai has already taken five Tongmai Pills, and if he takes Tongmai Dan again, the medicinal power will be greatly weakened.

And the four main qi veins that Chen Hai cultivated at this time, Zu Shaoyang, Zu Ming Yang, Hand Shaoyang, and Hand Ming Yang, were still the easiest of the twelve main qi veins to cultivate, and the possibility of using the Tong Mai Pill to break away the other main qi veins was extremely low.

This means that Chen Hai may only be able to open up the Spirit Sea Secret Palace on the basis of the four spirit veins, and his strength to step into the Spirit Clearing Realm and the potential for subsequent cultivation will be greatly limited, not to mention that he is on a par with those genius sect lords, and he may not even be as good as ordinary inner disciples.

Seeing that Wu Meng, Zhou Jun, and Ge Tong had a depressed atmosphere, Chen Hai laughed, and Ge Tong helped prepare his bags, and rode his horse to the newly built mountain road, and galloped in the direction of Huanglongyuan first......

From the beginning, he knew that he was destined to take a path of cultivation that was more difficult than that of ordinary people, and in less than two years, he would be able to successfully cultivate the four spiritual veins, step into the late stage of the Tongxuan Realm, and clear the obstacles for opening up the Spirit Sea Secret Palace, which was far better than he expected.

Since he was destined to take a different path of cultivation, why should he care about these minor troubles?

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The Wuwei army vigorously operated Yulong Mountain, and the Hexiang army also greatly expanded its armaments in Yanchuan Province to the south, but nearly half a year passed, and neither side made any further moves.

I can't see who will make a move in a short time, after all, they are not fully prepared.

The New Year is approaching, and the whole of Yulong Mountain is also immersed in the atmosphere of celebrating the New Year.

Accompanied by Wu Meng, Ge Tong, and Zhou Jun, Chen Hai walked zigzag in Yulong Mountain for most of the day before galloping out of Yulong Mountain and entering the newly built Yulongfu City in the north of Chenqiao Village.

In the afternoon, it snowed again in the mountains, the north and south of Yulong Mountain were covered with plain water, the newly built Yulongfu City was more majestic than Chen Hai imagined, and the city wall built according to the topography of the mountain range stretched for twenty or thirty miles, not slightly smaller than the Mengyi City at the eastern foot of Tieliuling.

Even if 200,000 hard laborers were requisitioned, it would be impossible to build such a majestic city in just half a year, and it must be that a large number of Xuan Xiu who were proficient in earth system techniques were drawn from Shangqifeng to participate in the construction of the city.

The black city wall as a dragon lurking, all twenty or thirty meters high, extremely majestic, poured iron juice between the boulders, the city wall is also engraved with a large number of road seals, faintly affecting the mysterious power between heaven and earth, so that any point of this city wall can withstand the attack of the strong people in the Ming Realm.

Chen Haikong stopped in front of the city wall, not in a hurry to enter the city, his heart was full of emotion, it was hard to imagine how many resources were used to build such a majestic city in half a year.

Since the Wuwei Army has such abundant resources, why did Yulong and other prefectures and counties continue to be fierce for several years, but they did not actively provide relief, and waited until the displaced people were in turmoil and the local government could not suppress it, so they could deal with it in a panic?

Or did the Metropolitan Protectorate need such a civil unrest on the border with the Hexiang Army in order to have an excuse to expand its armaments?

Chen Hai didn't dare to speculate, but he could already get a glimpse of the true strength of the Wuwei Army from the construction of the Jade Dragon Mansion City, and secretly thought in his heart that the Hexiang Army had taken the wrong medicine to provoke the fierce beast of the Wuwei Army.

During this time, Chen Hai devoted great efforts to the study of the military town system of the Great Yan Empire and the many military towns that occupied most of the land in Yanzhou.

Although the Hexiang Army has two peerless powerhouses in the Dao Fetal Realm, one of whom is the deputy envoy of the Heavenly Council of the Imperial Court, but within the rule of the Hexiang Army, the phenomenon of the clan lords monopolizing the cultivation resources is even more serious, and the disciples of the Han Sect can only rely on the clan lords and clans to have the opportunity to practice.

It seems that this outdated system has made the clan lords and clans in the Hexiang army more powerful, but it is precisely because of this that the Hexiang army system is not down, and the internal sect lords contain each other, so that the Hexiang army has been actively expanding its armaments in the south of Yulong Mountain in the past six months, but the effect is not great.

Although the Hexiang army hoarded a lot of soldiers and horses in the south of Yulong Mountain, and the number of famous Mingqi Realm powerhouses was even more than that of the Yulong camp, the construction of the Fangzhai Pass was much worse than that of the Wuwei army.

Chen Hai didn't know what others thought, he knew that the Wuwei Army wanted to send troops from Yulong Mountain, and he only needed to concentrate on conquering a few cities, and he could directly point to the hinterland of the Hexiang Army, and even if the Hexiang Army wanted to take Yulong Mountain at this time, it would have to pay a lot of price before the more than 30 new walled city passes along the dangerous valley of Yulong Mountain.

In the world, people are still generally staring at those who have cultivated above the Ming Realm and Dao Dan Realm, but Chen Hai knows that the overall mobilization ability of the Wuwei Army is much stronger than that of the Hexiang Army.

And the time and place are favorable, and the Hexiang Army has scored negative in both people and geography, Chen Hai secretly feels that it may not be long before Wuwei Shenhou Dong Liang is going to decide to send troops, right?

"I didn't expect that the Dadu Protector General's Mansion would be determined to build the Jade Dragon Mansion City so majestic. Zhou Jun also praised with great emotion.

"It seems that there will be a battle between the Wuwei Army and the Hexiang Army!" Chen Hai said what was in his heart.

"What do you say?" Ge Tong asked suspiciously, "If you really want to go to war, why waste such a huge amount of resources to build such a majestic city here?"

"In the eyes of most people, the Dadu Protector General's Mansion invested a lot of resources to build the defense line of Yulong Mountain, which is a manifestation of taking a defensive position, but it cannot be understood as a military mobilization before the war,"

Chen Hai explained,

"A few years ago, the Wuwei army went west out of Tieliuling and attacked the eastern region of Jinzhou, it can only be said that the victory and defeat are stalemate, and then there is no major war for several years, to start a new war, in addition to soldiers and horses, property and other resources need to be mobilized and integrated, and it is also necessary to confirm that the clans will not have a big containment internally. And thinking about victory before defeat, it is not good to attack the Lanchuan counties, and there must be a place to defend the retreat of the army, which is also the key to building a large number of civil works and building the defense line of Yulong Mountain. However, after many things were prepared in an orderly manner, General Dadu Hu was sure that he was sure that he was sure that it was time for the troops to leave Jade Dragon Mountain......

"Really?" Wu Meng didn't believe Chen Hai's speculation either.

Chen Hai smiled slightly, the relationship between the Great Yan Empire and the military towns is too similar to a certain historical trajectory that has happened on the earth, when the central power is weak and unable to effectively control the localities, and the local military and political governments are monopolized by the military oligarchy, and even hereditary replacement, what will happen next, do you still need to guess?

The Hexiang army accepted the surrender of the rebels, that is, it had ambitions, and the Hexiang army had a lot of ambitions, how could the ambitious Wuwei Shenhou not have greater ambitions?

Seeing that Wu Meng, Zhou Jun and the others were still puzzled, Chen Hai thought that after he cultivated to the realm, it might be difficult to suppress them for a long time, and there must be something to convince them, and continued to explain:

"The Dadu Protector General's Mansion Army has invested such a large amount of resources in Yulonglong, and it will not be satisfied if it controls the small Jade Dragon Mountain, and the Wuwei Army is facing the threat of Jinzhou Zhuqiang in the west, and there are demon barbarian tribes gathering in the north of Taiwei Mountain, which is already facing the enemy on both sides, at this time, the Hexiang Army in the south has already exposed its hostility, and the Dadu Protector General's Mansion is very likely to strike first, so as not to fall into the predicament of facing the enemy on three sides......"

Wu Meng was silent, he had heard Sun Gan talk about similar assertions before, but he didn't expect Chen Hai to be in a corner and have such insight.

"Really?" Zhou Jun and Ge Tong glanced at the newly built Jade Dragon Mansion City with a little confusion, and there was a faint excitement of making contributions in their expressions.

Chen Hai entered the Jade Dragon City this time, firstly, to reunite during the New Year Festival and celebrate Chen Lie's official appointment as the Marquis of Zhaoyang Pavilion, while Ge Tong and Zhou Jun accompanied Chen Hai into the Jade Dragon City this time, because the two of them had successfully opened up the Spiritual Sea and stepped into the Spiritual Realm on the basis of five spiritual veins and six spiritual veins respectively in the past month.

As Chen Lie's "son-in-law", Chen Hai can directly enter the inner gate of the Taiwei Sect to practice, which is the privilege of the sect's "son-in-law", and Zhou Jun naturally wants to enter the inner gate of the Taiwei Sect to practice in the Seven Peaks this time.

This time, in addition to going to the Seven Peaks of Taiwei Mountain with Chen Hai to report, he also had to go to the Jade Dragon Mansion to meet Chen Lie; after entering the inner gate of the Seven Peaks to practice, the official relationship between the master and the lineage would be confirmed, and Zhou Jun wanted to worship and practice under the disciple of Chen Lie, the third generation true lineage of the Taiwei Sect.

In the near future, if there is a battle between the Wuwei Army and the Hexiang Army, it will also mean that their newly rising young generation will have more opportunities to make contributions.

Ge was nearly forty years old in the same year, and even if he stepped into the Soul Clearing Realm, he was not qualified to enter the inner gate of the Seven Peaks to practice.

Although Ge Tong could continue to stay in the army as a higher-level middle-level military attaché, or he could return to the Huanglongyuan Daoist Academy as a low-level deacon, in addition to obtaining some practical techniques from the Daoist Academy, he would not be able to obtain the Fundamental Xuanfa True Technique of the higher realm after the Spirit Clearing Realm for cultivation......

Ge Tong wanted to join the Chen clan this time and officially become a subordinate of the Chen clan.

Although there is a big gap between the Chen Clan's secret clan and the Taiwei Sect's Fundamental Xuanfa Danding Technique, it is also a good choice for the Xuanfa Cultivation of the Spirit Clearing Realm.

After Ge Tong officially joined the Chen clan, he would be able to cultivate the Qingyuan Sword Technique of the Chen clan's secret inheritance like Wu Meng and other Spirit Clearing Realm generals, and he was also eager to gain more combat exploits.

In addition to Zhou Jun and Ge Tong, Zhou Jingyuan also chose to join the Chen family.

He finally cultivated the third spiritual vein, and his cultivation stagnated, and it was difficult to break through to the spiritual realm, but Zhou Jingyuan was already the head of the Medicine Master Garden at this time, and his daughter Zhou Qingyun was practicing by Chen Qing's side, so what did he ask if he didn't join the Chen clan?

Shen Kun did not join the Chen clan.

The father is a subordinate and a general, and the children are all subordinates and generals, and if they want to leave the country, they must make great achievements that are enough to be a marquis -- this is the rule that Yanzhou and the Great Yan Empire have pursued for thousands of years.

Shen Kun, like Ge Tong and Zhou Jingyuan, even if he stepped into the Soul Breaking Realm, he had no chance to become an inner disciple of the Taiwei Sect, but his youngest son Shen Xiu was talented, and after entering the Taoist Academy to practice for less than a year, he successively cultivated the two main qi veins of Zu Shaoyang and Hand Shaoyang, and became a disciple of the Taoist Academy's Xuanyi, and it is very likely that he will have the opportunity to become the inner disciple of the Taiwei Sect, or even a true disciple.

For the sake of Shen Xiu's future, Shen Kun cannot be directly attached to the Chen family.

Chen Hai could understand Shen Kun's mood, and he would not have any sympathy with him because of this.