Chapter 623 The heart is like a rock
"Another world?"
After listening to what the Venerable Master Ao Lie said, Long Zheng only felt unbelievable, subverting Long Zheng's long-standing perception of this world. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the sky above the Tian Yuan Continent, there is a spatial passage to another world, and every three hundred years, this space passage will have a period of stability, and then the Venerable Yuan Ying can forcibly reach the other world through the space passage.
The rules of heaven and earth in this other world are peculiar, and they are rich in soul-like demons, and after the Yuan Ying Venerable Master kills the demons, he can obtain the origin energy that overflows when they die, so that his cultivation can be greatly increased; In the same way, after the demons killed the Yuan Infant Venerable, they were also able to obtain the Origin Energy that the Yuan Infant Master seemed to overflow, thus greatly increasing their cultivation.
However, the level of this other world is very high, and the weakest demon among them also has the cultivation of the Great Perfection of the Dan, and there are many terrifying existences that crush the Yuan Ying Venerable. As a result, the harvest after entering this other world is entirely dependent on personal luck, and you may soon encounter an incomparable terrifying existence and be killed by it; It is also possible to kill low-level demons who only have the strength of the Great Perfection of the Jie Dan one after another, and the cultivation will increase greatly.
The good thing is that the demon of the other world seems to have an inexplicable fear of the spatial passage, as long as he does not leave the spatial passage too far, even if he encounters a high-level demon monk, he can generally escape.
"Origin energy, does it mean the true spirit?" Long Zheng couldn't help but speculate. After all, Long Zheng himself has a glazed true spirit, and his cognition of the true spirit is not comparable to the native creatures of this world. Venerable Ao Lie couldn't comprehend these origin energies, but Long Zheng had some clues.
There are still more than 20 years before the next stabilization period of the space channel, and instead of continuing to retreat and improve his cultivation, Long Zheng chose to travel abroad to improve his spiritual cultivation realm. In his previous life, Long Zheng, who sat in the Mohai World and had massive resources, still failed to advance to a higher realm within the life limit, and the reason was that Long Zheng's cultivation realm was too low, and he had no talent and resources, and he couldn't break the shackles of cultivation.
After taking a long vacation of more than 20 years of spiritual cultivation with the Venerable Master Ao Lie, Long Zheng harnessed the thunder attribute high-level flying magic weapon god Thunder Flying Boat and left the Xiaoyue Sect and disappeared into the sky.
Thunder attribute high-level offensive magic weapon five thunder beads, thunder attribute high-level defense magic weapon seven-star shield, thunder attribute high-level flying magic weapon god thunder flying boat, the best defense talisman treasure thunder domain god tripod talisman, a bottle of elixir for restoring consciousness in the Yuan infant period, a bottle of elixir for restoring mana in the Yuan infant period, a bottle of the elixir for the detoxification of the Yuan infant period, a bottle of the elixir for the healing of the Yuan infancy, and 100,000 intermediate thunder spirit stones.
This is all the belongings in the storage bag on Long Zheng when he left the Howling Moon Sect. As for the rest of his belongings, Long Zheng handed them over to Master Ao Lie as the reserve materials of the Xiaoyue Sect.
I asked the Venerable Master Ao Lie to take care of the Long clan who had moved to the East China Sea, and the unconcerned Long Zheng turned into a chivalrous man and walked in the secular world.
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The secular realm of the Li Kingdom, the Yuan Dynasty, Gangwon Province, Qingyuan Province, Kaiping County.
Different from the East China Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm, in the Tian Yuan Continent, the secular realm and the immortal cultivation realm are two worlds that are not related to each other.
Unless there is a decisive battle similar to the destruction of the heavens and the earth between the two primordial infants of the righteous and demonic realms, otherwise, the monks who are obsessed with cultivation and are determined to fight for their lives against the heavens will not have the heart to interfere with the development of the secular world.
At this time, the secular realm of the Li State, the nomadic Mangu people in the northern steppes were at their peak, and they successively conquered dozens of countries on the border of the Li State and established a unified feudal ruling dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty.
The Yuan Dynasty had a land area of more than 10 million square kilometers, and in order to better rule the territory under their jurisdiction, the rulers of the Li Dynasty pioneered a system of provinces that strengthened centralized power in order to consolidate their rule.
The great man of chivalry is for the country and the people.
has been a chivalrous man for five years, Long Zheng is used to seeing the swords and blood in the secular world, and he can't help but move his mind to be an official and benefit one party.
It coincided with the restoration of the imperial examination system in the Yuan Dynasty, and the first time to open a department to obtain scholars.
Long Zheng, who resolutely participated in the imperial examination, successfully passed the court examination, became the second among the fifty-six jinshi and the first, and sought an official position as the Kaiping county order.
The Yuan Dynasty was vast and Kaiping County was located in a remote area, and Long Zheng, who did not use mana, drove the horse for more than three or two months before arriving in Kaiping County.
Kaiping County's economy is very fragile, the peasants are poor, they can barely make ends meet when the year is good, and once they encounter a disaster, they have to rely on usury to get by. In addition, there are many mountains and forests in Qingyuan Prefecture, and Kaiping County is no exception, which is also plagued by bandits.
When he took office as the commander of Kaiping County, he was killed by an arrow while clearing out bandits.
Faced with the mess in Kaiping County, Long Zhengtou, who couldn't use mana in order to cultivate his mind, was as big as a fight.
For a long time, Long Zheng has been accustomed to breaking the law with one force and ten meetings, and when encountering these situations that require ways and means, Long Zheng is a little confused.
According to Long Zheng's cognition, mind cultivation is divided into three realms. The first layer is the "persistence of the heart" that is clear and directs to the heart; the second layer is the "pure heart" that pays attention to the combination of rigidity and softness, and the combination of yin and yang; The third layer is the "heart melts all things" that encompasses everything in the heart.
I have to admit that in terms of mind cultivation, Long Zheng's talent is indeed average. Although he has lived for four lifetimes, Long Zheng has not yet entered into the cultivation of the mind. Not to mention the "persistence of the original heart" that is clear and straightforward to the original heart, it is the ticket to the cultivation of the mind -- the heart is like a rock, and the dragon government has not yet reached it.
A drop of water pierces through the stone heart like iron, I am unmoved, my heart is like a rock!
This sentence is easy to say, but it is not easy to really strengthen the inner will. Taking the Venerable Master Ao Lie of the Xiaoyue Sect as an example, his vitality was greatly damaged and his lifespan was drastically reduced, which caused him to lose the source power of his cultivation.
Taking the Venerable Master Ao Lie, who had broken his cultivation path, as a warning, and governing Kaiping County as a whetstone, Long Zheng began his journey of cultivating his mind.
Five years have passed in a flash, and Long Zheng has always been in the office of Kaiping County Commander.
Because of his incorruptibility, the clean and clean dragon government was incompatible with the corrupt officialdom of Gangwon Province, and he repeatedly lost the opportunity to be promoted. However, five years later, Long Qingtian's reputation has also spread completely in Gangwon Province.
During the period of Kaiping County, Long Zheng was not only famous for his integrity, but also a capable official, and implemented a series of very powerful reforms in Kaiping County.
Through the "tax on land", Longzheng solved the erosive phenomenon of "those who have land have no tax, and those who have no land should be worse off", "bitterness and happiness are uneven, and the people are poor", so that "equal service and people's peaceful livelihood" can be realized in Kaiping County.
In order to eradicate the bandits, Long Zheng's footprints are all over Kaiping County, one household at a time, and the household registration information of millions of Kaiping people has been registered in detail.
Relying on this valuable household registration information, Long Zheng officially implemented the militia self-defense system in Kaiping County. During the slack period, young people are organized to carry out basic military training to enhance the people's own ability to prevent trouble. Selected its elite to teach the art of war, Long Zheng formed a quota of 300 people.
First easy and then difficult, Long Zheng led the team of officials to gradually eliminate all bandits in Kaiping County.
Five years have passed, in addition to purging the bandits in the county, Long Zheng also annihilated the foreign bandits who entered Kaiping County several times, so that the green forest thieves from all walks of life in Jiangyuan Province regarded Kaiping County as a Yama Palace with no return, and no longer dared to enter the country, and millions of Kaiping people were also in the sky.
"Finally reached the heart like a rock!"
When he was transferred from Kaiping County to Runan Mansion, looking at the umbrella of the people sent by the people of Kaiping, Long Zheng was really transparent, and his heart stepped into the realm of a rock that he had been looking forward to for countless years.
Even if it is just an admission ticket to the realm of mind cultivation, with the qualification of mind cultivation, Long Zheng is still excited.
The west wind is strong, and the geese in the sky are called frost and morning moon.
The frost and the moon are shining, the sound of horses' hooves is broken, and the sound of trumpets is choking;
Xiongguan Mandao is really like iron, and now it is stepping forward from the beginning.
From the beginning, the mountains are like the sea, and the remnant sun is like blood.
The heart is like a rock, bringing qualitative changes to Long Zheng's heart.
After entering the heart like a rock, Long Zheng finally has the qualifications to let his soul accept the impact and sharpen. With the passage of time, quantitative changes will inevitably form qualitative changes, and one day, Long Zheng's mind will reach the realm of "sticking to the original heart" of the first level of mind cultivation and direct pointing to the original heart.
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The ruling class of the Yuan Dynasty was extremely poor and luxurious, and intensified the collection of various taxes from the people under their rule, and the internal oppression was very serious, and it was more common for the people under their rule to be plundered.
Two years earlier, Emperor Yuan had died suddenly without a successor. In order to compete for the throne, dozens of princes of the Yuan Dynasty who were qualified to succeed to the throne fought each other for power.
In just two years, many princes who participated in the war were defeated one after another, many people were killed, the social economy of the Yuan Dynasty was seriously damaged, the ruling power was exhausted, and the hidden class contradictions and national contradictions suddenly broke out, and the Yuan Dynasty at this time had become a pot of porridge.
Before, he had been obsessed with governing Kaiping County, and Kaiping was located on the border, and Long Zheng had not yet felt the turmoil of the Yuan Dynasty at this moment.
This departure from Kaiping and going to Runan Mansion to take up a post, the scene of war and chaos in the red land for thousands of miles and starvation everywhere continued to impact Long Zheng's eyes.
The rebellion of the princes has been carried out until now, the eight major provinces in the north of the Yuan Dynasty have been divided by the king of Chu, the king of Zhao and the king of Qi, and the nine major provinces in the middle have been jointly occupied by the king of Hejian and the king of Dongsha.
Because he was worried that sending troops to suppress the southern uprising would be attacked by the three kings of the north, the king of Hejian and the king of Dongsha, who were both cooperative and defensive, could only watch the rebel army in the southern province grow rapidly.
Kaiping County and Runan Mansion were both located in the south of the Yuan Dynasty, and Long Zheng was detained by the Yellow Turban Army, one of the five major rebel armies in the south, before he arrived in Runan Prefecture.
Because of Long Zheng's great reputation in the southern provinces, the Yellow Turban Army sincerely invited Long Zheng to join the Yellow Turban Army and become the first marshal of the Yellow Turban Army, commanding the 8,000 troops of the Yellow Turban Army.
Between refusing to be killed and becoming the marshal of the capital who commanded the 8,000 army, Long Zheng did not hesitate to choose to become the capital marshal of the Yellow Turban Army.
It is said that it is an army of 8,000, but in fact, it is the other marshals who have eliminated the remaining 8,000 old, weak, sick and disabled, less than 10% of them have swords and guns, and the rest are bare-handed.
Not to mention combat effectiveness, even the Yellow Turban Army only kept Long Zheng for half a month.
The appointment of Long Zheng as the marshal of the capital, the Yellow Turban Army was to use Long Zheng's reputation in the southern provinces to expand its influence and achieve the purpose of quickly recruiting troops. As for whether Long Zheng, who has become a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh of the Yuan army, can survive after achieving this goal, it is not something that the top brass of the Yellow Turban Army will worry about.
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The soldiers are noble but not expensive, and the first time he was in charge of the eight thousand old, weak, sick and disabled, Long Zheng selected the eight hundred people with the most combat effectiveness, equipped with swords and guns, and organized them into eight main camps according to the name of the heaven and earth Xuanhuang universe desolation, so as to form a full-fledged vanguard army, which was headed by General Pingdong. In addition to the vanguard army, the remaining 7,200 people were divided into three, and the left route army, the middle route army, and the right route army were formed in turn, which were respectively led by General Pingnan, Pingxi, and Pingbei.
On the tenth day of taking charge of the 8,000 Yellow Turban Army, ten kilometers outside the city of Miyunfu, the vanguard army camped.
"Marshal Du, the defenders of Miyun Mansion City have been clearly investigated, and the defenders of Miyun Mansion City have a total of 2,000 troops, divided into four divisions, and they are stationed at the Sifang City Gate." Stepping inside, General Pingdong knelt on one knee and said with his fists clenched.
"Marshal Du, although the strength of the defenders of Miyun Mansion City is weak, the city is tall and strong, and it is really difficult to break through." In front of Long Zheng, General Pingbei was not optimistic about capturing Miyunfu City.
"The general should not worry, the marshal has his own city. Now, pass me on the command. "Stand up, Long Zheng is not angry and arrogant.
"General Pingdong led an army of 800 vanguards, along with Ben Shuai, to attack the east gate."
"General Pingnan led 2,400 left route troops to feint at the south gate."
"General Pingxi led 2,400 troops from the middle route to feint to attack the West Gate."
"General Pingbei led 2,400 right route troops to feint to attack the north gate."
"The time of the attack is set for three o'clock in the afternoon tomorrow, and you must not delay it, otherwise military law will be involved."
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Miyunfu City, East Gate.
Long Zheng held a gun in his right hand, pulled a rope in his left hand, and carried a bow on his back, and drove a horse to the city, shouting loudly.
"Long Zheng is a traitor, you have eaten the court for several years in vain, and now you have made the act of leading the troops to rebel." On the city wall, the generals defending the city were fierce.
"The tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty, the people of the society are not able to make a living, and the people are displaced, only by raising an army to destroy the Yuan Dynasty and overthrow the tyranny can we save the people of Liming and complete the noble and lowly and equal fields that the commander is committed to achieving and free food."
While saying this, Long Zheng had already taken out a strong bow and drew the bow to shoot arrows.
The arrows killed the people, and the defenders fell under the city.
"Mighty!" "Mighty!"
Seeing this scene, the morale of the eight hundred vanguard troops was great.
"Wait for the noble and low, and the land will be free of grain."
Long Zheng's voice exploded in everyone's ears.
"Offensive !!"
With Long Zheng's spear pointing, the eight hundred vanguard army boldly charged under the leadership of Long Zheng.
The Lord was killed, morale was low, and the resistance of the defenders of the East Gate did not last long, and soon collapsed.
Under the leadership of Long Zheng, the vanguard army quickly captured the east gate.
"Under the command of this commander, regardless of the family of birth, they will be rewarded according to the size of their military achievements."
Riding his horse in front of the five hundred prisoners of war, Long Zheng said loudly. "Follow Ben Shuai to kill the enemy, Ben Shuai will treat you equally."
"The marshal is mighty, the marshal is mighty!!"
Infected by Long Zheng's words, the five hundred prisoners of war who defended the city quickly surrendered to Long Zheng. After that, it was completely dismantled by Long Zheng and incorporated into his command.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Long Zheng divided the vanguard army into two, General Pingdong led 300 soldiers to take over the security of Miyunfu City, and Long Zheng led 1,000 soldiers to storm the other three gates of Miyunfu City.