166 Altar of the God of War
The flowing fire was supported by half a tael of gold, just like a tiger with wings. And half a tael of gold encounters a flowing fire, just like a charming little lady, she has found a powerful backer.
I have force, you have money. Moreover, this world is still in troubled times, there is a lot of wind and rain outside, and there are many enemies, and the cooperation in this context is the most intimate.
The nature of the flowing fire is still good, although the bloody commercial competition has brought pain to the people, but the policy of reassuring the people after the flowing fire is still effective.
As long as half a tael of gold is given control of grain in a region, Liuhuo will demand that the price of grain be controlled within a reasonable range, and that the people should not lose money or make the people suffer too much.
No matter what complaints there are about half a tael of gold, this is an order of flowing fire, and it must be carried out unconditionally.
Joke, the flow of fire to control food is not to make a fortune, he is just to reserve strength for future wars. The more control I have, the less control the enemy has. Under the trade-off, it is not as simple as one plus one equals two.
To control the grain, half a tael of gold has now begun to start with the people's livelihood industry. Cotton, cloth, oil, iron ore... How can these industries that are related to people's livelihood be left to their own devices?
Peishui's claws are stirring up waves in the Zhongzhou continent.
In this context, Dawangcheng has gradually become the economic capital of the Chu State. And the master of Dawang City is on fire, how can he be short of money?
As for the 2 million owed by Hou Wen and Shi Meng, Liuhuo really didn't take it to heart.
The more he thought about it, the more he threw himself into it, until Hou Wen shook his shoulders and woke him up.
"What are you thinking? Why are you suddenly in a daze in the middle of speaking? Are you thinking about Suzaku..."
"Look at your unproductive appearance, it's all come to me, can I send you a few beauties... The yellow-faced woman at home, don't think about it, drink..."
The three of them all laughed, Liuhuo even drank two bowls of spirits, asked Hou Wen for a pen and paper, and simply wrote a withdrawal form.
"Tomorrow, you will send someone to the Great King City, take the money, go directly to Daydream, and let him arrange..."
Shi Meng and the others were not polite to him, and stuffed the note into his arms. No longer talking about business, the three of them drank heartily until the second half of the night.
Flowing Fire stayed in the Vast City for three days, and during these three days, he really felt the hardships of the two of them. In just three days, the city has been attacked by four orcs, although they are all sneak attacks by hundreds of people, often grabbing something, setting fire and fleeing. But this kind of fly tactic is very demoralizing.
The peasants did not dare to go too far to farm, and every time they went out of the city to work, they needed the protection of soldiers. And the protection radius of a city is always limited, and the fields that are too far away are completely dependent on the sky for food, sowing seeds in the spring, and then leaving it alone, and waiting until the autumn can harvest a handful, it is really not harvested, and it is all fed to the horses.
In order to fight the orcs and improve their morale, the hunter unit selected countless elite soldiers to form hunting squads, and went deep into the vast mountains to hunt lone orcs, including some small tribes.
Kill an orc, cut off his head, and hang it on the wall to dry. As far as the eye can see, there are many heads hanging on the walls of the vast city, and many of them have turned into skeletons of Bai Sensen, which shows the long time of time.
During these three days, Liuhuo often stood on the castle tower, watching the soldiers coming in and out. Looking at the squads that went out and listening to the farewell voices in the crowd, every time at this time, Liuhuo felt a trace of melancholy in his heart.
These soldiers don't know how many will come back alive.
After watching for a long time, you can also meet the returning team, and some of the team is elated, indicating that the trip was very smooth. It's also a bit frustrating for the team, and everyone is injured, so it seems that they haven't found a good luck.
For three days, Liuhuo had a wonderful feeling in his heart, and he suddenly felt that the group of soldiers under his feet had become those ants he had seen when he was a child.
At that time, Liuhuo liked to watch ants fight the most, and the dense ant colony could fight for a little cake crumb. At that time, Liuhuo always felt like a god looking down on those ants, laughing at them in his heart, and at the same time mourning for them.
Standing on the castle tower, Liuhuo suddenly felt that humans could laugh at ants, so would there be more advanced beings to laugh at us?
The legendary ancient awakened people, they can fly to the sky and the earth, and their lifespan can reach thousands of years, what kind of realm is that?
If you reach that realm, and then look at the current deceit and life-and-death struggle of the Creation Gate, will it be like watching ants fight?
The heads of the orcs hanging from the city, the sacrificial soldiers wrapped in white cloth. What exactly are they fighting for, what are they giving up their lives for?
"Why? What is it for?"
Flowing Fire was talking to himself, and he never expected a deep voice to come from behind him.
"Why? What else can you do besides the Altar of the God of War?"
Flowing Fire's contemplation was awakened, and he suddenly turned around to find that Elder Shi Zhongxing was actually standing beside him. It turned out that Elder Shi also arrived just in time last night.
"Don't be surprised, I'm mainly here to inspect the front line this time, and I'll also help your master bring you a message... You kid, you don't wait for your master to go back when you come to Cangmanshan Mountain, so you have to say goodbye to Lao Liu..."
"During this time, your master was with me, and when he heard that you had gone to the vast mountains, he hurriedly urged me to go on the road, trying to tell you his explanation... Luckily, you stayed for three days, and I barely caught up..."
Shi Zhongxing took a wandering walk on the city wall with the flowing fire, helping the flowing fire solve his doubts as he walked.
"The Sect of Creation has made great efforts to attack the Vast Mountain, but in fact, the real purpose is the altar of the God of War in the mouths of the orcs. I haven't been to that place, but your master has been, and it was there that he got a great opportunity..."
"In the altar of the God of War, there is actually a spirit pool, a real spirit pool of ten directions..."
Hearing the name of the Ten Directions Spirit Pool, Liuhuo hurriedly asked, "Is it the kind of Spirit Pool that the Yu family has in legend?"
"Silly boy, that's not a legend, the Yu family originally controlled a spirit pool, which was accidentally discovered by the ancestor of the Yu family hundreds of years ago. The spiritual pool has the effect of washing the marrow of the I Ching, although soaking in the spiritual pool is very painful, but the reward is also very huge..."
"An ordinary awakened person would not dare to soak in the spirit pool for a long time, and that kind of pain is said to make people commit suicide. Because of this, Yu Fei set a system of twelve places a year, and selected the twelve people in the family who had potential or contributed the most, and went to the spirit pool to cultivate... Twelve a year, no more, no less..."
"Over the years, the Yu family has accumulated a lot of talent, I don't know how many, otherwise how could he become the chief elder?"
At this time, Liuhuo suddenly interjected, "There is information that the ten years that the Jade Qilin disappeared was to go to the Spirit Pool for cultivation, if the Spirit Pool is so painful, how can he hold on for ten years? Or is the information wrong?"
When Shi Zhongxing heard this, his brows tightened, and he thought for a long time before he spoke, "The intelligence is not fake, the jade qilin has really cultivated in it for ten years, although I can't believe it, but my intelligence will not be wrong... And some time ago, the jade unicorn was already out of the customs."
"Ten years, he actually cultivated for ten years. It was difficult for ordinary people to survive even a month, but he actually cultivated for ten years..."
The old man and the young were silent for a long time, and finally Shi Zhongxing came to his senses.
"Oh, look at me, I'm off topic again. Your master asked me to tell you that no matter what you gain from coming to Cangmeng Mountain this time, you must go to the God of War Altar to see if you try your best..."
"As long as you can defeat the four warriors guarding the altar, not only will you gain the right to enter the altar, but you will also be respected by all the orcs in the Vast Mountain..."
"Your master was also soaked in the spirit pool back then, and the reason for his cultivation to soar has a lot to do with this, since you are here, you must try it..."
"According to my analysis, the spirit pool of the God of War Altar is much more advanced than that of the Yu family, just look at your master's strength to stabilize Yufei, you can prove all this... If we can take control of the Spirit Pool, then we will be worried that there will be no successor there..."
"It's a pity, it's a pity. The fruits of a hundred years of hard work were ruined by that madman. And now that the Creation Gate is torn apart, there is no longer as aggressive as before, there are constraints everywhere, and there are plots everywhere... The Gate of Creation is destroyed in their hands..."
The two men walked on the city wall for a long time, and they did not walk down the city wall until dinner began. After dinner, Shi Meng and Hou Wen found Liuhuo alone, and the two of them said goodbye to Liuhuo in advance.
"You're going into the mountain tomorrow, we can't go with you, you must be careful..."
"The God of War Altar is the lifeblood of the orcs, and we both wanted to go to see it before, but unfortunately we were all beaten back by the orcs. Don't you know, the deeper you go, the more powerful those orcs become, and the stronger the tribe becomes. And the vastness of the vast mountains is beyond your imagination, so don't force yourself along the way..."
After hearing this, Liuhuo smiled faintly, "I came to Cangmanshan this time, mainly to find something, as for the God of War Altar, it is secondary, I won't break in... I can still understand how many pounds and taels I have..."
"That's good, I'm also afraid that you will work too hard. Although the spirit pool is good, our patient cultivation will not be much better than that of the Jade Qilin, and the cultivation road is long, so don't rush for quick success..."
After a night of silence, Liuhuo packed his backpack the next morning, and under the watchful eyes of everyone, he rode out of the vast city alone. Before leaving, Shi Zhongxing explained, "If you go to the altar of the god of war, don't go into the corridor behind the spirit pool, your master said, it is a very vast labyrinth, Liu Lao almost died in it back then, don't you try..."
Flowing Fire nodded, bowed his hand to everyone, and quickly left the Vast City.
Shi Zhongxing looked at the back of the disappearing flowing fire, and whispered in his mouth.
"During this time, increase the number of hunters and attract all the orcs to me... There's only so much we can help with..."
The hunter's counterattack unfolded vigorously just after the Flowing Fire left.