Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is a year and a half later.

With the completion of Sanjiang and Yitong, a solid defensive front was formed with Hezhou, blocking all the iron hooves of the Jin soldiers.

Since there was no external trouble, a year ago, under the organization of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households, a large number of wind spirit stone roads were laid between the three cities, making it more convenient to travel with each other.

After a long time, business travelers from all over the world also knew the convenience of here, and most of them were diverted from here, which invisibly also drove the economic development of the city-state.

On this day, a cavalry army was speeding along the crowded stone road, and along the way, the merchant travelers avoided the sides, and the few travelers who had just arrived here looked at the cavalry and talked in low voices.

Looking at the busy flow of people around, Yang Renjie raised his hand and pushed his helmet and said with emotion: "It's only been more than a year, and I feel that we have a lot more people in Wenbang." ”

"Most of them are caravans passing by, and the real locals are fine, who will go to the neighboring city to hang around?" Li Yilin shook the reins and said with a smile.

Yang Renjie couldn't help but smile when he heard this, and bowed his head silently, which could be regarded as approval.

Compared with a year and a half ago, today's Yang Renjie and Li Yilin are completely different, there is a bit of majesty between their eyebrows, and there is a strong evil aura in their gestures, and their cultivation is advancing by leaps and bounds, Yang Renjie is already seven in the four realms, and Li Yilin is slightly weaker, but he has also reached the level of the four realms and five realms.

Since Wang Li informed Yao Ruoyu about the spiritual marrow, everyone in the Literature and Art Department would take turns to enter that spiritual vein every day for cultivation, with the help of a massive amount of spiritual marrow, and then purify the true qi with the suppressive power of the Tongyuan Palace, and in a year and a half, everyone had already stepped into the four realms.

Among them, Xu Xuanrong has cultivated to the four realms and eightfolds, Yang Renjie, Fu Feng, and Song Kai are all four realms and sevenfolds, Li Huan, Jiang Siyu, and Wu Xue are the four realms and sixfolds, and Fu Chaozan and others have also reached the four realms and five realms.

Most of the exercises obtained by everyone are extraordinary, although all of them only have four realms, but most of them already have the ability to compete with the five realms, and they can be regarded as truly building the high-level combat power of the literary and artistic army.

In addition to the generals, the strength of the soldiers of the army has also improved amazingly, since the establishment of Sanjiang and Yitong, Yao Ruoyu ordered Yang Renjie and others to lead some soldiers every month, disguised as thieves to infiltrate the territory of the Jin State to attack and harass.

After dozens of eliminations, supplements, and replacements, almost all members of today's literary and artistic army have completed the second realm, and more than 5,000 people have reached the third realm, although it is still not comparable to the top legion of the Yanggu army, but only from the level of the city, it is already a rare and powerful city.

And half a year ago, because the quality of the soldiers has been greatly enhanced, the number of people in each battalion has been expanded to 3,000, and the number of six battalions of Thor, Rock Tiger, Sequoia, Beast God, Cold Iron, and Divine Eagle has reached 20,000 people.

What's more, the Night Dragoon Army under Yao Ruoyu has also increased to 6,000 people, for two battalions, once the 6,000 Night Dragoons form a charging formation, it will really be a god blocking and killing God, and a Buddha block*, and only the Six Realms have the ability to block it.

However, this strength is still too weak in the national war, so Yao Ruoyu and others have always been secretive about the military strength of the city-state, and only the city defense army of the four cities is placed on the bright side, and the literary and artistic army has always been hidden in the valley behind the Diaoyu Mountain, and has not been shown to the public.

"These people are all going to move, right?" Glancing at the flow of people behind him, Yang Renjie suddenly said with a complicated expression.

Looking back, Li Yilin pouted: "Definitely! After all, it is the most prosperous city in our city-state now." ”

Smiling with emotion, Yang Renjie sighed: "Who would have thought that it was just to fulfill one of our dreams, but it turned out to be a big city, and now it should not be weaker than Chongqing, right?"

Li Yilin scratched his cheek and said with a wry smile: "That's still a lot worse, right?"

"It's not much worse, it's a little smaller, not as big as Chongqing. Yang Renjie grinned and smiled shamelessly.

The city was officially completed a year ago, but before that, the college in the inner city had been completed half a year ahead of schedule, and after Bai Qiuyu counted the list of the first batch of students, the college also officially opened.

As early as before the opening of the college, Yao Ruoyu had visited Bai Junru, Luo He, Wang Li and others one by one, and wanted to ask them to be teachers of the college.

There are many secondary branches such as martial arts, spiritual law, administration, and economics, and the disciplines almost include everything that everyone can think of, among which the branches of administration and economics are the most recruited teachers, and Bai Junru, Wang Li and others also gladly accepted Yao Ruoyu's invitation to teach.

However, when Yao Ruoyu proposed that the teachers of the two branches of spiritual law and martial arts needed to teach unique exercises, they were rejected by everyone, of course, this was also within Yao Ruoyu's expectations, so he could only retreat and only let Yang Renjie, Li Huan, Fu Feng and others serve as branch teachers to teach them the ordinary exercises that they had sorted out in advance.

These exercises are extremely common, and there is almost no clear attribution, among which Fu Feng's "Rock Tiger Jue" is one of them, in short, they are all ordinary exercises of these rotten streets.

However, these very simple exercises are extremely popular and sought after by students, after all, this world is still respected by strength, and it is useful to study administration, economics, agriculture, etc., but if you really want to get ahead, the easiest thing is to practice.

In this era of emphasizing the inheritance of teachers, no one saw through Yao Ruoyu's plan to capture and indulge, so that in just one year, most of the young people who had talent for cultivation in the city-state became nominal students of the Literature and Art Department.

In this way, if there are not too many accidents, in the next thirty years, almost all the cultivators in the middle and high levels of Wenbang will come from Yao Ruoyu and others.

And half a year ago, Bai Junru, Duan Li and others, who finally figured out the meaning of the two branches of martial arts and spiritual law, hurriedly found Yao Ruoyu, hoping to serve as the teacher of these two branches.

It's a pity that Yao Ruoyu rejected all of them on the grounds that the teacher position was full and waiting for the next recruitment of teachers.

Sitting on horseback, Yang Renjie laughed and said: "Don't you see the expressions of those guys, the old demon's trick is really powerful, and he easily controlled the students on the cultivation side of the academy." ”

Li Yilin smiled: "But I heard that this is a strategy that Zou Buyi thought, the old demon shouldn't be so powerful, right?"

Speaking of Zou Buyi, Yang Renjie sneered: "That guy is almost the same as Meng Mengda, he has a bad belly, and he smiles all day long, anyway, Lao Tzu doesn't like him." ”

Shrugging his shoulders, Li Yilin smiled and said, "I think you are jealous, and I think the old demon still trusts others so much." ”

"Fart!" Yang Renjie was suddenly furious, and a pair of leopard eyes were even more round, "Less bullshit!"

The two talked and laughed for a while, and they had come to the foot of Diaoyu Mountain, and when they looked up at the city wall towering over the mountainside, Li Yilin suddenly sighed and muttered: "Brother Yang, you said that it has been more than a year, why is there still no news from other people?"

Yang Renjie was silent for a moment, and only after a moment did he smile bitterly: "Maybe they are all in some messy place, and they haven't heard from us." ”

In the past year and a half, everyone has never given up looking for other partners, Lily Sect, Wenzhou Commercial Bank, and the Dark Department, almost all the channels that can be borrowed have been used, but there has been no news of a partner so far, which is also the biggest regret in everyone's hearts.

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Sitting cross-legged in the secret room, Yao Ruoyu's upper body*, pinching the seal with both hands, was guiding a trace of sword soul to sink into his skin, and then slowly flowed along the skin lines, constantly stimulating the muscles of the whole body.

This is half a year ago, he used a fifth-class exercise from the Evergreen Valley Sutra Building to exchange for the body refining exercise, called "Yin and Yang Wheel Sutra", this is a fusion of Taoism and Buddhism of the spiritual master exercises, but a hundred years ago, a spiritual master in the Evergreen Valley when practicing, accidentally discovered a way to temper the body with the help of the power generated by the transformation of yin and yang.

However, Yao Ruoyu didn't have time to collect the two qi of Yang and Yin every day, but fortunately, he found another way to refine his body according to this method with his sword soul, although this method was domineering and extremely painful when cultivating, but because of the calming effect of "Ice Heart Technique", he barely persevered.

Now, his strength has increased dozens of times, which is certainly inferior to a martial artist of the same level, but he can already support the power of the sword soul, and it will not be like when the Seven Saints met martial arts, and even the sword soul did not dare to use it.

When the incense beside him finally burned out, Yao Ruoyu also woke up from meditation. After relaxing for a while, Yao Ruoyu closed his eyes again, and this time, his attention was focused on the Purple Mansion.

The spiritual spring in the center of the Purple Mansion has been expanded by about seven times compared to that year, and around the soul above it, in addition to the soul talisman of the word "acting", there is another soul talisman, but this soul talisman is not as condensed as the former, but slightly illusory.

With Yao Ruoyu's visualization, a little spiritual power suddenly flew up in the spiritual spring, and it didn't enter the soul rune, and suddenly this soul rune was condensed a few points, but the distance was completely condensed, and it obviously took a lot of time.

Wu Yue King's Wu Yue Kendo pays attention to from more to less, first comprehending all kinds of kendo in the world, and then gradually integrating, and finally reaching the realm of one sword is ten thousand ways.

Yao Ruoyu's sword path is very simple, pure killing, so his sword skills are mostly moves with amazing instant lethality, such as "Ice Waterfall", "Burning" and so on, pay attention to breaking the surface with points.

Therefore, for him, King Wu Yue's kendo experience is actually not so important, so since he discovered the mysteries of kendo in Zhanhu, he rarely participated in enlightenment, but in the Seven Sages Huiwuzhong, he was inspired by an ancient painting of four elephants and gossip.

One life is two, two is three, three is everything, this one can not only be one of the first in the world, but also one of the last, in this case, if his final martial arts want to be successful, he also needs to understand other killing martial arts, use them as nourishment, and constantly improve his final martial arts.

After returning to Wenbang, Yao Ruoyu went to Wulong a few times, and he naturally didn't need to move the people with the Qiankun ring, so he quietly brought back a large number of materials, including the notes of the masters of the Trick Sect.

Looking at the Purple Mansion, Yao Ruoyu's heart suddenly moved, and the second soul talisman suddenly emitted several wisps of breath, which were several negative sword paths of killing, destruction, destruction, and chaos, and it was precisely because of the compensation of these sword ways that his final martial arts were perfected a lot, coupled with the original foundation of the destruction sword path, his sword path was now close to the realm of sword soul consummation.

It's just that there may be a few less opportunities, not only is there always a thin line away from consummation, but his martial arts foundation has not yet been replaced, and there are still a few traces of destroying the sword way.

This time the visualization lasted for two hours, and when Yao Ruoyu opened his eyes, there were already three piles of incense ash beside him.

This kind of condensing incense is developed by the spirit master with a secret method, which can enhance spiritual sense, and it is of great help to cast spells or cultivate, but unfortunately this incense is too expensive, even if it is Yao Ruoyu's current net worth, he can use up to five roots a day.

Retracting his gaze, Yao Ruoyu got up and raised his hand with a move, and took the two objects placed on the ground not far away, which were the sword fetus and dragon eggs he obtained in the Seven Saints Martial Arts.

After coming back, Yao Ruoyu had already invited several top spirit pattern masters with a lot of money, and rearranged the spirit array to suppress the evil qi for this sword, but those people also said that this sword evil qi was too heavy, and the spirit array could only be suppressed for a while, so it was best to refine it as soon as possible.

However, this sword fetus is the top in the world, otherwise the Sword Building Sect would not have taken it out, so Yao Ruoyu wore it day and night, and nourished it with the sword soul and essence blood, and by now, he has been able to control the evil qi in the sword to some extent, so that it will not leak out casually.

As for the dragon egg, Yao Ruoyu originally found Li Yilin and asked him to see if he could help the dragon egg hatch with the secret inheritance of the Liao Kingdom. However, after studying for a few days, Li Yilin said that he would help arrange the spirit array at most to help the dragon egg relieve the excessive frost power in it, and if he wanted to hatch it, he still needed to dissolve the excessive frost power in the dragon egg in the end.

So there was no choice but to hang it in his belt, and he ingested the frost power in it every day, but he didn't suffer a loss, after all, the frost power in the dragon egg had already been extremely pure after hundreds of years of precipitation, and the frost power taken out of it had enhanced Yao Ruoyu's spiritual power a lot.

Hanging the two things around his waist, Yao Ruoyu looked at the secret room, and after making sure that nothing was missing, he turned around and walked out of the secret room.