No. 493 The Charm of Longevity

Liu Ye couldn't help but doubt Zhou Yu's intentions.

By 208, the total number of immortal seeds was only 29. As for the known immortals, Wei Dongsheng's Absolute Holy Gate gathered 17 human immortals, Zhou Yu's Exotic Treasure gathered 3 human immortals, and the non-human race still had a maximum of 9 immortal seeds circulating. Moreover, as the Absolute Holy Gate and the Exotic Treasure Camp were filtered over and over again, some Immortal Seed survivors gradually refreshed into the depths of the caves and rivers and lakes that were rarely inhabited, greatly increasing the difficulty of catching them. Over the years, the seeds of immortality have become more and more difficult to collect, how could Zhou Yu be kind enough to give up the opportunity to the Absolute Holy Gate?

Liu Ye questioned: "As far as I know, the Alien Treasure Camp has been searching for treasures for eight years, and it is barely possible to obtain 3 Alien Treasures, which are refined by you, Lu Zijing and another battlefield warrior respectively. The so-called monsters are all demons born by swallowing the treasures of heaven and earth by mistake, and extracting the essence of the life of the fish demon can refine a strange treasure. Is the county warden willing to give up this God-given opportunity? ”

Zhou Yu smiled and explained: "It's not hypocrisy, but it's really powerless." Ziyang (Liu Ye) You should know that there are strong and weak heroes, Lu Boyan (Lu Xun) can beat four or five me, and Wei Dongsheng can beat four or five Lu Boyan. This monster that devours the treasures of heaven and earth is also strong and weak, the weakest fish demon is just a fierce fish with strong strength, and ordinary fishermen can catch them; And the strongest fish demon can surpass our imagination. ”

The Absolute Holy Gate is convenient for more thorough research, and Liu Ye revealed some information to Zhou Yu at the right time: "But there is such a thing, about two years ago, some powerful monsters appeared sporadically in the hinterland of Dabie Mountain. The Absolute Holy Gate then adopted certain standards to judge the strength and weakness, such as me, and was rated as a first-level alien; For example, Lu Xun is rated as a level 2 alien, such as the door master (Wei Dongsheng), who is rated as a level 3 alien. All kinds of monsters are also rated, level 1 monsters, no intelligence, barely called fierce beasts; Level 2 monsters, slightly spiritual, will take the initiative to run away when in danger; Level 3 monsters, not only are they more spiritually profound, they even master some unique fighting skills. Ordinary hunters can easily hunt level 1 monsters, and they can barely win level 2 monsters, but when they encounter level 3 monsters, they will definitely lose. ”

Zhou Yu closed his eyes and recalled for a moment, and said in a solemn tone: "Peng Lize's demon fish should be a level 3 monster. ”

Liu Ye was slightly flustered.

Over the years, the number of monsters has become smaller and smaller, and high-level monsters are naturally rarer. In the records of the Absolute Holy Gate Ping Demon Hall, there are less than ten second-level monsters, and there is only one case of third-level monsters. Thinking of the grand occasion when Ping Demon Hall captured a level 3 monster last time, Liu Ye couldn't help but pay attention to Peng Lize, a level 3 fish demon.

Liu Ye asked for details: "Why did the county guard say that the fish demon was a level 3 monster?" ”

Zhou Yu: "Sun Zhong plotted to defeat Huang Zu and returned, and ordered me to meet Peng Lize." While the garrison Peng Lize was waiting, Lu Zijing and I took a boat to observe the terrain of Peng Lize, and suddenly encountered a fish demon attack on the way. This fish demon, squirting water like an arrow, shot a guard in an instant. Luckily, the boat was close to shore at the time, and the number of times the fish demon sprayed water was limited, so we barely managed to save our lives. I then gathered more than 100 fishing boats to hunt, but this demon fish was not afraid, and cleverly escaped the fishing nets and killed four or five fishermen. Of course, we still have a chance to hunt this demon fish, but it's a pity that Sun Zhongmou set up Qichun County to take Xunyang County, but it disrupted our plan. ”

Liu Ye nodded in understanding.

Zhou Yu and Lu Su are both level 1 immortals, and it is extremely difficult to hunt level 3 fish demons with their personal martial arts, and if they use crowd tactics when they are dispatched, it is easy to attract Sun Quan's taboo. Besides, Zhou Yu restricts the Alien Treasure Camp from spreading, and the news of the Level 3 Fish Demon will also be quickly leaked to the Ping Demon Hall with a high probability. In this case, Zhou Yu may be the best choice to sell it to the Absolute Holy Gate.

This kind of friendship is just a favor.

However, when it fell on Liu Ye, Liu Ye was able to get some contribution points from it.

Liu Ye sincerely thanked Zhou Yu: "Thank you." ”

Zhou Yu smiled and said that he was not polite, but asked Lu Kang again: "How is Lu Jining's health recently?" ”

Liu Ye smiled and said: "Humanity is, white-haired young man." Over the years, Lu Junshou has become younger and younger. ”

Zhou Yu: "Lu Jining is eighty and three this year, right?" ”

Liu Ye: "Calculated according to the custom of the Holy Gate, the age of 82 is 82, and the virtual age is 83. ”

Zhou Yu skipped the calculation method of the first year's virtual age, and was surprised: "As the saying goes, seventy years are rare. At the age of eighty-three, it is really a miracle that Lu Jining can still be active in the mountains and wilderness. ”

Liu Ye thought for a moment, and suddenly stretched his eyes and raised his eyebrows: "The county guard sent me a level 3 monster news, and I also sent the county guard a message." There is a rumor spread by the disciples of the Absolute Holy Sect that this treasure of heaven and earth can not only cure all kinds of difficult and miscellaneous diseases, but also help people live longer. Qin Shi Huang painstakingly searched for the elixir of the elixir, and the medicine is a treasure of heaven and earth. ”

Zhou Yu laughed and questioned: "The theory of elixir is exaggerated. ”

Liu Ye didn't smile: "The elixir sounds exaggerated, but Lu Junshou is getting younger and younger, but we can see the fact with our own eyes." ”

Zhou Yu's smile suddenly disappeared.

After a few polite words to each other, Liu Ye said goodbye to Zhou Yu and returned to Black Rock City.

Seeing Liu Ye's figure go away, Zhou Yu muttered to himself: "The elixir of life!" ”

After a while, Zhou Yu turned to look at Lu Su: "Zijing, is there really an elixir of life in the world?" ”

Lu Su stared at the direction of Liu Ye's disappearance: "It's hard to say whether there is an elixir, and the sense of internal strength will definitely be able to prolong life." Last year, I visited Lu Kang as usual, and it happened that he was practicing swords in the courtyard, but I saw that he jumped and moved like an ape, and the sword light was like lightning and snow, so there was no sign of an eighty-year-old man. It wasn't until Lu Kang put his sword back into its sheath and greeted me with laughter that I was slow to realize that the sword practitioner was shocked that it was Lu Kang, not the rumored little sword immortal Lu Xun. Looking at Lu Kang's face closely, he has a lot less gray hair and a lot fewer wrinkles, just looking at his face, I guess he is fifty-seven or eighteen years old at most. ”

Zhou Yu thoughtfully: "The eighty-three-year-old man looks like he is only fifty-seven or eighteen years old, and this sense of internal strength is really mysterious and abnormal. ”

The camera moved to Liu Ye again.

After the Absolute Holy Gate took control of Lujiang County in the north, it moved the administrative office to Lu'an County, and all the trivial documents related to the interaction with Liu Fu and Situ Cao Cao, the assassins of Yangzhou, were handled in Lu'an County. The headquarters of the Absolute Holy Gate is still stationed in Black Rock City, and Lu Kang's foreign exchanges with Liu Fu and Lu Kang must also be submitted to Black Rock City for review on time. Black Rock City does not directly administer Lujiang County in the north, but is more like a superior department of the Lujiang Taishou Mansion.

Thanks to the accumulation of various political, economic and cultural resources, Blackstone City is becoming more and more prosperous year by year. Three years ago, Lujiang County in the north abolished Qi County and moved the county seat of Longshu County to the southeast of Heishi City, that is, south of the Dongxian River. Maybe because Longshu County has a longer history than Black Rock City, maybe because the name of Longshu County is better than Black Rock City, or maybe because Wei Dongsheng doesn't care that this place is called Black Stone or Longshu County, the Longshu Absolute Holy Gate theory gradually has a tendency to replace the Black Rock City's Absolute Holy Gate Statement. If the Absolute Holy Gate is not restricted and controlled, in another five or ten years, the Longshu Absolute Holy Gate or the Longshu City Absolute Holy Gate is estimated to have become the standard saying in the world.

The replanned Longshu County has a population of about 70,000.

Whether it is the county seat of Longshu County or the first developed Black Rock City, it is surrounded by mountain cliffs and is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The 70,000 county residents are scattered or densely distributed in plains, hills and valleys, while the county seat of Longshu County is located between mountains and cliffs, geographical transportation seriously restricts economic development, and the cultivated land area and agricultural level also seriously restrict the population size. The new county seat of Heishi City and Longshu County, as well as the surrounding villages and towns, have a total of more than 9,000 residents.

Wei Dongsheng chose to settle here, mainly because of its military location.

There are high mountains on all sides, and there are only three relatively wide mountain trails to the outside, and the rest of the trails are rugged mountain trails. Wei Dongsheng only needed to send troops to defend the three wide mountain roads, and he could resist the barbaric conquests of various warlords with ease and labor. If the enemy dares to take the rugged path for merit, the immortals under the command of the Absolute Holy Gate can snipe and kill them calmly.

Where are the immortals strong?

In terms of battlefield battles, even Wei Dongsheng, a level 3 immortal, did not have the ability to defeat a thousand-person soldier head-on; However, in terms of mobility and assault ability, no elite soldier is as reliable as the Immortal team. Moreover, Wei Dongsheng had already reproduced some black powder weapons that enhanced the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers, and the immortals carried black powder weapons over the mountains and mountains to attack the enemy formation, whether it was burning the enemy's logistics and military rations, or blowing up the main general, they could beat the regular troops without temper. And if the battle on the front line is unfavorable, the headquarters of the Jedi Holy Gate can also be calmly transferred to the hinterland of the Dabie Mountains to continue the guerrilla struggle.

Gossip aside.

When Liu Ye returned to Black Rock City or Longshu County, the Limingtang was organizing Qingzhuang to repair the military fortress.

Liu Ye knew very well that these military fortresses were not built for the nominal enemy Zhou Yu or Sun Quan, but were intended to guard against Cao Cao, the nominal lord of Lujiang County in the north.

The latest news came from the north, Cao Cao heard that Liu Biao was seriously ill and the medicine stone was difficult to save, so he opened up the Xuanwu Pond in the south of Tongque Tai in Yecheng, and trained sailors, and the meaning of the southern expedition was well known. Although Cao Cao gave priority to Jingzhou as a breakthrough, Yangzhou was also required to rectify war preparations to stop Sun Quan's battle of trapped beasts, and check household registration for future appeasement of Yangzhou. Liu Fu was loyal to Cao Cao, or to the central court, and Hefei's defense system was stable over and over again, ready to hand over to Cao Cao the Jiujiang County under his direct jurisdiction.

And here in Lujiang County, whether it is Lu Kang in Lu'an County or Wei Dongsheng in Longshu County, they all treat Cao Cao's orders as waste paper, and they don't have the slightest intention of actively cooperating. With a little political wisdom, you can understand that unless Cao Cao can easily defeat the two states of Jingyang, the northern Lujiang County will inevitably continue to listen to the tune and not listen to the propaganda.

Liu Ye sighed in his heart: "I still have to fight!" ”

However, Liu Ye is not entangled.

Anyway, no matter whether Wei Dongsheng wins or loses, Liu Ye has long been ready to save his life.

Liu Ye came to the Absolute Holy Gate Mansion to ask where the staff on duty Wei Dongsheng was, and walked straight to Yu Hengjian to pay homage to Wei. Yu Hengjian is a brand-new department set up by Wei Dongsheng, which is subordinate to the Absolute Holy Gate Liming Hall, and is fully responsible for the development of weapons, the manufacture of utensils, and the unification of weights and measures. In addition, Wei Dongsheng's work on the reproduction of some advanced natural science knowledge, such as the manufacture of black powder weapons, was also in charge of Yu Hengjian, which can be simply regarded as the early prototype of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Industry.