"What kind of bullshit Qin Wang Order! Damn the royal family! He actually ordered our Lijun to recruit 2,000 monks to Xiangcheng within three months and be incorporated into the Gui army to support the front-line battle?! Ever since the last time he fiddled with a pistol and was mistakenly shot out of his left ear by the four elders, his temper has become more and more impulsive, and his words are full www.biquge.info of anger.

The fourth elder looked at the edict on the table, and also showed displeasure, and said: "What the second elder said is right! The royal family doesn't know, the total number of monks in our Li clan is only more than two thousand, and more than five hundred of them belong to the clan army, and they went to the front line with the patriarch, and now all the monks of our clan, plus the guardian monks of each county and those scattered cultivators, the total number is not more than 1,600 or 700 people, and the remaining 200 or so monks tell us to recruit from? !

"The edict also states that if the counties fail to recruit enough monks within six months, they will be severely fined!

"What's more, it's embarrassing! The royal family is doing this, it's simply aimed at us?!"

"That's right! Isn't this a clear attempt to force us to rebel?

The young Sixth Elder and Seventh Elder couldn't help but slap the table, jumped up impulsively, and said the words that everyone had been holding back for a long time.

Only the three elders kept their eyes closed and shook the feather fan gently, not saying a word, not knowing what they were thinking.

"Alright, alright, all shut up!" Seeing that all the elders were shouting in a ball, and even the words that should not be said were shouted loudly, the Great Elder was immediately shocked, and immediately shouted to shut everyone up. He also added a bit of mana amplification to his voice, making his voice strong and powerful, forcing people's minds, and immediately quieting everyone.

After stabilizing everyone's emotions, the Great Elder turned to the Third Elder and asked, "Third Elder, you have always been resourceful, what do you think of this order from the royal family?"

The third elder put away the fan feathers, sneered, and said, "Hmph! The royal family issued this order, and this kind of intention can be described as killing two birds with one stone." In the name of defending the country, all the monks of the four tribes were transferred to his command, and then sent to the battlefield to be used as cannon fodder, so that the monks of our four tribes could resist the Vietnamese army for their royal family, and use the hands of the Vietnamese army to weaken our strength, while the Gui people's own army would recuperate and recharge, and when the Vietnamese army was tired, they would be betrayed in one fell swoop. At that time, even if the Vietnamese army is successfully expelled, our four tribes will inevitably suffer heavy losses... If this is the case, it is estimated that when the Vietnamese army is defeated and retreats, it will definitely be the day when our four clans will perish!"

Hearing the words of the three elders, the elders couldn't help but change their faces. Although they knew that the royal family had always regarded them as a threat, and they were on guard everywhere, sometimes cutting down the feudal domain, but most of the time the thunder was loud and the rain was small, and they didn't really dare to touch them.

After all, the royal family also has concerns about the overall strength of the four clans, and the four clans usually abide by the royal law and obey the edict, but they also maintain a superficial peace with the royal family. Unexpectedly, this time, the royal family really planned to make a move against them, and it was for reasons they couldn't refuse.

"What should we do, do we have to send the clan monks to the royal family as cannon fodder?, so we are not all finished?!" exclaimed the fourth elder with a little excitement.

"Hmph! How is this possible? We must not allow them to send their clansmen to participate in the war! Otherwise, won't our clan's thousand-year-old accumulation be overturned? I think that this matter should be sent to contact the other three clans as soon as possible, and this matter must not obey the arrangement of the royal clan! It's a big deal, we will turn against tomorrow and go to Xiangcheng!" the second elder immediately clapped the case and shouted.

"Alas, if the patriarch knows about this matter again, how should he decide?!" the fourth elder said helplessly.

Seeing that everyone either had no way at all, or said something stupid, the Great Elder couldn't help but scold these people for being wasteful, and he turned to the Third Elder again and asked, "Third Elder, what countermeasures do you have?"

The third elder nodded and said with a smile: "Hehe, in my opinion, the royal clan wants our clan to gather two thousand monks to participate in the war, and this request is not unavoidable!"

"What, third, what do you mean?" the second elder asked in surprise.

"Why do you say that? Is there any way you can do this? I will never agree to send two thousand people to the war! Or do you have any other way?" the Great Elder asked in confusion.

Seeing the strange appearance of everyone, the third elder shook his feather fan and said slowly: "Elders, the royal clan must have thought that this move would definitely bring all our monks under its control, and it is estimated that the other three clans must have received this order. The royal family was recruited this time, in the name of King Qin's defense of the country, but I can't oppose it, if we disobey the call, or if the yang is disobeyed, I am afraid it will be extremely unfavorable to our clan. ”

"Exactly, since that's the case, then what can you do to keep my clan monks from being summoned by the royal family?" the Great Elder asked.

A gleam flashed in the eyes of the third elder, he nodded, and grinned: "There is a plan in the next place. The Great Elder can notice that this edict only says that we want to recruit 2,000 monks, and it doesn't have to be our Li clan monks, if it is replaced by a casual cultivator, then it's okay!"

Hearing this, the Great Elder's eyes couldn't help but light up, and he said, "Yes, why didn't I think of it! This order doesn't say that we must send soldiers from our royal clan to the battle! As long as we give him two thousand monks, that's fine!"

But the Great Elder thought for a moment and asked again: "However, the royal clan wants us to gather two thousand monks! Our Li clan has eighteen counties in the entire territory, and each county has only one guard monk, plus some other casual cultivators, at most there are only more than 100 people! How can it be enough to gather 2,000 monks?!"

The Second Elder smiled and asked rhetorically, "Of course, there aren't so many casual cultivators in our county now, but does the Great Elder know how long it should take for an ordinary mortal to set foot on the Dao of Cultivation and reach the lowest level of the early stage of the Qi Realm?"

The Great Elder thought for a moment and replied slowly, "Hmm... It depends on the cultivator's cultivation qualifications. The qualification of cultivation varies from person to person, it is innate, and it is divided into four classes according to the grade, the higher the level, the easier it is to advance, and the road to cultivation is even more promising. However, in reality, the vast majority of people are low-level qualifications, and even there are not many middle-level qualifications, and even most of the elites selected by our clan are only middle-level and middle-grade, and the patriarch can be regarded as the best qualified person in my clan for a hundred years, but he barely reaches the upper and lower grades. There are so many cultivators in the world, and there are even fewer people who have reached the upper level qualifications, let alone the heaven-level qualifications, only one person in hundreds of millions of people can be, and only those cultivators with that kind of qualifications can reach the realm of Void Truth on the path of cultivation!" The Great Elder seemed to remember something, and he sighed with emotion.

He thought for a while, and then said: "Actually, you and I both know that even ordinary mortals have more or less cultivation qualifications, even the most inferior mortals in the lower grade qualifications, if they have the opportunity to learn the basic Five Elements Qi Refining Method, they can absorb some Heavenly Spiritual Qi to some extent, it's just a matter of quantity, if the cultivation time is long enough, there will be barely a little achievement." However, cultivation is not only something that can be advanced by swallowing and breathing qi, but also needs to replenish various elixirs at any time, and the cultivation resources in nature are limited. If this weren't the case, we, the cultivation families, wouldn't have to be so strict in selecting those with superior qualifications to cultivate, and we would do everything possible to leave all kinds of cultivation resources for them to use. As for the other casual cultivation, it is even worse, no matter what the qualifications are, without cultivation resources, no matter how good the calculation qualifications are, they can only reach the realm. As for the question you raised, if a mortal with the most ordinary low-grade qualifications has the opportunity to cultivate the Five Elements Qi Refining Method, if everything goes well, it will take at least two years to barely reach the realm of the early stage of the Qi Realm, but if he can take any elixir, it will take a year at the earliest to reach the early stage of the Qi Realm!"

The second elder on the side nodded and said, "That's right! Actually, there is no difference between mortals and cultivators in the world, only whether they have cultivation qualifications or not. Third Elder, do you mean to select a group of mortals to replace our Li clan cultivators, and after cultivating them to the early stage of the Qi Realm, replace us and join the royal army?"

"That's right!" the third elder nodded and said with a smile: "If we cultivate a group of mortal cultivators now, as long as they reach the early stage of the qi realm, we will be sent as monks of our county to participate in the recruitment of the royal clan, and let these scattered cultivators send death for our clan." In this way, we have carried out the royal decree and protected the strength of our clan, even the Gui clan would not have expected us to have such a solution, right?" said the second elder proudly.

The Great Elder nodded first, then shook his head, and said, "Having said that, but Second Elder, have you ever thought about it, how can we have so much time to train those loose cultivators? The royal family's order is for us to gather two thousand monks within three months, and it will take half a year to train a monk to reach the minimum required Qi Realm Stage, and I don't know how many resources it will take to do it, this is definitely not worth the loss!"

"That's not a problem at all!" The second elder shook his feather fan and said very easily: "We don't need to cultivate those people to the early stage of the Qi Realm at all, we just need to let them have some superficial Taoism, be able to gather some spiritual energy, and be able to perform the simplest exorcism techniques! To do this, three months is enough! We have secretly planted a lot of people in the royal family, right? When the royal family sends people to accept them, we can buy them off with a lot of money and perfunctory them for various reasons, then won't we pass the test?" Even if someone from the royal family came to inspect it, the true cultivation of the two thousand monks was not something they could see at once. It's a big deal to give each of those casual cultivators a Breaking Spirit Pill at that time, and just improve their cultivation for the time being. Anyway, these casual cultivators were also sent to be cannon fodder, and it is estimated that few will survive, even if they break their bodies because of taking the pill, it doesn't matter. ”

Hearing the attention of the three elders, the elders couldn't stop nodding. The Fourth Elder thought for a moment and then asked, "Third Elder, I have another question, where can we go to find the two thousand monks who replaced us? Knowing that being recruited to fight is almost to send them to death, and they are willing to take this risk? What's more, it takes a lot of money to train these two thousand monks, does this also need to be paid by our clan?"

The Third Elder smiled and said, "Hehe, the Fourth Elder doesn't have to worry, I've already thought about this." Do you still remember those people from the Blue Star Clan in Xiaoyu County?"

Hearing this, everyone in the Great Elder, including the Great Elder, seemed to be awakened, and their faces immediately became happy, and they asked in surprise, "You mean to recruit the people of the Blue Star Clan?!"

The third elder showed a sly look, nodded, and sneered: "That's right, it's those people! Last time, after our clan was tricked by them, I proposed not to touch them for the time being, and let them develop well, gather more wealth, and only eradicate them when they have the opportunity, and now is the perfect opportunity to do something to these people! Not only the people of the Blue Star Firm, but also some people in the county who seem to obey us, But in fact, the various Xiuzhen families and small forces that deliberately opposed us, plus the local mortal families and some fierce hunters, there are almost 2,000 people! We can completely do it to them in the name of the royal family. First requisition their people, and then under the pretext of expropriating their wealth, all their property will be included in the name of our clan, so that these hidden dangers can be eliminated, and secondly, we can strengthen the power of our clan, why not?!"

Listening to the second elder's suggestion, everyone immediately clapped their hands and said yes. The Great Elder stroked his beard, clapped his hands violently, and said, "Okay! That's it! The old man has long been tired of looking down on those Blue Star Clansmen! Obviously, they are just a group of lowly mortals, and they want to be on an equal footing with us when they have some money! For more than a year, we have been putting up with them and letting these self-righteous mortals develop freely, they think that we cultivators don't know anything, but in fact we are just trying to get away with it! Now that the fruit is ripe, it is time for us to harvest!"