Chapter 922: Tough
These were originally thirteen fragments of various sizes, but as the metal that had originally wrapped around them melted, they appeared in front of Xia Fan.
Each fragment is on both sides, the front side depicts some patterns of mountain terrain, and the reverse side records the location of some spaces with some runes that only a formation mage can understand.
"What the hell is the Great Wilderness Ancestor doing?!" Xia Fan was really shocked with unimaginable surprise when he saw these fragments. Because it was really difficult for him to understand what the Great Wilderness Ancestor had for doing this.
Since the Great Desolate Ancestor personally refined the Boundary Breaking Bell himself, then you can guess that these fragments must have been put in by him when refining the Boundary Breaking Bell without asking. But no one could have guessed what he meant by placing the pieces in the Breaking Bell?
Is it for the sake of secrecy and doesn't want others to get it? Or do you want to be discovered by others by chance?
If it was the former, why did he have to get these pieces out again, but if it was the latter, it would be too much of a test of luck. After all, whoever gets the Breaking Bell will treat it as a treasure, and most of them are reluctant to damage it, and at the same time, the sturdiness of the Breaking Bell is not so easy to destroy. Doesn't that mean that these fragments will never be discovered?
"It's really confusing for this predecessor to do things!" Xia Fan thought about it, but he really couldn't figure out what kind of mentality the Great Wilderness Ancestor had when he hid these fragments in the body of the clock, so he simply didn't bother to think about it.
However, it is worth rejoicing that his luck is not bad, he accidentally broke the Breaking Bell, and he found these fragments by accident.
"I just don't know where these fragments are pointing, and what is hidden on them?" Xia Fan put those fragments together, and found that they were tightly fitted, especially when he converged the flames, these fragments gradually cooled down and actually snapped together tightly, forming a whole.
Xia Fan couldn't understand the terrain on the map on the front, anyway, with his understanding of this world, it didn't seem to match anywhere, so he looked at the runes on the space that represented the location of the space.
"Interesting! I didn't expect it to be in the Demon Realm!" Xia Fan couldn't help but laugh after reading these runes. Because this position does not point to the location of this world at all, but to the demon realm.
It is difficult to go directly to the Demon Realm from this world, unless there are props that connect the two worlds or a passage connecting the two worlds, and there is also a super giant teleportation array, but because it has to cross the two worlds, the things consumed by the teleportation array every time it is used are quite huge, at least not what Xia Fan can bear now, so this spatial location is basically meaningless to him. Unless Xia Fan is crazy, he will think about arranging a teleportation array to go to the Demon Realm.
However, for Xia Fan, this is actually not a problem at all, because he has a way to go to the demon world, and that is to use the necklace left by his mother.
Not long ago, Xia Fan found that the necklace seemed to be usable again, but he was too busy to leave a big mess here to hang out in the demon world, so he ignored the chain.
But after defeating the Divine Eye Kingdom, he can be idle for a while, just go to the Demon Realm with Yukong Yue, and then go by the way to see what is on this map left by the Great Wilderness Ancestor, and he also wants to find his mother.
The few times he went to the Demon Realm in the past, he hurried back because his strength was too low, but now it is different, after he has the strength of the early stage of the Grandmaster Realm, he can go back and forth even in the Demon Realm, and naturally he can do something that he wanted to do before but had no way to do.
After Lu Chuan returned to his base camp, he announced that he had returned to Xia Fan, and before his subordinates could accept the shocking news, he once again issued an order to attack the small country next to him.
Military orders are like mountains, and no matter whether the generals under them understand it or not, they must obey it unconditionally.
It's just that after being ordered, some people still can't help but worry, if they suddenly change the direction of attack like this, then wouldn't the enemies of the Divine Eye Kingdom who were originally blocked by them just take the opportunity to attack themselves?
"Don't worry, the Lord has his own plan, we just need to do what we are told. Lu Chuan replied casually in the face of the advice of several henchmen.
Lu Chuan's side suddenly changed his strategy, from being the master of his own house to serving Xia Fan, of course some people will agree, but there are also many people who oppose it, especially the people of the Lu family who oppose it the most and strongest. Some people even thought of moving out of a group of elders in the family to hold Lu Chuan accountable.
In this regard, Lu Chuan was extremely tough.
He didn't go into much explanation. Because many things are still highly confidential and cannot be leaked at all, otherwise, he is definitely not the only one who is unlucky enough to make a mistake, so Lu Chuan directly arrested those who jumped out and chirped endlessly.
After some people were caught, they immediately coaxed. But some of them are proud of their extraordinary status, even if they are in prison, they are still extremely arrogant, almost shouting Lu Chuan's name and scolding.
For such a person, Lu Chuan was no longer polite, no matter what his background was, even if he was a member of the family, he still ordered someone to pull him out and kill him to set an example.
If it was before, of course Lu Chuan could change to some relatively gentle ways, reason with the people in the family and give some benefits, or he could still solve this matter in a gentle way.
But now he really can't and doesn't dare to do it.
Because the last time he participated in the meeting, Lu Chuan could faintly feel that Xia Fan and the others were a little anxious.
Everyone including Xia Fan no longer wants to waste their endless time and energy on such trivial things, and for them, conquering such a large territory and ruling so many subjects is not the ultimate goal, but just a process to achieve their future goals.
Since it's just a process, some things can be ignored, some things can be cleared, and everything is done to clear the obstacles for the later plans.
It was precisely because he understood how big what Xia Fan and the others had to do that made Lu Chuan so urgent.
Because Lu Chuan knew that since he was on the boat, it was impossible to go down, and at the same time, he also wanted to follow Xia Fan and the others to see what other worlds were like, so he changed his way of doing things.
I have to say that Lu Chuan's ruthlessness really frightened all the opposing voices. Even within the Lu family, no one dared to make noise anymore.
Of course, Lu Chuan also knew that some people did not change their minds because of this, but were temporarily afraid of the butcher's knife so they chose to wait and see. When something goes wrong with him in the future, they will jump out and fall into the ground.
It's just that Lu Chuan never considered the situation of failure, because he knew what kind of strength Xia Fan he had taken refuge in, and he also knew what kind of strength he had behind him, as long as everything was being implemented according to Xia Fan's predetermined plan and everything went well, then they would become stronger and stronger, until no one dared to speak out against it.
After Lu Chuan suppressed all the opposition with strong means, he led his troops to attack and attack several small countries such as Yunhe, Cangge, and Abt, which were adjacent to the Blue Jade Kingdom, but had previously stumbled on Baishi City because of the provocation of the Han Dynasty.
Although the names of these small countries are strange, but the two countries like Yunhe and Cangge have lasted for one or two hundred years, and the reason why they can survive between the Blue Jade Kingdom and the Han Dynasty is that they are best at meeting the source left and right, and seeing the wind and making the rudder.
Previously, the Lanyu was in turmoil, and then Xia Fan rose, they had intended to show goodwill, but as soon as the Han Dynasty put pressure on them, these small countries immediately jumped against them, and directly ran to the Han Dynasty, and then began to step on Baishi City.
Of course, Xia Fan can understand the helplessness of these small countries living in the cracks, and even if it has nothing to do with him, he may have to secretly praise these countries' coping strategies. But when that happens to him, he's not so happy.
Before, Xia Fan really couldn't spare the time and troops to deal with these small countries, but with Lu Chuan's submission, everything became much simpler.
Lu Chuan is also doing quite well.
From the very beginning, Lu Chuan did not directly divide his troops into three ways as others expected, and attacked the three kingdoms of Yunhe, Cangge and Abt in front at the same time, but concentrated the forces in his hands and attacked Abt in the farthest place with all his might.
Abt is not very large, the country is only five or six thousand miles in circumference, and the population is only one million.
However, the territory of Abt is mountainous, so the people are mainly mountain people, and the people are fierce, brave and good at fighting, especially proficient in mountain warfare. More than ten years ago, Yunhe once wanted to attack Abt, but finally failed due to the complex terrain of mountains and rivers and the fierce counterattack of the mountain people.
This also makes Abt a famous chicken rib, and it is really a pity to abandon it without taste, so neither the Han Dynasty nor the Blue Jade Kingdom has much idea of fighting it, so that he can survive in the gap between the two families.
Under normal circumstances, Lu Chuan didn't like to attack a small country like Abt, but now he had no choice.
At this time, he did not care about any casualties, but sent his various armies out alternately to attack the city and plunder the land, as long as he did not care about the number of casualties.
Lu Chuan did this not only to take the Abte country as soon as possible, but also to conduct a comprehensive test of his army and prepare for the reorganization that would inevitably come later.
Just when the old and sophisticated Lu Chuan attacked Abt in an all-out way, the army of the Divine Eyes Kingdom, which was originally facing him head-on, also discovered the departure of Lu Chuan's army.
At first, they thought that Lu Chuan was playing some conspiracy and wanted to trap them, but it was not until later that they determined that Lu Chuan was not a maze at all, and wanted to lure them in, but really ran suddenly to attack the Abte country, that the army of the Shenmu country realized that they had missed a great opportunity.
It's just that before the main general of the Divine Eye Country could make up for his death, the army of Yukong Yue, which had already moved over when Lu Chuan's army left, had already taken the lead in launching a full-scale attack on the army of the Divine Eye Country.
(End of chapter)