Bang!

In a crisp sound of metal collision, the Five Elements Sword in Yang Rui's hand and the sharp sword in Wei Jie's hand collided together, and a sharp sword light flashed, instantly cutting off the sharp sword in Wei Jie's hand, and the remaining momentum slashed through Wei Jie's chest, breaking through Wei Jie's star power shield, leaving a clear sword mark on his chest, and streams of red blood flowed out of it.

"You're damned!"

Glancing at the blood-stained clothes on his chest, Wei Jie's eyes flashed with fierce light, he roared angrily, the star power in his body surged wildly, and his right hand turned into a palm, with a bright starlight, and slapped it on Yang Rui's head.

"Starlight Sword!"

In the face of Wei Jie's palm attack, Yang Rui's expression remained unchanged, the star power in his body surged, and the Five Elements Sword in his hand flashed, with a sharp edge, cutting Wei Jie's palm down, making it let out a terrible scream.

Immediately afterwards, with a movement of Yang Rui's wrist, the Five Elements Sword slashed through Wei Jie's neck with a brilliant sword light, cutting off Wei Jie's head, causing him to die tragically on the spot, becoming a broken corpse.

As soon as Wei Jie died, the strong men of the City Lord's Mansion and the powerhouses of the major families in the county town of Ningping County who were still insisting on resisting the puppet warriors changed their faces drastically, and they hurriedly used their big moves to force the puppet warriors who were fighting against them to retreat and flee towards the city.

Seeing this scene, Yang Rui's eyes flashed with fierce light, and the star power in his body moved, and immediately turned into a white lightning, catching up with a strong man who had escaped, and the Five Elements Sword in his hand swung out, easily killing him on the spot.

Since the powerhouses of these counties have chosen to resist themselves to the end, they must be prepared to be killed by themselves.

This time, Yang Rui was not ready to let go of any of them, and wanted to use the blood and lives of these strong people in the county town to make the strong people in the county town who were about to attack give up resistance and reduce the resistance of the follow-up county towns.

In the face of Yang Rui's pursuit of the eighth-order star warriors, those sixth- and seventh-order star warriors in the county city were all killed by Yang Rui under the Five Elements Sword, becoming a cold corpse.

When Yang Rui pursued and killed the strong people in the county town, hundreds of thousands of puppet troops also cleared the guards on the city walls of the county town, and began to enter the county city, taking over the county city lord's mansion and the nests of the major families, and killing all the resisters in the city lord's mansion and the nests of the major families, leaving no one alive.

As for the guards who fled into the city, as long as they didn't make trouble for Yang Rui, Yang Rui didn't bother to chase them down, so they saved their lives.

Soon, the county seat of Ningping County fell into Yang Rui's control, and all the star stones and resources accumulated by the city lord's mansion and the major families fell into Yang Rui's hands and were included in the puppet tower by Yang Rui.

Immediately afterwards, Yang Rui left a puppet army of 10,000 people to maintain order in Ningping County, and led the puppet army to kill the county town of Chiyan County, which was adjacent to Dongping County.

At the same time, Wang Yupeng, Meng Liangde, Tao Yuanliang, Zhao Yan and other strong men subdued by Yang Rui took the sixth- and seventh-order puppet warriors assigned by Yang Rui, as well as the sixth- and seventh-order star warriors subdued, and rushed towards the thirty-six cities under the jurisdiction of Chiyan County, preparing to capture the thirty-six cities under the jurisdiction of Chiyan County in one fell swoop.

More than ten miles away from the county seat of Chiyan County, Yang Rui waved his hand, and hundreds of thousands of fourth-order and puppet warriors poured out of the puppet tower, forming a powerful battle formation, and rushed towards the direction of the county seat of Chiyan County.

Enemy attack! Enemy attack!

A terrible sound of sirens quickly sounded in the county town of Chiyan County, and Peng Gu, the county guard of Chiyan County, took the elite of the county guard mansion to rush to the city wall of Chiyan County at the first time, and looked at the puppet army in the distance, with a look of hesitation and hesitation flashing in his eyes.

Chiyan County is very close to Ningping County, and the county guard of Ningping County broke through the bottleneck of the seventh-order star warrior and was promoted to the eighth-order star warrior, and the news that he was still killed by Yang Rui was known by Peng Gu at the first time.

At the same time, the news that the county guards of Ningping County and the major families that resisted were wiped out by Yang Rui also reached Peng Gu's ears, making Peng Gu full of jealousy towards Yang Rui, and hesitated in his heart whether to resist the attack of the puppet army under Yang Rui.

When Peng Gu hesitated, the patriarchs of the four major families in the county town of Chiyan County, with the powerhouses of their respective families, flew down on the wall of the county city and looked at the puppet army in the distance.

"Lord County Guard, the puppet army under Yang Rui's command will be killed in a while, I don't know how Lord County Guard will deal with the puppet army, whether to resist to the death, or surrender to Yang Rui?"

Zhao Yuan, the head of the Zhao family, the head of the four major families, withdrew his gaze from looking at the puppet army and looked at Peng Gudao with a solemn expression.

"To be honest, I'm still thinking about it, I haven't thought about it yet, I don't know how the Zhao family will deal with the puppet army?"

Seeing that the other three heads of the four major families were all standing behind Zhao Yuan, with the Zhao family looking at the horse, Peng Gu's heart moved, knowing that the four families had reached a unanimous agreement, so he looked at Zhao Yuan without moving.

"Lord County Guard, Wei Jie, the County Guard of Ningping County, was promoted to an eighth-order star warrior, and he was not Yang Rui's opponent, and he was killed by Yang Rui on the spot, which means that Yang Rui has been promoted to an eighth-order star warrior, and he is the strongest among the eighth-order star warriors!

In addition, the puppet army under Yang Rui's command is extremely powerful and irresistible, if we resist Yang Rui and his puppet army to the death, we are completely hitting the stone with an egg and seeking our own death.

Therefore, I suggest that we open the city gates of Chiyan County, surrender directly to Yang Rui, and become Yang Rui's most loyal subordinate!

Although doing so will cost us a lot of wealth, it can save the lives of the children of our major families and the inheritance of our major families.

At the same time, Yang Rui has already controlled Donglai County, Ningping County, and Chiyan County, and will soon sweep the entire Dongzhou, and even the entire Xingyu Empire, our defection to Yang Rui is not a bad thing at all, but it is a good thing for our major families to develop and grow!"

Zhao Yuan had a plan in his heart, and looked at Peng Gu in a flat tone and said.

"If we surrender to Yang Rui, Yang Rui will plant a spiritual imprint in our minds and control our life and death, aren't you afraid that Yang Rui's heart will kill us if he moves?" Peng Gu frowned slightly.

"Yang Rui is the master of the puppets, not only is his own strength strong, but the puppet army under his command is also extremely powerful, we are nothing in his eyes, how could he kill us for no reason!

As long as we don't betray Yang Rui and the center works for Yang Rui, it is impossible for Yang Rui to use his spiritual imprint to kill us! Of course, if you want to betray Yang Rui, you deserve to be killed by Yang Rui!" Zhao Yuanhun said indifferently.

Zhao Yuan has analyzed Yang Rui's situation in detail, and found that although the people who took refuge in Yang Rui in the early days were planted by Yang Rui with a spiritual imprint, they were also reused by Yang Rui, and their own power not only did not decrease, but increased a lot.

What's more, those who took refuge in Yang Rui gained a lot of benefits from Yang Rui's expansion of power, and their cultivation strength was greatly improved, and their power expanded several times, which was also one of the reasons why Zhao Yuan made up his mind to take refuge in Yang Rui.

"Since that's the case, then let's open the city gate and surrender to Yang Rui!"

Seeing that Zhao Yuan and the others had already made a decision, Peng Gu pondered for a moment and nodded lightly.

After the county guard of Chiyan County and the four major families reached some agreements, the gate of the county town of Chiyan County was opened, and the county guard of Chiyan County and the four major families took the initiative to walk out of the county town with their henchmen and lined up outside the gate of the county city to welcome Yang Rui.

Yang Rui, who was sitting in the rear of the puppet army, saw the gate of the county town of Chiyan County open, and the county guard of Chiyan County led the team to welcome him, his eyes first flashed with a look of surprise, and then showed a happy smile, and immediately asked the puppet army to stop advancing, riding a seventh-order star beast puppet, and slowly walked to the gate of the county city of Chiyan County.

"The subordinate Red Flame County Guard Peng Gu has seen the Lord!"

"Zhao Yuan, the head of the Zhao family of Chiyan County, has seen the lord!"

“、、、、、”

Seeing Yang Rui, Peng Gu, the county guard of Chiyan County, Zhao Yuan, the head of the Zhao family, and the other three family patriarchs, they all stepped forward, knelt down on one knee in front of Yang Rui, and greeted Yang Rui.

"Very good! let go of the resistance, let me plant a spiritual imprint in your minds, you are my most loyal subordinates!"

Seeing the movements of Peng Gu, Zhao Yuan and the others, a faint smile appeared at the corner of Yang Rui's mouth, and he said softly.

"Yes, Lord!"

Peng Gu, Zhao Yuan and the others responded and gave up resistance, allowing Yang Rui to put a trace of spiritual imprint into their minds and control their life and death.

As the county seat of Chiyan County gave up resistance, he took the initiative to surrender to Yang Rui, allowing Yang Rui to easily control Chiyan County and include the star stones and resources above the ninth floor of Chiyan County into the puppet tower.

At the same time, Tao Yuanliang, Meng Liangde, Zhao Yan, Wang Yupeng and others also took the sixth and seventh order puppet warriors to easily capture one city after another, control them in the palm of their hands, and collect the star stones and resources above the ninth layer of each city and send them to Yang Rui's palm.

Donglai County, Ningping County, and Chiyan County successively fell into Yang Rui's palm, which shocked the forces of other counties in Dongzhou, and while feeling that Yang Rui was strong, they quickly joined forces to form a powerful coalition to resist Yang Rui's invasion.

It's just that Yang Rui's actions were very fast, and after collecting the star stones and resources of Chiyan County into the puppet tower, he let Tao Yuanliang, Meng Liangde, Zhao Yan, Wang Yupeng, Zhao Yuan, Peng Gu and others take the sixth- and seventh-order puppet warriors to attack the ordinary cities of the neighboring counties.

And Yang Rui himself took the terrifying puppet army and ran towards the county town of the neighboring county.

In the face of Yang Rui and the puppet army under his command, the neighboring counties immediately followed the example of Chiyan County and took the initiative to surrender to Yang Rui, allowing Yang Rui to easily control the county towns of the neighboring counties.

After that, Yang Rui took his puppet army and rushed to the county towns non-stop, easily captured the county towns one by one, and obtained countless star stones and resources.

Especially in the later stage, without waiting for Yang Rui to arrive, one county after another took the initiative to surrender to Yang Rui, so that Yang Rui could easily control each county town.

In just half a month, the thirty-six counties of Dongzhou all fell under Yang Rui's control, and the entire Xingyu Empire was shocked, and the Dongzhou Prefecture City fell into chaos.

Everyone knows that Yang Rui's next target must be Dongzhou City, so many forces in Dongzhou City were frightened, and they left Dongzhou City with their families and relatives to live in a small town outside the state city and observe the development of the situation.

The small forces in the Dongzhou Prefecture can hide in the small town, but the big families in the Dongzhou Prefecture Prefecture and the Prefecture Governor's Mansion and the Prefecture City have a large number of properties and relatives in the city, so they cannot hide in the small town.

At the same time, there were quite a few powerhouses in Dongzhou Prefecture, and there were as many as three eighth-order star warriors alone, so let them surrender directly to Yang Rui, they were unwilling, so they could only fall into hesitation and hesitation.

When the Dongzhou Prefecture Pastoral Mansion and the major families hesitated, Yang Rui came to Dongzhou City with the elite puppet army under his command, so that the Dongzhou Prefecture Chengzhou Pastoral and the heads of the major families had to stop hesitating and hesitating, quickly climbed the city wall, and looked at the puppet army under Yang Rui's command, with shock and worry in their eyes.