Talking at night, sleepless all night.

Because he was talking about the design of the future path with the god doppelganger, and he often needed to deduce the plan, Zhou Bai actually felt a little mentally tired.

This is an impossible situation for him to handle government affairs for three consecutive days and three nights.

However, when the soul reached the spiritual realm, the miracle manifested itself, and after a moment of meditation, it was exhausted, and it did not delay the camp and march into the army at all.

On July 15 of the first year of Tongzhi, Zhou Bai ordered Xu Yun to stay in Shuiyang City, responsible for the transit and dispatch of money and grain, and the southern expedition camp went directly to the direction of Ruinan County.

In front of the southern expedition camp, there was the main force of 20,000 under the commander of Zhou Yuan, and on the flanks were a guard and horse led by Zhou Ping and Huang Jingtong.

In less than ten days, all the military strongholds in the northern part of Ruinan County had been completely wiped out, and Ruinan City was naked under the front of the Anbei Army, and there was no way to avoid it.

It was night, the time when the legendary ghost gate was opened, and the yin qi of heaven and earth reached its peak of the year.

As if stimulated by something, the ghosts of the underworld frantically attacked the yin and yang cracks of the Tian Yuan Continent, and were about to go to the world to cause trouble.

Zhou Bai guessed correctly, the Qingxu warships that landed in various places did not let go of this opportunity, and they united with the Heavenly Demons that had been lurking before to launch an offensive again.

The Underworld Dark Hand had already used it last time, and they attacked the city emperor temples from the mortal world to break the divine domain and exorcise the gods.

After weakening the seal on the crack as much as possible, and in conjunction with the general environment of July 15, when the yin qi was at its heaviest, some of the ghosts successfully crossed the yin and yang.

The demons are dancing, the ghosts are walking at night, and the earth is full of ghosts.

If these ghosts are really in accordance with the Zhongyuan tradition, it is good to say that it is not a sin to take incense and meet relatives.

Terrible, afraid of lonely souls and wild ghosts, there are no fetters in the world, and they want to devour flesh and blood to get the vitality of the living, which is the instinct of ghosts to promote and survive.

There is no need to worry about the prosperous areas where there are many gods and sects, the extraordinary power is powerful, and the ghosts dare to swagger through the market, and they will be suppressed immediately.

But now the world is in turmoil, local divisions, and power and responsibility are not unified, which will inevitably cause disasters to innocent people.

Especially in border states such as Dingzhou, except for Zhou Bai, who moved quickly and cleared the Qingxu warships and other bright forces in the territory, most of the remaining counties and counties are still suffering from foreign invasions.

After a day's march, the southern expeditionary battalion chose to be stationed in a plain area, near which were continuous wheat fields, and golden wheat waves rose one after another.

This does not meet the conditions for camping in high terrain and strategic points, and there is no danger to rely on, and it is vulnerable to shocks.

But considering the 20,000 main forces in front of 100 miles, as well as the advantages of convenient traffic command, a little defect is nothing.

The southern expedition camp was followed by 10,000 elites, including 2,000 well-repaired demon troops.

The place where the camp was set up, the army was full of energy, and the blood was boiling, not to mention the ghosts with bad intentions, even the monks and gods did not dare to approach easily.

Zhou Bai sat in the big tent, his divine sense overlooking a radius of ten miles, as he took charge of the army, the longer he practiced the Mixed Yuan Qi Luck Dao Zang, the smaller the restrictions on his own military qi became.

The divine consciousness swept over, and on the plains of the wilderness, there were indeed no ghosts to be seen.

On July 15th, the ghosts are extinct, naturally there is a reason, and if you look closely, you will find that there is a familiar divine breath in the distance, which belongs to the divine court.

Zhou Bai's clone can be called the god master, not only because of the state title on the Heavenly Book of Luck, but also because she has the ability to be a god monarch.

The natural deterrent power is easy to make other gods surrender is just the foundation, the key is that she can actually be a god, and the god position is equivalent to Zhengyi, and it will not be suppressed by the gods of heaven and dragon court.

When the god lord became a god, he was helped by the book of luck and heaven, recognized by heaven and earth, and condensed a core talisman by himself, which Zhou Bai called the Shinto talisman calling.

In the ordinary sense, Fu Zhao refers to the dispatch of troops by launching military runes, and among monks, it often refers to the ritual of sending God to summon generals through runes.

To put it simply, the talisman is the credential for the superior to recruit the subordinate, and the Shinto talisman condensed by the god lord is the basis she uses to establish a new divine court, which can be said to be the golden finger of the doppelganger.

Every god who has been enshrined by the god will receive a corresponding divine charm.

For example, the land of Chengdong Village, Cangbei County, under the arrangement of Zhou Bai, entered Hongni Township, which was originally a little unjustifiable, and could only rely on the villagers' incense to slowly nourish it, and it has not been able to fully play the function of the land god.

Now that he has been granted the land talisman summon, he has officially become the land of Zhengbapin Township of the Divine Court, and in a short period of time, he will be able to grasp the power that the land god should have according to the priesthood given by the Shinto talisman call.

The summer harvest in Hongni Township was smooth, and the township land contributed a lot.

There are many benefits of Shinto talismans, which can save the time for the gods to comprehend the rules of the priesthood, and the speed of refining incense to accumulate divine power is greatly accelerated.

Conversely, there are many restrictions on the use of Shinto talismans to summon gods.

The Shinto Fu Zhao can only seal the gods below their own gods, except that the gods can seal different gods, and the land of Bapin Township can only be sealed at most the land of Jiupin Village.

The upper gods are the natural leaders by virtue of the Shinto talisman, and the county emperor of Qipin County issued an order to the land of Bapin Township in the county, and the township land must be obeyed, otherwise the superior can use the Shinto talisman to suppress the subordinates.

This is completely contrary to the previous Shinto system, which was not subordinate to each other, and the divine court formed a strict institutional network under the series of symbols, and the administrative efficiency was extremely high.

At the source of all Shinto talismans, it is the god lord, the more gods who rule over the gods, the stronger the power of the god lord, and now it is one step away from the golden edict, which can be said to be the strongest of the six grades.

In such a Shinto system, at the beginning of its development, it will inevitably explode with quite strong vitality, soaring all the way on the avenue of rapid expansion.

However, it is foreseeable that in the future, the Divine Court may be rigid and lack of development potential.

Therefore, Zhou Bai planned a lot of additional supplementary systems, preparing to set up the Supervision Department, the Merit Examination Department, and so on.

In the divine court, there are still some independent gods, such as the Xiaoqingshan Mountain God, and the two innate gods who are going to join in the future.

The priesthood path of these gods should not be limited by the Shinto symbols, and more possibilities will be lost.

Just as Zhou Bai was still thinking about the road shape of the future divine court, several gods happened to pass by the outskirts covered by the military qi and saluted in the direction of the big tent.

Zhou Bai, as the deity, can also sense the Shinto talisman on them, these are all gods of the divine court, and the priesthood is the god of travel.

They didn't know that the god lord was Zhou Bai's clone, but they knew that the Anbei Governor's Mansion supported the Divine Court, completely opened up the folk faith, and allowed the gods of the Divine Court to build temples.

The wandering god is the most common priesthood in the divine court system, and is the least bound by the humane administrative area.

If it is a land god of Bei'an County, if he goes to Ruinan County, his strength will be suppressed by at least more than half, and how can he have the strength to suppress the ghosts.

The gods of the Divine Court swept away the ghosts and things in the wilderness, and then there was a team of heroic spirits coming from Bei'an County, and the direction was also to the south.

The area south of Ruinan County is not Zhou Bai's territory, but the Anbei Governor's Mansion thinks that it is already in the bag.

Chen Zhongbang, who stayed in Bei'an, was the most important, but when he learned that the three northern counties of Ruinan were taken down so easily, he sent the list of selected Ruinan reserve officials to the Chinese army overnight for Zhou Bai to see.

For the follow-up governance, of course, the god lord will not delay at this time, except for the people who stabilize Bei'an, most of the wandering gods and heroic spirits are sent to Ruinan.

With the Divine Court suppressing the underworld, Zhou Bai felt much more relieved, and then planned to continue to deal with official business, and there were a few letters of Ruinan Haoqiang's integrity, and he needed to wait for his reply.

By the orange candlelight, I replied with a pen.

It's obviously an overhaul in the later period of the Yin God, but most of the daily life is to lead troops to fight and deal with political affairs and mundane things, so there should be a sense of disobedience, right?

However, Zhou Bai didn't feel that there was anything wrong, and he was even willing to do it, the exercises he practiced needed the strength of the system to provide luck.

Establishing a new system and making it grow is the road of Zhou Bai.

Besides, don't the Heavenly Emperors and Sages of the Heavenly Court need to be distracted to deal with "general affairs"?

Of course, these big men knew that this would be a waste of time, but only by governing the Heavenly Court well could they let the Heavenly Court provide them with more resources and luck, so that they could have the hope of becoming enlightened.

It is rumored in ancient times that if the heavenly court is established, then Haotian will attain the Tao.

Single-minded, halfway through the writing of the reply, the voice of Li Yuan asking for instructions came from outside the tent.

Li Yuan, who has been cultivated by Zhou Bai, has advanced by leaps and bounds in cultivation, especially with the help of the spiritual tide and the opportunity of the war between the two realms, and now he is only one step away from the Yin God.

Without waiting for the information to be reported, Zhou Bai looked at Li Yuan a few times, then took out a piece of jade slip from the storage ring and handed it to him: "The eyes are full of light, the spirit is penetrating the body, and the cultivation of the mortal realm has reached perfection, which is very good." ”

"But your soul is too weak, and you still stop at ignorance, so you can't break through the Yin God Realm. In the jade slip, it is a soul cultivation method, take it to the good life to cultivate, wait for Ruinan to take it, exchange the contribution points for some soul crystals, and the achievement of the Yin God is a matter of course. ”

"Thank you Dudu, the grace of enlightenment is in my heart, and I am willing to die for Dudu." Li Yuan was grateful to pay homage, how could he not know the preciousness of the soul cultivation method.

Different monks have different requirements for the word enlightenment, and for Zhou Bai, it is to pursue the ultimate eternal path.

But for most monks, enlightenment is equivalent to achieving the Yin God, being able to be honored by others as a real person, and living with the dynasty.

"Say, did Yan Luo make a move, or is there something else?" Zhou Bai waved his hand and asked nonchalantly.

He doesn't care about the loyalty of his subordinates, he still cares about the performance of his work.

In terms of Li Yuan's merits, it is definitely not enough to obtain the Great Divine Soul Method, but it is almost the same to get a method that can be cultivated to the early stage of the Qingming Realm, and the Taoist group needs to sit in the Three Realms.

"Back to the Dudu, flying news ahead, it was the Xuanwu Mountain Range that had an accident, and the Xuanwu Gate of the sect above had just been broken by the combined army of the two warships." Li Yuan didn't dare to slack off, and replied respectfully.

Zhou Bai frowned slightly, turned around and glanced at the map, and the Xuanwu Mountain Range on it was clearly highlighted.

Located four hundred and eighty miles southwest of the county seat, it was previously recognized as an immortal mountain in Ruinan County, just because the Xuanwu Mountain Range has the Xuanwu Gate of the Immortal Sect, and there is a second-level spiritual vein at the mountain gate, which can provide the aura of cultivation in the mortal realm.

You must know that even if it is Cangshan, it is only a quasi-third-level spiritual vein, and the spirit stone minerals that can be mined are even designated as second-level by the Qingxu generals.

After the aura was revived, Cangshan was completely promoted to a third-level spiritual vein, and it would take at least half a year.

"As far as I know, the ancestor of Xuanwu Gate is a real person, and its mountain protection array is also level three, how can two warships that can't open their main guns be breached?" Zhou Bai asked puzzled.

Li Yuan explained in detail: "The reason why the Xuanwu Mountain Range is cloudy and misty all year round, cold and cold, is because there is a crack in the underworld nearby that affects the environment. The Qingxu Army may have learned that we were entering the army, and the dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, so they hit the crack at the cost of two warships blowing themselves up. ”

"The ghost thing running out is secondary, the key is that the majestic yin qi gushing out of the crack shakes the foundation of the great array, and the foreign enemy in the Qingxu will break through the defense of the Xuanwu Gate very smoothly regardless of the sacrifice and loss."

It is reasonable that if Zhou Bai is the commander of the two corps-class warships, he knows that the forces that have just destroyed the generals are coming, and he will also force a fight.

Li Yuan seemed to think of something again, and hurriedly added: "By the way, according to the resistance of the Xuanwu Gate, it is very likely that the Xuanwu real person is not in the Mountain Gate. ”

"Dudu, Xuanwu Zhenren has entered the Yin God Realm for two years, and his strength is unpredictable. This is a variable, in case he supports Yan Luo? ”

Zhou Bai sneered and shook his head: "It's not a variable, it's a definite number, and the real person behind Yan Luo is him." It's just that I don't know what benefits this Xuanwu real person has gained, and he doesn't guard the mountain gate, so he has to protect Yan Luo first. ”

"Someone! Summoning Qu Zhi and Gao Hu to come. ”

Soon, the pro-soldiers with armor all over his body and a resolute face commanded Qu Zhi; Gao Hu, who was covered in heat waves and carried like a spear, was ordered to enter the tent.

"Qu Zhi, you personally go to the front camp and let Zhou Yuan change direction, and the first troops will surround Xuanwu Mountain and kill the foreign enemies in Qingxu."

"Gao Hu, lead my personal guard battalion and two thousand demon troops to set off overnight, and be sure to block the southern passage of the Qingxu people."

The tiger talisman was issued, the military spirit was vigorous, and the large battalion was half of the time and space.

Two hours later, before it was dawn, the rest of the soldiers and horses hurriedly finished breakfast and set off.

The banner of Zhou Zi fluttered in the wind, even if there were less than 7,000 people left around him now, the direction of the march was always Ruinan County.

Whether the Qingxu Army that killed the Xuanwu Mountain Range could succeed or not, Zhou Bai was not half worried, the 20,000 government troops plus his own soldiers and demons could not even be cleaned up by the two warships and the combined forces.

Moreover, the two third-sequence captains, with the god lord staring at them, even if they are lucky enough to break through, they can't escape.

As for what he himself was doing with the Chinese army in the county town, it was naturally a cover-up.

After another two days of high-intensity marching, on the night of July 17, the Zhouzi banner officially appeared outside Ruinan County.

The army camped at night and set up camp tents for 30,000 troops, and even the camp flags were a lot.

The Xuanwu real people in the city counted that there was an accident at the mountain gate, but they couldn't calculate that the main force of the Anbei Army outside the city was fake, and Yan Luo and his advisers also thought that the 30,000 main force was true.

The unique, Zhouzi flag embroidered with strange fish and dragon patterns, as well as Zhou Bai's own grand appearance, the atmosphere of heaven and man will not be concealed at all.

Ruinan Jiedu Mansion did not have any suspicions, and did not even send troops to test.

After all, who of them would have thought that Zhou Bai would transfer the main force to destroy the foreign enemy of Qingxu first, instead of targeting Ruinan City.

A group of Chinese army staff officers and personal generals also admired Zhou Bai, this is the pattern of their governors.