The search for the Pure Water Ox is much more difficult than imagined.

Yuanluo Mountain is too big, even if Lu Yuan has divided this mountain into four parts, and then searched for them one by one according to the four areas of southeast, northeast, southwest, and northwest, but each area is divided, and there is still a range of more than ten miles.

With such a large area, so many mountains and trees, and even cliffs and caves, there are so many places to hide.

Although a cow is a little bigger, compared to these hiding places, it is still difficult to find a needle in a haystack.

Lu Yuan led people to search for the southeast area of Yuanluo Mountain for three days, and turned over the entire area, but after three days, they still found nothing.

He had no choice but to continue to take people to the Northeast region, but after looking for three days, there was still no gain. Later, I took people to the southwest and northwest to look for them, but after searching them all, there was no result either.

After looking for it like this, Lu Yuan understood that there was no result so early.

"Yuanluo Mountain caves are everywhere, and there are many underground dark rivers, maybe Qiao Xiuyuan of the Seven Star Gate used these natural cave dark rivers to build some kind of mechanism, and hid Xuanniu somewhere underground."

Lu Yuan remembered the tomb robbery he had seen.

In those tomb robberies, those princes, nobles, emperors and generals like to build all kinds of mysterious and ingenious mausoleums for themselves, and hide their coffins after death.

Now he has turned over the entire area on the surface of Yuanluo Mountain, but he still has no gain. The Pure Water Xuanniu can't leave Yuanluo Mountain, so the only explanation is this.

Although Qixingmen is not an emperor general, as a big faction that sits on a land, the manpower, financial and material resources that can be used are not necessarily inferior to those emperors and generals.

For hundreds of years, it is not difficult for the other party to build a treasure place for himself and a dark road back.

"It seems that in a short period of time, it will be difficult to achieve anything."

After confirming this, Lu Yuan sighed, and then had no choice but to withdraw his troops.

At present, the army is out on the march, and as the commander-in-chief, even if many military affairs are let go as much as possible, it is impossible to be out all the time.

Just like two days ago, Zhou Qing sent back news from outside the city of Luyang Mansion, saying that in the past few days, through the strategy of shaking the defenders in the city through the family scroll, good results have been achieved now.

Those traitors in the city, although they did not surrender like Linwu County, many traitors whose families were controlled did not help but secretly go out of the city in the middle of the night to surrender.

Although the high-level leaders of the Seven Star Gate were furious about this, they killed a group of deserters. And arranged for his disciples to guard the city wall and keep an eye on it at night, so as not to let those deserters succeed.

But even so, it can't stop the trend of surrendering in Yuecheng.

The reason is simple.

The disciples of the Seven Star Sect who are in charge of supervision, many of their family scrolls, are actually in Linwu County, and now they are also controlled by the imperial court.

So, how do you ask them to supervise the deserters?

Aren't you afraid that after the news reaches outside the city, your family will be deliberately targeted and retaliated against by those who fled?

These disciples of the Seven Star Sect, although they are limited to the great grace of the master, they can't do the same as the deserters, and they go out of the city to surrender.

But they are also unable to do it, disregarding the lives of their own families and doing things desperately.

So in a dilemma, he could only let those deserters go out of the city, hoping that through this move, he could convey a trace of kindness to his family, so as to fight for a little benefit for his family outside the city.

And some of the other Qixingmen disciples whose family scrolls are not outside the city are also limited to the feelings of those disciples whose families are controlled, as well as the rural feelings of those deserters who fled from Yuecheng, and they are also ruthless.

In the end, he also opened one eye, closed one eye, and let people escape.

As a result of this operation, almost every night, hundreds of traitors would flee the city and surrender to the imperial court.

And after such a whole team and battalion fled and surrendered, after it spread, it inevitably affected other Qixingmen traitor soldiers who were not in Linwu County.

As a result, the morale of the entire rebel army fell like a cliff visible to the naked eye.

No way.

The people of Linwu County, who are the most loyal in your Qixingmen and who have benefited the most on weekdays, have all begun to go out of the city and surrender.

Then we are just people who are coerced, or belong to other counties on the periphery, why should we stay and sell your life?

So the traitors from Linwu County started, and some traitors from other counties also went out of the city and surrendered.

But for the disciples of the Seven Star Sect, these people are not as close as the people of Linwu County.

So in order to give an explanation to the division, they did not arrest the deserters in Linwu County, but began to lead people to catch these deserters from other counties.

It's hard to manage your fellow villagers, but you, an outsider, dare to kick your nose in the face?

After these deserters from other counties were caught, the disciples of the Seven Star Sect who were in charge of supervising them were not merciful at all, and they were cut down on the spot.

The corpse's head was hung on the city wall, shocking the army.

Almost every night, more than a dozen deserters from other counties are caught and then put on display.

Such outrageous and unfair differential treatment naturally caused dissatisfaction among many people from other counties.

So after such an operation, there are many people who are discriminated against on weekdays, and even simply traitors from other counties who were forcibly arrested, and Qixingmen is even more detached.

Get it to the end.

These deserters from other places are simply not one or two, or a small group of a dozen people who have absconded.

Instead, it developed into a group of outsiders who were on duty on the city wall together, and then absconded en masse.

Dozens or hundreds of people crossed the city and surrendered.

Because there are too many things about this kind of collective defection, the high-level Qixingmen who forced them later had to break up the soldiers of Linwu County and these soldiers from other places, and let their basic plate supervise those soldiers from other counties.

Then appoint the core disciples of the sect to serve as grassroots officers to supervise the leadership.

But it's useless to arrange it like this.

Because the soldiers in Linwu County still continue to be on the run. And as soon as they fled from the county soldiers, they naturally fled with them. Those officers of the core disciples wanted to stop them, and they were faced with the anger of dozens or hundreds of people who wanted to live.

How could those third-rate disciples of the Seven Star Sect who basically only practiced one or two meridians, or even those who did not enter the stream, be the opponents of so many soldiers?

So the stupid brains stood up to block it, and they were chopped into pulp on the spot.

If you know a little bit, you should treat it as if you didn't see it, but this can save a life.

And some soldiers who were still loyal to the Seven Star Gate and were not ready to escape, after the mixing, seeing so many people absconding, their original hearts were also shaken.

Slowly, he was also affected by the herd mentality, and fled with him.

As a result, a larger-scale absconding was staged in Luyang Mansion City.

……

"Master, in recent days, the number of rebels in the city who have crossed the city every night has increased to five or six hundred.

And counting from the beginning, to the present day, a total of 11 days, the total number of traitors who came out of the city to surrender is more than 5,000 people.

There were not only traitors from Linwu County, but also a large number of traitors from other counties of Luyang Prefecture, all of whom were shaken by the military spirit and surrendered out of the city.

According to the latest escapees last night, the rebels in the city are now panicked, and the large number of people fleeing has greatly shaken their morale.

Nowadays, many people want to run away with them, but they can't find a way and don't have a chance for the time being. ”

In the military camp outside the city of Luyang Mansion, Lu Yuan, who had just returned with his army, listened to the report of his disciple Zhou Qing at this time, and his face couldn't help but show a little surprise.

Although the plan to attack the heart implemented by the family scroll was set by him, it was beyond his expectations to achieve such miraculous results.

After thinking about it, Lu Yuan asked: "In this way, if there are 5,000 people who have escaped, then there should only be more than 4,000 remaining rebels in the city?" ”

Originally, there were only nearly 10,000 rebels in Luyang Mansion City, and at this time more than 5,000 people fled, and more than half of them were lost at once, and the rest of the people did not necessarily have 4,000.

Zhou Qing nodded, and said with a hint of excitement: "That's true, according to those rebels who went out of the city and surrendered, there should be only about 4,000 thieves left in the city." And among these 4,000 people, most of them are natives in the city.

These people are all in the city, controlled by the Seven Star Gate, and they don't dare to go out of the city and surrender at all.

Now there are only more than 1,000 rebels from other counties left in the city, and there are only a few hundred of the Qixingmen diehards in it.

If it is surrounded like this for a few more days, the Seven Star Gate will be defeated. ”

Today's situation is indeed very good.

Originally, Lu Yuan's plan was to besiege the city for several months, waiting for the traitors of the Seven Star Gate to run out of food and collapse themselves.

But now, it seems that there is no need to wait for two more months.

The current traitors of the Seven Star Gate are almost finished.

"Very good, Xiaoqing, you did a good job."

After listening to Zhou Qing's report, Lu Yuan was greatly relieved in his heart, and he did not hesitate to praise him at this time.

"Where, the disciple just did what the master told him to do. In terms of merit, it has to be Master's. Zhou Qing touched his head, he really knew that his bottom was fine, and he didn't float.

"It's good to be able to do what I tell you."

Lu Yuan knows that perfect plans often require qualified executors. He set a strategy, and Zhou Qing can implement it all, which is extremely rare.

Thinking like this in his heart, he took out a jade bottle from his bosom and gave it to his disciple: "If you make a meritorious service, you will be rewarded." I went to Linwu County for the teacher this time and got some divine blood elixir.

This is the Water Purification Pill inherited by the Seven Star Gate, and one grain can refine a meridian.

Now that you're practicing, you're about to get through the seventh meridian, right?

That's not bad, but it's still a bit slower.

Here are three pills of Xuandan, and they will be given to you. ”

The Water Purification Pill that Lu Yuan obtained had a total of nine grains. In addition to the two veins of Ren Du related to the innate nature, there are only three strange scriptures that he has not yet practiced.

The cultivation of the Strange Sutra is much more difficult than the Serious Scripture. But no matter how difficult it is, two pills of Xuandan are enough to practice one.

Therefore, for Lu Yuan, he only needs to leave six Xuandans to ensure that he can break through to the realm of first-class peaks.

The remaining three grains can be taken out and given to others.

Zhou Qing is now the person with the highest cultivation under him, and he is also the closest disciple, and it is reasonable for the three Xuan Dan to be given to him.

"Master."

Zhou Qing looked at the Xuandan delivered to his hand, his face was both happy and moved. Finally, he nodded heavily and said, "Please rest assured, Master, the disciple will definitely practice hard, break through to the first-class as soon as possible, and serve the master." ”

Lu Yuan bowed slightly, and encouraged: "In the future, you will be a good student to practice, break through to the first-class as soon as possible, and be a teacher waiting for you to grow up and share the heavy responsibility for me." ”

After giving the Xuandan, he asked Zhou Qing about some confusion in his cultivation, and after answering for the other party, he waved his hand to let the disciple retreat.

After Zhou Qing left, Lu Yuan took care of the military affairs again, and when he was done, he began to practice again.

In the past few days, as he has insisted on changing cultivation, most of the internal force of the third meridian has also been transformed, and almost all of them have been replaced by Chiyang internal force.

According to the current progress, the transfer of the last meridian can be completed within about one or two days.

At such a critical moment, Lu Yuan naturally let go of many foreign objects first and concentrated on cultivation.

……

Time passes.

Two days after returning to the army to practice, Lu Yuan officially completed the transfer of all the internal forces in his body, and all his skills were replaced by Chiyang Divine Skills.

At this point, he can finally start practicing, this first-class exercise.

And it's been more than half a year since I got this exercise.

In the past half a year, Lu Yuan has not only been busy with the transfer of exercises, but also studied the Chiyang Divine Skill. With his realm of experience, it is natural to comprehend this skill.

There will be no problem at all in practicing the remaining three meridians.

In that case, there is nothing to say.

He directly began to take the Water Purification Xuandan, and began to break through the next meridian.

With the help of this Dan, I believe that in less than half a month, I can break through to the top of the first-class.

At that time, under the innate world, Lu Yuan can be called invincible.

He was busy practicing the exercises here, and the Luyang Mansion City, which was surrounded outside, continued to have people fleeing.

However, as most of the people who could escape fled, gradually, the number of people who fled across the city gradually decreased.

From the original peak, five or six hundred people a night, it has slowly changed to one or two hundred, and even dozens now.

The number of defenders in the city also fell further, from more than 4,000 to 3,000. And most of the remaining 3,000 people are still city residents with low combat strength and low morale.

According to the calculations of Zhou Qing and other disciples, today's Luyang City, I am afraid that as long as he leads the army to attack, he will be able to capture it in one fell swoop.

But this proposal was rejected by Lu Yuan.

The reason is very simple, it may not be difficult to capture Luyang City.

But if you want to ensure that when the city is trapped, it is difficult to catch those high-level leaders of the Seven Star Gate, so that Qiao Xiuyuan and the others, including the head of the gate, can't escape.

No matter what people say, they are all a group of first-class second-rate martial arts masters.

These people are in direct confrontation with the army, and they may not be opponents.

But if you don't fight hard, but avoid its edge and choose to dodge, this is no problem.

After all, most of the martial arts masters are athletic, and many of them will also be powerful and light skills, if this kind of person wants to escape, it is still difficult for the army that is extremely dependent on the power of the military array.

So don't look at the fact that Luyang City is surrounded by groups now.

But Lu Yuan wanted to catch Qiao Xiuyuan and others, but the probability of success was not great, and it was more likely that he couldn't catch them at all.

This is unacceptable to him.

Lu Yuan was still counting on being able to catch Qiao Xiuyuan's high-level officials, and then force out the treasures of the other two veins of the Seven Star Gate, as well as the whereabouts of the Pure Water Xuanniu.

Feng Zhijie, who surrendered before, was only the person in charge of the Three Ancestors and One Lineage of the Seven Star Gate, he only knew the treasure land of the three veins, and he didn't know where the treasure of the other two veins was at all.

That's a guaranteed twenty pills of water purification pills.

There is also a water purification cow.

If he could get this treasure, Lu Yuan would be able to directly cultivate Zhou Qing into a first-class peak master like himself.

Even his disciples were able to cultivate three or five second-rate people.

Such a big benefit is in front of you, if you let Qiao Xiuyuan and the others run away, it will really be a boiled duck flying.

Therefore, for the proposal to attack the city at this time, Lu Yuan naturally would not agree.

Of course, this is not to say that he has to spend it here forever.

Lu Yuan was ready to wait until he had broken through to the peak of the first-class and his strength had reached the limit of what he could improve now before attacking the city.

The gap between first-class and first-class is also very large.

Just like Fang Tianying at the beginning, in the face of Mo Baichuan of the Iron Sword Gate, as well as the siege of the chief arrester of the Luling Mansion, the two first-class masters, they could still hit Mo Baichuan on the spot, and then left with a smile.

And Mo Baichuan died of illness on the couch after two years of hard work.

It can be seen that the same first-class, the difference in strength is also huge.

How strong is Fang Tianying?

Lu Yuan had never met this person, so he couldn't confirm it.

But he can conclude that this Eagle King's strength is the level of having practiced three or four meridians, and it is impossible to be the first-class peak of practicing five or six meridians.

Because of the strength of the first-class peak, it is already at the pinnacle of the rivers and lakes.

Such a character, even if it is an innate grandmaster, cannot be driven by it as a pawn.

Therefore, Fang Tianying, who was originally a chess piece of the martial arts of Nanhai County and set off the rebellion of the Black Wind Thieves, would not be at the peak of the first-class strength.

And how strong is Qiao Xiuyuan?

According to the news that circulated in the rivers and lakes in the past, this person has roughly practiced the strength of the two strange scriptures, and belongs to the first-class early stage.

But now that the other party has set off a rebellion, it is not ruled out that this person will use the treasure of his sect to take the Water Purification Pill and forcibly improve his strength.

But the inheritance of the Seven Star Gate's exercises, the limit is there, and the highest is to practice the third Sutra.

Even if Qiao Xiuyuan has practiced to the peak, his strength is far from enough compared to Lu Yuan, who has already practiced the six wonder scriptures.

It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that he has two hands.

But letting one hand take down this person, Lu Yuan felt that it was still not a big problem.

Because he felt at this time that with his current strength in practicing the three wonder scriptures, it would be no problem to win the self who had just refined one meridian before and had just entered the innate world.

And the further back the cultivation goes, the bigger the gap.

The difference between the six Sutras and the three Sutras should logically be greater than the three to one.

With such a vision, Lu Yuan naturally would not be in a hurry.

Anyway, it's only half a month at most.

Instead of rushing and panicking now, risking the ducks flying away to attack the city. It's better to wait for all preparations, crush the past with absolute strength, and capture these traitors with your own hands.

Isn't that more beautiful?

As long as there are tangible benefits, Lu Yuan's patience is still sufficient.

I don't mind waiting for a short time before enjoying my meal.

The fish in the net of the Seven Star Gate can't escape.