Chapter 570: Arms Race
The matter of recruiting new disciples was quickly implemented.
As mentioned earlier, the reputation of Taiping Road is really good.
Thanks to the painstaking management in recent years, there is no sect in the surrounding area that is unpleasant with Taiping Dao.
So when the messenger of the Taiping Dao came to the door to tell him about this request and presented a gift.
Every sect that was asked didn't hesitate for too long, and they all agreed.
Among them, I would like to thank Li Ruoqing, the righteous monk who was rescued by the Taiping Dao at the beginning, after all these years of training, as early as 600 years ago, he had broken through the realm and become an immortal, cultivated the Dao Fruit, and became a real person.
After 600 years, he returned to the mountain gate to assist his master and deal with the affairs of the sect.
Six hundred years later, this Li Zhenren has begun to be famous in the Dongyang Domain because of his fairness and integrity, and even Lu Yuan can occasionally hear the reputation of the other party.
Not only is he excellent at handling affairs, but in terms of cultivation, Li Ruoqing is also worthy of his name as a genius.
With his back to Dongyang Mountain, coupled with his own hard work, and his talent, after breaking through the True Immortal, Li Ruoqing made rapid progress in the realm of human immortals.
It only took five hundred years to break through the middle stage of the human immortal, and now it is sprinting towards the late stage of the human immortal.
According to this posture, maybe in another thousand years, the other party will be a real person of the earth immortal.
Excellent in handling government affairs, strong strength, and a strong backstage behind him, Li Ruoqing can be said to be the pride of the sky.
The status in the sect is also rising day by day, ranking in the top three positions among the immortals, and it can also be called a high power.
With the help of such a character, Taiping Dao wants to recruit some people from the Dongyang Domain, which is naturally extremely simple.
In fact, after receiving the request of Taiping Dao, Li Ruoqing did not say a word, and immediately found his own master who presided over the affairs of the door, and asked Wang Shizhou to agree to the matter.
Wang Shizhou actually has a very good impression of Taiping Road, when he went to Miyun Mountain, he formed a lot of friendship with Qingguanzi, and there was often contact and correspondence in the future.
Now that there are disciples who want to repay the kindness, Wang Shizhou will naturally not stop it.
After a little thought, I agreed.
and presided over the meeting in the door, and persuaded several brothers and sisters to cooperate.
At this point, the problem of Dongyang Mountain has been solved.
With the cooperation of Dongyang Mountain, the matter of Taiping Dao recruiting disciples in the Dongyang Domain was naturally extremely smooth.
However, in just three months, under the personal leadership of Jin Qingyue, the matter was completed, and five thousand new disciples were led to return smoothly from the Dongyang Domain.
And with the exemplary role of Dongyang Mountain, the sects that are friendly with Taiping Dao in the surrounding regions will naturally not be embarrassed.
Rendong Yangshan did not refuse, and chose to facilitate Taiping Dao, why should we be this wicked person!
The strength of Taiping Dao is not bad, and in recent years, it has developed thrivingly, and its volume is in the upper echelon among the great immortals.
Such a promising immortal sect, if it is not necessary, no one wants to offend.
Anyway, it's just the right to recruit a generation of new disciples, and it can be restored in a few years, which is really not a big deal.
Now Taiping Dao is asking for good words and gifts, and the number of face etiquette is enough.
I didn't lose anything, naturally everything is easy to say.
Therefore, in addition to the Dongyang Domain, there were thirty-seven other immortal sects in the surrounding regions, which agreed to the request of Taiping Dao to go to their jurisdiction and recruit a group of new disciples.
Seeing that things were going so smoothly, and none of the surrounding immortal sects refused, Yu Peijin was overjoyed in her heart, but she couldn't help but think that the opportunity was rare.
If you miss it this time, if you want to speak again next time, you won't be able to wipe your face.
Therefore, he simply either did not do it or did it absolutely.
After receiving the disciples of the Dongyang Domain, he sent Jin Qingyue and asked him to go to the various domains again to recruit qualified disciples who agreed to the territory of the Immortal Gate.
And give instructions.
There is also no upper limit for recruiting disciples this time.
In each domain, as long as they meet the requirements of Taiping Dao disciples, they can be included in the door.
To sum up, recruit people, how many people recruit how many people.
Anyway, when he took charge of the sect, the request given by the deity was to increase the number of disciples in the sect to at least 8,000 before launching the battle of unification.
At the same time, there is no cap.
Now that there are five thousand newcomers in the Dongyang Domain, the other domains can get together casually, and the task of these eight thousand disciples is basically secure.
However, this can only guarantee the most basic quantity.
According to the current volume of Taiping Dao, after recruiting 8,000 disciples, new disciples will be recruited in the future, and then the death and replacement of disciples will be considered.
In this way, the accumulation and growth will be slow, and when the war starts, the number of Taiping Dao disciples will be able to accumulate at most about 15,000.
Fifteen thousand disciples, although it is enough to support a big battle.
But Lu Yuan's goal was to go to the entire Evergreen Domain, and what he had to consider was not only to win a big battle, but also to consider the governance and stability of the entire domain after winning the Evergreen Domain.
The territory controlled by the Evergreen Immortal Sect now has twenty-three kingdoms, and the territory directly under the jurisdiction of Taiping Dao has seven kingdoms.
Based on these lands, after the war, the territory of Taiping Dao should be around 30 countries.
And if you want to control the territory of these thirty countries, based on the five hundred disciples of one country, you need at least fifteen thousand disciples to meet the demand.
Fifteen thousand disciples, this number is just the same as the number of disciples of Taiping Dao when the war started, and it seems to be enough.
But the problem is that this is the number at the time of the war.
The Great War is about the death.
At the beginning of the decisive battle between the Evergreen Immortal Sect and the Kyushu Immortal Sect, how many people died in each?
After a battle, each family lost more than two-thirds of its strength.
Taiping Dao wants to destroy the Evergreen Immortal Sect, and the casualties are estimated to be about the same, not much less.
When the battle is over, if there are 15,000 disciples left, it will be considered good.
Five thousand disciples are obviously not enough to rule over the land of thirty kingdoms. Even the most basic policing is not enough.
So you have to recruit people, recruit more people.
The more prepared you are now, the better your chances of victory in the future when you launch a decisive battle.
And with the size of Taiping Dao, it can actually afford to raise so many people.
However, the resources needed by some mortal cultivators are nothing at all for a great immortal sect.
With the output of a country's land, if it is only a basic resource, it is enough to feed two thousand monks who have condensed more than three qi.
The land of the Seven Kingdoms of the Taiping Dao, coupled with the offerings of the three vassal sects, can supply the consumption of 15,000 disciples on his own.
In addition to his own output, Lu Yuan also encouraged his disciples to travel and let them find their own cultivation resources and obtain income from the outside.
Relying on this one, it will be easy to raise another 3,000 disciples.
Moreover, this is still the consumption of Taiping Dao disciples when they are at their peak after reaching the upper limit.
Before the number of those disciples reached the limit, before the cultivation reached the peak, they would not consume so much materials.
This extreme peak, the fastest speed, arrived at the time, and it was four hundred years later.
That is, those new disciples began to touch the realm of the Five Qi Dynasty Yuan, and at that time, they reached the limit of mortals, which was the limit of pressure on basic materials.
Before this limit, the Taiping Dao still had four hundred years to reserve basic cultivation materials to supply those disciples who had expanded rapidly to cultivate them.
In fact, this reserve work has been done by Taiping Dao for 700 years before.
After saving for 700 years, Taiping Dao has already stockpiled, enough to meet the materials for 10,000 people to practice for 300 years.
Reserve for another 400 years later, which should be able to increase this time to about 400 years.
By that time, the reserves of Daping Road would be enough for 20,000 people for two hundred years.
In other words, with the reserves of Taiping and the production of materials in the future, it is enough to maintain 20,000 people to practice until 600 years later.
Six hundred years later, by that time, Taiping Dao was almost ready to start a big war.
It just so happens that six hundred years is just enough time to satisfy a monk, who has practiced from scratch to the point of breaking through the fairyland.
At that time, a big war was launched, and those monks of the Five Qi Dynasty Yuan in the sect, even for their own path, would fight desperately to the death.
Because there is only the Taiping Dao in the land of the Seven Kingdoms, it is obviously impossible to meet the immortal resources of 20,000 disciples.
Only by conquering the land of the Thirty Kingdoms, annexing the Evergreen Immortal Sect, and then consuming some people through war, can there be enough resources for the cultivation resources of as many as 20,000 disciples.
From this point of view, even if it is to maintain the enthusiasm of the disciples to participate in the war after the war, Taiping Dao must recruit more people at this time.
If you don't push those disciples to a desperate situation, who knows if they are willing to fight to the death for the sect.
Only by putting their interests and sects together, and then working together with the outside world, can the strongest war capability break out.
Regarding the routine in this regard, when he was at the Kyushu border, the four poles of natural disasters were approaching, and Lu Yuan had already used it more than once.
Relying on the invasion of the Antarctic poisonous fire, at that time, he mobilized tens of millions of troops for the Northern Expedition with the entire Chu State.
To achieve such a situation in a country and a state shows the sophistication of its means.
At this time, mobilizing the entire sect is just a small test.
Under the future layout of Yu Peijin, after obtaining Lu Yuan's consent, Jin Qingyue could only temporarily put aside her own cultivation, continued to work tiringly, and ran in the surrounding domains.
It took him a year to get the job done.
And the harvest is also great.
After going out, Jin Qingyue brought back another seven thousand disciples.
Counting the five thousand disciples received from the Dongyang Domain, this time the enrollment was expanded, and the Taiping Dao added a total of 12,000 disciples.
In addition, there are also more than 1,000 old disciples in the sect.
Outside the sect, there are also more than 2,000 people who went to the Black Abyss to explore, and it is estimated that two or three hundred people will survive to come back in the end, and maybe four or five hundred more people will come back.
So in the end, the number of Taiping Dao disciples has swelled to 14,000 in just two years.
That's a staggering number.
For example, the Evergreen Immortal Sect in the north, after all these years of recovery, occupied the land of the twenty-three kingdoms, and the number of disciples at this time was only 13,000.
The Kyushu Immortal Gate in the west occupies the land of the Six Kingdoms, and the number of disciples is only 5,000.
The Taiping Dao is only the land of the Seven Kingdoms, but the disciples have already surpassed the Evergreen Immortal Sect, and with less than one-third of the opponent's territory, they support the disciples who are equivalent to the other party.
This kind of handwriting is simply madness.
After receiving the news, Kyushu Xianmen almost thought that Taiping Dao wanted to start a new war.
That's why I was in such a hurry to expand the number of disciples.
The same is true of the Evergreen Immortal Sect.
The other party also thought that Taiping Dao was angered by his successive actions?
At this time, I want to get revenge back.
Otherwise, why would you want to expand the number of disciples by 12,000 at once?
How can a small Taiping Dao afford so many people?
The two immortal sects hurriedly sent messengers to Taiping Dao to inquire about the reason.
However, in the face of their inquiry, Taiping Dao naturally denied it.
The reason given is just a rare opportunity.
The disciples in the Evergreen Domain are unbearable, so take this opportunity to accept more disciples to save you worries in the future.
At the same time, in recent years, when going out on expeditions, the disciples have suffered too many losses, and they have to collect more people to compensate for the losses of these expeditions.
Regardless of whether others believe it or not, after losing these two reasons anyway, Yu Peijin will no longer see the two envoys and handle government affairs on her own.
12,000 new people were accepted at once, so many people needed to be placed, and they had to be assigned a teacher, teach the right exercises to the right people, allocate various resources, release tasks, and so on.
There weren't too many things, and he didn't have time to pay attention to those outsiders' opinions.
What if the other party doesn't believe it, does it dare to start a war with Taiping Dao?
Now Taiping Dao is just recruiting disciples, this is its own internal affairs, when will it be the turn of outsiders to intervene.
As long as Taiping Dao does not take the initiative to start a war, the other two will never take the initiative to take action.
However, in doing so, it is easy to cause the other two to be uneasy, so that they can also react.
But then again.
Even if Taiping Dao doesn't take the initiative to expand, won't the other two immortal sects expand their own power?
Now that it has been peaceful for seven hundred years, the power of the Evergreen Immortal Sect has swelled to the point where it has overwhelmed the Taiping Dao and the Kyushu Immortal Sect.
If you let the other party develop, I'm afraid it won't be a few years, even if Taiping Dao and Kyushu Xianmen join forces, they won't be able to fight each other.
In this situation, taking advantage of the strength of a battle on his side, it is already an inevitable result to have a decisive battle with the Evergreen Immortal Sect to curb the development of the other party.
Considering the speed at which the strength of the Evergreen Immortal Sect is expanding, the time of this decisive battle should be within five or six hundred years, which is the consensus shared by the three parties.
At this time, the Taiping Dao's expansion of disciples can be regarded as the result of the above reasons, and it can also be regarded as a preparation for war five or six hundred years later.
As for the other two sects, in fact, they don't need to be stimulated by Taiping Dao, and in private, I am afraid that they have already been prepared to expand the strength of the sect.
Taiping Dao stood up and picked this head at this time, but he just ripped off their respective fig leafs and put things on the bright side.
So after seeing that Taiping Dao is attitude was, the other two immortal sects suddenly knew in their hearts what Taiping Dao was worried about.
Therefore, in addition to leaving the messenger behind, continue to try to pacify the Taiping Dao.
After receiving the news, the Evergreen Immortal Sect and the Kyushu Immortal Sect followed the Taiping Dao, and they all immediately began to expand their disciple recruitment in their own territories.
Although at this time, those immortal sects in the surrounding domains, and the qualified disciples in the territory have all been cleaned up by the Taiping Dao.
However, these people from the outside had a bad relationship with the two immortal sects, and they didn't expect to recruit people from the outside.
Anyway, the Evergreen Immortal Sect is large, there are twenty-three kingdoms, and if you search it once, you can get two or three thousand disciples.
In the future, the recruitment will continue to expand for hundreds of years, and when the war starts, no matter how you can get 30,000 disciples.
As for the Kyushu Immortal Sect, although the territory is very small, it is only the land of the Six Kingdoms, but they are backed by the support of various veins outside the territory, and the basic plate that can recruit disciples is actually not small.
It's just that with their size, they really can't afford to raise too many disciples, and it is already the limit to be able to expand the number of disciples to 10,000 before the war.
By the time of the decisive battle, it would be about 10,000 people in Kyushu, 20,000 people in Taiping Dao, and then 30,000 people against the Evergreen Immortal Sect.
The two sides maintain an even level in terms of the number of disciples at the bottom.
As for the high-level combat power, it can only be relied on by means.
On the side of Taiping Road, there is confidence.
And the entire Evergreen Domain, after the outbreak of the spy rebellion in Taiping Dao, also opened an arms race of three sects with the purge and expansion of disciples by Taiping Dao.
Everyone knew that war was coming.
Everyone was looking forward to the war.
Everyone is preparing for war.
Under the circumstance that everyone knew, between Taiping Dao, Evergreen Immortal Sect, and Kyushu Immortal Sect, the original friendly atmosphere between each other quickly faded.
Between the various immortal sects, they also began to slowly become serious and hostile, and the aura of sabre-rattling spread in the domain.
The peace, which had not lasted long, had already sounded the bell for exit.
The atmosphere of the coming storm weighed on everyone's hearts.
And in this environment, on the inland sea of the Eastern Wilderness, the black abyss secret mansion that was in a lot of uproar completely disappeared between heaven and earth after ten years.
Those who went on expeditions also began to return one after another.
Taiping Dao was fooled, or more than 2,600 disciples who took the initiative to go, and finally returned 300 people.
These three hundred people were all full of harvest, and after arriving at the sect, five people immediately offered a large number of treasures in exchange for contributions, and applied to break through the true immortals.
In the face of these fortune boys, even if they know that their harvest is a bit unreasonable, far beyond normal income.
But Yu Peijin still chose to agree with a smile, and Lu Yuan even took out the Three Kingdoms Qi number of his cultivation and arranged for these people to cash in.
The main thing is to be honest and trustworthy.
And the three clones such as Che Shidao also returned with these disciples.
The three of them joined forces, and they had immortal weapons to protect themselves, which was in the limelight in the Black Abyss Expedition.
Because the car master said that they concealed their identity, outsiders did not know the identities of the three people, and they also gave them the name of the Three Immortals of the Black Abyss.
It is conceivable how much these three people have gained.
In fact, because he didn't fight for those treasures of the Tribulation or the cultivation resources, he only stared at those refining materials to grab them.
At that time, many earth immortals who went to the secret mansion to hunt for treasures together, after seeing the strength of the three people, saw that they did not touch their core interests, so they did not deliberately embarrass the three of them.
In this treasure hunt in the secret mansion, more than seventy percent of the refining immortal materials were taken back by the three clones, and it was definitely a bumper harvest.
Lu Yuan had already counted, counting the contributions of those disciples, and the harvest of the three clones, this time it was enough to help Yu Peijin improve his own quality to the middle immortal weapon, and then refine two earth immortal-level clones.
There is nothing to say about such gains.
After getting the materials, he immediately started to help Yu Peijin improve his quality and refine a new Dao Fruit clone.
There will be six hundred years at most, and a decisive battle will begin.
If you want to cultivate several clones to the Earth Immortal Realm in such a short period of time, even if you have the help of luck, it is also a very urgent matter.
Even the number of qi and luck inside Taiping Dao was a little insufficient at this time.
After all, Jin Qingyue, Yu Peijin, and the other two clones that are about to come out.
There are four doppelgangers, even if they are distributed according to one person and three countries, it will take twelve countries to meet the needs.
As far as the territory of the Seven Kingdoms of Taiping Road is concerned, it is simply not enough.
In order to solve this problem, Lu Yuan had already disregarded his face, and directly ordered the vassals of the Golden Fetus Gate, Xuangui Mountain, and Bihu Palace to contribute his qi and luck.
This move immediately aroused a lot of criticism, and the original good reputation of Taiping Dao was affected a lot.
However, at this time, the decisive battle will begin, and the unification of the Evergreen Domain will begin soon.
At this last moment, as long as the resources that can be used, they must be fully utilized.
Fame or something, as long as you can achieve the final victory, it is nothing at all.
Isn't it possible to use so much operation and maintenance in the past so that it can be used at this time?
For the sake of his own clone, he can only grieve these vassals.
At most, after unifying the Evergreen Domain, he will not destroy them himself, and just continue to maintain the Dao system of these sects.
In return, it's enough.
Driven by this, the development of Taiping Road is advancing rapidly.
Five years later, Lu Yuan's two new clones, Huang Xuan and Huang Yun, were born.
Seventy years later, Jin Qingyue broke through the wide, and Taiping Dao added another earth immortal.
Three hundred years later, the jade peijin accumulated enough to break through the earth immortals.
Four hundred years later, Lu Yuan successfully broke through the middle stage of the Earth Immortal.
At this point, his cultivation was about to reach the limit of the current Taiping Dao offerings, and even with the increase in the number of qi luck, his cultivation began to slow down.
So, as usual.
At the same time, in order to make the final pre-war mobilization, Taiping Dao began to announce to the world again that he was going to change his head.
The new candidate for the head of the sect is Huang Xuan, a clone that was subsequently refined.
When the news spread, the surrounding immortal sects, while their hearts shook, for some reason, they also began to feel numb.
Taiping Dao, this sect has changed its head of teaching, which is normal.
But no matter what everyone thought in their hearts, in the face of the invitation of Taiping Dao, the immortal sects were still very cooperative and sent messengers to watch the ceremony.