Zhu Sheng is going to support Gu, Cheng Siping pondered for a moment and nodded. For other things, Cheng Siping is easy to shirk, but this kind of thing can't be shirked. From Zhu Sheng's words, it can also be seen that he has made up his mind to defend this Ningyuan Village, instead of fleeing before the beast tide comes.

The reason why Zhu Sheng made such a choice was also his helplessness. The family was assigned to this area, although it was not a good place, but it was also officially recognized as a place of residence allocated to them. Therefore, other forces, even if they are much stronger than them, will not cut them off at will. But as long as they left Ningyuan Village, it would be completely different. Their Zhu clan automatically gave up the official fiefdom and chose to go into exile.

There are only two ways out for exiled cultivators, one is to become a casual cultivator and live a mixed life in various places. Some of the domestic servants and subordinates who were originally attached to the Zhu clan became scattered cultivators after they left Ningyuan Village. It's not easy to live a day of casual practice, and it's basically a day to live. What's more, there is basically no future for casual cultivation, and there are very few who can succeed in casual cultivation. As far as the Zhu clan is concerned, the rest of the people in Ningyuan Village can go to be casual cultivators, but they can't. This is because it is impossible for casual cultivators to gather together, they can only be dispersed. And once dispersed, then their Zhu family will be completely dispersed, and there is no possibility of reviving the glory of the family. In the end, it can only be quickly lost in the long river of time.

The second way out is for the whole clan to take refuge in a certain cultivator family and become their domestic slaves. This one can prevent their Zhu clan from scattering and going their separate ways. But the problem is that being a domestic slave is completely different from being a vassal of a large family.

Attached to a large family, although the fate of the family will also be shared with this big family, but it has a high degree of independence. You only need to be consistent with the big family in major matters, and as for internal management and so on, the big family has no right to interfere. It's not the same to become a house slave, and the fate of a house slave depends on the will of the owners of the extended family. To make the owner unhappy, it is normal to decide life and death in a word.

When the casual cultivators will dismantle the house, the slaves will even depend on their fate completely. Couldn't the Zhu clan move to a place where there would be no beast tide as a whole? The answer is no. Although the Guiyuan Realm is vast and sparsely populated, no place is borderless. The Zhu clan was able to stay in the place of Zhiningyuan Village because it had been officially recognized by the Yunzhao Kingdom to a certain extent. If it is somewhere else, hehe, try to build a village. Divide into seeds, let the local officials directly slap it to slap it and believe it or not. Besides, in the entire land of the Guiyuan Realm, except for those central areas, there is no beast tide anywhere. The people of the Zhu family have avoided the beast tide here, and they don't want to suffer from the beast tide in other places, there is no difference.

It was precisely because of these reasons that Zhu Sheng could only choose to bite the bullet and prop up Ningyuan Village against the beast tide. This is the only glimmer of hope for the preservation of their Zhu family. But to be honest, he didn't have the slightest confidence in this matter, so he thought about entrusting Guoguo to Cheng Siping. The reason why he chose to entrust it to Cheng Siping was naturally because he took a fancy to Cheng Siping's potential, as well as his relationship with Lu Xiyue and Mu Hanying.

"Patriarch, you don't have to worry too much. Isn't it that the beast tide hasn't broken out yet, and we still have time. Cheng Siping couldn't help but comfort Zhu Sheng, his behavior of supporting Gu was really a bit tragic.

"Ah weak, I have never encountered a beast tide, and I have no clue what to do next. You already knew about this, and you should have already planned the whole thing. Therefore, it is up to you how to go in the village next, and we will fully cooperate. Zhu Sheng patted Cheng Siping's shoulder and said solemnly.

"Village chief, I don't have any plans or anything, so I can only take one step at a time. However, there are two things that we can do first. One of them is to mobilize the whole village, dig more cellars in the village, and store more food, in case we fall into a protracted war and the food reserve is insufficient. The second is to try to collect some materials for building the formation. My master once left me a book on how to get started with formations. I haven't studied it thoroughly yet, so I don't use it very well. But I feel that after a while, I may be able to learn some ways from it. At that time, we will set up a defensive formation on the outskirts of the village, which can somewhat block the beast tide. Cheng Siping was not polite, Shi Shiran said.

"Formation? You mean, a formation like a great formation for defending the city and protecting the mountain?" Zhu Sheng was shocked when he heard this, and blurted out a question.

"It's a nature, but it's not that powerful, it's a simplified version. We have a small place, so we can only use it. Cheng Siping said with a smile indifferently.

"This is good, this is good, if we have a formation, then we will be able to deal with this beast tide with a little more certainty. Moreover, if this formation is to be completed, it will be easy to gather the surrounding villages. Zhu Sheng clapped his hands and said happily, so he was so excited that he walked around the house.

When Cheng Siping saw him like this, he didn't feel a little funny. Still, he can understand. This village protection formation is the key to resisting the beast tide this time. With this thing, it can not only strengthen the defense of Ningyuan Village, but also help him to recover several other villages to vote. Otherwise, with Ningyuan Village's current overall strength in the lowest position among the villages in the left vicinity, it is definitely a question whether they will absorb and merge other villages, or whether other villages will absorb them. With this village defense formation, how to say it, in the language of Cheng Siping in Huaxia in his previous life, it is called having a core competitiveness.

No matter how strong the overall strength of the other villages is, without the protection of the formation, they are as fragile as eggs. But Ningyuan Village, which has a defensive formation, is different, it is equivalent to putting this egg into a well-protected box. If the other villages wanted to survive the beast tide, they would have to hide in this box as well. This is the biggest advantage of Ningyuan Village. To a certain extent, the arrival of this beast tide has allowed Cheng Siping's village task to be implemented smoothly. Otherwise, he doesn't know how much effort he will have to put into it. This is in line with a sentence in the Tao Te Ching: Misfortune and blessing depend on it.

"Can you make a list of what you need? After pacing for a while, Zhu Sheng's mood finally stabilized, and then asked Cheng Siping.

"Of course the list is wanted, and I'll make it back when I get back. In fact, most of them are not too rare, and they can be found at the edge of the Nanban Black Forest. After all, the level of the defensive formation we want to arrange is not very high, and the requirements for the layout materials are naturally lower. Cheng Siping said with a slight smile. The specific layout materials are on the way back, and we will exchange them for the battle value and the system. The system deliberately gave convenience this time, but it suddenly deducted Cheng Siping's combat value of one hundred, which made him feel pain for a while......