When they first heard the news, Qin Guan and the others couldn't believe it, after all, Lie Yutang was one of the five super forces in the North Sea on the same level as the Lingying faction, how could it be possible for the Lingying faction to be defeated by it in the case of one against two?

But this is the case, Lie Yutang was defeated by the Lingying faction, and the one who led the Lingying faction to defeat Lie Yutang was none other than Du Huafeng, who was rescued by Qin Guan and them from Ouyang Jingming that day.

According to Qing Xuan, Du Huafeng led his subordinates to march forward, and it took less than a year to break through the mountain protection array in the hinterland of Lie Yutang, and the various chambers of commerce in Lie Yutang scattered and fled, not daring to compete with Du Huafeng's troops. But the strange thing is that Du Huafeng did not directly annex the entire territory of the Lieyutang because of this, but shrank in the center of the hinterland of the Lieyutang and did not move, not knowing what the hell he was doing.

Qin Guan touched his chin, thought for a moment, and said: "This matter is indeed a bit strange, with Elder Du's character, it must not be the kind of character that looks forward and backward, he has already captured the enemy's position, it is impossible not to pursue the enemy bravely." If Lie Yutang is given enough time to reorganize, he may be able to pose a big threat to him. Why is that?"

Helian Jun had just come back from the sword formation, and when he heard Qin Guan's muttering words, he said without thinking: "Senior brother, what else can be the reason for this, you don't want to think about who in the Lingying Sect should be the happiest if that Elder Du fully takes over the territory of the Imperial Hall?"

Qin Guan's eyes lit up: "Yes, that's right! Ouyang Jingming is still eyeing the Lingying Sect, no matter whether Elder Du's class teacher goes back or encroaches on the remaining territory, all of them will be stuck by Ouyang Jingming, and logistics support is a huge problem." If he stayed in the territory of the Imperial Hall, as long as he didn't eliminate all the troubles one day, he wouldn't return to the Lingying Sect for a day, and even if Ouyang Jingming had any thoughts about Du Huafeng, he would not dare to act rashly because he had a large army in his hands, and he would have to keep sending logistical resources to Du Huafeng. ”

This trick is called raising Kou self-respect, and Qin Guan is naturally able to figure it out. In the past, this method was used by the frontier generals in the feudal era to blackmail the imperial court, otherwise allowing the enemy to wreak havoc on the frontier would also be a huge disaster for the imperial court. However, I didn't expect that Du Huafeng actually used this kind of mortal method against the enemy sect, and I have to say that it is a good move.

But Qin Guan knew that this method had to be delayed for a while, and Du Huafeng would not be able to let the Lie Yutang reorganize for a long time, and he would inevitably continue to scatter the living forces of the Lie Yutang to prevent it from continuing to grow. But in this way, as he continues to attack, the Imperial Hall will eventually be unable to bear it and will be torn apart, or even directly destroyed. After all, even the territory directly under it has been lost, and it is a force united by many chambers of commerce, and the centripetal force will naturally become smaller and smaller, and sooner or later it will be wiped out.

But in this way, when the Lie Yutang was completely wiped out by Du Huafeng, he would have no excuse to continue to stay in the territory of the Lie Yutang again, and he would inevitably return to the Lingying Sect to return to his troops. Even if sixty percent of the monks under his command are his supporters, the remaining forty percent are not descendants, once the contradiction between him and Ouyang Jingming is put on the surface, these four adults will definitely turn back, which is inevitable.

"Tut, the road ahead for Elder Du's choice is not easy. Qin Guan sighed, and then asked Qing Xuan: "Qing Xuan, if it's just this matter, it shouldn't be necessary for you to come here in person, but there are other things?"

Qing Xuan hesitated for a moment, looked at the people around him who were full of people from the Heavenly Sword Sect, and didn't know if it was the right time to say something. Qin Guan waved his hand, asking him to say that the Heavenly Sword Sect had already screened out the spies of the Spirit Hidden Tower, and now the rest were credible people.

Qing Xuan settled his mind before he said slowly: "Palace Master, in fact, this matter is still related to Elder Du. A few days ago, he not only sent the news of breaking up the Lie Yutang, but also sent a lot of loose cultivators under the command of the Lie Yutang to enrich my Lingshan Cultivation Federation. And he also asked someone to bring a message, saying that these loose cultivators were originally strong men who were caught by the Imperial Hall, and I hope that our Lingshan can treat them well. ”

"That's it. Qin Guan pondered for a moment, "It's okay, these people can be accepted, our Lingshan adheres to the principle of sheltering all the monks who come to Lingshan, even the demon cultivators and ghost cultivators can accept it, these people have nothing to do with our Lingshan, there is nothing that cannot be accepted." As long as you do a good job of screening in advance, you can pick out the spies of Lingyin Building. ”

Qing Xuan said yes, said hello to Qin Guan, He Lianjun and the others, and then turned around and returned to Lingshan through the teleportation array. He still has a lot of work to do in the Sword Pavilion, and there are a lot of people who Du Huafeng packed and sent over, Lie Yutang was originally a family that relied on gathering scattered cultivation, and there were naturally a lot of scattered cultivators under his command. So many things have to be coordinated by Qingxuan, and now that his news has been delivered, it's time to go back and continue working.

After Qing Xuan left, Qin Guan fell into deep thought, he still didn't know why Du Huafeng was able to defeat Lie Yutang so easily. You must know that although the Lieyudo is loosely organized, the large chambers of commerce in it are independent, and they will only be unanimous when they face the enemy, and there are even contradictions between them on weekdays. After all, the Imperial Hall was a super force, and there were tens of millions of monks under its command, who were either directly or indirectly controlled, so how could it be defeated by Du Huafeng leading a Lingying faction's troops? Even the main territory was lost, and the losses could be said to be extremely huge.

Helian Jun and Yu Qi looked at Qin Guan's appearance, knowing that he was thinking about the impact of the fall of the Imperial Hall on Lingshan, they couldn't help but glance at each other, and Helian Jun said, "Senior brother, are you thinking about how to face the Lingying Sect now?"

Qin Guan nodded, then shook his head and said, "Yes or no." The essence of the Lingying Sect is already a super force that has been completely infiltrated by the Lingyin Building, and even if we want to make peace with it, it will be difficult to do so. But now that the Lie Yutang has been defeated by the Lingying Sect, it is difficult for the remaining stragglers to hold out for long under the attack of Elder Du Huafeng. And the other side of the Lingying faction is still fighting against Chongxumen, and it is difficult to guarantee that Chongxumen will also fall to the fate of Lie Yutang. At that time, our Lingshan can be regarded as precarious. ”

Indeed, if the Lingying Sect's main energy was focused on the other two super forces, it would definitely not have much energy to deal with Lingshan anymore, and many monks of the Lingshan Cultivation Alliance would be able to stabilize for a while. But now this balance has been broken by Du Huafeng, after he captured the central territory of the Lie Yutang, the frontal battlefield of the Lingying Sect is only Chongxumen.

Originally, Qin Guan thought that the three families would have to fight for a while, and all three parties would have to lose some strength, and they would finally be able to maintain a balance. Some people even think that it is unwise for the Lingying faction to fight against two at the same time, and it will inevitably lead to their eventual defeat. But what I didn't expect was that the first to fail was actually the business-oriented force of Lieyudo.

And now, no one would think that the Lingying Sect would be defeated, but they had a pessimistic attitude towards how long the Hedge Void Gate could last, after all, even the wealthy Lie Yutang had failed, how long could the Hingxu Gate last?

But what Qin Guan didn't expect was that for more than a month after that, they didn't receive any more news from Lingshan about who would win and who would lose between Chongxumen and Lingying Sect, as if the two sides were in a stalemate.

However, Qin Guan had put this matter aside for the time being, he knew that this kind of stalemate was normal, and the situation of Lie Yutang being defeated so easily was really incredible. Anyway, everything has already happened, even if he thinks a lot, there is no need, now what he has to do is to help the Heavenly Sword Sect break through the blockade of the Lingyin Tower, otherwise with the current situation of the Heavenly Sword Sect, it is difficult to say how long it can last.

Most of the monks of the Heavenly Sword Sect are sword cultivators, and the most important thing for sword cultivators to practice is the flying sword in their hands. But the flying sword is a foreign object after all, and it needs to be maintained frequently, otherwise it is easy to have the consequences of sword destruction and injury. However, the Heavenly Sword Sect has been surrounded by the Spirit Hidden Tower for several years, and it has long been cut off from the outside world, and now the territory they maintain is less than three-tenths of the original territory, and the resources on this territory are difficult to meet the needs of so many sword cultivators. And now it is necessary to resist the invasion of the Lingyin Building all the time, and the flying sword of the sword cultivation, as the sharpest magic weapon, often needs the sword to resist the enemy, so the burden of the flying sword is very heavy, the wear and tear is also very serious, and the maintenance required is more frequent.

These days, the first seat of the Heavenly Sword Sect's Sword Casting Pool is also full of sadness, as the Sword Casting Master of the Heavenly Sword Sect, he is equivalent to Dong Xiuzhu's status in Lingshan, and he usually basically handles the magic swords in the hands of some elder-level monks. However, as the war dragged on, the loss of the sword cultivators' magic swords became more and more serious, and the manpower of the sword casting pool also seemed to be stretched, so that he, who had long since stopped taking over low-level magic weapons, began to pick up the hammer, which really disturbed him, but he couldn't express his grievances.

Moreover, the treasury of the Sword Casting Pool was about to bottom out, and if he didn't replenish it, there would be no basic ores such as Xuantie and red copper, and the long swords in the hands of the sword cultivators of the Heavenly Sword Sect might be unusable immediately, so he had to find a way to find the first seat of the Sword Refining Pool, Yu Yuezhong.

But where can Yu Yuezhong do anything, she can't conjure these ore resources out of thin air, so she has to temporarily let the first seat of the Sword Casting Pond go back and wait for the news, and she thought about it for a long time before she sighed faintly: "It seems that I still have to ask my fellow Daoists in Lingshan." ”

She still sent Chu Sheng, who was most familiar with Qin Guan, as the representative of the Heavenly Sword Sect, and wanted to purchase a batch of spirit ore in Lingshan as a supplement. When Qin Guan heard Chu Sheng's intention, he called Shouping in without the slightest hesitation, and said to Shouping: "You go and lead Chu Shouzao back to Lingshan, and ask Elder Dong if we have any reserves in the Sanqing Palace." If the reserves are not enough, go to the Sword Pavilion to find Elder Qingxuan and ask him to think of a way. ”

Chu Sheng thanked Qin Guan for a long time before following Shouping to the teleportation array and heading to Lingshan.

As soon as the two of them left, Qin Guan sighed, he knew that the Heavenly Sword Sect was having a hard time now, and many monks under his command were about to crush this super sect in the West Sea, but it was impossible for the Heavenly Sword Sect to give up, after all, they still had to work hard to resist the invasion of the Lingyin Tower, and one more person would have more strength, and it was impossible to lose their strength in vain.

But this has fallen into a vicious circle, the Heavenly Sword Sect's various reserves are now stretched, and in the long run, it may not be able to force the Lingyin Building to retreat, and the Heavenly Sword Sect will fall into a situation where there is no rice to cook.

But Qin Guan didn't have any good ways at this time, his own family knew his own affairs, and his management level was far inferior to many of the Heavenly Sword Sect's leaders, and even most of the stewards of the Lingshan Sword Pavilion were much stronger than him, so he was always a hands-off shopkeeper, and he would only stand up when someone needed someone to make a decision. After all, making decisions means taking responsibility, and success is naturally supported by thousands of people, and failure is a catastrophe, so he has always adhered to the mentality of walking on thin ice and approaching the abyss, for fear of leading everyone astray.

And the current situation of the Heavenly Sword Sect is already beyond his power, and he can't provide any advice to the leaders of the Heavenly Sword Sect, so he has to do his meager strength to help the Heavenly Sword Sect get out of the difficulties.

But fortunately, things were far from collapse, and when Chu Sheng returned to Lingshan with Shouping, the long-term siege of Lingyin Tower had already made the men and horses on both sides fall into exhaustion. Even if the people on the Lingyin Building side can't be declared tired because of the ban, the physical exhaustion can no longer be overcome through the ban, so the rabble whose morale is not high is getting weaker and weaker. On the other hand, the Heavenly Sword Sect's side, because it was a local battle, and it was naturally hostile to Lingyin Tower, even if the morale was low, it was still a little better than the people in Lingyin Tower. Under this situation, the Lingyin Building gradually began to retreat, and the Heavenly Sword Sect gradually expanded outward.

And the monks from Lingshan, because their magic weapons don't need much maintenance, and they rely more on all kinds of spells to win, so they don't consume much resources. This was actually done by Qin Guan on purpose, in order not to let the monks from Lingshan rob the Heavenly Sword Sect of its provisions. Fortunately, the effect is good, even if half of the monks of the Heavenly Sword Sect are now unable to use the magic sword anymore, their magic swords have been damaged in the battle, and if they force the envoy, I am afraid that it will collapse, and the people on the side of the Heavenly Sword Sect still gradually occupy the advantage.

However, Qin Guan and Yu Yue's leaders did not relax their vigilance against Lingyin Tower, after all, who knew what tricks Lingyin Lou would have, so the Heavenly Sword Sect still dealt with Lingyin Lou with a steady and steady attitude, even if it was the moment when they could take advantage of the victory and pursue, they all gave up for the time being, just so as not to fall into the trap of Lingyin Tower.