In the twelfth year of the great cause, the entire land of China has entered an era of war and chaos.

Due to Yang Guangsan's expedition to Goryeo, not to mention the loss of labor and money, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians died.

Among them, the most serious area is the Shandong Road, where the scholars are lined up, and the three northern expeditions have made the entire Shandong region almost reach the point where there is no rooster crowing for ten miles, no one for a hundred miles, and the farmland is barren and grassy.

During the three northern expeditions, in order to provide logistical support for the army, the entire Shandong region fell into famine and riots.

During the first expedition to Goryeo, the Shandong Shi clan, which had no knowledge of Yang Guang's calculations, suffered heavy losses directly after the army arrived in Shandong because of their imperfect preparations. In order to be able to divert Yang Guang's attention and make up for the losses from the people, they launched the so-called "Zhishilang" Wang Bo.

Wang Bo claimed to be an ordinary person in Zouping County, Qi County, Sui Dynasty (now Zouping North, Shandong), but in fact he was a guest of the Cui clan of Shandong, and in December of the seventh year of the Great Cause (611), due to the northern expedition to Goryeo, the conscription in various parts of Shandong was heavy, and the private soldiers of the Shandong clan were directly marked by Yang Guang.

For this reason, in order to find an excuse to get rid of the heavy conscription and military service, the Shandong scholars launched the Wang Bo rebellion.

In order to really step into the circle of scholars, Wang Bo and Meng Rang, a native of the same county, gathered a crowd and raised troops against Sui on the grounds that the military service was heavy and could not bear it.

They occupied Changbai Mountain (now the junction of Zouping and Zhangqiu in Shandong) as a base and plundered near Qi County and Jibei County (now Pingyin and Dong'e in Shandong). At the same time, Wang Bo created "Death Song of the Endless Liaodong Waves":

The long lance invades the sky and a half, and the wheel knife shines in the sun.

Go up the mountain to eat roe deer, and go down the mountain to eat cattle and sheep.

Suddenly, when he heard the arrival of the official army, he raised his knife and swung forward.

For example, if Liaodong died, he was injured by beheading.

Call on the people to refuse to go to Goguryeo and join the rebel army.

During the next three conquests of Goryeo, countless people who had evaded the conscription rushed to join Wang Bo's rebel army, which made it grow rapidly.

Twelve years after the Great Cause, three powerful rebel armies were formed on the land of Shenzhou, namely the Wagang Army in Henan, the Dou Jiande Army in Hebei, and the Du Fuwei and Fugong Yi Army in Jianghuai.

In addition to these three strongest rebel armies, by the twelfth year of the Great Cause, there were more than 100 rebel armies of all sizes and millions of righteous people that had risen all over the country.

These rebel armies captured the counties and killed a large number of Sui troops, completely turning the Great Sui into a situation of separation.

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In the autumn of September of the twelfth year of the Great Cause, Lin Dao, who had been in retreat in Taoyuanyu for six years, finally woke up from his slumber.

Lin Dao, who had just woken up, felt an indescribable sense of depression because of the narrowness of the light cocoon space.

So, Lin Dao subconsciously pinched the Mixed Yuan Sword Seal with his hand, and it was a split in his hand.

"Click... Click..."

The light cocoon that wrapped Lin Dao was split in half by Lin Dao, and then instantly shattered into even smaller pieces, floating in the air, and slowly dissipating.

And when the light cocoon dissipated, the faint light emitted made Lin Dao see everything in the entire retreat room clearly.

After seeing it clearly, Lin Dao's eyes couldn't help but show a hint of surprise.

This retreat room was originally a retreat stone chamber that he specially carved above the node between the leylines and the water veins under the cliff behind the castle.

At this time, the retreat room that appeared in front of Lin Dao's eyes was no longer pure stone. In Lin Dao's eyes, the entire retreat room, regardless of the surrounding walls, the ground and the roof, all turned into jade-like appearances at this time.

And on the ground in front of him, there was a pool of milky white liquid. After reaching out and touching it, a strong and incomparably rich energy poured into Lin Dao's body along the place where his fingers came into contact with the liquid.

Discovering this change, Lin Dao's heart moved, and he already understood what this liquid was.

So, Lin Dao, who was overjoyed in his heart, touched the milky white liquid on the ground with his hand again.

In the blink of an eye, the milky white liquid disappeared into the retreat room. It turned out that it was included in the small world by Lindao.

After seeing the Yuan Qi Liquid, that is, the milky white liquid from before, Lin Dao already knew that the leylines under Taoyuanyu had transformed into spiritual veins.

In order to make sure of his thoughts, Lin Dao walked to the northwest corner of the retreat room, where Lin Dao specially drilled water veins into the rock formations to provide him with drinking mountain spring water during his retreat.

After the innate treasure was reborn in Nirvana, and survived the transformation tribulation, becoming the second Dao body of Lin Dao, Lin Dao found that he was able to use the powerful ability of the innate treasure to swallow the vitality of heaven and earth, and advanced into a special state of Bigu.

It's just that this imperfect state of Bigu can make Lin Dao not eat for a long time, but he must replenish the water in his body every once in a while.

This is also the fundamental reason why Lin Dao was seriously injured and dying when he entered this world, unable to move, but he still lived strong for seven days without starvation.

When Lin Dao walked to the side of the mountain spring living pool, he first scooped a scoop of water with a water scoop, carefully observed it for a while, and then put it to his mouth and took a sip.

In an instant, a crisp and sweet taste burst out in Lin Dao's mouth, which lifted Lin Dao's whole spirit.

Then, the spring in the stomach is drunk, and the wisps of soft energy are emitted, which melt into the blood, moisturizing every cell of Lindao's body.

Spiritual Spring, after taking a sip, Lin Dao was extremely convinced that this originally ordinary mountain spring in the retreat room had been transformed into a spiritual spring under the assimilation of spiritual veins.

Surprise, surprise......

This is the only emotion at this time after Lin Dao wakes up.

Even he didn't expect that he just woke up in retreat, and the leylines under his feet were transformed into spiritual veins, and a spiritual spring was also attached.

Of course, in a place like the retreat room, where you can't feel the changes in the outside world, Lin Dao, who is awake at this time, doesn't know that he has slept for five years.

Now, he thinks that only two or three years have passed, and he has achieved the goal he set before the retreat.

Therefore, after his emotions recovered, Lin Dao did not rush out, but checked the results of his current retreat.

Sitting cross-legged on the stone bed turned into jade, Lin Dao closed his eyes, and as soon as his thoughts moved, his mind had already appeared in his body.

The first thing that catches your eye is the light quality meridians that spread all over every corner of the body. On the crystal transparent meridian wall, there are mysterious patterns all over the place.

Inside the meridians, the innate origin qi that has transformed into the innate Gang Qi fills the space inside the meridians, quickly and smoothly, and spontaneously runs according to the carrying trajectory of the Mixed Yuan True Scripture.

At the same time, it was also discovered that at this time, the mixed yuan true scripture had a low utilization rate for the Zhoutian meridians in the body.

Then, there are 129,600 acupoints, like stars, dotted on the meridian nodes, exuding colorful light.

In the end, what caught Lin Dao's eyes were the blood vessels, viscera, muscles, tendons, and bones that were also engraved with mysterious textures, and all of them exuded a clear and bright brilliance.

His mind was focused again, looking at the cells on a muscle, and Lin Dao saw that the cell wall was also depicted with mysterious textures, as well as the innate origin qi stored inside the cells, which had not yet been transformed into innate Gang Qi.

After feeling the earth-shattering changes in his body, Lin Dao's heart suddenly burst out, and he couldn't help but wonder how long he had been in retreat.

You must know that before the retreat, your cultivation was still in the twelfth level of the Pulse Realm.

At this time, he had already reached the second level of the Innate Realm. Although the innate origin qi of the innate true qi form in the body has not yet been fully transformed into innate gang qi, it is only a few months.

Therefore, Lin Dao did not watch the changes in the small world anymore, but directly opened the Broken Dragon Stone in the retreat room and walked out of the retreat room.

"Mr. Lin, you're out of customs. A member of the Yang clan who was guarding outside the retreat room couldn't help but be surprised to salute when he saw the open retreat room and the forest road that he walked out.

"Are you?" Lin Dao looked at the seventeen or eighteen-year-old strong guy in front of him, his eyes were glazed, and he didn't remember who the other party was, so he asked directly.

"Mr. Lin, I'm a puppy. Don't you remember me?" Yang Xu, a guy named Little Dog, said directly.

"What time is it? Is Yang Jun in the mountain valley?" After Lin Dao heard this, he was speechless for a while, and he didn't answer, and asked directly.

"It is now the twelfth year of the Great Cause. The patriarch is training in the barracks on the other side of the castle. I'll take you there" After Yang Xu smiled, he also remembered his current appearance, and hurriedly answered Lin Dao's question.

After finishing speaking, he turned around directly and walked briskly towards the barracks with Lin Dao.