Chapter 599: Five Elements and Four Phases
"Patriarch Xu. Poor Dao took the liberty of asking, what agreement did Shen Shuihan reach with you so that you could send troops to help him?" I asked. According to what Lu Pingchuan said before, the relationship between the Black Clan and the Huang Clan is not good, and Xu Shuangyi's words just now also indirectly prove this, in addition, if the relationship between the two clans is good, the Huang Clan will not charge any money from the Black clan to buy roads.
"Shen Shuihan has always been at odds with the Qi people, and my Xu clan has always been at odds with the Lu clan, Shen Shuihan this time with three hundred cattle and sheep in exchange for my Xu clan to send troops, first take the Lu clan and then seek the Qi clan. Xu Shuangyi replied with a smile.
"Three hundred cattle and sheep?" I asked, frowning. Xu Shuangyi's answer confirmed my previous speculation, but I didn't expect the price of the Huang clan to send troops so low.
And Xu Shuangyi's next words solved my doubts.
It turns out that although the Huang people have the ability to drive away animals, they can only hunt for 49 days after the animals have reproduced, and usually live by grazing. This is also the ancestral teaching, in order to prevent the clansmen from using spells to indiscriminately kill innocents and destroy the way of heaven, driving wild beasts and enslaving wild beasts are two completely different things.
Because of this, the life of the Huang people has always been very difficult, as we all know that grazing requires grassland, and there are not many flat grasslands in the wilderness, the people of the Red people make a living by planting grains, and most of the grasslands in the mountains are developed and planted by them, and the contradiction between the two arises in this way. In fact, the value of 300 cattle and sheep itself is not high, the black people can buy from India in the west and the nomads in the north, the reason why it is valuable is that it is difficult to transport, because the terrain of the wild land is treacherous, and it takes a long time to drive 300 cattle and sheep to walk more than 1,000 miles, which also has to be escorted and fed, so these 300 cattle and sheep have become a very heavy gift.
The slaughtered village that I saw with King Kong Cannon earlier was the masterpiece of the Huang clan and Shen Shuihan, with two purposes, one was that the red clan had encroached on the Huang people's grassland pasture, and the Huang clan took the opportunity to take revenge with a grudge. The second is that Shen Shuihan came to visit alone that day, without carrying a burden, Xu Shuangyi asked Shen Shuihan to attack the Red village in order to prove that he really wanted to cooperate with the Huang people, not to frame them.
And when I came to the Huang tribe to make trouble, the black tribe's men and horses had not yet arrived, so the Huang people were only harassing in the red village and did not rush to launch a major attack, the reason why the siege was not attacked was to wait for the arrival of the black tribe, and the two armies could work together to minimize the loss.
In order to show her heart to me, Xu Shuangyi told the cause and effect of the incident without omission. I didn't comment on her approach, because the resources of the Wild Land are limited, war is inevitable, and it is reasonable to be ruthless, and it is impossible to survive without an iron hand in this treacherous environment.
Anyway, I have understood the cause and effect of the matter, the reason why the Black Clan wants to encircle the Huang Clan is not simply to use their troops, Shen Shuihan is also worried that the Huang Clan will take advantage of the situation when he raises troops to attack the Bai Clan, and spend money to buy helpers while also avoiding his own worries.
And the reason why the Huang clan joined this war was not simply to covet the three hundred cattle and sheep of the black clan, but also to unite the forces of the black clan to eradicate the red clan who were competing with them for resources.
It can be said that the deal reached between the two is very fair, Xu Shuangyi is also very smart, and added an additional condition before cooperating with the opponent, that is, the Black Clan has to help her destroy the Red Clan, and then she helps the other party to attack the Bai Clan.
In the final analysis, the Black is the one who provokes the war, the Yellow is the one who profits from it, the Bai is the one who deserves it, and the Red is the unlucky one.
"Shen Shuihan hasn't arrived yet?" I asked, retracting my thoughts.
"It will take time to mobilize the men, and in three days we will be at the meeting place where we have been discussed. Xu Shuangyi replied.
"What is the strength of the Shen clan?" I asked again, and I had been on the one of the questions for nearly an hour.
"Shen Shuihan's spell cultivation is slightly lower than Qi Tianshou's, and slightly higher than Concubine Shen and Lu Pingchuan. Xu Shuangyi indirectly answered my question, the so-called strength of the clan is actually compared to the personal cultivation of the patriarch.
"What spell does Qi Tianshou have?" I only then learned that the patriarch of the Bai clan was called Qi Tianshou.
"This person is over eighty years old, and the art of the Yuan Infant has been completed, and he is haunted and invisible. Xu Shuangyi's expression became solemn. Her so-called Yuan Ying is similar to what we call the Yuan Shen, but it is not the same, because after the Yuan Ying leaves the body, what should I do, if the Yuan Shen leaves the body, then I can only lie stiff. To put it simply, the technique of the Yuan Infant is also somewhat similar to the technique of Da Meier's doppelganger, the difference is that the Yuan Infant can be far away from the body, while the doppelganger can only be near the body.
"Patriarch Xu, although you and I can't be husband and wife, we have a close friendship, and I will help you mediate the disputes between the four clans, and it will definitely benefit the Xu clan. I nodded and smiled. The reason why I say this is not because I was able to defeat the other three clan patriarchs, although they have only practiced half of the Heavenly Calligraphy Technique, they all have wonderful things. The reason why I dare to boast about Haikou is because King Kong Cannon and I hold the root of the dispute between the four clans, and we not only know where Qi Danyun is, but we also know where Shen Shuihan's daughter is.
"Everything is decided by the husband alone, and no matter how the husband treats him, the heart of the frost clothes will never be lightly moved. Xu Shuangyi groaned for a long time and resolutely raised his head.
"This, this, dare to ask Patriarch Xu, four of the noble beasts hidden by the Lu clan are three thousand years old, and Patriarch Xu knows what they owned before?"
"The thing that the husband said is a barbaric four different species, each with a green dragon, a white tiger, a red bird, and half of the bloodline of Xuanwu, and hundreds of years ago it was already squeezed and killed by the Lu clan with the technique of condensing the earth. "Once Xu Shuangyi's 'husband' is exported, he has no intention of taking it back.
"Is there a fifth metal beast?" I was stunned and asked, as we all know, the green dragon belongs to wood, the white tiger belongs to earth, the vermilion bird belongs to fire, and the basalt belongs to water. If what Xu Shuangyi said was true, the four different beasts should be complete now, and it was impossible to have a fifth five-element gold.
"Naturally, there are only four different beasts, so why not say that there is a fifth. Xu Shuangyi saw that I didn't reject her head-on, and her face immediately turned happy.
She laughed, but I wanted to cry, the four phases are complete, but what I want is the five elements, how dare I devour Neidan if the five elements are not complete.
"Is there a beast that is more than three thousand years old in this high mountain and great river?" I frowned.
"There are only four of them, and the rest are no more than two thousand years at most. Xu Shuangyi shook his head and said. She was born and raised in the local area, so she knew the species of the area well, and besides, her mount was still a golden-winged roc, so it was impossible not to wander around in her spare time, so she said that if she didn't, it was really nothing.
"Why is the husband looking for those three-thousand-year-old beasts?" Xu Shuangyi saw my desperate expression on his face, and hurriedly asked with concern.
I shook my head and didn't speak, I didn't want to speak at all at this time, the big war was coming, but I couldn't improve my cultivation to go out of the mountain to fight, and the despair in my heart was beyond words.
Xu Shuangyi sighed silently when she saw me, and she didn't bother anymore, but sat quietly beside me and accompanied me silently. At this time, everyone had eaten and drunk and began to gradually return to the house, and the bonfire gradually weakened and slowly extinguished, and the hope in my heart began to be shattered like the gradually extinguishing bonfire.
"What the husband is looking for must be a living thing?" Just when I was completely desperate, Xu Shuangyi broke the silence.
I turned my head to look at each other in confusion, there must be a second half of her sentence.
"According to the ancestral records of the concubine, there is another thing that came with the four different beasts, but it is not a living thing......"