Best Ascension

Chapter 87 Preparations for the Expansion War (for further reading)

Since time immemorial, wars have been preceded by soldiers and horses without using food and grass.

The news of the Tutu war has not yet spread, and the prices of resources such as pills, talismans, magical instruments, and magic circles in several major cities in southern Xinjiang have risen to varying degrees.

Thanks to the relationship with the Ge family, the Zhao family became the second wave of families who knew the inside story.

Zhao Sheng knew very well that the news could not be hidden for long.

As long as a month, as little as seven or eight days.

The news that Patriarch Yuye intends to launch a land expansion war will inevitably spread throughout the southern border.

Southern Xinjiang has not launched a land expansion war for nearly 500 years.

Zhao Sheng could imagine that if a delicious big cake was suddenly placed in front of countless immortal cultivators in southern Xinjiang, it would definitely attract countless participants who were eager to enjoy the dividends of war.

This is a carnival feast shared by sects, immortal cultivators and casual cultivators.

At that time, there must be many Xiuxian families taking advantage of the situation to rise, and some forces will suffer heavy casualties, and will never recover or even die out.

Wars are always cruel, especially in the world of cultivating immortals.

Monster beasts have a particularly strong sense of territory. Immortal cultivators who want to open up a new fertile land of humanity in the southern border must start a protracted, life-and-death war with thousands of monsters.

For the Zhao family, the Tutu War is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Because there is a recognized tradition in the Tuotu War, that is, whoever conquers will occupy it!Who develops, who owns.

Simply put.If you can occupy a spiritual land and successfully open it up.

Then, this spiritual land belongs to you.

The reason for this tradition is that "a single tree does not make a forest".

Developing a region has never been easily accomplished by one or two people or even one or two forces.

Even if the Danding faction is strong enough to do it, if they choose to eat alone, they will be outraged.

After the ancestor Yuye cut off the largest piece of cake, he would often release the remaining corners for other forces to snatch.

It's just that there are countless clans and sects in southern Xinjiang, and it will depend on the personal opinion of Patriarch Yulin to choose which ones to participate in.

And this is where the opportunity for the Zhao family lies.

Long before he came back, Zhao Xuan'an took his wife Ge Feng'er back to Ge's house to visit relatives.

Ming is to visit relatives, but in fact to inquire about news.

Once any useful information is obtained, it will be sent back to Mount Taiwu immediately.

The Zhao family has three foundation-building monks. Zhao Sheng sits in Taiwu Mountain and is responsible for collecting and analyzing information, and mobilizing and issuing various orders to the tribe at any time.

Zhao Jinjian, who is already at the third floor of the foundation building, is the strongest. Now he is in Jiudingfang City, buying pills and other materials for the family, while protecting the safety of the clan and materials.

In order to secretly collect supplies, more than half of the more than 30 cultivators of the Zhao family have dispersed to Jiudingfang City.

Zhao Keru plunged into the alchemy room and began to refine various pills such as Miasma Pill and Rejuvenation Pill day and night.

There are many deep mountains and old forests in the barren areas of the southern border, full of miasma and Gu insects, and miasma-breaking pill is a must-have elixir.

Rejuvenation Pill is a healing elixir, needless to say.

In order to obtain the ownership of a piece of spiritual land, the Zhao family used all their strength and background this time.

As time passed day by day, countless outdated information were ruthlessly torn down on the wall in front of Zhao Sheng, but more notes would be pasted on it.

On the day when the Tuotu War suddenly spread across southern Xinjiang, the Zhao family had just completed a small part of their material storage work.

Zhao Sheng was very worried, not because of the lack of supplies, but because he discovered a weakness in the family that was difficult to make up for.

Most importantly, this weakness is likely to determine the final success or failure of the family.

In the early morning of the next day, the smoke from the kitchen in Zhao An City was very quiet and peaceful.

But in the city lord's mansion in the center of the inner city, the atmosphere became more and more tense, and the servants in the mansion didn't dare to take a breath.

Zhao Sheng sat at the head of the hall, silently watching the seven members of the Zhao clan below.

It has been nearly 30 years since Zhao'an City was built, and the Zhao family has multiplied from more than [-] people to nearly [-] people.

But there are only seven innate warriors among the nearly ten thousand people.

For the Zhao family, which started out as a martial artist, the number of people is a bit small.

You must know that the Zhao family will bestow a lot of essence pills every year, plus the many experience letters left by the innate warriors of the Zhao family.

The Zhao family should have far more than just seven geniuses.In Zhao Sheng's view, it should be at least more than ten.

The so-called born in sorrow and died in peace!
"Hey, it seems that Mrs. Zhao has become slack again these years!"

After Zhao Sheng sighed secretly in his heart, his face became extremely cold.

He turned his head to look at the uneasy contemporary patriarch of the Zhao clan's ordinary clan beside him, and ordered in a cold voice: "I don't care what method you use. Within a year, you must gather twenty innates, one less. Your patriarch's Let someone else take your seat!"

Hearing this harsh request, the Zhao clan leader, known for his shrewdness and ability, almost burst into tears.

The Xiantian master is not a Chinese cabbage, how can it be said that it can grow out of it.

He was about to ask for mercy, but seeing Zhao Sheng's serious expression, he swallowed back the words that came to his lips, and nodded silently.

The Zhao family now has a very tricky weakness.

In a normal cultivating family, the strength of the clan members tends to be pyramid-shaped from top to bottom.

However, the Zhao family is in the shape of a dumbbell with high sides and low center, and the backbone of Qi refining is seriously scarce in the middle and late stages.

With the successive passing away of the Zhao family, Zhao Jinding and other older generations, the Zhao family’s Kezi and Chongzi generations add up to only twelve people. There are only two people in the late stage of Qi refining, six in the middle stage, and the remaining four are in the early stage of Qi refining. Useful.

When it came to the Xuanzi generation, the number of people was almost thirty, but Zhao Xuanjing, who had the highest cultivation level, was only at the eighth level of Qi Refining, followed by Zhao Xuanan at the sixth level of Qi Refining, and most of the rest were only at the first or second level of Qi Refining.

Zhao Sheng had secretly estimated that the strongest among the family's three foundation-building monks was only at the third level of foundation-building, and Zhao Keru was not good at fighting.

It is not impossible to lay down a spiritual land with the strength of the three of them, but it is very difficult.

This is not a big deal.

What is even more difficult is how to keep the sanctuary under the prying eyes of outsiders and monsters.

However, the most troublesome thing for the Zhao family now is the serious shortage of available manpower.

You must know that ordinary people cannot be used to open up new spiritual lands in the barren lands of the southern border, at least they must be innate warriors.

Because it is extremely difficult for ordinary people to adapt to the extremely harsh environment in the wasteland, sometimes a little miasma can kill a person, not to mention those ferocious monsters and Gu insects.

It's a pity that the Zhao family's family background is too thin, far less rich than other established foundation families, and they can't afford to hire Sanxiu to help them.

Join forces with other families?
Zhao Sheng would not choose to do this unless he had to.

Because mutual trust is a big issue.

You can never underestimate the desire of a cultivating family for their own spiritual land.

Likewise, you can't trust any family promises, not even a blood pact.

In the strictly hierarchical world of cultivating immortals in Central Continent, if a family of cultivating immortals does not have a spiritual land of their own, they will always be at the bottom of the world of cultivating immortals.

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(End of this chapter)