All sects work

Chapter 178 Backbone
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Shi Xuanying pretended to smile mysteriously: "The secret of heaven cannot be revealed."

People like them who love to think can think of anything as long as they are given a starting point. If they say too much, they will be suspected. She would not do such a stupid thing!

Sure enough, in the next few days, Bai Xuexing would secretly stand on the roof and observe the mystics in the martial arts arena during his free time.

Shi Xuanying knew that those mysterious arts would definitely arouse Bai Xuexing's interest.

She stayed in Linxi County temporarily and selected eleven more women from the rescued women, together with Dong Niang and A Pu, a total of thirteen people, to form the prototype of the women's army.

It is difficult to call such a small number of people an army, but Shi Xuanying still specially created a barrier for them and accompanied the thirteen people in seclusion and practice martial arts in it.

Two workshops were quickly set up in Tao County and Linxi County, and the remaining women were able to go to work.

Some of them came from Tao County and had parents and children to tie to their homes. They wanted to return to the workshops there to work, and asked Dongfang Zhentian to come to Master Xuanying.

Master Xuanying was instructing Dongniang on how to use hidden weapons. Upon hearing this, she casually replied, "Let them choose according to their own wishes."

Dongfang Zhentian disagreed a little: "Those people in their family are not easy to deal with. If they go back, they will be entangled again. Wouldn't it be a waste of time to save them?"

"If they know they have a backer but are still easily manipulated by others, then that's their fate." Shi Xuanying seemed to be talking to Dongfang Zhentian, but in fact she was talking to the thirteen people in front of her, "You have to walk your own path after all."

She was here, and they were welcome to take advantage of her, but it was sheer wishful thinking to expect her to lend a helping hand time and again.

Shi Xuanying is not a person with excessive compassion and does not have any salvation complex.

"Got it." Dongfang Zhentian was about to leave when he suddenly noticed the changes in the thirteen people and asked in surprise, "Huh? Did you cleanse their marrow?"

"Yes." Shi Xuanying has been very stingy with her spiritual energy recently, but she is very clear about where to use it. "The more awake the weak are, the more pain they will suffer. I am not spending so much effort to let them grow a spine and then be easily crushed by others."

These words shocked the thirteen people.

They couldn't explain what they felt in their hearts, but they mustered up the courage to look up at Shi Xuanying, and remembered the expression on her face when she said this.

Buddhism says that there are eight sufferings in life: birth, aging, sickness, death, separation from loved ones, long-lasting resentment, failure to obtain what one desires, and inability to let go.

In Master Xuanying's opinion, being powerless is the most painful thing in the world, nothing else. The so-called birth, old age, sickness, death, love and separation, etc., are all due to being powerless in the final analysis.

Although the strong have many things beyond their reach, the weak are even more unable to withstand risks.

Dongfang Zhentian glanced at the thirteen people, smiled and left.

After that, everything proceeded in an orderly manner.

When Master Xuan Ying led the thirteen people onto the path of cultivation, they came out to find that Bai Xuexing had already come down from the roof and walked among the practitioners of the mystic arts, seriously communicating with them about the mystic arts.

She leaned against the door and watched for a long time before Bai Xuexing noticed.

"grown ups."

Everyone bowed with Bai Xuexing. Shi Xuanying nodded, winked at him, and turned to leave.

Bai Xuexing followed her figure and landed on the second-floor octagonal building in the backyard of the yamen.

The terrain here is relatively high and open, and you can see the stars in the sky just by looking up.

He knew what Shi Xuanying meant without her saying anything, and began to observe the stars and divine without saying a word.

Shi Xuanying glanced sideways and raised the corners of her lips.

Well, I like such sensible people.

"Jupiter guards the stomach. The country loses money due to injustice. There will be floods and droughts. Grains will not be plentiful, and people will worry about food." Bai Xuexing saw this celestial phenomenon as soon as he looked up. "Chenxing enters Taiwei. There will be civil strife and ministers will kill each other."

From the astronomical phenomena, we can see signs of chaos in the world.

This is Shan Chenjie's fate. Shi Xuanying is not surprised: "Is it possible to calculate the time when the flood will occur?"

Bai Xuexing quickly replied: "If nothing unexpected happens, it should be at the end of the month."

Shi Xuanying raised her eyebrows and looked at him: "Master, you have unlimited potential."

"Huh?" He looked back in confusion.

"It was calculated very quickly, beyond my expectation."

Bai Xuexing looked at the pair of curved eyes and suddenly realized that he had made a mistake: he shouldn't have revealed his true strength so easily...

Shi Xuanying is not a considerate partner, she only knows how to squeeze everyone's potential to the limit!
It was too late to withdraw now, so he could only struggle in vain: "It was mainly because the astronomical phenomenon was too obvious."

"I understand." said Shi Xuanying.

Bai Xuexing didn't understand what she understood, but he had a bad feeling in his heart. When he was about to make amends, he heard her talking about something else.

"I plan to hold a public monk competition in three days."

Bai Xuexing couldn't force the topic back, as that would be too deliberate, so he could only follow her words and say, "Everything is just getting started here, aren't you afraid of being the first to do so?"

"It would be best if we could keep a low profile, but reality does not allow that. We live in a remote corner and will be ignored by everyone, including the disaster victims. If they don't come to us, how can we develop?"

It would be impossible to expand the territory for the time being, and the only way to occupy the basin was to dig caves. If there was still a shortage of population, Shi Xuanying felt that she could just wash away and prepare to rest in peace in the dust.

When natural disasters or man-made calamities occur, people fleeing either seek refuge with a strong supporter or run into deep mountains and forests to fight for their lives.

They have neither of these two points. In addition, a tributary of the Lancang River also passes through Tao County, so it might be affected. Most of the refugees will not run here.

In this situation, if you want to keep a low profile, you will never be able to expand your power.