The Bad Guys: Everyone, let’s revive the Tang Dynasty together!

Chapter 307: The World is in Turbulence (End)

At the end of the first month of the lunar calendar, people throughout the Shiwan Mountains were in a state of panic.

First, the Ten Thousand Poison Cave convened a ranking meeting ahead of time, and then in an instant, a formation was set up to seal off the entire Ten Thousand Poison Cave, so that the outside world had no idea what was going on in the ranking meeting, and they didn't even see the Gu Masters who failed to be promoted return to the villages.

The Cave of Ten Thousand Poisons was like a ferocious beast that devoured living people. People were allowed to enter but not leave. From the moment the witchcraft formation was activated, hundreds of witchcraft masters who were painstakingly trained in various villages fell into the mouth of the beast.

And this is not the end yet. As if they were waiting for the Ten Thousand Poison Cave to be closed, just two days later, the 32 villages in the northern border gathered their troops in Jiuli Village, honored the saint girl Chi Meng as the acting Gu King, and sent troops to conquer the Ten Thousand Poison Cave's witch king Chi Li!
Not only that, in just two days, a manifesto listing dozens of crimes of the Witch King Chi Li spread throughout Northern Xinjiang, Raozhong, and Southern Xinjiang. The entire Ten Thousand Poison Cave knew about the great deeds that the Witch King Chi Li had done overnight.

He colluded with the State of Chu to raise troops in Nanping, secretly devised a forbidden technique to make Gu on living people, broke his oath and secretly provoked wars among the various villages, and in the name of training disciples was actually selecting candidates for making Gu...

Of course, there are more than just four charges, but any one of these is enough to make people want to tear the poison king to pieces.

Especially the last one, which made the village leaders and parents who sent their children to the Poison Cave collapse. You know, the Poison Master made a promise to the villages that any young Gu Master who could refine a five-poison insect that matched the Gu Dao on Raoyue Mountain and return safely would be able to enter the Gu Yutan built by the Poison Master himself to practice Gu, and receive the poison and witchcraft inheritance and Gu instruction from the Poison Master. Anyone who entered to practice would have the hope of reaching the threshold of the "Heavenly Rank" before the age of thirty.

Over the years, how many witchcraft geniuses have been sent to the Poison Lord by various villages? Which parent or village chief would not be overjoyed when they learned that their child was chosen, and would even secretly make enemies with other villages because of this?
Isn’t everything just to grasp this hope?
Everyone believed that as long as their own children could return from the Cave of Ten Thousand Poisons, their village would have a great poison master in charge from now on, who could at least protect their village for decades.

Just for this hope, I don’t know how many Rao villages spend a lot of money every year to recruit a few good seedlings in the village. The whole family of the selected good seedlings will be honored and can participate in the decision-making of village affairs.

Now tell them that these beloved ones in their village were actually taken away by that bastard Du Gong and turned into poison?

Damn, the sky is falling!

Therefore, once the manifesto was issued, not to mention the other villages that were still waiting and watching for the truth, all the villages in Rao Village that had sent their children into the Ten Thousand Poison Cave, almost without hesitation, led their troops and rushed to the Ten Thousand Poison Cave to hold them accountable.

However, since Lord Du had drawn out the best troops from each camp to conquer the Kingdom of Nanping years ago, there were actually not many soldiers and horses that gathered from each camp this time.

But even so, the situation in Raojiang has become turbulent, with countless insults and resentments directed at the Ten Thousand Poison Cave and the Poison King.

As much as Raozhai once supported Du Gong, they now hate him as much.

There was a large village that had sent dozens of people to the Poison Lord in just a few years. Almost every family in the village was in mourning. The village leader was under great pressure. He personally rushed from Raozhong to Jiuli Village overnight to ask the Saint Chi Meng for permission to be the first to attack the Poison Cave. He also said that if he could not take down the Poison Lord's head, he, as the village leader, would have to take his own head to make amends to the villagers.

At this point, the stakeholders no longer care about the truth of the matter. The Ten Thousand Poison Cave has been open for nearly ten days, and not a single rumor has leaked out. They also completely ignore what's happening in the outside world.

If this isn’t a guilty conscience, then what is this!?

Damn Chi Li, I have emptied my family fortune to support you over the years, and I am not afraid to betray King Gu and accompany you all the way to the end. When you said you would attack Nanping Kingdom, I immediately pulled out 90% of the elite soldiers in the village, and the only thing left was a fight with those elders in the council hall.

I've been treating you with all my heart, and I've been waiting for you to be my grandson for all these years, and I've been waiting for the day when I can rise to the top, but you treat me like this! ?
Damn Chi Li, you really deserve to die!!
These village chiefs who were under pressure from the village were so angry that they wished they could turn into the saint's dogs immediately, attack in groups, and take back the flesh and blood of the bastard Du Gong to appease the public anger.

Of course, one thing is one thing. Anger is one thing, but haven’t these village chiefs been forced to express their opinions?

In fact, if there were no such manifesto, no matter what the truth was, at this critical moment, these village chiefs who had long been tied to the Poison Lord would not have expressed their views. Regardless of whether the truth was true or not, the Poison Lord had secretly controlled Raojiang for nearly ten years. How high was his prestige and notoriety? Moreover, he had already withdrawn the elite soldiers from each village, leaving each village empty.

These village chiefs, both big and small, really didn't dare to stand against Du Gong right away.

If he really wants to express his stance, he would at least do it before the outcome of the battle between Saint Chi Meng and the Ten Thousand Poison Cave is decided. Otherwise, one wrong step will lead to another. The Saint, who is in a weak position, obviously has little chance of winning. Not to mention that the Ten Thousand Poison Cave is difficult to attack, there are also tens of thousands of elite soldiers under the command of the Du Lord outside. If they are outflanked one day, the Saint will be defeated immediately.

But there was nothing to be done about it. The manifesto put everything out in the open. Regardless of whether it was true or not, if these village chiefs did not rise up in arms at the first opportunity, they would immediately be questioned by the villagers.

The founding system of Raozhai is not a centralized one-man show. The elders, priests, witch doctors, etc. are all factions in the village. In the past, the village chief had absolute say, but if he did not express his opinion at this time, he would be pulled down immediately.

That damn Chi Li has brought disaster to our men. The village has no future. Why are you still hesitating? It's really not true. Let's fight him first. If you really want to accompany Chi Li till the end, then give up the position of village leader and go to the Ten Thousand Poison Cave!

As a result, as if by coincidence, the situation in Raojiang was turned upside down overnight, and the Saint's side directly overwhelmed the Ten Thousand Poison Cave.

At the same time, these shocked and angry village chiefs also met the drafter of the manifesto.

A man from the Central Plains, a man named Xiao Yan, was handsome, with a faint smile on his face all the time, but his eyes were very sharp and his words were extremely concise. Just a casual conversation and a plain look made the village chiefs who came to surrender to him willingly reveal all their assets, even their underwear.

Fortunately, this ignorant Central Plains man was very respectful to the saint and never took the place of the saint.

Of course, the saint girl always had a stern face and would not speak easily. Before she spoke, she would always summon the Central Plains man to ask him questions. Her subsequent words were majestic, stern and righteous, which made people have to admit her admiration.

Although the saint's serious look didn't intimidate people, it was hard to find fault with her. Besides, the general situation was on her side, and the village chiefs who were forced to take sides by the manifesto had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow the saint's orders.

As for the Central Plains man, it's not that no one has doubted him, but at this critical moment, if they can't defeat the Poison King, they will die, so they don't have the mood to worry about these things. Moreover, each village doesn't have many troops, and the 32 villages in the northern border that have never been looked down upon in recent years are particularly supportive of the Saint for some reason. If they want to defeat the Poison King in the future and avoid being punished by the Saint, they have to work hard now.

Therefore, in just half a day, everyone in the village who had a little bit of culture started to call Xiao Yan "Mr. Xiao". Some of them even wanted to call him "Alang" as well, but they were worried that they would offend this man from the Central Plains. After all, in Raojiang, "Alang" is generally used to address peers and juniors, while "Mr. Xiao" is a respectful title with some flattering tone.

In any case, it only took Xiao Yan half a day to arrange everyone properly, and another half a day for the coalition forces that shared a common hatred of the enemy to camp outside the Ten Thousand Poison Cave and prepare for the defense against the God of War. Soldiers were equipped with rattan armor, and the poison masters and wizards conducted drills so that they could work together to deliver a fatal blow when necessary.

It was also at this time that everyone finally saw the Gu King Chi Li, who had already arrived at the Ten Thousand Poison Cave and was breaking the formation.

People are united.

This was better than knowing in advance that the Gu King had already escaped, and everyone would subconsciously think that whether it was the Saint Lady gathering troops or employing the Central Plains man to write the manifesto, it was all arranged by the Gu King.

However, it was all because King Gu had trained the Saint Girl in advance, and retaliated against his brother after tolerating him again and again until he could no longer tolerate it.

Who dares to say that King Gu is weak and incompetent! ?

It turns out that the Gu King has always had such a skill, but due to the brotherhood he let the Poison Lord take advantage of it!

The Gu King's momentum soared, and he arrived here ahead of time to break the formation. All preparations have been completed, the witchcraft formation is no longer a threat, and people's hearts are at ease. Those who originally did not have much confidence unprecedentedly support the Gu King and the Saint Daughter, father and daughter.

Even the young priest You Chuan, who was finally rehabilitated, was regarded as the only person under Lord Du who endured humiliation and was sensible.

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"Ah Lang's move is really..."

On the cliff, the Gu King smiled bitterly and said, "I have never heard of this."

Looking at the slightly dilapidated witchcraft formation at the foot of the mountain, Xiao Yan tried his best to look out, but in the afterglow of the evening, he still couldn't see the Poison Cave clearly, so he just smiled and said, "Does the Gu King believe it now? Without Chi Meng, even if I have the ability to rule the world, I can't make this happen. Chi Meng really helped a lot."

Xiao Yan was not being polite when he said this.

If it weren't for Chi Meng, even if he had eliminated the rampant corpse monsters one by one for the 32 villages in the northern border, he would not have been able to gather people's hearts.

Among them, Chi Meng visited each of the big villages one by one during the month or so. He used the favors that Gu King had accumulated in his early years to persuade them with both reason and emotion, and finally decided on the important event of gathering the troops of the 32 villages today.

All of this would be just empty talk without Chi Meng.

The Gu King sighed a little, as if he didn't want his unruly and headstrong daughter to enter the adult world prematurely because of all these things, but he was also somewhat relieved. Everyone will experience growth, just sooner or later. He can protect Chi Meng for a while, but not for a lifetime.

What is especially fortunate is that the person who led Chi Meng was Xiao Yan. How lucky and how touching it is.

King Gu said: "Not only me and Chi Meng, but the entire Ten Thousand Poison Cave owes you a great favor that cannot be repaid."

As he said this, the Gu King bowed without hesitation and said, "The Ten Thousand Poison Cave will never forget this favor."

Xiao Yan supported the Gu King, pondered for a moment, and said, "Gu King, there is no need to do this. I also owe you."

The Gu King was a little puzzled, so Xiao Yan simply recounted the game between him and Yuan Tiangang. Of course, he was not so straightforward. He just said that it was an agreement between him and Yuan Tiangang. If he could break the game of Raojiang, it would be of great significance to him.

In order to break this, Xiao Yan had been relying on Chi Meng's momentum, but he did it very covertly, with a hammer here and a stick there, and it seemed that there was no plan.

Although the Gu King did not understand the reason, he accepted this statement. However, he said that the favor owed by Xiao Yan belonged to Chi Meng, and the favor owed by the Ten Thousand Poison Cave to Xiao Yan could not be erased.

If Xian Shen were here, he would definitely praise the Gu King for once.

Well, you, a stupid guy, finally came to your senses and did something to help our daughter.

Xiao Yan had no objection, just smiled, then looked into the distance at the witchcraft formation that covered the Poison Cave, squinting his eyes in thought.

In fact, the game between him and Yuan Tiangang had already been decided.

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From the moment You Chuan successfully entered the Twelve Caves and stole the mysterious art of warfare, this trip came to an end.

When Du Gong obtained the mysterious art of soldiers, his plan was finalized, and it was also the beginning of his going against the entire Raojiang. This was inevitable.

If the God of War wants to become a useful thing, it cannot escape the fate of using humans as Gu. No matter the quantity is large or small, it is impossible to make the various villages compromise. This is beneficial to Du Gong but not to Raojiang. With the God of War Altar, Du Gong can become the true creator of Raojiang. All the gods of war live only according to the will of Du Gong, and Du Gong can control thousands of people with just one thought.

Therefore, even those who once supported Du Gong would probably oppose this, because once they were refined into a military god, they would become monsters without their own thoughts, or in other words, Du Gong's thoughts were greater than their own thoughts. In that case, what would be the use of being invincible? Du Gong was happy, Rao Jiang was powerful, but what did these have to do with the person who became a military god?

But the appearance of Yuan Tiangang can reduce the resistance to this matter.

For Yuan Tiangang, as long as it is useful to the overall situation, the entire Raojiang can be a burial object for the God of War. With the support of his old superior, the Bad Commander, Du Gong has the confidence. For him, the Witch King, why can't Raojiang become a burial object for his step-by-step growth?

But even so, it is impossible for Du Gong to easily touch the large villages and clans that support him from the beginning. He can only choose the lower-level people to take action. Maybe he can reach a tacit understanding with those who know the situation. The large villages and clans that will not become the god of war can become the vested interests, so they are willing to sacrifice the interests of those below, and the only price is not telling them the truth.

It can be said that as long as the mysterious art of soldiers is obtained, Du Gong's subsequent plans will be able to be carried out smoothly and seamlessly.

Yuan Tiangang doesn't need to care about anything else. He just needs a territory that can provide the God of War.

But the premise of all this is precisely that the lower class who are willing to sacrifice their interests will remain "ignorant" and allow the drug lord time to fulfill all the prerequisites.

Xiao Yan's appearance set off everything.

From eliminating corpse monsters as a means to attract people's hearts to making a fuss about the imprisonment of the Gu King, from the various camps' gratitude to letting go to let the Poison Lord achieve his goal, from letting Gong Yangzuo guard Nanping State in advance to inviting Huainan Zhu Jin to send troops to make the Chu army retreat, from being passive everywhere and retreating step by step to using the Nanping army to delay the return of the Wan Du Cave troops and horses to turn passivity into initiative...

Every step is both a coincidence and a carefully planned move.

For example, before Zhu Jin of Huainan invaded Changsha, no one would have thought that the commander-in-chief of the Wu Kingdom's eastern camp would go up the Yangtze River to invade Dongting Lake and threaten Changsha!
What benefit would he get from forcing the Chu army to retreat? Not to mention the military supplies needed to mobilize a large army!

But Zhu Jin came anyway, forcing Ma Yin to give up Panyu which was about to be acquired, and return anxiously to protect his own nest from being looted by the madman Zhu Jin.

The tricky part of all this is how to connect all the seemingly inadvertent things into a line just right. If you take any step too early or too late, all will be in vain.

If it's too early, Yuan Tiangang will be able to notice clues.

If it is too late, for example, if the Chu army is not forced to retreat in time, the Nanping army will not be able to stop the troops of the Ten Thousand Poison Cave from returning in time. In this way, even if Xiao Yan mobilized the thirty-two camps in the northern border to send troops, he would be no match for the Ten Thousand Poison Cave army, which has hundreds of Gu Masters and elite soldiers from each camp gathered in one place.

It is impossible to say that this process is easy, but it is also too exaggerated to say that we are walking on a tightrope every day.

The only thing that made Xiao Yan hesitate was whether or not to let You Chuan enter the Twelve Caves to steal the secret skills of the God of War and Monster Altar.

He had not yet arrived at the Dead Creek Forest at that time. After he figured out the strangeness of You Chuan, he had been hesitant and unable to make up his mind.

It is easy to let You Chuan steal the Altar of the God of War successfully. He can succeed as long as he does not interfere with anything during the process.

As for the consequence of the secret art of the god of soldiers being leaked to the hands of the Poison Lord, Xiao Yan could not guarantee that everything would go as he wished. If all his arrangements went wrong by one step, the Poison Lord might become more powerful, and he would become the Poison Lord's greatest contributor, and Ji Ruxue, Chi Meng and everyone else would be buried together in these Ten Thousand Mountains.

Not only that, the entire Raojiang will become a purgatory, with soldiers like tides threatening the Central Plains, and the world will only become more and more chaotic.

All of this is completely different from Xiao Yan's original intention.

The turning point lies in the mechanical tomb left by Li Chunfeng.

The five sentences behind the stone gate are simple and elegant, yet each word has the power to enlighten us.

This was a gamble, Xiao Yan didn't think any more about it, just let it go, step by step, to bring about the current situation.

Only when Du Gong truly obtains the Altar of the God of War, his true purpose will be exposed. Du Gong cannot resist the temptation brought to him by the Altar of the God of War, just as he watched Xiao Yan leave with the King of Gu but did not chase him immediately, but immediately activated the witchcraft formation to refine the mysterious art of war.

What Du Gong got was his flaw.

Without people's support, he became a perverse person and the Raojiang Qishu that he had been planning for many years turned to the Gu King again.

Would Yuan Tiangang have expected the situation today? Xiao Yan thought, maybe. But for this bad commander, this was just a gamble. With Raojiang as the chessboard, Du Gong and Xiao Yan as chess pieces, it might not matter to him who wins or loses.

But as Yuan Tiangang said before, if Xiao Yan loses, he will not be able to leave this Ten Thousand Mountains.

"When Chi Li took advantage of the rampage of corpse monsters and drew elite soldiers from various villages to play this big game, he never imagined that it was these dozens of corpse monsters that became his plan and A-Lang's opportunity to break his momentum..."

The Gu King thought for a long time and sighed with regret.

Xiao Yan smiled without saying a word, but reached out and handed something to the person behind him.

Nadarashi from the Dan tribe took the anti-poison bead from Xiao Yan's hand, nodded, put on his hat, and led more than ten people into the formation.

It was already dark, and it was time for the Dan tribe to take action.

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The den of all poisons, Dazhai.

Li Siyuan, who was meditating with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes, then slightly narrowed his eyes and stroked his moustache.

How strange! Today I have been exploring the secret technique bestowed by the Marshal, but why am I still feeling uneasy after meditating for two hours?
(End of this chapter)