Chongming Xianzong

Chapter 125: Clearing Out the Remnants
Master Kang got down from the platform, knowing that the provincial government was treating him like a horse bone and hanging him up high, waiting for the thousand-mile horses from Yunjiao Province to arrive.

With all these mixed feelings, even though his storage bag was filled with a bunch of goodies he had just obtained, he wasn't very happy.

Just think about the fact that this was the money the state court gave to Kang Dabao to buy his life, or even the price to buy his entire life as Emperor Chongming, there was really nothing to be happy about.

The name of his leader Kang Da might have been on the desk of big shots like the leader of Liang Yi Sect. Is this amount of spiritual stones too much? Where is it too much?
After Pingrong County, the chief officials of other counties came on stage one by one to report their merits. Among the thirteen counties, Tanggu County ranked second to last. The chief clerk who led the team died in the king's service. Kuai Wu, who had the highest cultivation among the remaining people, limped to the stage to lead the team, which caused sighs from the people below the stage.

Jin County ranked last, with only one county lieutenant who led the team alive, and he had both arms missing.

Fei Sima felt that this situation was an eyesore and simply did not want him to go on stage. He just arranged for someone to give him a storage bag and sent him back, which made the people in the audience feel sympathetic.

Seeing the unusual movement in the audience, Sima Fei looked at General Xu with even more displeasure.

This time, he was assigned three counties' soldiers and a group of independent cultivators. Almost all of the three cultivators were killed in the battle, but they even crippled the three counties' soldiers. This matter will surely be publicized soon, and it is likely to ruin the reputation of the state court among the grassroots cultivators.

"Humph, the Xu family of Dai County."

After commending the merits, arrangements will be made to send troops to wipe out the remnants of the Five Ministers Sect.

Among the many vassals of the Wuxiang Sect, those who fail to rebel in time before the arrival of the heavenly soldiers must be wiped out.

As for those who rebelled in time, soldiers would still be sent to their homes to beat them up and force them to hand over large amounts of food and women in order to escape punishment.

As for those forces that come to Wuxiangmen to help out for reasons of interests or friendship, once they are thoroughly investigated, they will not be able to escape.

Fei Sima looked down upon such a small profit. He even searched thoroughly the Wuxiang Sect, a foundation-building sect, but nothing he found caught his eye.

As for those Qi-training forces affiliated with the Five Phases Sect, it was even less worthy of his trip. After reporting his achievements, he rode the Black Falcon back to Xuanwei City.

Now that the matter is settled, Fei Sima, as the person in charge, will naturally report to the Earl of Nan'an.

This time, for the sake of the old man, the Earl of Nan'an, the Fei family of Yingzhou was willing to marry their daughter to a mud-footed man from this remote place. They made such a great sacrifice, how could they not be in a hurry to return and report their achievements?

Even if you do something, if your superiors don’t know about it, it’s all in vain.

As soon as Sima Fei left, Sima Gunjia took charge. He made a list of all the vassals of the Five Prime Ministers, took out the judge's pen, wrote and drew, and then made clear arrangements.

Those vassals of the Five Prime Ministers who rebelled in time were sent by him to have the elite troops directly under the provincial court to attack them one by one.

There are sufficient reasons for such an arrangement. Since they are going to spread the proclamation and publicize the majesty of heaven, it is natural that they should be sent by elite troops with neat appearances, so as to demonstrate the demeanor of the Immortal Dynasty.

If we allow these militiamen who can't even wear a set of immortal robes to pass, it would not be a display of power but a humiliation to them.

Since the elite troops have spared no effort to spread the power of heaven, the remaining foolish and stubborn people who refuse to submit to the king will naturally be dealt with by thundering measures by the soldiers from various counties and villages.

How to say it, everyone knows that this is an excuse for Sima Anxin to let the elite troops pick peaches and let the local soldiers gnaw bones.

But it is already a courtesy that Sima Gun is willing to give you an excuse. If anyone dares to murmur anything again, it would be really ungrateful.

There are still some tricks to chewing bones. Although they are all bones, some have more meat and smaller bones, while others have only bones and no oil. The order of selection is naturally very important.

Naturally, Sima Gun would not make things difficult for Kang Da, the head of the Fei family. He took some time to choose the best family in his eyes for him.

Taking into account that the troops of Jin County and Tanggu County were incomplete and unable to destroy any force on their own, Gunjia Sima specially put the personnel of the two counties together and put him under his management, so as to provide support for the subsequent business of destroying families.

Kang Dabao listened to the instructions of Sima Gunjia, and looked at the Tanggu County team led by Kuai Wu, which was full of wounded soldiers, and the even more devastated Jin County team. Oh, Jin County could not be called a team. The only living armless county lieutenant could barely be considered half a person. He sighed.

However, Sima Gun also had good intentions. Perhaps because of Kang Dabao's identity as the future son-in-law of the Fei family, he also had some care and concern for the younger generation.

"Sanhua Manor in Wang County." Master Kang was thinking about the bones that Sima Gun threw to Pingrong County, not knowing whether to be happy or sad.

Because of his experience of traveling around as a peddler with a cart of goods on his back in his early years, Master Kang had quite a bit of experience compared to most of his fellow monks in Yunjiao Province, and he had heard of the reputation of Sanhua Manor.

This is a very new force, which has been rooted in Wang County for less than 50 years. Sanhua Village was formerly known as Gengjia Village, and the reason why it was renamed Sanhua Village was because the owner Geng Xi had three beautiful daughters, who were married to three elders of Wuxiang Sect.
Don't be fooled by the casual name. The owner of the manor, Geng Xi, is a genuine late-stage cultivator. His battle record in the early years was quite scary. Many bandit cultivators had intended to attack his family, but none of them failed.

In addition, he later became known as the father-in-law of the Third-Level Elder of the Five Phases Sect. Among the Qi-cultivating practitioners in Wang County, he was considered a very prestigious figure.

Because of this relationship, Sanhuazhuang can indeed be regarded as a thin-skinned but large-capacity existence among the die-hard vassals of Wuxiangmen, and Sima Gunjia is indeed very caring towards Master Kang.

In his opinion, the head of Kangda Sect only relied on that pupil technique, so he was not afraid of the ordinary late-stage cultivators.
As for Geng Xi's title of "Father-in-law of the Elder of Wuxiang Sect", it is even more ridiculous. Wearing it on his head now is no different from hanging a sign of "Immediate Execution" around his neck. He is probably worrying about how to take it off quickly.

But as far as Kang Dabao knew, there were quite a few cultivators in Sanhua Manor in the past, and with the number of independent cultivators recruited by Geng Xi, there were at least forty or fifty of them.

I don’t know how many people his family sent to the battle of Wuxiangmen, and how many people are left behind at home.

If it was the team that had just set out, which was not only in terms of morale but at least had well-organized personnel, then Sect Leader Kang would have some confidence in leading his men to destroy Sanhua Manor in one fell swoop.

But at this moment, when he brought all his monks back to the hut, there were only eighteen people.

Among them, except Qian Liu, all the others, including the head of Kangda, were wounded, and many of them were missing limbs.

Even though he was about to marry a new bride, Kang Dabao was still calm. He knew that with such little capital, it would be impossible to capture the well-defended Sanhua Village.

But the attack and destruction of Sanhuazhuang was not only the result of the care of Sima Gunjia, but also a military order.

If the leader of the Kang clan dared to disobey the military order, Sima Fei would probably have to add the phrase "killing relatives for the sake of justice" when he asked for credit from the Earl of Nan'an.

However, Master Kang was not too anxious. He was a traveling merchant and it only took him half a day to come up with a solution.

He first took 200 spirit stones from the county lieutenant of Jin County, claiming that this was out of sympathy for his serious injuries and allowed him to return home.

After hearing this, the county lieutenant burst into tears and expressed gratitude. People always say that wealth and honor are sought in danger, but risking one's life in a battle is extremely terrifying.

Just seeing him crying so hard that his clothes were soaked, but he had no hands to wipe his tears, you could tell how powerful he was. Then the colleague thanked him profusely, handed the spirit stone to the head of Kang Da, and quickly returned to Jin County.

He also collected 20 Lingshi from each of the Tanggu County monks, led by Kuai Wu, and let them go home. Before leaving, Kang Dabao kept Kuai Wu alone and returned him 40 Lingshi as a gift.

Kang Dabao will most likely reject the marriage between the younger sister of the Kuai family and Pei Yi, so he should lay more groundwork now to avoid damaging the friendship between the two families.

When Kuai Wu saw the spirit stone, he bowed on the spot. In the eyes of this small family master, the current head of the Kang family was indeed a somewhat extravagant person.

It should be noted that twenty spirit stones are not a small amount for the low-level Qi-cultivating practitioners.

It would be hard to earn that much money without spending half a year on normal days. Even if one went into such a dangerous battle, one would have to take the heads of two cultivators in the early stage of Qi training to get it.

Kang Dabao was so generous that Kuai Wu could not help but be grateful.

Seeing that the monks from the other two counties were able to leave, the Pingrong soldiers who remained in Master Kang's house were full of hope, hoping that they would be allowed to return home as soon as possible.

Even the Feng family's two evil spirits and the Shao brothers and sisters, who were used to fighting, wanted to leave this battlefield filled with wronged souls and corpses as soon as possible.

However, Master Kang did not do as they wished. He abandoned them and went to his base in Hong County alone.

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