Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 141 Zhu Maorong

The Xia County militia has thirty-six legions and a total of 360,000 cultivators.

Among them, there are more than 30,000 cultivators from the Yi family.

In the fairyland, ever since the opening of the training school, the number of independent practitioners has expanded rapidly.

Xia Xuan was still relatively lucky, as a large amount of resources were harvested by the Yi family. Excluding the Yi family, there were only tens of millions of cultivators, and less than one million cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining.

These 360,000 are just the vanguard.

More legions will be added later.

In other counties, except for the newly built counties, the number of cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining is in the hundreds of thousands.

It is normal for a county general to lead an army of millions of cultivators.

In Pingyuan County, almost half of the immortal cultivators who were in the late stage of Qi Refining and above had been recruited.

There are hundreds of counties in Pingyuan County, and the army of immortal cultivators is so large that if we calculate that there are 10 million immortal cultivators in one county, there may be 1 billion immortal cultivators.

This time, there may be fifty or sixty million immortal cultivators dispatched.

Qingzhou has more than a hundred counties.

In other words, there may be close to several billion cultivators attacking the underground.

The deep underground world is very complex, with layers upon layers, and the area of a single wheel may be hundreds of times larger than the entire Qingzhou.

The most difficult thing about Qingzhou's underground expedition this time was not the number of underground creatures, but the logistical pressure, otherwise they would not have entered the underground in batches.

The army of Xia County boarded flying boats and headed to Pingyuan County in batches.

Arrived in Pingyuan County.

We received a large amount of supplies and then set up camp in a place according to instructions.

For a whole month, there was no movement.

Of the thirty-six regiments in Xia County, except for the three regiments where the Yi family cultivators were still eating spiritual rice, the other regiments had begun to use ordinary rice for their daily needs, because the county city had cut off the supply of the Xia County militia.

The main reason is that Yi Dong is a general, but since he arrived outside the county city, he entered the pagoda.

He basically doesn't care about the legion's affairs.

Moreover, even when summoned by the marshal, he ignored him.

The one who serves as the marshal is a true immortal official.

Moreover, he is a first-rank human immortal official in the provincial government.

In terms of official position, he was not afraid of the immortal officials of the Yi family at all.

Not to mention his background, he comes from a meritorious family and his strength is hundreds of times stronger than the Yi family.

However, Yi Dong still didn't give him face.

Although Yi Dong failed to use his connections, he still found out who forced him to be recruited.

He is the great marshal of Xia County, Zhu Maorong, who is at the stage of establishing the foundation of the Great Dao.

It can be said that Yi Dong hates it deeply.

this day.

Yi Fu waited outside the pagoda for three full days before he was summoned by Yi Dong.

"what happened again?"

"Master, due to your absence, the Grand Marshal has called a combat meeting and intends to remove you from your position as Grand General. In addition, they are also considering convicting you for repeatedly violating military orders."

Yi Fu was very anxious. Now, the Xia County militia was not only surrounded by armies from several counties, but also had its supply of materials cut off. Their situation was extremely dangerous.

Yi Dong was not in a hurry at all. The pagoda could travel through space, so why was he in a hurry?

"Can those rubbish armies on the periphery stop the army carefully built by our Yi family?

I don't care what rubbish orders Zhu Maorong issued. I want to see if Zhu Maorong wants to have a civil war with me before he goes underground."

Yi Dong didn't go to the county town because he was unhappy with Zhu Maorong.

The most crucial thing is that the formation of the county city is too strong, and the pagoda tower probably can't get rid of it.

After entering, his life and death are no longer under his control.

He himself offended Zhu Maorong because he wanted to use his connections to avoid conscription.

With Zhu Maorong's connections and backing, he would definitely be able to humiliate Yi Dong or even find a reason to kill him.

This is something Yi Dong can never accept.

There are pagodas and the Yi family’s army.

Yi Dong would rather fight a civil war with Zhu Maorong outside the county city than entrust his life to others.

It would probably be impossible for him to win the civil war.

Although the militias in each county are of varying quality, there are enough of them.

Moreover, the quality of some aristocratic families' private armies is comparable to the three major armies of the Yi family. When all the private armies of the aristocratic families are added together, they can suppress the Yi family's army in terms of numbers.

However, Zhu Maorong came from a family of meritorious service. Even if the local families in Pingyuan County were wary of the other party's power, it would be impossible for them to betray their own position and wholeheartedly help him besiege the Yi family.

Moreover, Yi Dong also sent a message that whoever dared to target the Yi family this time would be destroyed by the Yi family in the future.

Now, the Yi family of Zijin Mountain is already regarded as the number one family in Pingyuan County, and many smaller families dare not openly show hostility towards the Yi family.

Besides, destroying Yi Dong does not count as destroying the Yi family. In most people's minds, Yi Dong's five children are the core of the Yi family in Zijin Mountain.

Even though many noble families in Pingyuan County disliked the Yi family and wanted to destroy the Yi family, it would be difficult for them to unite and carry out Zhu Maorong's orders to target the Yi family.

This is also the reason why Yi Dong is not afraid of Zhu Maorong.

Since Yi Dong brought the militia to the county town, he did not violate the military orders of the Immortal Kingdom.

Coming to the county city and finding excuses not to participate in the military meeting was at most a violation of Zhu Maorong's order. To Yi Dong, Zhu Maorong's order was bullshit, and he didn't care at all. He wanted to see what a fairy official who had parachuted into Qingzhou Pingyuan County could do to him, a local tyrant.
Pingyuan County, the newly established Marshal's Office.

A young man sat in the main seat, looking at the discussion among more than a dozen people sent by the families to assist him.

And the issue they were discussing was undoubtedly Yi Dong.

They had long known that it was not easy to subdue these local families, but they had not expected that there would be some troublemakers who dared to jump out and provoke them at the very beginning.

If this person was from another family, they would have destroyed him with lightning speed and even destroyed his family.

However, the Yi family of Zijin Mountain is different.

They were not afraid of the young immortal officials of the Yi family, but because of the strength of the Yi family.

No matter how much the other noble families in Pingyuan County disliked them, they did not dare, and perhaps did not have the strength, to fight against them.

As for the Yi family's pagoda, the people present used the family's magical treasure to remotely detect it and found that this war weapon actually had the ability to kill gods.

Their Zhu family also sent three gods to assist Zhu Maorong.

The pagoda with the fighting power of the gods is one thing, and the three legions of the Yi family that are armed to the teeth are another.

For county forces, having Nascent Soul combat power is generally considered good, and Spirit Transformation is considered the strongest force in Qingzhou.

Who could have imagined that a county-level family with less than 200 years of history would possess weapons capable of transforming into gods and an army of sophisticated immortal cultivators?

A middle-aged cultivator with a long beard stood up and said to Zhu Maorong at the head:

“The plan for Yidong may have to be abandoned.

After discussing it, we felt that it was totally unnecessary to confront him head-on.”

Zhu Maorong said calmly:
"If a county-level noble family can ignore my orders, how can I subdue other noble families?"

“You really want to do this?

Let’s not talk about whether you can kill Yi Dong or not. Even if you really kill Yi Dong, you and his children will become mortal enemies.

As far as I know, Yi Dong has a very close relationship with his children.

His children are all strong.

Especially the Luofu Buddha Mother, she showed exaggerated combat power that could rival that of a Nascent Soul during the Qi Refining Stage, and after she reached the Dao Foundation Establishment Stage, it might be even more outrageous.

If you kill Yi Dong, we have calculated that the Buddha Mother will most likely return to Qingzhou and hunt you down regardless of the consequences. Do you really want to take this risk?"

"She dares?"

"She is a disciple of Ding Yunxian from the Ding family of the immortal clan. Even if she kills you, our family probably won't send out our ancestor Fanxu to avenge you."

The Ding family of the immortal clan has a true immortal in charge.

The Zhu family is only the third-class True Lord family among the meritorious families.

"If you are sure to do this, not only Luofu Buddha Mother, but also Yi Feng, who once served as the chief of Shenmu Taoist Temple, will come back."

At this time, Yi Qing's Zerg had not yet been shown to the outside world. The Zhu family only paid attention to Yi Ling, who performed outstandingly when Luofu destroyed Buddhism, and Yi Feng, who had served as the chief of Shenmu Taoist Academy when he was in the superior Taoist academy.

Although Zhu Maorong also built his foundation in the Great Dao and his current cultivation inheritance was relatively complete, he was not even a high-level spiritual being and could not possibly be a match for Yi Dong's children who were high-level spiritual beings.

Normally, the Dao Foundation Establishment is comparable to the Nascent Soul combat power of ancient cultivators. However, for a small number of Dao Foundation Establishments with deep roots, even being able to kill a Divine Soul is not a problem.

Because no one knows how many powerful means are prepared in the magic space where the foundation of the Great Dao is built.

There is now a sense of chaos in the fairyland.

Especially after the Kanshui year, a large number of high-level cultivators entered the battlefield of the Beiyue spiritual world.

Although Zhu Maorong looks young, his actual age is even older than Yi Dong.

He was already past the age of passion, and after listening to the staff officer's words, he thought about it and felt that it was not worth it to provoke several powerful enemies who were slightly stronger than himself. Moreover, it was undoubtedly the best thing to complete the family's mission without making enemies.

"What do you think?"

“Two of the three underground caves in Pingyuan County lead to the territory of the Dark Sky Clan. Our target is the Dark Sky Clan’s several innate spiritual treasures.

Even if other noble families in Pingyuan County obtained these innate spiritual treasures, they would not be able to keep them. In Pingyuan County, only the Yi family has the strength to compete with our Zhu family.

All we have to do is prevent the Yi family from entering the Dark Sky Clan’s territory.

The remaining cave leads to the territory of the Star Clan.

The Xingmang Clan was almost wiped out in the three major battles one hundred thousand years ago, and the innate spiritual treasures and spiritual veins remaining in the clan were almost completely plundered by the Immortal Kingdom.

Right now, the Xingmang tribe's territory is very empty and desolate. If we enter there, let alone plundering resources, they may even have trouble maintaining their own supplies."

"so be it."

Inside the pagoda.

Yidong was ready to run away.

It would not be a bad thing for Yi Dong if there was a civil war with Zhu Maorong.

In this way, he could let his children argue with Zhu Maorong officially about this matter, and he could also take the opportunity to refuse the idea of joining the underground fight.

Yidong wants an opportunity.

He wanted the innate spiritual treasure, but he wanted the Yi family members to snatch it for him instead of taking the risk to snatch it himself.

Wait and wait.

Yi Dong waited for an order to lead the army into the dungeon.

Finding any excuse to resist participating in the military ceremony would only be a violation of Zhu Maorong's order. If he disobeyed the order to march at this time, the nature of the matter might be different.

Yi Dong didn't know the difference as to which crypt to go through to enter the underground.

Not to mention Yidong, Pingyuan County was a county opened up after the establishment of the Immortal Kingdom. There are basically no aristocratic families here that have been passed down for 100,000 years, and probably no family has any knowledge of the underground world.

Yi Dong had no choice but to obey the order and go to the dungeon.

(End of this chapter)